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C ommitted to cultural diversity.
Education first
Roberto Clemente, Jr., son
oj the Hall o f Fame
baseball player from
Puerto Rico, spoke at Nike
World Headquarters.
October 9, 1996
Tiger Woods
makes good
In our own words
Tiger Woods qualified for
the PGA tour with his
playoff victory over
Davis Love III.
En nuestras
proprias palabras
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See Observador inside, page Cl.
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Brugge re supports Head
Start funding
Senate candidate Tom Bruggere has
presented a five-point plan for education
that offers significant benefits to Oregon’s
minority populations. Mr. Bruggere s plan
encompasses early childhood to higher-
education-and-beyond issues, beginning
| with full funding for 1 lead Start. Current­
ly, funding shortfalls allow only one halfof
| eligible children to be enrolled.
Clinton campaign
optimistic
President Clinton’s re-election cam­
paign team is talking about sweeping the
Northeastern states, as well as a strong
[ showing in the West Coast. With Election
Day four weeks off, Clinton was comfort-
I able enough about his lead in the polls to
pull off the campaign trail for some rest in
Washington White House spokesman
Mike McCurry said the campaign is start­
ing to see the possibility of "a clean sweep
in the Northeast.”
IRA claims bomb attack
The Irish Republican Army has claimed
I responsibility for the two bomb blasts at
the British Army headquarters in Northern
Ireland Monday. A caller, using a recog­
nized codeword, told Irish broadcaster RTE
that its units carried out the most serious
attack in Northern Ireland since the IRA
called a truce in August 1994.
Pope’s surgery goes well
Doctors irt Rome have completed their
I surgery to remove the appendix of Pope
John Paul II and say it was a "textbook’
operation. They say the surgery took about
two hours and there were no complica­
tions. John Paul’s recent frailty has caused
widespread speculation that he may be
more seriously ill and might have a tumor
but doctors said they found no other prob­
lems. "When he came round he greeted
| everybody and thanked them,” said the
lead surgeon. “He was calm throughout.’
II all goes well, the 76-year-old pontiff
I could be out o f the hospital in about
J five days.
Fuhrman apologizes for slur
Ex-detective Mark Fuhrman, sentenced
I to probation last week for lying on the
stand in the O. J. Simpson murder trial, told
an interviewer that he’s sorry for using
racial slurs and that he never planted evi­
dence. “I’m apologizing from the bottom
of my heart for creating pain where pain
| wasn't necessary,” Fuhrman said.
Smoking, eye disease link?
Researchers say heavy smokers o f cig­
arettes may run a higher risk of developing
an untreatable eye ailment that causes pro­
gressive blindness. Two studies found
smokers face double the risk of developing
a disorder of the retina that causes an
expanding area o f blindness in the direct
line of vision.
Briton, Canadian win Nobel
British professor James Mirrlees and
Canadian William Vickrey have won the
1996 Nobel Economics Prize. The Royal
Swedish Academy o f Sciences says the
$1.12 million prize was awarded for “their
fundamental contributions to the econom­
ic theory of incentives under asymmetric
information.”
Marathon runner. Alberto Salazar
joined hundreds of walkers from local
businesses, community organizations,
church members and individuals in the
"Walk a Mile to Save a Mind" walk-a-
thon last Saturday at Peninsula Park.
Angela Minns (above) enthusiastically joins in on the warmup activities preceding the 7th annual “Walk a Mile to Save a
Mind wa k-a thon at Peninsula Park to raise money for the United Negro College Fund this past Saturday. Proceeds from the
event will benefit more than 400 educational programs and operating funds for the 40 member colleges and universities
supported by the fund. Olympic track athletes Alvin and Calvin Harrison, marathon runner Alberto Salazar and Portland news
anchor Leah Hope oarticipated in the event.
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Photos by Timothy Collins
Debate leaves Clinton sailing smoothly
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behind in polls less than a month before the
resident Bill Clinton seems to
Nov. 5 election.
have have cleared a big hurdle
"Dole really failed to provide a reason
in his path to te-election in Sun
why voters should elect him as president,”
day's opening campaign debate because
said J.P. Monroe, a political scientist at the
Republican Bob Dole failed to do him
University of Miami. “There's really not an
serious harm, analysts say.
overall theme that distinguishes him as a
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“Dole did as well as he could possibly do
but he failed to provide a compelling argu­
ment to the nation for changing presidential
horses right now,” said Robert Holsworth, a
political scientistat Virginia Commonwealth
University.
Despite predictions he would be outclassed
by Clinton’s debating skills, the Republican
nominee more than held his own and may
have softened his image with deft use of one-
liners.
But that was probably not enough in a
campaign where he is running 15-20 points
candidate.”
The consensus among pundits who
watched the two spar for 90 minutes was that
both landed some jabs but Clinton parried
most ol the heavy blows and there was cer­
tainly no knockout.
While presidential debates often produce
at least one memorable moment, this one did
not rise to that level.
In that sense it mirrored the entire cam­
paign, which has been earnest but has failed
to stir much interest among the voters. Polls
have given Clinton double-digit leads for the
past six months, and nothing Dole has done
has pulled him within striking distance.
