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Volume XXXI
Number 41
"The City City
Of Roses"
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Wednesday
October 10, 2001
Anti-Terror War Goes ‘Around the Clock’
REVIEW
Palestinians Close Gaza Schools
After Deadly Protests
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip— Palestinian
leaders closed universities and schools
in the Gaza Strip after two Palestinians
were killed and more than 210 hurt in
the deadliest internal fighting in years.
The demonstrations were sparked by
the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan.
Hurricane Iris strikes Belize
BELIZECITY, Belize— Hurricane Iris
quickly lost strength after making land­
fall in Belize, with winds dropping from
140 mph to 80 mph. The compact storm
weakened rapidly after striking land 80
miles south-southwest of Belize C ity.
American, Two British Scientists
W in Nobel Prizes
STOCKHOLM, Sweden— An Ameri­
can and two British scientists won the
Nobel Prize in medicine for their dis­
coveries of key regulators of cell de­
velopment, which is helping cancer
research. W inners include Leland H.
Hartwell, R. Timothy Hunt and Paul M.
Nurse.
114 Killed in Runway Crash
MILAN. Italy — An SAS airliner
swerved to avoid a small private plane
on the runway at M ilan’s Linate air­
port, crashing into a building and kill­
ing at least 114 people in a fire, a fire
department official said.
Crew Successfully Raises Kursk
MURMANSK, Russia— A daring ef­
fort to raise the Kursk nuclear subma­
rine from the Barents Sea floor suc­
ceeded when a Dutch consortium
pulled it to a giant barge more than a
year after it sank. The operation took
15 hours, and the submarine is being
moved to a dry dock.
Anthrax Found in Second Man
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Anthrax has
been detected in a co-worker of a man
who died from the disease. Tests at the
building where both worked have
found evidence of the bacterium. Offi­
cials didn’t say if the cases were re­
lated to terrorism. No American had
died from anthrax since 1976.
Missile May Have Downed Jet
WASHINGTON— A missile fired dur­
ing a military drill in the Ukraine may
have b rought dow n the R ussian
Tupolev 154 airliner that was flying
from Tel Aviv to Siberia, a U.S. military
official said. The jet carried 77 people.
Pakistan: Enough Evidence to
Indict bin Laden
ISLAM ABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan
believes there is sufficient evidence
against O sam a bin Laden to indict
him for Sept. 11 attacks on the USA.
the foreign ministry spokesman said.
It was the strongest statem ent from
a M uslim country concerning bin
Laden.
(A P)— Tens of thousands
of New Yorkers cheered an
Oregon “Flight for Freedom”
deleg ation M onday as it
marched up 5th Avenue in
the city's annual Columbus
Day parade.
Sporting “Oregon loves
NY” T-shirts, about 400 O r­
e g o n ia n s m a rc h e d past
T rum p T ow er, B erg d o rf
Goodman and posh upper-
East Side apartments along
the 2.1-mile route.
“I love you,” said Bobby
Valentine, grand marshal of
the parade and the manager
of the New Y ork Mets. "That's
exactly the spirit of America.
There are some that talk about
it, and some that demonstrate
it. These guys are demon­
strating it.”
“Hey Oregon, thanks for
c o m in g !” y e lle d N ancy
Mechaber from the crowd ot
150,000 to 200,000 parade
watchers.
The Oregon contingent of
about 900 was led by Portland
Mayor Vera Katz and included
elected and business leaders
from around the state. The
project was organized to show
support for New York City
during the crisis.
For the Oregonians who
traveled toNew Yorkoverthe
weekend on the “Flight for
Freedom," the parade was the
emotional highlight of the trip
— and some, including former
H erm iston M ayor Frank
Harkenrider, said it was the
highlight of their lives.
Harkenrider, 74, marched
with his wife, Bev, hugging
New Yorkers left and right on
this his first trip to the Big
Apple. “I’m just a little kid
from the sticks," Harkenrider
said. “It’s the most unbeliev­
able thing.”
It wasn’t just at the parade
that Oregonians were wel­
comed. New York Gov. George
Pataki showed up at a final
reception in the Grand Ball­
room of the Waldorf-Astoria
to thank the group for coming.
