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June 7, 2000
Unsolved murder cases require public help
Lewis testifies
in murder trial
A ssociated P ress
Life in Prison for leader of
1995 Gas Attack
TOK Y O A former doomsday cult leader
was sentenced to life in prison for the 1995
nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subways
that killed 12 people and sickened
thousands.Yoshihiro Inoue, 30, was one
o f five Aum Shinri Kyo agents accused of
being directly involved in the gas attack.
Cultists spread nerve gas in subway trains
as the trains converged on Tokyo's central
government district during morning rush
hour.
Fighting Delays School
MANILA, Philippines - About 120,000
students, mostly elementary pupils, will
be unable to attend regular classes in the
suthem Philippines because o f ongoing
clashes between the military and Muslim
separatist rebels, officials said. Students
elsewhere in the Philippiines returned to
school, but fighting has forced at least
195,000 people from their homes in the
southern Mindanao region.
Prim e M inister
Hostage
Taken
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Rebels on
one sideofan ethnic contlict in the Solomon
Islands captured the prime minister, put up
roadblocks around the capital and overran
key installations, including police stations,
officials from Australia and New Zealand
said. However, the rest o f the government
remained in power and planned to meet to
discuss the future o f the prime minister,
who had offered to resign last week, the
New Zealand officials said.
Police Rescue Hostages in
Luxembourg
WASSERBILLIG, Luxembourg Police
stormed a day care center, shooting a
hostage-taker and freeing 25 children and
three teachers and ending a 30-hour
standoff. All those freed were reported
safe. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-
Claude Juncker said police were forced to
take action when the man demanded to flee
in a car with three children. On the promise
o f an interview, the gunman was drawn to
a spot where the police had a clear shot.
The fake television crew then pulled
weapons and shot him twice in the head.
Ethiopia Says War with
Eritrea is Over
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Ethiopia has
retaken all its territory from Eritrea and
considers the Hom o f Africa w ar over, a
governm ent spokesw om an said. The
announcem ent signaled Ethiopia was
prepared to stop fighting after a 19-day
offensive that forced Eritrea back from its
disputed border and other points Ethiopia
said were rightfully its own. In Asmara, the
Eritrean capital, the government insisted
the war would end only when Ethiopia
retreated from all undisputed Eritrean land
taken in this m onth’s offensive.
Crucial Space Module Set
for July Launch
MOSCOW
A critical Russian-built
segment ofthe International Space Station
has passed all tests in plenty of time tor its
July launch, the Russian space agency
said. Launch ofthe Zvezda(Star) module,
which is intended to house the station's
crew, has been delayed for more than two
years. First, the government was short of
funds to build it. Then, Proton booster
rockets, the model that will carry Zvezda
into orbit, crashed in launches twice las,
year. Now, officials say, those problems
have been resolved.
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So far this year, atotal of4 murders have been
committed in the City of Portland, according
to the Portland Police Bureau’s Homicide
Detail. O f these 4 murder cases currently
being dealt with by the PPB, I murderremains
unsolved.
In 1999 there were 38 murders committed in
Portland, o f which 11 remain still unsolved by
the PPB’s Homicide Detail.
In 1998 there were 31 murders committed here,
ofw hich 14 cases still remain unsolved by the
PPB.
The four murders so far represent a decrease
from the same time period last year, when 14
m u rders o c cu rred , a c c o rd in g to PPB
spokesman Sgt. I lenry Groepper. The amount
represents a 71 percent decrease from last
year.
Oftentimes peoplecommitthecrimeofmurder
for economic reasons like needing money
because they are out o f work, Sgt. Groepper
said. Other reasons might include greed, such
as when the murderer wants a person’s
insurance policy settlement money so he or
she murders the victim to get it.
However, in economic times that are rosy like
the present, murders will sometimes go down.
“Oftentimes people who have access to
em ploym ent d o n 't com m itt robberies,”
Groepper said.
Gang related murders are more likely to
decrease i f the public receives more education
about gangs leading to preventative measures
against them causing gang related crimes to
decrease, Groepper said.
According to the PPB’s Public Information
Officer, Det. Sgt. Mike Hefley, the PPB is
unable to solve murder cases often for a
variety o f reasons, which often include either
lack o f w itnesses to the crimes or lack of
information about them. During a homieide
case, these two factors often lead to the PPB’s
Homicide Detail reaching a dead end, Det.
Sgt. Hefley said.
“There’s nowhere to go on the case. Each one
is different,” he said.
Last year in the City o f Portland, there were a
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PCC President Dan Moriarty announces retirement
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D an M o ria rty , p re sid e n t o f P o rtlan d
Community College since 1986, announced
to the PCC board last week that he will retire
effective September2001.
