NATION IN BRIEF : CONNECTICUT : Activists Guilty in Submarine Attack
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A Roman Catholic nun and five other peace activists were convicted of conspiracy for slipping into a Navy facility and staging a symbolic attack on a Trident nuclear submarine. A U.S. District Court jury in Hartford, Conn., acquitted all but one of the defendants of charges of damaging government property in the Labor Day incident at the U.S. Naval Underwater Systems Center in New London, Conn. A sixth defendant was found guilty of both counts and also of causing damage estimated at less than $100.
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