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Aftermath of raid: Brian Iler, left, lawyer for the Cruise Missile Conversion Project, a group opposed to nuclear weapons, looks through a filling cabinet with project member Andrew Van Velzen, after the police had spent 3 1/2 hours searching the group's Bathurst St
Aftermath of raid: Brian Iler, left, lawyer for the Cruise Missile Conversion Project, a group opposed to nuclear weapons, looks through a filling cabinet with project member Andrew Van Velzen, after the police had spent 3 1/2 hours searching the group's Bathurst St

Aftermath of raid: Brian Iler, left, lawyer for the Cruise Missile Conversion Project, a group opposed to nuclear weapons, looks through a filling cabinet with project member Andrew Van Velzen, after the police had spent 3 1/2 hours searching the group's Bathurst St

Date12/14/1982
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