Article: NONVIOLENT ARMS PROTEST YIELDS CONFRONTATION, BUT NO ARRESTS ACTIVISTS WANTED TO DOCUMENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS HERE JUST AS THE UNITED NATIONS HAS DONE IN IRAQ.(LOCAL)

Byline: ERIKA REIF, STAFF WRITER

YORK COUNTY -- Anti-nuclear weapons protestors tried for nearly two hours in Thursday's afternoon heat to push their way into the main gate at Yorktown Naval Weapon Station - doing their best to get arrested.

They sang peace songs and waved banners, as traffic was rerouted. Three demonstrators pressed their bodies against a line of sailors barring entrance to the main gate. Two of them sat on the sailors' boots.

The activists say that it becomes a matter of conscience to break the law in order to get laws changed. But at 1 p.m., moments before the demonstrators were to be hauled off in cuffs, they simply called ...

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