The World - News from Jan. 8, 1989

Greenpeace members staged a sit-in at an Antarctic research station to stop work on an 1,100-yard airstrip they said threatens wildlife, Peter Wilkinson, a spokesman for the environmentalist organization, said in Hamburg, West Germany. He said 15 Greenpeace members, in their first such protest in the Antarctic, placed themselves in front of three trucks and a bulldozer carving the strip out of the ice at the French Dumont d’Urville research station on the Antarctic coast. They unrolled a banner calling for work to be stopped and distributed leaflets among station personnel condemning the potential destruction of an area where several thousand penguins and sea birds live.