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50/ Stunning Elegance Love Interest Ebony Fashion Fair weaves culture, beauty and charity Actress-comic Aisha Tyler lands a spot on 'Friends ' See Metro section, inside w City of Roses' See Focus, page BJ bser Established In 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity Volume XXXIII • Number 17 -r-Weekin TheReview Electric pow er w as restored for parts o f B aghdad on T uesday and neighbors ran up and dow n the block outside their houses to cheer and fire w eapons in the air to celebrate the end o f a dev astating 3-w eek-old pow er o u t age. Still.m ore than 80 percent o f the city rem ained in darkness and doctors reported the first suspected cases o f cholera and typhoid, w ith no clean running w ater yet. Knott Street Boxers remembered bv W ynde D yek T he P ortland O bserver Scientists close to SARS cure In their days o f glory, m em bers o f the K nott Street B oxing C lub w ore the colors o f b u r gundy and gold with pride, racked in presti gious titles that put P ortland on the national athletic map. B ut as the fam e faded, m any o f the form er boxers, w ho made their nam es in the 1960s and 1970s, fell into hard tim es, ultim ately to die destitute and forgotten. W h en th e fam ily o f one o f these boxers could not af ford to b u ry h im , fo r m e r K n o tt S tre e t b o x e r H alim l e g a c y o f S cientists in search o f a SARS cure have narrow ed their focus • to several dozen drugs that ap p ear to have the best chance o f stopping the deadly respiratory virus, but they have abandoned p lan s to test one o f them in p eople. T he u rg en t h u n t for som ething that w orks - prefer ably a m edicine already on the m arket or close to it - w as helped by the breakthrough a w eek ago in decoding the v iru s’s genetic m akeup, w hich gives scientists Some logical targets. Knott Street Boxing is an important R a h sa a n be- gan to think a fo rm a l c o m memoration for his w a s team lo n g m o ates y^r France wants to suspend Iraq sanctions In a surprise m ove, France on T uesday proposed im m ediately suspending U .N. sanctions tar geting Iraqi civilians, an im por tant step tow ard the U.S. goal o f ending trade em barg o es that hav e c rip p le d the c o u n try ’s econom y President Bush called last w eek for sanctions to be lifted quickly, so Iraq 's oil rev enue can be used to finance re construction. duy, O ne o f Saddam H ussein’s most- feared lieutenants w as in U.S. hands Tuesday, w hile hundreds o f thousands o f Shiite M uslim s crow ded tw o holy cities in a fer vent pilgrim age that w as banned for decades. T he U.S. also says it has found m ore than $600 m il lion in stashed U.S. dollars and 800-plus explosive suicide vests. Professor-student datlngban considered U n iv e rs ity o f C a lifo rn ia p ro fe sso rs are c o n te m p la tin g a new q u estio n th is spring: D oes d a tin g y o u r stu d e n t flunk the e th ic s test? F a cu lty are sc h e d u led to v ote on new ru les this s p rin g . S h o u ld it p ass, the p o lic y w ould m ak e U C th e la t est sc h o o l to ban the c la s s ro o m c o u rtsh ip s, jo in in g such sc h o o ls as th e U n iv ersity o f j M ic h ig a n , the U n iv e rsity o f Iow a an d Y ale. Portland history that not p e o p le know about. ’ It w as like a bell w ent o f f “ Former Knott S tre e t in m e ,’’ b o u r Ha!lm Saddam’s ‘ShiiteThug’ is captured The m aker o f a m om ing-afterpill appl ied for governm ent perm is sion M onday to begin selling the em erg en cy co n tracep tiv e w ithout the d o c to r’s prescrip tion now required. The m aker o f Plan B pills hopes to w in Food and D rug A dm inistration ap proval for over-the-counter sales by next year. Wednesday • April 23, 2003 ‘Fallen Warriors Some lights on In Baghdad Morning-after pill maker seeks approval www.portlandobserver.cum P hoto bv W vnde D yer / the P ortland observer Halim Rahsaan holds a photograph o f Sam Johnson, the first to die o f 12 Knott Street Boxers who will be commemorated at a free public dinner at 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Dishman