The Nation - News from Nov. 24, 1985
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the convictions of the Rev. Daniel Berrigan and seven others--the so-called “Plowshares Eight”--who broke into a General Electric Co. plant and damaged nuclear missile cones. The court reversed, 4 to 3, a lower court decision throwing out the 1981 convictions of burglary, conspiracy and criminal mischief. Members of the group, which took its name from the biblical admonition to “beat your swords into plowshares,” hammered nose cones designed for two nuclear missiles.
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