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Family says TV's
The Bachelorette'
edits out reality
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEDFORD — Reality TV may not
be quite as real as it claims.
Ryan Shaeffer, one of the potential
mates for “The Bachelorette” Jennifer
Schefft, and his parents say the pro
ducers of the hit ABC show twisted the
family image a bit by editing footage
of a visit to Medford.
“It was tough to sit there and watch
it and I was pretty upset about it,”
Sheaffer said.
The footage that aired last week sug
gested that even the family cat ap
peared as bored as Schefft when Sheaf
fer’s parents, Barbara and Scott
Sheaffer, were shown talking about
their recent trip to Thailand, the Sheaf
fers said.
“They chose to portray me in par
ticular as just babbling on about
Thailand,” Barbara Sheaffer said.
“We hadn’t been home from our trip
for three days when they showed up.
It was on our minds. ”
The episodes were taped between
mid-October and Thanksgiving. Con
fidentiality agreements forbid anyone
involved from revealing any details.
Ryan and Jen went ice skating at
“The RRRink,” visited the Montessori
school run by the Sheaffers, then went
to the family’s Medford home for a talk
and dinner with film crews capturing
every moment. It ended with Schefft
signing a wall in a kids’ bathroom au
tographed by family visitors for years.
But viewers saw little more than the
bored Jen, the bored cat, and Ryan’s
mother saying “Thailand” every few
seconds along with some catty criti
cism by Jen.
Viewers didn’t know the Sheaffers
had just returned from their trip or that
they talked about several other topics,
ranging from Schefft’s college life to
birthdays, sports and families.
“We actually had a good visit,” Bar
bara Sheaffer said. “She actually was
pretty easy to get along with.”
Instead, viewers saw Jen making
some mean remarks about the family.
“You don’t go on TV and diss some
body like that,” Barbara Sheaffer said.
Her son agreed.
“Jen could have showed a little
more class, especially with a national
TV audience,” Ryan Sheaffer said.
IN BRIEF
Bush asks Congress for
$80 billion to fund wars
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President
Bush asked Congress on Monday to
provide $81.9 billion more for wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan and for other
U.S. efforts overseas, shoving the to
tal price tag for the conflicts and anti
terror fight past $300 billion.
Republicans hope to push the
package through Congress by early
spring, reflecting both parties’ desire
to finance U.S. troops in the field and
give Iraqis more responsibility fol
lowing their national elections.
Bush asked lawmakers to pay for
the new spending by borrowing the
money — which will make huge fed
eral deficits even larger.
“The majority of this request will
ensure that our troops continue to
get what they need to protect them
selves and complete their mission,”
Bush said in a statement accompany
ing his request.
He also said the money would
help continue the pursuit of terrorists
and help the United States “seize the
opportunity to build peace and
democracy in the Middle East.”
About $77 billion of the total was
for the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, while about $5 billion
was for aid to U.S. allies. Of the to
tal package for the wars, the vast
majority — $74.9 billion — was for
the Defense Department, with other
agencies sharing the rest.
Bush requested $658 million to
build a new U.S. embassy in Iraq that
could house a staff of 1,000, plus
$717 million to staff it.
Afghanistan would get almost
$2 billion more for its own recon
struction, including money to
build roads and schools, combat
illegal drugs and prepare for
parliamentary elections.
— The Associated Press
Bush requests
more war funds
President Bush asked Congress
for an additional $81.9 billion on
Monday, bringing total war costs
past $300 billion since the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,2001.
Supplemental appropriations
for Iraq and Afghanistan
approved by Congress
$120 billion Monday’s
FY ’01 02 ’03 04 ’05
* Proposed; includes funds for other
international expenses
NOTE: Includes money to protect U.S.
cities and military bases and for
rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan; fiscal
years begin Oct. 1
SOURCE: Congressional
Research Service
AP
Makah Tribe applies for a whaling waiver
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — The Makah Tribe is
taking a new approach to re-establish
ing tribal whaling, following six years
of court battles in the wake of its first
successful hunt in more than 70 years.
By filing an application Monday
with the National Oceanic and Atmos
pheric Administration, the Makah
Tribe was set to begin the long and al
most unheard-of process of seeking a
waiver to the Marine Mammal Protec
tion Act. The 1972 federal law general
ly outlaws anyone in the United States
from killing or harming gray whales
and other marine mammals.
The move is one of at least two pro
cedural steps the tribe and NOAA pre
viously fought against in court.
“You get tired of fighting after a
while,” Makah tribal chairman Ben
Johnson Jr. said Friday. “So now we’re
going to try it their way for a while. ”
It would take be a long time to com
plete the process that could lead to
more whale hunts, said Brian Gorman,
a NOAA spokesman in Seattle.
“The bottom line is we support the
tribe’s treaty right to hunt whales,”
Gorman said.
“It’s going to be a long process,” he
added. “I don’t think anyone is fooling
themselves about that.”
The tribe hopes that within two
years, all necessary approvals and pa
perwork will be in place for Makah
whalers to legally return to the Pacific’s
water with a plan to harvest as many
as 20 whales over five years.
“We don’t expect this to happen
overnight,” Johnson said. “We just
want to go whaling again. Whaling is
our treaty right, and we see it as our
way of life.”
The Makah tribe considers its cen
turies-old whaling tradition part of
what defines the tribe’s unique identi
ty. It is pursuing the hunts for cultural
and subsistence purposes.
In June, a three-judge panel of the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled for the third time that the fed
eral government must conduct a full
environmental assessment and that
an exception to the Marine Mammal
Protection Act be granted before
whaling can resume.
The complex 49-page decision,
which included a reference to Herman
Melville’s “Moby Dick,” left the
Makahs with the choice of complying
with the ruling or appealing to the
Supreme Court.
After the appeals court ruling,
Wayne Johnson, the tribe’s whaling
captain during a successful whale hunt
in 1999, said the Makahs would con
tinue to press their case under a treaty
which — according to tribal lawyer
John Arum — makes them the only
Indian group in the United States with
an explicit treaty right to hunt whales.
“It’s another treaty broken by the
United States,” Johnson said. “I am go
ing whaling again.”
Under the ruling, the National Ma
rine Fisheries Service must complete
an environmental impact study which
shows tribal whale hunts will not hurt
gray whale populations.
In addition, the tribe must seek a
waiver from a federal law that gen
erally bars the harming of marine
mammals.
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