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...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake of family preservation manifested itself in the desert trek of a Sudanese family to Jerusalem in Einat Kapach's Jephtach's Daughter. The highlight of the screenings, however, was Ido, an award-winning documentary directed by Gilaad Goldschmidt, which combined similar themes of youthful rebellion and family relationship with a more contemporary edge. Ido's title character is the singer of a rock band in Israel who undergoes a religious conversion which motivates him to orthodoxy, marriage and abandonment of the band, much to the bewilderment of his "secular...
People waded through waist-high water in the streets of Tillamook, Ore., and Governor Neil Goldschmidt declared a state of emergency. "There were old people who have lived here all their lives saying they'd never seen anything like it," said Robert Berg, public works director in Washington's Lewis County. "This is right up there with Mount St. Helens...
...dubbed "the Spotted Owl Summit." The title referred to the threatened bird that federal courts recently protected when they prohibited logging in parts of the Northwest and also to the fact that most of the big guns of Oregon politics were taking part. Attending the summit were Governor Neil Goldschmidt and all seven members of the state's congressional delegation...
...cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix, and corporations have moved their headquarters from New York City to Dallas and Orlando. Says Sigurd Grava, professor of urban planning at Columbia University: "Congestion can play an important role in the life and death of a city." When Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt, a former U.S. Transportation Secretary, got caught in a traffic jam in Seattle, he took the occasion to get out of his car and pass out his card to other stranded motorists, extending a tongue-in-cheek invitation to move to his less-crowded state...
...deportation under the new law. Last week more than one-third of Oregon's $30 million strawberry crop was rotting because only about half the state's usual contingent of 20,000 migrant workers have shown up this spring. Declaring the situation an "unprecedented labor crisis," Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt predicted that the state would lose as much as $300 million of its usual $1 billion annual crop of fruits, vegetables and flowers...