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Midwives Share Healing
Health advocates connect
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Dancing
Through Struggle
Sickle cell doesn’t stop teen
from achieving dreams
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‘City of Roses’
Committed to Cultural Diversity
Volume XXXIII • Number 42
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Hussein Could Be In
Hometown
Saddam H ussein is b elieved to
have been hiding out recently in
T ik rit, in flu e n c in g th e a n ti-
A m erican insurgency, the U.S.
m ilitary said. Fresh attack s by
resistance forces across central
I raq w ere reported to ha ve k i I led
three A m erican so ld iers and
w ounded five others. "W e have
clear indication he has been here
recently,” Maj. T roy Sm ith, a
deputy brigade com m ander, told
reporters in T ikrit, the fugitive
form er p resid en t’s hom etow n.
‘DC Sniper’ premiers on the TV
Shortly after form er Portland P olice C h ie f C harles M oose and his
sta ff at the M ontgom ery C ounty. M aryland, Police D epartm ent
caught sniper suspects John Allen M uham m ad and John Lee M alvo,
M oose caught the jo k es, “ W h o ’s going to play you in the m ovie?”
O ne year later, the answ er is C harles D utton, in a m ade-for-TV film
for the U SA N etw ork that prem iers at 9 p.m . on Friday.
“ D.C. Sniper: 23 D ays o f Fear” follow s the three w eeks that D.C.-
area residents lived in fear during an apparently random shooting
spree from the perspectives o f the killers, investigators and the
comm unity.
The subject is particularly close to D u tto n ’s heart as he lives on
Palestinian leader Y asser A rafat
delivered yet an o th er blow to
his new prem ier, appointing an
acting security chiefo v er interim
Prim e M inister A hm ed Q u reia's
opposition. Q u reia, in office
about a w eek, already has threat­
ened to resign several tim es b e­
cause o f disputes w ith A rafat.
The latest threat cam e Sunday,
w hen Q ureia said he w ill not be
part o f a new governm ent.
a M aryland farm only 20 m iles from w here the suspects w ere cap ­
T w o-year-old E gyptian tw ins
w hose fused heads w ere surgi­
cally separated over the w eekend
w ere doing rem arkably well but
w ere still not out o f the danger
zone, a d o cto r said. D octors
w arned that the risks include
stroke and infection, and said there
are also concerns about how the
w ounds heal and long-term ques­
tions about brain damage.
Low-Carb Diets Working
The dietary establishm ent has
long argued it’s im possible, but
a new study offers intriguing
evidence that people on low-
carbohydrate diets can actually
eat m ore than folks on standard
lo w -fa t p la n s an d still lose
w eight. Perhaps no idea is m ore
controversial in the diet w orld
than the contention - long e s­
poused by the late Dr. R obert
A tkins - that people on low -car­
bohydrate diets can consum e
m ore calories w ithout paying a
price on the scales.
Sniper Defense
Nears $1 Million
With the first trial in the W ashing­
ton sniper case set to begin on
T uesday, the court-ap p o in ted
lawyers for the tw o defendants,
have subm itted nearly $900,000
in bills so far for reim bursem ent
by V irginia taxpayers.
Tiger to Remain at Mirage
T he tiger that m auled m agician
Roy H om o f the "S iegfried and
R oy” duo w ill be released from
q uarantine T uesday and w ill
continue to live at an anim al
habitat at the M irage hotel-ca­
sino, officials said.
Wednesday • October 15. 2003
Dutton Plays
Moose in Movie
Palestinian PM May Resign
Twins still in ‘Danger Zone’
www.portlandobserver.com
Established in 1970
tured. He said he studied M o o se’s com plex ch aracter durin g press
conferences and tried to capture his tem per, alo n g w ith his concern
as he led w hat is now called the largest m anhunt in law enforcem ent
history.
Actor Charles Dutton portrays former Portland Police Chief Charles Moose in the docudrama “D.C.
Sniper: 23 Days o f Fear. " The movie airs on the USA Network at 9 p.m. on Friday.
Wellness Village Saturday at Blazer Club
T h e A frican A m erican H ealth C o a li­
tio n is h o ld in g s its 8 lh A n n u al A frican
A m erican W elln ess V illage fro m 9 a .m . to
4 p.m . S a tu rd ay , O ct. 18 at th e B lazers
B oys an d G irls C lu b , 5 2 5 0 N .E . M artin
L u th er K in g Jr. B lvd.
T h e sp ecial d ay o f ac tiv itie s a n d free
h ealth sc re e n in g s m ark s the c lo se o f A f­
rican A m erican W elln ess W eek.
Festivities begin with an o p ening drum
cerem ony at 10 a m ., follow ed by a talk by
keynote speaker Joyce D ougherty, Ph D., a
gourm et cooking dem onstration. Salsa d an c­
ing, a gospel ch o ir and a w ellness w alk.
T h e free h ealth ch e c k s in clu d e tests
fo r a rterial stiffn e ss, high b lo o d p re s­
sure, p ro sta te ca n c e r, bone d e n sity , d ia ­
b e te s, c h o le ste ro l, body fat an d H IV.
