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PORTLAND OBSERVER
March 11, 1982
Volume XII, Number 22
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Oregon ’s next governor:
Who will he be?
(Editor's note: This is the firs t in
a series o f interviews with the major
candidates f o r G o v ern o r o f O re
gon f
Don C la rk , M ultn o m ah County
Executive, is a candidate for the
Democratic Party’s nomination for
Governor.
C lark sees the overriding issue in
O regon’ s future as the economy,
and this is one area in which he d if
fers from the current governor, Vic
tor Atiych. "A tiyeh has said, ’ I f it's
not broken, don't fix it.* The econ
omy is broken and still he is doing
nothing to fix it.”
" A tiy e h blames Oregon's eco
nomic problems on the national
economy and only lately has said the
national policy. Oregon's problems
arc, o f course, related to the nation
al problems but we cannot sit back
and wait; we must have an economic
recovery program for Oregon.”
Clark has proposed a program to
provide temporary employment for
Oregon's unemployed, and to create
long-term jobs. The stale « under
going a transition period that is re
placing high paying jobs with low-
paying jobs, he explained. M any
Oregonians do not have the skills to
obtain employment with the new in
dustries being brought into the
state. "Th e sad fact is that Oregoni
ans displaced from jobs in forest
products, agriculture, tourism , or
fishing will not get the new jobs cre
ated by the state’ s diversification
program.”
To attack (he immediate problem
C lark would create an Oregon Em
ployment Corps, using existing
funds, to provide 15,000 decent-
paying jobs in public works. A
Young A dult Em ployment Corps
would provide 8,000 jobs for unem
ployed young people.
Since more than 20,000 forest
products workers are unemployed,
special programs would be de-
Police review proposed
Commissioncr Charles Jordan ac
cused M ayor Frank Ivancie o f bad
faith in his treatment o f a citizens’
task force that attem pted to bring
recommendations to the M ayor on
police activities.
Jordan appointed the task force,
chaired by Dr. Francis Storrs, when
he was Police Com m issioner. The
(ask force was charged to study the
work o f the Internal Affairs division
in investigating citizen complaints
against the police and to m ake
recommendations. The M ayor later
removed the Police Bureau fro m
Jordan, placed it under his own ju r
isdiction and appointed Ron S till
chief.
Dr Storrs said the committee has
attempted to meet with M ayor Ivan
cie in private since last summer to
discuss their recommendations but
he refused. They attended what they
expected to be a p riv ate m eeting
with him Tuesday, but found that
he had invited C h ie f S till and the
press.
Ivancie and Still rejected any con
sideration o f the task force’s key rec
om m endation— that tTfsermanent
committee be appointed to monitor
internal investigations— charging it
would interfere with crime-fighting.
T h ey also m ain tain ed that most
complainants are criminals anyway.
Ivancie said he will not allow the
establishment o f such a committee
without a vote o f the people.
C om m issioner C harles Jordan
COUNTY EXECUTIVE DON CLARK
veloped to encourage in-state pro-
cessing o f tim ber products and a
jobs-loss tax would be attached to
all unprocessed logs from Oregon
that are exported.
C la rk would also develop a Job
Development C orp oratio n to pro-
vide technical assistance, loan guar-
antees and capital to small business-
men. In Oregon, 70 per cent o f new
jobs created are in small businesses
i employing fewer than 50 people.
C lark currently administrates
M
I ultnom ah C ounty government.
He previously was County Sheriff, a
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County Commissioner, and C h air
man
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o f the Board o f County C om
i missioners. Thus he has had 20
! years o f experience in adm inistra
tion,
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much o f it during periods o f
shrinking budgets.
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Freedom Fund Banquet at the H il
ton Ballroom on Friday night. Exec
utive Director Benjamin L. Hooks
w ill speak. F o llow ing Ihc conven
tion theme o f "Linking the Genera
tions on an Upward C lim b ," Hooks
will outline N A A C P plans for 1982.
