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Page A2 (Elje Jlortlanh (©baeruer March 26. 2003 P olice Clark County Plans for Terrorism Threat Marchers Block Roads Police arrest 135 anti-war demonstrators Public asked to report suspicious activities With the start of military action in Iraq .Clark County Sheriff Garry Lucas has adopted a contingency plan that governs how the county will respond if the Homeland Secu rity Advisory System goes from orange to red, indicating a severe risk o f terrorist attack. "We want to be responsive to the federal threat assessm ent,” Lucas said. "Even though the in formation we presently have indi- cates that there are no credible ter rorism threats to Clark County and the Portland/Vancouver area.” With this in mind, he is asking citizens to stay calm, remain alert and report any suspicious activi ties to the S h eriffs Office. “Just as we do for other issues related to public safety, we have plans in place and believe we are well prepared,” Lucas added. His office is coordinating with Looking f State and Regional terrorism task forces, which sifts raw intelligence data and formulates regional and local response plans. P re p a re d n e ss su g g e stio n s and ad v ice on how can c iti zens p rep a re for em erg en cies like a te rro rist attac k is a v a il able on the US D ep artm en t of H o m eland S ecu rity W eb Page at w w w .read y .g o v or on the 1 - 8 0 0 -B e-R ead y p h one line. What Part-tim e job will pay you ane X c e 11 e n parttlmejQB? up to $800.00 per month for only two days worth of work? 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Some left, but about 100 seated themselves on the rain-slicked road and linked arms in defiance. Soon after, police began picking up the seated demonstrators one- by-one, and putting them in police vans. Most of those arrested Thurs day were charged with disorderly conduct or criminal mischief. Police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schmautz said. Police used pepper spray to clear crowds near the bridge and threat ened people on a nearby street with “impact weapons and chemical spray.” Demonstrators, accompanied by m edical team s w earing black crosses and equipped with basic- remedies for tear gas, said they were prepared for clashes with the police. The vast majority of protesters sought peace, not trouble. The mood on the streets was generally festive, with people dancing and chanting anti-war slogans. Many of the war protesters were college students, joining a nationwide walkout. At a pro-war rally also held Thursday, nearly 100 people waved American flags and carried plac ards w ith m essages like “ Kill Saddam” and “Support Our Troops — Not the U.N.” Teen Admits Killing Girlfriend Karl Cramer faces 25-year' sentence rather than life in prison (AP) — A Portland teen was spared from life in jail after agreeing to plead guilty to murdering his girlfriend and then abusing her corpse. Benjamin Karl Cramer, 18, faces a 25-year minimum sentence for the murder o f his former girlfriend, Cassondra Brown. If he is deem ed fit to return to society at the end o f 25 years, he will serve three more years for dism em bering Brow n’s body af ter killing her and could be re leased at age 46. Prompted by questions from Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Henry Kantor, Cramer stood before his mother and the victim’s family and said he “intentionally caused the death o f Cassondra Brown by strangulation.” When Kantor asked whether he Cassondra Brown ~ The whole thing is just so sad, sad all around. - Michael Brown, fatherof murder victim Cassondra Brown V strangled her w ith his hands, Cramer said, “Yes.” “Did you use anything else?” Kantor asked. “A bungee cord,” Cramer re plied. As C ram er spoke, M ichael Brown, Cassondra’s father who was seated in the front row o f the courtroom, put his arm around his wife, Carolyn Brown. “The whole thing is just so sad, sad all around,” Michael Brown said. Cram er’s mother, her eyes wet with tears, declined comment. Police said C ram er strangled Brown in his hom e in the 6000 block o f North D enver Avenue som etim e between Saturday, Jan. 4, and early Sunday, Jan. 5, d is m em bered her, and stuffed her rem ains into a green arm y-type duffel bag. Then, police said he dum ped the bag into the C olum bia Slough o ff K elley Point Park. More than two weeks later, on Jan. 25, the bag was discovered washed ashore on the Southwest W ashington coast. An autopsy showed Brown died o f “ligature strangulation.” A ccording to co u rt papers, Cram er told authorities he had known Brown for seven years, but their relationship only spanned five months. w w w .o rp o rt.a n g .a f.m il Deadly 1968 Protest Revisited Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health A program of the African American Health Coalition, Inc. 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Testimony from the trial of nine troopers clouded the case, and the aging former governor who called out the National Guard re fuses to speak about it. “South Carolina has done one masterful jo b o f keeping it quiet and keeping it covered up," said state Sen. Darrell Jackson, among seven black legislators who have intro duced a resolution calling for an independent investigation. The shooting at what was then called South Carolina State College was the culmination of three days of unrest that started when some black students decided to protest outside a bowling alley that refused to allow blacks inside. That day, several students were beaten by police in the bowling alley 's parking lot. Police said they were trying to control a crowd of 300 to 400 that gathered after sev eral of the protesters were arrested for trespassing. Afterward, students carrying rocks and bricks broke windows at a half-dozen businesses and dam aged cars at a dealership. T hat led then-G ov. R obert less than 10 seconds, three stu dents were dead and 27 others wounded. What exactly touched off the shooting remains in dispute. Sgt. Henry Morrell Addy testified that the students charged police, throw ing bricks and firing small guns. But Jack Bass, who covered the incident for The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, and Jack Nelson, a re porter for the Los Angeles Times, say only a few rocks were thrown and students were standing their ground, not charging. No spent bullet cartridges were found where the students had gath ered. No other troopers were seri ously injured. In their book, “The Orangeburg M assacre,” Bass and Nelson con tend the shooting started after a trooper fired into the air as a warn ing. More than a dozen o f his col leagues reacted. W hile no state probe was ever conducted, an FBI probe led to charges against nine troopers; all were acquitted. Every Feb. 8, the school holds a ceremony at the granite marker to rememberthe dead and injured. But the Orangeburg massacre remains largely forgotten, overshadowed by events later in 1968— the assas sination o f Martin Luther King Jr. and race riots in several northern cities. Former Gov. McNair, now 80, told his story to historians, but ordered his interview sealed, only to be opened after his death. South Carolina has done one masterful job o f keeping it quiet and keeping it covered up. - South Carolina State Sen. Darrell Jackson on the Orange burg Massacre of 1968 V McNair to send 250 National Guard troops to Orangeburg to help more than 75 other officers keep the peace. On the night o f Feb. 8, protesters built a bonfire. Authorities sent a fire truck to extinguish the blaze, but its arrival agitated students. Troopers, guns drawn, protected the firefighters. The students re treated, then returned, and some rocks were thrown. A large piece of wood struck a patrolman in the face. After five minutes o f uneasy peace, dozens of shots cracked. In Fire Kills North Portland Woman A north Portland woman was under control in about 40 minutes. killed after a fire started in the The victim was identified as kitchen o f her hom e and spread 48-year-old Denise A. Turner. Her quickly. tw o teenage daughters w eren 't Firefighters were called to the hom e when the fire occurred. Hayden Island Mobile Home Park A fire department spokesman at 1:40 a.m. Sunday and had the fire said Turner turned on the wrong electric burner on her stove in an attempt to heat a pan of water. Plas tic and other combustibles tooclose to the burner caught fire. O fficials said the m obile home was com pletely destroyed by the fire. t