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Committed to cultural diversity, http://wwvv.portlandobserver.net Volume X X V II, Number XI JULY 22, 199X Qi Gong "Time for Some Jazz!" The next level fo r release o f modern life stress. Oregonians received a special treat this past weekend with the annual Jazz Festival. See Metro,inside. 'V I See Body, Mind, Spirit, page .46. See Popeye's Coupon's Inside' BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND, OR PERMIT NO. 1610 University of Oregon li K (the JJurikvnh / iD k ì n X ' p X . Disturbance At The Donald E. Long Juvenile Facility There was a disturbance at the Donald E. Long Juvenile facility on July 15,1998 involving incarcerated Juveniles housed under the authority o f the Oregon Youth Authority. Officers from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, the Portland Po lice Bureau and the Oregon State Police responded to the facility at approximately 7:30 a.m. The facility is a Multnomah County owned juvenile corrections facility that is located in the East Precinct area o f Port land. The S h e riffs Office provides secu rity and Enforcement for the facility and investigates crimes committed there. The area in which the incident occurred is leased from the county, by the State, and houses juveniles who are under the O r egon Youth Authority. The section is staffed by state o f Oregon Youth Author ity staff. There were fourteen youth being detained in the section in which the inci dent occurred. During the breakfast time in this section a detainee was asked to quite causing a verbal disruption at which pint the de tainee escalated his disruptive behavior. The four staff members w orking the sec tion began locking down those detainees who would return to their rooms voluntar ily. Ten detainees were locked down when one o f the staff members attempted to escort one o f the remaining four to his room and was assaulted. The remaining three assaulted the other three staff mem bers who eventually were able to reach a secure office and call for help. The staff members were attacked with weapons the detainees fashioned from items within the facility such as pieces o f furniture and staff radios. Two o f the staff members were treated at Providence Hospital and released. The other two were treated at the center by on sight medical personnel. The detainees attempted to break out windows o f the facility to escape and w ere unsuccessful. They then apparently decided to ransack the office that they barricaded themselves into and while doing so found the location of over the counter medications kept in the facility to be dispensed to the detainees in the section by staff. During this time period the detainees observed the po lice arriving and decided to continue in a rioting type behavior until they were even tually taken into custody. There is some indication that the detain ees had been involved in a plan to escape and/or riot earlier in the week. The Multnomah County S h e riffs Office Cell Extraction Response Team (C.E.R.T.) along with the Portland Police Bureau’s S p ecial E m e rg e n c y R e sp o n se T eam (S.E.R.T.) worked with the cities Hostage Negotiation Team (HNT) in containing the situation and eventually resolving it. At tempts at negotiating with the detainees failed and eventually the response teams entered the office area and took all four into custody with out incident. The East County major Crimes Team is conducting the investigation with Oregon State Police detectives as the lead investiga tors. The four detainees were taken to the Sheri ft"s office and interviewed by task force and State Police detectives and booked into MCDC. The four detainees are being charged with measure 11 felony offenses because of the nature o f the assault and other charges. The individuals arrested and charged in this incident are identified as: #1 Roberts, Jeremy W ayne Dec. 26,1980 #2 Nelson, James George May 13, 1982 #3 Cavan, Gary Dylan March 17, 1982 #4 Dodgin, Kodi T rayleO ct. 21, 1982 These individuals have prior juvenile crim inal histories that are described by the O regon Youth A uthority as not exten sive. Breakthrough In Sickle Cell Anemia After 10 years o f conclusive testing in Bra zil, a newly formulated product for the allevia tion o f the adverse symptoms o f sickle cell anemia is being introduced in the United States. A U.S. patent has been awarded to the product, developed for Nutritional Biotonix, Inc., at Ft. Lauderdale-based phyto-pharmaceutical com pany. According to an announcement made by Fernando D ’Avila, president, "this product has been clinically proven to reduce the symptoms of sickle cell disease, an illness that afflicts one out o f every 400 African-Americans.” Based on both laboratory and clinical test ing, more than 80% of those taking the product, called Healthy Red, have experienced measur able changes in blood chemistry in 45 to 60 days. “Healthy Red has proven to inhibit the sickling o f red blood cells and the sickled cells revert to normal shape,” said D ’Avila. “The sickling o f the red blood cells is the primary factor resulting in the problem-causing