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11,1995
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Clinton
Cochran In
The Spotlight
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ness growth and development was a
core set o f services.
The O A M E Cascade Plaza at
4134 N. Vancouver Ave. established
its core services as technical assis
tance, access to capital, matching
capability with opportunity (clear
inghouse), administrative services
and information and networking.
• Technical Assistance: The
Minority Entrepreneurship Program
provides technical support for Ore
gon minority businesses. The pro
gram addresses a wide range o f prob
lems related to both skill develop
ment and attitudes reflected in mi
nority business owners and manag
ers.
• A ccess To C ap ital: A lo n g
with the establishm ent o f a tech
n ical assistance program , O A M E
can w ork in itia lly to make access
to cap ital p o ssib le for m ino rity
bu sin ess and later with m ajor
lending institutions.
• MatchingCapability WithOp-
portunity (C lea rin g h o u se): The
Clearinghouse is a program that has
a database o f minority businesses in
Oregon, their capability and their
business opportunities in both the
public and private sectors.
• A d m in is tra tiv e S e rv ic e s.
O A M E offers secretarial services,
typesetting, mail/postage service,
copying/folding and faxing.
• Information and Networking
Information. O A M E maintains a re
source library o f magazines, publi
cations, newspapers, public and pri
vate documents, video and audio
tapes and playback equipment for
member use.
Any organization or individual
that supports the mission o f O A M E
may become a member and receive
services. O A M E seeks participation
and contributions form individuals
and organizations to assist in achiev
ing its mission.
For more information contact
the O A M E at 4134 N. Vancouver
Ave., phone (50 3) 249-7744 or fax
(503)2349-2027.
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President B ill Clinton, revving
up his political engines, sees his re-
election bid as even more crucial
than his 1992 run for the presidency
because his would-be successors of-
fered “destructive” visions.
“ Four years ago. I ran because I
thought there was no action being
taken to give us a new economic
policy... Now I think the alternative
vision out there is destructive o f the
future we want,” he said.
Clinton, who is not yet an avowed
candidate for a second term in the
White House, said in an interview
with newspaper journalists he was
confident about his chances at the
polls next year because voters were
starting to look at his record.
He said one o f the reasons for
the remarkable ups and downs o f his
trouble-plagued presidency was “ if
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In what seemed to be a vei led jab
at the conservative talk show hosts
who have pounded him repeatedly,
Clinton said if one’s critics had ac
cess to radio and television programs
and other channels o f communica
tions, “they will go wacky and they
w ill generate animosity.”
The interview took place over a
luncheon celebrating the 80th birth
day o f Godfrey Sperling, a longtime
political reporter for the Christian
Science Monitor and focused on the
1996 election campaign.
Clinton, who recently spent five
days in a cross-country campaign
fundraising trip, said the policies he
put in place over the last two-and-
one half years were showing results.
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country, but if you look at what has
been accompl ished, I think the record
has been good for America and will
be good for our future,” he said.
The 49-year-old president said
the main difference between him and
his Republican critics is over the
extent o f people’s obligations to try
to help one another.
“ I think that if their view pre
vails, it may be more like the '20s
than the ’30s,” he said, referring to
the 1920s, an era when rapacious
free-market policies sowed the seeds
o f an economic failure that led to the
Great Depression.
He recalled that congressional
Republicans voted en masse against
lis economic program, saying it
would bring recession, and that “ in
stead we had the best economic per
formance we’ve had in two or three
ecades.”
He also noted that the U.S. crime
Tate was declining.
Minority Entrepreneurs Promote
Economic Development
Johnnie Cochran, the head ofO.J.
Simpson’s "dream team” legal de
Formed in 1987, the Oregon
fense, isoneof America’s best-known
Association
o f Minority Entrepre
lawyers who won celebrity status
neurs,
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through his celebrity clients.
tax
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organization
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He has handled a string o f high-
sion
to
promote
and
develop
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profile cases, including an out-of-court
preneurship
and
economic
develop
settlement for Michael Jackson in the
ment for ethnic minorities in the state
child-molestation case.
o f Oregon.
But he has devoted much of his
The association is a partnership
professional career to fighting on be
between
minority entrepreneurs, ed
half o f mostly black victims o f police
ucation,
government,
the communi
and other offic ial abuse. For Cochran,
ty
and
established
businesses.
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The mission o f the group is also
arguments in the O.J. Simpson case
directed
toward eliminating discrim
Wednesday, race is a motivating force.
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and
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thatthe American justice system treat
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favor o f the prosecution.
lished
position that a central core to
"Race plays a part o f almost ev
the
healthy
development o f a com
erything in America,” Cochran said.
munity
is
economic
development, in
“Justice is neither colorblind nor is it
other words the creation o f wealth
equal in this country.”
andjobs. O A M E determined that if it
Yet, surprisingly, another o f
could
create and develop business
Cochran’s high profile cases is that of
ownership, jobs would be the result.
Reginald Denny, the white trucker
Paramount to successful busi-
nearly beaten to death by black rioters
in Los Angeles during the 1992 un
rest. Cochran' s $40 m i 11 ion su it agai nst
the police for failing to protect Denny
is pending.
“ If the police were negligent in
the way they reacted, it shouldn't mat
ter whether the victim is white, black,
red or yellow,” he has said.
Prosecutors, defense lawyers and
clients who have worked with Cochran
all mention the same things his home
work is flawless, every word is calcu
lated, he is tenacious and charismatic,
and juries love him.
Destructive
Visions In
Opponents
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Grand O pening, Tri-M et M AX trains
will be running to and from the arena
every 10 m inutes on O ct. 14th, 9 a m -
m idnight, and Oct. 15th, 9 am - 9 p m .
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the MAX lines.
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