ARRESTS AT A-TEST SITE

MERCURY, NEV. -- MERCURY, NEV. -- More than 1,100 antinuclear protesters, including actress Teri Garr, actor Robert Blake, disc jockey Casey Kasem and activist Daniel Ellsberg, were arrested at the nuclear testing grounds here.

Nye County authorities estimated the crowd of protesters at 3,000, far fewer than the 5,000 to 10,000 organizers predicted would come to the remote site 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The demonstration was part of a 10-day protest at the site through March 20. By late afternoon the number of arrests had reached 1,136 and continued to grow, Department of Energy spokesman Chris West said.

Protesters climbed barbed wire fences surrounding the 1,350-square-mile site, began walking across the desert and were arrested by the estimated 300 waiting authorities.

Garr, Blake, Ellsberg and Kasem were arrested when they stepped across a cattle guard on the road leading to the main entrance of the desert site.

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