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Teen’s Rampage
Leaves 10 Dead
Worst school shooting since Columbine
Reggie Graves, a
s tu d e n t a t Red Lake
High School in Red
Lake, M inn., recalls
the horror a t his high
school M onday when
another stu d e n t kille d
five o f his classm ates,
a teacher and a guard.
(AP photo)
Jackie Strong is honored as a N ew sm aker o f the Year with p re s e n te r Kathy Linder, a s s is ta n t
to Portland Observer P ublisher Charles Washington.
Newsmaker of the Year
Jackie Strong, a man hard at
work in the northeast Portland
community since 1992, received
a Newsmaker of the Y ear Award
from the Royal Rosarians last
W ednesday, as nominated by
The Portland Observer.
A s s is ta n t to P u b lis h e r
C harles W ashington, Kathy
Linder, presented the aw ard to
Strong, noting his respected po
sitions.
Strong formerly served as clini
cal director for Portland House of
Umoja and is now service direc
tor of A dult Mental H ealth and
A ddictions Services, m anaging
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Minnesota made it the nation’s
worst school shooting since the
rampage at Columbine High School
in Littleton,Colo., in April 1999that
ended with 15 deaths.
T he v ic tim s in c lu d e d the
g u n m a n ’s g ra n d fa th e r; the
grandfather’s wife; a school secu
rity guard; a teacher; and five other
students. At least 14 others were
wounded, and two of them remained
in critical condition Tuesday at
MeritCare in Fargo, N.D., officials
said.
At least three of the victims were
shot in the head at close range, said
officials.
There was no immediate indica
tion of W eise’s motive. But several
students said he held anti-social
beliefs, and he may have posted
messages on a neo-Nazi Web site
expressing admiration for Adolf
Hitler.
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(AP) - The suspect in the worst
U.S. school shooting since Colum
bine smiled and waved as he gunned
down Five students, a teacher and
a guard, asking one of his victims
whether he believed in God, wit
nesses said. The teen’s grandfa
ther and his grandfather’s wife also
were found dead, and the boy killed
himself.
The death toll at the Red Lake
Indian Reservation in far northern
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Annan Calls for Bold Changes
(A P) - Secretary-G eneral Kofi
Annan urged world leaders M on
day to im plem ent the boldest
changes to the United Nations
in its 60-year history by expand
ing the size of the Security C oun
cil, tackling conflicts and terror
ism, and strengthening protec
tions for hum an rights.
In a speech to the 191-m em ber
U.N. G eneral A ssem bly, Annan
called for adopting his entire re
form package at a summit o f world
leaders in Septem ber, and he
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
w arned countries against treat
ing the list o f proposals “as an
a la carte menu, and select only
th o s e th a t you e s p e c ia lly
fancy.”
The tim ing o f A nnan’s ap
peal also raised some questions,
com ing ju st before form er U.S.
Federal Reserve Chairm an Paul
V olcker releases the results o f
an investigation into the activi
ties of Annan and his son, Kojo,
in the scandal-ridden U.N. oil-
for-food program in Iraq.
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