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Dennis Johnson: Blessing in disguise
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CITY OF PORTLAND
INVITATION TO BID
By Utlysses Tucker, Jr.
Sealed proposals will be received in Room 412, City Hall, Portland, Oregon
97204 tor items detailed herein until 2:00 P.M. on the dates indicated
Plans and specifications may be obtained at the above address. For ad­
ditional information telephone buyer at number listed.
When Bid Surety is required, proposals shall be accompanied by a certified
check, cashier's check or a bid bond, payable to the City of Portland for an
amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the aggregate amount of the bid
as guaranty that the bid shall be irrevocable for the period specified in the
proposal Said bond to be forfeited as fixed and liquidated damages should
the bidder seek to revoke his offer for any reason not authorized by law and
not consented to by City within the irrevocable period, or neglect or refuse
to enter into contract and provide a suitable bond for the faithful perfor­
mance of the contract, in the event the said contract is awarded to him.
When the Seattle Supersonics
traded star guard Dennis Johnson to
the Phoneix Suns for Paul Westphal
just before the end o f the season,
head coach Lenny W ilkins and the
Sonic organization throught they
were doing themselves a favor.
Instead, the trade has turned out
to be a blessing for the Suns whoes
reputation fo r choking in the
playoffs is documented well around
the
N ational
Basketball
Association. A ccording to Suns
Central Manager, Jerry Colangelo,
Dennis Johnson has been a jo y to
work with.
gentleman and his aggressive play
on the court has turned the whole
team around. Dennis adds a new
defensive dimension to a already ex­
cellent basketball team. 1 think we
will be a lot stronger in the playoffs
this year,” he said.
Johnson is not teamed up w ith
“ T ru c k " Robinson, a strong force
at fo rw a rd , W alter Davis at the
p o in t, Rich K elly, Johnny H igh,
Kyle Macy, and a good Phoenix
bench that owns one o f the best
recordsd in the National Basketball
A ssociation. How did you feel
about being traded?
“ Surprised,” Johnson said, “ But
after realizing that basketball is a
business, I accepted the fact. So far,
the trade has been the best thing for
me because I ’ m playing ball like I
want to. The organization told me
to play ball and don’ t worry about
anything else. I ’ ve been accepted
here w ith open arm s,” he con­
tinued.
N .B .A .’ s All-Defensive team for the
past three seasons and M VP in the
1979 Championship series against
the Bullets was labeled as a
“ Knucklehead” in Seattle, says he is
not as bad as the press made him.
“ A ll 1 want to do is play ball,” he
said. “ In Seattle, we were going
through some bad times and after
we lost to Milwaukee in last year’s
playoffs, I guess I got the blame.”
On the other hand, Seattle is
struggling w ith Gus W illiam s s till
holding out, Lonnie Shelton out for
the season and Paul Westphal is out
w ith a “ stress fra ctu re ” (B ill
Walton) in his foot.
"T hey’ re having their problems,”
said Johnson, “ But I am here in
Phoenix now and 1 hae to w orry
about us. I feel for them because 1
left a lot o f good friends up there -
I ’ m sure they will get it together.”
“ D J” has found a new home in
the Sun and he loves it - Don’t be
surprised i f you see Phoenix in the
run for the Championship ring.
NON DISCRIMINATION: No proposal or bid will be considered unless the
bidder is certified as an EEO Affirmative Action Employer as prescribed by
Chapter 3.100 of the Code of the City of Portland. All bidders not currently
certified should file the required documentation with the Contract Com­
pliance Division, Room 209, City Hall, 1220 SW Fifth Avenue, Portland,
Oregon 97204, 248 4696, at least five (5) days prior to the Bid Opening.
Failure to achieve certification by the Bid Opening Date and Time shall
result in the return of your Bid Unopened.
“ Dennis has blended in real
w ell,” he said. “ Before we traded
for him we did some research and it
turned out very favorable. We know
from his background that he is very
com petitive and he knows how to
win which is very important.
