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Race And Class
Matters
i Celebratine Our
Cornel West, the acclaimed
author on race relations in
America, is coming to
Portland.
See Metro Section, inside.
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Housing
Page B2
Blazers
Expectations
The Portland Trail Blazers
open the season with a new
look. What will it bring?
M
CL lie
See Sports, page B3.
F r a n e e s S c h o e n -N e w s
Un i V a r e i t v o f O r e q o n L i b
iq e n e , O r e g o n
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Rose Garden
Seats Not Ready
Marla Davis conducts the
Portland Youth Mass Choir
during Saturday’s grand
opening of the Habitat For
Humanity Home Building Center
at Northeast 15th and
Killingsworth. The group builds
homes in partnership with low
income families and plans to
use the site to house it’s offices,
a carpentry shop, meeting room
and space for visiting work
camps. See additional photo
page B2.
Fans were kept w aiting for over an hour
last Wednesday when the new Rose Garden
I opened for its first event. The Trail Blazer
I e x h ib itio n game was delayed because
courtside seats were still being installed at
game time. The Blazers blamed the seat
I manufacturer for not delivering and install­
ing the seats as promised. Portland went on
to lose the game 99-95 to the Minnesota
Timberwolves.
Tri-Met Shuttles
People To Arena
5 minutes form nine designated parking lots
in the Lloyd D istrict.
Jefferson
Students Walk Out
Jefferson High School students walked
I out o f class last Wednesday to protest can
cellation o f homecoming activities. Princi
pal Alcena Booser called o f f the homecom
ing dance and other events because o f rowdy
student behavior follow ing an earlier pep
' rally. F ollow ing the protest, Booser agreed
I to negotiate to salvage some o f the home­
Oldest Person
Turns 120
Jeanne Calment’ s o f France went into
I the Guinness Book o f Records last week as
the oldest livin g person whose date o f birth
can be authenticated.
Simpson Golfs,
Prosecutors
Vacation
ter, Sydney, celebrated her I Oth birthday
w ith her grandparents, 3,000 miles away in
Los Angeles.
Police Practices
Untrustworthy
must craft rules w hich prohibit these tac­
tics.”
EDITORIAL
VV5
C lin to n , w ho opened the three-day anni­
versary celebrat ions, said the w o rld stil I need­
ed the U nited Nations. “ And so fo r another
50 years and beyond, you can count the
United States in,” he said.
B ut Irish P resident M a ry R obinson
warned that “ i f we do not infuse the United
N a tio n s ... w ith a new strength o f purpose and
a new sense o f d irection, I fear that the praise
he w orld’s leaders from
we give to the U N. from this rostrum over
President Clinton to Russia's
these days w ill come in tim e to be read as its
Boris Yeltsin paid homage to
epitaph.”
the United Nations on its 50th United Nations staff, however, this week
anniversary, but could not agree on
are doing what they can do w e ll- organizing
how to make the world body more
a w o rld event w hich saw C lin to n , Y eltsin,
credible in the 21st century.
C uba’ s Fidel Castro and Palestinian leader
A t the same tim e there was no sentiment
from any com er o f the w o rld to weaken the
Yassir A rafat on the same podium in the same
tw o hours.
United Nations, w ith many developing coun­
tries demanding it take a far greater role in
W ith more than 180 prim e ministers,
presidents, kings and other o ffic ia ls converg­
ing on N ew Y o rk fo r the largest sum m it in
history, the main events went smoothly.
On M onday, as C lin to n and Russia's
president Y eltsin were to hold a daylong
meeting outside o f New Y o rk on the Balkans.
And inside U .N . headquarters Presidents
Nelson M andela o fS o u th A fric a and M obutu
Sese Seko lead the list o f speakers during the
peacekeeping operations has impacted
adversely on the developm ent process,” said
P re s id e n t
C h a d rik a
B a n d a ra n a ik e
Kumaratunga o f Sri Lanka.
The north-south s p lit between rich and
second day o f ceremonies.
Delegates Play To World Stage
C
there
For many, the ve rd ict in the O.J.
Simpson tria l speaks to the ju r y ’ s mistrust o f
practices such as lies and tricks to obtain
evidence,” she said. “ I f we are to trust po­
lice, O ur messengers o f right and wrong, we
to the brink o f bankruptcy by ow ing $1.25
b illion a Republican Congress w ill not pay.
“ The new agenda o f the United Nations
w ith its heavy emphasis on
San Francisco last week, shopping at M acy’ s
and dancing at a true fact place called the
D N A Lounge, while O J. Simpson was g o lf­
ing in Florida. Meanwhile, Simpson’sdaugh-
pected because, “ the sad truth is that you
can’ t always trust police who commonly use
U.N.
Struggles
On 50th
irthday
economic p o lic y and projects that w ould
benefit them.
Prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christo­
pher Darden were together vacationing in
evidence collected by the Los Angeles Po­
lice Department. U niversity o f Oregon Pro­
fessor M argie Paris says that should be ex­
poor countries was more evident than ever
and Castro hammered away at the theme
The United States was criticized by its
allies and foes alike for d riving the world body
T
coming activities, but not the dance.
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(Photo by Michael G. Halle)
M A X ridership doubled and more than
I 20,000 people used mass transit for the
I opening weekend o f the new Rose Garden
arena. In celebration o f the start up, M A X
light-rail trains ran every 10 minutes, rides
home on M A X and buses were free and
shuttle bus rides were free and ran every 3 to
W
uban President Fidel Castro
hotel.
played a starring role at the
The next stop was at one o f the country’ s
United Nations and turned
biggest black churches, where he held court
New York into his stage, but he before
said an enthusiastic crow d.
was little chance o f a rapprochement
soon between W ashington and Havana.
Castro was one o f the biggest draws at
ceremonies to celebrate the 50th anniversary
o f the U nited Nations and he used the lim e ­
lig h t to slam the United States, attacking its
superpower status, m ilita ry m ight and the
trade embargo it has enforced against his
country since 1962.
Then he discarded his d iplom atic suit
and returned to his trademark olive-green
m ilita ry uniform fo r a trip down mem ory lane
A t the Abyssinian B aptist Church he
th rille d the congregation w ith
stories and jokes about the diplom atic
constraints he had to observe as a United
Nations guest.
“ I am not here because I was not invited
to (President C lin to n s)
dinner,” he said. “ But this business o f
being surrounded by heads o f state all the
tim e can be unbearable.”
A ll in all, he said, he w o u ld rather be in
Harlem.
to a Harlem hotel that gave him shelter in
1960 when he was throw n out o f a m id-tow n
FAMILY
ENTERTAINMENT
Castro was greeted enthusiastically by
Continued to page A6
METRO
Taiton To Lead
Development Commission
Portland
native
and
executive with Pacific Power
and Light Co. has been
named the new chairman of the
Portland Development Commission.
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Carl B. Taiton was appointed to the
governm ent agency Oct. 18 in vote by the
five-m em ber PDC Board o f Directors.
la ito n has served as a com m issioner
on the board since 1987 w hile w o rkin g as
general business manager fo r Pacific Pow ­
er. He leaves his em ploym ent w ith the u til­
ity after 22 years o f service to assume his
new duties.
“ I ’ ve looked forw ard to the o p p o rtu n i­
ty to serve PDC as its chairman fo r quite
som etim e,” Taiton said. “ I expect a smooth
transition o f leadership and am ready to ro ll
up my sleeves to accom plish the w ork set
forth in P D C 's five-year plan.”
la ito n has been active in com m unity
affairs, serving on the boards o f the N o rth ­
east C om m unity Developm ent Corp., the
N orth/N ortheast E conom ic D evelopm ent
A llia n ce and the Institute o f Portland M e t­
Carl Taiton
ropolitan Studies and Portland State U n i­
versity.
itary from 1963 to 1967. He majored in
social society and business at M arylhurst
and Lew is and C lark colleges in Portland
w hile w o rkin g as a customer service repre­
He serves on the B lack Leadership
Conference Steering Com m ittee and is on
the A d viso ry Board o f the Neighborhood
sentative fo r U nited A irlines.
Partnership Fund Taiton served in the m il-
He is m arried w ith tw o children.
Security Tightened At Marshall
arshall High School is taking
students.
extra precautions to protect
Police said during the confrontation
students after gunfire last
Smith pointed a handgun at Gasper As
week in the school cafeteria left Smith
two w alked away, words continued to be
students injured.
exchanged and he allegedly fired several
M
The stu d e n ts w ere w o u n d e d d u rin g
a s h o o tin g F rid a y m o rn in g at the s o u th ­
east P o rtla n d sc h o o l. James S m ith , 19,
was arre ste d a s h o rt tim e la te r by P o rt­
la n d p o lic e . I he in c id e n t o c c u rre d
s h o rtly a fle i 8 a.m .
A u th o ritie s said S m ith was an e x ­
p e lle d stu d e n t w h o cam e in to the c a fe ­
te ria and c o n fro n te d B ria n G a sp e r, 15,
w h o was seated at a ta b le w ith o th e r
SPORTS
shots from a revolver, strikin g Gasper in the
head and torso. A nother student, Josiah
Hubbard, 15, who was seating nearby, was
shot in the leg.
Sm ith then a llegedly fled from the
school was arrested later He faces charged
o l attempted murder, assault and possession
o f a firearm in a public school.
D e te c tiv e s in d ic a te the s h o o tin g
c o u ld be re la te d to g a n g a c tiv ity .
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