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Senator accused of ethics infractions, hearing set SALEM (AP) - The Oregon Government Ethics Commis sion is expected to rute Friday on a motion to dismiss one of two complaints filed against state Sen. Keith Burbidge, D Salem. The commission on Wednes day began a hearing into a complaint filed against Bur bidge The complaint alleged he violated Oregon ethics laws by failing to disclose a conflict of interest in a bill he sponsored which specifically benefited his wife, Nita Burbidge, a state em ployee It also alleged Burbidge improperly used his office for his own personal gain. Burbidge's attorney also moved to dismiss one of the complaints on Wednesday The commission adjourned without making a ruling. It is scheduled to reconvene Friday at 7 a m During the day-long hearing, the commission heard tes timony about Burbidge’s spon sorship of a bill increasing his wife's state retirement benefits The first complaint alleges Burbidge failed to disclose a conflict of interest when he vot ed on the retirement bill The second alleges that his spon sorship of the measure consti tuted an illegal use of his office for personal gain. Michael Dye, a Salem attor ney representing Burbidge, moved to dismiss the second complaint. He said the law was meant to prohibit lawmakers from selling their vote or in fluence, but did not prohibit them from sponsoring any legislation from which they or their family members would benefit. Dye said the senator ac knowledges making no formal declaration of a conflict of in terest when the bill was before the Senate. However, he claimed it was general know ledge that Nita Burbidge, an employee of Adult and Family Services, was the only person expected to benefit under an amendment put into the bill by her husband. That general knowledge exempted Burbidge from the requirement, Dye claimed. Peter Herman, who served as prosecutor in the hearing, said the requirement for disclosure wasn't just for the senators’ benefit, but for the benefit of the public. Cocaine sting nets job-less ‘dealers’ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A narcotics sting operation aimed at unemployed workers seeking jobs has fallen apart with the prosecution’s decision to drop charges against 29 people snared in the operation run by a free-lance narcotics agent Drug charges against 19 peo ple in Napa County were dropped on Wednesday and charges against 10 others in San Francisco were dropped on Tuesday. “Entrapment would be a via ble defense in each case” in Napa County said District Attor ney James Boitano. The sting was run by free lance narcotics agent Marc Caven, 28, of Gresham, Ore., who has run a series of similar operation in Oregon and Washington. Cases against defendants in several of those incidents have been thrown out by judges on grounds of en trapment. Caven advertised construc tion jobs for the mythical Ever green Construction & Lands caping during February and March. Defendants in earlier cases said that when they ap peared for interviews, Caven said he would get them a job or give them priority on a waiting list if they would bring him cocaine. An undercover police officer would buy the drugs and arrest the job applicants when they showed up at Caven’s motel room. Job seekers brought bin dles and baggies of cocaine in amounts ranging from a half gram to 1V? ounces. "We spent in the neighborhood of $1,100 and got $33,000 worth of drugs off the streets,” said San Fran cisco Police Sgt. Rene La Prevotte, who supervised the narcotic detail’s sting opera tion. San Francisco Assistant Dis trict Attorney Robert Gordon said he was convinced that no entrapment.occurred in the cases here, but he said it would be difficult to prove that in court. Religious affiliates join forces in nuclear protests SEATTLE (AP) — With a boost from the religious community, demonstrators who have waged a gener ally peaceful. 7%-year battle against the nuclear weapons-bearing Trident submarine are preparing for another summer of protests A vigil is scheduled this Sunday in four states, but the highlight of the protest season will be this sum mer's arrival of the first Trident submarine — the Ohio — at the Trident base in Washington state It is a moment the Trident protesters have hoped and prayed wouldn't arrive. But they won't quietly accept the nuclear sub’s arrival, and have new support among religious leaders this year, sparked by Seattle Catholic Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen's well-publicized castigation of the Trident missile system a year ago "There have been big changes in the 7Vt years of the Trident campaign,'' Jim Douglass, organizer for the Ground Zero protest group, acknowledged Tues day night in an interview. "When we first began working on the project. Trident was a sugartess gum and not much else." he said, referring to the lack of knowledge about the weapon. "Now there are questions being raised in the community as well as a wide-based peace movement." On Sunday, the Agape Community, a Christian group formed to protest Trident, is sponsoring vigils in 13 communities on a railroad line between Salt Lake City and the Navy's Trident base at Bangor, on Hood Canal west of Seattle. Rocket motors tor the Trident's missiles are shipped along the railroad, from where they are built near Salt Lake City. Renee Krisko, a member of the Agape Communi ty, said it was difficult to estimate how many might show up at the different locations, but said Portland organizers were planning for as many as 500. She said 50 to 200 were expected at Bangor. The Ohio, now at the Electric Boat yard in Groton, Conn., after sea trials, is expected to arrive sometime this summer at the Navy base at Bangor. Protesters, including many religious leaders, have said they will meet the sub with their own boats. Some will "wit ness" the arrival, while others plan to try to blockade the submarine near the entrance of Hood Canal. “Our intention is to resist Trident, so we hope to have some boats resisting its entrance,” said Krisko, a Catholic nun. On Aug. 8, a rally is planned north of Bangor, at Point Julia on property owned by the Klallam Indian tribe "Resist Trident Celebrate Hope.” Is the theme, said Shelley Douglass, Jim Douglass’ wife. Hunthau sen and Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert, also of Seattle, are among the scheduled speakers. Shelley Douglass said support from respected church figures has helped give the anti-Trident movement credibility, and has raised questions even among those depending on the submarine and weapon system for their livelihoods. "People on the Trident base have done a lot of agonizing over that," she said. Past anti-Trident protests continued year-round. but the more public exercises have been from late spring to early fall. Prayer vigils have been held in front of the Navy's Trident base at Bangor every Sunday for the past three months, and demonstrators have handed out leaflets at the entrance gate every week for years. This Sunday’s Agape Community appeal to scrap Trident is more public, with members conducting prayer vigils along the railroad tracks in four states. The communities involved are Bangor, Elma, Centralia, Castle Rock, Kelso-Longview, Vancouver and Washougal, Wash.; Portland, The Dalles, La Grande and Baker, Ore.; Shoshone, Idaho; and Salt Lake City. Agape Community, said Krisko, named itself for a term used by early Christian communities to refer to love and fellowship among members of the communi t{08 She said vigils would also be held in the com munities July 4. Independence Day. and Aug. 6, the 37th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Workshops have already begun in preparation of the Trident submarine’s arrival at Bangor. 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