European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August 1985 protesters encircle capital landmarks with peace ribbon7 Washington a thousands of demonstrators encircled the Pentagon and other capital landmarks sunday with a peace ribbon of homemade tapes tries with one theme ban the people helped stretch the 15mile ribbon from the Pentagon to Capi Tol at the where police estimated people had helped surround the giant building with the demonstrators All we Are saying is give peace a if not the it was perhaps the most and aesthetically Antiwar demonstration in Washington since the atomic age began 40 years ago with the bombing of Hiroshima and naga Saki to end world War professional and Amateur craftsmen working individually or in groups in social centers and Church basements in 50 states and More than a dozen sewed Antiwar messages onto Yard Long cloth festive demonstrators fanned out with the panels and strips of gaily coloured ribbon to partly encircle the a Section of Washington containing the White House and Lincoln memorial and another Section of town dominated by the the goal was to wrap the three areas with a 15mile line of tapestries and rib leaving gaps for protesters were widely spaced in Many of the areas along the mall stretching from the Capitol to the Lincoln but they expressed Confidence that their Effort had made an policymakers cant help but notice said one if they dont hear it its a seed that been and it will extra policemen from a Hal dozen forces that guard its Parks and pub Lic buildings were on but no incidents were and organizers of the gather ing said authorities had been helpful in arranging Parade on Capitol where about peo ple Many of the tapestries depicted children and and one bore the legend dont take the world from protest Leader Susan Sickler said she was trying to collect a million signatures for a peace petition to be presented to president Reagan and 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