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FEB. IX, 1998
C om m itted to cultural diversity.
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to Benson High
Power Makes It To
The Top
Former Techman star
Sean Waller to be new
Coach for Benson High
School.
Portland Power moves to a
striking number I spot in
the Western Division.
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NBA Moms Provide Support
Chief Will Go to Iraq
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Secretary-G eneral Kofi Annan an­
nounced that he will travel to Iraq in an
effort to resolve the weapons-inspections
standoff. Annan said he would arrive in
Baghdad on Friday for a mission that has
the support of the entire 15-member Secu­
rity Council. "It is my hope that we can
achieve a diplomatic solution that will
ensure the full implementation of all Secu­
rity Council resolutions,” Annan told re­
porters after meetings with the ambassa­
dors of the five permanent council m f i ­
bers.
Blazers add in second-
round pick to finalize
Stoudamire trade
Clinton States His Iraq
Case
President Clinton, preparing Americans
for possible air strikes on Iraq, said yester­
day of military force that "sometimes it’s
the only answer."Clinton said U.N. teams
investigating Iraq for biological, chemical
and nuclear weapons have encountered
"lies, stonewalling, obstacle after obstacle
after obstacle." He said Saddam "could
end this crisis tomorrow simply by letting
the weapons inspectors complete then
mission." In Baghdad , Iraq pledged to
make "all serious and legitimate" efforts to
peacefully resolve the crisis, but the state­
ment did not offer any specific conces­
sions.
Judge Drops Part of
Winfrey Case
Without explanation, a federal judge-
ruled today that Texas cattlemen don’t
have a case against Oprah Winfrey based
on a state “veggie libel” law protecting
perishable food products. But U.S. Judge-
Mary Lou Robinson did not throw the
entire case out as defendants had requested.
Jurors will return to hear the lawsuit as a
common-law business defamation case. It
appears the cattlemen must try to prove
Ms Winfrey, her production company and
a vegetarian activist guest on her April 16,
1996, show meant to hurt the beef industry.
Three Indicted for
Espionage
Three people were indicted by a federal
grand jury on charges of conspiring to spy
on U.S. defenses for 25 years. James M.
Clark, a private investigator and former
U.S. Army paralegal. T heresa M aria
Squillacote, a former Defense Department
lawyer, and her husband, Kurt Alan Stand,
a labor union representative, were charged
with conspiring to spy on the United Stales
for the former East Germany, the former
Soviet Union, Russia and South Africa
from 1972 until their arrests. The three
defendants met in the mid-1970s as stu­
dent radicals at the University of W iscon­
sin in Milwaukee.
Collectors Buy Scraps of
Titanic
The Titanic disaster, which after nearly
86 years is pulling huge audiences into
movie houses and a Broadway musical
show, brought big bucks to a New York
auction house. Collectors paid $180,310
for letters and wireless messages made
before and during the doomed voyage.
Bought for $ 123,500 was a volume of 34
signals from or about the Titanic from
radio logs of other vessels. “Titanic send­
ing out signals of distress,” reads an entry
in Olympic's log on April 14, 1912.
Dow Closes at Fifth High
in a Row
The stock market edged to a record high
for a fifth straight day today. The Dow
Jones Industrial Average rose 28.40points
to close at 8,398.50, continuing a rally that
began last week. Advances led declines
1505-14.38. The Nasdaq closed at 1.703.45,
down 6.97.
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Portland NBA Moms from Mothers o f Professional Basketball Players include (from left) Leola Green (mother of A.C.
Green), Charlotte Brandon (mother o f Terrell Brandon) and Liz Washington (mother o f Damon Stoudamire).
Photo by Neil Heilpern
San Antonio. I saw the need for a family
association." said the NBA Mom, president
f sailors have a girl in every port, why
and founder of Mothers of Professional Bas­
.an t professional basketball players
ketball Players (MPBP)
lave a Mom in every city they visit?
That’s the vision of Charlotte Brandon, Although Terrell is hot on the court, aver­
aging 29 points per game, that doesn’t make
whose son Terrell plays point guard for the
up for a good home cooked meal.
Milwaukee Bucks.
Charlotte talked with other mothers and
“When I went to his first all star game in
B y N eh H i i t
pern
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created the network she thinks ol as ex­
tended family for the players.
"I went to the basketball commissioner in
Houston two years ago to tell of the need,"
Charlotte told The Portland Observer "He
said he would do all he could to point me in the
right direction to people who would help."
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The Portland Trail Blazers finalized the
Damon Stoudamire trade Monday by giving
the Toronto Raptors a 1998 second-round
draft pick to compensate for an injury to
Alvin Williams.
Stoudamire, acquired from Toronto last
Friday along with Wall W illiams and Carlos
Rogers, will play his first game for Portland
on Tuesday mglit against Golden State
Kenny Anderson, one ol three players
dealt from Portland to Toronto, had not yet
repor'ed to the Raptors Anderson, who was
adamant in saying he w ouldn't play tor
Toronto, was said to be in Los Angeles.
