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Kitzhaber rejects Cascade
Locks casino proposal
1 SALEM — Gov. John
Kitzhaber on Thursday reject
ed an Indian tribe’s request to
build a casino in the Columbia
Gorge town of Cascade Locks.
Kitzhaber said he turned down
the request by the Warm Springs
tribe because of his longstanding
policy of trying to limit tribal casi
nos to one per tribe and keeping
those facilities on reservation or
trust land.
If Kitzhaber had approved the
off-reservation site for the Warm
Springs tribe, the state’s other
eight tribes with casinos likely
would have pushed for building
casinos in more profitable loca
tions, closer to urban areas.
Kitzhaber’s decision means
that Warm Springs tribe may
build in nearby Hood River, a
move that’s opposed by gorge
conservationists and others in the
community.
Black civil rights activist
Daisy Bates dies at 84
2 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Daisy
Bates, a civil rights leader who
helped nine black students break
the color barrier at Little Rock
Central High School in 1957, died
Thursday at 84.
Bates, who was black, became a
symbol of black hope and a target
of segregationist hate, first for her
role in desegregating the Little
Rock bus system in 1956, then as
a mentor to the first black stu
dents to integrate all-white Cen
tral High.
In 1957, whites rioted outside
Central High and National
Guardsmen, on orders from Gov.
Orval E. Faubus, turned away the
nine students. In response, Presi
dent Eisenhower sent in Army
troops to escort the students to
class.
Inside Bates’ small home,
which was vandalized several
times during the unrest, she ad
vised the black students on how
to face the taunting and urged
them to be proud of what they
were accomplishing.
Bates later said the Little Rock
experience “had a lot to do with
removing fear that people have
for getting involved.”
She was the recipient of more
than 200 citations and awards.
Her book “The Long Shadow of
Little Rock,” published in 1962,
won a 1988 American Book
Award.
President Clinton on Thursday
described Bates as a dear friend
and a heroine and said her death
“will leave a vacuum in the civil
rights community, the state of
\rkansas and our country.”
Clinton asks Congress
for more flood money
3 WASHINGTON — President
Clinton asked Congress for
more money Thursday to buy the
ruined homes of flood victims
and move the residents to higher
ground.
The request for $429 million
would buy about 12,000 homes
damaged or destroyed by flooding
from Hurricane Floyd. About
11,000 of them are in eastern
North Carolina, which was
drenched by 20 inches of rain on
Sept. 16. The state would get $381
million out of the new money.
To free up the money, Congress
must pass a special waiver as part
of the current budget negotia
tions. Without the waiver, the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency could spend only about
$58 million to buy homes affect
ed by Floyd, the agency said.
FEMA Director James Lee Witt
said he will argue to Congress that
buying out homeowners in flood
prone areas saves money in the
long term.
“I think it’s the appropriate
time to do it,” Witt told the Asso
ciated Press. “It will save money
in the years to come because these
are houses that do not have to be
rebuilt” after each devastating
storm.
Homeowners who take the fed
eral buyout leave the flood plain
permanently, and rebuild else
where.
The money would come from
FEMA’s general disaster fund for
fiscal 2000, which began Oct. 1.
That means the agency would
borrow from the current year’s
disaster pot to pay for a disaster
that came in the previous fiscal
year.
World Trade Organization
to focus on agriculture
4 GENEVA — Disagreements
over agriculture are among the
major stumbling blocks as coun
tries prepare to meet in Seattle lat
er this month for the next round
of World Trade Organization ne
gotiations.
Officials of the global trade-reg
ulating group said Thursday they
have made progress on other ar
eas of the agenda, but not on agri
culture.
Representatives from the
WTO’s 135 member countries
plan to meet in Seattle on Nov. 30
to launch new talks on how to
open global markets to free trade.
The agriculture issue principal
ly pits the European Union, Japan
and South Korea against the 16
nation Cairns Group, which in
cludes Australia, Canada and
Brazil.
The Cairns Group countries
oppose heavy subsidies given to
farmers, especially by the EU,
claiming they create artificially
low prices and prevent other na
tions’ producers from competing
on an equal footing in the world
market.
The EU and its supporters say
they are prepared to talk about
subsidies but claim that agricul
ture is different from other goods.
They want agriculture talks to in
clude non-trade issues like pro
tection of the environment, food
safety, animal welfare and pro
tecting rural communities.
The United States, while op
posing EU farm subsidies, has
taken a sideline role in the WTO
Wrangling.
Phone company begs for
silence from ringing mobiles
5 HONG KONG — Have you
ever heard a telephone compa
ny ask people to get off the
phone?
It’s happening Friday in Hong
Kong, where local phone giant
Cable & Wireless HKT will an
nounce half-year financial results
and wants its executives to enjoy
solace from the ringing that
seems to interrupt everything
else in town.
The company invited journal
ists but attached one condition:
“It would be very much appreci
ated if you can switch off your
mobile phones and pagers before
the conference starts.”
That puts the phone company.
in a league with fancy restau
rants, theaters, courts and other
Hong Kong institutions — even
churches — that issue constant
reminders for people to shut off
their phones, with only mixed
success.
Nearly 3 million Hong Kong
residents — 40 percent of the
population — carry a mobile and
they seem to go off everywhere.
The phenomenon may have hit a
new low point last week, when a
doctor got into trouble for al
legedly chattering with a car
salesman while he was perform
ing an operation.
Phone companies typically en
joy the ringing — to them it’s the
sweet sound of money — but a
Cable & Wireless HKT spokes
woman explained that previous
news conferences have been dis
rupted.
Ngai rejected suggestions that
shushing the phones could be
bad for business. “It’s just polite
ness,” she said by telephone.
The Hong Kong phone compa
ny is a partially owned sub
sidiary of London-based Cable &
Wireless Communications PLC.