Packwood schedule guarded
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PORT!. AND
(AP) — Although
7J’.4r>fi Oregon i
<uus voted to re
elect Sun Bob Pin k worn! last
November, only a few of thorn
know whom to find him during
his visit to tin* state during the
last few days
The Oregon Republic an guard
ed his schedule closely, releas
ing it sparinglv.to lo* id media in
an attempt to avoid the noisy
protests that marked Ins two vis
its earlier this year.
Pack wood's opponents have
pressured him to return to Ore
gon and answer questions about
allegations by more than 20
women that he made unwanted
advances to them.
The Senate Ethics Committee
is investigating those allegations,
and Packwood has said he will
not discuss them during the
investigation.
Puckwood’s opponents say the
senator has gone only where he's
welcome since arriving in Ore
gon a week ago.
"The events that lie's shown up
at are either male-oriented or
Republican-oriented, a i omToll
able. protected environment. '
said Jana Ooerr. chairwoman of
the Democratic Party of Oregon
Pai kwood said he didn't
release his si hedtile to avoid row
dy protests such as one in whic h
a supporter suffered broken ribs
in Corvallis earlier this year.
But one political expert sa\s
Pack wood's concerns extend
beyond public saletv
"It's really a fairly sophisticat
ed attempt to control the local
press coverage,'' said Russ Don*
dero. chairman of the department
of politii s and government at
Pacific Universitv in Forest
Grove
“I think it's a very calculated,
very strategic and very smart
Bob Packwood
attempt by him to make it appear
that everything is normal."
i‘ai kwood spokeswoman Julia
Brim-Kdwards said the senator
hasn't changed the way he trav
els in his home state.
Brim-Kdwards said Hack wood
normally speaks to service clubs
and business groups and ot t.a
sionally attends a community
gathering such as this year's
Fourth ol Jtilv pit mi in Brook
ings.
But he never has had town
meetings in which constituents
are allowed to ask him whatev
er they want. Brim-Kdwards said
Pat kwood’s schedule for last
Friday wasn't released to the
media at all because a visit to
kingCdv Thursday was broad
cast on a radio show. Brim
Kdwards said
Margie Houle, a t oluminst fur
Tht- On'gonian. publicized the
appearance while she was silting
in for a talk show host on KXF
AM
Hat kwood ot.t used Houle and
the station of int iting people to
riot outside as he spoke to the
King (htv-Tigard Republican
Women,
Boole said she am ournged
both Packwood supporters and
detractors to attend the King
City event
"This man is .1 publii official,
he works for us. and this was a
publii appears nr e." Boole said
"It's laughable that he should
be blaming it on me when he
hasn't been releasing Ins si bed
ule for months He's just making
exi uses "
No protesters showed up in
king City Thursday Karlier in
the da\ . a handful of pis keters
showed up outside of .1 Newport
appearance and carried signs
demanding Pat kwood's resigna
tion.
Randv Miller, the 1 hairmun of
the Oregon Republican Party,
defended Pat kwood's closely
guarded schedule and said his
si hcdule earlier this year had
I teen heavily publii i/ed
"During his last trip. I don't
believe I had ever seen a sena
tor's si hedole as detailed in the
media as the last one. ' Miller
sil i 11
Paikwoods si hedtilmg s«s re
1 v was primarily aimed at 77ie
Onrgnnian But tfie new spaper
saitl the sei rei v proved more an
annoyance than a hindrnni e
"We were able to figure out
where he was going and get hint
at hts major appearances." saitl
Steve Carter, an assistant metro
editor who coordinates coverage
ol Oregon's 1 ongressional dele
gation
Pack wood spoke Friday morn
ing to members of Oregon Tax
Research, a non-profit tax polu v
watchdog group, i'he event was
not announced, but reporters
attended after John Cram, the
exet titive direr tor of the group,
told them that Pai kwood would
lie there
Nike ad just doing it in Spanish
NEW YORK (AP) — Soimt baseball fans m»v
have trouble understanding the dialogue, but Nike
Inc. expects the\ will get the message in a Spanish
language commercial set to run during tonight's
All-Star game
l'he advertisement was shot in May near San
Pedro in tin* Dominican Republic, which Nike said
has produced more than 70 big league shortstops,
including current stars Tony Fernandez Manny
lee. Mariano Duncan and Rafael He hard
The ad. t ailed I.a Tierra de Medtucanipistas,"
or "l and of Onlerfielders." features glimpses of
Dominican youngsters playing baseball on
makeshift playing fields
Si ott Bedburv. dire* tor of advertising for Nike,
said the commercial was designed to celebrate the
game by showing how much fun and grace some
youngsters still display playing baseball
The youngsters have battered equipment and
play on dusty fields bordered by buses and trailer
homes, but seem to relish the game
"I tend to think they are enjoying baseball more
than some of the Little Leaguers in the United
Stales an*." Bedbury said.
In the ad. a narrator notes in Spanish that many
major league shortstops have come from the
Dominican Republic He advises listeners that they
will know how far the plovers really hod to go
when they hear an Ament an annount er say a
shortstop "had to go far in the hole for that one."
The American announcer's words ore the only
English heard in the common ial, which is to run
twit e during the CHS telet ast of the game The
Spanish narration is captioned in English
Itedbury said Nike feels professional sports are
becoming detached from the realilv of average peo
ple who play and watch them
"Nike is in a position to promote the games we
plav No one else is The entire sports marketing
industrv seems fascinated with putting athletes on
pedestals and is losing sight of the important e of
passing on the value of sports to the next genera
tion." he said.
The commercial ends with Nike s trademark slo
gan. ")ust do it
Book billboards outrage residents
MEDFORD |AP) — Residents
are outraged over two billboard
ads that depict a cartoon figure
wearing a papal miter and urg
ing passers-by to "Unmask the
Man of Sm.”
The ads were purchased by a
splinter group of Seventh-day
Adventists called SDA Remnant
Ministry.
burn Weathers of the SDA
Remnant Ministry said the ads
follow the original purpose of
the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, which is to name the
"beast.” He said the beast is the
administration of the Roman
Catholic Church.
"This is not an anti*Catholi«
people campaign." Weathers
said. "This has to do with the
corrupt institution."
But officials of the Oregon
Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists in Portland say the
ads don't represent the views of
the church.
The billboards advertise a
book The Great Controversy,
whir h is an official book of the
church. Church leaders
described it as a global history
from a theological perspec tive,
but not about the Roman
Catholu Church.
The Jackson County Human
Rights Coalition denounced the
billboards
"We see it as onu more state
ment of bigotry/' said the coali
tion’s president. Donna Taylor.
"And that is a threat to true
human rights."
Jeff Herson of Outdoor Media
Dimensions, which owns the
billboards, has fielded calls from
angry residents, but he says it's
not his job to make dec isions
based on the content of the mes
sage.
"I don’t endorse anything that
goes on the billboard. I just pro
duce a service to the public."
Herson said
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