Airport Boosts
Security
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port has rolled out more secu­
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possible retaliation following
the U.S. bombing in Afghani-
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Combat Against
Terrorists, Supporters
Could Continue
Indefinitely
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Visitors
An F-14 Tomcat is serviced by Navy
personnel aboard the USS Enterprise
in the northern Indian Ocean on
Sunday, Oct. 7. (AP Photo)
bv DAVID ESPO
T he A ssociated P ress
A m erican pilots bom bed targets in
A fghanistan day and night Tuesday in
w hat President Bush term ed an open-
ended cam paign against terrorism . The
U nited N ations listed four security
guards as civilian casualties of the m ili­
tary bom bardm ent.
"W ith the success o f previous raids,
we believe we are now able to carry out
strikes more or less around the clock as
we w ish,” D efense Secretary D onald H.
Rum sfeld said at the Pentagon.
A dm inistration officials declined to
specify the targets o f the renew ed a t­
tacks. But anti-aircraft fire could be heard
in the Afghan capital. Kabul, and Taliban
officials reported bom bs falling around
their headquarters in K andahar and the
northw estern city o f Herat.
Four w eeks after the w orst terrorist
attack on A m erican soil. Bush m oved
quickly to beef up his new O ffice of
Hom eland Security and was conferring
w ith G erm an C h a n c e llo r G e rh a rd
Schroeder, whose nation has offered to
assist in m ilitary operations.
Bush sent a form al notification to
C ongress in a letter to the leaders o f the
H ouse and Senate. He said com bat
against al-Q aida terrorists and their
Taliban supporters that began on S un­
day w ould continue indefinitely.
“It is not possible to know at this time
either the duration o f com bat opera­
tions or the scope and duration o f the
deploym ent," he w rote. “It is likely that
the A m erican cam paign against terror­
ism will be lengthy."
In Florida, the FBI continued its in­
vestigation into the death of one man
from anthrax, and the exposure of a co ­
w orker to the deadly disease.
"It remains a situation of concern with
Sen. Jack Reed. D-R.I., chairman of the
the federal governm ent," said W hite
Senate housing subcommittee, said the report
House spokesman Ari Fleischer, as offi­
shows the shortcomings of federal policy -
cials offered antibiotics as a precaution to
including years o f declining federal funding
hundreds who worked in the same build­
for affordable housing.
ing as the two men. Fleischer added, how­
“It would seem self-evident that if one goes
ever, that “it’s not unusual at times like this
to work every day and collects a regular pay-
for false alarms to go off.
check, that should be enough to secure a
At the Pentagon. Rumsfeld said the
reasonable place to live and take care of one s
United States had no independent verifi­
family "R eedsaid.
cation of the reported deaths of the U.N.
Workers in California and the mid-Atlantic
workers, or whether they might have died
region of the East Coast needed the most
after being hit by anti-aircraft fire.
income to afford a modest two-bedroom apart -
“N evertheless we regret the loss of
ment, while those in Puerto Rico and much ot
life," he said.
the deep South needed the least, the report
"If there w ere an easy way to root
showed.
terrorist netw orks out o f countries that
In a third of all jurisdictions, the housing
harbor them , it w ould be a blessing, but
wage is more than twice the area's minimum
there is not," he added.
wage - meaning a fami ly needs at least two full -
The defense chief added that some
time minimum wage earners to afford even
ground forces “w ere targeted in the
modest rental housing. Ten states, including
north" of A fghanistan, where the forces
Oregon and the District o f Columbia have set
of the northern alliance are arrayed
minimum wages above the federal figure.
against them .
Study Finds Housing Out of Reach
Workers need nearly three times the minimum
wage to pay rent on even a modest apartment
(AP) - The average U.S. worker must earn
at least $ 13.87 an hour - nearly three times the
federal minimum wage - to pay the rent on
even a modest two-bedroom apartment, ac­
cording to a private study released last week.
As in the past, the annual “Out of Reach'
report by the National Low Income Housing
Coalition found there is no jurisdiction in the
country where someone working full lime at
the $5.15-an-hour federal minimum wage can
afford an apartment. This year, the analysis
concluded the gap between a minimum-wage
salary and the cost of housing grew faster
than before and widened virtually every­
where.
The W ashington-based advocacy group
favors increased federal spending on afford­
able housing and raising the minimum wage.
“Housing is the beginning, the founda­
tion, the stability that people must have to go
to work each day. send their children to
school, arrange transportation and child care,
and generally succeed in life,” the report said.
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