4- Friday, September 09, 196 - “orth Shore News Bob Hunter LIKE A lot of other people, craft carrier Constellation English Bay. We went on Saturday when there were several dozen vessels bobbing in a counterctockwise procession around the colossal war machine, their passengers taking pictures, ogling, feeling rather like mites tiptocing around a resting lion. Close up, the warship was mind-bogglingly formidable. Bristling with 83 missile-carrying jets, radar tracking planes and helicopters, it was a Moating for- tress probably possessing enough firepower to be capable in itself of conquering all but a handful of nations. I referred to it, not so jokingly, West Van Board to appeal ruling WEST VANCOUVER School District will appeal a B.C. Court decision that questions its decision to lay-off teacher Roger Callow. 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The one thing we had in common as we circled in our respective pud- dle-jumpers was that we were looking up, up, UP, I took my tittle cabin cruiser, Venator, in so close that we were actually underneath the shelf of the port flight’ deck, looking Straight up at a ceiling of grey metal, The kids loved that! [I thought it was pretty exciting too. All that happened was that seveal American sailors waved back at the kids, who were waving ex- citedly, hoping to get invited on board. 1 admit | waved cheerfully at the Yanks, too, i was never very good at radiating hatred, and it wasn't these individual sailors who were the problem. It was the brass back at the Pentagon. Besides, the unofficial official protest had been registered. Young men had zipped in their Zodiacs under the Constellation's bow in front of the local TV cameras some 48 hours before. It had been nearly a disaster. An RCMP launch had lept be- tween them and the aircraft car- rier, getting so close to the mammoth military vessel that the Mounties got caught in the ship's tremendous draught. For a se- cond, it looked like they might Here's a Sony portable that'll sound great on your-st street, or anywhere eise you need your get knocked sucked under. As it was, the Mountie boat suffered considerable damage after bouncing off the Constella- Gon's mighty hull. During a previous confronta- tion between seagoing anti-nuke Protestors and U.S. Navy ships a few months ago, a police boat had rammed a sailboat, knocking two protestors into the water. My Jitute joke about the matter is that the police this time were just showing their fairness. Hav- ing rammed the protestors, they were ramming a warship. Can't gel much more objective than that! Out in English Bay, staring up at the strangely bug-like steel hulk of the Constellation, 1 noticed what looked like a distinct three-triangle nuclear warning sign painted on the nose cone of the warplane perched at the bow on the main flight deck. Of course, it might have meant something else, but... ! noticed the missiles slung in their racks on the walls of that flower deck, clearly visible through an open faunching hatch. Could those be nuclear? | doubted that. The nukes would hopefully at least be out of rifle Over OF Whether your favorite sounds are on cassette tapes or range. They could never, of course, be out of range of other nuclear missiles. Tne fact is, should an atomic war break out while the Con- stellation was anchored in English Bay, we can reasonably assume such a Btsmarck-like mil- itary prize would be targeted. And, poof, there goes the neighborhood in the peripheral holocaust. 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