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Study on river navigation could affect fishing locales The State Land Board will look at the Rogue River to see if fishermen, landowners can walk its hanks THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM — The State Land Board voted unanimously Tliesday to do a formal study on whether the middle and upper reaches of the Rogue River qualify as a navigable river. At stake is whether the public — generally sport fishermen — have the right to walk along the river bank where it runs through private property. “If ever there was a time to resolve this, it is now,” said Gov. Ted Kulon goski, who voted for the study along with Secretary of State Bill Bradbury and State Treasurer Randall Edwards. “That means bringing people to gether to discuss the legal issues and the property owner issues at stake so we can develop a workable solution that meets the needs of landowners and upholds the laws of our state,” Kulongoski said. Originally requested in 1997 by the Josephine County district attorney to resolve trespassing claims along the Rogue, the study would look at 90 miles of the river from Lost Creek Dam down to Grave Creek. About 2,000 people own property along the Rogue River as it runs through Shady Cove, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Grants Pass, Merlin and Galice. The 1859 law making Oregon a state declared the bed and banks of rivers up to the high water mark are owned by the state if used for commercial purposes, such as moving logs or freight. In modern times, the issue tends to swirl around whether anglers have ac cess to the riverbanks. A 2002 declaration that the lower 37 miles of the Sandy River near Port land were navigable created an up roar among property owners, and the Legislature has failed to work out a different way of resolving the ques tions over public access. The State Land Board is comprised of the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer. Gunbattles, beheadings claim 17 lives this week in Haiti Violence flared during a Sept. 30 demonstration; the U.S. accuses supporters of a former president BY AMY BRACKEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Vio lence in Haiti's capital has claimed at least 46 lives, with hospital records showing Tliesday that 17 victims were killed this week. The United States accused supporters of an ousted president of trying to destabilize the interim government. Port-au-Prince has been beset by gunbattles and beheadings since a Sept. 30 demonstration marking the 1991 coup that first overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In February, the former priest fled the country again after a three-week re volt led by a street gang and former soldiers. Tensions still are simmering with Aristide supporters demanding his return and an end to the “invasion” by foreign troops. U.S. Marines ar rived in Haiti the day Aristide left and were replaced by U.N. peace keepers sent in June to stabilize the country. Rebels who want the interim government to formally reinstate the army that Aristide disbanded have accused the peacekeepers of doing little to halt the violence and say that they are ready to end it. On Monday, as mourners gath ered for the funeral of five assassi nated police officers, gunfire crack led around the capital and businesses shut their doors again. Records at Port-au-Prince hospi tal seen by The Associated Press showed 17 people with gunshot wounds died Sunday and Monday, eight of them in the Cite Soleil sea side slum that is filled with Aristide supporters and street gangs, and three in Martissant, a western neighborhood that has been a flashpoint in the recent unrest. That raised the toll to at least 46 killed since Sept. 30. One man was reportedly shot and killed near the presidential palace. “There was shooting every where,” said Lovely Pierre-Louis, 19. “I saw a man walking across that street with a boy, then the shooting came again, and he was on the ground with his head bleed ing, and the boy was running.” Messile Sylviani, a 30-year-old beautician, said her salon closed an hour after opening Monday, and she returned home, a block from where the man had been shot. “Now I'm so scared,” she said. “We're all stressed out because we know shooting could start again any time.” On Sept. 30, police reportedly shot and killed two people at a demonstration. The headless bod ies of three police officers turned up the same day, and government officials blamed Aristide militants and a new campaign called “Opera tion Baghdad.” The United States on Tuesday accused Aristide supporters of “a systematic campaign to destabilize the interim government and dis rupt the efforts of the international community. ” “Over the past two weeks, pro Aristide thugs have murdered po licemen, looted businesses and public installations, and terrorized civilians,” said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. His statement urged leaders of Aristide's Lavalas Family to “break with the party's legacy of violence and criminality.” It said the interim government represented the best hope for Haiti and expressed confi dence that U.N. peacekeepers’ ca pacity to protect Haitians would in crease within days and weeks. 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In a letter to the Security Council on Monday, U.N. nuclear chief Mo hamed ElBaradei said satellite photos and follow-up investigations show “widespread and apparently system atic dismantlement” at sites related to Iraq's nuclear program which had been subject to monitoring by the In ternational Atomic Energy Agency. While some industrial material that Iraq sent overseas has been lo cated in other countries, he said no high-precision items including milling machines and electron beam welders that can be used commer cially and in nuclear weapons pro duction have been found. Since the missing equipment and material “may be of proliferation sig nificance,” he asked any country with information about the items to inform the International Atomic En ergy Agency. U.S. deputy ambassador Anne Pat terson said the U.S. Mission to the United Nations had not yet received ElBaradei's letter. “We’re anxious to see what he has to say, and we'll do a full investiga tion,” she said, then quickly added: “I mean we'll work with the govern ment of Iraq on a full investigation.” IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Flem ing said the agency's assumption is that “this was organized looting” by people trying “to make a buck” and sell equipment and material to the highest bidder. Looting was rampant in the first days after the U.S.-led in vasion of Iraq toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in April, 2003. A diplomat familiar with the IAEA, who spoke on Condition of anonymity, discounted suggestions that the Amer icans might have carted off the equip ment — most of it under IAEA seals — without informing the agency. In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said, “I think we share the general concern that some material might have got ten out into the market immediately after the war.” “But to the extent that all of us have been able to bring it under con trol, we have done that,” he said. The U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission known as UNMOVIC — which was responsible for overseeing the elimination of any banned Iraqi missile, chemical and bi ological weapons programs — said Iraqi authorities for over a year have been shipping thousands of tons of scrap metal out of the country. The UNMOVIC report said those exports were handled by the Iraqi Ministry of Ttade, which was under the direct supervision of U.S. occupa tion authorities until June 28, when the Americans handed power to Iraq's interim government. It said the shipments included at least 42 en gines from banned missiles and other equipment that could be used to pro duce banned weapons. UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors left Iraq just before the U.S.-led inva sion began in March 2003. The Bush administration then barred U.N. weapons inspectors from returning, deploying U.S. teams in an unsuc cessful search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Nonetheless, IAEA teams were al lowed into Iraq in June 2003 to investi gate reports of widespread looting of storage rooms at the main nuclear complex at TUwaitha, and in August to take inventory of “several tons” of nat ural uranium in storage near Tbwaitha. ElBaradei said Iraq's interim Minis ter of Science and Technology Rashad Omar visited IAEA headquarters in Vi enna in July, just after the handover of power from the U.S.-led coalition, to discuss the implementation of various Security Council resolutions. A ministry delegation that visited in September asked the IAEA for as sistance in selling the remaining nu clear material at Tliwaitha “with the exception of a small quantity to be re tained for research purposes,” in dis mantling and decontaminating for mer nuclear facilities, and in resuming IAEA technical cooperation in a number of areas, he said. Associated Press Writers George Jahn contributed to this report from Vienna and George Gedda from Washington.
