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Man Held
in Serial
Killings
JFK Jr Presumed
Dead in Plane Crash,
Officials Say
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REVIEW
Ballooning Trade Deficit
T he C om m erce D epartm ent reported
today that the trade deficit had ballooned
to $ 2 1.3 billion a 14.8 percent increase
since A pnl. O ther national trends in
clude a surge in oil prices, A m ericans
buying m ore import autos and less o f a
dem and for U.S. exports.
Fighting Racism
President Clinton appealed to law
yers to help m inorities and the poor
benefit m ore from A m erican dem ocracy
and prosperity. This sam e m essage w as
voiced by his political hero, John F.
Kennedy. Clinton also announced a se
ries o f com m itm ents aim ed at prom oting
opportunities to m inorities in the legal
profession. His intention is to increase
faith by m inorities in the legal system .
President Botha
Implicated
F o rm er P resid en t P.W . B otha w as
rec en tly im p lica te d in th e 1985 k ill
ings o f eight a n ti-a p a rth e id a c tiv ists.
P o lice o ffic ia ls gave th e ir testim o n y
ab o u t the activ ists w ho w ere k illed in
an o p era tio n ap p ro v ed by the C a b in e t
m in iste rs and the fo rm er p resid e n t.
B otha had refused in the p ast to a p
p ear b efo re the T ru th and R e c o n c ilia
tio n C o m m issio n last y ea r b ec au se
the co u rt ruled that his su b p o e n a w as
te c h n ic a lly invalid.
A quinnah, M assachusetts, (Bloom berg)
— U.S. Coast G uard officials said it’s un
likely that John F. K ennedy Jr., his w ife, and
sister-in-law surv ived an apparent plane crash
in w aters o ff M artha’s Vineyard.
R ear A dm iral R ichard L arrabee said the
search for the w reckage resum ed this m orn
ing b ut said the chances o f finding su rv i
vors is all but hopeless. He said no one
cou ld survive m ore than 18 h ours in the
cold w aters w ith o u t a life raft or life ja c k e t,
neith er o f w hich w as available to K ennedy,
the 38-year- o ld p u b lish er o f the m agazine
G e o r g e , h is w if e , C a ro ly n B e s s e tte
K ennedy, or h er sister L auren B essette, an
inv estm en t b an k er yvith M organ S tanley
D ean W itter & Co.
Larrabee said to d ay 's search for the m iss
ing plane would be m ore focused because the
Coast G uard had “a relatively good idea o f
w here the m ost likely spot” o f the crash was.
“W e’re bringing in some very sophisti
cated equipment that will methodically search
that area," Larrabee said on N B C ’s Today
program. " I ’m confident that ifthere is som e
thing to be found out there, they w ill find it.”
C oast Guard, U.S. Navy and M assachu
setts state authorities spent the w eekend
searching o ff M arth a’s V ineyard, w here
K ennedy' s single-engine Piper Saratoga plane
B> M axine B ernstein of T hf O regonian staff
probe w ill stu d y w reck ag e, a ir traffic c o n
trol tapes an d w eath er p attern s an d should
take six to n in e m onths to co m p lete, NTSB
C h airm an Jim H all said in a te lev ised
p ress co n fe re n ce yesterd ay .
“We are at the very beginning stages o f
w hat will be a painstaking, detailed investi
gation,” H all said.
CONTINUED ON PAGE A4
ortland police announced the ar
rest o f a 32-year-old N orth Port
land man M onday in the stran
gulation deaths o f three women found in
Forest Park and partly credited a detective
who had arrested the suspect in a sexual
assault case seven years ago
Police took Todd Alan Reed into cus
tody about 11:30 p.m. Sunday at Rinella
Produce in Southeast Portland, where he
worked a night shi ft loading trucks. Hewill
be arraigned today on three counts o f
aggravated murder.
Portland Detective Sgt. Dave Schlegel,
an investigator assigned to the Forest Park
Task Force, remembered Reed from a
1992 arrest in a sexual assault and kidnap
ping case and was helpful in recalling
information that helped crack the serial
killing case, police said. Reed served three
years in prison and was kicked out ofasex-
oftender treatment program two weeks
ago because he failed to attend.
