Antinuclear Demonstration

Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protesters Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted police at the construction site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project.