Raptors general manager Glen Grunwald
was listening to trade oilers for Anderson,
who would have to be dealt by Thursday's
deadline.
"W e’ve looked at a lot of things, but I can't
tell you if anything is going to happen,”
Grunwald said
The other twoex-Blazers, Gary Trent and
Alvin Williams, were set to make their
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Carter Announces for State Superintendent of Public Instruction
House ol Representatives in 1984. She has
argaret Carter, a formerteacher
served as vice chair of the House Education
and State Representative, an
Committee and has also served on the Rev­
nounced her decision to run
and School Finance Committee and the
for State Superintendent of Public enue
Instruc­
Ways and Means Committee. She was chief
tion
sponsor of the Oregon Workforce 2000 Act.
"I am deeply committed to education -
“I believe we need
both personally and
an education leader
p r o f e s s io n a lly ,"
*7 am deeply committed to
with the ability to bring
Carter said. “And I
education - both personally\
people to g e th e r to
am com m itted to
work for constructive
and professionally, ”
working withallOr-
solutions,” Carter said.
egonians to achieve
"One of my strengths as a slate representative
the best possible education system."
has been getting Democrats and Republi­
M argaret C arter was born and raised in
cans, labor and management, urban and rural
Louisiana where she was salutatorian of
interests to talk and work together."
her high school class. She has lived in
C arter has received num erous aw ards
Oregon for thirty years, raising nine ch il­
for her leadership and com m unity s e r­
dren. C arter began her career as a rural
vice. M ost recently, she w as reco g n ized
music teacher, earning a degree from
as a 1997 W oman o f A chievem ent by
Portland State U niversity in elem entary
the O regon C om m ission for W om en
education and a M aster's degree from
C a rte r cu rrently serves on the B oard of
Oregon State U niversity For the past 25
D irecto rs for the A m erican Red C ro ss
years, she has been on the faculty at Port­
and is M usical D irector o f the Joyful Representative Margaret Carter in a natural environment, with children.
land Com m unity College.
Sound choral group.
Carter was first elected to the Oregon
M
Ray Leary Makes A Mark In Portland’s Neighborhoods
B y L i e P earlman
Ray Leary is himself a living hometown
institution, and he has played a leading role in
creating two others.
T ogether with longtim e friend Tony
Hopson. Leary founded Self Enhancement
Inc an after-school recreation and educa­
tion program for local youths, and built an
$8.5 million. 62,000 square foot community
center for it in Unthank Park More recently,
he pi. yed a lead role in persuading the adidas
shoe and athletic wear company to build a
6000 square foot store on the critical corner
of Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard
Jr. Boulevard and Alberta Street. With a
5500 square foot open plaza in front of it. it
could he a long-sought anchor for both com
mcrcial streets.
Moreover, as Leary points out, it is not just
adidas’s first lull line retail outlet in Portland,
it’s the first anywhere in the world. "O ff all
the places adidas could have gone - New
York, Chicago Los Angeles northeast Port­
land was chosen ” Leery says It made good
business sense The inner city is being revi­
talized, and the company wanted to be part of
that."
And Leery’s role in the selection, as busi­
ness unit manager ol the company here? Fred
Stewart, the real estate agent who brokered
the deal, says Without Ray, it couldn’t have
happened.”
Leary began making his mark on the neigh
borhood before he reached adulthood. Grow
ing up on North Gantenhein Street, he was
part of a group called the “G Streeters,"
whom he describes as "25 friends who have
stayed together for the last 40 years.” He
played on Jefferson High School’s legendary
1972 undefeated basketball team “Myself
and Tony ( Hopson ) have unfairly been hyped
as the mainstays of that team,” he says It also
included Charles Channel and Carl Bird,
later named Ul-Amencans. and Ron Cole,
who went on to play for the Harlem Globe
Trotters, “it was a great TEAM he empha­
sizes.
He went to San Diego State on an athletic-
scholarship. then stayed Io sell real estate for
three years. He returned Io Portland when his
grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. "I
intended to come back for six months, but
stayed for 18 years," he says.
During this time he teamed with Hopson
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to found Recreational Kids, a Portland Bu­
reau of Parks summer recreation program
operating out of the Matt Dishman Com m u­
nity Center. In 1980 this transitioned into
Self-Enhancement, Inc., an independent non­
profit corporation that included tutoring,
counseling and peer-counseling, and a sys­
tem of rewards lor positive behavior. In the
early 1990s, SEI began a massive compaign
to raise $8.5 million for its own community
center. This center opened last year at 3930
N Kerby Ave. on land leased from the Park
Bureau, formerly part of Unthank Park.
Leary says he no longer has an "official
capacity" in SEI, which now has a staff of 50,
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