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t r « France» Schoert-Newjpapcr Roc University of Ore-an Library Special CAREERS SUE How to write a resume Finding the right job for you Guide to Oregon colleges Successful career profiles Big buck elections Summer - picnics MBE's sue Hatch Below Page 8 Page 3 /I ■ PORTLAND OBSERMER 3! USPS / •» AifWnAtnt <o . /* Nomination still open W aller Mondale won big in Tuesdays primaries in New Jersey and West Virginia, Gary Hart took ( aliforma, New Mexico, and South D akota, and the Rainbow Coalition, behind Jesse Jackson’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination, soared to new heights. T he early results indicated the margin of victory for Gary Hart in ( alifo rm a combined with Jesse Jackson's astonishing 3.2 million votes there halted W alter Mondale's effort to lock up the nom ination Tuesday. f \ Queen Rita Dir from Central Catholic la flanked by her Rose Featival court ll-rl Lucille Ann Boyrer, Ordalia Reynolda, Denise Washington. Sandra Kay Zim m erm an. Stephanie K alei. Anita Smiaek. Cyn th ia M a rie B rooks. A llison B ernarda. A lexan dra Harvey and Carmen Herman (Photo: Richard J Brown) P rior to Tuesday's balloting, M ondale had 1,7 2 1.05 delegates, according to a New York Times tabulation M r. H art had 978.75 delegates and M r Jackson had 334.2. A total ol 1,967 delegates are needed for the nomination Mondale appeared the winner of most of New Jersey’s 107 delegates and West Virginia's delegates. The Mondale camp hoped for at least 100 of California's 306 delegates at stake in the primary to wrap up the nomination With nearly all of the voles coun ted in ( aliform a. Hart led with 38 percent or 5 8 million votes; enough to captuie 189 delegates. Hart referred to "this great victory" in C alifornia M ondale took a close second in the voting at 35 percent or 5.3 million votes, but earned only 72 delegates. Jesse Jackson received the sup port of 3.2 million voters for 2 1 4 percent o f the total and 30 delegates California's population is seven percent Black. Early in dications are that Jackson received major support from the state's large Hispanic and Asian populations. A New York Tim es/CH S News survey, conducted among 1,001 California voters, showed Jackson with his strongest showing among white voters in a major prim ary, gaining about 10 percent o f that vote. Jackson's delegates in California came mostly from victories in three Black congressional districts in I os Angeles and in Ron D ellu m ’ s congressional district covering Berkeley and suriounding solidly white suburbs. In New Jersey, Jackson received 24 percent of the vole statewide Jackson and H url both said Tuesday, they w ill carry their struggles right up to the nominating convention Even those delegates who are nominally committed to a candidate arc tiee, under Democratic parly tulcs, to switch their allegiances "T h is whole campaign will not end in the regular season Now the play offs will be in San Francisco. And then on to the Super B ow l,” Jackson said " T h is ends one phase of a tremendous campaign, a campaign to bring you in, to bring you up, to wake you up, to shake you up, to shake the foundation ol our nation and make room for the locked out," he added. Johnny Mathis concert boycott planned__ by Hill Bigelow It’s not often that we're asked to boycott the appearance of a popular perform er. But when Johnny M athis comes to P ortland, June 17th, picketers demanding an end to apartheid in South A frica will do just that. South Africa ...Johnny Mathis— what’s the connection? In 1968, the U nited Nations began issuing regular appeals to countries and organizations to suspend all sporting and cultural ties with the apartheid government in South A fric a . Their concern was that internally, South Africa drew comfort from the knowledge that the country wasn't isolated from the outside world. In te rn a tio n a lly , sporting and cultural events were propaganda worth their weight in gold, and masked the brutally ex ploitative policies of a system which denies basic rights to 75^« of its people. According to the U N ., Johnny