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Battle to save Head Start
Retailer to expand Interstate
store with new shopping center
Local activist lobbies
Congress on reaathorization
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‘City of Roses
See story, Metro section, inside
Established in 1970
Volume XXXIII • Number 26
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Committed to Cultural Diversity
Wednesday • lune 25, 2003
T, Week in North Portland Church Chosen for Kendra James Forum
TheReview Meeting to address
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T he P ortland O bserver
Powell Asks Africans to
Support Zimbabwe
Secretary of State C o lin Powell
urged South Africa, and other
countries in the region to pres-
sureZimbabwe’s President Rob
ert Mugabe to enter a dialogue
with political opponents, warn
ing his continued rule posed a
threat to regional stability. In a
commentary in Tuesday’s New
York Times, Powell said the
United States and the European
Union have taken several steps
“to assist directly the brave men
and women of Zimbabwe who
are resisting tyranny.”
issues in fatal
shooting with
public officials
A location has been finalized for the first
community forum to address issues in the
police shooting o f Kendra James, the 2 1 -
year-old African American mother killed
while trying to flee from a traffic stop.
The forum w illtakeplaceonJuly 1 ffom5
p m. to 10 p.m. at the Mount Olivet Baptist
C h u rch C om m u n ity Center, 8725 N.
Chautauqua Blvd. one of Portland's oldest
African American congregations.
Staff from the mayor’s office announced
that the location was selected partly be
cause it can hold as many as 450 people.
The meeting, which w ill give area resi
dents a chance to ask Portland Police De
partment officials many unanswered ques
tions, was delayed to give the bureau time to
finish an internal investigation of the May 5
shooting by North Precinct Police Officer
Scott McCollister.
continued
on page .46
Living
the
Dream
Serena Williams Game
is Back at Wimbledon
Serena W illiam s regained her
Grand Slam grin Tuesday. Eager
to put Paris in the past, W illiam s
began her bid for a second con
secutive Wimbledon title by
beating fellow American Jill
Craybas6-3,6-3.
Freedom’s electrifying
spirit rings true from the
voice and keyboards of
Rev. Mark Hardy at
Portland's Juneteenth
celebration Saturday on
the grounds o f Legacy
Emanuel Hospital. The
annual celebration marks
the end o f American
slavery. See additional
photos on Page A6,
inside.
Vatican Treasures
go Online
Th e Sistine Chapel is now
online. The V atican put its
enormous art collection on the
W eb on Tuesday, launching a
new site for the Vatican Muse
ums that it hopes w ill attract
more tourists w hile also d is
seminating the church’s mes
sage around the globe. The
site allow s visitors to take a
virtual reality tour o f some o f ]
the dozen museums and gal
leries that make up the Vatican
collection.
TNN Files Papers In
‘Spike’ Case
Lawyers for television network
T N N filed court papers Monday
by Spike Jones Jr., son o f the
legendary music satirist, saying
it is “frightening” that filmmaker
Spike Lee is trying to claim exclu
sive ownership o f the name
“Spike.” Lee won a court injunc
tion June 13 that stopped V iacom,
the nation's third-biggest media
company, from changing T N N ’s
name to Spike T V .
photo bv M ark W ashington /
T he P o r il a n d O bsf . rver
Pom Access
at Libraries Blocked
The Supreme Court says public
libraries must make it harder for
Internet surfers to look at por
nography — or they w ill lose
government funding. Justices
ruled Monday that the federal
government can withhold money
from libraries that won’t install
blocking devices. Libraries had
complained that the law turned
them into censors, but they lost
their First Amendment chal
lenge. More than 14 m illion
people a year use public library
computers, including many chil
dren, and the court said patrons
o f al 1 ages were being exposed to
unseemly sex sites on the Web.
Affirmative Action Stands
Narrow decision
sites support for
diverse classrooms
(A P )— In its most significant statement
about race in a generation, a divided Su
preme Court allowed the nation’s colleges
and universities to select students based in
part on race, ruling Monday that diverse
classrooms mold good citizens and strong
leaders.
The court emphasized that race cannot
be the overriding factor, but a majority ac
knowledged a broad social value from affir
mative action - in encouraging all races to
learn and work together.
“In order to cultivate a set of leaders with
legitimacy in the eyes o f the citizenry, it is
necessary that the path to leadership be
visibly open to talented and qualified indi
viduals o f every race and ethnicity," Justice
Sandra Day O ’Connor wrote for the 5-4
majority.
At issue was whether admissions poli
cies that give one racial group an edge
unconstitutionally discriminate against
other groups.
In two decisions involving the Univer
sity of Michigan, the court underscored that
racial quotas are unconstitutional but left
room for the nation's public universities -
and by extension other public and private
institutions - to seek ways to take race into
account.
“The court has in essence provided the
trown
vs.
Board of
Education
Chief Charles Moose
L JR S i « ’,* M eans
N ecessari
Supporters o f affirmative action rally in front the Supreme Court Monday after the
court ruled on the use o f affirmative action In college admissions. (AP photo)
nation with a road map on how to construct
affirmative action programs in higher educa
tion that are constitutionally acceptable,”
said N A A C P President Kweisi Mfume.
The court preserved the rules outlined 25
years ago in a landmark ruling that underpin
the consideration o f race at institutions or
gatherings as diverse as military academies,
corporate boardrooms and campus leader
ship retreats.
In the earlier ruling a different group of
justices struck down a quota system that
had excluded a white student from medical
school, but they allowed less structured
forms o f affirmative action.
On Monday, the court struck down a
point-based screening system for applicants
that automatically gave minorities a 20-point
con tin ued
on page .46
Moose
Moves On
Former Portland
chief steps down
over book deal
(A P) — Montgomery County, M ary
land Police C h ie f Charles Moose, who led
the three-week hunt for the Washington,
D .C.-area sniper, resigned last Wednes
day after a clash with county politicians
over his upcoming book on the investiga
tion.
Moose, 49, said he had worked to make
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