Evictions ordered
NZPA staff correspondent London
Two days after arriving back from holiday to dock strikes, a Post Office goslow and possible transport strikes, Mrs Thatcher put her personal authority behind the latest plan to evict the main Greenham peace camp outside the Berkshire missile base.
She gave the news that court action to evict would
be taken within a month in a letter to the Conservative member of Parliament for Newbury, Michael McNairWilson, who had written to her after receiving a protest against the women from a local councillor. Mrs Thatcher wrote, “I think the local people will welcome this action.” Although the Department of Transport recently said it had no plans to remove the women from their main
site, it stated this week that its policy had been changed to repossess the land it owned around the base. So far there have been six big attempts to remove the “Maingate” camp since the peace women arrived there nearly three years ago. A spokeswoman for the peace camp said the new eviction move would make little difference. “We will not go away, we shall still be here somewhere.”
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