Posted on 02/25/2003 12:50:45 AM PST by JohnHuang2
The demonstrators thronged the streets of Europe's major cities. Mothers pushed toddlers in strollers, teen-agers dressed up in death masks, men carried huge placards reading "Better Neutral than Dead" and "You Can't Hug Your Kids with Nuclear Arms."
In the United States, similar demonstrations brought thousands to the streets of San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Arlo Guthrie sang "Blowin' in the Wind" and ccelebrities Martin Sheen, Jesse Jackson, Phil Donahue, Colleen Dewhurst, Jules Feiffer, Meryl Streep, Kris Kristofferson, Muhammad Ali, Jane Fonda, Ed Asner and Robert Blake leant their names and prestige to the movement.
That was then -- the early 1980s -- and it is so very like now. What brought the demonstrators to the streets then was President Reagan's determination to counter a Soviet move. The Soviets had placed intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. Together with our European allies, Reagan proposed placing U.S. Pershing II missiles in Europe to right the balance.
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