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Volume XXXV. Number 45
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Wednesday • November 9. 2005
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An Arabic translator for the Army
is accused of secretly helping Iraqi
insurgents, a federal prosecutor
said at his bail hearing in New York
City Monday. The man was or
dered held without bail on charges
o f falsifying his identity.
by K atherine B lackmore
T he P ortland O bserver
Second Saddam Lawyer Killed
Three masked gunmen in a speed
ing Opel assassinated a second
lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial
Tuesday, casting doubt on Iraq’s
ability to try the case and leading a
prominent war crimes prosecutor
to urge moving the proceedings to
another Arab country
Terrell Owens Apologizes
A contrite Terrell Owens, hoping to
overturn his dismissal from the
Philadelphia Eagles, on Tuesday
apologized to coach Andy Reid,
quarterback Donovan McNabb, the
team ’s owner and president, and
fans. “1 fight for what I think is right.
In doing so, 1 alienated a lot of my
fans and my teammates,” the All-
Pro receiver said.
Student Shoots
Administrators
A student shot and killed an assis
ta n t p rin c ip a l and se rio u sly
wounded two other administrators
at a high school in Jacksboro, Tenn.
Tuesday. The student was arrested.
The motive for the shooting at
Campbell County High School, 30
miles from Knoxville, was not imme
diately known.
France in State of Emergency
President Jacques Chirac declared
a 12-day state of emergency Tues
day in an extraordinary measure to
halt France's worst civil unrest in
nearly four decades. The mayhem
sweeping neglected and impover
ished neighborhoods with large
African and Arab communities is
forcing France to confront anger
building for decades among resi
dents who complain of discrimina
tion and unemployment.
Gonorrhea Cases Fall
Gonorrhea has fallen to the lowest
level on record in the United States,
while the rates of other sexually
transmitted diseases - syphilis and
chlamydia - are on the rise, federal
health officials said Tuesday.
photo by I saiah
New training
touches on
bias, ethics
All Portland Police Bureau officers
are now required to attend a three-hour
course in the ethics and constitutional
ity of stopping vehicles, addressing the
issues of racial vs. criminal profiling,
protecting the rights of the driver and
maintaining ethical standards.
The course “Perspectives on Profil
in g ” was designed by the Sim on
Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Toler
ance and will be part of the bureau’s
annual 40-hour in-service training go
ing on now through March.
“This training is about how officers
ments and their own personal
can use their well-developed
safety.
intuitive skills on the street
The course teaches offic
without intrusion of uninten
ers how to differentiate crimi
tional bias,” said Sgt. Kris
nal profiling from racial pro
Wagner of the Pol ice B ureau ’ s
filing, when race may be used
Training Division.
appropriately as a factor in a
“The importance of this train
profile, how to identify racist
ing is that we are taking this
u n d e rto n e s
w ith in
an
issue of profiling to the fore
agency’s culture, and how to
fro n t,” said O fficer Dana
insulate themselves from its
Lewis, who along with seven Officer Dana Lewis
effect.
other bureau officers will fa
Other topics include the role of “prob
cilitate the training. “By incorporating this
training, we’re letting the community know able cause” in the practice of racial pro
that we’re not sweeping this issue under filing, how to avoid escalation in racially
charged stops, and which statistics would
the rug.”
When stopping a vehicle, police offic be used as predictors of future behavior
ers must be mindful o f a number of and which should not, and why the dif
factors: traffic on the road, looking for a ferences.
The instruction also examines the Fourth
safe place to pull over, the number of
people in the vehicle, suspicious move Amendment, which protects citizens against
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illegal search and seizure, and the Four
teenth Amendment, which guarantees
citizens their civil rights. There is also the
Whren Decision, a 1996 U.S. Supreme
Court decision declaring that any traffic
infraction is reason enough to stop a
vehicle, regardless of the officer’s actual
moti vation of the stop.
“One of the first issues we discuss in
the training is to come up with a defini
tion of racial profiling,” said Lewis,
who has been with the Bureau for three
years, but has been in law enforcement
for 14 years. “Just coming up with a
definition that is in agreement with ev
erybody opens up the dialogue. Once
that is set, we can start breaking down
the issue of racial profiling.”
Last year, the Police Bureau and
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The Senate’s top Democrats chal
lenged President Bush on Tuesday
to rule out a pardon for I. Lewis
Libby, a former top White House
aide who faces trial on charges of
obstruction of justice and perjury
in the CIA leak case.
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Lyda Overton (left) and Arleta Christain, activities director for Northeast Multicultural Senior Center, get an understanding of
Medicare Part D. Each Wednesday, the center matches people up with a volunteer expert in the new prescription drug
coverage by appointment. A group class is also planned on Nov. 30.
There’s a new health benefit plan milling
around called Medicare Part D and it brings
confusing options for seniors and disabled
people.
Starting Jan. 1, everyone on Medicare
can voluntarily buy a prescription drug in
surance policy from an array of pri vate com
panies that are subsidized and regulated by
the federal government.
But with so many different options and
daunting paperwork, the whole thing can be
intimidating. To ease the confusion and
lesson the chances for a costly mistake, the
AARP (American Association of Retired
Persons) and SHIBA (Senior Health Insur
ance Benefit Assistance program) have
launched public efforts to help people look
at their choices, rather than dismissing the
new benefit as something that’s too com pli
cated to deal with.
Both organizations are helping out by
providing workshops, along with individual,
phone and online counseling, beginning
Nov. 15, which is also the first day to sign up
for the new coverage.
T he U rb an L e a g u e o f P o rtla n d
Multicultural Senior Center on Northeast
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and
Killingsworth Street will offer individual
counseling sessions with a SHIBA volun-
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Regena Williams, co-founder o f Dew-Angie Services, shows o ff the loaves of bread in her
truck as she makes her weekly drop-offs to local organizations.
Every week, Portlander Regena
Williams drives over to Franz Bakery
and picks up more than 500 loaves of
bread. Then, armed with a truckload
of nourishment, she stops at senior
centers, group homes and shelters
around Portland to drop off the do
nated loaves at no charge. All on her
own volition.
“1 have a background in giving -
that's how I was raised,” Williams
said.
About seven years ago, Williams
started a community volunteer pro
gram called Dew-Angee Services with
her husband Dwayne. Recognizing
her surrounding community as more
of a village than a vast city, they’ve
been able to make an impact through
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a variety of helpful efforts.
“It feels wonderful. It lights my
heart to see families have bread and
clothes and giving them shelter and
resources," Williams said. “T hey’re
very appreciative. They call for me.
They know of someone in their com
munity they can trust. I can fill that
need.”
For Williams, it is necessary that
neighbors come together, address
their issues and fill the gaps simply by
donating their time. Her faith has
instilled in her a strong sense of
altruism.
“God has given me love for oth
ers," she said. “It’s our Christian
duty to help one another."
Since moving to Oregon from Ten
nessee as a 17-year-old, Williams has
made her own village with her fam
ily. Interestingly, her mother was
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