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Show Utah protest -it's different n. mnnstrators 4 - iff .. f Meanwhile the demonstrators stood sedately by, giving the speakers appropriate applause ad complaining about the cold weather. However, it must be said that there was harassment from pro-CBW forces. Two Army re-servistsdrovebyinajeepho'A- ed their horn and gave a few Bronx cheers. When the protest moved to the Deseret Test Center at Dugway, the demonstrators were met by Colonel Pegg, the commander o the MP's at Dugway, twelve of his men and four Utah Highway Patrolmen. Pegg asked the protestors not to block the road, which they agreed not to do, and then began searching the crowd for familiar faces. "Didn't you bring Dr. Bauman Harold Bauman: "Cold." along?" asked Pegg. "I don't see him. Oh, there he is. Hello Dr. Bauman, how are you today?' "Cold." "Didn't Ammon make it out today?" "Yes, he's here." (Continued on Page 5) Colonel Pegg: "How are you?" BY MIKE WHITNEY Staff Writer Saturday's protest of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) research re-search at Dugway's Desert Test Senter, proved one thing: Utah certainly is a different world. The group of 40 protestors, or "concerned citizens" as they were referred to by organizer of the demonstration, associate professor profes-sor of history at the University Harold Bauman, met at the Federal Fed-eral Building in downtown Salt Lake to hear such speakers as Bauman and Utah's perennial anarchist an-archist Ammon Hennesy blast CBW research. Bauman delivered a scathing indictment of the Army's "swaggering "swag-gering contempt for the public of the United States," in their tests of germs and deadly chemicals. Hennesy encouraged the protestors protest-ors not to drop out when the going got rough, in particular when the public information officer at Dugway Dug-way came out to take their pictures pic-tures for Army files. ' 3 1 i i h UVrl,rY P I OZNTl .,. - - Photos by Mike Cassidy A Utah Highway Patrolman encourages sign carrying protestors to stay off the highway, which they courteously did. Protest Utah style: who are the bad guys? (Continued from Page 4) The public information officer, as promised by Hennesy, appeared ap-peared with his camera. The demonstrators lined up in neat rows while the public information officer aimed his camera and said "smile." . After an hour, the protestors Jecided it was time to leave. Bauman thanked Pegg for letting :hem have a peaceful demonstra tion. Pegg thanked Bauman for keeping it peaceful, (the only remotely re-motely unpeaceful event of t h e demonstration was when one demonstrator dem-onstrator purposefully mispronounced mispro-nounced Pegg's name "pig"). Bauman promised to return in the spring, Pegg said he'd be looking for them, and, as the protestors pro-testors faded slowly in the East, Pegg commented, "The weather should be a lot better in the spring." . i |