REGIONAL BRIEFS
Owners warned
BEND (AP) — The destruc
tion of houses by forest fire will
become more common as more
people move into the woods,
the state warned Wednesday.
Doug Decker, spokesman for
the Oregon Department of For
estry. said 187.000 houses in
Oregon face a risk from forest
fires, and 8.000 of them, worth
$530 million, are in Deschutes
and (efferson counties.
In a news conference held at
the starting point of the devas
tating Aubrey Hall fire that de
stroyed 23 homes near Bend
this summer. Decker said peo
ple who build houses in the
forest should recognize the
risks and take steps to protect
their homes.
He suggested clearing brush
around houses, installing fire
proof roofs and making sure
trucks can get through to fight
a blaze.
"One of the frightening facts
that resulted from the discus
sion is that fires like the Au
brey Hall fire are going to hap
pen again," Decker said after
the news conference. "These
high-risk areas, many of them
are just disasters waiting to
happen."
Trial set to begin
PORTLAND (AP) — Racist
and civil rights forces will col
lide in Oregon next week as
white supremacist leader Tom
Metzger faces charges that he
incited the bludgeoning death
of a black man.
Three men were convicted in
the slaying of Mulugeta Seraw,
an Ethiopian whose head was
split open by a band of bat
wielding "skinheads" in 1988.
But Seraw’s relatives weren’t
satisfied. They sued Metzger
for $10 million, claiming he in
cited the attack by sending
agents to Portland with a mes
sage of hate.
Metzger is the founder of
White Aryan Resistance and a
former Ku Klux Man grand
dragon from Fallbrook. Calif.
His Oct. 8 trial will be the fo
cus of activities by national civ
il rights organizations It has
drawn threats from a white su
premacist group that’s suspect
ed of bombing the federal
courthouse in San Diego.
The previously unknown
group, which calls itself The
Holy Church of the White
Fighting Machine of the Cross,
is under FBI investigation in
the Sept. 15 bombing.
No one was injured in the ex
plosion. But a letter the group
sent to San Diego television sta
tion KNSD says it cannot guar
antee there won’t be injuries in
the future. And it “warns all
concerned to drop the lawsuit
in Portland, Ore."
Metzger said he has never
heard of the group, but that
other supporters will be in
town to stage a fund-raising
event during the trial.
Meanwhile. Skinheads
Against Racial Prejudice will
conduct their national confer
ence in Portland as the trial be
gins. Three rallies and a march
have been scheduled by other
civil rights groups.
Police action justified
PORTLAND (AP) - Officers
were justified in the methods
they used to arrest 51 protesters
outside a hotel where Vice
President Dan Quayle was
speaking, the police union
president said Wednesday.
Some of those arrested in
Monday's demonstration ac
cused police of using excessive
force.
On Tuesday, Mayor Bud
Clark said the police bureau
would review the officers' ac
tions at the demonstration.
Clark encouraged people with
specific complaints of police
misconduct to contact the bu
reau's internal investigation
unit.
Stan Peters, president of the
Portland Police Association,
said Wednesday that Clark's
statements implied that police
did something wrong at the
protest.
"Mayor Clark once again
demonstrates that he hasn’t the
faintest idea what it takes to po
lice the streets of this city," Pe
ters said at a news conference.
About 300 protesters were
met by more than 100 police as
Quayle spoke to a Republican
Party fund-raiser inside the Mil
ton Hotel.
No one was seriously hurt
during the five-hour protest, al
though some demonstrators
threw rocks, bottles and fire
crackers at police Those arrest
ed were cited for various minor
offenses and released.
Senators differ with Bush
WASHINGTON (AP) U S.
Sens Mark Hatfield and Bob
Pack wood were on the winning
end of a 1*3-35 roll call Wednes
day, by which the Senate voted
to overrule Hush administration
regulations on federally sup
ported family planning clinics.
The Senate vote overrules
regulations prohibiting clinics
from providing abortion coun
seling or information.
The two Republican senators
were among 46 Democrats and
17 Republicans who voted to
add language permitting the
abortion counseling to a family
planning reauthori/atinn bill.
Nine Democrats and 26 Re
publicans voted to keep the
Hush administration prohibi
tion in place
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