Page A2 Clî‘ ^Llnrtlanh © bseruer NAACP Selects New President Extra Mad-Cow Test Refused (A P )-A third and more sophis- tieated test on the beef cow sus- pected of having mad cow disease would have helped resolve con flicting results from two initial screenings, but the U.S. refused to perform it in November. That additional test, ordered up by th e A g ric u ltu re Department’s internal watchdog, ended up detecting mad cow - a finding that was confirmed on Fri- day by the world’s pre-eminent lab, in England. The department is pledging that, from now on, it will conduct such testing on suspicious ani mals. The cow with the disease from Texas, which did not enter the human food chain, was confirmed Friday and became the second American case o f the brain-wast ing illness in cows, officials said. Businessman named leader for civil rights Family’s Claim Rejected continued fro m Front out, so he shot. He also pointed out that James had a record for fleeing police with two dozen previous ar rests and didn’t want to be taken into custody again. All experts testifying in the case agreed that M cCollister’s gun was at least 30 inches from James when diversity it was fired. If McCollister had been inside the car, the only way he could’ve shot James from that position would be if his arm was tweaked all the way back, the lawyer for the James fam ily, Milton Grimes said. The James family said Tuesday they don’t know what steps to take next in the case. 'Print l'» r lir ip » lr in I k m i i m n L fJnrtlauö (ObsrrUrr I ll* v lillll (TFA Ballots 1 O n W av On the Web w w w .p o rtlan d o hserver.com ft Celebrating 35 years o f service to the diverse citizens o f Portland, The Portland Observer continues to expand and improve our coverage o f our vibrant metropolitan area and its surrounding communities. A s it quickly becomes more and more an electronic world. The Portland Observer endeavors to m eet the needs o f our readers and advertisers by going online. With the capability o f the Internet, the Portland Observer now reaches a broader audience. lune 29, 2005 (AP) - Turning to a busi N A A CP didn’t have that. nessman to lead one of the Bu, with every step w e’ve nation’s seminal civil rights tak en ... we wanted to move groups, the N AACP’s board up. And we think h e ’s go of directors announced Sat ing to bring us a quantita urday that Bruce S. Gordon, a tive m ove up.” retired Verizon executive, will Gordon said his first pri be its next president. orities will be to improve the “C iv il rig h ts le a d e rs organization’s finances - its throughout this country did expenses have exceeded its what they did and died, so my income for the last two years, generation has full responsi tax documents show - by bility to walk in the doors working to build an endow those brave people opened,” ment, increasing member Gordon said after the board ship and pushing for more voted. “It’s fabulous, excit efficiency in operations. ing, humbling.” His civil rights goals in Gordon was selected by a c lu d e w o rk in g to w ard large majority of the board to greater economic equality, su c c e e d K w eisi M fum e, he said. former U.S. representative and He also said he was look a candidate for Senate in ing forward to building a M a ry la n d w ho re sig n e d stronger relationship with abruptly in December. the Bush administration. Described as a top-notch G o rdon w as born in le a d e r and c o n se n su s- C am den, N.J., and raised Bruce Gordon was named the next president and chief executive officer o f builder, Gordon, 59, began his w ith four siblings by par the National Association for the Advancement o f Colored People (NAACP) career in 1968 as a manage Saturday. (AP photo) ents who w ere both edu ment trainee at Bell o f Penn cators and civil right ac sylvania. For 35 years, amid tivists. massive upheaval in the tele He serves on boards o f communications industry, he S outhern Co. and Tyco helped the company navigate International Ltd. and is a the string of mergers that led trustee o f G ettysburg C ol it to become Verizon Commu lege and the A lvin Ailey nications Inc. W hen he re Dance Foundation. He was tired in December 2003, he n am ed one o f F o rtu n e - BruceS. Gordon, president-elect of NAACP was chief of V erizon's big m agazine’s 50 m ost pow gest division - retail markets. tom ed to working within a system chairm an o f the group’s board o f erful black executives in 2002 and G o r d o n ’s c o rp o ra te b ack in which m erit and achievem ent directors, said. “That was attrac executive o f the year by Black ground “ m eans that he is accus count the m ost,” Julian Bond, tive to us. N ot to say that the E nterprise m agazine in 1998. Civil rights leaders ... did what they did and died, so my generation has full responsibility to walk in the doors those brave people opened. MW MMW NMMMMMMMMHNMNMMMMKW MMMMM Bush: Iraq Bloodshed Worth It (A P) — President Bush on that has eroded his popularity. T u e s d a y a p p e a le d fo r th e In an evening address at an nation’s patience for “difficult Army base that has 9,300 troops and dangerous” work ahead in in Iraq, Bush was acknowledging Iraq, hoping a backdrop o f U.S. the toll o f the 27-month-old