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September 12, 2001 Page B6 Recreating a Classic Greek Myth With Modern Context The M iracle T heatre G roup launches its 1 S'*1 Season o f H ope w ith the O regon Prem iere o f “ Icarus," E dw in S anchez’s exciting new dram a that explores the stuff o f dream s, im agination, and passion - the quest to capture beauty and escape the torm ent o f o n e’s circum stances. The G reek m yth o f the boy whose wax wings melted when he flew too close to the sun, shares the name with Edwin Sanchez’s play currently in production at the Miracle Theater, "Icarus.” In the original story, Icarus is given wings by his father in order to escape from the treacherous labyrinth o f the M inotaur. M esm erized by the sen suous heat the dazzling brilliance o f the sun, the young man is draw n ever upward in an attem pt to touch the source o f the radiant beauty. But the heat turns deadly, melting the w ax that bind his feathers into w ings, plunging him to his death in the sea far below. A s in the original m yth, Sanchez’s “Icarus” also explores the stuff o f dreams, im agination, and passion - the quest to capture beauty and escape the torm ent o f o n e ’s circum stances. W hat is extraor dinary about this “Icarus” is the m atter- of-fact w ay in w hich we are introduced to the rem arkable characters that live in his world, dam aged, physically or otherwise. A vacant beach house becom es a refuge for a paraplegic H ollyw ood hopeful try ing to touch the sun, his sister hiding her deform ed face behind the am bition she fuels him w ith, and a m an w ith a suitcase o f dream s. An aging starlet and “the ugliest m an in the w orld” crash into their w orld and change things forever. A p re v ie w o f “Ic a ru s” w ill be h eld on T h u rsd a y , Sept. 13 at 7:3 0 p.m . O p en in g n ig h t, h o ste d by S alv a d o r M o lly ’s, w ill be on F rid a y , Sept. 14 at 8 p.m . T he play w ill co n tin u e th ro u g h O ct. 13, T h u rsd a y s at 7 :3 0 p .m ., and F rid ay s and S atu rd ay s at 8 p.m . A ll p e rfo rm an ce s w ill be h eld at El C e n tro M ilagro, 525 SE S tark. F o r re s erv a tio n s and in fo rm atio n , call 503- 236-7253. Challenging our concepts of beauty and human behavior are (from left) Jim Garcia as Primitivo, Ina V. Strauss as Altagracia and Shuhe as Beau of the Miracle Theatre Group performing “Icarus, ” a play based on a Greek myth. Former Cocaine Drug Boss Extradited to U.S. M IAM I (AP) — His peaceful bid to avoid extradition ended, C olom bian drug kingpin Fabio O choa w as delivered to the U nited States to face charges that he be longed to a gang that smuggled in 30 tons o f cocaine a month. Ochoa, a former top leader of the notorious M edellin cartel, is the highest-proftle Colom bian sent to face charges in the United States since Colombia revived extraditions in 1997. D espite years o f U.S.-backed drug-fighting efforts, C olom bia rem ains the w orld’s leading co caine exporting nation and an in creasingly im portant source o f the heroin sold in this country. The State D epartm ent warned A m ericans in Colom bia to take ex tra security precautions, noting “the past history o f narcotics traf fickers conducting bom bings in public areas as a reprisal for or deterrent to extradition.” Ochoa fought extradition peace fully with legal appeals and an Internet page outlining his defense, and by e re ctin g b illb o ard s in Bogota and M edellin proclaiming: “ Yesterday I made a mistake, today I am innocent.” That struggle ended when he was put on a DEA plane in Bogota after a Colom bian judge lifted an order he had granted earlier sus pending the handover. In 1990, O choa was the first m a jo r Colom bian trafficker to surren der in return for a prom ise that he would not be extradited. W hen he and tw o older brothers w erereleasedfrom jailin 1996, they prom ised never to get involved in the drug business again. The U.S. extradition request, based largely on bugged conver sations, says O choa broke that pledge, contributing his know-how to the exporting ring and helping provide cocaine, airplanes and smuggling routes. O choa was arrested in October 1999 along with dozens o f other suspected traffickers. The last major cartel figure extra dited was Carlos Lehder, delivered Bush, Fox Discuss Migration Plan W A SH IN G T O N (A P )— M exican P resident V icente Fox opened a state visit by challenging P resident B ush to w ork out a bilateral m igration agreem ent before the end o f year. Flanked by Bush on the W hite H ouse South I^ w n , Fox said he envisions an agreem ent that will allow him and B ush, before the end o f their respective term s in office, “to m ake sure that there are no M exicans w ho have not entered this country legally in the U nited States and that those M exicans w ho have com e into the country do so w ith the p rop er d o cu m en ts.” W hite H ouse spokesm an A ri F leischer said he did not know w hat Fox m eant by setting a year-end goal for an agreem ent. H e said he hoped to find out in the m eetings betw een U.S. and M exican officials, w hich w ere being held after the w elcom ing cerem ony. M exican em bassy officials said they w ere equally puzzled by 2001 CARPET CLEAN UP f to U.S. authorities in 1987. He was sentenced in Jacksonville to life without parole, plus 135 years. Under the Medellin cartel’s pres sure, extradition was declared un constitutional in 1991. C olom bia reinstated extradition in D ecem ber 1997 at the request o f the United States. Since then, three dozen Colom bians have been extradited to the United States. If convicted, O choa could face up to life in prison. The minimum on two charges — conspiracy to im port cocaine into the United States and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine — is 10 years, and the least he could serve on a charge o f money laundering conspiracy is 20 years, Kilmer said. Ç& T y 251 N.E. Kilpatrick Portland. OR ends in 2005 and F o x ’s in 2006. S ecretary o f State C olin Pow ell said substantial progress had been m ade tow ard agreem ent on principles and that the tw o sides (503) 283-0414 w ere beginning to w ork on specifics. A fter their rem ark s, B ush m et w ith Fox at the W hite H ouse along w ith aides. I I 4 .................................... ...................... i Fabio Ochoa was a former top leader of the Medellin cartel. 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