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...Portland St. 31, E. Washington...
Office in Portland, Maine...
Myrlie Evers had spent 48 hours at the bedside of her terminally ill husband, Walter Williams. She struggled over a dilemma. She wanted to stay with him at the hospital in Portland, Oregon, but she was a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and an emergency meeting had been called. It was across the country, in Baltimore. Should she even think of going? Her husband gave her his answer: "That meeting is too important. You have to be there...
...minors this week there will be few millionaires but no shortage of baseball. The 222 teams competing in the 20 leagues sprinkled across the landscape from Portland, Maine, to Rancho Cucamonga, California, are scheduled to play more than 500 games during that seven-day stretch. The games in the rookie leagues may draw as few as 500 fans; in Triple A the crowds average between 5,000 and 7,000. "The minors are not a get-rich-quick scheme," says Bob Sparks of the National Association of Professional Leagues, which oversees all but one of the leagues. The minors...
Dubbed the Health Security Express and organized by supporters of Clinton- style reform, bus caravans from Portland, Dallas, Boston and Independence, Missouri, will wheel across the country, picking up passengers and making made-for-media rally stops before converging on Washington next week, just as Congress is beginning full debate on its modified versions of Clinton's plan. The President hopes the bus caravans will help him sell a message he thought he had got across 10 months ago. When the President unveiled his reform plan last September, polls showed that most Americans favored his approach to overhauling the system...