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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.
Cox Sz Cox Funeral Chapel
2736 NE Rodney
Portland, Oregon 97212
(503) 281-4891
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This ad dedicated to the loved ones who passed In:
2002
Bower, Forrest 2-7-02
Kane, Sophie 2-20-02
Gibson, Osceola 3-2-02
Lindley, Bennie 2-12-02
Goldsby, Albert 3-3-02
Marks Sr., 2-20-02
Hall, Howard Lee I -9-02
Pendergraph, Dannie 1 -29-02
Hammick Jr., Byron Clay 2-22-02
Pritchard, Gina 3-21-02
Hampton, Alvin 3-8-02
Rhodda Trudy Beaty-Smith 3-9-02
Hill, James C 1-9-02
Thompson, Jerry W oop 1-30-02
Jackson, Velma 3-6-02
Weaver, Arthur, 2-26-02
Johnson, Carol 1-5-02
Wilson, Anthony C. 3-21-02
Johnson, Debbie 1-11-02
We thank those families who have patronized our business.
Campaign on Inhalants
Substance abuse prevention
advocates recently announced a
new public awareness campaign
directed to the Hispanic commu
nity in Oregon. 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
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Frank Edward Sims
Cubans flee from their native country in a raft for a better life
somewhere else in the play, "A Bicycle Country."
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11 AM
“He Got Up”
Workshop Choir with
Minister David Hart
3:30 PM