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10 ALBANY IORI.I DEMOCRAT-HERALD, FRIDAY, OCT. 28. 13S3 CRES0NN0RTHWEST Woman says U.S. invasion 'saved our lives' 1 3S Uf 1 'In a crazy situation, crazy things happen. were afraid of being taken hostage or killed.

Karen Young "They hit very oppressed." she said. "They said America is their only hope. I felt very bad for them." She said she was in the first group of 70 US. citizens who were evacuated from Grenada to Charleston, Wednesday, after the Invasion Tuesday. Ms Young took a flight from Charleston, to Portland Thursday It stopped first In Seattle.

Wash. Meanwhile, two other Oregon families were waiting for word Thursday on when their children, also medical students on the Island, would be returning home. Dr. Donald Mark of Portland said the U.S. Stae Department told him that his son, Randy, 24, and his girlfriend, Meera Mathews, 22, the daughter of Molly Mathews of Portland, were safe in a private home in St.

George's, the capital of Grenada. However, he said he hasn't received any word on when they will return home. small arms and other weapons could be heard outside. She said the assault began when U.S. planes took out an anti aircraft gun positioned near the dormitory.

She said gunfire could be heard nearby as they stayed under their beds for rJ two hours. Finally, a U.S. Ar my Ranger, his face streaked with mud. entered the dorm, she said. "He said, 'We're from the 75th Ranger Division, and we're here to take you she said.

"Those Rangers are such good men. They treated us so kindly. After fighting like they did, they were so concerned with us." Miss Young said that the medical students helped treat those Injured in the invasion, including an old Grenadian man who fought against the Rangers. She said she could understand his desire to protect his homeland, but most other Grenadians she talked to spoke of their thoughts that protection from the United States was their only hope. Associated Pratt U.S.

troops uved the lives of American medical students when tbey invaded Grenada, a 23 year-old Oregon resident said upon her return home from the Caribbean nation. Karen Young, a first-year medical student at St. George'sUnlversity School of Medicine at Grenada, said she and other students feared they would be held hostage or killed. Miss Young arrived at Portland International Airport Thursday (or a tearful reunion with her mother, Joylyn. The pair then immediately began a five-hour automobile trip to the Young family home in La Grande.

"They (U S. Troops) couldn't have waited any later," Miss Young told the Associated Press In a telephone Interview from her home. "They uved our lives. I think we'd all be dead. All of us feel that way.

"The country was In crazy situation before the invasion. In a crazy situation, crazv things happen. Mostly we were afraid of being taken hostage or killed." Miss Young also said that on Monday, one day before the assault, food was being rationed at the medical school and regular water supplies had been halted. She also said students were afraid that there might be a Cuban invasion. "We were sitting ducks." she said.

She said that during the Invasion, she and about 30 other people took cover under their beds In their dormitory, while fire from in. i ii WA Karen Young, right, greets mother Joylyn. Sheriff fires two jail workers Financial state of subscription TV worsens day Jailers failed to notice the escape for six hours, according to an Oregon State Police report filed with Fi ance. The three had been suspended without pay pending the hearing. At that time France said he would not tolerate "this type of BEND (AP) The Deschutes County sheriff has fired two Jailers and suspended a third for two months because of an escape by five inmates earlier this monla.

Sheriff Jim France declined to release the names of the two men and one woman. He said he made his decision following a hearing Wednes PORTLAND AP) The financial state of Portland's Willamette Subscription Television Service Ltd. Is deteriorating, according to filings in S. Bankruptcy Court. The court Thursday ordered Christopher Desmond, one of the pay-television company's two managing partners, to meet the service's major creditors today.

Desmond must work out a debt repayment schedule for the M.786,067 that company filings indicate It owes Its 20 major creditors. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Donald D. Sullivae found the service was not making timely payments on debts. In a voluntary bankruptcy proceeding filed lat summer, Sullivan Invoked "full relief" for creditors under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code.

Under Chapter II. a com- fiany obtains a federal court order freeing It rom creditor's lawsuits until It can develop a plan to put finances in order. Sullivan admonished Desmond to use "good business judgment" while he continues to manage the company. He asked Desmond to produce the company's financial records. Previously submitted records indicate the company's condition worsened since lawsuits were filed against It starting In June.

