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&&£¿ítaÉCí'3K^¿«BÍ :rr Committed to diluirai diversity. Volume XXVII, Number 46 Children paint and learn about culture Community treasures Project is one of several in public schools connecting students with youngsters from all walks of life. Area residents are dedicated to making Portland a great place. Mase, Usher coming to Rose Garden Poetic powerhouse Mase will headline with superstar Usher in Portland. See Metro section, inside. See Metro section, inside. See Arts & Entertainment, page A3. 50 best for the com m unity," Taiton admits. However, he adds, "There’s been a new direction lor some lime now W e’ve been much more active in community affairs. Carl Taiton: A man of Spy plane flies over Iraq The Pentagon says an American U-2 spy plane flew a U N mission over central Iraq without incident Tuesday despite threats by Baghdad to shoot down such planes. “'The U-2 has com pleted its UNSCOM mission over Iraq without in cident. The plane is back out of Iraqi territory,” Pentagon spokesman Ken Ba con said. Defense experts on Iraq If diplomacy fails to defuse the latest crisis in the Gulf, President Clinton can bring awesome firepower to bear on Iraq. But use of military force is likely to be tricky and fraught with risk, defense ex perts say. Several current and former U.S. off icials said Clinton would probably start turning the screws on Baghdad by expand ing no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq to cover all Iraqi airspace. Reno meets counterpart Attorney General Janet Reno has asked Chinese Justice Minister Xiao Yang for C hina’s cooperation with the Justice D epartm ent’s investigation into cam paign-finance allegations in the 1996 U.S. elections. The Justice Department has been investigating allegations that China sought to influence U.S. elections in 1996 by making contributions to President Clinton s re-election campaign and to congressional campaigns Hillary Clinton heads home First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Tues day ended an eight day journey through the former Soviet Union. In her final speech in a century-old, maroon velvet- seated opera house, Mrs. Clinton praised Ukraine for holding free elections that resulted in a peaceful change of govern ment, a rare example among former So viet republics. Chernobyl help pledged The United States is offering $78 mil lion to help shore up the so-called ‘‘sar cophagus" that shelters the fatally dam aged Chernobyl nuclear reactor, accord ing to U.S. officials. The U.S. contribu tion is part of $3(X) million committed by the European Commission and the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations, the officials said at a briefing. Militants claim massacre E gypt's most powerful Islamic mili tant group has claimed responsibility for M onday's tourist massacre that killed 58 foreigners, saying it wanted to force the United States to free the imprisoned spiri tual leader of the World Trade Center bombers. Al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya of the Islamic Group, said its gunmen had not set out to kill the tourists. Rather, its statement said, the attackers were trying to take hostages to use as a bargaining chip. Atlanta bombs similar The five bombs used in three unsolved Atlanta explosions used similar com po nents. including the same brand of wind up clock and steel plates to direct the blasts. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The newspaper said it obtained an internal list from the Atlanta Bomb Task Force showing the bomb com po nents. Consumer prices rise Consumer prices edged up a modest 0.2 percent in O cto b er, m atch in g the in fla tio n rate o f the p re v io u s three m onths F or the first 10 m o n th s of 1997, the C o n su m e r P rice Index has risen at an annual rate o f ju s t 1.8 p ercen t, compared to a 3.3 percent in crease during 1996. I___ _____________________________ ____ ’We’re lettinglhe community decide what it wants, and trying to implement that,’ - Portland Development Commission Chair Carl Talton Assignments just keep growing for Northeast leader B y L ee P erlman Looking for a mover and shaker in north east Portland or the city as a whole? Look at Carl T alton’s resume: Vice- president of Pacif ic Power and Light. Chair of the Portland Development Commission. Charter board member of the Northeast C o m m u n ity D e v e lo p m e n t C o rp ., northeast’s largest low-incom e housing developer; and of the Northeast Economic Development Alliance. Talton also serves on the Urban League of Portland board of directors,. Emanuel Hospital board of Trustees, United Way of the Columbia-W illamette board ol trust ees and the governor’s Board of Manage ment. How did Talton achieve this level o f influence? “ It was more through circum stances than anything else,” he says. Born in V ancouver and raised in north east Portland, he did a hitch in the army and worked in a military power plant. After mustering out and studying at Lewis and Clark College, “ I bumped into a man I knew who worked in human resources for PP&L.,” he says. Talton went to work for the company, became their lobbyist, and worked his way up from there. £ he decisions Carl Taiton make have impact on the future o f Portland. He now lives in northeast Portland with his wife, his son and daughter, students of Grant and Benson high schools, respectively . Talton steers an agency , the Portland De velopment Commission, that hasalways been a “mover and shaker,” but not always well- regarded by community residents. Some recall it unfondly as the author of urban renewal projects in northeast and downtown that uprooted people from their homes, and in general a law unto itself "Most o f PDC’s history has been dic tated from an office downtown and deciding w hat’s best for the community.’’ Talton ad- W e’re letting the community decide what it wants, and trying to implement that." Talton him self has played a large role in such com m unity-shaping efforts as the A lliance’s Visioning Project, the resulting Albina Community Plan and the current Marlin Luther King Mam Street Project O f the alliance project vision he says, “What I liked about that was it was all inclusive; it looked at the com m unity's total needs." The project became the foun dation for the three-year Albina Plan pro cess. “There was a lot of give and take there. "A lot of things were agreed to The question is, if we follow the plan, do we get to the vision? For the most part we do, but it needs some adjusting. It’s in concrete and some of it needs to be broken up," he syas. Specifically, Talton feels there may have been too much emphasis on afford able housing and not enough on business developm ent, especially on N ortheast C ontinued to page A7 Hispanic conference opens Thursday ov. John Kitzhaber and Dr. David Abalos of Seton Hall University will headline the 13th annual con ference sponsored by the Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement and joined by other nationally respected Latino leaders and an estimated 1,200 Oregon and South west Washington Hispanic adult and student leaders. Governor Kitzhaber opens the two-day conclave which includes twelve sessions running from noon Thursday to Friday at 5 Portland professional basketball stars DeLisha Milton (left) p.m. at the Double Tree - Jantzen Beach. and Latricia Morris join volunteer forces on Women's Build Issues to be addressed include, under Habit for Humanity home. ( Photos by M. Washington) standing the influence of Hispanics in the community; health, youth violence, immi gration, culture and education; tapping into the Hispanic consumer buying power and since the project began in June. Now in the help build a house for a day. he staff and players o f Portland managing O regon’s diverse workforce more siding stage, the single-family house will have The worksite, located at 3428 N. Com P o w er, B rid g e to w n ’s ow n effectively. hosted more than 1,000 women workers by the mercial Ave. is active from 8:30 a.m. to w om en’s professional basketball Speakers will examine the broad spec time it is completed early next year. The future p.m. and the dynamic Portland Power team, pumped up the energy on the 4:30 Port trum o f social, economic, political, health, owner of the Women's Build house is a single women fit in perfectly. Women from the land Habitat for Humanity W omen’s Build finance, youth and educational issues chal mom who will buy the house at cost through a construction trades have worked alongside construction site Wednesday when they lenging O regon’s largest minority popula zero-interest, long-term Habitat mortgage. volunteers, as well as the future homeowner. exchange their hightops for workboots and tion and the growing Latino community throughout the United States. G Pro basketball women power Habitat build T Paris called true hero o f th e C om m u n ity by N eil H eilpern “It is rare in life to know someone of Emmanuel Paris'quality and commitment," said Portland Com m issioner Grethchen Kafoury when she handed the late media tion leader's family a recognition plaque at the Nov. 12 Spirit of Portland Awards cer emony. Paris, director of the Portland Neigh borhood Mediation Center for 20 years, died in his sleep Nov. 5 from a massive heart attack. He was one of several people and groups scheduled to be recognized at the annual event, “true heroes of this community," according to Mayor Vera Katz. Widow recalls when armed man was calmed, violence defused by mediator's words While accepting the award. Paris' widow Kathleen Bell remembered how he “con stantly tried to provide better services and thought of other people." “I place him among giants like Martin Luther King,” said his mother. Mary Pans. "I can ’t explain what loss I have and what gains we all had from him. Paris, 48. a native of Port Au Prince, Haiti, was director of the Neighborhood Mediation Center. He was known to find potential smoking guns and prevent shots from being fired during neighborhood disputes. Kathleen remembered a woman coming to the mediation office, seeking sanctuary during a domestic dispute When the hus band showed up with a gun, Paris talked with him until the man calmed down. Another time, she told The Portland O b server, "some people were threatening to shoot each other over a cement wall that was two feet over a property line. He got them to calm down, avoiding name calling during the m ediation process." “ Most of this work dealt with property boundary lines, hedges, and apartment com plexes." Paris made the center a "true com m u nity place, for people to heal their con flicts," said fellow medication specialist David Little, calling it a "non-violent, peace ful and safe environment." The family said Paris was in good health, bu, was under a great deal of stress after learning the center would close Dec. 30, after 19 years o f operation The city's budget cuts will turn over the center's du- CoV I INl El) IOPAGE A2 ...»