“One officer remembered him from a
previous investigation and brought him to
our attention,” said Detective Sgt. Kris
Ferrell, one o f the primary invesngators in
the serial killings.
A July 7 undercover police sting target
ing men patronizing prostitutes along upper
West Burnside Street, round-the-clock sur
veillance o f the suspect for the past week
and physical evidence helped police link
Reed to the killings, Ferrell said. Police
declined to discuss details o f the case.
Reed apparently made contact with
the v ictim s — L ilia F. M oler, 28;
Stephanie L. Russell. 26; and A lexan
dria N. Ison, 17— along W est Burnside,
a spot the w om en frequented. All three
victim s w ere heroin addicts, and two
w ere involved in prostitution.
“They were connected by a lifestyle
he preyed upon," Ferrell said.
Their bodies were discovered between
M ay 7 and June 2 in a heavily wooded
section o f Forest Park o ff Northwest
Saltzm an Road. On June 4, police set up
a 16-m em ber task force dedicated to the
P
was headed Friday night en route to a family
w edding in H yannisport, M assachusetts.
NTSB Probe
T he undersea search is focusing on what
Larrabee called “potential targets" in a 24-
square-m ile area. A 250-foot N avy salvage
ship w ith 22 divers is leading the effort.
West Bank
P rim e M inister E hud B arak assured
P alestinian leader Y asser A rafat that
he intends to w ithdraw prom ptly from
a portion o f the W est B ank even w hile
p u rsuing an overall M iddle E ast se ttle
m ent. B arak w ill follow a 15-m onth
tim e fram e to determ in e if there could
be final settlem ents w ith the P ale stin
ians, Syria and L ebanon. A rafat re
cently called B a ra k 's tim etable u n a c
cep tab le and dem anded he follow the
W ye R iver accord he struck w ith Israel
last O ctober.
F oam in su la tio n , the kind that w ould
h av e lin ed K e n n e d y ’s plane, w as found
sp read o v e r a m ile o f beach w here o th er
d e b r is w a s h e d a s h o re y e s te r d a y on
M a rth a ’s V in ey a rd .
S tate an d fed eral au th o rities reo rg a
n iz ed th e ir o p e ra tio n s, w ith the N atio n al
T ra n sp o rta tio n S afety B o ard exam ining
the ca u se o f th e ap p a ren t accident. The
Todd Alan Reed, 32, will be arraigned
in connection with the strangulations
of women found in Forest Park
A r
Left: John-John,
with his mother
J a c q u e lin e
K e n n e d y
O n assis, and
o th e r fa m ily
members a t his
father’s funeral
in 1 9 6 3 . On the
right, JFK Jr and
his lovely wife,
C a r o ly n
B I s s e 11 e
Kennedy
K9
park killings.
“W e’re very lucky to have this man off
the street We feel good about that. Police
C hief Charles Moose said Monday in an
nouncing the arrest in Chapman Square
across from the Justice Center. I m cer
tainly proud o f the task force for getting this
important piece o f work done ”
The Triumphs - The Tragedies
OF
Apollo’s 3 0 th
Anniversary
H u n d re d s o f g a th e re rs in C a p e
C anaveral. Florida celebrated the 30lh
anniversary o f the first m ission to land
m en on the moon. A m onum ent was
dedicated to the hundreds o f thousands
o f m en and w omen who toiled on the
im m ense project.
New Area Code
O regon will be getting a new area
code. O fficials have decided to overlay
the area code, instead o f carving out a
separate area for it. Jim H aynes w ith US
W est says new phone lines in the cu r
rent 503 area will get the new area code,
w hich is 971. The new area code will go
into effect this com ing January, and
w ill m ean dialing ten-digits even to
m ake local calls.
Portland Officer Shot
T hirty-five year old O fficer Sze Lai,
a 6-year veteran o f the Portland Police
B ureau, was struck tw ice in the arm.
T w o o f the covering officers returned
fire into the apaitm ent and O fficer Lai
w as transported to Em anuel H ospital
for his injuries. O fficer Lai is reported
to be in fair condition follow ing surgery
to his right arm
The Kennedys
W ith its m ix of p o litic a l triu m p h and
hum an tra g e d y , th e ir sag a e n th ra lle d
th e n a tio n and m ade th e m A m e ric a ’s
m o st p ow erfu l fam ily
touted for higher office.
