The World - News from Feb. 25, 1987

A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber launched an unarmed cruise missile on a 1,500-mile flight across Canada’s frozen northwest, despite efforts of Greenpeace protesters to scuttle the test. The missile, the first tested since Canada suspended the flights last year after two missiles crashed on its territory, parachuted to a safe landing at an isolated test range on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. A Greenpeace spokeswoman said three of its members were prepared to throw their bodies between the ground and the missile as it landed, but a military spokesman said there was no sign of them.