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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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