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'iSJ T he N O RTH COAST [HJl Œo Ä erü e &Ü $ e o p l (C Then came October, full of glee.” Spenser Volum e 1, N um ber 7 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 2 5 $ a C O p y ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Friday, 12October, 1979 The People Have The Bomb j|DCilDOiaoia DDaioaiüO!aaiaoiooiDOI5aiaDiaoiriagf3naiacî, ¡ by MICHAEL McCUSKER *- m S B Í ip q n o i3 n p a lc p io p iP u ia B ra io 5 l¡3 5 lt5 B li: Etoina1 B À tiy d j î^arks dalmati SSuarò With A p p o in ts G overnor V ictor A tiyeh has appointed five members to the recently established Salmon Advisory Com m ittee o f the S tate Fish and Wildlife D epartm ent. T hey are Jim Earley, o f Siletz, who is assistant manager o f the All-Coast Fisherm en’s M arketing Association; Fred Cleaver, Lake Oswego, a form er assistant director o f the Oregon Fish Com m ission; W alter McGovern, Portland, an insurance broker; iA1 H am pson, P ortland, an atto rn ey , and Chris K ittell, from Portland and Pacific City, who is director o f Environm ental Studies at Lewis and Clark College and a com m ercial fisher man. T he Salm on Advisory C om m ittee was set up by the state legislature earlier this year. T he five merribers are chosen by 'th e governor and each represents a defined sector o f interest. I Earley, who holds bachelor o f science degrees in fisheries, . agriculture c ,d •■■a.iu;., . ~ omics, represents conunero-?* i fishing licensees. Cleaver, w ho has w orked w ith state and ¡federal d epartm ents o f fisheries, specializing in salmon research, represents the general public. A director o f the Steelhead, T ro u t and Salmon F ou n d atio n o f N orth America, McGovern fills the “ a generally recognized sports fishing org anization” catagory, while the “ a generally recognized environ m ental organization” spot is being filled by K ittell, who is president o f the Oregon Clean W ater Project, a m em ber o f the Oregon Environm ental Council’s board of directors, and a co- o rd in ato ^fo r the state D epartm ent of Environm ental Q uality. H am pson, part ow ner o f KETA Chum G rowers Association in G aribaldi, is representing private acquaculture interests. ip a ltif Dilati ijieartttg A public m eeting will be held November 15 in A storia by the N orthw est Oregon H ealth System s, the federally design ated health planning agency for six o f the sta te’s counties. T he m eeting will be held in the high school cafeteria, beginning at 7:30 p.m. T he NOH group hopes to get local opinions on a 1980-81 health plan. Parts of the plan they w ant to discuss are family planning, hom e health programs, nursing hom es, com m unity supported m ental health programs, and health m aintenance organizations. T he six counties affected by the proposed health plan are C latsop, Tillam ook, W ashington, Colum bia, Clackamas and M ultnomah. “ Sexism is a sin. R epent,” was the response o f the National O rganization o f Women to Pope John Paul H’s ban on women priests. NOW held its annual convention last weçkend in Los Angeles. President Ellie Smeal said a presidential candidate might be supported by NOW. “ 1980 will be as im portant for w om en as 1920,” she said. “ We got the vote in 1920, in 1980 we intend to get equal rights.” A SHORT HISTORY OF AMERICA JMC£ 6 o f f the I a n SAVE THE OLD SP&SR PAGE 4 Ç THE RIGHT TO KNOW The R e a l C o lu m b u s D ay He missed his mark by half a world, and by that doubled the world’s size. The old civilizations of Europe sent their most favored and their offal, though they were equals in their fervent obliteration of the civilizations they found, then they turned on each other. The great thinkers of the 18th Century considered the millions of lives lost as a consequence of his discovery more than 200 years before, and concluded the costs had been too high for the gains. The Great Thinkers wished the Great Navigator had never set sail or had per ished on the ocean — though someone would have claimed discovery of the New World eventually, and many had made landfall in the same hemisphere hundreds, even thousands of years before his three small leaking ships found an island - and he might have wished he never sailed either. He died poor and in disgrace Out of the disaster grew a great civilization. It was uncomfortably composed of the varied peoples who had come to stay, some as seekers, some as slaves; and its government was fouivled on a radical idea, that human beings were free and independent rulers of the state. The ideal was always in conflict with reality. At times the tension created brilliant advances in civil liberties. Most of the time progress was slow and often bloody. This day, the 487th year since Christopher Columbus landed on San Salvador Island, is a time to measure. POPE TURNED DOWN OREGON COAST TRIP bv Michael O’Brien ^ rx ia m is a £>itt TWQT1I I* 3 The 500 years since Colum bus landed in the New World have not been easy ones for its original inhabitants. PAGE 7 Leonora Murray points out the much neglected significance o f August 26. PAG E5 The last lightship leaves its post to a robot. PAGE 3 "Oh, lei 'em slay fo r awhile. What possible harm can they do?" A few years ago, at th e height o f the V iet nam War, a very unw arlike q u estion becam e popular am ong the troubled w ho w orried about war. “ Suppose they gave a war and nobody cam e?” A fascinating th o u g h t. E xcept there was always an o th er side alm ost palpable ab o u t the question, m ore appealing to th e darker ancest ral part o f ourselves, left unasked until last week when the p r o g r e s s i v e , a generally liberal magazine, hit th e street w ith its cele brated and long an ticipated article on nuclear physics and how to build an H Bomb. Now the o th e r side o f the q uestion m ust be considered, and its possibilities are infinitely m ore fascinating: Suppose they gave a war and everybody came? Because, theoretically — and according to the United States Justice D epartm ent, which tried to squelch the article as a “ th reat to the national security” — every man, w om an and child in the co u n try can becom e a nuclear pow er as a result o f P R O G R E S S I V E publish ing the article. Pope Jo h n Paul II rejected