The key issue of the debate, as of the
campaign, was posed by Clinton in his open­
ing statement when he declared that America
under his leadership was better off than it had
been four years ago. Thus he co-opted a
theme celebrated in U.S. presidential debate
lore since 1980 when Republican challenger
Ronald Reagan used it to devastating nega­
tive effect against President Jimmy Carter.
Before Dole could turn the issue his way,
Clinton said his own achievements included
"ten and a half million more jobs, rising
incomes, falling crime rates and welfare rolls,
a strong America at peace."
Peace and prosperity give him a powerful
re-election argument, and his use of it at the
debate’s outset forced Dole to look for dark
clouds in a generally sunny sky.
"1 know millions o f you still have anxi­
eties," he said.
"You work harder and harder to make
ends meet and put food on the table. You
worry about the quality and the safety ofyour
children and the quality of education. But
even more importantly, you worry about the
future and will they have the same opportuni­
ties that you and I have had."
When Clinton talked about building a
bridge to a better future, Dole replied.
“There’s a lot wrong with America.”
I le repeatedly touted his tax cut proposal
but again failed to explain in detail how he
would pay for it.
Early public reaction reflected analysts’
views that Dole had projected himself well
but changed few minds. Three snap polis
rated Clinton the winner by five-to-three
margins.
This shot can save you misery
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S abrina S akata
f you haven't already noticed,
the dreadful flu season has crept
up a little early this year.
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Trust me. you want to get a flu shot. For the
same amount you might spend on taking
some friends to Burgerville, you can get a
shot and spare yourself seven days o f misery.
And don’t forget the costs you would be
spending on medicine.
Ifyou’re under a health coverage plan, like
Kaiser Permenente, you can receive a flu shot
at no cost. Consult your insurance provider.
In 1993, at least 43 Oregonians died of
influenza, many others were sick enough to
require hospitalizations,and thousands missed
work and school.
Flu vaccine is developed each year to
protect against the strains believed most like­
ly to circulate in that year’s flu season. The
vaccine used in the United States contains no
living virus and cannot cause flu.
Typically, the vaccine is effective in pre­
venting illness in approximately 70 percent
of people under age 65.
A Ithough less effective in the elderly, vac­
cination substantially reduces the risk ofpneu-
monia from influenza.
According to Gary L. Oxman MD, MPH.
Health Officer, the Multnomah County I lealth
Department recommends that the following
individuals be immunized against influenza.
which he describes as "a viral infection of the
bronchial tubes and lungs that can make a
person ill, before the flu session begins."
-Anyone who wants to avoid this year's
flu.
-County residents 65 yrs. or older.
-Residents with chronic health problems,
such as heart disease, kidney disease, diabe­
tes, breathing problems, and immunosup­
pressive conditions including HIV/A1DS in­
fection.
-Youth receiving long-term aspirin thera­
py w ho may be at risk of developing Reye’s
Syndrome.
-Individuals that provide or have contact
with high-risk patients.
” This year’s flu vaccine contains the pro­
tection of three strains of viruses: A/Texas/
36 91; A/Nanchang/93/95; and B/Harbin/
07/94 which are projected as being the cause
of the flu this winter." said Peggy Lou Hillman,
Multnomah County’s Immunization Coordi­
nator.
Kaiser patients can take advantage oftheir
no cost flu shots.
Shots are given Monday through Friday
from 8 am to 6 pm at the Central Interstate
Medical Office. 3600 N. Interstate Ave. in
Portland. There will also be a Saturday flu
shotclinic there on Oct. I2from 9am to I pm.
Flu shots will be given through the end of
October
U.S. calls on North Korea to free Americans
he United States said on Mon­
citizen it named as Evan Carl Hunzike was
day that an American citizen
arrested on Aug. 24 after crossing the Amnok
being held in North Korea on
river, called the Yalu in Chinese, from China
espionage charges should be freed
and at had been charged with spying for the
once and a senior State Department
South.
official denied he was a spy.
South Korea said on Monday it believed
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“North Koreans ought not to hold on to an
American citizen who is being detained in
North Korea, and he should be released im­
mediately,” State Department spokesman
Nicholas Burns told reporters.
North Korea said on Sunday that a U.S.
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Hunzike was a China-based missionary in his
mid-20s working in an area of northeast
China bordering North Korea. It denied he
was working for Seoul.
Burns declined to identify the man, but
said the United States was in contact with
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North Korea about the case through
Pyongyang’s mission to the United Nations.
Swedish diplomats, who handle U.S. af­
fairs of this type in the North Korean capital,
were granted access to him on Sept. 16 and 17
and Washington was pressing for another
visit, he said.
The department official, who asked not to
be identified, described North Korea's accu­
sations against Hunzike as “hysterical." “It’s
a very bizarre episode... We don’t believe
he’s been engaged in espionage for any-
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body...” he said
“Wc don’t know much. Wc know that he
crossed the Yalu River, and then he wen, into
North Korea and then he was found. I don’,
know what he looks like but he probably
doesn’t look like a North Korean, or dress
like a North Korean. So he was picked up.
He’s mixed (ethnically),” the official said,
but gave no further details.
A, a time of high tension on the peninsula,
Burns said the United States would stick by
its ally South Korea.
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