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Page B6 Üartlauh berrurr April 10, 2002 EIL ©8SEIRVÄ©©IR i@ 9 R eligion Venezuela Leader Portland State University Holds Targets Protest (AP) — President Hugo Chavez dism issed seven dissident oil executives, moving to crush a revolt against the leadership of Venezuela’s state oil mo nopoly that threatened the production of one o f the United States’ top crude suppliers. Chavez also announced President Hugo Chavez holds up Sunday that he had forced a brochure on Petroleos de the retirement o f 12 other Venezuela, the largest crude oil em ployees at Petróleos de supplier to the United States, Venezuela, or PDV S A, and and the largest outside the w arned there w ould be m ore firin g s if the monthlong protest continued. But rebellious workers — w ho are upset by recent government appointments to top company posts they say were political — ignored his threats, staging a rowdy protest at the com pany’s Caracas headquarters. The conflict has handed Chavez one o f the biggest challenges of his three-year-old presidency. Oil accounts for a third of the South American nation’s gross domestic product and 80 percent of its exports. Venezuela’s crude reserves are the largest outside the Middle East. The fi ve-week labor slowdown has forced operators to scale back production at the Paraguana refinery com plex, which produces 70 percent of Venezuela’s refined products, according to company sources who have spoken on condition of anonymity. Chavez angered longtime PDVSA executives by naming five of his own political allies to the board o f directors and leftist Gaston Parra as company president. Chavez insisted Sunday that he needs political loyalists to trim corporate spending and increase PDVSA contributions to government coffers — a goal he considers key to his promises to combat poverty and corruption. Last week, thousands of PDVSA workers stayed home, closed gates to facilities and slowed gasoline and tanker deliveries. They answered Chavez’s threats by banging pots and pans and chanting “not one step backward” at PDV SA 's Caracas offices. Created in 1976 and admired for its efficiency in a nation riddled with corruption, the multinational Petróleos de Venezuela has grown to become one o f the United States’ largest suppliers of oil. Cuban Play Premieres at Miracle Theatre Musical Mass The 80-member Portland State University Symphony Orches tra joins forces with the award-winning PSU Chamber Choir April 14 and 17 for a performance of Joseph Haydn’s “Missa in Angustiis,” better known as the “Lord Nelson Mass.” Also on the program is Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture” and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, featuring the winner of the PSU Concerto Competition, Tatyana Doroshkin. Keith Clark conducts; Bruce Browne is director of the PSU Chamber Choir. Concerts are Sunday, April 14 at ST. Mary’s Cathedral and Wednesdây, April 17 at PSU’s Lincoln Performance Hall. Both performances are 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available through the PSU Box Office, 510 S.W. Hall St. or at the door. Call 503-725-3307 for information. SPRING REVIVAL The Portland Baha’i community is invited the public to a talk and open discussion entitled “Common Shared Truths” on Friday, April 19,7:30 p.m. at 8720 N. Ivanhoe. The speaker will be Roger Nesbit, a graduate of the Lewis and Clark Law School in 1972. He has been practicing law in Portland since 1981. “Given the unfortunate conflicts between the world’s reli gions,” Nesbit said, “I hope that my talk will help us all explore how much the principals and teachings of those religions have in common.” Nesbit’s talk will cover such things as the fundamental belief in a Creator God, the nature of the human soul, life after death, dealing with our shortcomings, sacrifice, and family and commu nity life. In addition to devotions every Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m., the Portland Baha’i Community hosts a meeting that’s open to everyone every month. The Baha’i Center is next to the fire station, just off the St. Johns Bridge. Following the talk and discussion, refreshments will be served. For more information, call 503-289-6331 or 1 -800-22-UNITE, or visit www.pdx-bahai.org. Join the M iracle T heatre Group this month with the pre miere of Cuban-American play wright Nilo C ruz's “A Bicycle Country.” Three friends, caged by their fears in a poverty-stricken Cu ban village realize their hopeless situation, and build a raft to es cape their native land. With the ocean’s current guiding their quest, a brilliant story of friend ship, struggle and survival un folds. Raw courage and determi nation become their only re- source in a desperate journey of hope, which could only promise new life and fresh discovery in a land o f opportunity. A preview will be held on Thursday, April 11. The play will c o n tin u e th ro u g h M ay 11, Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Student, senior and group rates available. All performances will be held at El Centro Milagro, located at 525 S.E. Stark St. For ticket reservations and inform a tion, call 503-236-7253. Prophetess Betty Johnson Of Beaumont, Texas Experience Healing, Deliverance, Breakthroughs Wednesday Thursday Friday April 10,2002 7:00 pm April 11, 2002 7:00 pm April 12,2002 7:00 pm Allen Temple CME Church 4236 NE 8th Avenue Portland, OR 97211 (503) 287-0261 Pastor: Dr LeRoy Haynes, Jr. A funeral was held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in Killingsworth Little Chapel of the Chimes for Frank Edward Sims, who died April 3 at age 75. Mr. Sims was bom June 30, 1926, in Bir mingham, Ala. He served in the merchant marine for 42 years before moving in 1995 to Portland. Survivor include his daughters, Sherry A. Moffett, Syble K. Corey and Spring Y. Sims; son, Brian E.; sisters, M ary Jordan and Earis Finch; brothers, Emmett, Levi andCleo Jr.; 13 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. Remembrances to the National Kidney Foundation. Jessie Wooten A graveside service was held for Jessie Wooten at Finley's Sunset Hills, who died March 31 at the age of 68. Wooten was bom on June 14, 1933 in Antlus, Okla. He served as a caseworker for the State of Oregon’s Children Services. S urvivors in clu d e his sdns, B ryant Wooten, Terrance Wooten, Craig Wooten and Jonathan W ooten; daughters, Marie Wooten and Ramona Bradford; brothers, Claude Vincent and Arthur Pierce: and nine grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were by Caldwell’s Colonial Chapel. 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The Oregon Part nership is releasing new Spanish language public service announce ments for tele vision, radio and print media that focus on inhalant abuse as part of National Inhalant Aware ness Week activities. “W e recognize that the Hispanic community is the fastest growing demographic in O regon," said David Westbrook, HelpLine Direc tor at the Oregon Partnership. Oregon Partnership advertises its 24-hour HelpLine number in the Spanish Yellow Pages, and has a dedicated Spanish language line; 877-515-7848. The English language HelpLline is8OO-923-HELP I 0 h i t u a r z e s Frank Edward Sims Cubans flee from their native country in a raft for a better life somewhere else in the play, "A Bicycle Country." “Moving To The Next Level” Baha’i Faith Gives Interfaith Talk S ave B ig at B ig C ity W o rs h ip w it h u s a t th e : A lbina C h ristia n L ife C en ter Big City Produce 722 N. 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