Center, 77 N.E. Knott St. R ahsaan said. "K nott Street B oxing is an im portant legacy o f Portland history that not m any people know about. I realized that it’s a poor frog w ho d o e sn 't croak about his ow n pond.” So, R ahsaan m ade up his m ind to pay hom age to his fallen team m ates. O n S aturday, April 26 at 5 p.m. a m em orial cerem ony and free public dinner will be held at the Dishman C om m unity Center, 77 N.E. Knott, to honor Pete G onzales, John Howard, Joel ‘JD ’ Stroud, Joe W est, Sam Johnson, T ony Jacobs, Clyde W illiams, Herb Le Suer, M arcellus Allen, Joe H opkins. Joe B anksand Pete Vastine White. The fam iliesofthe late boxers will be presented with plaques shaped like the state o f O regon. “People think it w as the Trail Blazers beating the L akers that gave Portland its nam e in sports," R ahsaan said. “ No, w e w ere beating big team s in N ew Y ork, C hicago and Los An- continued on page A3 Fire Bureau Still D om inated by W hite M ales Consultants find tolerance for sexist and racist attitudes ( A P ) — A w h ite m ale “g o o d o ld b o y ” cu ltu re d o m in a te s c ity fire statio n s w h ere sex ist an d ra c ist jo k e s are to le ra te d , a c co rd in g to a re cen t fire fig h te r survey. O n ly a b o u t a th ird o f th e firefig h ters and su p p o rt s ta ff at th e P o rtlan d F ire B u reau , o r 2 3 7 p e o p le , resp o n d ed to the poll by T h e M etro p o litan G ro u p , a P o rt land co n su ltin g firm . A b o u t a fo u rth o f th o se w ho responded said sex ist an d ra c ist jo k e s are '(d erated . T he c o n su lta n ts w ere hired last su m m er after the city settled a civil i ights claim filed b y R ick F izer, a b lack firefig h ter F iz e r’s co m p lain ts ab o u t racist co m m en ts and p o rn o g ra p h ic p ran k s a t the fire s ta tion on N orth G o in g n e a r In te rsta te led to the d is c ip lin e o f five fire fig h te rs in 2001. T he c o n su lta n ts said the su rv ey re v eale d p ro b le m s in a p ro fe ssio n that h is to ric a lly has been d o m in a te d by w hite m en and p re se n ts u n u su al stre ss e s for e m p lo y ees w h o live and w o rk to g eth er. “ T h ey are h ero es and h e ro in e s, but th ey are also h u m a n .” the re p o rt said. S o m e fire fig h te rs did not th in k th eir su p e rv is o rs a re a d e q u a te ly tra in e d to handle con d iets am ong co w o rk ers. O th er fire fig h te rs said that m in o ritie s hav e an u n fa ir h ir in g a d v a n ta g e th r o u g h th e F irefighterT raince Program , begun in 1995 to a ttra c t m ore m in o rities. A th ird o f the continued on page A3 Quick Action Saves History Seats only salvage □m old theater .EE P erlman P ortland O bserver erb Jenkins is looking for a perm anent ie for 382 historic, but good as new, ter seats stored in his basem ent, he seats are all that is left o f the former inial Theater, a landmark that stood in the ofthe ex pansionofthePortlandC'ommunity ege Cascade Campus in north Portland. enkins, a security guard for the Falcon irtments, a h alfb lo ck aw ay, noticed con- ction equipm ent assem bling near the building. Told that no effort w ould be made to salvage any part o fth e building, he hastily assem bled a group o f friends ani It ruck s and rem oved the seats to the Falco basement. A ccording to M att H ayes ot the Preser vation L eague o f O regon, the building was constructed in 1925 as H udso s Colonial Theater. It w as converted to . church in 1973, serving the A lbina Christian I ife C en ter, an A frican A m erican ministr that moved last year to N orth W illam ette Hi Jevard Hayes fears other buildings in the college's path might suffer the same fate, this tin ,c without someone like Jenkins to do last-minute salvage. Jenkins is looking fo ra future use for the seats and can be reached at 5 0 3 -5 15-4037. photo bv R on W ashington /T he P ortland O bserv eh Herb Jenkins and some o f the 382 theater seats he rescued from the old Colonial Theater, a 1925 building that stood in the way o f the expansion of the Portland Community College Cascade Campus in north Portland.
