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September 29. 2004
Kennedy Warns of Nuclear 9/11
Senator blames
Bush for fueling
insurgency
(A P )
—
T he
Bush
administration’s failure to shut
dow n al-Qaida and rebuild Iraq
have fueled the insurgency and
made the United States more
vulnerable to a nuclear attack
by terrorists. Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy charged Monday.
In a speech at George Wash
ington University, Kennedy said
that by shifting attention from
Osama bin Laden to Iraq, Bush
has increased the danger of a
"nuclear 9 /1 1.’’
"The war in Iraq has made
the mushroom cloud more likely,
not less likely," he said.
Expanding on earlier sugges
tions that Iraq is Bush’s Viet
nam, Kennedy said U.S. sol
diers are bogged down in a quag-
U. S. Geological Survey scientists install a GPS unit at Mount
St. Helens on Monday to monitor ground movement.
St. Helens Grows Restless
Hundreds of small earthquakes T he c ra te r rim and flan k s o f
have rattled beneath the lava dome the volcano ab o v e the 4 ,8 0 0 -
on Mount St. Helens each day since foot level have been clo sed
Friday, according to the U.S. G eo due to an in creased p o ten tial
for steam e x p lo sio n s from the
logical Survey.
T he th reat o f m ore and larger lava dom e that co u ld p ropel
ea rth q u a k e s has led o ffic ia ls to rocks and ash clo u d s ab o v e
clo se the m ountain to c lim b in g . the c ra te r rim
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Honored for
records of
public service
Tw o local A frican-A m erican
women are being honored for lead
ing their community into greatness
through vision, com passion and
commitment.
Victoria Burton of Portland and
Joan Brown-Kline of Lake Oswego
will receive the prestigious Women
o f Achievement Award from the
Oregon Commission for Women
during the g ro u p 's 20,h annual
Awards Dinner Saturday, Oct. 2 at
5 p.m. at the Oregon Convention
Center.
Burton, a Port land Police officer
since 1981. had a vision about how
to better support the families in
crisis she encountered in her daily
work with culturally specific re
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Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell. R-Colo.. a Northern Cheyenne
Indian, applauds W. Richard West Jr., a Southern Cheyenne, who
is the director o f the new National Museum o f the American
Indian, during dedication ceremonies for the museum’a opening
in Washington, DC. (AP photo)
(A P) — As a child, W illiam
W alker was sent o ff to boarding
school and forbidden to speak
his native M ono Indian tribe lan
guage. So it was with a sense o f
vindication that W alker w atched
colorful pageantry o f Indian cu l
ture m ark the o p ening o f the
S m ith so n ian In stitu tio n 's N a
tional M useum o f the A m erican
Indian, located at the foot o f the
Capitol.
"This represents freedom, rec
ognition," said Walker, 75, whose
tribe is from central California. "It’s
long overdue."
W alker joined thousands o f In
d ia n s from A la sk a to S o u th
A m erica Sept. 21 in a half-m ile
p rocession along the N ational
M all. T he flags, feath ers and
bright native clothing m ade for a
m ulticolored display, and the air
was filled with the smell o f burned
sage and the sounds o f drum s,
bells and music.
Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Ha-
waii, who sponsored the Senate bill
authorizing the museum, said he
was motivated by a sense that Indi
ans had been unrecognized in the
nation’s capital.
“ In this city of monuments there
was no statue, no monument, hon
oring the first Americans," Inouye
told the assembled crowd as drag
onflies darted about in the bright
sunshine. "This monument to the
first Americans is long overdue."
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