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"The City Of Roses"
Volume XXXI
Number 21
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Wednesday
May 23,2001
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Uniting the East and West Sides
Eastbank Esplanade, Walkway Opens for Memorial Day Weekend
Oakland Raiders Lawsuit
Against NFL Rejected
LOS A N G E L E S— The Oakland Raiders
lost their $ 1.2 billion lawsuit against the NFL
that claim ed the league sabotaged a deal for
a new stadium and forced them to leave Los
.Angeles. The ju ry rejected allegations o f
breach o f contract, unjust enrichment and
other violations o f the N FL constitution and
bylaws.
A p ortion o f the W illam ette riverfront is
officially reclaim ed for public use w hen the
Eastbank Esplanade, Steel Bridge pedestrian
and bicycle w alkw ay and new public boat
dock opens Friday for the M em orial D ay
w eekend. T hese projects, together, m ake it
possible for w alkers, cyclists, and jo g g e rs to
com plete a riverside central city loop betw een
the Steel and H aw thorne Bridges and pro
vides an east-w est connection for residents
and visitors.
"O n the advent o f Portland’s 150th birth
day, I am thrilled w e ’re giving ourselves the
gift o f reconnecting to the W illam ette River,
and reuniting the city ’s east and w est sides,”
said M ayor V era K atz. “ 1 am excited for the
Central Eastside, w hich has w aited a long time
to get its own w aterfront park. The Esplanade
will serve as a catalyst for the neighborhood’s
rebirth as a vibrant area for those w ho live and
wofk here,” K atz added.
S tre tc h in g fro m th e S te e l B rid e to
H aw thorne B ridge, the m ile-long Eastbank
Esplanade features a 1,200-ft floating w alk
Storm s Pummel
M ichigan, Ohio
T ornadoes and severe thunderstorm s
with winds up to 70 mph blew across M ichi
gan, overturning vehicles, dam aging homes
and uprooting trees. Two twisters were also
| reported in O hio as stoim s knocked down
| trees and pow er lines M onday night.
Bush Sees Energy' Shortage
ST. PAUL, Minn. — President Bush
warned that the nation faces higher fuel
costs and blackouts unless a new national
energy policy is em braced that allows broad
ranging changes to increase supplies o f
domestic oil. natural gas and nuclear power.
Bush also dem ed his energy policy would
ca n y a high environm ental cost.
China: Spy plane to
return soon
BELJING— China signaled Thursday that
it will release a U.S. surveillance plane held
since a collision with a Chinese fighter jet, but
said it was waiting for w ord from W ashing
ton on how to transport the plane home. The
N avy EP-3 has been held on the southern
island o f H ainan since the April 1 collision
with a Chinese jet.
Judge G rants Divorce
for Turner, Fonda
P hoto by H arold H utchinson /A ckroyd P hotocraphy
A $30 million project brings new amenities to Portland's Eastside and unites both sides o f river in a continuous walking loop.
A TLA N T A — A judge granted Jane
Fonda a divorce from C N N founder Ted
Turner, ending nearly a decade o f marriage.
It was the third marriage for both. The couple
announced in January 2000 that they were
separating. F onda’s divorce filing said only
that the marriage was “irretrievably broken.”
Rep. John Lewis also honored by John F. Kennedy
Library for his lifetime struggle against racism
W A SH IN G TO N — FBI D irector Louis
Freeh acknowledged a ‘ ’serious error’ ’ in the
b u re a u ’s fa ilu re to p ro v id e T im o th y
M cV eigh’s lawyers with evidence in the
Oklahoma City bombing case. He was speak
ing publicly for the first tim e since disclosure
that m ore than 3,000 pages o f docum ents
were w ithheld from Me V eigh ’ s law yers.
B y S teve L e B lanc
T he A ssociated P ress
B O ST O N — F orm er P resident Ford
w as ho n o red M onday w ith the John F.
K en n ed y P rofile in C o u rag e A w ard for
p ard o n in g his p red e cesso r, say in g he
took the step in 1974 becau se he needed
to get on w ith “ th e problem s o f the
c o u n try .”
“ W hen I b ecam e president, the co u n
try w as in total turm oil w ith the w ar in
V ietn am an d th e W a te rg a te scan d al,”
F o rd said d u rin g a n ew s co n fe re n ce
b e fo re th e a w a rd s c e re m o n y at th e
K ennedy p resid en tial library.
“ It w as im portant to try an d heal the
w ounds o f those tw o trag ed ies,” he said.
“T he only w ay to clear the desk in the
O v al O ffice w as to get M r. N ix o n ’s
problem s o ff m y agenda and get m y total
attention on the problem s o f the co u n
Hanssen W ill Be
Indicted, Lawyer Says
W A SH IN G TO N — Form er FBI agent
Robert H anssen was expected to be indicted
on 21 charges o f spying for the Soviet Union
and Russia, his lawyer said. The Justice
Department, engaged in plea bargain discus
sions, had been pressing H anssen’s lawyers
to disclose w hat the veteran counterintelli
gence agent w ould tell them before they
w ould rule out seeking the death penalty.
California Rates Jump as
Much as 80%
Ecstasy Drug TradeTums
Violent
Ecstasy, the “peace and love" drug o f the
rave party culture, is igniting violent turf
wars am ong drug dealers that authorities say
resem ble the battles over crack cocaine that
devastated urban areas in the 1980s. But with
Ecstasy there is a big difference: Its primary
buyers — and m any o f its low-level dealers
— are teenagers and college kids from middle-
and upper-incom e families, rather than im
poverished addicts.
