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Argentina Looks for Economic
Xerox Gives to Migrant
Leadership After Riots
Families and Needy Groups
Bloody riots in Argentina resulting from the
country’s economic collapse led to the
resignation o f Argentina's finance minister and
ousting o f President Fernando de la Rua.
Xerox Office Printing Business volunteers distribute food and clothing items as Christmas
donations to Casa de Zion in Wilsonville and two other charitable organizations in Portland.
Xerox Office Printing Busi­
ness is one company that has
gone above and beyond this
year. The W ilsonville-based
company is giving employees
an opportunity to directly con­
tribute to three charitable orga­
nizations - Casa de Zion, the
Oregon Food Bank and the Port­
land Rescue Mission. In addi­
tion to contributing $5,000 to
each organization, employees
and community members will have
the opportunity to personally get
involved.
On Dec. 15, Xerox volunteers
distributed food boxes, toys, cloth­
ing and other needed items to Casa
deZion, which serves 115 migrant
camps in the Willamette Valley.
Later that week, abusloadofXerox
OPB employees delivered food
collected at their Wilsonville facil­
ity to the Oregon Food Bank and
will take a tour of the facility after
delivering the food. Albertson’s
did their part as well by doing a
matching program with the funds
Xerox OPB is using to purchase
food for the food bank.
Another recipient o f Xerox
OPB' s donations of clothing and
toiletries, is the New Life Pro­
gram at the Portland Rescue
Mission. This will assist 45 re­
covering homeless men.
M o r e L a t i n o s E n r o l l in O r e g o n S c h o o l s
(AP) - The number o f Latino
students in O reg o n ’s schools
grew by 11 percent this year, ac­
cording to the state’s enrollment
report for 2001.
That continues a decade-long
trend o f growth for Latino stu­
dents in Oregon that has districts
hiring more Spanish-speaking
teachers and introducing bilingual
services such as m orning an­
nouncements in Spanish at some
schools.
A ccording to state figures,
enrollment among Latino students
has grown 8 percent to 14 percent
each year since 1990. This fall,
62,418 Latino students were en­
rolled in Oregon schools.
At about 11 percent of the total
student population. Latino stu­
dents make up the state’s largest
minority. Numbers of other mi­
norities have also increased, but
at a slower rate, while the white
population has decreased slightly
over the past decade.
The overall student population
in Oregon schools grew by about
1 percent to 551,000 this year.
Latino students account for
half the new students in Oregon
schools since 1987.
E x c a r c e la n a s e is p r e s u n to s m ie m b r o s
d e “ a p a r a to p o lític o ” d e E T A
Madrid (EFE) - La Audiencia
Nacional española ordenó hoy la
p u e sta en lib e r ta d de se is
presuntos miembros del “aparato
político” de ETA, aunque admitió
la relación entre este entramado y
la
v io le n c ia
c a lle je r a ,
protagonizada por jóvenes del
entorno de la banda terrorista.
El alto tribunal fijó una fianza
de 5 millones de pesetas (unos
27.000 dólares) para cada uno de
los excarcelados, aunque admitió
que “la existencia de una relación
de EKIN con la violencia callejera
no está desprovista de sustento”.
La Audiencia Nacional asegura
que “los indicios explicados y
expuestos de relación de EKIN
con la v io le n c ia c a lle je r a
justifican una imputación penal,
pero no el mantenimiento de la
prisión provisional”.
L as p e rso n a s p u e sta s en
lib e rta d son Ju a n M aría
Mendizábal, Jaime Iribarren, Paul
Asensio, Peio Jon Sánchez Olatz
Egiguren y laex portavoz de Harrai
Ane Lizarralde.
Todos ellos estaban en prisión
por orden del juez Bal tasar Garzón
desde el pasado 15 de septiembre
ju n to a otros siete supuestos
integrantes de EKIN, que fueron
excarcelados en abril pasado.
