The State - News from July 5, 1985
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A federal magistrate has ordered antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg to spend two days in jail or pay a $50 fine for blocking an entrance to a government building during a protest in San Francisco. Ellsberg, 54, who was accused of leaking the government’s classified Pentagon Papers to the news media in 1971, told reporters after a 40-minute hearing that he plans to go to jail. He was arrested May 7 along with more than 200 other demonstrators during a protest over the Reagan Administration’s trade embargo against Nicaragua.
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