Abortion researchers
unfazed by picketers
P O R T -
LAND (API —
One of three
Oregon doc*
tors targeted in
a harassment campaign by an
anti-abortion group says she
will not bar It down from her
research.
"Of course it would !h> bet
ter if there were no abortions
— or starvation or rape or
(.hild abuse, either Our world
will be better when all chil
dren are wanted, and I work
towards that vision." Dr Kliz
abeth Newhall, an obstetri
cian-gynecologist at l.egat v
Emanuel Hospital, said Sun
day.
Newhall was targeted
because of her involvement in
testing the new French abor
tion pill. RU-4R6 Also on the
list was her husband. Dr
fames Newhall, who provides
abortions at Portland's Down
town Women's Center
The Newhnlls have been
pii kotod twit e this winter by
Advocates for Life Ministries,
a Portland anti-abortion group
that has played a key role in
forming the national coalition.
Kli/.aheth Newhall do
scribed the experiem e as
"very frightening," especially
to the couple’s children.
The third Portland doctor
listed was Dr George KAbney,
the medical director of tin'
Love joy Surgi center
Carve Ortrnan, l4V«|oy Stir
gicenters director of counsel
ing. soul kaha< \ would have
no comment
Hut she said it was ironic
that a group proclaiming fam
ily values should lie atlas king
doctors who have families of
their own "It's very disheart
ening," she said
The three were on the
national "deadly dozen" list
issued Sunday by the Port
land based American (ionic
tion of Life Activists at a news
conferem e in Arlington. Va
The group adopted the meth
ods and even the name of the
Oregon effort, called "No
Place to Hide.”
The coalition distributed
mm k "wanted" (wisters .« i us
ing the 12 do< tors of i runes
against humanity." listing the
home addresses of some, and
offering a S5.0CH) reward for
information about them
Crane said that the reward
was intended to encourage
tr .11 king the.physit i.niv but lie
dm lints) to speculate whether
the i antpaign would expose
doctors to the risk of violent
attacks
Sciences university
may split from system
SA1.HM (AP) - legislation to
make Oregon Health S< lent es
University a public corporation
is drawing support from Gov
John Kitzhaber and top leaders of
both parties.
The i hief sponsor ol the mea
sure is Son Gene Timms. R
Burns. a key player as co-chair
man of the budget-writing Joint
Ways iit Means Qimmittue.
We must not allow handicaps
of a state bureaucrat \ to destroy
one of the finest teaching,
research and health care
providers in the country." Timms
said at a conference Monday
Bar kers of the plan sav it could
make University Hospital, which
provides fit) percent of QHSU’s
revenue, more competitive by
freeing it from state administra
tive rules
Kitzhaber said the school s
future "depends on its ability to
compete in a rapidly i hanging
and increasingly competitive
marketplace."
"it is a great example of how
wo i an find innovative wavs to
deliver public servk es more etb
ciently and cost effei tively," said
kit/haber, who's a physician
Among supporters of the pro
pusal are Senate President (.or
don Smith. K-Pendleton. House
Speaker Hev Clamo. K-Hend. and
major Democratic leaders
"Kvery university hospital in
this country is swimming in dil
ficult waters because of the
changes in health care." said
Joseph VV C.o\, the chancellor of
the State System of Higher Kdu
cation.
The legislation would make the
si hnul a public enterprise, report'
mg to a governor-appointed board
and responsible to the Legisla
ture
Neither the stall- higher edu
cation system nor the De|vartnnmt
of Administrative Services would
oversee its operations
Timms said his proposal
would eliminate the chancellor
and the president of the state
higher education hoard as non
voting members of the QHSU
governing board
Pony may not find happy home
f'.M'KRSON Wash (AP) It s a heartwarming
story- abandoned pony rem mxl from railroad trai ks
finds loving new home
Hut ii may noi end well Under an obscure state
lavs. I ho pony could Im? turned Into dog food
His new family is hoping t onuncm sense will pro
vail
("artene Whitesoll brought the pony home Dev
10 after he was spotted wandering untended near
the trat ks The animal vsas unlikely to survive «
run-in with a freight train
The pony wouldn't have been there the next
day," said Dolores Millimnn, a local farm owner
The crows would've lawn eating him
Whitesell w as among those enlisted by I’oatmaster
Hoth Allen to lure the frightened animal away from
the (vm let arid Into tbit Benton t bunt) town
She brought the pony home to the house she and
her family share with four dogs, two tats and a i m k
at ini. Sons Israel, 12. and Hen (am m. ft. took to their
new friend immediately and named him Bla/e
Whitesell set about trying to find the pony 's own
er. posting plat ards at the post offii e. and i ontai t
ing area veterinarians and the sheriff
finally someone suggested she i all the state brand
inspec tor
That's when the WhiteselK learned about the
Revised (aide of Washington, litle in.Chapter 2-t.
