Seattle will be in the press again this summer when the Navy installs the USS Ohio, the first of 10 Tridents planned for the submarine base on Hood Canal. So awful is the power of the nuclear warheads on the long- range missiles that the Trident subs carry, that the 8,000-acre submarine base, Bangor, has become the arena for many affirmations of peace. Here ministers gather to pray outside the gates; here Buddhist monks keep trying to build a pagoda; here a two-year “peace walk” to Bethlehem began at Easter; and here a fleet of small craft will await, with defiance, the 560-foot missile-bearing sub. Z tn Tuesday, four days before the VX rally, Joan Fox learned that the permit had been granted. Some of the overflow from the two buses rented by the Quakers was channeled onto the Longshoremen’s bus, which departed promptly at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 12, for the 112-mile drive to Blaine. The bus driver, an enormous man named Don, kept in radio contact with drivers of other buses belonging to the Associated Bus Service. Along the way two people were seen struggling to hoist a banner over one of the freeway exit signs. A couple on a D r. Christine Cassell, from Physicians fo r Social Responsibility, offered PSR’s now-notorious disclaimer: “We doctors will be impotent to help anyone after a nuclear attack, but we are not impotent now. ” Yamaha, wearing denim, pulled alongside the bus, studied the faces framed in the windows, and flashed a tentative peace sign. Don the bus driver responded with enthusiastic honking and the couple grinned, waved, and rode on. Just north of the Mt. Vernon exit, another bus was stopped and two Washington State Highway Patrol cars were there with it. Don braked, changed lanes, pulled over and stopped. He got out, as did several of the men. “Goddamn cop’s writing us a ticket,’’ one of the men announced. An elderly woman with gold- rimmed glasses allowed as how it was a trick to stop the rally, and a few people laughed. Conversations got started. “He wasn’t going that fast,” two women agreed. A regular Trailways bus streaked by in the fast lane without arousing the interest of the police. A man wearing a “Reagan is a Union Busting S.O.B.” button shook his head and sat down. Don came aboard and pulled the bus back on the road. He stopped at a rest area just south of Blaine, and the women lined up for the restroom. The first eight women happened to be standing black, white, black, white, as if somebody arranged them that way, all headed for the same restroom, as they have for 20 years now. Three more Associated Buses pulled into the parking lot. The new arrivals wore buttons of the Seattle Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. One of them, a beautiful young woman, cut into the restroom line and scooped a woman wearing a stylish black hat into her arms. “Mother,” she shouted. “I didn't know you were coming today!” The woman kissed her daughter and adjusted her hat. “We came on the bus with the union," she said. TROPICAL PLANTS INTERIOR DESIGN SALES—MAINTENANCE TUESDAY-SATURDAY 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 228-4062 SANDERS &DIXON Lawyers Routine Legal Services AT FIXED RATES • Debt Consolidation -wage earner plans • Debt Collection Harassment Protection • Consumer Bankruptcy • Uncontested Divorce • Basic Will FINANCIAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 13 — DEBT ADJUSTMENT PLAN CHAPTER 7 — DEBT ELIMINATION CALL 242-1440 Also concentrating in Consumer Credit Protection, Family Law, Small Business, Real Estate & Personal Injury. OPL Participating Attorneys in Oregon Prepaid Legal Insurance Inc. Ballow & Wright Bldg. 1727 NW Hoyt St. Portland, Oregon 97209 Convenient to freeways free parking - barrier free access GALLERIA TRAVEL 921 S.W. Morrison Street Portland, Oregon 97205 Phone: 227-1452 EUROPEAN SPECIALISTS . . . LOWEST AIRFARES . . . CINDERELLA TRAVEL WITH THE FAIRY GODMOTHER TOUCH 3568 SE Hawthorne Open Wed-Sat 10-6 Early Sunday 9am-2pm 233-9405 This Space Could Be Yours Call 222-6039 SERENDIPITy REAL NEW YORK STYLE BAGELS Open 10-5 Mon.-Sat. Closed Sun.
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