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luly 26. 2006
L ocal A gency H elps L ebanon I Columbia Slough Regatta Sunday
As th o u s a n d s fle e th e ir
hom es am idst fighting in Israel
and L ebanon, Portland-based
M ercy C o rp s has started d is
tributing em ergency supplies
to d isp laced fam ilies south o f
Beirut.
M ercy C o rp s staff and m e
dia on the ground estim ate that
at least 7 5 0 ,0 0 0 to I m illion
people are displaced.
“ People have an urgent need
Twelve years of celebrating the
wild wetlands of north and north
east Portland takes place Sunday,
July 30 during the annual Colum
bia Slough Small Craft Regatta
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the
Portland W ater Bureau Canoe
Launch. 16550 N.E. Airport Way.
The celebration o f the C olum
bia Slough prom ises to be the
best one yet with t-shirts, educa
tional booths, snacks, and bever
ages. Area residents are invited
to see how far the C olum bia
for basic supplies,” said M ercy in th e S h o u f M o u n ta in s
of
B e ir u t.
C o rp s aid w o rk er C assandra s o u t h e a s t
N elson o f B eaverton, on the K a ifo u n ’s no rm al p o p u la tio n
phone from Beirut. “ W e are o f 5 .0 0 0 p e o p le h a s sw e lle d
helping ad dress the needs o f to a p p ro x im a te ly 40,(XM) as
displaced people w ithout strong in te rn a lly d isp la c e d peo p le
fa m ily n e tw o rk s to su p p o rt seek re fu g e th ere.
An estim ated 14,(MX) people
th e m .”
M ercy C o rp s is d istrib u tin g are staying in “transit c e n te rs”
food, co o k in g supplies, air m at - schools and o ther m unicipal
tre sse s, and b la n k e ts to 3,000 b u ild in g s - th ro u g h o u t the
p e o p le in the tow n o f K aifoun, tow n.
Ingredients for life.
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Dozens of small watercraft and hundreds of people are attracted
to the annual Columbia Slough Regatta, celebrating the wild
wetlands of north and northeast Portland.
Slough W atershed Council has wide variety o f mammals.
com e in protecting the natural
Participants may reserve a ca
area, and learn about future con noe or kayak (45 minute trip),
servation goals.
paddles and personal flotation de
Past Regattas have attracted vice through the council or bring
170 boats and 500 participants. their own boat and equipm ent. If
The Slough’s Hat w ater is per you are bringing your own craft,
fect for novice and experience you must supply your own safety
boaters alike. The Regatta offers equipm ent.
views o f riparian habitat that are
A suggested donation o f $5
hom e to over 175 species o f per person will help support the
birds, 25 species o f fish, and a council’s mission and goals.
Sailor Dies in Standoff
A U.S. Navy sailor fatally shot ard Steinbronn did not find Goins
him self in the head after he was when he arrived at the scene. But
w ounded by a police officer in Steinbronn spent 15 minutes talk
front o f a m ilitary recruiting sta ing to people inside the recruiting
tion at Eastport Plaza on South center and also spoke with Goins
east 82nd Avenue, authorities said on a cell phone.
T hursday.
Later when the officer spotted
Jerry G oins, 37, was shot July G oins with a gun on the side
19 after police had gone to the walk, w itnesses said he repeat
center after getting a report that edly ordered Goins to drop the
an armed and suicidal man had w eapon. W hen Goins raised the
gone there to see his girlfriend, gun, Steinbronn shot him four
sa id S g t. B rian S c h m a u tz , times in the midsection, Schmautz
spokesman for the Portland Po said.
lice Bureau.
Steinbronn has been on the
Schmautz said Officer Rich force for nine years.
Oregon Guard Heads to Mongolia
O regon N ational G uard sol tions peacekeeping operations.
diers are headed to M ongolia
T he exercise is designed to
for U .N . international p eace co nduct m ulti-national training
k eep in gtraining.
and prom ote positive m ilitary-
M ore than 90 O regon sol to-m ilitary relationships am ong
diers in B C om pany 2nd B attal participating nations.
ion o f the 162nd Infantry, based
M ore than 240 international
out o f C orvallis and Eugene, will participants from R ji,Tonga,Thai
travel to U laanbaatar, M ongolia land. Bangladesh, and Korea will
for three w eeks in A ugust d u r be represented. M any other coun
ing the K haan Q uest IV 2006 tries including, Russia, China,
training ex ercise to help train United Kingdom, France,Canada
m e m b e rs o f th e M o n g o lia n and Japan will be international
A rm ed F orces in U nited Na- observers during the training.
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Civil Rights Hiring Politicized
Bush lawyers bring their ideologies
The Bush Administration has
fundamentally politicized the Jus
tice Department’sCivil Rights Divi
sion by changing the composition
of positions from predominantly
career jobs into politically ap
pointed positions, according to a
report in Sunday's Boston Globe.
Since former Attorney General
John Ashcroft replaced hiring com
mittees made up of veteran career
African American to a heavier fo
cus on reverse discrim ination
against whites.
At the same time. President
Bush's political appointees in the
Justice Department have overruled
recommendations of veteran civil
rights lawyers in several eases, in
cluding a Texas re-districting plan
that was partially overturned by
the Supreme Court after being
Cases have shifted away from voting
rights and employment cases involving
discrimination against African
American to a heavier focus on reverse
discrimination against whites.
lawyers with Republican political
appointees in 2003, the numbers of
lawyers with clear conservative
ideological agendas who lack back
grounds in civil rights law have
increased.
The Globe notes that since then,
only 42 percent of lawyers in the
division have civil rights experi
ence compared to 77 percent of
those hired two years before.
In changing the composition of
the Civil Rights Division, the type
of eases have shifted away from
voting rights and employ ment eases
involving discrimination against
found to violate the Voting Rights
Act and a discriminatory Georgia
Voter ID law that was also recently
overturned by both federal and
Georgia courts.
Democrats complain that the
Bush Administration and the Re
publican Congress continue to
push for outdated, discriminatory
laws that make it harder for Ameri
cans to vote and they have system
atically worked to weaken over
sight and civil rights enforcement
in order to achieve their goals and
put the priorities of their party over
those of the American people.