A4 The BulleTin • Thursday, april 1, 2021
TODAY
Today is Thursday, April 1, the
91st day of 2021. There are 274
days left in the year. This is April
Fool’s Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 1, 1954, the United
States Air Force Academy was
established by President Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
In 1789, the U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives held its first full
meeting in New York; Frederick
Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania
was elected the first House
speaker.
In 1933, Nazi Germany staged
a daylong national boycott of
Jewish-owned businesses.
In 1945, American forces
launched the amphibious inva-
sion of Okinawa during World
War II. (U.S. forces succeeded in
capturing the Japanese island
on June 22.)
In 1970, President Richard M.
Nixon signed a measure ban-
ning cigarette advertising on ra-
dio and television, to take effect
after Jan. 1, 1971.
In 1972, the first Major League
Baseball players’ strike began; it
lasted 12 days.
In 1975, with Khmer Rouge
guerrillas closing in, Cambodian
President Lon Nol resigned and
fled into exile, spending the rest
of his life in the United States.
In 1976, Apple Computer was
founded by Steve Jobs, Steve
Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
In 1977, the U.S. Senate followed
the example of the House of
Representatives by adopting,
86-9, a stringent code of ethics
requiring full financial disclosure
and limits on outside income.
In 1984, Marvin Gaye was shot
to death by his father, Marvin
Gay, Sr. in Los Angeles, the day
before the recording star’s 45th
birthday. (The elder Gay pleaded
guilty to voluntary manslaugh-
ter and received probation.)
In 1987, in his first speech on the
AIDS epidemic, President Ronald
Reagan told doctors in Phila-
delphia, “We’ve declared AIDS
public health enemy No. 1.”
In 1992, the National Hockey
League Players’ Association
went on its first-ever strike,
which lasted 10 days.
In 2003, American troops
entered a hospital in Nasiriyah,
Iraq, and rescued Army Pfc.
Jessica Lynch, who had been
held prisoner since her unit was
ambushed on March 23.
Ten years ago: Afghans angry
over the burning of a Quran at
a small Florida church stormed
a U.N. compound in northern
Afghanistan, killing seven for-
eigners, including four Nepalese
guards.
Five years ago: World leaders
ended a nuclear security summit
in Washington by declaring
progress in safeguarding nucle-
ar materials sought by terrorists
and wayward nations, even
as President Barack Obama
acknowledged the task was far
from finished.
One year ago: President Don-
ald Trump acknowledged that
the federal stockpile of personal
protective equipment used by
doctors and nurses was nearly
depleted, and he warned of
some “horrific” days ahead for
the country. Resisting calls to
issue a national stay-at-home
order, Trump said he wanted
to give governors “flexibility”
to respond to the coronavirus.
England’s Wimbledon tennis
tournament was canceled for
the first time since World War II.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Jane
Powell is 92. Actor Don Hastings
is 87. Actor Ali MacGraw is 82.
R&B singer Rudolph Isley is 82.
Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff is 73.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Alito is 71. Rock musician Billy
Currie (Ultravox) is 71. Actor
Annette O’Toole is 69. Movie
director Barry Sonnenfeld is 68.
Singer Susan Boyle is 60. Actor
Jose Zuniga is 59. Country singer
Woody Lee is 53. Actor Jessica
Collins is 50. Rapper-actor Meth-
od Man is 50. Movie directors
Albert and Allen Hughes are 49.
Political commentator Rachel
Maddow is 48. Former tennis
player Magdalena Maleeva is
46. Actor David Oyelowo is 45.
Actor JJ Field is 43. Singer Bijou
Phillips is 41. Actor Sam Hunting-
ton is 39. Comedian-actor Taran
Killam is 39. Actor Matt Lanter
is 38. Actor Josh Zuckerman is
36. Country singer Hillary Scott
(Lady A) is 35. Rock drummer
Arejay Hale (Halestorm) is 34.
Actor Asa Butterfield is 24. Actor
Tyler Wladis is 11.
— Associated Press
Judge blocks Nevada grazing; sage grouse totals dwindling
BY SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — A federal judge has
blocked a Nevada project that would
expand livestock grazing across 400
squares miles of some of the high-
est priority sage grouse habitat in the
West and accused the government of
deliberately misleading the public by
underestimating damage the cattle
could do to the land.
The ruling comes as scientists con-
tinue to document dramatic declines
in greater sage grouse populations
across 11 Western states — down 65%
since 1986 and 37% since 2002, ac-
cording to a new report by the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Its numbers have shrunk to less
than a quarter of what they were a
half-century ago, the USGS said Tues-
day. If current trends continue, there’s
only a 50% chance most of their re-
maining breeding grounds known
as “leks” will still be productive in 60
years, it said.
