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August 21,2002 (Clic ^¡Jortlanb (ßbseruer Page A2 P olice Sept. 11 Victims Sue for $lTrillion Saudi princes, banks and charities accused in terrorism support B u t th e s u it a lso is th e ra p e u tic , a n d th e p la in tif f s fa c e lo n g o d d s , th e f a m ilie s a c k n o w l edged. “ I t’s n ot th e m o n e y . W e w an t to d o s o m e th in g to g et at th e se p e o p l e , ” s a id I r e n e S p in a , w h o s e d a u g h te r , L is a L. T r e r o to la , 3 8 , p e ris h e d in th e W o rld T ra d e C e n te r. “ T h e r e ’s n o th in g e ls e w e ca n d o .” “T h is is th e r ig h t th in g to d o ,” sa id M a tt S e llito , f a th e r o f M a tth e w C a rm e n S e llito , 23, w h o a ls o d ie d in th e W o rld T ra d e C e n te r. “ I f th e o d d s are s ta c k e d a g a in s t u s, w e w ill (A P ) — S o m e 6 0 0 fa m ily m e m b e rs o f S e p t. 11 v ic tim s filed a trillio n -d o llar fed eral law - su it T h u rs d a y a g a in s t S a u d i o ffic ia ls , b a n k s a n d c h a r itie s , c h a rg in g th e y fin a n c e d O s a m a b in L a d e n ’s n e tw o rk a n d th e a tta c k s o n N ew Y o rk a n d W a sh in g to n . T h e 1 5 -co u n t la w s u it, m o d e le d a f te r a c tio n file d a g a in s t L ib y a in th e P a n A m flig h t 103 d isa ste r, se e k s to c rip p le b a n k s, c h a ritie s an d so m e m e m b e rs o f th e S a u d i ro y a l fa m ily as a d e te rre n t to te rr o r is t fin a n c in g sch em es. GET ON-BOARD TRI-MET AND MAKE YOUR CAREER CONNECTION ' ! ! b e a t th e m ." T h e 2 5 8 - p a g e c o m p la i n t, file d e le c tro n ic a lly T h u rs d a y in U .S . D is tric t C o u rt in A le x a n d ria , se e k s m o re th a n $ 1 tr il lio n a n d c h a r g e s th e d e f e n d a n t s w ith r a c k e t e e r i n g , w ro n g fu l d e a th , n e g lig e n c e and c o n s p ira c y . L e a d a tto rn e y R on M o tle y sa id th e m o n e y w o u ld lik e ly c o m e la rg e ly fro m a s s e ts h e ld by th e d e f e n d a n ts in th e U n ite d S ta te s. H e sa id th e p la in tiffs w e re a f te r m o re in s titu tio n s th a n th o s e w h o s e a s s e ts a l re a d y h a v e b ee n fro z e n by th e offering exciting career opportunities in many different areas. Missing Oregon City Girls ‘Suspect’ Arrested (A P )— The self-proclaimed No. 1 suspect in the disappearance of two Oregon City girls was arrested Aug. 13 on an unrelated rape charge, police said. W ard W eaver, who lives in a house near the apartment com plex where Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis were last seen, was taken into custody by Oregon City police. At about the same time o f his arrest. W eaver’s oldest son told em ergency dispatchers his father claim ed to have killed the two teen age girls and was moving to Mexico. (A P) — T he O regon Liquor C ontrol Com m ission voted T hurs day to ban nude dancers younger than 21 from the state’s bars and clubs beginning next year. T he change also requires that nightspots apply for special per m ission if they w ant to hire u nder age m usicians or other w orkers Visit Tri-Met’s website at www.tri-met.org/jobs. Call our jobline at 503-962-7640 or visit us at 4012 SE 17th Avenue TRt-MBT How we get there matters. Tri-Met ii an equal opportunity employer. *** THE BALANCE BETWEEN SECURITY & LIBERTY*** AN OPEN & PROVOCATIVE DIALOGUE ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF OUR COUNTRY, OUR LIBERTY, & OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE SEPTEMBER 7, 2 0 0 2 TWO EVENTS * MANY SPEAKERS N ew H ope C o m m u n ity C h urch , 11731 SE Steven s R d., P ortlan d , O regon HOMELAND SECURITY: OUR CHILDREN S FUTURE 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. Continental breakfast 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Conference (Lunch included) N ew Realities: T he T hreat o f C hem ical, B iological & N uclear W arfare & Em ergency Preparedness: Dr. Peter Spcnccr, OHSU, Dr. Grant Higginson. Oregon Public Health, Dr. Donald Trunkcy, OHSU, Dr. Helen Miller. Doembcchcr Children’s Hospital. Jamie Baxter. R.N., Oregon Disaster Medical Team, John Wyrick. Energy Northwest. Warren Becker. American Red Cross C onstitution al R ights, Bias C rim es, Im m igration, and Hom eland Security: FBI Special Agent Jay Bencowsky, Sgt. Keith M orse. P.P.B., Elisa Clay, Civil Rights Activist, James Bissett, Ottawa. Canada Dr Gary Perl stem, PSU The A tlanta Special Task Force for M issing & M urdered C hildren: Im m igration and C ounter-terrorism : C’het Dcltljngcr, J .D , Atlanta, Georgia Martin C'ollaeott. Vancouver, Canada The Untold Story: Oklahom