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‘VISIT NOT POLITICAL’ - COOK

Peace group protests
visiting U.S. warships

SIX members of North

Vancouver Citizens for Peace

(NVCP) picketed the offices of North Vancouver-Burnaby
MP Chuck Cook Monday, to demonstrate their concern
over the planned arrival of American warships to Van-

couver during Peace Week.

‘People are horrified by it,”
said NVCP chairman Eric Waugh.
‘*The timing is just awful. It looks
on the surface to be a blatant case
of provocation by the military.
The Americans are rattling their
sabres.’*

But Cook, who was in Urtawa at
the time of demonstration, said
Thursday he had no specific in-
formation on the visit, but said it
“thas no political meaning to it at
all. And so what if American ships
are visiting Vancouver? It's quite
common. Canadian Navy ships
make courtesy visits to ports all
over the world,”’

Cook added that, apart from
anything else, the U.S. sailors
would be spending money in Van-
couver during their visit.

“So to hell with the protesters.
They can have their demonstra-
tion, but the world goes on.”

According to Waugh, the invita-
tion was extended to the American
Navy by Canadian Navy Rear-
Admiral Robert D. Yanow.

But .Lt. Commander Ernie
_Mierau said Thursday the visit of
the five ships was nothing more
than ‘“‘routine rest and relaxa-
tion.” _—

‘ The executive assistant to Rear
Admiral. Yanow confirmed that
five ships of -the 3ist U.S.
Destroyer Squadron would be in
Vancouver harbor from April 19
to 22. .

The city’s Peace Week will run
from April.19 to 27, and will cul-
minate’ in .Vancouver’s annual
Walk For Peace. 7

Vice-president of the End The
Arms Race (EAR) Gary Marchant
said Wednesday his organization is
urging people to telephone Ad-
miral Yanow to register their com-

By TIMOTHY RE.
News Reporter

iAW

plaints and to send telegrams to
federal energy minister Pat
Carney. ‘

Marchant said, with 80 per cent
of all American war ships carrying
nuclear weapons, ‘‘We are 99,97

per cent sure that these ships will
be carrying nuclear weapons, and
we do, as a matter of policy, op-
pose nuclear weapons being
brought into Vancouver harbor."

The ‘invitation’ to the U.S.
Navy, Marchant reiterated, was
“terrible timing.”’

But Mierau said, to his knowl-
edge, no nuclear weapons would
be on any of the U.S. Navy ships.

Marchant said the EAR will
organize an April 18 candle-light
vigil in English Bay to protest the
arrival of the war ships.

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NEWS photo tan Smith

MEMBERS OF North Vancouver Citizens for Peace demonstrated
Monday in front of the offices of North Vancouver-Burnaby MP Chuck
Cook. The group was protesting the scheduled arrival in Vancouver har-
bor of five U.S. warships during Vancouver's Apri} 19 to 27 Peace Week.

_ Former friendship with

murderer plagues man

DARREN KELLY. con-
tinues to haunt Phil Won-
nacott.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
Ne Report

The 19-year-old .North Van-
couver man said recently his
former friendship with Genni
May’s confessed killer has made
him a target for the public outrage

sparked by Kelly’s crime.

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Quoted in the Anril 2 issue of
the News as a ‘close friend’ of Kel-
ly’s, Wonnacott said he has been
harassed ever since by former ac-
quaintances and pcople who
assume that, because of his former
friendship, he in some way con-
dones the killer’s actions or is
sympathetic towards Kelly.

“Yes, he was my friend,’’ Won-
nacott said, ‘‘but I hate him so
much for what he has done, 1 just
want to get him out of my life. The
telephone calls and the comments

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from people, they really hurt.’’

Wonnacott said Kelly has called
him several times from jail, but he
has told the confessed killer to
leave him alone, to allow him to
get on with his life.

Torn between loyalties of
friendship developed over seven
years, and the sudden overwhelm-
ing disgust at Kelly’s actions,
Wonnacott said he has been beset
with an overflow of personal guilt
and public venom from the crime.
His peers, he said, ‘‘have come
down hard on me.”

“But | don’t want to talk about
him anymore. He is gone. | wish
we had the death penalty, because
he deserves it.’”

Wonnacott said he wanted peo-
ple to know that he was Kelly's
friend, but is no longer. The hor-
ror of Genni May’s murder, he
said, has come too close.

Admitting that he has been in
trouble with the police in the past,
Wonnacott said he is trying to put
those problems behind him.

‘All I’ve done for the past two
years is good things, but all peanle
can see is that | was a friend of
Darren’s.”’

Kelly pleaded guilty to the
first-degree murder of three-year-
old Genni May April 1. The girl's
body was found Dec. 14, 1985 ona
logging road seven kilometers from
her family’s Sechelt-area motel
room. Kelly was sentenced to life
imprisonment with no eligibilty for
parole for 25 years, following his
written confession.

3 - Friday, April 11, 1986 - North Shore News

“seen at Horseshoe Bay.

He’ said:fo