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NATION, Page 49American NotesTHE NAVYButt Out, Greenpeace
After Greenpeace protesters forced the cancellation of a
test-firing of the Trident 2 missile last July by hanging an
antinuclear banner on the communications mast of an American
submarine, the Navy vowed that it would never again be similarly
embarrassed. Last week, when the U.S.S. Tennessee launched a
Trident 50 miles off Cape Canaveral, Fla., the protesters
discovered how determined the Navy can be.
As the activists' customized salvage tug Greenpeace shadowed
the sub, the support ships Kittiwake and Grasp repeatedly rammed
the vessel, punching a hole in her side just above the waterline.
Meanwhile, sailors trained fire hoses on the Greenpeace, flooding
her engines, while Navy SEAL frogmen cut the fuel lines of one of
two antinuke motorboats trying to disrupt the test. "A terrible
outrage . . . an unbridled act of aggression!" cried Greenpeace's
executive director as the group prepared legal action against the
Navy. Just outside the launch area, the battle -- and the
test-firing -- were monitored by a Soviet trawler bristling with
electronic equipment.