a City D om estic Terrorism: Ted Gunderson, Las Vegas, Nevada Dr. Randy Blazak, PSU T errorpaths and Terror Cults: Silent Universal Signals for Public Safety & Educational Professionals Stephen M organ, Brussels, Belgium Bob Dent & Al M om s, (he Constable Group Inc. TEACHING OUR CHILDREN THE COURAGE OE AMERICAS HEROES Honoring the Heroes of September 11: 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Master of Ceremonies: Mike Donahue Invocation: Multi-faith Prayer SSG Christopher Braman, US Army, Pentagon Nancy Dorr, Honor Thy Children Foundation A Soldier’s Story o f Courage and Valor on September 11 Making a Difference in the Hour o f Our Country’s Need Firefighter Neil Martin, Portland Fire Bureau, Ste 1 Steven Myren, Oregon Disaster Medical Team Ground Zero • 11 Days at Ground Zero: Grief. Pride, and Duty Ambassador Katherine Peterson, State Department International Firefighting, Leadership and Emergenty Preparedness ★ ★★★ ♦ * ★★ * ★★★ * * ♦ * * ♦ MEN IN BLACK GOSPEL CHOIR • Honor Guard • Portland Youth Philharmonic String Ensemble • Pledge of Allegiance: Brownie Troop 691 • Vocal and Musical Ensembles >r information and to register, visit us online af www.honorthvthtldrcri.lv To pay by check or to order by hone call 5O3-9O1-KIDS Tickets also available af Safeway FASTIXX centers-5O3-224-TIXX (Tickets subject to jnvenience charge) Seating is limited so register early. Homeland Security Our Children s Future. $50 caching Our Children the Courage o f Americas Heroes. $25. Proceeds from these events to benefit the onor Thy Children Foundafion. a non-profit Corporation A portion o f (he proceeds to benefit the children f the victims o f NYPD & FDNY o f September ft. Availability o f speakers subject to change.. Co-Sponsored by Multnomah County Corrections Deputies Charitable Trust A zuim M H U N T CO. t W eaver is charged w ith raping a 19-year-old w om an at his hom e. The victim ran from the hom e, flagged a passing m otorist and was taken to a nearby business w here she called 911. W eaver was later stopped and arrested on 1-205, ju st north o f the Gladstone. He is being held in the C lackam asCountyJailunder$lm il- lionbail. W eaver gained notice earl ier thi s year w hen he told reporters that au th o rities co n sid ered him the prim e suspect in the abductions o f Ward Weaver Pond and G addis. W eaver said he had been given a lie-detector test and failed it. W eaver said he did not have anything to do with the vanishings and the authorities have not pub licly identified anyone as a suspect. Pond, 13, disappeared in Jan u ary from the N ew ell C reek Village apartm ent com plex, a low -incom e developm ent tucked into a w ooded valley south o f Portland. G ad d is, P o n d ’s 1 3 -y ear-o ld neighbor, vanished tw o m onths later. during business hours. “W e need to m ake a clean sweep and deal with all m inor entertainers equally,” said Ray Baum , a co m m issioner from La Grande. The decision could face legal challenges. It follow s m onths o f debate that p itte d fre e sp e e c h a d v o c a te s against people appalled by high school students too young to sit in a b ar perform ing nude for strang ers at that sam e bar. A ndrea M eyer, o f the A m erican C ivil Liberties U nion o f O regon, and Jim Neill, a Portland attorney w ho represents entertainm ent ven- ues, said it w as too soon to say w hether they w ill go to court. The com m ission said the rule probably w ould affect 10 percent o r less o f nude dancers em ployed by licensed venues. T h ere are about 70 nude dancing establish m ents in O regon. Guilty Plea in Teen Nude Case (A P) — T he form er ow ner o f a lin g e rie m o d e lin g stu d io has pleaded guilty to a charge o f in cluding a 16-year-old girl in sexu ally explicit nude shows. Ky Christy pleaded guilty last W ednesday to attem pting to use a m inor in a sexual display. Christy had no crim inal record and there w as also no evidence he had actively recruited underage girls, said C h ristin e M ascal, a M ultnom ah C ounty deputy d is trict attorney. C h risty ad m itte d he failed to verify the g irl's age before allo w ing h e r to p a rtic ip a te in p riv ate p eep sh o w s w h ere d an c ers strip and en g ag e in se x u ally e x p lic it sh o w s fo r m oney. P o lice said the girl w o rk ed at C h risty ’ s b u sin ess fo r se v eral d ay s b efo re her m o th e r a le rte d p o lic e an d an u n d e r c o v e r s tin g w a s c o n - d u c te d , re su ltin g in C h r is ty ’s arrest. “ I understood I w as getting into a business that a lot o f people w ouldn’t do, but I thought o f m y self as a good person in a b u s in e s s th a t som e p eo p le d o n ’t like, C hristy