Several events w ill be open to
non-registrants. Among these are a
com m u nity ra lly , featu ring local
choirs, at Bethel A .M .E . C hurch,
5828 N .E . 8th, scheduled for 7 pm.
M arc h
18;
the
C o m m u n ity
1 uncheon at Geneva's Restaurant,
4228 N. Williams Ave., at 12:30 pm,
Friday, for which a $5 donation is
requested; and the opening session
at 3 pm, Friday, to be conducted by
Regional Chairman Lacy Steele.
H icks anticipates attendance o f
some 500 from the 9-statc Region I
area.
For details on registration and to
reserve banquet tickets, which cost
$25 each, call Betty W h ite at 248-
4929.
The o rdinance w ould create a
commission " t o ensure investiga
tions which are fa ir , e ffic ie n t,
thorough and tim e ly and which
show equal concern for the rights o f
both the citizens and the officers.”
The commission would consist o f
nine members to be appointed one
each by the M a y o r, each C om m is
sioner, the Multnomah Bar Associa
tio n , the N a tio n a l C o nferen ce o f
C hristians and Jews, the Po lice
C hief and the M etropolitan Hum an
Relations Commission.
The C om m ission w ill m o n ito r
complaint investigations; also com
plainants can appeal decisions to the
commission. I f the appeal decision
o f the Commission and the Police
C hief disagree, it can be referred to
the Police Commissioner.
Jordan, who is opposed to a po
lice review b o ard , said Iv an c ie is
wrong when he charges that a moni
toring commission would interfere
with police w ork. The commission
w ould not be involved d ire c tly in
police work or in the investigations
o f com plaints, but w ould oversee
‘ the investigation procedure on be
half o f citizens.
MAYOR FRANK IVANCIE
□enjamin Hooks addresses
Portland Jobs and Justice Rally
NAACP holds Regional Conference here
T he P o rtla n d Branch o f the
N A A C P will host the I982 Region I
C onference M arch 18th through
March 21st.
l.ucious Hicks, branch president,
announced (hat any interested per
sons may register at the Portland
H ilto n H o te l, convention head
quarters, from I to 6 pm Thursday,
M arch 18. The same fee, $50, will
apply to delegates, members and
non-members.
A highlight w ill be the A n nu al
said Wednesday that he w ill in tro
duce an ordinance enabling estab
lishment o f a m onitoring com m it
tee. He criticized Ivancie: "A g ain he
has taken the low road instead o f
the high road. H e has chosen con
frontation over compromise.”
BENJAMIN HOOKS
A m arch and rally for Jobs and
Justice will be held on Thursday,
March 18th. The main issues o f the
march will be: jobs for all; legislation
to deal with the wave o f plant clo
sures; the cutbacks in human ser
vices; the V o tin g Rights A c t; the
Davis-Bacon A ct; and the Equal
Rights Amendment.
The day will begin with a pre-rally
at N W Park and Everett at 9:30 am;
the march will begin at 11:00 am, and
the m ain ra lly w ill be at noon at
Terry Schrunk Plaza.
The keynote speaker will be Benja
min Hooks, executive director o f the
national N A AC P. Other speakers will
include: Irv Fletcher, president o f the
Oregon A F L -C IO , Freddye Pettet o f
the Urban League, and representa
tives from the Friends o f the Gorge,
the Ecumenical Ministries o f Oregon,
the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the
International Woodworkers o f Amer
ica, the Machinists, and other unions
and community groups.
March organizers predict a turnout
o f 2,500-5,000 people. This m arch
follows a similar one held in Olympia,
Washington on January 20th, which
drew over 16,000 people.
The march represents a newly
emerging cooperation o f organized
labor with non-labor-oriented com
m unity groups— a hopeful sign in
these Reagan times. Sponsors include
the state A F L -C IO , the Central La
bor Councils, many unions, the Ecu
menical Ministries o f Oregon, the A.