“ He has been nothing but a
BID NO.
School election draws lines
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91 A
C 9288
C 9150
C 9038
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103
104 A
105 A
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107
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C-9274
DESCRIPTION
BID OPENING DATE
Furnishing One 100 Ft. Tractor Drawn Aerial Ladder
Fire Truck. For inform ation call Duane Gullixson,
Buyer, 248 4004. 10% Bid Surety Required.
03/31/81
Furnishing Annual Supply of Lubricating Oils,
Greases & Turbine Oil. For inform ation call
Duane Gullixson, Buyer, 248 4004. 10% Bid
Surety Required.
03/24/81
Improvement of SE Rural St from W Line of SE
39 Ave to E line of 41 Ave. For information call
Michele Ackerman, Buyer, 248 4191. 10% Bid
Surety Et Prequalification of Bidder Required.
03/24/81
Im provem ent of SE Flavel Street from SE 105
Ave to SE 107 Ave. For information call Michele
Akcerman, Buyer, 248 4191. 10% Bid Surety
Ef Prequalification of Bidder Required
Improvement of SE Evelyn St from 122 Ft E. of
East Line of SW 37 Ave. to Center Line & Con­
struct Sewer. For information call Michele Acker­
man, Buyer, 248 4191. 10% Bid Surety Et Pre­
qualification of Bidder Required
03/26/81
03/24/81
Labor, Material & Equipment for N Going Street
Noise M itigation Project. For inform ation call
Michele Ackerman, Buyer, 248 4191. 10% Bid
Surety & Prequalification of Bidder Required.
04/02/81
Labor, Material & Equipment for Construction of
Albina Annex Gravel Bins. For inform ation call
Nancy Kearney, Buyer, 248 4486. 10% Bid Surety
& Prequalification of Bidder Required.
03/31/81
Furnishing Gate Values Et Tapping Values. For
Inform ation call Maxine A lbright, Buyer, 248-
4003. 10% Bid Surety Required.
03/24/81
Furnishing Cast Iron Valve Boxes, Lids Et Exten­
sions. For inform ation call Maxine A lbright,
Buyer, 248 4003. 10% Bid Surety Required.
03/24/81
Furnishing Estimated 6 Flatbed Dump Trucks,
25,000 GVW. For information call Duane Gullix­
son, Buyer, 248 4004 10% Bid Surety Required.
03/24/81
Labor, Material Et Equipment for Construction of
60 inch Washington County Supply Line, Phase 1.
For inform ation call Michele Ackerman, Buyer,
248 4191. 10% Bid Surety Et Prequalification of
Bidder Required.
04/02/81
Labor, Material 7 Equipment fo r Oaks Pioneer
Church Landscape Improvements. For information
call Nancy Kearney, Buyer, 248 4486. 10% Bid
Surety Required.
03/31/81
Improving SW 49 Ave from Center Line of SW
Dickinson St to its Northerly Terminus Et Installing
Sewer Pipe. For information call Michele Acker­
man, Buyer, 248-4191. 10% Bid Surety Required.
04/09/81
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
A public hearing on the seventh year (July 1, 1981 - June 30, 1982) Housing
and Community Development Block Grant Program (HCD) will be held on
Wednesday, April 1 at 9:30 a m, in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1220
SW Fifth Avenue
The City of Portland will receive $10,802,000 in Community Development
Block Grant funds for Fiscal Year 1981-82 from the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. Citizens, neighborhoods and other in­
terested parties are encouraged to voice their opinions on the seventh year
program at this hearing.
Changes, modifications and comments will be considered in preparing final
documents for approval by the Portland City Council.
If you are not able to attend, or would like to provide your comments in ad
vance. citizens may send written comments directly to the Council by ad
dressing them to:
Auditor
City of Portland
1220 SW Fifth Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97204
Please identify the material as regarding the HCD hearing.
Further information may be received by calling the HCD office.
