WASHINGTON STAR. FRIDAY. JULY 16. 1971
“ARMS SHIP” PROTESTS SET IN BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE (AP) Demonstrations were to continue today to try to stop the docking in Baltimore of the Padma, a Pakistani freighter alleged to be carrying arms and other cargo to its war-torn homeland.
Police arrested six persons last night as they attempted to block the arrival of the ship using three canoes and a kayak.
All were charged with obstructing the free navigation of a vessel, an officer said. Me added that “they were arrested more for their own safely.”
Meanwhile, the debate continued on whether cargo scheduled to be loaded on the Padma here would be placed aboard.
The International Longshoremen’s Association reportedly ordered its Baltimore local not to load the freighter, which protesters claim is carrying U.S. military equipment to Pakistan despite a ban on such shipments.
An official of the ship’s U.S. agents, East-West Shipping, denied that any military cargo was to go aboard.