A2 - Sunday, May 1, 1983 - North Shore News

family.

Blackman, aged 22,
reappeared in Port
Coquitlam provincial

court Tuesday, where
Judge Alfred Scow found
him fit to stand trial for
the slayings.

He had previously been
found unfit for trial by
reason of insanity.

He is charged with the
January 19 killings of his
parents, Richard and
Irene Blackman, his 16-
year-old brother Rick, his
two sisters - Karen

CHARGES are expected
as a result of a Deep Cove
party broken up by police
last weekend.

RCMP officers
managed to quieten down
the noise of the party in
the 400 block Strathcona,
when they responded to
neighbors’ complaints at
11:30 p.m. Saturday and
found 150 guests partying

A POLICE officer who
nabbed two theft suspects
while he was “stealthily
patrolling the un-
derground parking lot of
Park Royal Towers” carly
Monday morning ime
bonus of another arresi as
aresult.

He arrested two 17
year-olds, one of whom
was wanted for being
unlawfully at large from

A 1981 Cadillac BFidorado

two door

coupe was
driven off straight: from
the place that) supphes
them, overmght Monday
Tuesday, by  someonc
who didnot pay the

A SLEEPING, resident
whe roused to the sound
of Nowcs  oulside has
Dollanton Highway home
last weekend found he
had been disturbed by an

tntruder whe was trying

Bear

ANYONE who Rots
offered the skin of a polar
bear measuring YFl Gan
from nose to Cail tor much
less than $5 OOO) can be

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~ Blackman
fit for trial

FORMER Argyle School student Bruce
Blackman has been declared fit to stand trial
for the mass murder of six members of his

What a party it was

Back at the hotel...

Thief drives in style

Intruders

facts

Rhodes, aged 25, and
Roberta Davies, 28, and
his brother-in-law, 39-
year-old John Davies.

All the victims were
found shot at the Port
Coquitlam home where
Blackman's parents had
lived since moving from
Lynn Valley where they
had lived for a number of
years.

Blackman will remain
at the Riverview Forensic
Psychiatric Institution,
pending a_ preliminary
hearing set for May 17.

to the sounds of a live
band.

But when police were
called back at 3 a.m.
Sunday they didn’t ask
again. They arrested
eight people there, who
were placed in the cells
for the rest of the night,
and now police are
considering charges
against the two co-hosts.

Willingdon detection
centre in Burnaby, found
in the parking lot.

And when police
decided to check out the
North Vancouver motel
room where the two had
been staying, they found
a 15-year-old girl listed as
runaway from Burnaby.

The matter 1s) stall
under investigation, with
charges capected to be
laid

$16,000 on the price tap

The grey Caddy was
taken from Royal Pon
tlac in West Vancouver
by someone who ob
veously didn't care that at
had no leence plates

nabbed

to peloan by prying open
the window

The resdent cabled the
KO MP whe artested
three yusxentiles Ihe
tone aede eat Ns under in
vestigation

on the white bearskin cag
stolen from a home io the
SOO block Stevens an the
Wrvtosh Properties lint
wecekecuad seid beipg
sought by West Van
pohec

And then the sun came out...

Y’'VE ALWAYS HATED crowds. It had
something to do with having been caught in
last-minute Christmas shopping rushes in
Eaton’s as a kid. Paradoxically, there can also
be something profoundly stirring about a

crowd.

In most sporting events, I
am convinced it is largely for
the thrill of being in a crowd
that people attend. There
must be some _ kind of
primitive sense of security
that comes from being sur-
rounded by large numbers of
your own kind.

I used to feel it in church.
It was a kind of relief that,
finally, I was in a place
where not even the bad
creatures that haunted my
dreams could reach me.
There were just too many
aunts and uncles and coun-
sins around, to say nothing
of priests and neighbours.

It used to feel good to go
down to a Blue Bombers
game and scream my lungs
out along with thousands of
other howling semi-human
apes. Giving vent to some
wild thing inside was the real
name of the game.

And then there
political crowds.

They're the scary ones.

I've been greeted by
something very close to an
actual lynch mob in New-
foundland, have been caught
up in a human stampede in
Chicago when riot police at-
tacked an immense mass of
people protesting the Viet-
nam war, and have been
swept up in the excitement
of closing the U.S.-Canada
border by sheer force of
numbers.

Perhaps the most distinct-
ly uncomfortable mob scene
I remember was in Australia
when a gang of bikers show-
ed up to trash a protest
organized by whale-lovers. |
had the bad luck to be the
one to have to tell these
guys, all of whom warked at
the nearby whaling station,
that I really didn't give a
damn about their jobs. I was
more concerned about the
whales.

Fortunately, the good old
Austrahan Commonwealth
Police were on hand to save
my putt

By companson to such up-
tight events, the April 23
march for peace through

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of poor nudists who showed
up to do their thing were im-
mediately surrounded by
burly Cops for Peace, and
out of the scores of anar-
chists and activists and lef-
ties on hand, not one person

strictly
personal

by Bob Hunter

Vancouver, which drew
between 65,000 and 80,000
people, was a festival. The
best place to demonstrate, if
you must demonstrate, is
definitely on your home turf
with all your frends and
nobody to oppose you.

I couldn't help noticing,
on the CBC national news
that night, the electronic
media was still obsessed by
the old shibboleth that bad
news is good news — that ts,
a tiny outbreak of violence
at a much-smaller peace
demo in Toronto was the top
item, while a truly gigantic
display of actual peace at
work in Vancouver trailed
along as a feeble third-rate
piece of information.

The worst thing that hap-
pened during the march
from Kitsilano to Sunset
Beach was that the handful

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The high moment, literal-
ly, came when we reached
the north end of the Burrard
Street Bridge and looked
over the side. Below, the
front end of the crowd was
passing, having looped ail
the way down to Robson

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Street. That was one big
crowd -- the largest in Van-
couver's history.

The weather was what the
Buddhists would call
auspicious. Blinding sunlight
is not the best situation for a
march. A nice steely light,
cool temperatures, please.

That’s exactly what we
got, except for a moment, at
the very start ef the march,
when the sun winked at us,
then held back until
everyone was comfortably
sitting down in the park on,
the other side of the bridge.

Sunlight, please, Maestro.

And voila, down it came,
illuminating the scene
beautifully.

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