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January 19, 2011
King’s Legacy Praised after Arizona Shooting
For message
of peace and
tolerance
said the Jan. 8 bloodshed was a call
to recommit to King's values of non­
violence, tolerance, compassion
and justice.
"Last week a senseless rampage
in Tucson reminded us that more
(AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther than 40 years after Dr. King's own
King Jr.'s legacy as a preacher of tragic death, our struggle to eradi­
peace and tolerance was lauded cate violence and to promote peace
Monday as Americans marked his goes on," Holder said.
memorial day just over a week after
President Barack Obama, in
the shootings in Arizona that killed Washington, said part of King's
6 people and seriously wounded a legacy was about service and urged
congresswoman.
Americans to get out into their com­
Attorney General Eric Holder, munities — a step he suggested
speaking at King's former church in would have special meaning follow­
Atlanta, praised him as "our nation's ing the shootings.
greatest drum major of peace" and
"After a painful week where so
many of us were focused on the
tragedy, it's good for us to remind
ourselves of what this country is all
about," he told reporters as he and
first lady Michelle Obama took part
in a painting project at a school on
Capitol Hill.
National and local politicians
joined members of the King family
at Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Atlanta to mark what would have
been the civil rights icon's 82nd
birthday. M embers o f the King
family also laid a wreath at the
tombs o f King and his widow,
Coretta Scott King, on the 25th
anniversary o f the federal holiday
established to honor the 1964
Readers
of all ages
Shirley Kaiser, a retired teacher and principal from St. Paul, Minn.,
closes her eyes as 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' was sung during a
local Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
Nobel Peace Prize winner.
there is never a reason to deny an­
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who other human being the respect he or
worked with King during the civil she deserves," Lewis said.
rights movement, issued a renewed
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, pas­
call for Americans to unite in peace tor of Ebenezer, called for members
and love as King preached during of Congress to show solidarity dur­
his lifetime.
ing the State of the Union Address
"If Dr. King could speak to us this month. Quoting the Bible and
today, he would tell us that it does Abraham Lincoln, Warnock said,
not matter how much we disapprove "A house divided against itself can­
of another persons point of view, not stand."
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An unexploded backpack bomb was
left along the parade route of a Martin
Luther King Jr. holiday celebration
in Spokane Tuesday. The unat­
tended backpack with wires visible
was discovered about 30 minutes
before the parade was scheduled to
begin.
Sandy River Jumps Banks
Heavy rain and runoff from melting
snow helped push the Sandy River
across a road near Mount Hood,
washing it out and forcing residents
to evacuate on foot. The washout
Sunday bear the town of Zigzag was
part of the damage done across
Oregon and Washington by heavy
weekend rains.
Dictator Faces Court
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude
Duvalier, who abruptly returned to
Haiti M onday was
hauled into court to
Dropped School Backpack
an sw er q u e stio n s
Fires; Two Students Hurt
Tuesday as a legal
A gun in a lOth-grader's backpack
case w as o p en ed
accidentally discharged when he
against him nearly 25
dropped the bag, wounding two years after he was ousted from power
students at a Los Angeles high in a popular uprising against what
school Tuesday. A 15-year-old girl was widely regarded as a brutal and
was in critical condition with a head corrupt regime.
wound and a 15-year-old boy suf­
Advocate for Poor Dies
fered a neck wound.
Sargent Shriver, a member of the
City Turns to Wells
Kennedy family and a former U.S.
The Portland Water Bureau tempo­ vice presidential nom inee who
rarily turned off the Bull Run water served as the first Peace Corps di­
supply system and activated its wells rector, died on Tuesday. He was 95.
near the Columbia River Monday Shriver had been an advocate for
because of heavy rains which stirred the poor and powerless who helped
up stream sediments to discolor the launch President Lyndon Johnson's
Bull Run system.
War on Poverty.