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People interested in keeping the
peace in the community are urged
to sign up for Conflict Resolution
training offered by Community
Mediation Services, a city program
serving all residents of Clark
County.
The training will teach partici­
pants to listen effectively, under­
stand different points of view and
help neighbors resolve conflicts.
People who are bilingual and wish
to serve the county's increasingly
diverse population are especially
encouraged to apply T h e train­
ing will focus on negotiating dis­
putes through individual contact."
says Christopher Sheesley. program
coordinator. "W e’ve found that ca­
pable volunteers can help most
neighbors solve conflicts through
telephone contact."
Program volunteers provide non-
enforcement assistance with prob
lems such as noise, animals, prop­
erty maintenance, boundaries, veg­
etation. parking and interpersonal
relations The program serves all
Clark County residents
the 20-hour training is set Fri-
Swim Pool meetings go a second round
Local swimming pools are the
topic of a pair of simultaneous
fo llo w -u p p u b lic m e e tin g s
Wednesday. March 5, from 7 to 9
p.m.
Inform ation and com m unity
concerns regarding V ancouver’s
swim facilities gathered at earlier
public meetings will be reviewed.
Parks staff and consultants will be ai
each upcoming meeting to answer
questions, show drawings and lead
informal discussions.
"New Aquatics Facility andCom-
munity Center in East Vancouver”
is the topic of the meeting set at
Fishers Landing Elementary School,
2800 SE Hiddenbrook Dr.
"Im provem ents to M arshall
Center Pool and Community Cen­
ter" is the subject of the meeting at
M arsh all C e n te r.
1009 E
McLough-lin Blvd.
Vancouver-Clark Parks and Rec­
reation Department staff encourage
the public to attend either of the
meetings and express their views.
CIA drops informants
The CIA dropped more than 1.000
secret informants from its payroll
over the past two years because man­
agers concluded they were unpro­
ductive or had likely been involved
in criminal activity or human rights
abuses, the Washington Post reported
in Sunday editions.
About 90 percent o f those dis­
missed werejudged to be poor sources
o f information.
The group included more than 100
informants who were implicated in
major crimes abroad, such as killings,
assassinations, kidnappings or ter­
rorist acts
and who werejudged to
have provided inadequate intelligence,
the Post said, quoting U.S. officials.
Newspaper reports emerged in
1995 linking a CIA informant and
Guatemalan military officer, Julio
Roberto Alpirez, to the murder o f a
U.S. innkeeper and the Guatemalan
husband o f another American in the
1980s.
A disproportionately high num­
ber o f informants dropped for such
abuses w ere em ployed in Latin
America during the 1980s and early
1990s, but some w orked in the
Middle East and Asia, according to
the Post report.
The total number dropped ap­
proached one-third o f the informants
employed by the CIA at the time of
the ’’agent scrub.” it said.
The dismissals resulted from a
year-long review o f informants that
began in 1995. It was the most ex­
haustive ever conducted by the
agency and represented the first time
the CIA formally weighed the pros
and cons o f employing those in­
volved in serious hum an rights
abuses or criminal activity, the news­
paper reported.
The Post said the review was the
major legacy o f former Cl A Director
John Deutch. who left in December
after 20 months at the agency’s helm .
Under a policy established by
Deutch last year, the C IA 's officers
must submit annual reports assess­
ing the quality o f their informants. It
prohibits them from recruiting new
sources implicated in human rights
abuses or criminal behavior.
Rent-A-Wreck Opens in Portland
6,7/ Eastman (right), owner o f Portland Rent-A-Wreck. recieves
franchise certification from Chip Rueter, V.P. of Rent-A-Wreck
America, Inc., Owings Mills, MD, headquarters for the auto rental
franchise system.
Rent-A-Wreck o f American, Inc.,
the reasonably priced, neighborhood
car rental company, has awarded a
franchise to Bill Eastman o f Port­
land. The new Rent-A-Wreck loca­
tion, opened recently at 1800 SE
MLK Blvd., is also home to The
Import Garage, an auto repair ser­
vice owned and operated by Eastman.
