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Simpson - Mazzoli Bill dies
Campaign
1984
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PORTLAND OBSERVER
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Oregon Airline Picketed
by Bob Lothian
A coalition of Peace and Central
America groups is picketing the M e
Minnville headquarters of a helicopter
and air freight company operating in
B Salvador and identified by CBS aa
one of the airlines working secretly for
the CIA to supply guns, airplane parts
and personnel to the contras in Hon­
duras and Nicaragua.
According to CBS News in its July
9th report, Evergreen Air of Tucson,
A rii., a subsidiary of Evergreen Inter­
national Aviation with headquarters in
McMinnville, is involved in the
Nicaragua operation. Evergreen Air
operates from a base formerly
owned by the CIA near Tucson. Also
identified in the report wee the former
CIA proprietary Southern Air Tran­
sport of Miami, and Summit Aviation
in Delaware.
An Evergreen helicopter has also
bean in B Salvador since 1961,
working under a 12.2 m « o n U .S.
Agency for International Develop­
ment renewable contract to fly into
juqnMa-con trolled war zones under
Salvadoran military escort to repair
war-damaged power lines.
According to an A ID spokesman,
“the assumption is that there are
Salvadoran military helicopters that
leave troops and conduct sweeps of
the area in advance of the dvflian
craft" (Arizona Daily Star, March 6,
1983).
Protesters in Arizona and Oregon
soy the contract raises questions
about claims by the Reagan ad­
ministration that civilians are not
dkeetty involved in the civil war, and
they say also that Evergreen is sup­
porting a repressive and genocidal
w r o n g m e nooon a i m e urana upw nng
nr
day o f th e Urban L eague's n a w U rb a n M ass a t 10 N.
RuaaaN S tre et In P o rtlan d w a re (L-R) D o n n y A d air.
Chairperson o f th e U rb a n League B oard o f 01*
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U rban League; P a t LaCroaaa. P o rtlan d D e ve lo p ­
m e n t C om m ission; an d P M Edar. building o w n e r.
(Photo: R ichard J . B ro w n .)
During a recant Friday afternoon
vigil across from Evergreen headquar­
ters on Highway 18 near the M cMin-
srgns
that
read,
"Come
Clean,
CAMPAIGN '84
Council candidates condemn prostitution
KAY TORAN
Editor‘s note:
Each week ¿»tween now anil Elec-
lion Day, November 6th, the Port­
land Observer will keep you informed
on the candidates and issues. This
week we interviewed two o f the candi­
dates fo r Portland City Council.
by Lanita Duke
GRASSROOT NEW S. N .W .- K a y
Toran, Director of Affirmative Action
for the state, said she wants to come
back home to Portland.
"M y professional career has moved
from working one-on-one with people
in
need,
to
working
for
an
organization responsible for planning
those programs. The City Counct is
the place for mo to make better use of
my background."
DICK BOOLE
by Lam ia Duke
GRASSROOT N EW S, N .W . -
Dick Bogie was among the first of
many Afro-Americans who announc­
ed their candidacy for the city council
seat vacated by Charles Jordan. "I
have viewed my business career as
one of public service. I was a police
officer, reporter, newscaster and ex­
ecutive assistant to City Commis­
sioner Mildred Schwab."
In an unscientific pot conducted
by Rogers Cableeystem, Bogle netted
36 percent of 3,483 votes. Blen Not
bohm, Informational Service Coordi­
nator, said the reeults "mean noth­
ing." But Bogle is counting on his
name famtierity as a former KATU
newscaster, to give him a margin of
victory in November. Accordtog to
this pot, Bogle’s name is known.
In soma segments of the Black co­
mmunity, Bogle’s name stirs up soma
resentment. During his eight and one-
half years aa a police officer, a parcap-
D ick Bogle
(Photo: R ichard B row n )
tion remains that he wee a tough,
harsh cop. Bogle acknowledge this
perception existed but he edded, "I,
as an officer, may come into a w om ­
an's house and she is being beaten by
her boyfriend or husband. I may pul
him off her rather harshly or physical­
ly remove him. His perception is I'm a
tough cop. Her reaction could ba one
of thanks because someone acted
•M ftty and definitively.
"Officers have recovered people's
pr80fcrty, saved Uvea and have found
lost children. Those kinds of actions
far outweigh any type of incident of
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Toran’s professional background
includes administrative reeponsfoBtiee
for the Columbia River Girl Scout
Counct, Assistant Profeaaor of
Counseling and Social work at Port­
land State University and Aaeietant
Manager for field operations for the
Adult and Famty Services Division for
the State of Oregon
"Therefore, I better understand the
¡nterreletionahip
between
the
legislature, state and d ty ," she ad­
ded.
As a candidate, Toran is critical of
the City Club's proposed zone for
prostitution. She questions, "W ho
are people talking about when they
say w e went to have a zone? Whose
daughter wB be given that as en op­
tion in her We?"