M athis was one o f a number of celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt and Ray Charles, lured to that country by offers of astronomical fees. W hen P O S A F — P o rtla n d e rs Organized for Southern A frican Freedom—contacted Mathis' agent, Skip Heinecke, he insisted his client hadn't performed in South Africa since 1977. Pressed on whether M athis appeared in 1982 at Sun City, a gambling resort in the South A frican homeland of Bophuthat- swana, Heinecke admitted that, "W ell, he played golf there." And didn't he also perform there? Heinecke pled ignorance, in sisting that, in any event, Mathis d id n ’ t even recognize a U .N . boycott But according to the U N ., Mathis did indeed perform in Sun C ity and as a result, PO SAF is asking Portlanders to boycott his upcoming appearance at the Civic Auditorium Recently, South Africa has been engaged in an intensive public relations campaign to convince the world that it is reform ing itself. Some government officials go so tar as to assert that, "A p a rth e id is dead ” As Dr. Allan Boesak, founder of the United Dem ocratic Front in South A fric a , remarked when he was in Portland last m onth, " I f apartheid is dead, it's the liveliest corpse I ’ve ever seen.” M athis Aids Apartheid The South African government is especially eager to attract in te r nationally known performers to Sun C ity, located in Bophuthatswana Bophuthatswana is one o f four homelands already proclaimed " in dependent" by South Africa. As Elombe Brath, Harlem-based coordinator of the Patrice Lumum ba C oalition observes, " T o visit, perform or do business in any of the bantustans (homelands, is to par ticipate in recognizing the final ob jective of apartheid: the permanent t Please turn lo page 5, column )) H r) Nail Kelly, Carl Sim ington. M ayor elect Bud Clark and Jamas W ashington discuss politics at a gathering for Bud Clark. Friday, at the Viscount Hotel (Photo Richard J Brown) The Oregon primaries: Where the money went by Chuck Goodmacher The skyrocketing costs of running for public office in the United States forces office-seekers to accept con tributions from nearly anybody. According to many critics, this trend means the wealthy few will have greater influence on elected of ficials than the voters themselves. Large contributions are often either inducements or rewards for specific voting behavior, say the critics. They are also made to insure victory for preferred candidates; 15 o f the 16 candidates winning statewide and federal races and 8 of 13 winners in P ortland area legislative contests were those who spent the most. Defenders o f the current cam paign financing system claim it is a social duty for citizens to con tribute, in any legal manner, to can didates they feel will serve the public interest. Those with spare time can volunteer and those with money can contribute, they say. Accompanying a large contribution by Robert Janes, Executive Vice-President of ’twnxxs.-, : • • • • ; - ’ »r • ' Willamette Savings to candidate for Secretary o f State, Jim G ardner, were these comments; " T h e enclosed campaign con tribution should not be interpreted as a personal endorsement. This is a business management sponsorship o f good government in Oregon ...This contribution is meant to be in support o f truth, integrity, and courage in government." Janes gave Gardner $2,000, had 50 to 60 employees purchase $10 benefit tickets, and sent an endorse ment letter to all 160,000 W il lamette Savings customers. Contributions by individuals and P olitical A ction Com mittees (P A C ’s, are often made to opposing candidates. C . N orm an W in- ningstad, chairm an o f Floating Point Systems and a member of Gardner's Finance Committee, for instance, gave $2,000 to Gardner and $1,000 to opponent Barbara Roberts. The Associated General Contractor's Committee for Action gave $1,000 to G ardn er, $500 to Roberts and $500 to Republican f ; X. » » « ■ 2 ' « - • «candidate for the same office, Don na Zajonc. Even the most severe critics of our "free-enterprise” campaign financ ing system say public officials in Oregon are seldom " b o u g h