Clinton St Quarterly VOL. 6, NO. 4 WINTER 1984 STAFF Co-Editors David Milhoiland Jim Blashfield Lenny Dee Peggy Lindquist Design and Production Jim Blashfield Production Assistants David Milholland Sharon Niemcyzk Camerawork Laura DiTrapani Proofreaders Stan Sitnick Betty Smith Marketing Director Anne Hughes Ad Production Stacey Fletcher Beverly Wong Ad Sales — Portland-Eugene Lenny Dee Anne Hughes Dru Duniway Neil Street Sandy Wallsmith Ad Sales — Seattle Joe Racek Christopher Mascis Contributing Artists Michael Cacy, Claudia Cave, Fay Jones, Tom Prochaska, Barbara Sekurka, Isaac Shamsud-Din, Steve Winkenwerder Contributing Photographers Doniphan Blair, Lynn Darroch, Eric Edwards, Janice Pierce Gus Van Sant Typesetting Archetype, Richard Francis, Marmilmar, Pendragon Graphics, Sherry Swain, Jill Wilson Printing Tualatin-Yamhill Press Public Relations Cramer/Hulse Thanks Linda Ballantine, John Bennett, Michael Coan, Lorna Dawson, Stephanie Denyer, Bill Fletcher, Stuart Landefeld, Tyra Lindquist, Paul Loeb, Melissa Marsland, Laurie McClain, DNA, Brad Shaw, Kay Sohl, Jim Styskel, Sue Jane Widder EDITORIAL Intolerance and prejudice are frightening, tracing back to fear of the unknown and the desire to protect one’s own. While few of us admit comfortably to such unseemly character flaws, fewer still could claim to have banished them from their innermost being. It is still, however, shocking to come across blind intolerance in our “civilized” culture. And despite its seeming universality, no excuses can be made for behavior which makes minority groups into scapegoats and worse. Although immigrants from around the world have metprejudice, and sometimes violence on their arrival here, the U.S. experiment in developing a multi-ethnic culture is paralleled in few other countries on the planet. People have flocked here for the economic opportunity, the overall lack of repression and a chance to begin again. Few imagine the rigors they will face in this land of free enterprise. But though some return home, most settle in and adjust, and a few succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Here in the Northwest, our lives have been enriched a thousand-fold by the successive waves of Latinos, Asians, Africans, Europeans Scene from Bill Plympton and Jules Feiffer’s animated film, Boomtown. and even immigrants from other regions of the U.S. Yet an insularity remains, a nativism which has shown a "dark side” too frequently in recent years. A few years ago there were the Iranians, appearing nightly in our homes to pour out years of pent-up resentment against the U.S. and the suffering they'd experienced under our quisling, the Shah. No one wished to see our overseas personnel held, but the reaction quickly turned ugly. Iranian-Americans experienced incidents that left them shaken. Americans had an easy target, and they went for the jugular, no less here than elsewhere. Blacks, who for years have remained at the bottom of the economic and political ladder, have had to organize and struggle for the small piece of the action they’ve obtained. So it was heartening when this November election, the same debacle which swept the Reaganites back into office, gave us two strong black contenders for the Portland City Council seat vacated by Charles Jordan. The top two candidates in a slate of 18 were Herb Caw- thorne, a progressive activist who has worked within the black community and through his position at Portland State, and for the last five years on the Portland School Board to bring about creative, positive change for the entire community; and Dick Bogle, best known as a newscaster, with experience as both a policeman and an aide to Council member Mildred Schwab. The race promises to be a hot one, with the potential for giving Portland a truly progressive majority on the Council. With only 3-4 percent of the city’s population being black, it’s a sign that city residents saw these candidates as the most qualified, and wanted to cast a vote for fairness as well as leadership. A sorrier chapter is unfolding to the east of us, as the reactions and counter-reactions to Rancho Rajneesh have taken us to a dangerous, potentially violent impasse. The Rajneeshies provide us a test, not only of our legal system, but our values as well, It is necessary to sort out the complex political and environmental concerns, all the while working to avoid inflammation and the mutual prejudice which results. Let’s now take a step back and examine what’s transpiring, before it deteriorates more. We owe it to ourselves, all of us. DM CONTENTS Cover Claudia Cave The Rebirth of Mala Noche Katherine Dunn 6 Streetwise Dennis Eichorn 9 Radiation on the Rocks Melissa Laird 12 Bud Clark Close Up Rich Rubin 19 Three Country Doctors Lynn Darroch 23 Carino Kim Antieau 28 Black South Africa: One Day Soon Alexis de Veaux 34 Fupand Other Stories Abd al-Hayy Moore 39 The Computerized Forest R.H. Ring 41 The Citizens ’Forester Talbot Bielefeldt 42 Christmas Gifts for Jim Blashfield Chickens & Will Spray Drawings by Steve Winkenwerder 46 Last Night in Managua Doniphan Blair 48 Advertising Index 53 The Correspondence of Bob Desnos Musicmaster 54 The Clinton St. Quarterly is published in both Oregon and Washington editions by Clinton St. Quarterly, Inc. Oregon address: Box 3588, Portland, OR 97208, (503) 222- 6039. Washington address: 1520 Western Ave., Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 682-2404. Unless otherwise noted, all contents copyright© 1984 Clinton St. Quarterly. This is a deal. Don't even consider doubting our word on it. What better gift to give than a subscription or two to the Clinton St. Quarterly, the Northwest’s favorite multiple-award-winning journal of fiction, humor, political and cultural writing and wham bam graphics? Oh, gosh. It's gift-giving time again, isn't it? That's why were showing you this picture ofjolly ol' Saint Nick. 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