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March 19. 2003 (Effe Jîortlanù (Observer Page A5 A C a ll f o r P e a c e Poised for War continued from Front w hose ci w ithin the U nited N ations Security series o f steps at home to protect against C ouncil, said the action Bush had c h o terrorist attacks. sen would underm ine future efforts at “We know that our interests have peaceful disarm am ent. "Iraq does not been attacked abroad. And we should represent today an im m ediate threat prepare for potential attacks, either here that would ju stify an im m ediate w ar," or abroad at this tim e," said Homeland he said. Security Secretary Tom Ridge. German Chancel lor Gerhard Schroeder The plan, dubbed “ O peration L ib said much the same thing, and said U.N. erty S hield,” heightens security at weapons inspectors should have more the n atio n ’s borders, at airp o rts, sea time to try to disarm Iraq of weapons of ports and railw ays, at nuclear and mass destruction. chem ical plans and elem ents o f the But by Bush's word, laid down in a n atio n ’s food supply and d istrib u stem speech Monday night, the time for tion system . Ridge said governors diplomacy - and weapons inspections - are being asked to deploy N ational had clearly come and gone. G uard troops or extra state police to Arab League Secretary-General Anu- help. Moussa scrapped plans for a last-minute At the State D epartm ent, S ecre peacemaking trip to Iraq. And the U.N. tary o f State C olin Pow ell said 30 peacekeepers boarded a plane out of Iraq, n a tio n s h ad jo in e d th e their mission at an end. ad m in istra tio n ’s “co alitio n o f the For his part, the Iraqi leader appeared w illing,” and that another 15 had q u i on television wearing a military uniform etly pledged support. for the first time since the Persian G ulf At least two o f the 30 nations, Spain War in 1991. and the Netherlands, have explicitly Iraq s al-Shabab television, owned by ruled out the use o f troops to invade one of Saddam 's sons, said the decision Iraq, though. Another, Japan, was iden to defy Bush’s ultimatum was made in a tified as only a post-conflict member of leadership meeting chaired by the Iraqi the coalition. leader. With war looming in the Persian Gulf, “The pathetic Bush was hoping ... to the diplomatic and political fallout achieve his evil targets without a fight.” circled the globe. it said. "...The march of struggle will con In London, the House of Commons tinue against the American, English and debated British Prime Minister Tony Zionist aggressors.” Blair’s strong endorsement of Bush’s In his speech the day before. Bush had policy. "The Liberal Democrats, unified demanded that Saddam and his two sons as ever in opportunism and error,” the leave Iraq within 48 hours or face inva prime minister snapped at one point. sion. “The tyrant will soon be gone," the French President Jacques C hirac, president said. continued dom Rides and the famous march from Selma to Mont gomery when participants were beaten severely. He was jailed more than 40 times. • The fallout from that march resulted in the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act o f 1965. “We didn't strike back,” Lewis said of being attacked by the Ku Klux Kian, the police and countless angry mobs. “We accepted non violence as a way o f peace, a way o f living” Lewis recalled the speech made by President Johnson after the violence o f Bloody Sunday. “ He co n d e m n e d the photo by D avid P lechl /T he P ortland O bser ' violence and introduced Sam Jackson o f Holy Redeemer Office of Ethnic Affairs has been a life long fan o f John the voting rights act. He Lewis. “He reminds us a lot of Dr. King,’ he said. said, 'W e shall overcom e, we shall overcom e,” ’ Lewis said. "M ar tin Luther King was sitting next to him Nothing has unsettled me more in the last 40 years and tears cam e dow n his face.” than what is about to happen now. We must tell our Lewis said it would take a non-violent government to use our resources to build and not to kill. revolution o f values and ideas to forge a - Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis lasting global peace. New leaders and new participants will have to step forward he added. Lewis called the war in Iraq a distrac now,” Lewis said. “We must tell our gov “If we believe in democracy surely we tion from dom estic issues and a drain ernment to use our resources to build and must work to make it happen," he said. on the future o f A m erica’s children. not to kill." “We need to get in the way and push and “Nothing has unsettled me more in the Lewis' speech was followed by a stand pull.” last 40 years than what is about to happen ing ovation. ’C from Front Confrontation on the Bridge Portland Police officers in riot gear confront a group o f anti-war activists who attempted to block the Morrison Bridge a few blocks away from Saturday's peace march in downtown Portland. One arrest was made. The sanctioned march and rally drew a crowd estimated between 20,000 and 45,000 people. 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