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The City Of Roses'
Volume XXXI
Number 43
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Established in 1970
Wednesday
October 31, 2001
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Schools Score a High Note for Music
Campaign by AT&T Broadband and V H 1 Save the Music restores music education at four area schools
FBI Warns of Now Throat
W ASHINGTON— The FBI and Attor
ney General John Ashcroft warned
Americans to be on their highest alert
for possible new attacks this week in the
USA and abroad. The alert is based on
"credible inform ation" that attacks
could happen within the next week,
Ashcroft said.
Now Cases of Anthrax
W ASHINGTON — Officials investi
gated how a New Jersey woman who
does not work for the postal service
developed skin anthrax and doctors in
New York City were monitoring a sus
pected case of the inhaled form o f the
disease in a hospital worker.
Timo Running Out to Claim
300,000 Rebate Chocks
W ASHINGTON — Charles Rossotti,
the Internal Revenue Service commis
sioner, said that taxpayers who do not
claim their rebate checks by Dec. 5 will
have to wait for the money until they file
their 2001 income tax returns next year.
Napster to Relaunch In 2002
LOS ANGELES — Napster, the W eb
service the music industry sued for
copyright infringement, said it was de
laying the launch o f its new secure
service due to difficulties in getting
major record label content.
16 Christians Massacred Inside
Church in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 16
parishioners, including three children,
were slaughtered when gunmen burst
into a Christian church in the city of
B ahaw alpurandsprayedthe congrega
tion with gunfire for 10 minutes. About
20 were wounded.
Art Alexakis o f the popular musical group Everclear Joins kids from the Kenton Elementary School Band to promote music education in four north and northeast
Portland schools.
Music education is being restored at
four north and northeast Portland schools
thanks to the Save The Music Foundation
and its $ 100,000donation of new musical
instruments and $10,000 in used musical
instruments.
Grout, Kelly, Kenton, and Woodlawn
Elementary schools will receive the new
musical instruments. Other Portland pub
lic schools will receive dozens o f refur
bished instruments collected in a local
used musical instrument drive.
Portland area residents donated 61 of
the used instruments, the most any city
has collected in the history of the VH1
Save the Music five-year campaign which
reached 43 cities across the nation this
year, foundation officials said.
New Terrrorist'Trocking Rules
W ASHINGTON — President Bush
moved to tighten restrictions on im m i
gration rules so that "aliens who com
mit or support terror" would be barred
entry to the United States.
Cleric Calls for Jihad
PESHAW AR, Pakistan — As U.S.
bombs fell on Afghanistan again.. 1,000
representatives o f the country's far-
flung factions and tribes arrived here to
try to begin work on a government for
post-Taliban Afghanistan.
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Donor pays to keep
homeless camp near
airport
TOKYO— Japan's Defense Ministry is
considering sending four warships to
the Indian Ocean as parliament pre
pares to vote on legislation giving the
military a broader mandate to partici
pate in the U.S .-led war on terror, a major
newspaper reported.
Afghans Make a Bid for Unify
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Maneuvering Around Rail Construction Dignity
Village
Stays Put
Report: Japan May Send Warships
to Support U.S.
PESHAWAR. Pakistan — Thousands
of people, some armed, are answering an
slamic cleric' s call for holy war against
the United States, streaming toward a
northwestern town and determined to
fight in Afghanistan, militant leaders said.
The VH1 Save The Music Foundauon
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
improving the quality of education in
A m erica's public schools by restoring
Businesses along Interstate Avenue In north Portland use signboards to guide customers around stockpiled rail and
other obstacles during the construction of a 5.8-mlle long light rail line from the Rose Quarter to the Expo Center. Trl-
Met hopes to alleviate some of the confusion with a new "Open for Business ’ campaign.
photo by M ark
W ashington /T he P ortlano O bserver
Americans on High Alert for New Attack
(AP) - ABC News has learned that
intelligence intercepts of suspected ter
rorist phone calls prompted top law en
forcement officials to issue a stark new
warning for the nation to remain on high
alert for a terrorist attack.
Members o f Osama bin Laden's net
work could be plotting attacks in retalia
tion for the U.S.-led bombing of Afghani
stan, government officials said.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said
the warning - the second this month - was
based on credible information, described
by others as coming from intelligence
sources, that terrorists could strike within
the United States or against U.S. interests
overseas. The information did not specify
the type of attack or targets. Ashcroft said.
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After the alert went out. Vice President
Dick Cheney was spirited Monday night
to an undisclosed secure location and
remained there Tuesday in order to safe
guard the continuity o f government in the
event o f an attack on President Bush.
Tom Ridge. Bush's director of domes
tic security, said Tuesday that Americans
should get use to being cautious.
"Until we root out the terrorists within
us and until we take care of the terrorists
in Afghanistan ... this country as of Sept.
11 is going to have to be at a heightened
state o f alert for the foreseeable future."
Ridge said.
As on Oct. 11, when the FBI issued a
similar warning. Ashcroft tried to walk a
fine line between giving the public prompt
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and necessary warnings and not causing
panic.
The alert "gives people a basis for con
tinuing to live their lives the way they
would otherwise live them, with this el
evated sense of alertness or vigilance,"
Ashcroft told a news conference.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said the
Oct. 11 warning may have helped avert an
attack. Ashcroft said the absence of an
attack should not lull people "into a false
sense of indifference."
"It's important for the American people
to understand that these (alerts) are to be
taken seriously," said Ashcroft, who can
celed plans to travel Monday to Toronto
to address a conference of police chiefs.
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(A P)— Dignity Village. the tent city
comprised of homeless people, will be
allowed to stay near the Portland Inter
national Airport for six more months
after a local man agreed to pay the city
about $20,000 to cover the cost o f m ov
ing its leaf-composting program.
“Dignity Village is worth it," said
Leland Larson of Happy Valley. “It's
not a pie-in-the-sky idea. It's a dream
that can be realized. I'm willing to go the
distance with (the campers) because I
care for them a lot.”
The village sits on a 7-acre parcel
owned by the city, just southwest of
the airport. The property, Sunderland
Yard, normally is used in the fall to
compost leaves from city streets.
With the city’s blessing. Dignity Vil
lage moved there in September from a
spot beneath the foot of the Fremont
Bridge's west end. Campers were told
they'd have to find a new spot by Nov.
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City Commissioner Erik Sten said it
will cost the city roughly $20,000 to
operate its leaf composting site for the
six-month period. Larson's payment
would give city officials the choice of
either contracting out the composting
to a local recycling company or using
the money to make improvements at the
Sunderland site.
“I think it's the best idea for every
one," Sten said. “T hey've really done a
remarkable job out there, and 1 think the
worst thing we can do to them is force
people into a neighborhood that doesn' t
want them."
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