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PORTLAND OBSERVER
October 20, 1982
Volume XIII, Number 2
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Measure 3 threatens Portland schools
Superintendent o f the Portland
Public School D is tric t M atthew
Prophet has warned that the passage
o f Measure 3—the property tax lim ­
itation—would bring the loss o f be­
tween one-third and one-half o f its
property taxes in a single year,
which “ would simply spell educa­
tional disaster fo r nearly 52,000
Pr. rtland Public School students.”
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have been spent on m ilita
ance to the brutal Sahadt
ernment. This money has I
to fund the murder o f m
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On July 25, President I
tified that human i
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pas, year. Reagan’ s cert
was needed to clear the way for
another $130,,MX),000 in proposed
military aid to El Salvador.
In September, U .S .-b u ilt A-37
bombers, incendiary bombs, hand
grenades and autom atic weapons
were used hy Salvadoran troops to
slaughter more than 400 unarmed
women, men and children in El Sal-
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duction o f expenditures could be
made by cutting school days, elimin­
ating extended duty, reducing sal­
aries. The result would be loss o f
staff, less student instruction, dete­
rio ra tio n o f buildings and equip­
ment because o f lack o f mainten­
ance.
Elimination o f 50 per cent o f the
part time personnel and 30 per cent
o f the full time personnel would be
carried out the district could still be
forced to make added cuts.
“ As an educational adm inistra­
tion, my staff and I stand ready to
do everything we can to best meet
the educational news o f all students
w ithin the resources available, re­
gardless o f election outcom e,”
Prophet said. “ But we cannot guar­
antee, if Ballot Measure 3 passes:
Excellence in education; equal
>rtunities; special
optional children; a
a competent corn­
ai teachers and ad-
•e level o f support
i to modern educa-
ve academic pro-
si o f other commn-
rtland citizens have
ir schools through
we elected
Nicaragua and Pakis-
•d to the United Na-
Jouncil by the Gener-
uesday. Nicaragua,
rget o f U.S. attempts
(io n . castigated the
:neral Assembly last
pport of the Hondur-
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ored Dominican Re-
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per cent. Joblessness
workers was 15.6 per
te collar workers 4.8
fo r service workers
i to the unemployed,
ge increase in workers
obs because they can-
ime work—6.6 million
vador. In addition to tne u m ic u
States military advisors already in El
Salvador, Salvadoran troops and
officers have been brought to the
states for m ilitary training at Fort
Bragg in North Carolina and Fort
Benning in Georgia. And there is
speculation in Congress that United
States m ilita ry intervention in El
administration will face opposition to
involvement in El Salvador. Public
outcry from a Vietnam-wise citizen­
ry is rapidly reaching proportions
comparable to the anti-war move­
ment o f more than a decade ago.
Congressional mail has been run-
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In Oregon, the trade industry lost
3,100 jobs in September (after sea­
sonable adjustment). Key lumber
and construction industries held
their own while approximately 1,000
workers were hired in the eating/
drinking portion o f the retail trade.
ployment. Their unemployment
usually declines this time o f year,
but did no, do so this September.
After seasonal adjustment, the jo b ­
less rate for adult men rose to 9.6
per cent. Unemployment for adult
women was 8.3 per cent and for
xed opinion about the
recession. The Reagan
)n has announced that
i is over and a “ turn-
le economy has begun,
.obert O rtner, chief
the Commerce Depart-
e recession may have
jugh September, “ and
6 evidence” that the de­
clines tn industrial output and em­
ployment are over. The Federal Re­
serve Board announced that indus­
tria l production fell by 0.6 per cent
in September, the 12th decline in 14
months. The cumulative decline
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We were made to live together**
Palestinian priest calls for Middle East peace
“ Security in the M iddle East
should be based on friendship with
the people o f the M iddle East. I
fully understand the need for a Jew­
ish homeland after the tragedy of
the holocaust. I fully understand the
connection o f the Jews to the land
o f Palestine. You |Jews| are wel­
come to Palestine- with me, but no,
w ithout m e .. . . I understand your
persecution this should mean we
can embrace in solidarity.”
So said Father Elias Chakour
Monday night, in a talk at the St.
Andrews C om m unity Center.
Father C hakour is a Palestinian
Catholic priest from the Galilee (in
Israel), and an Israeli citizen. Father
Chakour was brought to Portland
by the Portland chapter of the New
Jewish Agenda, a progressive Jew­
ish group whose stand on the M id ­
dle Fas, includes support for Israel’s
right to exist, as well as the recogni­
tion that peace in the Middle East
depends on the mutual recognition
o f Palestinian and Israeli national
rights.
In his talk, Father Chakour re­
peatedly stressed his belief that the
Jews deserve a homeland in Pales­
tine. But, said the 41-year-old
priest, “ I want my Jewish brothers
and sisters to understand that the
Jews coming to Palestine created a
tragedy for me.”
He described how, on a certain
day in 1947, his fam ily welcomed
Jewish soldiers to his native village
in the Galilee, offering them food
and lodging, because they were flee­
ing "th a t Devil, H itle r.” Ten days
later the soldiers asked the villagers
to leave, fo r a two-week period.
“ The two weeks arc not yet f in ­
ished. We are s till w aiting to re­
tu rn .” Despite Israeli Supreme
Court rulings in the villagers’ favor,
in 1951 then-lsraeli Prime Minister
David Ben G urion had the village
destroyed. In 1956, said l ather Cha­
kour, Jewish settlers came and set­
tled on the site, and the original vil­
lagers have still no, been compen­
sated for their losses.
S till, Father Chakour insists, he
and many, many o f his fellow Pales-
tinians who live in Israel “ are not at
all interested in destroying Israel.
We welcome a ll Jews to Palestine-
but only a Palestine with us in it.”
Father Chakour acknowledged,
w ithout condoning, the terrorism
committed by the Palestinians from
the refugee camps, organized by the
PLO . But he insisted that it was
one-sided to only be concerned
about Palestinian terrorism. “ 1,’ s
too simple to ’condemn terrorism.’
A Palestinian who is able to buy a
bomb to throw on the head o f Jews
—that is one face o f te rro r. Bu,
those who buy cluster bombs—this
is another face o f terrorism, the ter­
rorism o f the mightier. And there is
a third face of terrorism —the ter-
rorism o f those who manufacture
the bombs.”
“ In the eyes o f most Jews, Pales­
tinian equals te rro rist. But in the
eyes of the Palestinians, a Jew looks
like a terrorist as well. We must do
something to get behind the terrorist
stereotypes.
” 1 am frightened by people who
refuse to listen to dialogue.”
In a dd itio n to the need fo r d i­
alogue, Father Chakour stressed the
need for a Palestinian homeland as
one co nd itio n fo r peace in the
Middle East:
“ The Palestinians must have
somewhere an address, a home, a
refuge. (This is just what the Jews
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FATHER ELIAS CHAKOUR
(Photo: Richard Brown)