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A LOOK AT THIS MORNING S HEADLINES OCA's newest anti gay-rights petition drive starts this week NAl.t M (AH - The Oregon Cliti /ms Allmrx »■ plans ii U) nav>* in mauve* lu'liitii.iU) petition i irrulars on the streets s<x>n in its latest effort to pass an anti gay-rights measure, offu ials said Monday "We'll he in full swing hv the end of the week." said ( )C A Chairman Lon Mabon Mahon said the organization had settled on one of four alter native versions of the proposals for vvhu h it obtained ballot titles The proposed constitutional amendment would Itnr including homosexuality as a spot ifi< Ivisis for civil rights laws and forbid governments from spending mon ey approving homosexuality The OCA will need to gather 97.000 signatures by next July to put the measure on the Novem ber 1996 ballot Voters in 1992 and 1994 defeated statewide anti gav-rights measures sponsored by the OCA. 70-year-old hiker found after night lost in watershed LA C.KANDi: (AP) — A 70 year-old former La Grande city official was found safe Monday after becoming lost while hiking in the t-a Grande watershed. Roberta Hates was reported missing Sunday evening after she failed to meet her husband at a trail head Members of Union County Search and Kes< ue searched the area hv foot overnight. Searchers from Wallowa County a dog team from Umatilla County and a helicopter joined the search Monday morning. Bates was found at 11 -!r> a nt. She had been at contpanied by a dog and was carrying a map, compass, sweatshirt and food and water. Rest tiers said it appeared Bates had taken a wrong turn and wan tiered off a trail. Capitol hosts meeting to promote African American unity w a s hi no TON (API lammed together at the foot of the ItLllI'iiU ( apitol s is! throng of black ! man. some with fists raised, pledged to improve themselves and forswear violence in a revival-style chant led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan I pledge that from this day for ward. I will never raise mv hand with a knife or gun to lieat, t ut or shoot any member of mv family or anv human being, except in self defense.” they i hanted Mon day at the climax of the day-long gathering of b!a< k men amid the nation's monuments Farrakhan'* "Million Man March” called together bln k men for a day of praying, singing and reveling in racial unity The throng stretched for blo< ks down the grassy expanse The Nation al Park Service estimated the c rowd at 400.000. As the rally's dramatic: finale. Farrakhan spoke for more than two hours, often addressing white America. "White supretmu vhe \ said, is the root of Americ a's suf j faring " That makes you sick.” Far I rakhau said, 'and you produce a ! so k soc iety and a si< k world Farrakhan urged the men to go j home and join black organ ira j lions even those that refused j to endorse his rally to take | hold of political power, unite against rac ism and cleanse hlai k communities of crime, drugs and violence He brushed aside critics who hove condemned his inflamma tory statements about jews, Catholics, gavs and Asians, sav ing he had divine guidance in bringing to Washington the largest assemblage of black Ami-r ic.ans since the J9t>d March on Washington. 'Whether you like it or not I God brought the idea through me. I and ho didn’t bring it through rne bei a use my heart was dark with flat red and anti Semitisin ' he i said Frightened Serbian refugees flood abandoned prison camp OM AKSK A Bosnia! ferzegov ina (AIM (jin i* Muslims suffered here as prisoners in a serivrun camp Now. fortunes have shift ed and Serb refugees have flood ed the grounds "I f«t*l 11k•• a walking shad' ow." said Davor la kozmanovh , fighting fuu k tears as she breast fed her 10-month old daughter kuMtianovic. 25, and her baby are among some 50.000 Serb civilians who have fled their homes ahead of ret ent govern ment and Croatian assaults that have touched off another refugee crisis About half the refugees have ended up at Omarska an old iron mine that was among the most notorious prison t amps run by rebel Serbs after they overran much of liosnia in l‘i‘12 Barge sinks in hurricane-rocked seas, killing one American ( AMP hi III Mexico (AIM As i revs members threw on life jai kets and jumped into rafts, a pipe-laying barge < aught in hur ricane-stirred sens sank off the (iwIf t oast, killing an Ament an and two others Planes searched Moiiduy for 2 1 missing people I'he barge carrying 24B people sank about 7 45 p m. pi 45 p m hi) I) Sunday I wo offshore sup ply boats and two construction tugs quickly (mlled 222 people from the water but bad to leave as Hurricane Roxanne approached, the Coast Guard said m a statement Monday from New Orleans ('.a in (let !:'■ •.'.!!•• ; ! ■: Sergio Romero Olivers quoted port authorities in nearbv t m dad del Carmen as identifying the dead American as Jim Vines He was believed to be an oil worker, but no age or hometown was immediately available Share your Colon • reO love, efeotre, fut.K'ton • yell,nr tneruK'btp • pint lenOertieo.' • x‘bite purity, true lore Mention tins ad and receive a GO DUCKS! 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