plans for him to visit the Oregqn coast, it has been learned from reliable sources. All speculation th a t the Pope would appear here during his celebrated to u r o f the United States ended when he re plied to the question at a press conference in Boston. “ Oregano? I am Polish, not Italian,” His Holiness answered. Though his appearance would have been a booster’s dream , coastal officials adm it th at the costs o f a Papal visit would have been astronom ical. “The Son of the Fisherm an would have gutted all our budgets,” one official said. The Pope and his Papal entourage are not a cheap act to bring to town. F o r openers, each tow n he visited on the coast would have had to purchase a minimum o f four miles of Golden Rope, which would have been strung along a previously chosen m otorcade route through the business districts and ghettos — VIPs insist on m otorcades, and this VIP seems determ ined to assure the poor th at Heaven awaits them also. The standards to which the G olden Rope would be attractively attached, and which would be done in Papal colors, would be alm ost as costly. The cost o f building the altar for an o u td o o r mass at Ecola S tate Park, Neah Kah Nie M ountain or the Rockaway Fun C enter would em pty any city coffers. Expenses would necessarily include repaving all access roads in Holy colors, and miles more G olden Rope would be needed to partition dignitaries from the com m on herd. O ne proposal included roping the P rotestants o ff from the Catholics. Crowd control and security for the Pope and his party would have made it necessary to call up the state National Guard The average crow d on the Papal tour num bered betw een 150-thousand and one million. Ninety percent of O regon's police officers would have to be put on a dne-hour standby in case they were needed to help control the an ti cipated crowds. Simply feeding and housing the security forces would break most budgets; but each tow n would have to pay wages and overtim e to everybody working the visit. Parking would also have been a serious problem . It was thought by some non-Catholics that the Pope had the power to turn cars into loaves and fishes, but though he is considered by many to be a m onum ental human being, Pope Jo h n Paul has not dem onstrated any special gift for miracles. Housing for the Papal entourage was another problem. Motel owners refused to lower their rates, insisting the Catholic Church could afford it, and church spokesmen com plained that there were not enough facilities anyw here on the coast to house the roughly 600 mem bers o f the Papal entourage. “ We were never going to make the Catholics foot the bill,” one coastal official assured the TIMES EAGLE after the Pope turned Oregon dow n. He said one plan that had been rejected called for going o u t am ong the crow ds with long-handled collection baskets. Coastal residents were disappointed when they heard Pope Jo h n Paul was n ot coming. “ How can he sing ‘America the Beautiful’ when all he sees o f it is New York and Chicago?” one asked. “ G oddam n it, I w anted to be blessed,” com plained another Hope remains that the Dalai Lama, who is currently in Seattle as part o f a visit to the U.S., may consider touring the Oregon coast this fall Official« say there would be no problem with expenses if the Dalai Lama visits Not too many Tibetan Buddhists live on the coast - which could cut crowd control costs considerably - and according to one official who quoted the Tri Patka, the Buddhist Bible, Buddhist priests are required to beg for their food. The flap started earlier this year w hen free lance w riter Hal Moreland toured the nuclear establishm ent and w rote w hat he learned for THE PROGRESSIVE- A leak th at got as m uch reaction as Three Mile Island sent the Justice D epartm ent scurrying to court with an order to suppress the article. O f course PRO G RESS IVE refused, quickly wrapping itself in the First A m endm ent. Lines were as swiftly draw n across the country. The Justice D ep artm en t’s argum ent, repre senting the governm ent, was th at the national security — a religion, you understand - was threatened if the article was published. THE PROGRESSIVE argued th a t th e n at ional security dem anded the article be publish ed imm ediately. The trick was defining N ational Security. One side’s view was th a t national security m eant protecting the co u n try from the com m ies and the crazies who would start build ing II Bombs in their basem ents the m inute the PROG R ESSIV E article was published. The o th e r side defined th e national sec urity as the Bill o f Rights, and in particular, the First A m endm ent’s guarantee o f freedom of speech and of the press, and th eir less noisy corollary, the right to know . One citizen to o k the d ebate farther. He w rote a le tte r to a few new spapers providing the same inform ation co ntained in M oreland’s article, supporting M oreland’s argum ent that everything in his story was public record and all he did was put the pieces together. A MORE D A N G E R O U S WORLD C om puter program m er Charles Hansen, who w rote th e letter, was angry th at the gov ernm ent had dragged PROGRESSIVE and Moreland into court when it had never prose cuted the scientists responsible for declassify ing the docum ents Moreland researched. Im m ediately the Justice D epartm ent sought to quash the letter, b u t a new spaper in Madison, Wisconsin where THE PR O GRESSIVE is published printed the letter. The Justice D epartm ent dropped its case. I he government said it no longer m ade sense continuing the case when everybody in the Continued on Page 4 INDIAN SUMMER Indian Sum m er con tin u es to wane through the Day of Discovery. C loudier days and cooler tem peratures are forecast for next week, with m orning fogs. No rain is expected Fire danger in the state’s forest regions rem ains critical. Low pressure cells appearing o ff the coast continue to ricochet off the edge of a high pressure ridge which covers m ost o f Oregon, shunting the wet w eather n o rth to Canada and southern Alaska. Highs are expected to be betw een 65 and 70 degrees, F ahrenheit. Last w eek’s tem peratures, in the high 70s and more than once topping 80, set records for this tim e of year.
