Council bans paid trips to Springfield
ATLANTA (AP) —
The Atlanta City Coun
cil has approved a con
troversial measure to
ban expenditure of city
tunas tor travel to l-olorado, oprtngtteid ana
a California city that passed laws prohibit
ing civil rights protection for homosexuals.
The Fulton County Commission was ex
pected to vote today on a similar measure to
boycott county travel to Colorado and the
cities of Springfield and Concord, Calif.
The City Council's measure, proposed by
council member Myrtle Davis, was ap
proved Monday.
At issue is a state constitutional amend
ment approved by Colorndn voters Nov 3,
Voting to boycott Denver
falls Into the category of
blaming the victim.'
— Richard C. D. Fleming,
president of the Greater Denver
Chamber of Commerce
which prevent* the enforcement of law*
guaranteeing civil right* protections to ho
mosexual*. Cay advocates said the two cit
ios have similar local statutes
Officials in Denver, however, suv Atlanta
leaders are punishing the wrong people
"I don't know how much duo diligence
tho council did." said Richard C, 1) Flem
ing. president of the Greater Denver Cham
ber of Common*. “Voting to boycott Denver
falls Into the category of blaming the vic
tim."
A conservative group called Colorado for
Family Values proposed the anti-gay
amendment in response to local laws ex
tending civil rights protection to gays,
which were passed earlier in Denver. Aspen
and Boulder
The constitutional amendment won S:i
percent of the vote statewide, hut was over
whelmingly defeated In the three cities,
Fleming said The Denver Idly Council vot
ed 12-1 Monday to fight tho now law
Vandals cut
‘X’ in screen
SEATTLE (AP) — A mov
ie theater here planned to fly
a new screen from Los An
geles in time for the evening
premier of Malcolm X, after
someone slashed a four-foot
'X' in the old screen.
There were no signs of
forced entry at the Varsity
Theater, where the damage
estimated at between S2.000
and S3,(KM) was discovered
at about 7 a.m. Monday, po
lice said Tuesday.
No arrests have been
tnado, police spokeswoman
Vinettn Tichi said.
Bert Manzari, president of
Seven Gables Corp., which
owns the theater, said from
Los Angelos that he thought
the incident was a case of
random vandalism. Ho said
tho 'X' described by police
seemed to him to be more
like two slashes in tho shape
of a 'V.'
‘‘There wem no massages,
nothing to indicate it was
anything other than a ran
dom act of vandalism,"
Manzari said.
Manzari said tho new
screen would he flown from
Los Angeles and be installed
by showtime Wednesday
night The three-and-a-half
hour movie was scheduled
to play on two screens at the
three-screen theater near tho
University of Washington
Evening showings were to
begin at 7 p.m.
Manzari and Seattle police
said they did not feel special
security measures wore
called for.
Yew supply unable to meet need
PORTLAND (AP) Pacific yew is more plenti
ful In iho wild than previously thought, hut it
isn't enough to satisfy all the demand for a new
anti-cancer drug derived from the bark, the gov
ernment says.
A survey estimated 10 5 million yew trees. In
cluding seedlings, are growing on 2 million acres
of U S. Bureau of Land Management forests in
Western Oregon, the agency announced ibis
week.
However, the number of trees available for har
vest is limited, said Kent Trosldder. the BLM yew
manager in Oregon.
it takos hark from at least three 150-year-old
yow trees to produce enough of the drug taxol to
treat one person.
“Developing an alternative source of taxol is
critical to both cancer patients and the yew spe
cies,” Tresidder said.
An advisory committee has recommended the
U S Pood and Drug Administration approve taxol
for ovarian cancer patients who have exhausted
other treatments
However. approval is awaiting complotlon of
an environmental impact statement on harvesting
yew Ixirk
Morn than 270,(M)() pounds of green yow t»ark,
enough to provide the drug taxol for 7.000 earner
patients, was harvested from Bl.M lands this year,
the agency said
Bristol Meyers Squllrb Co has said it should lw
able to stop using Pacific yew bark from national
forests to produce taxol within a few years Other
promising sources include tissue cultures, syn
thetics, yew wood and needles, and other types of
yew
The HIM yow inventory was based on exami
nation of H20 plots on 2 million acres in Western
Oregon.
