Americans walk for N-freeze
NZPA New York Thousands of Americans in 200 cities took part in 10km walks yesterday and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign for a nuclear weapons Marchers in Maine called their effort “legs against arms,” and one of the dozen contingents in Illinois paraded past President Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home in the town of Dixon. More than 1000 people turned out in Cleveland, Ohio, but in most places the turn-out was much smaller.
Rich Zeichik, the walk’s national co-ordinator and member of the National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, said that walkers had raised an unofficial SUS6IO,OOO ($933,000) in pledges and cash from 169 of the day’s 200 walks. There were 14,941 walkers and 118,764 sponsors, Mr Zeichik said. Another 37 walks were scheduled for the coming weeks, he said. In Moscow thousands of people staged a peace rally organised by the official, Kremlin-sponsored peace committee.
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