Portland rushing plans for Clinton’s conference
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PORTLAND (AP)
— City officials
were scrambling
Wednesday to find a
place with the right
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form! con fort) nee on April 2.
Sain Adams, spokesman for Port land
Mayor Vera Katz, said a team has been set
up to work with the White House in find
ing a home for the conference
"They have not firmed up the number
of participants or the space requirement*
and that would weigh in on the deci
sion," he said. "There's nothing on the
exact location other than it being some
place in Portland."
The most likely candidate for such an
event would be the Oregon Convention
Center, hut that is hooked for April 2 with
two conference*.
Memorial Coliseum has a contort
scheduled that day, and spokesmen for
other likely locations said they had heard
nothing about conference plans.
Oregon Gov Barbara Rol>efis said she
expected the conference to relieve the
logging gridlock ond produt e "some clar
ity and predictability" al>out future tim
ber harvests on federal lands in the
Northwest
Washington Gov Mike to wry also wel
comed the conference
"Finally, we have a president who is
willing to put tile full force of his admin
istration bcthind solving this long-running
problem.” Lowry said.
Some timber industry groups said they
welcomed the chance to try to balance
environmental protection with econom
ic growth Logging has been banned on
large tracts of federal forest by lawsuits
that followed the Endangered Species Art
listing of the northern spotted owl as a
threatened species.
James Geisinger. president of the
Northwest Forestry Association, said the
conference will provide Clinton and Gore
with their "first opportunity to test their
contention that environmental protection
creates jobs rather than abolishes them.”
Other limber industry representatives
wore pessimistic.
"Essentially, the issues will lie solved,
but they are not going to be solved to our
benefit." said Bill Pickell of the Washing
ton Contract Loggers Association in
Olympia. "I think the ducks are all lined
up in a row and the ducks are all preser
vationist ducks, and that's the way it's
going to come down on the Northwest."
Steve Whitney. Washington state direc
tor of the Wilderness Society in Seattle,
said the conference will help bring about
public control of national forests.
"I think a real achievement is to. once
and for all. bring the debate out of the
bock room and into the daylight." he said.
"Private interests have been running the
show for far too long. It's time for the
public interest to have its shot.”
Lawmakers optimistic
about forest summit
WASHINGTON (AI *) Several members of (In* Northwest s < on
gressiomil delegation said Wednesday (liny had high hopes for th<>
Clinton administration's opproae h to the forest conference in Oregon
next month
"They "'dl fort* their agencies to come together and agree on a sin
gin legislative solution and will propose that legislation to Congress
in short order after the summit. Their intention is to get it done
before fall," said Rep. Peter DeFazio, I)-Ore.
Added Rep Norm Du ks, I)-Wash "Over the past four years, we
have worked with an administration that, at times, had five sepa
rate ami different positions on how to resolve the problems "
Kven Sen Slade Gorton. K-Wash , said he was optimistic a change
m administrations would bring movement on the issue
" This administration is able to start fresh," he said
Hut there was a lone voit e of criticism amid all the optimism
"Wo have talked this issue over until we are all blue in the fate,"
said Rep Hob Smith. R-Ore
"It is nothing more than window -dressing, a public, relations gam
bit intended to show concern for Northwest residents while the
administration and Congress prepare to pull the rug from underneath
our communities." he said
Smith said Vicar President Al Gore is "committed to shutting down
timber communities” and that his participation in the c onferenc e
amounts to "leaving the fox to guard the hem house ."
Smith is most upset that the conference apparently will exclude
members of Congress. White House officials said no dec isions have
been made on the formal or partie ipnnts. but most other lawmakers
said Wednesday it would l>e a good idea to keep congressmen out.
"If one meinlier of Congress shows up. 30 will la* there." DeFazio
said. "By the time they finish opening statements, Clinton will lac on
Ins way to Vancouver and won't have o chnne e to hear from real peo
plo.”
Clinton. Core and four Cabinet members will convene the confer
ence on April 2 in Portland. Ore. Clinton heads to Vanc ouver. British
Columbia, lor a summit the following day with Russian leader Boris
Yeltsin.
