Volume X X V II, Number 26
Committed toeultural diversity.
June 25, 1997
Joining in tradition
Pow wow keeps
history alive
Warm up to
summer sounds
Young and old alike enjoy a
old fashioned Juneteenth
celebration. <
Two kids from different
worlds meet at Portland
gathering o f Indian tribes.
See Metro, inside.
Curtis Salgado joins the
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‘Good in th e Hood’ fa re w e ll
Administrators at north/northeast Portland school will be missed
by L ee P erlman
White House appeal rejected
The White House will have to surrender
notes from a discussion of the Whitewater
affair with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Su
preme Court justices let stand a federal
appeals court ruling that said Mrs. Clinton’s
talks with White House lawyers were not
protected by attorney-client privilege.
Tobacco deal under fire
A congressional critic of the tobacco
industry is predicting that Congress will
rewrite the $368.5 billion tobacco settle
ment. but the chief negotiator for the states
is warning the deal will be scrapped if
lawmakers "muck it up.”
US paid millions for Kansi
The U.S. reportedly paid $3.5 million to
informants to capture the man accused of
a deadly shooting at CIA headquarters
four years ago. Newsweek magazine says
the FBI and CIA spent a year laying the
groundwork for capturing Mir Aimal Kansi,
who was arrested last week at a seedy hotel
in Pakistan.
US wants Pol Pot tried
The United States is already moving to
have notorious Cambodian strongman Pol
Pot tried for genocide by an international
tribunal. The New York Times reports that
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has
asked Canada to request Pol Pot’s extradi
tion under Canada’s law against genocide.
If Canada agrees, the United States report
edly is ready to coordinate sending a mili
tary team to Cambodia to remove Pol Pot.
More troops to Hong Kong
Britain bowed to Beijing’s demands to
send 500 more Chinese troops into Hong
Kong just before British colonial rule ends
next week. London had at first staunchly
resisted the move but yielded after pro
tracted negotiations. The agreement de
fused one of the last major diplomatic dis
putes before the June 30 handover.
M cNam ara discusses war
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara, a key architect of the V ietnam
War, now says the conflict could have
been halted more than a decade before it
ended, or avoided altogether. McNamara,
8 1, told Reuters in an interview following a
weekend conference with former top Viet
namese policymakers in Hanoi that it was
clear both Hanoi and Washington had
missed chances to halt a war, which cost
morethan3.6million lives.
Dying guidelines given
The American Medical Association has
issued guidelines intended to prod doctors
into allowing patients at the end of their life
to die with dignity. The guidelines list a
number of "elements of quality care” rang
ing from giving patients the right todiscuss
their end-of-life care to making sure that
physicians are skilled in detecting and
managing pain, fatigue, depression and
other symptoms of terminal illness.
EDITORIAL....................A2
EDUCATION..................A5
FAMILY...........................A7
VANCOUVER................ A8
METRO.......................... B I
SPORTS........................ B2
ARTS & ENT............... B3
RELIGION......................B6
CAREERS......................B7
CLASSIFIEDS...............B9
ister Rose and Sister Jane will
supervise their last Good in the
Hood th is w e ek en d . They are
moving on, satisfied that th e y ’re leav
ing Holy Redeemer Catholic School In
healthy condition.
S
Roswitha Frawley will be teaching at
Lewis and Clark College, while Jane Hibbard
will take a year’s sabatical and spiritual
study. The two Sisters of the Holy Name
nuns have been at Holy Redeemer for a
combined 30 years, the last five as co-prin
cipals. Frawley had primary responsibility
for the school’s day to day operations, while
Hibbard pursued grants and fund-raising.
I, was a necessary change, as other inner
city Catholic schools closed and Holy Re
deemer switched from a parish to a regional
institution. It attracts students from Lake
Oswego and West Linn because it offers a
quality, religious education. At the same
time, Frawley says, the administration
doesn't want the school to be a place where
“only people of means can come,’’ and it
offers a variety of scholarships.
They have been successful on both counts.
The school is on sound financial footing.
This year also, for the first time, Caucasian
students made up less than half the enroll
ment and non-Catholics an increasing part
of it, making the school more reflective of
the surrounding neighborhood than it has
ever been.
One venture that started as a fundraiser, a
substitute for bingo, became the school’s
Sister Jane Hibbard (left) and Sister Rose' Frawley bother prepare for new
assignments.
(Photo by Mark Washington)
most successful outreach effort: its Good
in the Hood festival.
Now in its fifth year, the festival runs
from June 27th through 29th in the school
parking lot at 127 N. Portland Blvd Enter
tainers include jazz and bluegrass stars such
as Boka Marimba. Tall Jazz, Obo Addy,
Norman Sylvester, the Michael Allen
Harrison Quartet, and the Swingline Cubs.
There will also be Irish and Laotian Mien
dancers, Hawaiian and Mariachi music, wres
tling and Brazilian-African martial artsdem-
onstrations. For children there will be face
painting, reptile exhibits and crafts. For ev
eryone there will be barbecued ribs by
Czaba's, Mexican food by Mazatlan I aqueria,
Hawaiian food by Local Boys, Caribbean
and Vietnamese dishes, and desserts by
Bridges Soup and Sandwich Full Sale Ale
and McMenamin Brothers will operate a
beer and wine garden. Admission is $5.
