The World - News from Aug. 11, 1988

A Greenpeace member posing as a Canadian customs inspector boarded a U.S. Navy frigate in Vancouver harbor in a protest against nuclear weapons, police in British Columbia and Greenpeace spokesmen said. The demonstration, part of the environmental group’s campaign to rid the world’s oceans of nuclear arms, ended peacefully when the protester, Simon Waters, 40, was escorted off the frigate Roark by Canadian police. Waters, wearing a life jacket under his braided “customs” uniform, had climbed aboard using a ladder mounted from a Greenpeace yacht. U.S. Navy officers refused comment, but Canadian police confirmed that Waters was arrested and later released.