t" outright. A close look at the types of contributors to all candidates does show, however, that the economic interests directly benefitting from public land use, tax and economic development decisions are those who give the most to candidates Real estate and development in terests and people describing them selves as "investors” , accounted for roughly 55 percent o f donations over $100 lo campaigns of the seven major candidates for city and coun ty offices: Frank Ivancie and Bud C lark. Mayor; M ike Lindberg and Carl Piacentini, City Council; and Pauline Anderson, Caroline Miller and Frank Shields, County Com >• • •gf? mission. Construction and timber interests accounted for about 23 percent of donations to the above candidates, and other major con tributing groups were: hotels, attor neys, labor unions, banks and in surance firms and architects and consultants. Just as contributors often give lo both opponents, many also donate to candidates with generally d if ferent political perspectives. Frank Ivancie's largest single contribution, $ 14,(MX), came from the W alnut Park Company which also gave Mike Lindberg $2,000. Walnut Park Co. is a real estate firm. Executives of Tom Moyer Luxury Theaters gave Ivancie's campaign $5,500 and is now seeking city- issued low-interest industrial development bonds to finance a $7.5 m illion underground four- theater movie complex, a 10-story parking garage, and later, a 10-story office tower atop the garage Moyer claims the parking garage and theaters would be a public service f Please turn lo page 7, column I ) t’ . -fît POLITICAL ACTION C O M M ITTEES PoUticel Action Committee« )PAC'»I doled out enormou* turn« ol money throughout the »,«,« lor ,6« M«y 15th primary, bu, m » n y retained large o w n , for ihe November 5th general election A m ong«, the m o d ective P A C ’» In O regon ere the People lo r Im provem en t in Fducehon Oregon Education Aaaocwtion • poWtcel erm ihe Commute« io Build • Be, le t O regon, ih e hom ebuilder'« PA C, the Oregon M edical PAC. C itite m A ctio n by Public Employe««, the Oregon Public Employe«'« Union political erm. Right to Lite Oregon PAC. venoue banking end utikty mduetry PAC’«. the Aeeoneted General Con tractor’« Committee lor Action, end the A F l CIO'« Com mittee on PoUncel Education ICOPEI end other union PAC'». PGE employee« «pent at lead *16 000 on Ihe primary «lection through the« poetical action committee the Bi Perlman Com mittee lor Eller rive Government Like m o tt ol the P A C «. PGE contributed to candidate* m more than hell ol the race« lor d a te office »« «veil M m many lire«! rec»« Their larged tingle contribution w e t »1 000 to Mik« I md berg lor Portland City Council with m od m the * ,00 io »ZOO f«nge The Bi Pertltan Com mittee gave hundred« to both Oemocret end Republican party m ile r« Her« in Nnrtheed Portland. Chad Oetinem and Margaret Carter both ,«, aiverl money horn the PAC Pecilir North weet Bell ■ employee« «Ko contributed io Imth v der ol the eiUe through the« own PAC. the Pubhr. Interaet Committee Although thm PAC gave more money to Republican party then Democratic party coffer«, «even ol the ten candidate* lor per bean office they contributed to ere Democrat« U S Ben, rxp PAC end other PAC » «l«O «how th« ««me pattern ol giving money to both Democrat and Republican coffer« whae moat o l the candidate« they becked ere Oemocret« 1«, thm caae 12 o l 14| E ic e p t lor tw o candidate*. »It o l U S Bancorp PAC » contribution« were In the Portland eree M o a t o l th e P A C '» r« p i« « « n , th e ta m e group« w h ich «pend th e m o tt to lobby iegi«i«tors during th» legitietiva tendon The combined im p e d o l m e p r contribution« with the conetant «»change ol pleeeentrl»« effectively greet «peciel mtereet« e greet deal o l mffuence over moat legmietort tey critic« One source with «»penance in both campaign« end et the legislature te y *. W hen «omebody give« your campergn taverel hundred doiler« and regularly buy« your dnnka. e«c you re gomg to Heten to whet they have to «ay They have more weight then let ter*, or even peraonel mdts by constituent» H e ea «mnple M t h e , "