Charles E. Olson
Program Manager
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those in our society — necessarily the
vast majority -- who do not and will
not ever “ succeed” as measured by
business standards. A ll this aside,
the business com m unity enjoys
numerous educational “ perks’ such
as the energy seminars run by the
utilities at Cleveland High School;
or the summer seminars run by the
Oregon Association o f Industries'
for which high school seniors and
teachers get credit; or the “ partners
in Portland Education” program in
which the board joined hands with
the Chamber o f Commerce to
develop a pro-business curriculum!
Finally, business is interested in
attracting top-notch executives and
professionals to Portland. An im ­
portant factor in such peoples’
decision to settle in an area is the
quality o f the schools there: schools
in neighborhoods -- such as the
West H ills - where executives are
like ly to settle should have good
staff and programs; and the schools
should be “ stable,’ ’ rather than
beset w ith strikes, battles over in ­
tegration, and the like.
This ‘ stability” factor is probably
the main reason the late ex-school
superintendent Robert Blanchard
was so im p o rta n t to the business
community, and why it raised such
an uproar when he was fired. I t ’ s
not just that Blanchard was one o f
their set, it’ s not simply that he and
certain board members could
discuss their gentlemen’ s disagree­
ments over breakfast after early
m orning w orkouts at the M u lt­
nomah A th le tic C lub. I t ’ s rather
that B lanchard’ s program was to
support the richer westside schools
at the expense o f the poorer eastside
ones, attem pt to pacify the Black
com m unity w ith the illu sio n o f
“ voluntary integration,” and firm ly
resist the efforts o f non-corporate
com m unity
groups
to
have
significant input into school policy.
When, through a combination o f
historical accidents and community
pressures, the board gained a
m ajority which was w illig to buck
the corporate interests and fire
Blanchard, the business community
reacted quickly: the day after the
board voted to fire Blanchard,
business form ed a com m ittee to
recall those board members - Sarah
Newhall, Herb Cawthorne, Steve
Buel and Wally Priestly - who had
voted to fire him. That committee,
when its recall effort failed, grew in­
to the so-called “ Com m ittee fo r
Good School Board Candidates,”
which is trying to replace as many of
the “ independent” board members
as it can with candidates they favor.
The list o f corporate connections
o f this com m ittee reads like a
“ W ho’ s W ho” o f P ortland big
business. In additin to Ridgley and
Newman, two o f th ^C o m m itte e ’ s
main organizers, there are Paul
Howe and Bill Love, the main fund­
raisers. Howe is an officer o f NW
Natural Gas; Love is the chairman
of Equitable Savings & Loan and a
director o f PGE among others.
Other com m ittee ties are to the
Lloyd Corporation, the Chamber of
Commerce, the Port o f Portland,
Standard Insurance, Import Plaza, ,
Oregon Pioneer Savings & Loan...
This august group would like, in
this election, to put its people into
seats now occupied by Sarah
Newhall and W ally Priestly. They
are running C harlotte Beeman
against Sarah. They hope to replace
Preiestley, who is re tirin g , w ith
G isvold (a member o f Newman’ s
White Paper disparities
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Other sources o r-
f intelligence
were
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available
to
Reagan
analysts
at
the
nearly 200 tons o f those arms,
time the W hite Paper was issued
mostly
through
Cuba
and
which tended to contradict the pic­
Nicaragua.”
ture o f huge arms shipments, but
Yet reading the documents, it is
the reports were not included in the
impossible to determine where these
packet o f documents.
numbers come from . The State
For example, on January 30,
Department, which declined further
Salvadoran
government forces cap­
elaboration o f its conclusions and
tured
a
young
Nicaraguan army
stopped providing copies o f the
lieutenant, O rlando Tardencilla,
original documents, has not ex­
who admitted he led a group o f 130
plained. The highest figure men­
Salvadoran guerrillas in battle. Ac­
tioned anywhere in the documents is
cording to Foregin Broadcast In ­
the handwritten November 1, letter
form ation Service -- which is
from a certain “ V la d im ir,” who
operated by the C IA and distributed
was identified by the State Depart­
to other government agencies - Tar­
ment as the g u errillas’ logistics
dencilla said the Salvadoran
coordinator in Nicaragua. He wrote
guerrillas received support “ at the
that 150 tons o f arms had already
finance level, m ainly so they may
arrived in Cuba and that more was
buy weapons on the black market...
