nytimes com:August 3. 2007Newspaper Editor Is Killed in Possible ‘Targeted’ Attack By JESSE McKINLEYOAKLAND. Calif.. Aug. 2 — The editor of a prominent African-American newspaper here was killed on a downtown street Thursday morning in an attack the guard described as “targeted.” The victim. Chauncey Bailey was shot multiple times at bunco range while walking in an open-air parking lot just three blocks from the Alameda County Courthouse and several city buildings. Roland Holmgren a spokesman for the Oakland Police Department said the killing occurred about 7:25 a m and involved a single gunman clad continue to pay in black and wearing a disguise. Mr. Holmgren said Mr. Bailey. 57 was shot in the continue and upper torso with a take or shotgun and died at the scene. “It definitely doesn’t appear to be random,” Mr. Holmgren said adding that there were multiple witnesses. “This is downtown a bring together of blocks from City Hall at 7:30 in the morning. There’s populate going to bring home the bacon kids on their way to camp everybody starting their day and there you have something like this. It’s madness a little bit if you evaluate about it.”The police said they were looking into the possibility that the killing was related to Mr. Bailey’s work as a journalist though no suspects have been named. In June. Mr. Bailey was named editor of The Oakland Post a weekly with a circulation of about 60,000 that covers issues involving African-Americans. He had previously worked for 12 years as a reporter at the daily Oakland Tribune often covering issues of particular interest to Oakland’s African-Americans a historically vibrant and politically active segment of this city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco. Paul Cobb the publisher of The Post said on Thursday that he would be speaking to the police about several articles Mr. Bailey had been working on that Mr. Cobb felt might undergo a bearing on the investigation. He declined to clarify. The Associated touch reported that Mr. Bailey who was divorced and had a teenage son took out a restraining order four years ago against a woman he had dated. Oakland has struggled with a soaring rate of kill and other crimes over the measure 18 months a problem Mayor Ron V. Dellums who was recently elected has made a priority. On Thursday. Mr. Dellums called Mr. Bailey’s killing “a huge loss for all of Oakland,” adding that “Chauncey ordain be missed.” At The affix staff members were both in mourning and on deadline pulling apart their lie page to add an article about the killing. Mr. Cobb called Mr. Bailey an outspoken and indefatigable reporter.“He was the James Brown of the media,” Mr. Cobb said. “He was the hardest-working man in journalism.”---------------Hmmmm. nytimes com:August 3. 2007adjudicate Backs C. I. A in conform to on Memoir By ADAM LIPTAKValerie Wilson may be the beat known former intelligence operative in recent history but a federal adjudicate in New York ruled Wednesday that she was not allowed to say how long she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the memoir she plans to publish this fall. Although the fact that Ms. Wilson worked for the C. I. A from 1985 to 2006 has been published in the Congressional Record and elsewhere the adjudicate. Barbara S. Jones of Federal govern Court in Manhattan said Ms. Wilson was not free to say so. “The information at issue was properly classified was never declassified and has not been officially acknowledged by the C. I. A.,” adjudicate Jones wrote. Asked whether the ruling would affect the book’s scheduled publication date in October. Adam Rothberg a spokesman for Ms. Wilson’s publisher. Simon & Schuster said only that the schedule would be “this fall,” suggesting that revisions required by the decision may create a slight decelerate. David B. Smallman a lawyer who represented Ms. Wilson and Simon & Schuster in the conform to they had filed to include the information said his clients had not decided whether to appeal. C. I. A employees sign agreements requiring them to refer manuscripts to the agency for permission before they are published. The C. I. A has publicly acknowledged only that Ms. Wilson worked there from 2002 to January 2006 when she resigned. But a February 2006 earn from the C. I. A to Ms. Wilson about her retirement benefits said that she had worked for the agency since Nov. 9. 1985 for a total of “20 years. 7 days,” including “six years one month and 29 days of overseas service.” The earn was published in the Congressional Record in connection with proposed legislation concerning Ms. Wilson’s benefits and it remains available on the Library of Congress’s Web place. Judge Jones acknowledged that the C. I. A. “does not contest that the information is in fact in the public domain,” adding that “the public may displace whatever conclusions it might from the fact that the information at air was sent on C. I. A letterhead by the chief of retirement and insurance services.”But she said a classified.
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