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...rent. For all the rumors, police disputed a Boston TV report that Harding's name was contained in a sealed warrant. But both were wanted for questioning, and they hired a pair of high-profile, out-of-town lawyers, both former U.S. Attorneys. After a meeting with the Portland district attorney Friday, no charges were brought against either Harding or Gillooly...
...conspiracy might never have come to light were it not for the wildly assorted cast of characters who teach and study at Pioneer Pacific College, a small vocational school outside Portland. It was here that the players converged: Eckardt, the bodyguard who allegedly helped hatch the plot; Eugene Saunders, the young born-again pastor to whom Eckardt confessed, with a frightening telltale tape; and Gary Crowe, the private detective who ultimately blew the lid off the story...
...they listened to the tape together, Eckardt started to come unglued. He told Saunders that "the guy in Arizona" was the hit man. He had not been paid the $100,000 he was promised, and might be coming to Portland. Eckardt's concern was so intense he started to give Saunders the tape for safekeeping -- "It was almost in my hand," said Saunders -- then decided against...
Tonya Harding, who won the U.S. title in 1991, received a death threat last November during a competition in Portland, Oregon. She withdrew from the event and has traveled with bodyguards ever since. (It apparently has not distracted her; she won the women's championship at the nationals last weekend.) The vulnerability of even 200-lb. bruisers was demonstrated sensationally last November, when a parachutist disrupted the heavyweight championship bout between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe in Las Vegas...
...York, similar initiatives in a dozen other cities, including Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco, have received mixed reviews. In Berkeley, California, 70% of the 250,000 vouchers bought by residents over the past two years have been redeemed, while only 15% of the 8,000 vouchers purchased in Portland, Oregon, have been used. "They don't address any significant long-term needs of the recipients, and there is no way of knowing, in the short-term, if people actually consume less alcohol or fewer drugs," says Jim Baumohl, a professor of social work at Bryn Mawr College. "The energy that...