war. troops and a rem inder o f Iraq’s At the same time, he aimed to revived sovereignty w ould help persuade skeptical A m ericans him reclaim control o f an issue . that hi s strategy for victory needed only time - not any changes - to be successful. “Like most Americans, I see the images o f violence and blood shed. Every picture is horrifying and the suffering is real,” Bush said, according to excerpts re leased ahead of time by the White House. “It is worth it.” It was a tricky balancing act, believed necessary by W hite Tri M et thanks the House advisers who have seen persistent insurgent attacks eat c o m m u n ity for into A m ericans’ support for the w ar - and for the president - and MAX Yellow Line's successful firs t year: nearly fo u r m illio n trip s so far! Together and ahead o f schedule we b u ilt b e tte r ways to com m ute and connect. Local Disadvantaged Business Enterprise contractors and President Bush leaves the White House Tuesday to give a prime time address from Fort Bragg, N.C., home o f the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division. increase discom fort am ong even R epublicans on C apitol Hill. Bush marked the first anniver ■MHMHMMM KMNNMN M M M M M M M I sary of the transfer of power from the U.S.-led coalition to Iraq’s in terim government by focusing on progress in the past year and prom ising success against the still- potent insurgency. “The terrorists can kill the inno cent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom,” he said in a speech that was to be attended by 750 soldiers and airmen. “They will fail.” He was rejecting calls to set a tim e ta b le fo r w ith d ra w in g 135,000 A m erican troops. In stead, he argued for m aintaining the present tw o-pronged strat egy: equipping Iraqi security forces to take over the anti-in surgency fight and helping Iraqi political leaders in the transition to a perm anent dem ocratic gov ernment. MMHMHMHMHMHMMMHMMMM Troop Withdrawal Plans Urged Iraq that would begin ask O regon’s sons and by Oct. 1,2006. daughters, husbands The memorial intro and wives, to spill their duced by Shields mir blood for Iraq’s secu rors a bi-partisan reso rity forever.” lution that has been in Shields was joined State Rep. Chip Shields, a fresh troduced in Congress by chief co-sponsors man Democrat representing north by Dennis Kucinich, of the memorial. Rep. and northeast Portland, was joined D -O hio, Neil A ber Paul Holvey D-Eugene, by members of the Oregon Senate crom bie, D -H aw aii, whose son Justin is a and House Monday as he intro W alter Jones, R-N.C. m ember o f the U.S. duced a memorial urging Congress and Ron Paul, R-Texas. Army and has served Sfafe Rep. to create a plan for withdrawing S h ie ld s sa id he in Iraq, and Sen. Avel Chip Shields American troops from Iraq. hopes to send a mes- G ordly, an African- “The Oregon Homeward Bound sage to Washington with the legis American lawmaker representing Act,” calls for Congress to pass a lation. northeast and southeast Portland, resolution that declares that it is the “We need a sea-change in strat whose legislative aide has a son policy of the United States to an egy and a way to get our troops serving with the military in the nounce a plan for withdrawal from home,” Shields said. “We cannot Middle-East. Community lawmakers ask Congress to act workers provided $35 m illio n o f contract w ork on the project. More than 29 percent o f the construction workforce were w om en and/o r m ino rities. T R lg jM E T to W O R K + to P L A Y + to L IV E 5ee where It takes you. Americans Oppose Military Draft Families discourage children from enlisting (AP) - Americans overwhelm ingly oppose reinstatement of the military draft and most say they wouldn’t encourage their children toenlistinthe serv ice ei ther, an AP- Ipsos poll found. The Army is falling behind its recruiting goals at a time the coun try is fighting extended wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army has repeatedly missed its monthly re cruiting goals this year, falling short by 42 percent in April. And al 1 four branches of mi 1 itary service are having trouble attract ing recruits to their reserve forces. Despite the recruiting problems, More than 1,700 members of the seven in 10 Americans say they U.S. military have died since the oppose reinstatement of the draft, start of the Iraq war and thousands and almost half of those polled more have been wounded. strongly oppose that step, the AP- More than half of those polled Ipsos poll found. About a quarter said they would discourage a son of the people in this country say from enlisting in the military, while they favor reinstating the draft. two-thirds said they would discour Men were more likely than age a daughter from joining. women to favor reinstating the draft T he A m erican p u b lic has and those over age 50 were more strongly opposed reinstating the likely to favor it than younger draft for the past couple of de adults. Republicans were more likely cades, according to various polls. than Democrats to support the idea. And the decreasing support for the But a majority of each o f those war in Iraq suggests that is unlikely groups opposed the draft. to change anytime soon. t