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Protester Arrested At Missile ComplexCONWAY, Ark lt;AP) - A protester who spent 31 minutes performing religious rituals on and around a Titan 2 missile silo near this central Arkansas city Wednesday was in jail today.The FBI char geo the man, who said he was James Richard Sauder. 26, of Jeanerette. La., with the misdemeanor offense of unlawfully entenng a military installation. He was in the Jacksonville City Jail in lieu of $100,000 bondSauder, a salt miner, carried a crucifix and a bottle of holy water as he scaled a security fence at the missile site on U S Highway 65 between Conway and Springhill in northern Faulkner CountyHe said he performed the acts as a non-violent protest against the nuclear arms raceCapt Ken Garrett, a spokesman for the Air Force, declined on Wednesday to discuss why it took the Air Force 31 minutes to respond to a security breach at the site of an underground 10-megaton nuclear weaponGarrett said Air Force security police, who arrested Sauder, went to the site in response to an alarm and that there was never any threat to the missile or the installation.Garrett refused to say whether any similar security breaches had occurred beforeA Little Rock newspaper, theHunter Safety Course SundayOfficers of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will present a hunter safety and conservation course at the Fayetteville Public Library Sunday Oct 11, beginning at 1 p m.The course is designed to helphunters become better sportsmen and covers a wide range of subjects from gun safety and sporting ethics to survival and the fundamentals of wildlife conservation.Graduation from this course is required by 28 states nationwide ana hunters planning to hunt in the western states this year are particularly invited to attend The course is free and open to the public. For additional information contact Washington County wildlife officer, DavidHerman at 443-1802Arkansas Gazette, sent a reporter and a photographer to the site in response to a news tip “We re not happy about you being out there. Garrett told the newspaper ‘We re talking about some dangerous stuff out there It potentially could have been very dangerous ’Sauder, a member of the Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Jeanerette. parked his car beside the missile silo gate at 7 42 a m. He climbed on top erf the car, threw a blanket over the barbed wire atop the gate and leaped inside the compoundOnce inside, he sprinkled holy water on the missile silo doors, circled the missile seven times and stood atop the concrete silo doors as he pointed south, west, north and east.After performing for 20 minutes. Sauder yelled. “I'm just going to wait for someone to come ”At 8:13 am, two Air Force security officers arrived at the outer gate. They briefly questioned an uninvolved family whose car had a flat tire by the gate entranceOf the officers, a family member said. “They looked serious They put on their bulletproof vests and got out their guns We didn't know what was going on ”The officers drove up the access road and stopped to question the Gazette reporter and photographer who had stopped in front erf a no trespassing sign.One of the officers got out of the small military truck and moved behind it. Carrying an automatic rifle, he followed the truck as it moved toward the gate. The officers ordered Sauder down from the silo, searched him and detained him.Sauder earlier had handed the reporter a two-page letter discussing the danger of nuclear weaponry He also presented a three-page letter asking others to join in such non-violent protests.He suggested that others might copy his actions or refuse to pay the “military portion of the income taxLater at an arraignment in Little Rock, Federal Magistrate Robert Faulkner told Sauder that the bond was so high because Sauder refused to give the FBI access to information about his background.“We know very little about you, Faulkner said I don't know anything about vou. either.” Sauder said
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Oct 08, 1981
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