I he festival's organizers and supporters
include Peninsula Park wrestling coach Roy
Pittman. Northeast Community Develop-
ment Corporation director Jaki Walker,
Norman Sylvester (who says his service is
penance for the trouble he caused the nuns
as a student), and Alanna Schlicting of the
Piedm ont N eighborhood A ssociation
Frawley calls her relations with the sur-
rounding community and its leaders'^ model
of collaboration." The school inspires such
loy alty that "People take time off from pay
ing jobs to volunteer here.”
Possibly because Holy Redeemer is sup
portive of the larger community. Through a
Pennies for the Poor campaign, its students
and nearby businesses raise $10,000 a year
for services to the homeless. The children
deliver the money themselves, meeting
those in need and "creating such a sense of
compassion" among the children, Hibbard
says.
They have played host to the Piedmont
Association's meetings for 20 years, and
have supported their programs for crime
prevention, traffic control and neighbor
hood stability. Former Piedmont president
lorn Markgraf, a Holy Redeemer parent,
say s, "Residents here, people who are Prot
estants and don't have children, have told
m e.' Holy Redeemer has held this neighbor
hood together.’”
As a school, Markgraf says, “ It is the most
loving, caring community for children I’ve
ever seen At commencement I saw Black,
white, Asian kids and parents hugging and
kissing each other. With every option avail
able to me, anywhere in this country, there’s
nowhere else I'd rather send my kids.”
Tasty
and
refreshing
Enjoying
Ainsley's
Hawaiian Snow
in Grant Park.
(Photo by Mark
Washington)
Shift on integration debated
acing continued white resistance
to busing to achieve school deseg
regatlon, an Increasingly conserva
tive judiciary and now criticism from
side and outside its ranks, the NAACP is
rethinking one of its fundamental prin
ciples: advocacy of public school integra
tion.
F
At its national convention next month in
Pittsburgh the NAACP is expected to have a
formal debate on its school-integration policy
for the first time in more than a decade.
The NAACP has always supported school
in
integration as a way to improve educational
opportunities for black students, but oppo
nents have begun voicing doubts about that
goal.
They say the organization should focus
more heavily on seeking the improvement of
majority-black schools.
Keith Goodman brings contemporary Brazilian dance to Portland,
during a series o f dance workshops at Portland State University. The
events will celebrate a bridge that is building between cultures of
the Black Atlantic, says Kimberly Mullen, coordinator o f PSU's World
Dance Office. For information, call 725-5670.
Shabazz death brings many tributes
over 80 percent of her body intheJune I blaze
at her Yonkers apartment. She had been in
extremely critical condition since the day of
the fire, and underwent five operations to
replace burned tissue with artificial skin
AlongwithC'oretta Scott Kingand Myrlie
Evers-Williams
- whose husbands were also
e tty Shabazz, who witnessed the
assassinated
during
the civil rights move
assassination of her husband,
ment - Mrs. Shabazz emerged as a powerful
M alcolm X, and became a civil
rights figure herself, died Monday of bums
symbol in her right.
"M illions of people look to her for
suffered in a fire allegedly set by her 12-
some kind of understanding of the history of
year-old grandson. She was 6 1 .
the struggle," said black activist and poet
National Urban League President Hug B
Price expressed sorrow upon learning of the
Amiri Baraka. She’s the wife of one of the
greatest African-American leaders of his
death
“She was an icon in our community, a
tory."
In 1965, pregnant with twins, she was in
revered figure whose dignity and commit
the audience at Harlem’s Audubon Ball
ment to our people was beyond measure.
room with her four children when gunmen
Her departure leaves a huge void no one can
pumped 16 shots into her husband as he
fill," Price said
preached on tage
Sister Betty came
Mrs. Shabazz suffered third-degree burns
Widow of Malcom X
remembered as icon
in civil rights struggle
B
through the people, herself a nurse, and
people recognizing her moved back, she fell
on her knees looking down on his bare,
bullet-pocked chest, sobbing. They killed
him!’”
Alex Haley wrote in The Autobiogra
phy of Malcolm X .” Mrs. Shabazz went on
to become a university administrator and
spokeswoman for civil rights, and raised the
couple's six daughters
She made headlines in recent years by
accusing Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan of orchestrating the assassina
tion. She later reconciled with him, and
defended her daughter Qubilah Shabazz
against charges that she plotted a revenge
attack on Farrakhan
It was Qubilah s son - named for Malcolm
X - who was arrested in the fire Malcolm
Shabazz was said to be unhappy that he had
been sent to live with his grandmother and
wanted to return to his mother in Texas He is
being held in juvenile custody.
Burned skin is prone to infection and
causes severe loss of fluids. Patients with
Mrs. Shabazz’s injuries have a less than 10
percent rate of survival
A steady stream of dignitaries had visited
the Shabazz family at the hospital, including
the Rev Jesse Jackson, poet Maya Angelou,
Mrs King, Dick Gregory and former Mayor
David Dinkins
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said he wanted
to express my sympathy, my condolences
to her family that's with her and all the
people who work with her, know her and love
her so much." Bom in Detroit, Betty Shabazz
studied at the Tuskegee Institute, Brooklyn
State Hospital School of Nursing and Jersey
City State College. She met her husband
through the Nation of Islam; she called her
self Sister Betty X at the time