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U.S. NEWSSaturday 20 February 2016

Witness: Helicopter fell from sky into Pearl Harbor After Palestine talk,
Harvard donor stops

guide Chris Gardner who sponsoring events
was with a group at the
Pearl Harbor Visitor Center BOSTON (AP) — A major
when he heard the crash. backer of Harvard Law
“I took off my shirt and School has stopped spon-
dove in,” he said, describ- soring student events after
ing how he, a Navy sailor, a its donation helped pay for
federal police officer and a discussion on Palestine.
In 2012, the international

another man took turns div- law firm Milbank promised
Harvard $1 million over five
ing to the submerged heli- years to pay for scholarly
conferences organized
copter and trying to free a by law students. But after
the money was used to
passenger with a knife. “He support an event hosted
by the student group Jus-
was strapped into his seat tice for Palestine, the law

in the back of the aircraft.”

Honolulu paramedics

treated the 15-year-old

passenger and took him to firm asked Harvard Law
School to use the money
In this image taken from video provided by Shawn Winrich, a helicopter crashes near Parl Harbor, a hospital, said Shayne En- for other purposes. Calls to
Hawaii on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. The private helicopter with five people aboard crashed and right, spokeswoman for Ho- Milbank’s New York head-
sunk into the water, leaving a teenage passenger in critical condition. nolulu Emergency Services quarters weren’t returned
Department. this week. In a statement,
(Shawn Winrich via the AP) “It was a team effort and Harvard said Milbank was
we pray that he’s OK,” never involved in deciding
JENNIFER KELLEHER crash-landed in the water,” Agnes Tauyan said the Gardner said of the teen which events to fund and
the Madison, Wisconsin, helicopter sunk shortly af- he helped free. that the school will now
AUDREY McAVOY man said. ter going down near the Jumping in to help is part pay for student events with
He stopped filming and visitor’s center Thursday. A of the instinct growing up other resources. Harvard
Associated Press jumped in to help. 45-year-old woman and a in Hawaii, he said. His eyes says Milbank wanted to
The family of four visiting 50-year-old man remained were still burning from the “avoid creating any mis-
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) from Canada and the pi- hospitalized Friday in stable fuel in the water, he said. impressions that the firm
lot on board made it out, condition. A fourth family Winrich’s daughter, Justice endorses the viewpoints
— Tourist Shawn Winrich but one passenger — a member was treated and Winrich, said she watched expressed by any particu-
15-year-old boy who was released Thursday. Details as the helicopter plopped lar student organization
was taking photos of Pearl trapped underwater and on the pilot, who remained down into the water and or journal,” according to
had to be cut free from his hospitalized Friday, were saw three people get out the statement, provided
Harbor when he saw a heli- seat — remained hospital- not immediately available. immediately and swim to by law school spokesman
ized in critical condition Fri- No names were released. shore. “It was crazy,” she Robb London.
copter “essentially coming day. Another bystander who said. “You go on vacation In October, students in Jus-
U.S. Navy spokeswoman jumped in to help was tour and you never think you’re tice for Palestine hosted a
straight at us” at the popu- going to see something like talk examining what they
that.” say is a movement to sup-
lar tourist destination. Federal records show the press advocates of Pales-
helicopter is registered to tine. Harvard had previ-
He switched to video, re- Jeffrey Gebhard of Kailua, ously awarded the group
Hawaii.q $2,000 to hold events
cording the helicopter’s

dramatic drop into the wa-

ter below.

“All of a sudden it essential-

ly just fell out of the sky and

Oregon: throughout the semester
using the Milbank dona-
Lawmakers approve landmark minimum wage increase

tion. The group says it spent

KRISTENA HANSEN unchanged from Great to $14.75 in metro Portland, wide minimum of $13.50 or about $500 for pizza at the

Associated Press Recession levels. Fourteen $13.50 in smaller cities such $15, and would be phased fall discussion.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon other states have raised as Salem and Eugene, and in over half the time. La- Before the event, an email

lawmakers have approved their rates over the past $12.50 in rural communities. bor unions have not yet from the law school’s

landmark legislation that two years. Another dozen Those minimums dethrone indicated whether they’ll dean told the group that

propels the state’s mini- or so are considering taking Massachusetts — where follow through with ballot Milbank’s logo must be

mum wage for all workers up the issue this year, either the statewide rate will climb initiatives. Other states that “prominently displayed”

to the highest rank in the through legislative action to $11 an hour next year — have boosted statewide on all advertisements.

U.S., and does so through or ballot initiative, as issues from the top spot, accord- minimums above $10 in- In that spirit, the group

an unparalleled tiered sys- of wage inequality and ing to the Economic Policy clude California and Ver- thanked the law firm in a

tem based on geography. middle-class incomes have Institute, a D.C.-based mont. That stands in stark Facebook page advertis-

The measure passed the climbed to the forefront of think tank that tracks wage contrast to more conserva- ing the event, said Collin

state House on Thursday presidential campaigns by laws across the nation. The tive states such as Idaho, Poirot, a first-year Harvard

and is headed to Demo- Democratic candidates measure was crafted as which has blocked previ- law student and a member

cratic Gov. Kate Brown, Bernie Sanders and Hilary a compromise between ous efforts to raise its mini- of the organization.

who said in a statement Clinton. Oregon’s plan im- what unions, business- mum beyond the federal The next day, law school

she will sign it.The move poses a series of gradual es and farmers want and level, and Arizona, where administrators asked the

makes Oregon a trailblaz- increases over six years. By as an attempt to thwart lawmakers are considering group to remove all refer-

er in the broader debate 2022, the state’s current more aggressive proposals a bill that would block state ences to Milbank on their

about minimum wage un- $9.25 an hour minimum — that could go before vot- funding to municipalities Facebook page, citing

folding nationwide as the already one of the highest ers in November. Those two that set a local minimum complaints from the law

federal threshold remains in the nation — would climb proposals call for a state- wage.q firm, Poirot said.q