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TODAY
Today is Tuesday, April 28,
the 119th day of 2020. There
are 247 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On April 28, 1967, heavy-
weight boxing champion
Muhammad Ali was stripped
of his title after he refused to
be inducted into the armed
forces.
ON THIS DATE
In 1788, Maryland became
the seventh state to ratify
the Constitution of the Unit-
ed States.
In 1789, there was a
mutiny on the HMS Bounty
as rebelling crew members
of the British ship, led by
Fletcher Christian, set the
captain, William Bligh, and
18 others adrift in a launch in
the South Pacifi c. (Bligh and
most of the men with him
reached Timor in 47 days.)
In 1918, Gavrilo Princip,
23, the assassin of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria
and the archduke’s wife,
Sophie, died in prison of
tuberculosis.
In 1945, Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini and his
mistress, Clara Petacci, were
executed by Italian partisans
as they attempted to fl ee the
country.
In 1958, the United States
conducted the fi rst of 35 nu-
clear test explosions in the
Pacifi c Proving Ground as
part of Operation Hardtack I.
Vice President Richard Nixon
and his wife, Pat, began
a goodwill tour of Latin
America that was marred by
hostile mobs in Lima, Peru,
and Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1963, at Broadway’s
Tony Awards, “Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?” was
named best play while “A
Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum” won
best musical.
In 1967, U.S. Army Gen.
William C. Westmoreland
told Congress that “backed
at home by resolve, confi -
dence, patience, determina-
tion and continued support,
we will prevail in Vietnam
over communist aggres-
sion.”
In 1980, President Jimmy
Carter accepted the resig-
nation of Secretary of State
Cyrus R. Vance, who had
opposed the failed rescue
mission aimed at freeing
American hostages in Iran.
(Vance was succeeded by
Edmund Muskie.)
In 1986, the Soviet Union
informed the world of the
nuclear disaster at Cher-
nobyl.
In 1988, a fl ight attendant
was killed and more than 60
persons injured when part of
the roof of an Aloha Airlines
Boeing 737 tore off during a
fl ight from Hilo to Honolulu.
In 1994, former CIA
offi cial Aldrich Ames, who
had passed U.S. secrets to
the Soviet Union and then
Russia, pleaded guilty to
espionage and tax evasion,
and was sentenced to life in
prison without parole.
In 1998, in a breakthrough
for the government’s tobac-
co investigation, cigarette
maker Liggett and Myers
agreed to tell prosecutors
whether the industry had
hidden evidence of health
damage from smoking.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2020
STATE
NEWS BRIEFS
Oregon has new
poet laureate
Lawsuit: Restaurant
served fatal meal
SALEM — Anis
Mojgani, a two-time indi-
vidual champion of the
National Poetry Slam and
an International World Cup
Poetry Slam winner, is Ore-
gon’s new poet laureate.
Gov. Kate Brown
on Monday announced
Mojgani’s two-
year appoint-
ment to the
post. Mojgani
is Oregon’s
10th poet lau-
Mojgani
reate, suc-
ceeding Kim
Stafford.
Born in New Orleans,
Mojgani moved to Oregon
in 2004. He is the author
of fi ve books of poetry,
including his latest, “In the
Pockets of Small Gods.”
His work has appeared
on HBO, National Public
Radio and several journals.
He has performed at hun-
dreds of universities across
the U.S. as well as interna-
tional festivals.
“I believe all of us wish
to be seen on some level, to
be heard,” Mojgani stated
in the press release. “For
then we get a little closer
to being known and under-
stood. ... That is what
poetry does – it gives us
all the power and path to
being known, both to our-
selves and to others. It
shows the ways in which we
as humans, while carrying
our aloneness, also belong
and are connected to one
another. The poem illumi-
nates this collectiveness.”
BEND — The estate
of a Bend man who died
of salmonella claims he
was served tainted chicken
enchilada meals, according
to a $2.5 million wrongful
death lawsuit fi led against
El Rodeo restaurant.
The estate of Arthur
Charles Sutton fi led
the lawsuit Monday in
Deschutes County Circuit
Court. Sutton died Aug. 16
at 70. The month before, he
dined twice at El Rodeo,
a Mexican restaurant in
Bend.
El Rodeo owners
Rodolfo and Lorena Arias
did not return messages
seeking comment.
Attorney David Wallace
said the lawsuit is a matter
of public health.
Sutton on July 16 went
to El Rodeo and ate a meal
of a chicken enchilada with
rice, cabbage dip, coleslaw
and chips, according to the
lawsuit.
Over the next few days,
Sutton experienced “con-
stant dull aching pain in his
abdomen, signifi cant bowel
problems, sweating and dif-
fi culty moving,” the lawsuit
states.
Sutton returned July 23
and ate the same meal, and
that night his symptoms
grew worse.
The next day he was
taken to the emergency
department of St. Charles
Bend and was treated for
two days for dehydration,
vomiting and other condi-
tions, according to the law-
suit. On July 29, he was
readmitted to the hospital
with kidney failure and
other conditions.
Sutton died two weeks
later, the cause determined
to be sepsis with acute
organ dysfunction due to
FAMILY
OWNED
salmonella. The lawsuit
states that before Sutton’s
death, samples of his blood
had tested positive for a
species of salmonella.
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