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Eight Sentenced In 1980 Protest At Nuclear Unit [1]
['Michael Decourcy Hinds', 'Special To The New York Times']
Date: 1990-04-11
In a case that seems to bridge the years between the antiwar turmoil of the 1960's and the current easing of the cold war, eight peace advocates were sentenced today for a 1980 protest in which they poured their blood on blueprints at a nuclear weapons plant.
The sentencing was the latest, although perhaps not the last, chapter in the case of the group that calls itself the Plowshares Eight, after the reference in the Bible to the beating of swords into plowshares.
In their protest, one of the best-known antiwar incidents in this country since the Vietnam War, the group also damaged components of nuclear warheads at the General Electric complex in King of Prussia, near here.
All eight, including the Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan and his brother Philip, received sentences equal to the time they had already served in jail before the 1981 trial, at which they were convicted of criminal conspiracy and burglary. The time they had served ranged from five days to 17 1/2 months. Some defendants, citing matters of conscience, had declined to post bail pending appeals of the 1981 verdict. The original sentences, 1 1/2 to 5 years for some defendants and 3 to 10 years for others, were eventually thrown out on the ground the trial judge had been biased.
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