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Volume XXXX, Number 3 Established in 1970 www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday n rtlanh (1 Ready, Set, 'Fertile Ground' showcases new works Arts & Entertainment, page 12 Committed to Cultural Diversity community service Haiti’s Aftershock A young woman listens to Michael Edge, a German doctor from International Search and Rescue after having her leg amputated at a makeshift hospital o f the Belgian First Aid and Support Team in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. H O H ie oaee 3 •J» P ge J Catastrophe of earthquake shattered Haiti's capi- . taL 7116 airP°rt remains a bottle- 00æ PPOPOrtlOnS nec^’ Port *s a shambles. The H r7 Haitian government is invisible, (AP) - The world still can't get enough food and water to the hun- gry and thirsty one week after an nobody has taken firm charge, and the police have largely given up. Even as JJ s troops landed in Seahawk helicopters Tuesday the manicured lawn of the Natior Palace, the colossal efforts to he Haiti are proving inadequate t cause of the scale of the disast c o n tin u e d on p a g e 16 WWWW&i? ft 88 ZZ Faith Collides with Oregon Law Ban on teachers wearing 0 religious dress reconsidered ers sion are or hoping lose theirj°bs-B ut lawmak- 0 to repeal the law in a by J ake T homas T he P ortland O bserver Laleh Zahedi loves working with children, has a bachelor’s degree in child psychology, and has five years of teaching experience. The law was passed in the 1923, during a darker time in Oregon poli She’d like to get a teaching cer ing with an obscure state law. special legislative session sched tics. At the time, the Ku Klux Kian tificate and work in Oregon’s public Oregon is one of three states that uled next month. However, others had a strong presence in the state, school system, but she won’t be ban teachers from wearing any reli are hoping the Legislature will put whose sympathizers included Or cause doing so would force her to gious dress while performing their the brakes on such a move, claiming egon Speaker of the House Kaspar choose between adhering to her instructional duties. Teachers who that it could open up a Pandora’s Islamic religious beliefs or comply- violate the law could face suspen- Box of other legal issues. c o n tin u e d on p a g e 19