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Chemical
weapons:
the quest
for a ban
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Nevada

N-blast:

test pact
exploded

— page 13 —

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inte, © World peace through inter-city and

ple solidarity.”

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| Chet a packed tent on the shores of
Bay Saturday.

Standing applause greeted the

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Hiroshima mayor, who survived the Aug.
6, 1945 atomic blast on the Japanese city
during the closing days of the Second

. World War, at the opening ceremonies of

Vancouver’s nine-day peace festival.

Steady rains failed to deter an
estimated 400 who came to give their
support ot the festival and hear the
greetings of the mayor whose city has
become a living symbol of the struggle for
nuclear disarmament.

Araki, who is a member of several
Hiroshima-based peace and international
friendship organizations, reminded the
audience that the world today stands at a
“crossroads” between nuclear annihilation

4 om bomb survivor and Vancouver area resident Kinuko Laskey (r) leads children from four Vancouver schools Monday in
ting Paper cranes, a Japanese symbol of peace, during children’s day at the “‘peace tent.” The large, circus-type tentis
€d at the city’s Sunset Beach park and was the scene of festivities opening the nine-day peace festival, which includes
tee-day symposium beginning Thrusday and Sunday's Walk for Peace.

and lasting world peace.

Noting the unprecedented buildup of
nuclear weaponry, he told the audience
through a translator that today
“humankind is confronted with the most
serious danger in human history.”

Araki was introduced by Vancouver
Mayor Mike Harcourt, who asserted in
his remarks the role cities and municipal
governments have in waging the struggle
for peace. Harcourt, who noted he was a
guest in Hiroshima last summer for an
international conference of mayors
working for peace, told the audience that
the-councils of Hiroshima and

see MAYORS page 3

JEAN CLAUDE PARROT

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Libya
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