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Portland Observer, January 5, 1983 Page 3 METROPOLITAN Street Beat by Lenita D u ke and R ichard B ro w n The disturbance in Miam i was the last word o f 1982. We sent into the streets to see what Portlanders thought, with "W h at was your reac tion to the one-day riot in Miami?” I David Pipkay Receiving It was a hell o f a way to start '83 I do not know what to think about that. I think some thing like that is more apt to happen there than here. Bill Tllch Technical Rapraaantativa It was an isolated incident. The police arc doing follow-up work to fin d out what hap pened. Everyone is full of anger but we should not condone that behavior. Constructors' Interior Supply Source. Gloria G. M c M u rtry . supplies and installation of carpet, drapery and w all coverings; A .K . M ark etin g International. Akuta Kuwa Nyoka. computor and o ffic e supplies; Louis C rom w ell M ark etin g W estern States, auido visual equipm ent and supplies, food and kindred products. Michael Hill; N .T.I. Supply Company. O B Hill, electrical and industrial w holesale products. A ssociates are Perry O. Lowe and Harold A McLauirn. (Photo: Richard R Brown) A recaption w n held at tha Southwest Business Development Complex, a consortium ot minority and female owned businesses sharing office space and resources at the Board of Trade Building, who seek the geographical location that will provide direct access to the business com m unity rather than the isolation often imposed by location in the minority communities. They are Oregon Business Extension Services. Joan Courtney Gordon, secretarial services; Trans A tlantic Trading and Morrla Turner Clark The police do blacks wrong any way. I think what they did was justified. We arc always wrong, regardless o f the circumstances. You shouldn't have to kill a per son to make a point. Watson wins Lions scholarship Northeast Portland resident Nola Watson has won a scholarship cov ering a full year's tuition and other college-reltated expenses to P o rt land C om m unity College. The scholarship, provided by the C o lumbia Lions Club, is given annual ly to a second year student enrolled in PC’C’ s Optical Technology pro gram at the Cascade Campus, 705 N. Killingsworth. According to Lions o ffic ia ls , a qualified candidate for the scholar- ship must be a successful student en rolled in his or her second year o f the optics program and have a grade point average o f 3.5 or belter. The L.ions prefer a candidate who is a re sident o f North or Northeast Port land and who intends to work in the Portland area following graduation from the program. Other factors in the choice of a re cipient include the q u a lity o f the candidate's presentation, estimate o f the candidate’s potential for suc- Micronesian speaks here Two top activists from the N u clear Free Pacific N etw ork. G iff Johnson and Darlene Keju, will visit Portland, January 9 and 10. John son and Keju are touring the West Coast to speak about the growing anti nuclear and self-determination movement among Pacific Islanders. The tour is also coordinated with the upcoming protests at Vanden berg Air Force Base where the first M X test flight w ill be made in Jan uary 1983 to Kwajalein A toll in the Marshall Islands. A talk and slide show is scheduled for Sunday, January 9, 3 p.m. at St. Andrews C atholic C hurch, 4940 N.L. 8th at Alberta in the Commu nity Center. (A potluck w ill follow). On Monday, January 10, Keju and Johnson w ill speak at P ortland State University, 12 noon, in Room 294, Smith Center. G iff Johnson is one o f the fore most journalists writing on the sub- lecl o f a Nuclear Free Pacific. Dar lene Keju is Marshallese. She has been active in Nuclear Free Pacific issues for many years, her involve ment stemming from first-hand ob servation o f the health and cultural damage to her own people by the U.S. nuclear testing program in the late 1940s and 1950s. Since 1947, Micronesia has been a Trust T erritory o f the U.S. Under this agreement, the islands became the site o f U.S. nuclear testing, nu clear waste dumping, missile testing and the base o f our m ilitary opera tions on the Asian rim. M ilita ry operations have d is placed island people and nuclear tests are associated with a high inci dence o f cancer and other health problems. The Nuclear Free Pacific move ment is evidence o f opposition in Micronesia and other Pacific coun tries to U.S. and other foreign m ili tary and nuclear use o f their islands and surrounding ocean. cess in the eye care field, and eco nomic need. A form er computer operator, Watson broke both hands and arms in a car wreck and was unable to continue with her job. In seeking a second career she chose optics "b e cause o f my interest in and love o f precision.” W'atson w ill work w ith contact lenses fo llo w in g her graduation. "M a k in g contacts is an art fo rm ," she says. Because o f her partial disability she is better able to handle the light equipment used in making contact lenses than that used in making eye glass lenses. Leonard Paden Plywood Producer In one sense it was a Spanish police o ffic e r who started it. But when police get in their uni form they get pretty "g u n -h o ." Not every in d iv id u a l makes a good officer. The police tend to react to color. We all need more education to solve this problem. Ofiok Ekanam Student I do not know what happened so I cannot say. But I th ink we’ ll have more o f those in c i dents unless someone changes the basic oppression. I 4 L.H. Price Retired I thought it was rid iculo us. Every little thing a black man does is made a mockery o l. W e should show them that we are sick and tired o f being kicked around. I'm not fo r violence but violence is the only thing that whites understand. Some time you have to fight fire with fire. We fought wars and people come over to America and are better treated than us. A hearth warming sttny. By Northwest Natural Gas. Godfather Brimmed Hats nee upon a cold winter, a very nice Northwest family was shocked by high heating hills, a 25% off A« GODFATHER So they considered one alternative... Curled Brim Plus 5.4 VE on a select group of Stetson Dress & W estern Hats 20% to 50% o ff Reg. $38 to $75 Now $ 1 8 * 5 to $59” S a l. a n d . 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