effects o f the disease.” Originally developed in Brazil, where sickle cell anemia is a major health problem, as it is in the United States, the original clinical studies were conducted by Dr. J. T. Araujo, director o f the Hematology Department o f the Tropical Medicine Institute of the University of San Paulo. Dr. Araujo’s studies showed that im pressive overall improved health conditions were reached after the first two months of taking Healthy Red and usually after one year, the sickle cell symptoms decreased by 80% and in some cases, 100%. D’Avila pointed to the reports in the Ab- stractsofthe International Society o f Hematol ogy, published after its 24th Congress in Lon don, England, that stated the compounds in this new product “well indicate that it corrects the immune system in a yet undermined manner, though possibly by changing the genetic struc ture, specifically modifying the gene o f the immune system." The Abstract further repo ted that "over a three year period, sickle cell pa tients needed no blood transfusions, their hemaglobin remained between acceptable ranges, patient's appearance improved, and they did not develop any chest syndrome nor ulcers in lower limbs." This product is specially formulated from a rare natural herb grown in the Amazon basin in the heart of the famed rain forest. During the pas, ten years, it has become recognized as the “oxygen tablet" as a result o f its effectiveness in helping the oxygenation o f the red blood cell. Additional information can be obtained from Nutritional Biotonix a, 1-877-444-4415. The African American Program by J oy R amos On July 9th, a group o f men gathered at a home in NE Portland to be recognized for their successful completion o f a long and difficult struggle toward rejoining their com munity as productive citizens, husbands and fathers. These men are parolees, and mem bers o f the African American Program de veloped by Multnomah County’s depart ment o f Adult Community Justice, many having spent a significant part of their adult lives in prison, these man proudly stepped forward to be presented with individual certificates o f achievement by Jim Rood, deputy director o f the department, on behalf o f the parole officers and corrections coun selors whose efforts have shown remark able results in breaking the cycle o f recidi vism for this group o f men. Less than two years ago, parole supervi sor Carl Goodman and a select group o f officers and counselors laid the groundwork for a new program aimed a, an old and frustrating problem, the fact that far too many African American men released from prison on parole were being revoked and sent back for new criminal activity. The Cari Goodman, the founder of the African American Program. C ontinued T o P age B8 Thrill Kill Thalidomide Returns Gateway Urban Center Airport Line An arrest was made in Texas o f one sus pect that had committed a “thrill kill" on a Seaside beach last summer. The murderer. Jesse Carl McAllister was arrested as he tried to cross into the United States from Mexico. He faces aggravated murder charges. The drug Thalidomide will be available for use to treat a small number o f leprosy patients. The drug was removed from the market because it caused birth-defect horrors worldwide. Women must take a pregnancy test before getting the drug, and men and women must use contraception. East Portland’s Gateway District will un dergo a transformation that will make it a second urban center to downtown. The strat egy is to make the area a walkable showpiece for Portland’s east side and capitalize on its unmatched accessibility by freeway, bus and light rail. The cost of a 5.5-mile extension o f light rail from the Gateway Transit Center to Portland International Airport would be about $ 125 million. The estimate was deter mined by Tri-Met. The actual amount may differ greatly with the additional cost o f rail cars, terminals, an overpass and a commer cial development. Ex-Secret Service Chief Justice William Rehnquist is allow ing the testimony o f President Clinton’s se curity detail. A retired Secret Service agent has begun testifying before a grandjury in the Monica Lewinsky investigation. The possi bility o f peijury, witness tampering and ob struction in this case will also be investi gated. 1 Donald E. Long Juvenile facility. 9,000 Inmates Freed Garbage Merger South African President Nelson Mandela granted freedom to 9,000 prison inmates as part o f his birthday celebration. The government had allowed any pris oner with six months or less to serve except for the mentally disturbed - eligibility for parole. A merger between two o f the nation’s largest garbage haulers has resulted in the possibility o f lower garbage rates for house holds throughout the Portland region. Metro is trying to negotiate a new contract to dis pose o f Portland’s garbage at the Arlington landfill. OHSU Research Site Oregon Health Sciences University is creating a research area that will become a mecca for science and technology. Plans are underway forthis 20-year project. The name o f this facility will be Star Park, or Science, Technology and Research Park
