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Jackson said he w anted to “observe first hand w hat we have heard through testim ony and w hat we have read .” “ It is o b v io u s there is a g reat h u m a n ita ria n c r is is ,” Jackson told T he A ssociated Press a fte r landing at an air port in the N orth D arfur ca p i tal o f A l-F asher, w here he w as m et by a d elegation o f tribal leaders and officials. “W e call for co llectiv e ac tion soon to stop the violence Bashir Abdel Aziz, 7, carries drinking water, drawn from pumps and open up the roads for provided by international aid agencies at Abu Shouk camp, in North r e lie f and th a t re q u ire s a Darfur, Sudan. (AP photo) PoV E ftT V 4-4 it s 4-4 o m e About 16 percent of the Oregon population has no health insurance, according to new Census Bureau figures. The number of medically-unin- sured grew by 2.2 percentage points over the past three years, the fast- Elect a President: To vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election you must be 18 years old on Election Day. If not registered, a voter registration card must be postmarked at least 2 1 days before the election, which is Oct. 1 2 For more information, call 1-866-ORE-VOTE. L est of any state except Montana, according to new figures from the Census Bureau. The swelling numbers reflected both sharp cuts in the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s version of Medicaid, and the large number of Oregonians who have lost private insurance when they became un employed or were forced to take jobs without benefits. Oregon had the highest unem ployment rate in the nation for much of the three-year period covered by the Census Bureau report. worldw ide e ffo rt,” said Jack son, w ho w ore a black base ball cap b e a rin g the logo “ U nite.” "Tim ing is o f the essence as people are dying every day.” J a c k s o n , a fo rm e r U .S presidential can d id ate, called on President Bush and D em o cratic candidate John Kerry to c o n cen trate th eir effo rts on h e lp in g the p e o p le o f D arfur. T he U n ited N a tio n s d e scribes the situation in D arfur as the w o rld 's w orst h u m an i tarian crisis and says m ore than 30,000 people have been killed and 1.4 m illion d is placed in an 18-m onth c o n flict. T he violence began a f te r tw o A frican rebel fa c tions rose against the g o v ernm ent, claim ing d isc rim i nation in the d istrib u tio n o f scarce resources in the arid w estern region. Since then, A rab m ilitias c alled the Ja n ja w e e d have gone on a ram page, d e stro y ing villages, killing and p il laging across D arfur, a re gion the size o f France. The U.S. Congress and U.N. officials accuse Khartoum o f backing the militia in a scorched earth cam paign to suppress the revolt - an allegation it strongly denies. Health insurance drops as a result The figures also show Oregon’s poverty level growing by 0.4 per centage points over the three years, but the increase was not consid ered sta tistic a lly sig n ific a n t. 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