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From Spanish Basques to Moroccan Muslims to--an Aloha, Ore., lawyer? The global probe into the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid homed in on suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid...
...charged with a crime, the father of three was jailed last week when authorities grew concerned that information was being leaked to the media. It is possible, U.S. officials say, that Mayfield's print ended up on the bag innocently. A lawyer who prays regularly at a Beaverton, Ore., mosque, Mayfield may have used the bag to send something to a contact in the U.S. or abroad. "The case is exceedingly flimsy," says Mayfield's lawyer Tom Nelson, adding that his client hasn't left the U.S. since...
...national dinghy championships will take placec in Cascade Locks, Ore., June...
...adversaries. His worst failing may be that to garner domestic support, he has bypassed patriotism and resurrected nationalism. Our government has gone back to the bumper-sticker mentality of MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG. But being a bully is not a viable strategy. LAWRENCE J. RYAN Eugene, Ore...
...family has changed dramatically in the past 30 years. As a father and husband, I cook, wash dishes, do laundry and love and nurture my children--and I'm not the only father who does. What planet has Steinem been living on? DOUG EASTON Corvallis, Ore...