Se< tion 110. vvhil h says "Any horses, mules, don
keys, or i at tie of any age running at large or ires
passing ire de< lared to lie a publu nuisance "
Bla/e will be impounded Tuesday If the liraiid
inspector's office t an t find his owner, he'll be am
tinned to the highest bidder, who h could he a
slaughterhouse agent looking for horse meat
Whitesell i all si an ely believe it
"I resent the idea that they (the state) think they
i an sell what's not theirs I bis is (ns! su stupid,"
she said
I like In sit in there and talk to him. and feed
him apples and carrots I don't want them to take
him. t**i ante I 11W>> him." Israel said
Whitesell'* offered in pay (or advertising to find
the pony's ovvnor ami to sign doc uinents saving sha
would give him up if his owner make* an appear
am n
She s offered to pay the stale whatever Blare
would likely feti h at amt ion
But the lacs doesn't work that way If the pony
remains mu tainted and Whitesell wants him. she
would have to hire a horse trailer, drive an hour or
so to tin1 auction site m i entral Washington or One
gon. and try to outbid the meat industry and nny
one else who might want Blaze
"I don't want hint taken from here, it doesn't take
long for an animal to become part of your fa mi
It Ins mother said ' But w hen t ou don't have any
politu at influent e. you < an't do anything "
Whitesell tlul i ill longtime state Sen Irt New
house, a Republican from nearby Mahton That
prompted a series of phone calls involving Senate
‘•tatters the itti.! ii.’S genera! ■■ ottu •• imf state A,;n
i nltiire Department offli ials
But on l-'nday New house w as told the pony vs ill
la* (in ked up Tuesday and taken to the Sunnyside
l.ivestoc k Market If his owner t an't l«* found, he'll
lie sold
Newhouse believes the department lias other
alternatives, sm ii as negotiating a sale to Wlulosoll
if the pony's owner i an't Im* found
But "they haven't chosen to do that I've tried
to tie as impartial as 11 an Is*, hut t sympathize yvith
the lady and her hoys.'' In* said
"Our role and our responsibility isi ut and dried,"
said Agriculture Department spokeswoman
kroim. ... !<■ ..a.*- ^ on find something you i all Us.
vve come and impound it. we advertise it (or to
days
After that, we take it to the nearest market, and
whoever has the funds ts able to bid "
otfii ials did promise to let W hitesell know when
and yvliere Blaze will tie am tinned
Heport may limit Tri-City economy
RICHLAND. Wash CAP)
Economic diversific nhon efforts
in the Tri-Cities could lx
stymied by findings of a draft
report fiy the Department of
Energy’s insjx-ctorgeneral, busi
ness leaders said
The report savs 1K)E c annot
require a contractor to build a
laboratory nearby as a condition
for winning its contract to help
c lean up wastes and c unlamma
lion at the Hanford nuclear
reservation
"If Westinghouse (Hanford
Co.) and other Hanford contrac
tor* don't have tfce ahilitv to
include a local service require
ment in cuntrai ts, then firms in
New York or anywhere else
could (Hill work away from here
and there is no ts onomic benefit
to these communities," said
Sam Volpenfest. executive vim
president of the Tn-City Indus
trial Development Council
The preliminary report con
cludes Westinghouse could not
require international Technolo
gy Corp to build a new labora
tory within 25 miles of the I re
Cities as a condition of winning
a 52 IH million, eight-year con
tract. The requirement, included
ill the contract issued to Interna
tional Technology in August
1993, vvds inlunded to boost
of forts to build the Tri-Cities
ik onoftty
Thu company is known now
as Quanterra. following a tnnrg
nr in rm ftil months between
International ! tn hriologv ant!
(arming Analytii al Co
Volpontest w.mts thi) develop
itmnl count it to lobby Congress
for legislation that would allow
the Department of Energy to
require that environmental
cleanup work be done in com
(nullities near the polluted fed
eral sites
This is where all these prod
nets were produced, where the
pollution happened," he said "I
dott t see w In.the lie. k linn, it)
some other cities should finan
cially lienefit from the problems
left behind we’re trying to
solve,"
II the DOE stops requiring
i mitral tors from doing work in
or near the Tri-Cities, it will be
violating the Tri-Parly Agree
merit The Tri-Party Agreement
between the DOE, bv the state
Department of Ecology and the
ITS Environmental Protei tion
Agency sets out the guidelines
and a timetable by which Han
ford is to lie cleaned up over ill
years It also includes the
requirement ili.ii Hanford
i loan up work In* performed
within lift miles of the Tri-Cities
Meant* Idle, si in e the cnntrai t
was nwurdt'd. changes in
* leniuip pros edures hove greatly
mdiu ed the amount of work ilia!
Quanlerra will do for Westing
house Though it will analyze
about tln> same number of sain
pies, it won’t perform as many
lusts on them
That will reduce tha value of
the contrai t from the original
estimate of $2trt million to
about $r.O million
Hut the company intends to go
ahead with the groundbreaking
si hoduled next month for a $5
million expansion of the firm’s
existing Ko hlsnd laboratory
despite Ixnilg told the local ser
vo e requirement was improper,
• ml (trad I Igley, v n e president
of Quanlerre. based in Denver
"We are committed to meet
ing (Tri-Party Agreement) mile
stones,” Figley vtul "To do that,
all of the work has to he done
there in Richland "
Westiiigbouse Hanford < o
of fit ials referred inquiries io
DOF in Kn bland Tom Bauman,
a DOF spokesman, said DOE
would not have any comment
until it see*, a final report
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