In o pening his new Rent-A -
W reck, E astm an n o ted the
company ’s history. .. the early 70’s
when a young southern California
entrepreneur began renting older
cars, gaining widespread popularity
with movie stars desiring to drive
incognito. Rent-A -W reck began
franchising in 1978 and today there
are more than 460 locations provid­
ing recent model cars, vans, pickups
and moving trucks throughout the
U.S. and abroad. Boasting how Rent-
A-Wreck has expanded, Eastman
related, “There’s even a Rent-A-
Wreck in the United Arab Emir­
ates,” he said. “And our eight Nor­
way franchises are expanding into
Sweden and Denmark."
For five consecutive years Entre­
preneur magazine ranked Rent-A-
Wreck first in its category in the
franchise 500 awards. The annual
success magazine Gold 100 ranked
Rent-A-Wreck fourth (M cDonalds
was sixth) out o f 2800 franchise
companies as one o f the best man­
aged franchises. Franchise Times
recently named Rent-A-Wreck to its
top 200 franchise opportunities list
(out o f 3,000 franchisors). Entrepre­
neur International rated Rent-A-
Wreck the #1 used rental vehicle
franchise companies and #50 out of
200 o f all type franchises world­
wide.
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reached locally for reservations by
calling (503) 233-2492. For world­
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Penguins fire coach Johnston
Flic Pittsburgh Penguins, losers
of eight of their last nine games.
Monday fired head coach Eddie
Johnston. General manager Craig
Patrick will assume the coaching
duties for the remainder of the sea­
son. Ilie 60-year-old Johnson, who
was serving in his second stmt as
Penguins coach since the 1993 sea ­
son. will be reassigned to another
position in the organization.
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Colts elect not to match offer
Cornerback Ray Buchanan is
officially an Atlanta Falcon. The
Indianapolis Colts elected not to
match a four-year offer reportedly
worth $13 million tendered to
Buchanan, a transition free agent,
by the Atlanta Falcons last Tues­
day By designating Buchanan as
a transition free agent, the Colts
had the first refusal right to match
an offer sheet within seven days.
However, the Colts elected not to
match the offer and will receive
no compensation for the loss of
Buchanan
Kukoc placed on injured list
Chicago Bulls forward Tom
Kukoc. the defending Sixth Man
Award winner, was put on the
injured list Monday with plantar
fasciatis of the right fool, the team
announced. The plantar fascia ten­
don runs beneath the arch. Kukoc
sat out Friday’s 126-108 victory
over Sacramento with what was
termed a sprained right foot. He
played 23 minutes in Thursday’s
73-70 loss at Cleveland, scoring
four points on l-of-6 shooting.
Kansas again on top
Kansas began "M arch M ad­
ness" as the top-ranked team and
South Carolina climbed to fourth
in the latest Associated Press col­
lege basketball poll released Mon
day night. The Jayhawks (29-1),
who will be the top seed for the
Big 12 Conference Tournament,
received 69 of 7 1 first-place votes
and 1,773 points from a panel of
writers and broadcasters M inne­
sota (26-2) is second with the re­
maining two first-place votes and
1,706points. U tah(23-3)clim bed
one notch to third and is followed
by South Carolina (23-6), which
captured its first Southeatern
Conference title with a 72-66 win
at Kentucky on Sunday.
Fairfield receives NCAA bids
Four more schools are headed to
the Big Dance — and one of them
is going Stag. The Fairfield Stags
— the lowest seed in the Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference —
pulled off its third consecutive up­
set. knocking off Canisius, 78-72,
Monday night in Buffalo. New York
to earn its first NCAA Tournament
berth since consecutive visits in
1986 and 1987.
Sugar Ray Leonard heard the
cheers again. However, they were
cheers of welcome, not cheers for
the winner. The applause at the post
fight news conference early Sunday
were meant as a farewell.
"For sure, my career is definitely
over for me in the ring,” Leonard
said after being knocked down and
stopped in the fifth round by Hector
’’M acho” Camacho
It was Leonard's first fight since
he retired after being battered for 12
rounds by Terry Norris on Feb. 9.