E K IN , seg ú n se ñ a la ro n
e n to n c e s las a u to r id a d e s
españolas, es responsable de la
e s tr a te g ia
de
a te n ta d o s
te rro ris ta s , de la v io le n c ia
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
(Reuters) — Argentina began to
plan a new government Friday after
bloody riots over austerity mea­
sures claimed 25 lives and toppled
its president, who will be replaced
by a transition leader until new
elections in a few months’ time.
With the shattered capital still
fearful of looting that continued
only sporadically overnight after
four hot summer nights o f vio­
lence, Argentina’s Congress Fri­
day formally accepted the resig­
nation of President Fernando de
la Rua and immediately suspended
debate on his succession.
The vote also automatically
established Senate chief Ramon
Puerta, of the opposition Peronist
Party, as acting president.
In effect, Peronist Party lead­
ers are going behind closed doors
to debate between themselves if
and when new presidential elec­
tions must be held or whether
someone will be designated to
complete the two years remaining
Police officer guards a branch o f Banco de la
Nacin. Whose windows were broken by
demonstrators in Buenos Aires.
in De la Rua’s four-year term.
Most senior Peronists have
expressed their support for hold­
ing elections within a 90 day pe­
riod. The Peronist Party was thrust
into power Thursday after De la
Rua was forced out of office fol­
lowing widespread riots and loot­
ing sparked by massive opposi­
tion to his austerity measures.
Puerta, unknown to most of
Argentina's 36 million people,
faces the mammoth task of making
the streets safe from gangs of
looters from the slums terrorizing
shopkeepers and o f restoring or­
der to an economy brought to a
total standstill.
De la Rua Friday lifted a state of
siege, which was decreed in the
heat of rioting and which sparked
a strike call by trade unions.
But many shops were still shut
or were guarded by armed guards.
O f the 25 dead, 18 were looters
shot by shopkeepers defending
their goods, five died in rioting in
a historic plaza.
Economic woes create
fear on the streets
The hungry slum-dwellers who
looted, and middle-class people
and merchants who erupted into
peaceful protest against De la Rua
on Thursday by banging pots and
pans and pouring into streets and
squares, shared anger at economic
mismanagement.
Latin America’s No.3 economy,
star of emerging markets in the
1990s, has been gutted by a four-
year recession that has pushed it
to the brink of default on its $ 132
billion debt and by the collapse of
its currency peg to the dollar.
De la Rua and his form er
E conom y M inister D om ingo
'C av allo , who also quit ju st re­
cently. put the population on a
crash diet o f pay and pension
cuts to keep up debt paym ents
and this month imposed draco­
nian lim its on cash w ithdraw als
that dried up any econom ic ac­
tivity and enraged savers and
m erchants alike.
OREGON’S
SMOKEFREE
WORKPLACE
LAW
A NEW LAW EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2 0 0 2
callejera, de la financiación y de
la dirección política de ETA, en
una auténtica “codirección” con
la banda terrorista.
Este entramado, a su juicio,
c o n stitu y e parte del nú cleo
re s p o n s a b le de la n u eva
estru ctu ra de ETA, tras su
reorganización durante el alto el
fuego que la banda arm ada
mantuvo desde septiembre de 1998
hasta diciembre de 1999.
Desde enero de 2000, ET A ha
asesinado a 35 personas, que se
sum an a la lista de 800 víctim as
m ortales que la organización
terrorista se ha cobrado desde
su fundación en la década de los
años 60, durante el régim en
franquista.
UNDER OREGON'S
NEW LAW MOST
WORKPLACES ARE
REQUIRED TO BE
SMOKEFREE.
For more information about the law, contact:
www.healthoregon.org/tobacco or call toll-free 1-866-621-6107
N e w Y e a r ’ s E v e C e l e b r a t io n
15 de septiembre - S e p t 15
asesinado - asassination
autoridades españolas - Spanish authorities
banda terrorista - terrorist gamg
callejera-street
diciembre de 1999 - December o f 1999
ex portavoz-ex-spokesm an
fianza-surety
fijó-fixed
fundación - foundation
jóvenes - young men, young women
la nueva estructura - the new structure
libertad-freedom
seis presuntos miembros -s ix presumed members
supuestos - assumptions
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