Ph ilip Randolph Institute, the
W o m en ’s Rights C oalition, the
Human Rights Coalition, Oregon Fair
Share, the Alliance for Social Change,
several neighborhood associations,
the Farmers Union and the Oregon
Gtizens Party.
United States launches covert CIA attacks on Nicaragua
The U.S. government has admitted
allocation of $19 million to the C IA to
carry on a covert war against Nicara
gua I he Nicaraguan people, just two-
and-a-half years ago, gained their
freedom from the Somoza dictator
ship installed by the United States.
Economic recovery from the devas
tating civil war has been deluyed by
the need to arm the nation against at
tack by the U.S. and its allies— Hon
duras and Guatemala.
Hardly had Ronald Reagan taken
office before he cancelled a $19 mil
lion loan that had been offered by the
Carter administration. Then he sus
pended a credit of $9.6 million intend
ed to purchase wheat. This hard line
has been maintained with suspension
o f other aid programs and constant
allegations that Nicaragua is helping
supply arms Io the El Salvador guer
rillas.
A year ago Secretary o f Slate A l
exander Haig and the U.S. will not
remain passive in the face o f "sys
tematic, well-financed and sophisti
cated” communist activity in I I Sal
vador and threatened to go to "the
source’ ’ — C u ba. W h ile C uba re
mains a prime concern, the adminis
tration realizes that a direct attack
on Cuba would not only involve the
w ell-train ed and cquipeed Cuban
m ilitary, now in a state o f m ilitary
alert, but could involve the Soviet
U n io n in a w orld wide c o n flic t.
T h e re fo re , fru strated by the
I M I.N ’s increasingly successful war
o f lib eratio n in El S alvador, U .S .
rhetoric and threats have shifted to
Nicaragua.
Thousands o f fo rm er N a tio n a l
Guardsmen o f the Somoza govern
ment are being trained in Honduras,
close to the border of Nicaragua, and
in Florida, C alifo rn ia and New O r
leans. Sabotage and covert activities
within the country have increased
since November. On February 5th Ni
caraguan Foreign M inister Miguel
D 'E scoto charged that the U .S. is
training an exile army of 6,(100 men in
20 camps along the border, in collu
sion with Honduras, Guatemala, and
Argentina.
In December, Minister of Culture
Ernesto Cardinal said in Paris that
U.S. actions against Nicaragua "are
becoming even more serious. H o w
ever, we arc prepared for any even
tuality, even if it means fighting o ff
an aggression," since Reagan is not
ruling out any option.
Nicaragua does not deny it is un
dergoing a massive m ilitary buildup
and is preparing its people fo r a
U.S. invasion. Ortega Saavedra said
the U .S. was threatening economic
blockade, has cut its loans, is back
ing cou n terrevolu tio n ary groups,
"an d then has the nerve to ask why
we are arming ourselves, why we are
wasting our money on guns, on ri
fles, on arms ’* It would be foolish
not to strengthen the country’s de
fenses when a big power lik e the
U.S. "which has already invaded us
several times and which is still a t
tacking us, utters threats o f invasion
and blockade." He gave notice that
Nicaragua has the sovereign right to
strengthen its defense without hav
ing to be accountable to anyone.
On February 14th the Washing
ton Post revealed that a C IA propo
sal to carry on covert warfare within
Nicaragua for the purpose o f over
throwing that government has been
adopted by the Reagan administra
tion.
The C IA plan w ould involve
mostly non-Ameiican personnel but
the possible use o f Americans to un
dertake unilateral param ilitary ac
tion against selected Cuban targets
is also envisioned.
The Post was unable to determine
whether the C IA plan had been im
plem ented but U .S . sourced a d
m itted that U .S .-b acked activities
aim ed at N icarag ua have begun
along the border w ith H o nd u ras
within the last three months. These
activities include training and sup
port o f Nicaraguan exiles and have
been stepped up in recent weeks as
fighting in El Salvador has acceller-
ated.
The Peoples Liberation Movement
of Honduras has warned that ground
w ork is being laid in that cou n try
fo r the a rriv a l o f thousands o f
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