scheduled to arrive “ this week” for
Cuba sends money to the guerrillas.
a total o f about 300-400 tons. But
It also sends arms. But it gives more
plans to smuggle “ 190 tons” into El
money than arms so that the
Salvador in November were
government does not get implicated.
“ almost impossible” he added.
Although 12 tons o f arms have been
And another document, the
sent to El Salvador, this represents
minutes o f a guerrilla general staff
only one percent o f what is at the
meeting in late September, reported
disposal o f the guerrillas outside the
that o f 130 tons o f arms in storage,
country.”
only four tons had been smuggled
The key document in Reagan’ s
into El Salvador.
case that the Soviet U nion is the
The W hite Paper provides a
mastermind behind the Salvadoran
photograph o f a tra ile r truck cap­
guerrilla
offensive is a report o f
tured at the Honduran-Salvadoran
Salvadoran Communist Party chief
border in late January this year with
Shafik H a n d il’ s tour o f Vietnam,
100 M-16 rifles, some o f which the
Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,
State Department says were traced
Hungary, East Germany and the
as weapons captured from the U.S.
Soviet U nion between June 2 and
in Vietnam. C uriously, however,
July 22, 1980. It is the only piece o f
another document attached to the
evidence that actually mentions the
W hite Paper lists in detail the 60
Soviet Union, with the exception o f
tons in arms promised to the
a passing reference in another
guerrillas by Vietnam but does not
document to a “ Sov.” being present
include any M-16s -- which was the
at the meeting in Mexico City with
basic infantry weapon used by U.S.
Socialist diplomats.
soldiers in Vietnam.
The document contains the list of
A U.S. intelligence o ffice r with
60
tons o f arms promised by Viet­
wide experience in Latin America
nam and smaller, unspecified
during the past decade said the ton-
amounts o f arms, uniform s and
age reported in the W hite Paper
medical equipment from other
were “ highly unrealistic...unless
countries. Handil, according to the
they slipped in a few tanks with it.”
document, went to Vietnam at the
He said “ hiding the weapons and
suggestion o f a second level Soviet
protecting them from corrosion in
communist
party central committee
tropical El Salvador would make
o ffic ia l who offered to pay his air
such large quantities a liability.”
fare. A fte r H a ndil’ s trip to Hanoi
In addition, battlefield reports
and the other countries, he returned
from El Salvador have not produced
to Moscow, expecting a meeting
evidence o f large quantities o f cap­
with a top level Soviet central com­
tured weapons, and journalists on
mittee official.
the scene are reporting that the only
According to the White Paper ac-
weapons seen in battle areas are
z’ m m l U a rt • 1
I f t
rrla tiv H v nld and unsophisticated.
w ith assurances that the Soviets
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agreed in principle to transport the
Vietnamese arms.”
The
supporting
document,
however, puts the encounter in
another light. Handil was refused a
meeting with the high Soviet official
and “ expressed his unhappiness
with the denial o f a meeting at the
proper level and the non-resolution
o f the request for help."
A few weeks later, according to
the document, H andil received a
telegram in Managua, Nicaragua, in
which the Soviets granted his
request to give m ilita ry training to
30 (presumably Salvadoran) youths
studying in Moscow, but ignored his
request to ship the Vietnamese ar­
ms.
The document concludes, “ the
companiero (H andil) expressed his
concern that the Soviet’ s in ­
decisiveness could affect not only
the way they might give but also
(prejudice) the willingness to
cooperate o f the other parties o f the
European socialist camp...” There,
in mid-sentence, the document
provided by the State Department
ends.
