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Sat, Sept ,3, 1977 5 BELFAST: The city of fear's no place for a daughter TE CALGARY HERALD that what she had done was something kids in area are taught never to do. She bad scared the soldiers by yanking up the blind and their immediate reaction was to swing their weapons. It was explained that people have been accidentally shot, accidentally killed in similar Vic Grant, columnist with the Winnipeg Tribune, recently spent a week living with a Catholic family in strife-torn Belfast Unlike most journalists who have visited Northern Ireland, Grant was able to live with ordinary people because he returned with a group of Belfast youngsters who had spent a three-week holiday in Winnipeg. He was accompanied by his 12-year-old daughter Colleen. The Grants, father ahd daughter, quickly found out what it's like to live in the Belfast ghetto.

This is the second of five reports from Vic Grant's Belfast Diary. Other soldiers have been killed for not reacting to sound which proved to come from snipers, so I couldn't blame them. It was then that I started making plans for my daughter's evacuation. We had planned on staying anywhere from a week to two weeks. A week was going to be enough.

rifles toward the sound. Both rifles swung around and pointed directly at my daughter. She screamed and ran up the stairs. Our hostess came running from the kitchen. It scared the hell out of my daughter, myself and our hostess.

Our hostess carefully explained to my daughter near heart attack for myself. Two soldiers were crouched just in front of the living room window scouting the street. My daughter, wanting a closer look, walked over to the blinds and yanked them up. The immediate reaction of the crouched soldiers was to swing their through the underbrush following the marchers. The marchers started yelling, whistling, kids jumped up on the stone wall and started throwing stones at the soldiers.

I started thinking in terms of a full-scale riot breaking out I wanted no part of a riot and I certainly didn't want my daughter involved in a riot. There were kids the same age as Colleen yelling and cussing and throwing stones. My daughter asked why the soldiers would hide and joint their weapons as they were? I didn't have an answer. She asked why the kids would throw stones at the soldiers? I didn't have the answer. We dropped back and followed at a safe distance.

We observed riot equipped soldiers standing behind a tin wall prepared to come forth at the first definite sign of trouble. We left at that point, not prepared to continue just in case there was trouble. That was one incident. Another occurred the following morning. It had been explained by our hosts that foot patrols constantly made appearances on the street we resided on.

They come down the street, anywhere from eight to a dozen British soldiers, and it reminded me of a movie where you see the marines moving down the street of an occupied German town. One moves, another soldier covers for snipers. They cover both sides of the street and each cover the other's movement. It was a morning foot patrol that caused my daughter a few anxious moments, not to mention a By Vic Grant (For Souttwrn News Services) BELFAST, Northern Ireland Incidents have occurred which have prompted me to think that I may have made a mistake in exposing Colleen, my 12-year-old daughter, to life in this part of the world. I had thought it would be a nice touch, not to mention an education, after having a young Irish visitor live as we live in Canada to have my daughter live as they live in Northern Ireland.

Her education in living is progressing much more rapidly than I had anticipated. The thought has already crossed my mind that the sooner I get my daughter out of here the better. The kids who visited us in Canada have come to learn and understand what is going on here. It may all be too much and too fast for my daughter to stand. We participated in a protest march, a march protesting the violence which had occurred in an area called Turf Lodge some weeks earlier.

It was a peaceful march until the British soldiers showed themselves. The march was progressing past a cemetery when the cry rang out, "There they are, there are the bloody Brits." My God, I thought it was an ambush. Behind numerous gravestones were British soldiers, guns pointed in the direction of the marchers. My daughter pointed out more soldiers hiding behind trees, weapons at the ready, and even more running and crouching 1 am i) pm A I i I i 1 1 i i 7 1 i (- Mourners walk out on sympathy plea imiMnni-iitfft nr nnnniMC nuHUKCUO ur DMiumiHO dcihu urn-iicu SHOWN ARE TWO EXAMPLES he thought at the time of the funeral the collection would be a "lovely thing to do." WS CROWN EAST HADDAM, Conn. (UPI) The mourners were shocked.

Some even walked out of the church. Now they're filing complaints against a priest who asked them to donate money to a defence fund for the man accused of killing the girl they mourned. While presiding over Monday's funeral for Valerie Vickers, 16, of East Haddam, Rev. Earle Fox of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church asked friends and relatives of the dead gir to' donate money to bothtthe This SOFA CHAIR Exactly as illustrated The Casual Look All chrome frame sling back and super soft, down-like cushions on seat back, choice of SOFA CHAIR.

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I don't ed mourners to express sympathy for the family of Gary STankowski, 19, charged with the Aug. 25 gunshot slaying of the girl. Fox asked for a collection, which he said would be divided equally to help pay for Miss Vickers' funeral and Stankowski's defence. After the' priest's plea, several angry persons in attendance stormed out of the church. Many have written to the Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut complaining about the priest's behavior.

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