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K rs F r n -e e » S c h o en -N etsp ap »** P“00® -y o f Or«Fon L ib r a r y Oregon 9 7 4 0 3 Oregon Democratic Convention delegates cast 31 votes for Gary Hart. 16 votes for Walter Mondale and 2 votes for Jesse Jackson. CENTRAI I AMERICA ! Convention coverage Sunny spinach Pages 2 4 Page 7 PORTWND OBSERVER “ usrs au <K. a t i , » rwwoAMf í a . ,« / «w Jackson urges unity. Mondale nominated by Lamia Duke Convention. The telly featured Dennis Brutus. Daniel Ellsberg. Maggie Kuhn, George McGovern end Jesse Jackson. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) Citizens gather Sunday for "Vote Peace in '84" rally across from the Moscone Center In San Francisco to express their views to the Democratic Forty thousand rally for peace by Catherine Siegner Tens of thousands o f peace sup porters gathered in the massive parking lot across from the Moscone Center in San Frandisco M onday evening, to show their solidarity toward ending the threat of nuclear war. “ Vote Peace in ‘ 8 4 ’ ’ featured such nationally known speakers as Dennis Brutus; Maggie Kuhn; Daniel Ellsberg, George McGovern and Jesse Jackson. It started o ff with the rousing percussion rhythms of Sistah Boom, a 50-member group which gained notoreity over the weekend when members played in Union Square (where many demon strations are occurring this week) in order to “ exorcise the spirits” o f Jerry Falw ell and the M o ra l M a jo rity , who had earlier held a conference near there. Several spokespersons represen ting minority groups addressed the enthusiastic, chanting crowd o f about 40,000. Bill Wapepah, direc tor o f the In ternatio n al T reaty C ouncil, drew parallels between Native American rights here in the U.S. and those of native peoples in Third World countries. “ In Central and South America, there is a great amount of interven tion by the policies o f both the United States and Israel when it comes to dealing with native peoples. P articularly in G u ate m ala— there are about 150,000 refugees on the border of Mexico,” Wapepah said. A well-know n Bay Area spokesman, M ario Obleda, of the League of Latin American Citizens, told the crowd that Hispanics in the U .S . feel close ties with Spanish- speaking peoples in other countries. "C e n tra l America is a Spanish speaking area of the world. We have the same history and the same culture,” said Obledo. “ 20 million Hispanic Americans in this country are not going to follow the blind dic tates o f an adm inistration that wishes to commence a w ar. We yearn and call for peace, not w ar." None of the speakers at the Peace Rally drew anywhere near the ec static response Jesse Jackson did. He arrived amid dozens o f Secret Service agents and was whisked on and o ff the stage quickly after he had given a stirring speech. Jackson dwelled at length on foreign policy issues, particularly C entral Am erican policies o f the Reagan Administration. He said we should remember there is a “ war going on right next door to us. “ We must declare the Western Hemisphere to be a war-free zone ” he added. ” We must pull troops and advisors out of Central America.” Jackson discussed what he called the “ highest and best use o f the American tra d itio n ,“ which is to respect the sovereign territory o f other nations. He contrasted this with what he called “ our lowest“ actions. “ When we are at our lowest, we mine the harbors o f Nicaragua. T h a t’s not right; that’s wrong. I t ’s un-Am erican; i t ’ s u nfair; it must end,” he told the cheering crowd. “ A t our lowest,” he continued, “ we fund the C IA to overthrow the (Please turn to Page J, Column 3/ S A N F R A N C IS C O — Rev Jesse Lewis Jackson made the most historic speech o f the 1984 Democratic National Convention, Tuesday, as he electrified the con vention floor and the nation, with a call for party unity while challenging young Americans to, "Dream of the reality that ought to be ” Not excepting the failure of the three-out-of-four minority platforms (no-first-use o f nuclear weapons, a reduction in m ilitary spending, abolishing second primaries) as a defeat, Jackson asked convention delegates to vote for him on the first ballot as a vote o f conscience and commitment to new directions. In addressing the concept o f (¿ydership, Jackson echoed that, “ Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain and résiliant enough to bounce back. ” As Jackson spoke, tears rolled down the faces o f many o f the delegates. Others rejoiced when he added, " I f in my high moments I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope, stirred someone from apathy or in difference, or in anyway helped someone along the way, then this campaign has not been in vain." Jackson also apologized if, through his campaign, “ I caused anyone discom fort, created pain, or revived someone's fear. That was not my truest self ...please forgive _ inc _ •• Jackson's thunder was roaring with lightening flash accuracy as he spoke of the difference between the sunny side o f hope in Am erica's cities and the slummy side of urban decay. He attacked the Reagan ad m inistratio n ’ s economic plan by referring to it as, in Vice-presi dent Bush’s words, “ Voodoo Economics” , and called (he U.S. partnership with South A frica, “ a moral disgrace.” He instructed the young to, "live beyond the pain of reality with the dream of a bright tomorrow ...our time has come!” "A s I develop and as 1 serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.” Oregon airline linked to C IA Evergreen A ir o f Tuscon. Arizona, and two other private air transport firms are flying arms and am m unition to anti-Sandinista counterrevolutionaries in Honduras fo r the C IA , according to CBS News. Evergreen A ir is a subsidiary of Evergreen International Aviation, with headquarters in M cM innville, Oregon. The Evergreen fam ily o f helicoptor and air transport firms has been rumored to have close C IA ties since 1975, when Evergreen bought a form er C IA -o w n ed air base near Tuscon. Secret arms shipments to Central Am erica originate from that base, according to CBS. Also identified in the report were Southern Air Transport, ol Miami, which CBS said carried 22 tons of small arms to a Honduran military base on A p ril 9th, and Summit Aviation of Delaware. CBS said the shipments indicate that the secret air transport network the C IA used in S.E. Asia is back in action in Central America. A spokeswoman for Evergreen said the CBS story was "totally an untruth.” The company is currently involved in a $2.2 m illion U .S. Agency for International Develop ment contract to repair war- damaged power lines in El Salvador, she said. Jesse Jackson addresses the Vote Peace '84 rally at Moscone Can ter Sunday. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) Northwest 'Salmon wars' fought in the courtrooms bv Robert Lothian P A R T TW O Yakima Indian Fisherman David Sohappy says the governm ent’ s latest offensive to restrict the Colum bia River Indians' fishing rights and take back their traditional land is calculated to drive the Indians from the river once and for all, and back to the reser vations. Once that happens, he said, the traditional way o f life o f the few remaining Columbia Indian salmon fishermen will have been destroyed. In A p ril, Indians living at five traditional fishing sites between Wind River, W ashington, and Celilo, Oregon, were given 30 days to leave by the Bureau of Indian A f fairs. The government says the sites were meant for tem porary use during the fishing season. Sohappy and his family who reside at Cook’s Landing, Washington, were among those who received eviction notices. So far, the Indians remain. They say that if they leave, they will lose all that remains o f their traditional land along the Columbia. Two years ago, in June, dozens of “ fish narcs” as the Indians call them, fisheries agents, descended at dawn on the tiny Indian settlement of Cook’s Landing. In the param ilitary-style raid. Sohappy and others were arrested and charged with selling salmon caught illegally. The agents had set up a “ salmon scam" operation where they purchased $150.00 worth of allegedly illegal fish from the In dians. In all, 75 Indians from com munities up and down the river, in cluding whole families and children, were arrested. They remain out on appeal, but face sentences of up to ten years. Some trials come up again in August. The Indians say they were physically abused in the raid Their vehicles and fishing equipment were confiscated, making it difficult for them to continue to make a living. The agents came from all over the U.S. They practiced at an expensive camp near M t. St. Helens, using a mock-up of C o o k ’s Landing and playing the parts of Indians. They used electronic surveillance, aerial photos, body microphones and a computerized list of Indian fisher men and their families. Sohappy says that if some Indians fish out of season, it might be to get what they consider is rightfully theirs. According to the Boldt and Belloni court decisions, in which Sohappy was an original p laintiff, the Indians were guaranteed 50*» of each year's catch. But through bureaucratic juggling and trickery, he said, the Indians don’t even come close to receiving 50*» of the catch. Even sports fishermen are allowed to keep steelhead over a certain length, but the Indians are not, he said. For another thing, he said, the season allowed the Indians is only a few weeks at most during the lightest part of the runs. The Indian catch, on which whole families depend for a year, he said, is dwin dling away to nothing due to govern ment regulations and the k ill-o ff caused by the dams By the time the fish get past the ocean commercial Fishermen, sportsfishermen, and the dams, he said, there are so few left for the Indian fishermen that it ’s absurd to assert that the Indians have anything to do with the depletion of the salmon. The rules and regulations made ostensibly to save the salmon fall as a hardhip on those least able to fight politically. “ We Indians have no voting power,” says Sohappy. It all adds up to a situation where the In dians “ just can't play by the rules and make anything," he said. The Indians' lawyer, Portland at torney Jack Schwartz, describes what is happening as ethnocide: a collection of 10 counties, 2 federal agencies, 2 states and the U.S Army Corps o f Engineers has gotten together "with a plan whereby they could get rid of the Columbia River Indians once and for all,” he said. Treaty violations, the salmon scam operation, the evictions and harrassment, and raising of penalties from " a few hundred dollars" to five years in jail for sale o f illegal fish is part of a govern ment consipracy that leads directly to ex-lnlerior Secretary James Walt, Schwartz charges. He said the defense has had to put up with racist judges and do- nothing, court-appointed lawyers in (Please turn to Page I I . Column 3J