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The new Steel Bridge pedestrian and bi
cycle w alkw ay has been built on the low er
deck o f the Steel Bridge. The fully A DA
accessible crossing allow s pedestrians and
cyclist have the choice o f continuing south
along the Esplanade or going up a staircase
or ramp, across a railroad bridge, and con
necting w ith the overlook by the O regon
Convention Center and Rose Quarter.
The public boat dock provides 600 linear
feet o f eastside tie-up access for both com
m ercial and private vessels, including pos
sible future use, by river taxis. The c ity ’s
O ffice o f T ransportation had oversight for
the Steel Bridge pedestrian and bicycle cross
ing, the overlook connections and the public
boat dock attached to the floating w alkway.
“The w alkw ay creates a direct northern
connections betw een the L loyd D istrict and
O ld T ow n/dow ntow n for pedestrians and
bicyclists,” rem arked C om m issionerC harlie
H ale s. “ P o rtla n d w as fo u n d e d o n th e
W illamette River for its transportation access.
With the walkway and the new public boat
dock, we are reclaiming the river as a transpor
tation connection."
Final work to be completed on the Esplanade
Phase II includes the completion o f public
parking lots at the south end o f the project, near
the Hawthorne Bridge and improvements to
S.E Salmon and Main and Madison Streets
from the W ater Ave. These improvements are
scheduled to be com pleted this August.
Phase III. o f the project is known as the
“Crescent" the three acre riverfront parcel be
tween the Hawthorne and Marquam Bridges.
Ford Awarded 'Profile in
Courage ’ For Nixon Pardon
Freeh Admits ‘Serious Error’
SAN FR A N C ISC O — Beginning next
month, residential customers ofC alifom ia’s
two largest utilities will pay the second high
est elec trie ity rates in the country to help the
state recoup about $6 billion it has spent
trying to keep on the lights. U nder the plan
approved by state regulators, residential
custom ers w ho use the m ost pow er face
increases o f as much as 80%.
w ay (the largest in the United States), public
boat dock, new river overlooks and cantile
vered w alkw ays, plazas, riverbank restora
tion, urban markers with lighting and interpre
tive panels, public art. and a new boat dock at
the E astbank fire station.
The Esplanade is a jo in t project o f the
Portland Development Com mission and Port
land Parks and Recreation.
P hoto by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Remembering
Fallen Heroes
Tina Musgrave, the wife of Portland Police detective Tim Musgrave, places a rose on the
Portland Police Memorial in Waterfront Park Friday as a gesture to the 25 Portland
police officers killed in the line of duty. She is a member of the Portland ROSES, a
support group comprised of police spouses. The ceremony was held as part of Peace
Officers Memorial Day and National Police Memorial Week.
I
try ”
O n Sept. 8, 1974, a m o n th afte r step
ping into o ffice follow ing N ix o n 's resig
nation, Ford offered the form er p re si
dent a “ full, free and ab so lu te p ard o n ."
“ It w as an ex trao rd in ary act o f co u r
age that historians reco g n ize w as truly in
the national in terest,” said Sen. Edw ard
M. K ennedy, w h o acknow ledged h e 'd
criticized F ord at the tim e
C ritics said the pardon put a p rem a
tu re end to fu rth e r in v e stig a tio n into
N ix o n 's role in the W atergate scandal. In
an unp reced en ted ap p earan ce by a p resi
dent b efo re the U.S. H o u se Judiciary
C om m ittee, F ord ex plained under oath
that there w ere no deals co nnected w ith
the pardon.
T w o years later, F ord lost on e o f the
closest elections in the co u n try ’s h is
tory to Jim m y C arter, in part because o f
his decision to pardon N ixon.
A lso cited for political courage M o n
day w as civil rights leader and U.S. Rep.
John L ew is, w ho w as beaten as he and
others challenged seg reg atio n ist p o li
cies at bus term inals th ro u g h o u t the
South during the “F reedom R ides" o f
1961. H e w as given a special Profile in
C o u rag e A w ard for lifetim e ach iev e
m ent.
L ew is, the son o f sharecroppers, o r
g a n iz e d s it-in s at s e g re g a te d lu n c h
counters in T ennessee and then v olun
teered to participate in the “Freedom
R ides” 40 years ago this m onth to p ro
test segregated interstate bus term inals.
L e w is a n d o th e rs w e re s e v e re ly
beaten.
“ It w as very dangerous to get on a
bus in W ashington, D C ., on M ay 4,
1961, and to try to enter a so-called
w hite w aiting ro o m .’ It w as like putting
your life on the line, but I had to do it. It
w as the right thing to d o ," L ew is said.
Four years later, L ew is w as an o rg a
nizer o f a protest that led to the "B loody
S unday” attack by state troopers at the
Edm und Pettus Bridge in Selm a, Ala
T he attack helped lead to the V oting
Rights A ct o f 1965 K ennedy said L ew is
u n d ersta n d s “ A m erica w ill n ev e r b e
A m erica until w e free ourselves from
the stain o f d iscrim ination.” The John F.
K ennedy Profile in C ourage A w ard is
presented an n u a lly to an e le c te d o f f i
cial w h o h as w ith sto o d stro n g o p p o
sitio n to fo llo w w hat h e o r sh e b e
lie v es is th e rig h t d ec isio n .