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Volume XXXIII • Number 46
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Committed to Cultural Diversity
Wednesday • November 12. 2003
Teen Sniper
Suspect
Trial Begins
Lawyers argue
young suspect was
brainwashed
(A P )— Jury selection entered a sec­
ond day T uesday in the capital m urder
trial o f teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd
M alvo, accused in last y ear’s sniper
spree that left 10 people dead in M ary­
land, V irginia and W ashington, D.C.
M alvo attorney Craig C ooley told
C ircuit Judge Jane Marum Roush that he
w ould present a defense o f innocent by
reason o f insanity.
He plans to argue that M alvo was so
brainw ashed by fellow suspect John
Allen M uham m ad, 42, that he either did
not know what he was doing or could
not control him self.
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Vernon Elementary second-grader Robert Akil challenges chess luminary Maurice Ashley to a match as other members o f the school's Owls Chess Club
intently watch.
tu d e n ts a t a n o rth e a s t P o rtla n d e le m e n ta ry
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s c h o o l g o t so m e in s p ira tio n fro m o n e o f the
w o r ld ’s b e s t c h e s s p la y e rs T h u rsd a y .
M a u ric e A sh le y m a d e h is to ry w h e n h e b e c a m e
th e first a n d o n ly A fric a n A m e ric a n to e a rn th e title
o f In te rn a tio n a l G ra n d C h e s s M a ste r.
A s h le y m e t w ith th e e n tire stu d e n t b o d y at
V ern o n , in clu d in g m e m b e rs o f the O w ls, the s c h o o l’s
c h e s s c lu b . A fte r an a s s e m b ly , O w ls te a m m e m b e r
a n d s e c o n d - g ra d e r R o b e rt A k il c h a lle n g e d A sh le y
to a m a tc h .
A P ic tu re
Loaves and Fishes help
seniors control diabetes
by J aymee R. C u n
T he P ortland O bserver
N ettie S h ep h erd d o e s n ’t p lay
aro u n d w ith h e r d iab etes. S he
d o e s n ’t eat sw eets, none. S he
has cu rb e d the am o u n t o f salt in
her d ie t and she d o e s n ’t d rink
a lc o h o l o r sm o k e c ig a r e tte s .
E ver.
S in ce b ein g d ia g n o se d w ith
d iab etes in 1995, S h ep h erd b e ­
gan e x e rc isin g
e v e ry d a y ,
d ro p p e d 25 p o u n d s, an d read
m eals e sp ecially p rep ared fo r th em by L o av es and
F is h e s' M eals on W h eels p ro g ram . M ore than 25
p ercen t o f L o av es an d F ish es clien ts also receiv e
the lo w -carb o h y d rate, su g ar-co n scio u s m eal.
You can’t be in
denial when you
first contract
diabetes. I had to
make a choice to
control the diabetes
or let the diabetes
control me.
“T h e re ’s b een a tre m e n d o u s
in crease in the n u m b e r o f p eo p le
w h o are b e in g d ia g n o s e d w ith
d iab etes," said Jean H em in g w ay ,
L o av es an d F ish es h ig h risk m a n ­
ag er an d ed u cato r. “ A m o n g those
o ld er than 6 5 y ears, m o re than 4 0
p ercen t h av e d ia b e te s.”
T o b etter co n tro l th e d isease.
S h ep h erd b eg an p a rticip atin g in
the six -w eek long C h ro n ic D is­
ease P ro g ram , c reated to su p p o rt
the high n u m b e ro f diabetic L oaves
-N ettle Shepherd
e v e ry th in g she c o u ld find on
and F ish es clien ts. T h e p ro g ram
d iab etes, a life-th reaten in g d is ­
d is c u sse s c o m m o n th re a d s b e ­
ease that p rev en ts h er from tu rn in g starch es and
tw een m an y ch ro n ic d iseases, in clu d in g pain,
sugars in to energy. S he is 74.
fatigue, stress, m an ag in g m u ltip le m ed icatio n s
A n o rth east P ortlan d resid en t. S h ep h erd is one
continued
on page A2
o f a g ro w in g n u m b er o f d iab etics b ein g serv ed
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Form er Vice President Al G ore says the
Bush W hite H ouse is using the Sept. 11
terror attacks to ju stify a m ajor offensive
against the freedom s and liberties A m eri­
cans have enjoyed for centuries.
Miss Afghanistan Honored
at Miss Earth Pageant
Bishop Wilton Gregory
M iss A fghanistan V ida S am adzai, co n ­
dem ned in her hom eland for parading in a
red bikini at the M iss Earth contest, won the
p ag ean t's first “beauty for a cause" award.
The leader o f A m erica’s Roman Catholic
bishops urged his fellow prelates to repair
the bonds with rank-and-file Catholics that
Clergy Urged to Repair Bonds
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Nettie Shepherd shows how an electronic monitor helps
her control blood sugar levels to manage diabetes and
maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Lee Boyd Malvo
It likely will be a tough sell - and risky.
Studies have indicated that defen­
dants w ho m ount insanity defenses
generally have higher conviction rates
than those w ho d o n ’t, said T hom as L.
H afem eister, director o f legal studies at
the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and
Public Policy in C harlottesville.
“A lot o f people see insane individu­
als as both very bad and very scary,”
said H afem eister, w ho also teaches at
the U niversity o f V irginia law school.
"T he risk for the defense is that if they
fail to convince the ju ry , then essentially
they have a defendant w ho has ac­
know ledged doing the deed and being
m entally unstable, w hich creates a very
scary person in the m inds o f the ju ro rs.”
Shortly before ju ro rs w ere brought in
M onday, M alvo, 18, stood before the
judge and pleaded innocent to m urder
charges in the shooting o f FBI analyst
L inda Franklin, killed during the three
w eeks o f sniper attacks that terrified the
W ashington area last fall.
“N ot guilty," M alvo replied in aclear
voice each tim e he w as asked for his plea
to tw o counts o f capital m urder and to
one count o f using a firearm in a felony.
W hen the judge asked if he was ready
for trial, he answ ered. “Y es. m a'am ."
Mai voand M uham mad are being tried
for tw o different killings, both in north­
ern V irginia in O ctober 2002. Both men
continued
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and rescu e to sw ay public
support for the w ar in Iraq.
D ram atic v id eo o f U.S.
c o m m a n d o s w h is k in g
L ynch from a h ospital to a
w a itin g c h o p p e r help ed
cem e n t L y n ch ’s im age as
a hero. “T hey used m e as
a w ay to sy m b o lize all this
stu ff," L ynch told A B C ’s
D ia n e S a w y e r in a
“ P rim e tim e " in te rv ie w .
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The sci-fi M atrix saga lost
som e o f its spin at the U.S.
box office, with “The M a­
trix R evolutions" pulling in
$ 5 0 .16m illioninitsopening
w eekend - o ff 45 percent
from the previous chapter's Jessica Lynch
w eekend debut. “R evolu­
page A 2.
tions,” pum m eled by critics as harshly as
U.S. Pushes Canada to
“T he M atrix R eloaded" was last May, has
Lessen Access to Pharmaceuticals
grossed $85.5 m illion dom estically since
U rged on by the U.S. governm ent. Canadian
debuting.
officials arc cracking dow n on com panies,
Lynch Exploited by Military
pharm acists and physicians w ithin their
fo r m e r p riso n e r o f w ar Jessica L ynch
borders that help A m erican citizens get
accu sed the m ilitary o f using her cap tu re
cheaper prescription drugs.