Evergreen,"
and
"Investigate
Evergreen and the C IA ." Many
motorists slowed down, honked and
waved in support. One yelled, "Go
back to Russia I"
According to a statement by vigil
co-sponsors,
the
McMinnvRe
Peacemakers and the Yamhill County
Citizens Party, "The intent of the vigil
is to call for an explanation of any ties
between Evergreen and the CIA and
to end any company involvement in
a* the armed conflicts in Central
America.”
"W ith millions of innocent people
suffering in these conflicts," said
Peacemaker co-chair Elbe Gunn, "I
believe human decency and morality
demand an explanation from those
who cloak their actions under the veils
of "national security" and "free on-
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A Citizens Party spokesman said
the group has written to the U .S. at­
torney in Portland requesting an in­
investigation of Evergreen for poeafcle
violations of thu Neutrality Act.
"Our nation has always prided itself
or, rule by law ," said party chair Mark
Davis, "and somehow the CIA and its
hired contractors feel they are above
the law. W e challenge their right to
flout U .S . and international low."
Also supporting the vigls are the
FsNowahip of RecxoncBation and the
Portland Central America Solidarity
Committee.
Evergreen has oonaistantfy denied
CIA connections and involvements in
Central America conflicts. Company
vice-president Donna N elson caled
the CBS story "totaSy an untruth,"
and blamed It on competitors trying
to tarnish Evergreen's Image. The
company has also denied requests for
a pubic masting with Evergreen of­
ficiate.
On
one
occasion,
peacemakers Del Smith and Vem
Cooperrider confronted Evergreen
president Del Smith In the head­
quarters lobby. "H a became »vid,"
she said, caled her a "donkey brain,"
and told them to leave the property.
Evergreen spokespeople avoid an­
swering questions about the com­
pany's controversial activities and talk
instead about the "humanitarian aid"
protects they are involved in around
the world, including their spray
operations and the Salvador power
line protect.
But the CIA itself admits that the
»rimes and other companies it owns
or does businees with need such
protects to
doak
their
covert
operations
"If you're not doing
some king of legitimate business, you
stick out too much, like a sore
thumb,” says former CIA director
WBiam Colby, speaking of the
ostensibly private proprietaries finan­
ced by the CIA (WaN Street Journal,
Feb. 16,1979)
Under
the
cover
of
A ID
"humanitarian aid" protects, the CIA
conducted a secret war in Laos in the
1960s, using its proprietary airline, Air
America. According to CBS, the
same CIA air network involved in S.E.
Asia is now operating in Central
Amr rice.
E/ergreen has been rumored to
have does ties to the CIA since 1975,
when
It
bought
Intermountain
Aviation from the CIA. Intarmoun
McMInnvWe resident pickets
Evergreen International Aviation.
(Photo: Kite A h u ch ar)
tain, under the cover of firefighting
and smokejumping contracts with the
Forest Service, and operating from its
bass at Marana, Ariz., near Tucson,
was involved in covert activities in
Asia and Africa. It also carried auto
p a rts in a s c a rn which ywklnd txty
profits for the CIA. Evergreen con­
tinued to haul the parts after it bought
kitermountam, and retained former
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Immigration Bill protested
Kay T oran
(Photo: Richard B ro w n )
She is also an outspoken critic of
Ballot Meaeure 2 — a property tax
Imitation measure — but said she
could support a sales tax if there were
constitutional guarantees that there
would be a reduction in property
taxes.
W hen Commeeroner Charles Jor­
dan announced his intentions to
vacate hie council seat, a day did not
go by without someone announcing
his or her candidacy. So far, 13 can
dkiates are in the race — six are
Bieck. Toran pubkefy suggested a
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Should the Simpson-Mazzoli Im­
migration BN be passed, "The United
States wR find itself having done vio­
lence to its belief in human equality,"
the American Friends Service Co­
mmittee charged this week.
The Quaker organization declared
that. "Thera is not one goal in this bB
that is not negated by one of Its
parts." In reality, the bB proposes to
create large scale temporary workers
programs
that
will
flood
the
agricultural labor market, displacing
many
immigrant
and
domestic
workers," said the AFSC board
chairperson. Stephen Cary. Cary sent
a telegram Wednesday to Senator
Aten Simpson, W yoming, and to
Representative
Romano
Mazzo»,
Kentucky, sponsors of the bB vriilch
is now before a Houas Sonata Con-
TWWnOO UCMl M l NTTM in W M T fn y T O ii
Cary said, "Current condMons in
Texas and Aorids since the Christ
mas freeze have left largo numbers of
farm workers totally unemployed or
employed for only a few days every
month. In addition, the citrus canker
dteeaee in Florida promises to put
farm workers in an even more
desperate situation. "
Cary said, "The process bv which
the bB acquired some of its most
ominous features wee by amendment
on technicalitiee in committees and . .
. has made a bed bB an even worse
match of burdensome regulations
without unity of purpose. The
legalization program pse e e d by both
Houses ie s mockery of reel amnesty.
The relief needed by undocumented
workers and refugees, especially from
Cantral America, calls for a new
analysis of fundamental questions "
Cary said both the Senate and
House versions of the bB fail to deal
with the reel issues in international
migration. He said passage would
leave the measure on instrument for
growers benefit
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