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Reagan sworn
to second term
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Ronald Reagan called for
“a new American Emancipa
tion" in his second inaugural
address Monday.
The president’s remarks
reflected his longstanding con
viction that Americans are held
in bondage, not by race or
discrimination, but by big
government.
Reagan delivered the address
shortly after publicly re
enacting Sunday’s private oath
taking ceremony. Monday's in
augural events were held in the
Capitol building rotunda after
sub-freezing temperatures caus
ed the president to order their
removal from the west face of
the Capitol.
The traditional inaugural
parade down Pennsylvania
Avenue was canceled. It was
the first time since Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s wartime inaugural
of 1945 that a parade did not
grace the event.
In his remarks, Reagan pro
posed “a new American Eman
cipation — a great national
drive to tear down economic
barriers and liberate the spirit of
enterprise in the most distress
ed areas of our country.”
Although he mentioned
elsewhere in the speech that the
federal government has a role to
play in defending civil rights,
the Reagan emancipation would
grant another kind of freedom.
“At the heart of our efforts,”
Reagan said, "is one idea vin
dicated by 25 straight months of
economic growth: Freedom and
incentives unleash the drive
and entrepreneurial genius that
are the core of human
progress.”
“We must act now to protect
future generations from govern
ment’s desire to spend its
citizens’ money and tax them
into servitude when the bills
come due,” he said.
Rather than government
social programs for the needy,
Reagan said “a growing
economy and support from
family and community offer our
best chance for a society where
compassion is the way of life.”
Gillis ‘elated’
to join House
SALEM (AP) — Freshman
state Rep. Pat Gillis was sworn
in as a member of the Oregon
House of Representatives Mon
day, a week after the House had
voted to deny him a seat
because of his campaign
misbehavior.
In a small ceremony attended
by a group of Republican
lawmakers, supporters and
family members, the 24-year
old Portland Republican took
the oath of office from Justice
Berkeley Lent of the state
Supreme Court.
The other 59 members of the
House were sworn in Jan. 14,
the same day the House voted
not to seat Gillis pending an in
quiry into alleged election
misconduct.
The House subsequently
voted to seat Gillis, but also
reprimanded him for mailing a
campaign letter purporting to
be from the American Associa
tion of Retired Persons.
After Monday’s brief
swearing-in ceremony in the
House chambers. Gillis said he
was “elated” to be officially in
stalled as a House member.
But he noted: “My problems
aren’t over yet.”
Attorney General Dave
Frohnmayer’s office is in
vestigating whether Gillis
should be prosecuted for a
felony election law violation for
falsely claiming in the state
Voters’ Pamphlet that he has a
master’s degree.
House Speaker Vera Katz, D
Portland, has said that although
the House has voted to seat
Gillis, the House could re-open
the Gillis matter if he’s con
victed of a felony.
Even so, Katz on Monday said
Gillis will be “expected to
fulfill the same duties required
of other lawmakers.”
She assigned Gillis seats on
the chamber’s Intergovernmen
tal Affairs and Housing
committees.
Prison accepts
Indian custom
MCNEIL ISLAND, Wash.
(AP) — Within the steel fences
and brown walls of the state
prison here, Indian inmates
now have a sweat lodge — a
small tent where they can purify
their spirits and their bodies.
“It is a simple way of life that
has been passed on for hun
dreds and hundreds of years,
even before the Europeans
came,” said Tom Harris, a
Stollo Indian who is a practi
tioner of Indian religious
rituals.
In the ceremony, stones are
heated in a fire, then put inside
the lodge, where water is
poured on them, creating a stif
ling heat. Participants pray and
try to unburden themselves of
problems in the ceremony,
which lasts about one hour.
Though use of the sweat
lodge is a basic religious ritual
for many Indians, state prison
officials were slow to approve
use of the canvas and blanket
covered framework.
So Indian inmates at McNeil
Island Corrections Center were
understandably pleased Sunday
with the consecration of the
prison’s first sweat lodge since
the former federal facility
became a state prison in 1981.
Corrections officials and in
mates said they hoped use of the
sweat lodge here would clear
the way for other state prisons
to follow suit, and allow Indian
inmates around the state to join
in the religious ritual.
"I’m just glad they built
this,” said inmate Harold Des
jarlais. a Yakima Indian.
“Before we had this, we all felt
cut off.”
Lynn said corrections of
ficials knew little about the
sweat lodge ceremony and were
concerned there could be
abuses, such as drug dealing,
when the inmates were seclud
ed in the lodge. He said the
department was glad to locate
Harris, a trained practitioner
who could supervise the rites.
Many of the 50 men who par
ticipated in the consecration
ceremony Sunday had never
been in a sweat lodge.
One man said he rarely
thought of the practice before
entering prison, but that it
became important to him when
he went behind walls. "It helps
you identify with your
heritage.” he said, ‘it gives us a
place to feei together."
“You have to believe in
something.” said inmate James
Blair, a Chippewa, as he waited
for his tum to enter the lodge.
Belushi Mend
gives up flight
TORONTO (AP) — Cathy
Evelyn Smith, the woman ac
cused of murdering comedian
John Belushi with injections of
cocaine and heroin, turned
herself in to police here Monday
and gave up her 22-month fight
against extradition to
California.
Smith's attorney, Brian
Greenspan, told a news con
ference that his client formally
abandoned her extradition ap
peal because “discussions and
negotiations” with the Los
Angeles County district at
torney’s office "provided an ac
ceptable basis for Miss Smith’s
voluntary departure.”
Greenspan refused to say
whether the bargaining led to
an agreement on reduced
charges or on a sentence to be
served.
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