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IT’S JUST LIKE REALLY BEING HERE.
BUT WITHOUT ALL THE RAIN.
NEWS BRIEFING
A LOOK At THIS MORNING S HiAOUNt'S
Sen. Hatfield pushes
to pass Columbia
dredging protect
PORTI.AND,
Or* (API — In
four months a
now generation of
container and
grain ship* will twgin squeeting
up the Columbia River to Port
land.
Often, I hay will have to leave
only partially loaded lot fear
their null* will temp* the bot
tom of the river * 40 fool deep
shipping channel
To remedy the problem. Sen
Mark Hatfield it pushing for a
$100 million protect to make the
channel another 1 hart deeper It
would be a parting gift from the
tenatw. who ia retiring at the
end of the veer
I'm building what I think ia a
very solid baae of future politi
cal clout that can m ibis protect
through Hatfield said
But he faces opposition from
some state officials and environ
men labels who aav the river hot
tom contains dioxin and other
poisons Disturbing the river
bottom, they say, amid cause
environmental harm espec ially
to already imperiled fish runs.
"I'm wary of this protect.’’
said Gayle Kiliam, water pro
gram director for the Oregon
Environmental Counc il
Proponent* of the dredging
say that failing to deepen the
channel could severely harm the
trade business for the Port of
Portland Steamship managers,
faced with added expense and
delays, may decide to end ser
vice to the city
Hatfield leaves Wednesday for
Taiwan and South Korea, where
he will urge steamship execu
tives to continue service to Port
land whiia he pushes for the
dredging money
The big ships that already ply
the river present a major chal
lenge
“If* like driving an BOO-foot*
long car cm a sheet of black Ice.”
said one of the pilots. Reed
Stgfrtdson
More than SIS billion worth
of cargo moves on the Columbia
River each year Portland is the
nation’s No 1 wheat exporting
jiort The port creates ?,ftS0 job*
and support* 42.600 more
Man faces trial for
killing two abortion
clinic receptionists
NATIONAL
(MitAM.Mm*
(API — A man
•orutffrf of lulling
two racoptionist*
minutwc apart in
tanarale abortion
clinks «v« he want* to fece the
death penalty if convicted
Jury selection was to begin
Monday in Norfolk Superior
Court, aherr fohn C. Salvi in
(km two count* of Dm d*Kiw
itnmiot and five count* of assault
with intent to murder
In the 13 month* since the Dm
30.19SM shooting spree in Brook
lin*. Salvi ha* dashed with hi*
own sttomey*. who tried to have
him found incompetent
Judge Barbara Dorich-Okara
deemed Salvi fit to *tand trial.
Salvi'* attorney. J W Carney Jr.
•aid he will present an insanity
defense He said Salvi wu so
obsessed with a perceived con
spiracy again*! Catholics that he
was unable to help himself.
Salvi t* accused of walking into
both Been on-area e linica. asking
II he was in the right place, and
then pulling a semiautomatic: rifle
from a duffel bag and opening
fire Killed were receptionist*
Shannon lowney and Lee Ann
Nichols, who was shot nine time*
white hogging for her life
Clinton to submit budget
today —bylaw
WASHINGTON IAPJ — Pres
ident Clinton** budget for 1»9?
will be formally unveiled on
Monday, hut the president and
the country could certainly be
excused for wondering. * Why
bother?
A president * budget is often
declared dead on arrival by an
opposition Congress intent on
setting its own spending priori
ties. but Clinton's new budget
seems to be the ultimate exercise
in futility
While be is presenting a bud
ge* for the ISW7 fiscal year, be and
the Republican Coogresa are still
locked in stalemated talks over
the IM6 spending plan, even
though the current budget year is
one third gone
There's a simple answer why
the president is produc ing a new
budget He is required by law to
submit a spending plan to Con
gress by the first Monday in Rob
I ruary that will cover the fiscal
year starting the next Oct t
Colombian plane kills
passengers, civilians
in neighborhood crash
ASUNCION.
Paraguay (APJ —
A Colombian
cargo plana
caught lira in th«
air shortly after
takeoff Sunday, killing at leaat
22 people when it c rashed into
house* in a suburban neighbor
hood. the government said
The plane * three person crew
and one passenger died in the
crash All were Colombians. The
civil aviation office said fire
fighters found the aircraft s
black bos in the smoldering
debris
Among the victims were
seven children, including five
brothers, who had been playing
an outdoor volleyball match in
the streets of the Juan Sinforiano
Bogarin neighborhood. 2 1/2
miles northwest of the airport
and 9 miles north of the capital
Eyewitness Cesar Rivarola
told reporter* he saw the air
craft's left turbine catch fire in
mid-air before Ihe plane appar
ent I v went out of control and
crasned
"It started spinning in the air.
a* if it was doing acrobatics and
then fell to the ground nose
first." Rivarola said
A couple told television
reporters they had left iheir five
children with their grandmoth
er. who had taken them to play
volleyball On returning to look
(or them, the parents found all
six were dead.
The plane, which was not car
rying any cargo, crashed into
seven houses and burst into
flame*, destroying the buildings
Light rain was helping to douse
the fires, rescue workers said.
Parents began a desperate
search for children who had
been playing in the streets of the
middle-class neighborhood
Firefighters searched for other
victims among the debris.
Television footage showed
several people raking through
ihe debris One man was seen
stealing pari of the plane's tur
bine.
Officials said the plane was *>n
route to Miami via the Brasilian
airport of Campinas, near the
city of Sao Paulo.
The plane had brought an
unidentified cargo which w«*
being held at Asuncion airport’s
customs offices.
Seventy-five percent
of Americans are
overweight, poll finils
NEW YORK (AP) — Who*
ahead in the latest poll? Not
dieter*
Seventy-lour percent of Amor
teens i$ or oilier are overweight,
up front 71 percent a veer ago, 69
percent in 1994, 66 percent in
1992 and only 59 percent to
year* ago. lout* Harris and Asso
ciate* reported
The Harris Poll asked 1.005
randomly selected adults about
their weight and compared the
responses to recommended
weight ranges lor various heights
and body si an*. The uxnpuny has
been doing this regularly since
1983. using Metropolitan Life
insurance tables from that year.
For example, the insurance
table rm ommends that a medi
um-framed 5-foot-7 man weigh*
MO to 152 pound*, a woman. 133
to 147.
Thu survey, taken Jan 18*22.
indicate* that 24 percent of adults
«r» over their recommended
weight range by 20 percent or
more
That * generally agreed to be
the definition of obesity, although
there ha* been some controversy
in mount years about whether the
old Metropolitan Life tables were
too strict
Hawaii fishing crew
seized at gunpoint
for not having license
HONOLULU (APJ — The
Pacific island nation of Kiribati
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ha# seised a Hawaii fishing ves
sel and its crew for fishing with
out a license
Cap( Mark Collin* of the tWi
foot South Foci Re told The Hon
olulu Advertiser in S telephone
interview Saturday that he and
bis crew, which included a Seat
tle men. were being held at gun
point at the Captain Cook Hotel
on Christmas Island
Government officials am inves
tigating charges the boat illegal
ly caught 2,000 pounds of ono
Collins, who lives on the
Hawaiian island of Maui, said he
had a goodwill, verbal agreement
to help Kiribati fishermen learn
how to catch and prepare fish for
shipment to Hawaii.
Kiribati Is I orated about 1,300
miles south of Hawaii. It strad
dles both the equator and inter
national date line.
Collins said he and his crew
were taken off the boat at gun
point fast Tuesday.