Moriarty told the board he wanted to give
them sufficient notice to conduct a search for
his replacem ent and to let the college
community know about his plans before the
faculty left for the summer. "By the time I
leave. I'll have served as PCC president for 15
years, and I can’t imagine a better job. I have
very much enjoyed my years here, and am
confident that PCC is well poised to continue
its tradition o f outstanding service to the
community,” Moriarty said.
Moriarty will leave the college at a time of
unprecedented growth. When he took over
as president in 1986. headcount enrollment
was 60,000. Today it is more than 90,000. In
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tax base and was in a period o f recovery after
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Moriarty holds a doctoral degree in higher
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University. His m aster’s and bachelor's
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education, both at the community college and
K-12 levels. Before coming to Portland,
Moriarty served as president o f Triton
Community College and was faculty member
and student affairs administratorat Baltimore
County (Maryland) Community College.
Moriatry and his wife have three grown
children who live in Chicago, New Jersey and
San Francisco.
PCC board chair Harold Williams said he
expects the board w ill do a national search to
find a new president for PCC. “This college is
oncofthe finest in the nation,” Williams said.
" Dan Moriarty’s shoes will be hard to fill, and
the board is sorry to see him leave. But he's
ready to do some different things with his life
and we respect that decision. So, we will
definitely take our time to make sure we can
find the best person for the next period in
PCC’s history.”
Moriarty is PCC's third president. Founding
President Amo De Bemardis served from
1961 to 1979. John Anthony was president
from 1980 to 1985 Jim Van Dyke served as
acting president during 1985-86. and Moriarty
took over in the summer ot 1986.
Ray Lewis placed a laser pointer in his fist
and showed jurors T uesday how his friend
held a knife and described striking a man
repeatedly during street brawl that left
two men dead after the Super Bowl.
The NFL star, testifying one day after
murder charges against him were dropped,
said he asked Joseph Sweeting what
happened in the hours after the Jan. 31
fight.
Sweeting said, “Every time they hit me, 1
hit them.” Lewis testified, showing how
Sweeting brandished a knife in a closed
fist and moved it back and forth in a
punching motion.
Lewis said the fight, which happened
outside an Atlanta club after a Super
Bowl party, was over so quickly he
couldn’t tell if Sweeting or defendant
Reginald Oakley whostill facesmurder
charges
had stabbed the two men.
Lewis said the knife was not bloody and
Sweeting had no blood on him when they
returned to their hotel. Lewis testified
that Oakley, whom Lewis had met only a
few times, told him he didn’t stab any one.
Sweeting and Oakley are charged with
murder and assault in the stabbings of
Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar. They
face up to life in prison if convicted.
Murder and assault charges against Lewis
were dropped Monday after he pleaded
guilty to obstruction ofjustice and agreed
to testify about what he saw.
“I never did anything,” Lewis said after
leaving court. “I was nothing in this whole
case but a witness the whole time. And
what I just said today is to prove to the
world that I’ve always been a witness.”
When asked whether Lewis’ testimony
w as going to hurt the re m ain in g
defendants, Lewis’ lawyer Ed Garland
said, “I think it both hurt and helped them.
... It was a mixed bag.”
The Baltimore Ravens linebackertestified
that he left the Cobalt nightclub with his
friends around 4 a.m. when Oakley got
into an argument with a group o f men.
Lewis said he tried to break up the
argument by taking Oakley back to his
limousine.
“Reginald was the aggressor at the time
that I was walking up." Lewis said. “ He
was really hostile toward the other two
guys."
A few moments later, the group of men
walked past Lewis’ limousine and then
turned around and came back. Oakley
jumped out ofthe limousine, and one of
the v ictims. Jacinth Baker, smacked him in
the head with a champagne bottle.
“Honestly, all hell broke loose from that
point," Lewis said.
Sweeting tried to help Oakley, but never
made it because two men attacked him
and dragged him behind a tree, Lewis
said. Then he saw Sweeting regain his
footing and start throwing punches and
fighting back.
Lewis said he saw Oakley and another
member o f Lewis ’ group. Carlos Stafford,
fighting with Baker. He said Oakley
punched Baker four or five times in the
chest while Stafford w as kicking him.
“That was a frantic fight." Lewis said.
“They were really going at it."
In his opening statements, prosecutor
Paul Howard told jurors that both victims
were stabbed sev eral times in the chest.
He told jurors the killers held their knives
in their fists and delivered the death blows
in a punching motion, so witnesses could
not see the weapons.
L ew is a d m itte d o b stru c tin g the
investigation by telling his party to keep
quiet and then giv ing a false statement to
police.
The25-year-old I ewis will serveayear’s
probation under Georgia's first offender
law. His record could be cleared if he
successfully completes his sentence.