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...Oregon's Supreme court last week declared invalid the marriages of 3,022 gay couples wed last year in Multnomah County. Although Connecticut just passed a bill that would make it the second state, after Vermont, to legalize gay civil unions, same-sex marriages have run into legal trouble elsewhere. --By Jeninne Lee--St. John...
...This isn't a conference report," protested Oregon's Democratic Congressman Les AuCoin. "It's a surrender document." His House colleague, California Democrat Don Edwards, agreed. "The House was skunked," he complained. Their anger was directed at the outcome of a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the two chambers on next year's defense spending. The Senate had prevailed so overwhelmingly, with the unexpected concurrence of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, that House leaders decided to delay until after the recess a vote on the compromise military-spending package. Most galling of all, but perhaps...
...deals with the daughter of Leo Ryan, the California Congressman whose investigation of the Jim Jones cult in Guyana in 1978 led to Ryan's murder and the ensuing mass suicides. Today Ryan's daughter is a follower of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian mystic whose armed compound in Oregon has attracted national headlines...
Though the piece does not fully support its claim that the Oregon camp has the makings of another Jonestown, it aptly illustrates Executive Producer Andrew Lack's desire to look at much reported stories from a different, even idiosyncratic, angle. Instead of running a segment about Viet Nam veterans in the U.S., for example, Lack plans to focus on the some 1,000 former soldiers who now live in Bangkok. "My mandate is to be new," says Lack. "I want people to watch this and say, 'Jesus Christ, I didn't know that...
Summertime is watermelon time, but last week California farmers watched helplessly as more than 1 million melons were crushed, bashed and otherwise dumped. Parts of the crop had been contaminated by pesticide, and nearly 300 people in California, Oregon, Alaska, Washington and Idaho fell ill after eating the tainted fruit. The estimated loss to the melon industry: $6 million...