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...eyes of a skinhead, Portland, Oregon, looks like the city of the future. Not that Loren Christensen would agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no tolerance for skinheads." Yet rival gangs of bald men with tattoos have now lent this chamomile-and-bean-spro ut metropolis a Mad Max edge...
...three months, a team of bleary-eyed scientists, sociologists and economists was sequestered behind an unmarked door on the 14th floor of the U.S. Bancorp Tower in Portland, Oregon, working 14-hour days, seven days a week, amid a welter of maps, coffee cups and stale pizza. Their mission, direct from the President: explore every conceivable option for preserving the Northwest's ancient forests and its wildlife, while saving whatever can be saved of the once proud and productive timber industry...
...easily resolved. After a decade of unsustainable logging, court injunctions and federal inaction, the situation was dire when Clinton came to the White House. Said the President: "We have to play the hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower...
...Oregon, members of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition continue to make inroads in the state Republican Party, losing the chairmanship by a slim margin to a "moderate" who is pro-life. That's what you might expect in a state that, once you get past the coffee bars of Portland, is still the Wild West. But in New York City, the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day parade took place without a gay contingent, a judge having ruled that its longtime sponsors were free to exclude one. The liberal Babylon also decided not to rehire its top education bureaucrat...
...Brock and Fulwood, next year's fellows include Lorie Conway George from WCVB-TV in Boston, Frank Gibney Jr. of Newsweek, Maria Henson of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Jerry Kammer of The Arizona Republic, David Lewis of CNN, Katherine Molinski of Reuters, Alan K. Ota of The Oregonian in Portland, Melanie Sill of The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., Dan Stets of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Larry Tye of The Boston Globe