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remove AIDS protester

Lonsdale at 13th

BY ANNA MARIE DARGELO  sirolled back and forth in

Mews Reporter

AN AIDS activist out
to draw attention to
himself got his wish
last Friday afternoon
in front of the North
Shore News office.

The 40-year-old Burnaby
man drew the attention of
about a dozen onlookers,
mostly News emplovees, as
he struggled with a couple of
North Van Mounti

The Mounties wrestled
him to the ground and arrest-
ed him for mischief.

The man, who declined to
give a News photographer his
name, had come into the
News office in the 1100-
black of Lonsdale Avenue
less than 20 minutes before
the scuffle with police.

He dropped an anti-Doug
Collins leaflet on a reception
counter while screaming slo-
gans about AIDS and Collins.

The man was forcibly
escorted out of the office by a
News staffer. Police were
called. Outside on the side-
walk in front of the News
office, the man continued to
scream out such slogans as
“Death by curse,” “Death by
dirt” and “Doug Coliins
kills.” Two men who were
with him took photographs.
Another man filmed the
event.

The ALDS activist affixed
small yellow stickies saying
hate” -and “lies” to the news-

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A would-be robber's
unopesed knife was not
enough of a threat to.
convince a West
Vancouver teenager to
turn over his wallet on
Saturday.

According to a West
vancouver Police
spokesman, the I4-year-
old boy was walking i in
a parking bot in Park
Royal shopping cent

north mall when the
aspiring male robber
jumped out of an old
Ford car.

The teenager refused
to turn over his wallet
ducing. the 6:30 p.m.
incident. The. would-be
robber got back in the
car and left, said police.

No one was arrested.
A police investigation
into the incident con-
tinues.

front of the office in between
yelling his slogans in’ the
direction of the street.

North Vancouver District
Coun, Janice Harris happened
fo be going by the aewspa-
per’s office with her small
children.

Said Harris, “hl Jooked to

Me us if was pos a bit of

a media ploy .. H a dra-
matic individual.”

Harris said the man was
polite when he handed her a
leaflet. She did not feel
threatened and quickly came
to the conclusion that the
man was “irate with Doug
Collins.”

The man was less courte-
ous to police. He struggled
and yelled obscenities during
his dramatic arrest. At one
point, he screamed at police.
“Watch my medicati

The man was red-faced as
he continued to scream his

sside the open door
Mice car.

News management de-
clined to press charges.
North Vancouver RCMP
Const. Catherine Galliford
said the man was put in jail
“to coal down.” He was
released. No charges were
laid. As is standard practice.
police did not release - his
name because he was not
charged with a crime.

The Burnaby man is
known to police for partic
patiag in a number
Vancouver demonstrations
the last few years,
Galliford.

Three d. setore the inci-

wled on the sidewalk in

front of the newspaper's
entrance,

The newspaper has
flooded with responses
recent News colum
Collins and Trevor Lautens
on AIDS. The columnists
contend that AIDS in Canada
is a preventable venereal dis-
euse g mostly homo-
sexual men and intravenous
Crug users.

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