M em bers o f such a B eltw ay fam ily
w ould have as good a ch an ce as not to
pass E thel K ennedy, B o b b y ’s w idow and
BY HUGH SIDEY
still the ex u b eran t duchess o f H ickory
he K en n ed y clan, th e p re-em in en t
H ill, w h ile driving to w ork along the
A m erican p o litical fam ily o f o u r
P otom ac R iver parkw ays. A nd if in the
tim e, seem s to be ca st in the stars,
m edia or a lobbying b u sin ess (a reaso n
the distant stu ff o f legend. B ut look dow
n. lik elih o o d in that n eig h b o rh o o d ), he
able
or she w ould sooner or later sit dow n w ith
They m arch ever more num erous am ong
us. T h ere’s a spot on W ash in g to n 's infa
M assach u setts S enator T ed K ennedy or
mous Beltw ay w here an unsuspecting fam
h is so n , R h o d e Islan d C o n g re s sm a n
ily m ight find their children in school w ith
P atrick K ennedy, now in the H ouse lead
a couple o f Joseph and Rose K en n ed y ’s 54
ership, to m ake a little p olitical rain. N atu
g reat-grandchildren. T hat sam e fam ily
rally, w hile attending one o f those rites o f
could be the neighbors o f E unice K ennedy
p reten tio u s pow er, like the A lfalfa C lub
Shriver, one o f the K ennedy c la n 's five
dinner, our not-so-m ythical B eltw ay d en i
surviving originals (there w ere nine). It
zens w o u ld look across a cro w d ed b a ll
could be served in the M aryland assem bly
room or tw o and m arvel at the intense stir
by delegate M ark Shriver, nephew o f the
created by the arrival o f C arol ine K ennedy
m artyred John K ennedy (and one o f 29
S ch lo ssb erg or the young A donis, John
grandchildren o f Joe and Rose). And it
K ennedy, the children o f C am elo t w hose
m ythical allure sw ells w ith every surge o f
could fall under the grow ing political hand
o f K athleen K ennedy T ow nsend, oldest
tab lo id headlines.
T
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JM M M
child o f the m urdered R obert K ennedy,
now M ary lan d ’s lieutenant governor and
T he K en n ed y clan is em b ed d ed in
A m erican p o litica l cu ltu re o f the p ast
h alf-ce n tu ry like no o th e r fam ily. T hey
arriv ed at th at p o w er b ase th ro u g h cold
ca lc u la tio n an d the b lu n t in stru m e n t o f
th eir im m ense w ealth but also b ecau se ol
h o n o rab le se rv ic e to the n atio n , th eir
rec k less ex u b e ran ce and g la m o u r— and
fam ily trag e d y b ey o n d m easu re. T he
fo u n d in g fa th e r o f th e c la n , Jo se p h
K en n ed y , cam e from im m ig ran t stock
w ith all the eccen tric g en iu s and an g e r o f
his b lig h te d kin, b u t he w as to u ch ed by
the m ag ic o f A m erica. H e w ent to the
e l itis t B o s to n L a tin S c h o o l; o n to
H arv ard ; and then in the R o arin g T w en
ties. w ith little reg ard fo r e th ic s o r even
the law , p lu n g e d into the w o rld s o f b a n k
ing and m o v iem ak in g . H e cash ed in b e
fore the m ark et crash o f 1929. W hen
F ran k lin R o o sev elt ca lled Jo e to W ash
in g to n to clean up the S ecu rities and
E xchange C o m m issio n , som eb o d y asked
F D R w hy he had tap p ed su ch a crook
“ T a k e s o n e to c a tc h o n e ," re p lie d
R o o sev elt K en n ed y d id a su p e rb jo b .
24-hour surveillance
For the past three to four days, task
Continued on page A2
Chronology of
I
The
Kennedys
1941
Rosem ary Kennedy, the third child o f
Joseph Patrick K ennedy and his wife Rose, is
institutionalized because o f retardation and
failed full frontal lobotomy.
1944
Joseph P. K ennedy Jr., the eldest son o f
Joseph and Rose Kennedy, is killed at age 29
w hen his plane exploded over the English
Channel w hile on a secret W orld W ar II
bom bing mission.
Continued on page A 4