ANTINUCLEAR PROTESTERS ORDERED TO JAIL

A Howard County District Court judge yesterday ordered six antinuclear activists to 10 days in jail for trespassing during a Veterans Day demonstration at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory near Columbia.

Judge Russell Sadler sent the activists to jail after they said their political beliefs precluded them from paying a $100 fine. The lab, which receives more than 90 percent of its operating budget from the Defense Department, has been the focus of continuing protests by Maryland residents opposing work by scientists there testing the guidance systems for nuclear missiles.

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