A private supplier. Weyerhaeuser Co . has
planted 5 million yow trees in nurseries to pro
duce taxol
The U S Forest Service, which provides the
hulk of the yew hark harvest, has yet to announce
how much yew it has
Shoot-out murder charge challenged
BOISE (AP) — Defense attor
neys are stinking dismissal of
murder and conspiracy charges
filed in the death of n U S. dep
uty marshal, killed in a shoot
out that sparked a federal siege
of a remote Idaho cabin
In papers filed in U S. Dis
trict Court, attorneys for Kandy
Weaver and Kevin Harris con
tend the government acted im
properly when it sought grand
jury indictments ugainst the
two men while a preliminary
hearing was under way.
Prosecutors sought the in
dictments because they knew
two key witnesses failed to
prove in the preliminary hear
ing that Weavor assaulted the
deputy marshal, wrote Chuck
Peterson, one of Weaver's attor
neys.
David Nevin. who represents
Hurris, moved for dismissal on
The government
acted Improperly
when It sought
grand Jury
Indictments
against the two
men*’
Peterson and Nevm,
attorneys for accused men
grounds that federal prosecit
lors broke a promise to proceed
against Harris through the hear
ing rather than walking a grand
jury indictment.
Doth of the recently filed mo
tions ask that the case be re
turned to a federal magistrate
for completion of a preliminary
hearing to determine charges
federal prosecutors have not
filed response* to the motions,
and no hearing has boon sched
uled The U S attorney's office
hore declined comment Tues
day.
Weaver, 44, and Harris, 25,
are being held in the Ada
(4>unty fail on charges of mur
dor, resisting arrest, assault on
a federal officer and conspira
cy.
The charges stem from an 11
duy standoff with hundreds of
federal, state and local officers
after an Aug 21 shoot out in
which two people were killed:
U S. Deputy Marshal William
Degan of Boston and Weaver's
son, Samuel, 14
The dispute is over how
criminal defendants are hound
over for trial
Highway
shootings
mysterious
PORTLAND (AP) — A
third random vehicle shoot
ing on a heavily traveled
suburban freeway has forced
police'to stop up patrols in
the areas alongside the high
way, officials said Wednes
day.
A Hillsboro motorist re
ported the windshield of his
pickup was damaged by a
gunshot about 6 a m. as he
was driving into Portland on
the Sunset Highway, a sec
tion of U.S. 2(1 that feeds the
western suburbs.
The motorist was not in
jured and drove to his work
place before calling police,
said Sgt. Jim Ferrari* of the
Portland Police Bureau.
A tractor-trailer rig was
iStruck by a bullet last Satur
day and a c4ib driver narrow
ly escaped injury Monday
W.hnn his cab was hit by a
bullet In the same area.
It appoared the pickup
was struck by u 22-caliber
bdllet or a pellet from un air
gun that broke lha wind
shield but did not penotrate
it. said Washington County
sheriffs spokeswoman
Shorn Calourl.
I onitimi pin ii tr ion* mu
report but referred It to
Washington County because
the Incident occurred just
Inside the Washington
County lino.
Calourt said she did not
know what advice td' offer
motorists on the heavily
traveled suburban highway.
"It's difficult to protect
yourself from a type of ran
dom thing like this," she
said. “Hopefully we'll find
the person."
A psychiatrist told The
Oregonian that the shootings
could be the work of some
one taking part in initiation
rites for a criminal gang.
Police patrols have been
increased in neighborhoods
bordering the highway.
"We don't know whether
the person firing the shots
was on foot or in a vehtclo,"
Calourt said. "Either Is pos
sible. We are asking area res
idents to report suspicious
activity.”
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