Citing concerns about grouse, U.S.
administrative Judge Harvey Sweitzer
sided with conservationists in Nevada
and suspended approval of new graz-
ing permits for a swath of rangeland
larger than Rhode Island. It stretches
to Utah and includes a ranch once
owned by Bing Crosby.
The senior judge at the Interior
Department’s Office of Hearings
and Appeals in Salt Lake City ruled
March 19 the Bureau of Land Man-
agement failed to adequately examine
potential harm to the grouse as re-
quired by the National Environmen-
tal Policy Act.
Sweitzer’s decision could have
ramifications for several permits ap-
proved across the West in the final
months of the Trump administra-
tion under a 2017 initiative dubbed
“Outcome-Based Grazing.” Neva-
da’s Winecup-Gamble ranch was
among 11 designated as demonstra-
tion projects in 2018 under the “Out-
come-Based” initiative along with
ranches in Oregon, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana and Wyoming.
David Zalubowski/AP file
Male greater sage grouse perform mating rituals
for a female grouse, not pictured, on a lake out-
side Walden, Colorado, in 2013.
WORLD BRIEFING
Reversing Trump, Pentagon
releases new transgender policies
Ron Edmonds/AP file
G. Gordon Liddy kneels next to his Corvette outside the Fairfax, Virginia,
radio station where he broadcast his syndicated radio talk show in 1997.
Liddy, who became a radio host after prison, was one of the so-called
“plumbers” and a Republican operative who went to prison for the 1972
break-in into the Watergate building.
G. GORDON LIDDY • 1930-2021
Unapologetic Watergate
mastermind said he’d ‘do
it again for my president’
BY WILL LESTER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — G. Gor-
don Liddy, a mastermind of
the Watergate burglary and
a radio talk show host after
emerging from prison, died
Tuesday at age 90 at his daugh-
ter’s home in Virginia.
His son, Thomas Liddy, con-
firmed the death but did not re-
veal the cause, other than to say
it was not related to COVID-19.
Liddy, a former FBI agent and
Army veteran, was convicted of
conspiracy, burglary and illegal
wiretapping for his role in the
Watergate burglary, which led
to the resignation of President
Richard Nixon. He spent four
years and four months in prison,
including more than 100 days in
solitary confinement.
“I’d do it again for my presi-
dent,” he said years later.
Liddy was outspoken and
controversial as a political
operative under Nixon. He
recommended assassinating
political enemies, bombing
a left-leaning think tank and
kidnapping war protesters. His
White House colleagues ig-
nored such suggestions.
One of his ventures — the
break-in at Democratic head-
quarters at the Watergate
building in June 1972 — was
approved. The burglary went
awry, which led to an investi-
gation, a cover-up and Nixon’s
resignation in 1974.
Liddy also was convicted of
conspiracy in the September
1971 burglary of the office of
the psychiatrist of Daniel Ells-
berg, the defense analyst who
leaked the secret history of the
Vietnam War known as the
Pentagon Papers.
After his release from
prison, Liddy became a pop-
ular, provocative and contro-
versial radio talk show host.
He also worked as a security
consultant, writer and actor.
His appearance — piercing
dark eyes, bushy moustache
and shaved head — made him
a recognizable spokesman for
products and TV guest.
Born in Hoboken, New
Jersey, George Gordon Bat-
tle Liddy was a frail boy who
grew up in a neighborhood
populated mostly by Ger-
man-Americans.
After attending Fordham
University and serving a stint
in the Army, Liddy graduated
from the Fordham University
Law School and then joined
the FBI. He ran unsuccessfully
for Congress from New York
in 1968 and helped organize
Nixon’s presidential campaign
in the state.
Liddy was head of a team of
Republican operatives known
as “the plumbers,” whose mis-
sion was to find leakers of in-
formation embarrassing to the
Nixon administration. Among
Liddy’s specialties were gath-
ering political intelligence and
organizing activities to disrupt
or discredit Nixon’s Demo-
cratic opponents.
Liddy and fellow operative
Howard Hunt, along with the
five arrested at Watergate, were
indicted on federal charges
three months after the June
1972 break-in. Hunt and his re-
cruits pleaded guilty in January
1973, and James McCord and
Liddy were found guilty. Nixon
resigned on Aug. 9, 1974.
bendbulletin.com
Chauvin trial: Ex-officer told onlooker
Floyd was big, ‘probably on something’
After the ambulance took George Floyd away,
the Minneapolis officer who had pinned his
knee on the Black man’s neck defended himself
to a bystander by saying Floyd was “a sizable
guy” and “probably on something,” according to
police video played in court Wednesday.