Desmond said in August that the company had large debts but It was managing to keep up with day-to-day bills. The company's creditors include Home Box Office, which Is owed (639.000; Oak Communications which is owed $1 million, and Vision STV Leasing, which the company owes 1.1 million. The company's balance sheet showed long-term debts at 15,595,000. Limited partners filed lawsuits against Desmond and his general co-partner, Arnold Brustin, because of operating losses by the 22 month-old company. The limited partners are mostly Portland-area investors who have up to hundreds of thousands dollars in cash and liabilities In the company.

They charged the service with gross mismanagement. In a later settlement, they agreed to drop their lawsuit against Desmond and Brustin and try to salvage the operation. In other actions, the financially troubled over the air, pay-TV company Is suing 12 Portland-area companies and individuals in federal court to attempt to stop sales of antennae that allegedly can be used illegally to intercept HBO signals. People seeking to prevent the company from suing them for Interception of the company's BO signal filed a class action suit. Company representatives said earlier that they were sending out some 1600 letters to people they contend are Illegally receiving the HBO signal.

The letters demanded recipients take down the reception antennae, agree to stop receiving the signal Illegally and pay $300 to the company's attorneys. On Oct. 12, U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner Issued a preliminary Injunction prohibiting sales by companies of antennae equipment enabling non-subscribers to receive HBO signals.

1 Mi Sex discrimination decision against state college overturned with Chevy Chtxe -PLUS- LOUNGE IlleU'fl' UlllliiiaMif 2nd St. Downtown Albany wilhHnnrvWinkl.tr VENETIAN Downtown Jipwf which was handed down in San Francisco last week. The women's attorney, Don Wlllner of Portland, said he would present new evidence In the case. But he also said he would tile a request Monday for the appellate court to rehear the lawsuit. Heln said she was shocked by the ruling, especially the dismissal of her claim.

She said the appellate judges misunderstood the evidence and wrongly tried to relate professors' duties at WOSC with jobs at such large universities as UCLA. SALEM (API A federal appeals court has overturned a decision that Western Oregon State College was guilty of sex discrimination In setting the salaries of six women professors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent (he case involving five of the professors back to U.S. District Judge Helen Frye In Portland.

It dismissed the sex discrimination claim of the sixth professor, Wilma lleln. State officials said they were pleased with the appellate judges' order to Judge Frye, MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL BIG SCREEN TV-FRH CHILI FEED Wtdnesday "Good Timet Night" lottol Funk Mm" FRIDAY DINNERS "Supr Spcclali" Sunday 3 00 5 00-7 00 9 00pm ALBANY CINEMAS LIRE TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD? JUST CALL I0AN 9262211 fOR A HELPFUL ADWRITER! 928-SHOW 1 1350 Waverly Drive SJFL I iVS THE OSTERMAN jil WEEKEND RUTGERHAUER Rcjnooshocs lis eppcal of LUBA order SALEM AP) Disciples of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh appeared before the state Land Use Board of Appeals on Thursday In hopes of persuading the board to postpone the effect of Its order overturning the Incorporation of Ra-jneeshpuram. Issued In late September, the LUBA's order invalidated the Central Oregon city's Incorporated authority over land use matters. But the Rajneeshees contend that authority should not be taken away while the Oregon Court of Appeals considers an appeal of the LUBA order filed by the guru's followers. At Thursday's hearing, LUBA Referee John Bagg heard arguments from Rajneeshees and (rom lawyers for 1000 Friends of Oregon, a land-use watchdog group that opposes the incorporation of the guru's city.

But Bagg made no decision In the case, and Instead scheduled more hearings for late November. Earlier this week, Wasco County Circuit Judge John Jelderks prohibited Ra-jneeshpuram from undertaking further development or expansion. Work on buildings In the city continues, however. After Thursday's hearing, Swaml Krishna Deva. major of Rajneeshpuram, said the order by LUBA should not be enforced until the courts have made a final ruling on the Issue.

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