Historic Portsmouth: Kind of a drag protesting nuke plant in 1980 - News - seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH

Historic Portsmouth: Kind of a drag protesting nuke plant in 1980 - News - seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH: The Christian Science Monitor called it a "costly weekend of futility." The New York Times reported 1,500 demonstrators vowing to occupy the nuclear power plant construction site at Seabrook "were easily turned away this afternoon by handfuls of state policemen and National Guardsmen." Police and guardsmen used guard dogs, nightsticks, fire hoses, pepper gas, and Mace to defeat the planned occupation.Protesters equipped with plywood shields, bolt-cutters, ropes and chains were able to breach