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200 ARRESTED AT U.S.-AUSTRALIAN MILITARY BASE
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October 3, 1989
NURRUNGAR, Australia (AP) -- Police arrested more than 200
people Sunday while breaking up the latest in a series of anti-
nuclear protests at a U.S.-Australian military base.
The intelligence-gathering base has been targeted by
demonstrators who consider it a likely target in a superpower
nuclear confrontation.
Police said 217 of the 500 protesters were arrested inside the
Nurrungar base's outer security zone Sunday, bringing the arrest
total for five straight days of protests to 490. Police said at
least one officer on Sunday used mace, an incapacitating irritant
sprayed in the face, to subdue protesters.
The media were prohibited from covering the protesters' march
from the second security gate to the main complex, and six
journalists who were arrested during protests Saturday were
banned from the base.
The federal government called in 50 soldiers Saturday after nine
protesters entered the complex itself Friday night and one
climbed inside one of the white plastic domes near the bases's
satellite antenna. The base is 360 miles northwest of Adelaide,
the capital of South Australia state.
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