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CORPORATE EVIL Indonesia is a totalitarian police state. People who work for better working conditions there are not merely fired. They are tortured, murdered, disappeared. This keeps wages extremely low. Did Nike locate there for any other reason? I think not. This makes Nike an equal partner in massive criminal conspiracy, in my opinion. To claim otherwise is black hypocrisy. All those fierce, healthy, fascist yuppies roaring out there to work could care less about decency and justice, I suppose. But I hope our society eventually will isolate such an organization as a negative example, an example of how to live a wasted and destructive life. Jerrold Richards, P.O. Box 14691 ROOTING FOR THE SWING MAN James Francis Cooney, or whatever Portland State called him, might be a name more to my liking, but I have a few Italian friends that measure way up on the scale. In answer to one question, Jim Francesconi says he has three children in Catholic schools. The fact that he is paying a pretty sizable tuition doesn't seem to hinder his strong tendency to support, with all his might, the public school system and the city parks for the benefit of children in working-class neighborhoods. I put a few children through Catholic schools and I was a little perturbed at times because we were included in the census that made the allocation for the public school in our neighborhood. But, due to the example of people like Jim Francesconi, I have come to see the overall benefit to the neighborhood and the city when public education is given adequate support. Over the years, dating back 35 or 40, my children have had the opportunities to play baseball, football, tennis and swim in the park pools. We were fortunate in having qualified men and women who provided coaching, leadership and [a] good example on the ball fields and in the parks. This man, Francesconi, with the very thorough interview by Bob Young, has touched me to the quick. You don't have to read some kind of a high-flying motive into his current ambitions. His targets seem attainable, so let him have at it. Dennis T. McCormack, North Portsmouth Avenue
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