The video was part of a mountain of footage
— both official and amateur — and witness
testimony at Officer Derek Chauvin’s mur-
der trial that all together showed how Floyd’s
alleged attempt to pass a phony $20 bill at a
neighborhood market last May escalated into
tragedy one video-documented step at a time.
A security-camera scene of people joking
around inside the store soon gave way to the
France restricts travel as virus surges
French President Emmanuel Macron on
Wednesday announced a three-week nation-
wide school closure and a monthlong domes-
tic travel ban, as the rapid spread of the virus
ramped up pressure on hospitals.
It’s a departure from the government’s pol-
icy in recent months, which has focused on re-
gionalized restrictions. School closures in par-
ticular had been seen as a very last resort.
An overnight nationwide curfew has been
in place since January, and all France’s restau-
rants, bars, gyms, cinemas and museums have
been closed since October.
Iowa Democrat drops bid for House seat
Rita Hart, a defeated Democrat, abruptly
dropped her bid Wednesday to overturn her six-
vote loss for a House seat from Iowa, abandoning
what loomed as a long legal and political battle in
the face of shaky support from her own party.
Her opponent, Marianette Miller-Meeks, is
now a representative in Congress. Some House
Democrats were wary of overturning Mill-
er-Meeks’ win after their outrage when Donald
Trump took to the courts and Congress to try
reversing his own officially certified defeats.
— Bulletin wire reports
SHOWCASING
HOMES,
LAND, AND
COMMERCIAL
PROPERTY FOR
SALE IN CENTRAL
OREGON
• Reach local consumers with
discretionary income and put
your listing in front of those
buying or selling homes with
an advertisement in Central
Oregon Homes & Business.
• Featuring homes, land, and
commercial property for sale in
Central Oregon on a monthly
basis.
Joyce Gasior
of Bend, OR
Aug 18, 1935 - March 26,
2021
Arrangements:
Deschutes Memorial
Chapel and Gardens is
honored to serve the family
- (541) 382-5592. Visit our
online register book to
send condolences and
share treasured memories
at deschutesmemorial-
chapel.com or on Face-
book at facebook.com/
deschutesmemorial.
Services:
Private family gathering will
be held at a later date.
Contributions may be
made to:
Partners In Care, 2075 NE
Wyatt Ct, Bend, OR 97701.
ALSO APPEARING ONLINE
• CENTRAL OREGON HOMES & BUSINESS
features weblinks directing readers to your website.
• Expand your reach through The Bulletin’s
circulation to put your listings in front of those
buying or selling homes.
• Publishing the second Saturday
of the month with the Real
Estate section.
• Over 2300 additional copies
distributed throughout Central
Oregon.
• Showcase your home on the
cover page!
Dwayne L. Wagner
of Bend, OR
Aug 8, 1931 - March 28,
2021
Arrangements:
Autumn Funerals, Bend
541-318-0842 www.au-
tumnfunerals.net
Services:
Private services will be
held at a later date
OBITUARY DEADLINE
Call to ask about our deadlines
541-385-5809
Find it all online
The Pentagon on Wednesday swept away
Trump-era policies that largely banned transgen-
der people from serving in the military, issuing
new rules that offer them wider access to medi-
cal care and assistance with gender transition.
The new department regulations allow
transgender people who meet military stan-
dards to enlist and serve openly in their
self-identified gender, and they will be able to
get medically necessary transition-related care
authorized by law, chief Pentagon spokesman
John Kirby told reporters during a briefing.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has also
called for a reexamination of the records of ser-
vice members who were discharged or denied
reenlistment because of gender identity issues
under the previous policy.
sight of officers pulling Floyd from his SUV.
When Floyd was finally taken away by para-
medics, Charles McMillian, a 61-year-old by-
stander who recognized Chauvin from the
neighborhood, told the officer he didn’t respect
what Chauvin had done.
“That’s one person’s opinion,” Chauvin could
be heard responding.
Monday - Friday, 10am - 3pm
No death notices or obituaries
are published Mondays.
Email:
obits@bendbulletin.com
Publishes the 2nd Saturday of each month
Distributed in The Bulletin, with an additional 2,300 additional copies
distributed in racks throughout Central Oregon.
CALL DEBBIE COFFMAN AT
541-383-0384