1991.
"1 lost to a better m an.” the 40-
year-old Leonard said
A younger one. loo, and one who
had fought 27 times while Leonard
was gathering rust in retirement.
Camacho is 34
"I've got no excuses,” Leonard
said. But he offered one.
Leonard said he tore a muscle in
his right calf about a month ago
while training at Chandler, Ariz..
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Dodgers agree to terms
The Los Angeles Dodgers have
agreed to terms on one-year con­
tracts w ith o u tfie ld e rs Todd
Hollandsworth — the 1996 Na­
tional League Rookie of the Year
and Billy Ashley. Hollands-
worth became the fifth straight
Dodger to win the NL Rookie of
the Year award, following pitcher
Hideo Nomo, catcher Mike Pi­
azza, outfielder Raul Mondesi and
first baseman Eric Karros.
and went to a hospital two weeks
ago. He w asgivenashotofnovacaine
before the fight
Dr. Scott Stemgard. who treated
Leonard, said he suggested Leonard
call o ff the fight. J.D B row n.
Leonard’s adviser, said he also rec­
om m ended a postponem ent, but
Leonard wanted to fight.
How much the cal* problem con­
tributed to Leonard’s defeat is d e­
batable. He had trouble with his
balance, but he said his problem was
a combination ot “ inactivity, 40
years and the calf All of those things
contributed ”
So did Camacho.
After Leonard held his own in the
first two rounds before 10,324 fans
at the Convention Center, the left
handed Camacho, who applied pres­
sure from the opening bell, scored
well with head blows in the third
round. He continued to score well in
the fourth round and ripped a cut
over Leonard's right eye.
ATHLETICS GENE
Greatness in athletics may lie in
the genes, according to a researcher
who is looking for those genes.
Claude Bouchard at Laval Uni­
versity in Quebec is comparing ge­
netic material from high-level en­
durance athletes and more ordinary
ones.
Other researchers have found that
60 to 70 percent of the variation in
the ability to benefit from training
may be inherited. "In general, there
is a fairly strong familial association
for many variables,” said David B
Allison, an assistant professor at
Columbia University College of Phy­
sicians and Surgeons in New York.
But these projects did not look
directly at genes, they simply exam ­
ined whether the ability to benefit
seemed to run in families. And such
H idings could reflect factors other
than heredity, such as whether people
in more fit families encouraged each
other to try harder.
“The only precise way to look at
heredity is to look at a gene and see
if the gene exists.” said Larry A.
Tucker, professor and director of
health promotion at Brigham Young
University.
Bouchard hopes to have some
findings on his gene research ready
for presentation in May at the Ameri­
can College of Sports Medicine con­
vention in Denver.
B ouchard’s feeling is that no
single gene creates elite potential.
Many factors influence athletics,
from the ability to grow powerful
muscles to the ability to break down
food into muscle fuel and the cells'
ability to use oxygen.
"I suspect that what we will find
is that some people will be carrying
favorable mutations that will affect
the responsiveness in some meta­
bolic pathways but not in others,”
Bouchard said. "It is unlikely that
we will find a universal high re­
sponder ”
The Canadian scientist is work­
ing with researchers at the National
Instituías of Health am i other U.S
facilities on the multicenter project.
In one study. Bouchard and his
colleagues took samples from 765
members of 150 families. All started
off out of shape, and underwent 20
weeks of aerobic training in a labo­
ratory .The researchers are now hunt­
ing for common genetic characteris­
tics among those who did well in the
lab and among those who did poorly
It’s still a mystery where those
genes are. Bouchard’s previous ex­
amination of one chromosome found
no link between genetics and ath­
letic success. But there’s no telling
what a thorough genetic search
would turn up, he said
The number of genes could influ­
ence how any results could be used.
Bouchard said. If only a few genes
are major factors, then only those
people with those genes would have
the potential for greatness, he said.
"But il we identify, say, 25 or 50
genes, then there is no reason to
discourage participation, because if
you don't have one. you might have
another.” he said. “ I suspect the
latter - that a lot of genes will be
involved.”
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