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Sept. 11 Victims Sue for $lTrillion
Saudi princes, banks and charities accused in terrorism support
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edged.
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M a tth e w C a rm e n S e llito , 23,
w h o a ls o d ie d in th e W o rld
T ra d e C e n te r. “ I f th e o d d s are
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Missing Oregon City Girls ‘Suspect’ Arrested
(A P )— The self-proclaimed No.
1 suspect in the disappearance of
two Oregon City girls was arrested
Aug. 13 on an unrelated rape charge,
police said.
W ard W eaver, who lives in a
house near the apartment com plex
where Ashley Pond and Miranda
Gaddis were last seen, was taken
into custody by Oregon City police.
At about the same time o f his
arrest. W eaver’s oldest son told
em ergency dispatchers his father
claim ed to have killed the two teen
age girls and was moving to Mexico.
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W eaver is charged w ith raping
a 19-year-old w om an at his hom e.
The victim ran from the hom e,
flagged a passing m otorist and was
taken to a nearby business w here
she called 911.
W eaver was later stopped and
arrested on 1-205, ju st north o f the
Gladstone. He is being held in the
C lackam asCountyJailunder$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
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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
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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.
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(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.”