Following the week-long first annual Newport (Rhode Island) Peace Festival, mother and daughter Joyce and Emma Katzberg took the spirit of the gathering to the Naval War College on October 16. There they stretched a 40' banner reading "No More Nuclear Victims" across the entrance. They handed out white roses, honoring the White Rose student group that resisted Hitler, and copies of the Geneva Conventions Protocols, the Nuremberg Principles, and their "Invitation to a Conspiracy of Hope" statement, an effort to enlist police and workers in the job of closing the military school where fifty war games each year focus on global nuclear war.

The women were soon arrested, charged with disorderly conduct, and then released. At their arraignment January 26, the women pled not guilty. Joyce Katzberg was quoted in the Providence Journal that "to instruct in the use of weaponry that endangers civilians and threatens the wanton destruction of cities and villages is illegal and immoral and must be resisted." A pre-trial hearing date of February 7 was set.

For more information or to contribute to their defense costs, contact Project Plowshares/Rhode Island P.O. Box 187, Warren, RI 02885, (401)247-1434, organize@prodigy.net.