November 20, 2002
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agencies looking for help meeting
clients’ needs.
Sign up for holiday assistance,
which includes holiday food box
meals and children’s toys, began
Nov. 4 and will run through Dec 13.
“ If you wait too long, you might
not get help,” said Erlich.
Salvation Army employee John
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Jackson
Dangles
Child from
Balcony
(AP) — M ichael Jackson re
warded fans outside his Berlin
hotel with a brief appearance and
a glimpse o f his youngest child
— dangling the toddler over a
fourth-floor balcony.
The boy, his legs kicking, had
what appeared to be a white cloth
over his head as Jackson, briefly
holding the child with one arm,
displayed him Tuesday to doz
ens o f fans w aiting below the
window o f the luxurious Adlon
Hotel.
T he child, in a baby blue
jumper, was the reclusive singer’s
th ird an d y o u n g e s t, P rin c e
Michael II, said Antje Sigesmund,
a spokeswoman for the Bambi
entertainment award ceremony,
which Jackson is attending in
Berlin.
had a line around the com er.”
Schauer knows the work that the
Salvation Army does is vital this
time o f the year.
“When I get home, I know I've
done some good,” he said. “ I sleep
like a rock.”
The Salvation Arm y can be
reached at 503-239-1226.
Muhammad Ali Visits Afghanistan
gifts o f gloves and jum p ropes.
After slowly shaking the hands
him self in a chair surrounded by o f 20 young boxers, Ali seemed to
dozens o f Afghan girls under a reg a in his stren g th , ta k in g a
tent, Ali sm iled— and pretended to m inute to pound a red and blue
snore — when a group o f waiting punching bag as a sm all crow d
photographers were slow to take cheered him on.
He watched several young men
his picture.
Girls were banned from going to spar in a makeshift boxing ring be
school under the former Taliban fore donning a pair o f red gloves
government, which was ousted in a and briefly boxing with two Af
ghans. His opponents threw no
U .S.ded war last year.
Ali also made a trip to a mud- punches.
Ali, a devout M uslim , arrived
walled boxing club which had two
framed photos o f a younger Ali in Kabul on Sunday and met Presi
hanging on the w all. He handed out dent Ham id Karzai at the p resi
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dential palace. On M onday, he
also visited to a w om en’s bakery
sponsored by the U.N. W orld
Food Program. He is also visiting
a boxing club, and leaves T ues
day.
“He loves to travel to this region.
He feels very much at home here,”
DiNicola said.
Ali, one o f the w orld’s best
known faces, is one o f dozens o f
celebrities who have served as U.N.
goodwill ambassadors or “Messen
gers for Peace,” helping raise aware
ness and money for the w orld’s
poor and war-battered nations.
About 200 fans gathered out
side the h otel, ju s t o p posite
Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg
Gate, and security had to remove
some from the lobby. Several car
ried banners, including one that
said “Save the Kids,” with draw
ings o f children’s faces. Another
said “Really good to see you.”
Jackson, wearing a bright red
shirt, smiled and waved to the
fans, at one point tossing a small
white towel to the crowd below.
No
More
War!
On Hunger’s Edge
Schauer does a little bit o f every
thing at the main site at 1712 N.E.
Sandy Blvd. He spent much o f his
day Friday preparing food boxes
and checking in new clients. He has
seen first hand the need for help
right now.
“This morning it was more than
standing room only,” he said. “We
M ichael Ja c k so n d a n g le s a
child, its h e a d h id d en b y a
towel, over a balco n y o f th e
Adlon H otel in Berlin, Tuesday,
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T h o u sa n d s o f p e o p le fill P o rtla n d 's s tr e e ts to criticize a p o ssib le
war with Iraq.
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Priscil la Bradley came from New
port to march in the demonstration.
She thinks a war with Iraq would
be co u n ter-p ro d u ctiv e for the
American people.
“It w ouldn’t solve any o f our
problems,” she said. “It would only
make terrorism worse.”
The protest was supported by a
huge cast o f organizations that in
cluded, P ortland P eaceful R e
sponse, O regon Physicians for
Social R esponsibility, and St.
Andrews Catholic Church.
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