Im m u n izatio n s an d T B and lead sc re e n ­
ings w ill also be o ffered .
For m ore information, all 503-413-1850.
No Excuse for Abuse
Survivor brings
down walls
hiding domestic
violence
M ark W ashington /
T he P ortland O bserver
photo bv
Meek Elementary School, 4039 N.E.
Alberta Court, sits vacant after i t ’s
closure last spring, but may become the
future home o f Vocational Village High
School or a charter school.
Bv M aki ha R ave
A s a second-generation survivor
o f dom estic violence, I know oh so
well the effects o f physical pain and
anguish suffered from the assaults o f
a m ale batterer.
From m y earl iest recol lections as a
very young girl, unti I ju st seven years
ago, I w as a victim o f dom estic vio­
lence.
O ften th e term is u sed in te r­
changeably w ith spousal abuse and
battered w o m en ’s syndrom e. Re­
gardless o f w hich term is used, the
m eaning is the sam e.
V arious form s o f battering and
abuse w ere the norm o f m y daily
ex istence, ju st as it w as for m y surviv­
ing, now 7 1-year -old m other, w ho
still suffers today w ith great m ental
anguish.
I obtained my m o th er’s perm is­
sion to publicly recount this portion
o f o ur lives in recognition o f “ D o­
m estic V iolence A w areness" w eek.
photo bv M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
M y m ention o f her suffering is done
Martha Raye o f Vancouver joins Troy Steele, the manager o f the Safeway Food and
w ith tender sensitivity due to the
Drug on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, to promote domestic violence
nature o f this topic. G raphic descrip ­
awareness week. The grocery chain has printed domestic violence awareness informa­
tio n s o f th e a ssa u lts c o m m itte d
tion on its grocery bags at 120 stores in Oregon and Washington.
against both o ( us w ill not be dis­
closed.
A nd 57 percent o f hom eless w om en and
A fter suffering through silence for nearly
Further still, m any w ill never stand before
children identify dom estic violence as p ri­ a ju ry in a court o f law in order to convict
53 years, I now speak for m y m other and
o thers w ho are si lent victim s and survivors.
their abuser. It’s not unusual for acts o f
m ary cause o f th eir hom elessness.
W e jo in the thousands o f other battered
M any v ictim s w ill never show th eir v io le n c e a g a in stw o m e n a n d c h ild re n to g o
w om en and children w ho m ust be heard!
unreported and un-prosecuted because
During the Vietnam era, as many as 58,000
fam ily and friends d o n ’t w ant to get in­
m ale soldiers w ere killed in battle w hile on
volved. T h ere’s the erroneous b e lie f that
foreign soil. C om pare that to the 54,000
“w om en and children" are the property o f
w om en killed in dom estic situations on
their m ale counterparts and therefore can
A m erican soil during the sam e period. N ow,
be handled, (for lack o ff a better term ) in any
do you fell my passion for social reform ?
form or fashion deem ed necessary to their
S tatistics further state that one in three
assaulter.
adult w om en are regularly beaten by their
The physical, psychological and em o­
m ale partners. A dd to those proportions,
tional repercussions are long-standing and
the estim ated 3.3 m illion children w ho w it­
often irreversible for the victim s. O ften
ness their m others and fem ale caretakers
they becom e abusers o f others, open them ­
being assaulted at som e point in th eir life­ w ounds to a m edical exam iner; often they go
selves to prom iscuity and such, or w orse.
time.
m issing and b ecom e all but forgotten.
H ow do you recognize a batterer or
It’s estim ated that 40 to 60 percent o f men
M any victim s will never filea police report
continued " y f on page .44
w ho abuse w om en, also abuse children.
out o f fear o f retribution from their abuser.
The physical,
psychological and
emotional repercussions
are long-standing and
often irreversible for
the victims.
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Romance
Meek
Closed school may
open as alternative
education site
bv J avmee R. C iiti
T he P orti . and O bserver
T w odifferent educational institutions have
descended on the recently closed M eek E l­
em entary School property to solve their loca­
tion troubles. The Portland School B oard m ay
announce as early as this w eek, w hat it plans
to do w ith M eek, the quaint building that sits
em pty on N ortheast A lberta Court.
D istrict officials are pushing to m ove V o­
cational V illage High School from its current
G len Haven location at 8020 N.E. T illam ook
because the building needs seism ic upgrades
and other repairs that contractors say a re n ’t
w orth the investm ent.
O ne relocation option is M eek, w hich
closed last June because o f budget cuts.
M eek w ould need extensive renovations
to accom m odate V ocational V illage, includ­
ing building an autom otive and m etal shop
that com e at a $ 1.5 m illion price tag T he cost
o f upgrades could be covered by the sale o f
G len H aven property, according to a district
spokesm an.
V ocational V illage serves about 180 stu ­
dents, m any w ho have dropped out o f larger
high schools The school offers eight jo b -
training program s designed to keep students
in school and transition them easily to jo b s
upon graduation. S tudents, teac h ers and
V ocational V illage faculty are to u n n g M eek
to determ ine how well it w ill suit their needs.
T he V ocational V illage site m ay already
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