said. “I was naive.” „ Christy w as placed in an elec-, tronically m onitored street-su p er-. vision program until his sentenc ing on Sept. 16. Former Prison Guard Charged in Kidnapping Screaming and bleeding after being dragged across an Abilene, Texas parking lot by a car that sped aw ay w ith her infant daughter, M argarita Chavez som ehow be lieved she would hold her baby again. Tw enty-six hours later, she was cradling N ancy Crystal C havez in her bandaged arms. “T h ere’s no w ords (that) can explain how I feel. M y hopes never ended," she said last w eek after her daughter w as found unharm ed. “I trust the Lord, and I w as very sure 1 was going to get my baby b ack.” Paula R oach, a form er Texas prison guard w ho convinced her family that she had given birth. A kidnapped baby is reunited with her mother. (AP photo) w as accused o f abducting N ancy. R oach, 24, w as charged with ag gravated kidnapping and jailed on $200,000bond. The infant was snatched from the fam ily's minivan Aug. 13 outside a W al-M art when her m other turned around to stow a shopping cart. A uthorities in Q uanah, ab o u t- 125 m iles north o f Abilene, got a tip from em ployees at a nursing hom e w here R oach had gone to show o ff the infant. O fficers stopped a car carrying R oach, her m other and the baby. Roach w as taken into custody and N ancy w as returned to her fam ily hours later. A uthorities said R oach ev en tu ally confessed but told officers she h ad n ’t planned the ab d u c tio n .. “W hen w e told her it w a sn 't her baby, her response w as, 'W h e re ’s my baby?” ’ T exas R anger D avid H ullum said. “She w as having a ’ hard tim e letting the baby go.” Mandatory Sentencing Law Under Scrutiny Future I eadership Roles for Youth in Government Chief Randy Bruegman, Clackamas County Fire District #1 ❖ Irene Spina, mother o f Sept. 11 victim Lisa Spina-Trerotola, speaks at a news conference announcing a lawsuit against people accused o f supporting the terrorists who attacked America a year ago this September. (AP photo) Nude Dancers Under 21 to be Banned rri-Mct proudly serves our comunity with over 2600 employees E co-terrorism & Terrorism 101: U .S . a n d o th e r g o v e rn m e n ts . T h e c o m p lain t also ig n o res th e B ush a d m in istra tio n ’s d e li c a te d ip lo m a tic b alan c in g act w ith S audi A rab ia by bluntly b lam in g th e k in g d o m ’s o fficials an d in stitu tio n s fo r the attacks. “T h a t k in g d o m s p o n so rs te r r o ris m ,” M o tle y to ld re p o rte rs at a n e w s c o n fe re n c e . “T h is is an in s id io u s g ro u p o f p e o p le .” T h e c o m p la in t n a m e s m o re th a n se v e n d o z e n d e fe n d a n ts , in c lu d in g th e g o v e rn m e n t o f S u d a n , se v e n b a n k s, e ig h t I s la m ic f o u n d a tio n s a n d th re e S a u d i p rin c e s. 4 (AP)— T he first outside study o f O regon’s M easure 11 finds no evidence to suggest the m anda tory-m inim um sentencing law has driven dow n crim es since it took effectin 1995. T his finding was delivered by research think tank Rand at a pre view o f a forthcom ing report. For years, supporters o f the m easure have credited the law for the state’s low ered crim e rate. O r egon voters passed m easure 11 in 1994 to im pose stiffer, m andatory penalties for violent crim es. The m easure also required juveniles, age 15 and older, to be tried in adult court w hen accused o f M easure 11 I crimes. Since then, several sm all stud ies have analyzed lim ited aspects o f M easure 11. But the Rand study, funded by a $310,000 federal grant, is the first large-scale evaluation by a think tank outside the state. Phil Lemman, executive director o f the O regon C rim inal Justice C om m ission, said the report is n ei ther a ringing validation or a sting in g r e b u tta l o f M e a s u r e ’ l l . L em m an said report does not co n clude that M easure 11 is having no im pact on violent crim e - it sim ply d o esn ’t answ er the question, be cause data d o n ’t exist to do so. “ A rrests for violent crim e w ere dow n after M easure 11, no one argues w ith that, “he said. “It’s the attribution that we cannot agree on,” he said, noting that other states have seen sim ilar reductions in crim e w ithout enacting m andatory m inim um sentences. M u ltn o m ah C o u n ty D istric t A ttorney M ichael Schrunk took issue w ith the report. * Im m ediately prior to the effec tive date o f M easure 11, violent crim e in O regon was increasing w hile the national rate w as d eclin ing, “ S chrunk said. “From the day M easure 11 becam e law, the rate of violent crim e for both adults and ju v en iles dropped dram atically.”
