Marc Anderson

Twenty-three people stood silently at Grand Circus park on Saturday March 18 to indicate their support of the Phoenix, a peace ship sailing to North Vietnam.

The vigil was called by the American Friends Meeting (100 St. Aubin) to publicize the voyage of the Phoenix, which left Hiroshima under sail for Haiphong. Captained by Earle Roberts, the Phoenix is a fifty foot sailing ship which in 1958 was sailed into the Eniwetok nuclear test area by the captain and his family.

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