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Volume XXXVIII, Number 34
.Week ¡n
The Review
General Election Nov. 4
Wednesday • August 27, 2008
Democrats Back Obama-Biden
Airliner Hijacked from Dafur
H ijackers in Sudan’s war torn
Darfur region seized a jetliner
carrying nearly 100 people
T u e s d a y , in c lu d in g lo c a l
D arfur officials, and forced it
to land at a W orld War II-era
airfield in the heart o f the Sa­
hara D esert in neighboring
Libya.
Russia Stuns the West
Russia stunned the West on
Tuesday by recognizing the in­
dependence claims of two Geor­
gian breakaway regions, and U.S.
warships plied the waters off of
Georgia in a gambit the Kremlin
saw as gunboat diplomacy.
Gene Upshaw Dies
Kevin Duckworth
Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Sen.
Barack Obama, and daughters Malia, 10 (left), and Sasha,
7, wave to the audience at the Democratic National
Convention in Denver.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama (right) introduces
U.S. Sen. Joe Biden has his pick for vice president
Saturday in Springfield, III. Biden is a savvy debater,
willing attack dog and blue-collar champion.
Gene Upshaw,
atowering line­
m an on the
football field
who went on to
winuntoldmil-
lions of dollars
for NFL players as their union
leader, died last week from pan­
creatic cancer at the age of 63. He
had a Hall of Fame career for the
Oakland Raiders.
H
‘Duck’ starred
for two-time
Western
Conference
Champs
Tubbs Jones Remembered
T rib u te s
from p o liti­
cal allies and
even o n e ­
tim e
en­
emies came
pouring in for Democratic U.S.
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
after her death last W ednes­
day from a ruptured aneurysm.
The 58-year-old was the first
African American elected to
Congress from Ohio. Her en ­
ergy and outspokenness made
her a dynam ic leader.
Barack Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, introduces
his sister Michelle Obama at the Democratic National
Convention Monday. Robinson is the new basketball coach
at Oregon State University.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, struggling with brain cancer,
makes a triumphant appearance at the Democratic
National Convention in Denver to endorse Sen. Barack
Obama for president.
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Activitsts try again for
Chevez street honor
A Portland area youth coach was
arraigned Monday on charges of
sexually abusing a teen runner.
Askia Brown, 33, was arrested
after the 14-year-old girl told po­
lice that he molested her during a
private coaching session.
Instant Replay for Baseball
Umpires will be allowed tocheck
video on home run calls starting
Thursday after Major League
Baseball, guardian of America's
most traditional sport, reversed
its decades-long opposition to
instant replay.
Olympic Basketball Victory
Culminating a three-year mission
to end years of embarrassment,
the U.S. Olympic team survived
a huge challenge from Spain,
winning 118-107 Sunday in the
gold-medal game on the final day
of the Olympics in Beijing.
Boise Neighborhood Gutted
Authorities and residents of a
Boise, Idaho subdivision as­
sessed the damage Tuesday after
a wind-whipped wildfire burned
as many of 10 homes. Officials
tried to determine whether the
blaze killed a Boise State Univer­
sity professor whose body was
found in a damaged house.
Cows Have Built-in
Compass
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Kevin Duckworth. 44, a two-
time NBA All-Star who starred on
Western Conference Champion­
ship teams in Portland in 1990and
1992, passed away Monday
Rebounding
from Defeat
Track Coach Charged
Talk about animal magnetism,
cows seem to have a built-in
compass. No bull: Somehow,
cattle seem to know how to find
north and south, say research­
ers who studied satellite photos
of thousands of cows around
the world.
Blazer
Great
Dies
photo by M ark
W ashington <T he P ortland O bserver
‘Soulful Stutters’ Make it Count
Portland's 'Soleful Strutters' reach the finish line in Seaside Saturday in the Portland to Coast Walk
Relay, part o f the annual Hood to Coast relay to support the American Cancer Society. Pictured (from left)
are Maxine Fitzpatrick, Lori Steen, Kawana Vincent. Tammie Swinson, Bernadine Clay and Jackie Jones.
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by L aura M eehan
T he P ortland O bserver
A warrior must spend a lot of energy preparing
for battle— in training, in research, in strategy. But
what happens when you didn't know you would
be attacked? And having been beaten, how do
you recover the energy to fight again?
Last fall, the Portland City Council rejected a
proposal to rename North Interstate Avenue after
Cesar Chavez.
T he
p ro p o n en ts.
Latino community lead­
ers and volunteers who
had rallied for the change
since April were sorely
d isa p p o in te d .
They
hadn't followed a formal
process for getting the
street re n a m e d — but
h a d n 't th o ught they Ce$arChavez
needed to.
When Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard,
Naito Parkway and Rosa Parks Boulevard became
part of Portland's geography, the changes may
not have gone unopposed, but the renaming
procedures had been lax, even nonexistent.
In the past, any Portland street could be re­
named as long as no significant organized oppo­
sition arose.
The Cesar F. Chavez Boulevard Committee must
have assumed the same would he true for Interstate
Avenue—but significant opposition arose.
Marta Guembes. co-chair of the committee,
says that the group did not prepare as much as
they should have, but their real shock came more
from the animosity they faced than the failure to
have the street renamed.
“We faced a lot of anger, a lot of hate, a lot of
very very painful things." she says.
City Commissioner and Mayor-elect Sam Adams
feels the failure had more to do with timing, and
that the effort failed "in part because they chose
a street that had been dug up for years with the
light rail, and people were tired of their street being
in turmoil.''
Adams says while the group had the best of
intentions, “They thought they had more support
than they really did.”
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