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A4 THE PANTAGRAPH, Monday, Aug. 6, 1990 Punks, hippies, dropouts settling into East Berlin Thousands evacuated from Oregon fire path WASHINGTON Wffi perature at 4 p.m. in Redmond, near Bend, was 97 degrees, with winds up to 13 mph. "We have 2,800 acres burning actively this morning, and there are spotting problems already," said. Forestry Department spokesman Doug Decker.

Spotting occurs when embers are carried through the air ahead of the fire. Lynn Anderson of the interagency fire information center in Bend said most of the problems were on the northeastern corner of the fire, the one closest to town. Along the highway, about 100 miles south of Bend, a fast-moving fire forced the evacuation of a subdivision and the 750 inhabitants of Chiloquin were placed on alert. Decker said. lie said that blaze had burned a structure, but he didn't know what it was.

The cause of the Bend fire was under investigation but "initial information indicates that it is not arson," said Linda Talifson of the fire information center. About 1,000 firefighters were working the fire with 65 fire engines, 14 bulldozers, six helicopters and six air tankers. BEND, Ore. (AP) A fire driven by high winds and temperatures close to 100 degrees engulfed about 2,800 acres of parched forest, jumped a 75-foot-wlde river canyon and destroyed 28 houses by yesterday afternoon. More than 2,800 people were evacuated Saturday night and yesterday from at least four motels or resorts and about 2,000 homes in six subdivisions south and west of Bend.

The so-called Awbrey Hall fire erupted about 3 p.m. Saturday on a ridge six miles southwest of Bend, a city of about 19,000 on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range in central Oregon. It quickly raced from treetop to treetop and jumped the Deschutes River. Yesterday, the northern boundary of the five-mile-long blaze was about a mile away from Central Oregon Community College in Bend. On the south, it was a mile away from the 325-room Inn at the Seventh Mountain.

State and federal fire crews were able to construct a fire line around all but 3 miles of the blaze's circumference by yesterday afternoon. The tem East Berliners are alarmed at the newcomers, who have turned parts of their very ordered city into disorderly punk palaces. And there have been violent street battles between the neo-hippies and gangs of skinheads, who also have surfaced in East Germany's political chaos and are squatting in another vacated Friedrichshain. At the paint-splattered neo-Nazi fortress, Alexander Lietze, 18, complained the westerners provoked the violence by launching night attacks on his headquarters. The National Alternative Party attempted to contest East Germany's elections earlier this year, but found its support evaporated after five of its leaders were arrested on arms charges.

The right-wing party's literature condemns Jews for precipitating World War II by declaring war against Hitler in 1933. It also is demanding Germans kick out the foreigners and guest-workers. East Germans blame the neo-Nazis for precipitating the battles. Elfi Baumann, manager of a newspaper stand next to the neo-Nazi stronghold, complained she is caught in the middle. The rear of her small store was ruined in a police raid on the skinhead stronghold last February, but now she says the police do not take any action against them.

By Scripps Howard EAST BERLIN Already battling a human tide of eastern refugees, this uptight workers paradise now is confronting an unexpected problem: neo-hippies. With Its acres of vacant, decaying slums, East Berlin is displacing Amsterdam and London as the In-place for squatters. Thousands of Europe's drifting packs of punks, hippies, glazed-eyed dropouts, lesbians and gays are taking over streets of empty apartments here. Not far from the dismantled Berlin Wall, blocks of decaying slums have been decorated with flowers and colorful banners to look like San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district in the drugged days of 1960s flower power. In the Friedrichshain district, Turkish coffee shops, sidewalk tea salons, and alternative "meat free" macrobiotics food stores are flourishing.

"These are empty houses, and I didn't have a flat to live in in the west," explained a 24-year-old squatter from Dusseldorf, who would give his name only as Peter. Of the 17 people who share the abandoned Friedrichshain district apartment house, 12 are from France, Belgium, Holland, England or other parts of West Germany. They arrived here after word circulated that East Berlin was the in-place to squat this year. Forced entry lands man in jail LINCOLN COLLEGE A 25-year-old Bloomington man was in McLean County Jail last night after police said he forcibly entered a woman's apartment in Dixon sought out honoraria opportunity While the Senate was moving to ban speaking fees last week, Illinois Sen. Alan J.

Dixon was taking heat for shopping his speeches around. A front page story in the Washington Post noted that Dixon sought to subsidize a vacation trip last year to his West Palm Beach condominium during a congressional recess. According to the report, a Dixon aide called a Florida banking lobbyist, who readily arianged a speaking engagement that coincided with the trip, and came with a payment of $2,000. Most speaking foes, known as honoraria, come in response to unsolicited invitations to address business and special interest groups a salary subsidy that, until the new reform kicks in, is a frequent and legal practice in Congress. But the practice of seeking speaking engagements, while not illegal, is highly controversial.

Some compare it to a "shakedown." Jay Hedlund, senior lobbyist for Common Cause, said Dixon's case suggests that some senators have come to rely on honoraria to live above their means. "It's not frill money," he told reporters. "The more you need it, the more your obligation" is to those who give It to you. Dixon, who is worth approximately $8 million to $13 million, collected $51,400 in honoraria last year, and kept the maximum allowed by Senate rules: $35,800. In 1900, senators will earn $98,400 and can take in up to an aditional $20,500 in speaking fees.

Even the mighty get names mispronounced House Republican Leader Robert Michel is one of the most powerful politicians in the country, but that doesn't guarantee him name recognition, even in his own party. Consider the case of Silvio Conte, who during impassioned debate on the floor last week referred to Michel as his "dear friend, Mr. Michelle." Even Michel looked baffled, until he realized that Conte was referring to him, albeit with unique pronunciation. Amended farm bill no longer suited Madigan After devoting countless hours to craft the 1990 farm bill, U.S. Rep.

Edward Madigan voted against the legislation when it passed the House last week. Madigan, the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, was one of only three lawmakers on the 45-member committee to vote against the farm bill, and the only committee Republican to do so. "The price tag is too high," Madigan said, complaining that other House committees added provisions to the bill that upped its cost as much as $4 billion. Madigan also complained the the $55 billion final bill did not allow farmers sufficient flexibility in planting. The Lincoln Republican said he would try to trim the cost of the bill during negotiations with the Senate, and then again if President Bush makes good on his threat to veto the legislation.

Madigan said his surprising and, in some circles, controversial vote against the farm bill will be understood at home. "Farmers trust me on these things," he said. Constituent clutter puts lawmaker on edge On the day Congress was scheduled to adjourn for summer recess, lawmakers were showing new extremes of end-of-the-term crankiness. The biggest crank was Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, who took the floor to rant about the Capitol hallways, clogged with summer tourists eager to see democracy in action. Robert's response? Kick them out! "We can't even get through the hallway to vote without endangering life, limb, cufflinks and earrings," he said.

He suggested that constituents instead seek their representatives in their offices, on the street or "behind the bushes." Apparently Roberts, who conceded that Congress was the "people's house," merely objects to all the people. Presidential run made Simon big PAC man An analysis of PAC receipts since 1972, when detailed reports were first required, shows that Sen. Paul Simon, received the seventh highest amount in the Senate and Dixon the 29th highest. Simon took $2.7 million from PACs, an amount boosted by his unsuccessful 1988 presidential campaign. Dixon took $1.9 million.

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