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...Eckardt; hit man Shane Stant, 22; and getaway driver Derrick Smith, 29 -- have told investigators that during the final days of 1993, they conspired with Gillooly to attack Kerrigan while she trained at the Tony Kent Arena on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. An 11-page affidavit, prepared by the Multnomah County sheriff's office in Oregon and made public last week, states that Eckardt initially claimed that Harding did not know about the plot. But under two days of FBI interrogation, - the affidavit says, Eckardt recalled Gillooly's telling him that Harding had assisted in setting up the attack by placing...
...Packwoods' divorce papers shed light on the Senator's discussions about his wife's employment. The records, filed with the circuit court in the Multnomah County courthouse in Oregon, show that while Georgie did not want the marriage to end, she could not, under state law, contest her husband's petition citing "irreconcilable differences." After the couple separated in January 1990, they wrangled about alimony. Packwood claimed that he was virtually broke and proposed monthly payments of $500. Georgie demanded $4,000. Eventually the court settled on $2,500, based in part on a calculation of Georgie's earning ability...
Angry knots of buzz-cut skinheads and helmeted police circled each other warily in the halls of Oregon's Multnomah County courthouse last week. Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved an unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will...
...might be Sarastro's Temple of Isis magically transposed from some second-rate set for Mozart's The Magic Flute into the shadows of banal skyscrapers along Portland's Transit Mall. It takes up the entire block between the Italian Renaissance city hall and the neoclassical Multnomah County Courthouse...
When local Reagan organizers asked her in 1968 to help with the California Governor's campaign, she offered to recruit volunteers in Portland's Multnomah County. She was on her phone so much, running up monthly $200 phone bills, that her banker husband bought her a shoulder resting device and an extra long cord so that she could cook while she talked. Says she: "My children never went hungry. Of course, I left a lot of notes for them when they came home saying, 'Here's your lunch.' " Her reward: Reagan won a respectable...