Carter A d m in istra tio n Latin
America specialist Robert Pastor
said that until late last year in te lli­
gence reports showed relatively
small amounts o f arms entering El
Salvador with Cuban help.
Then Carter’ s intelligence learned
o f the Shafik visit to the Soviet
Union and other socialist countries,
seeking arms, Pastor said, and
detected a "q u a n tu m leap” the
second week in January o f
“ crediable intelligence” showing
large amounts o f sophisticated
weapons in the hands o f the
guerrillas as they opened their o f­
fensive.
These intelligence reports were a
m ajor factor in the C arter’ s A d­
m in istra tio n ’ s decision to resume
“ lethal” aid-shipments o f guns,
am m unition and helicopters - but
coupled to an insistence on the con­
tinuation o f reform programs and a
ju n ta crackdown on human rights
atrocities by the military.
In the meantime, the Salvadoran
m ilita ry fought the guerrillas to a
standstill in late January. The A d­
m inistration assailed Cuba and
other communist countries for
DENNIS JOHNSON
law firm), however, they face a s tiff
fig h t fo r this seat from Rick
Bauman, a progressive legislator
from Southeast Portland, who has a
strong record for bucking the energy
corporations over nuclear power
and public control o f energy.
They couldn’ t find anyone who
was w illin g to run against Herb
Cawthorne, who probably w ill win
easily.
On the problems facing the
schools in the near future — school
closures, declinging finances,
curriculum reform , the dropout
problem, neither the corporate team
nor the independents have yet fo r­
mulated consistent program s. In
particular it remains to be seen to
what extent the independents w ill
form a united independent bloc and
to what extent any o f them w ill
“ com prom ise” w ith corporate
pressure. But in all probability, if
the corporate team ends up
dom inating the board, whatever
solutions are adopted by the board
to the schools’ difficulties will favor
the interests o f big business at the
expense o f the m a jo rity o f P o rt­
land’ s children.
that Nicaragua had expressed its
own willingness to prevent arms
shipment through its te rrito ry .
There was no sabre-rattling, no
mention o f the Soviet U nion or
East-West confrontation.
The new in fo rm a tio n on the
nature o f the Cuban and Soviet
support o f arms traffic, Pastor said,
“ did not change my view o f the
nature o f the guerrilla movement -
that they are an indigenous move­
ment strongly supported by the
Soviets and Cubans, but not
pawns.”
The difference between the Carter
and Reagan A dm inistration inter­
pretation o f the in fo rm a tio n , he
said, is that “ They say the Cubans
are directing it all. We say it is led,
organized and directed by the
Salvadorans, and that the Soviets
and Cubans are supporting it. Even
if the Soviet Union and Cuba went
away, the problem would not go
away. That’ s because the problem is
prim arily an indigenous one which
the Cubans and the Soviets are ex­
ploiting for their own ends.”
Nevertheless, on the basis o f the
W hite Paper the Reagan A d ­
m inistration announced it would
send in more m ilitary advisors and
$25 million in additinal military aid.
In historical terms, the W hite
Paper and its support documents
could become the fu n ctiona l
equivalent o f President Johnson’ s
now-discredited reports to Congress
o f N orth Vietnamese attacks on
U.S. patrol boats, which led to the
G ulf o f Tonkin resolution in 1964 -
and eventually to the war in V iet­
nam.
Before taking office, Reagan and
Secretary o f State Alexander Haig
signalled their desire to act im ­
mediately and to put substance into
the tough, anti-Soviet rhetoric o f
the campaign. President Reagan
"w ould draw the line at the first op­
p o rtu n ity against Soviet adven­
turism” in the Third World, Reagan
o ffic ia ls said in background
briefings.
The fight between guerrillas
clearly identified as leftists and a
U.S. backed regime in Salvador was
made to order. It was, one Reagan
o ffic ia l told a reporter, “ a for-
tiutous combination o f coincidence
and circumstances.”
Coply right Pacific N ew t Service 1961
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