Gore briefed Northwest lawmakers and key congressional leaders
on plans for the conference Wednesday.
“I got the indication from President Clinton direc tly that he
planned to sit there the whole day. six or eight hours, to listen and
learn," Rep Mike Kopetski, D-Orw., said
Sen. Larry Craig. R-Idaho, said Gore "got an ear full” from law
makers at the briefing.
"It is a problem that is much bigger than he originally thought it
might lie," Craig said.
"Gigging has to lie given equal priority to other considerations We
have to recognize it is just as valuable in this country to cut trees and
build houses and create jobs as it is to secure habitat for a spec die
species."
Two charged in alleged mercy killing
SOUTH HUNT). Wash (AH) — Two people,
mi hiding a teen-ager who reportedly wor
shiped Satan, wen* charged Wednesday in the
slay mg of an llwat o man who was depressed
over the breakup of his marriage and allegedly
asked to Im* killer!
Gregory l.ee Wood, 33. and William Joshua
Young, 17, lioth ol llwai o, were charged with
aggravated first-degree murder in the death of
Frank Ainsworth. .H. Pai.ifk. (.utility deputy
prosecutor Jim Conley said. They were held
without hail pending arraignment Friday,
Ainsworth apparently wanted to die and had
promised Wood his true k if Wood would kill
hint. Conley said Wood then got the teen-ager
to tarry out the killing in exchange for drugs,
Conley Alleged.
Prosecutors are seeking to try Young ns an
adult. They had not decided whether to seek
the death penalty if Wood and Young are con
victed Aggravated first-degree murder is the
only crime in Washington punishable by death
Ainsworth had been very depressed over his
separation from his wife and called the sheriff s
office seyeral times saving he was planning to
kill himself, officials said
"He didn't want to kill himself, so his friend.
Mr Wood, was going to do it for him Hut he
(Wood) didn't have the guts to do it himself so
he hired the kid," Sherilf Jerry Henning alleged
Henning said the teen was hired "ixn.ause he
was knovwi not only as a Satanic yvorsluper hut
also ns an extremely violent young man."
Deputies found Ainsworth’s body Friday
morning in the IhhI of his llwaco home ufter rel
atives and Wood asked that the victim be
< hacked on.
His head was bludgeoned and his neck was
shl There were no signs of a struggle.
"Ho was asleep when he took the first hit. we
think," Henning said.
In a ditch near Ainsworth's home, investiga
tors found a knife and an ax handle thought to
have been used in the killing. The first blow to
Ainsworth's head was probably from a large
wine bottle found shattered near his body. Hen
mug said.
Wood is not thought to have been present
during the killing, the sheriff said.
before Ainsworth's body was discovered.
Wood told police "he was concerned his friend
may have overdosed on barbiturates," Henning
said.
Wood was arrested Friday after Henning's
office called him in for questioning. The juve
nile was arrested the same day in Long Beach.
Conley said Ainsworth and Wood had
"entered into an agreement" in which the vic
tim would be killed in exchange for the truck he
owned
Wood then got the teen to carry out the slay
ing, promising him drugs. Conley said. "That is
the only motive we can tell at this point," he
added
Statements made by the defendants to inves
tigators detailing Ainsworth's death wish,
Young's devil worship and willingness to kill
lor drugs, and Wood's agreement to have one of
his closest friends murdered, may be present
ed in court Friday, Henning said.
"There's going to be some interesting reading
in there," he said.
Bandit safe at home after cat burglary
BELLEVUE, Wash. (Al>) —
The bandits who swiped Bandit
tlie cat were watching the televi
sion show Cops when they wen?
nabbed by real cops.
Now Bandit is back home and
the bandits are in jail.
Matt and Kenae Oekker's cat
— one of two the couple owned
— was tak.nn in a burglary ot
their house nearly two weeks
ago.
Tho mystery was solved Mon
day when Bellevue and King
County police detectives inves
tigating a series of burglaries in
the south Bellevue area served
two search warrants, one at a
residence) in Skyway and the
other in SeoTac.
At the SeaTac location, police
arrested a man and woman for
investigation of burglary and
possession of stolen property.
They were also searching for
another man.
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