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DATE: TUESDAY, August 8, 1995                   TAG: 9508080079
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS                                LENGTH: Short

4 BANG, POUR BLOOD ON SUB

Four people, including a woman charged in a similar 1993 nuclear arms protest, were arrested Monday at the nation's leading maker of warships, accused of hammering and pouring blood on a submarine under construction.

The four, two men and two women, identified themselves as members of Plowshares, the same disarmament group that was involved in the Good Friday protest two years ago at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. and an Easter Sunday 1988 incident aboard a Navy battleship in Norfolk.

In the 1993 case, three people poured blood and hammered on the attack submarine Tucson, then under construction. Monday's target was the submarine Greeneville, one of the last two Los Angeles-class submarines being built at the shipyard.

Jerri Dickseski, a spokeswoman for the Newport News shipyard, did not have an estimate on damage to the Greeneville, but it was not believed to be serious and isn't expected to delay the boat's delivery to the Navy next year. ``They didn't actually enter the submarine,'' she said.

The four allegedly got into the sprawling, privately-owned industrial facility by cutting through a wire security fence shortly before dawn. They used fake badges to reach a platform leading to the submarine, Dickseski said.

by CNB