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For Colored Girls...The Rainbow Is Enough Using poetry and music, women tell it like it is about being black and female. See Focus, page A 6 "The City Of Roses" Volume XXXII Number 8 www.portlandobserver.com Committed to Cultural Diversity Established in 1970 Wednesday February 20, 2002 50< Broadway Bridge Remains Closed for Construction Crematory Owner Back In Jail NOBLE, G a.— The operator o f a north Georgia crematory where dozens of corpses were found was arrested for a second time and charged with 11 more counts o f theft by deception. Officials said the number o f bodies scattered around the crematory grounds likely will be “in the hundreds.” U.S., Philippine Troops Join Forces UPPER MAHAY AHA Y, Philippines — U.S. special forces ventured within a few miles o f a jungle stronghold o f the Muslim extremist group targeted in counter-terrorism exercises with the Philippine military. More than 500 American troops are in the Philippines for six-month maneuvers. Government Takes Over Air Security W ASHINGTON— Responsibility for airport security moved from the airlines to the Department o f Transportation, a change officials hope will be so smooth that passengers hardly notice. The switch was ordered by Congress after the 9/11 attacks. Enron Executive Warned of ‘Outright Manipulation’ W A SH IN G TO N — Sherron W atkins, the Enron executive who raised con cerns about the com pany's books last summer, warned then-Chairman Ken neth Lay and several other executives that the company was engaging in “outright manipulations” o f income statements, a lawmaker said. Waylon Jennings Dies W aylon Jennings’ legacy will be de fined by his determination to march to his own drum m er— one who played a thumping, four-on-the-floor beat. His career came to an end when Jennings, 64, died in his Arizona hom e after a long, diabetes-related illness. Undh Pleads Innocent ALEXANDRIA. Va. — John W alker Lindh pleaded innocent to a 10-count federal indictment that charged him with conspiring to kill Americans while aTaliban soldier, and aiding Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. HM0 Costs Rising W A SH IN G TO N — O ut-of-pocket costs for M edicare recipients enrolled in health maintenance organizations rose by nearly 50% over three years, a study shows. The report also found that the sickest beneficiaries, w ho are also likely to have low incomes, had the highest increase in out-of-pocket costs. Report U.S. Women Having Moro Kids ATLANTA — American women, en couraged by a decade-long economic boom, are having more children than at any other time in the past three decades — 2.1 on average, the government said. For the first time since 1971, women are producing enough kids to offset deaths in the USA. Currently, the Broadway Bridge is completely closed due to repair work. It will reopen before the end o f the month. A construction crew is busily replacing the original mechanical parts that allow the bridge to open and close for ships. The original parts were installed in 1912. Much more extensive work will be done to the Broadway Bridge in April o f 2003, that would last twenty-one months. Total closure for the project would be for two months. The upcoming project calls for repainting part o f the bridge, repairing the deck where cars pass through, rebuilding the sidewalks and replacing the steel grating with a solid grating in the center o f the bridge. photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver Wine Company Favored for Northeast Portland Site PDC chooses “neighborhood friendly” business to occupy industrial area by L ee P erlman T he P ortland O bserver The M cClaskey Wine and Spirits may be moving to the long-vacant Martinson Bakery property at 6360 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Lois Cortell of the Portland Devel opment Commission announced last week at a commission meeting that the agency has selected McClaskey, a wine distributor currently operating on Northwest 14th Avenue, to nego tiate the sale of the long-vacant two- acre industrial property. The company currently employs 41 people, but hopes to add 15 more, Cortell says. As part of the sales agreement, they are committed to “first source” hiring to give prefer McClaskey Wine and Spirits, a wholesale distributor and supply company that services the city, has met the enthusiastic approval o f the Woodlawn neigh borhood to occupy the vacant property in northeast Portland where Martinson Bakery once stood. photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver Figure Skating Scandal Calls for Revamping Judging System SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — French •'ting chief Didier Gailhaguet pressured ges in the past and should be kicked 0 3 c .o f the International Skating Union if . forced a French judge to cheat at the £ /lympics, an ISU vice president said Í * « rfonday. “As far I know, it is not the first time for S o • Didier to make such pressure. There were c £ other cases in the past,” Katsuichiro Hisanaga of Japan said. § Le Gougne, who has been suspended indefinitely, wanted to tell the ISU her version of what happened. W hen the 11- member council met in a closed session at a downtown hotel, it did not allow her to appear. But Gailhaguet, a council member and France ’ s Olympic team chief, said she 4 ence to area residents, to give at least 20 percent of the renovation work to minority contractors, and to work with the adjacent communities on a “neigh borhood friendly” design for the build ing renovation. However, the company has com missioned SERA Architects to de velop a design for the renovated build ing. SERA conducted a Design Open House for the project last month. “People who came were very ex cited,” Cortell said. PDC commission member Carl Talton expressed, “It’s very impor tant that we get the right use for that property.” The proposal was "well received by the community,” he con tinued. Canadian pairs David Pelletier and Jamie Sale stand with their gold medals with Russians Yelena and Anton Brezhneya Sikharulidze. would be allowed to speak at another time. Gailhaguet was asked to leave the meeting midway through when other members reviewed Le Gougne’s state ments that he pressured her to vote for the Russians. Le Gougne provided the swing vote in $ a 5-4 decision that gave the gold to a Russian couple over Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier. After an outcry — and accusations of vote-swapping among ice skating judges — the ISU and International Olympic Committee awarded the Canadians their own gold medals. Le Gougne told L ’Equipe she was ver bally attacked by ISU technical commit tee chairwoman Sally Stapleford last week in the lobby of the same hotel where the ISU council met Monday, and felt physi cally threatened because of the way she had voted. American attorney John Jackson, an ISU championship judge, witnessed Le Gougne* s outburst, along with Stapleford and two other technical committee mem bers, W alburga Grimm of Germany and Britta Lindgren of Sweden. He said Le Gougne has it all wrong. Jackson also laughed off Le G ougne’s assertion that Stapleford came up with the idea that the French judge may have been pressured to vote as she did by Gailhaguet and that Stapleford was part of a Canadian conspiracy to reverse the decision. For the ISU, the thornier problem is how to stop anything like this from hap pening again. Hisanaga was asked if he was disheart ened by the judging scandal and the black mark it has left on these games. “It’s not a big surprise for m e," he said, “Figure skating ... it happens.” A »
