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McNally/Simon
February 23, 1990
Draft One (B:LA-BOWL)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: "DRUG ABUSE IS LIFE ABUSE" SPEECH
SANTA ANA BOWL, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1990, 12:45 P.M.
[[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]
Thank you for that warm introduction, Jim [EVERETT, L.A.
RAMS Q.B.]]. I hear someone asked Jim if he was excited about
being with the President today, and he said: "Not as excited as
I'll be next year -- when we're invited to the White House after
the Rams win the Super Bowl!" \\\
No matter what team you like, you got to admit that Georgia
Frontiere [ [RAMS OWNER] has built one of the toughest teams in
pro football. Who says there's no role for women in combat?! \\
Although I follow football, my first love is pro baseball.
And if the Angels are looking for replacement players to get the
season started -- I hope they'll remember that I used to play
first base! \\\
Since my oldest son is now a part owner of the Texas
Rangers, I asked him if I could come try out for the club. He
said: "Sure Dad. You can come down and throw the ball around.
But don't give up your day job!" III
It's great to be back in Orange County.
Southern California is a place of both beauty and bounty,
favored by some of the greatest wonders of nature and some of the
most wondrous works of man. It's home to many of America's
oldest traditions and newest ideas, the computerized pirate ships
LAT
of Walt Disney, the real LX life cowboys of the Irvine Ranch. And
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Orange County is a special place, a place that's been blessed by
productive lands, productive minds, and productive people -- one
of the youngest and hardest working populations in the country.
And standing here today in Orange County -- leading the way
into a new decade and a new century -- it's easy to see why many
young people are looking to the future with a new sense of hope
-- and seeing a world of limitless poss ibilities.
Something is happening in the world. Something new,
Facts
on
something powerful, something wonderful. Czechoslovakia's Vaclav
File 1989
P. 363
Havel -- who began the year as a prisoner and ended it as
X
President -- summed it up in his visit to Washington last month.
he said,
Cong.
He said: "Things are happening so fast that we have no time to
Record be astonished."
literally
even
2/21/90
And today the wind rushing down from the mountains is not
the hot fierce menace called the Santa Ana wind, but the new
breeze I spoke of when taking office a year ago. It has swept
around the world, bringing new hope in Europe, new hope in
Africa, new hope in the Americas.
Vaclav Havel, free at last. Nelson Mandela, free at last.
Nicaragua and Panama, free at last.
And just as people around the world are casting off the
oppression of dictators, so people across America are casting off
the oppression of drugs. III
Week by week, day by day, millions of Americans in thousands
of towns are standing up to make the same courageous choice:
Drug-free neighborhoods. Drug-free schools. Drug-free kids. \\
3
And anyone who thinks America lacks the will to win the drug
war better take a look at the spirit we have here today in Orange
County. \\\
I know we 11 win the war on drugs because you have what a
longtime resident of Orange County, John Wayne, had -- True Grit.
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In his classic movie about the liberation of my home state
movie
quotebook of Texas, John Wayne stood before the Alamo and spelled it in his
out
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simple, inimitable point-blank style. He said:
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"There's right, and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the
other. You do the one, and you're living. You do the other, and
you may be walking around, but you're as dead as a beaver hat."
As he did in the conduct of his own life, in that movie John
Wayne voted for right, he voted for life.
And today in Orange County, thousands of you have made that
same choice. You've stood up for right. You've stood up for
life. And you sum it up in a phrase: "DRUG ABUSE IS LIFE
ABUSE."
The slogan is powerful in its simplicity. And the logo
itself is apt: In it, the word "LIFE" is literally torn apart,
just as the lives of our young are torn apart and destroyed by
the nightmare called cocaine.
Runcho
While visiting Orange County last spring, I commended the
del Rio
spach
L.A. Rams for having every player wear a "Drug Abuse Is Life
4-25-89
Abuse" patch on his uniform -- a move that was copied by tens of
thousands of local fans and student athletes here.
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The Rams wore the patches for a year. Then the N.F.L.
ordered them removed, saying the patches ran afoul of league
policies against "personal messages. "
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But a Rams spokesman said: "If it dissuaded one young man
9-7-89
or young girl from doing drugs, it was worth the whole year."
I agree. In order to win, America's war on drugs must be
total war. Waged from the boardroom to the classroom. From the
White House to your house. No element of our society is immune
-- certainly not the world of professional sports. And with all
due respect to the league, I still think the patches are a good
idea. 1111
Fighting drug abuse isn't a personal message -- it's a
LAT
public service. And if, as they do, the Steelers and the Bears
9-7-89
can wear patches saluting the heroes of yesterday, then the Rams
ought to be able to wear patches saluting the kids of today. \\\
"Drug Abuse Is Life Abuse" is the right message because its
goal is not punishing those who are hooked on drugs -- but
deterring kids from ever getting started.
That message ..S beginning to sink in. By now just about
everybody knows this simple truth: Drugs aren't the answer.
They never were. And they never will be.
And recently, we have seen some scattered but hopeful new
signs of progress against the haze and horror of drugs.
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illacit drug that
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It began last summer, when a major nationwide survey found
the number of regular drug users in America had dropped by
almost 40 percent in just three years. Then just two weeks ago,
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to 14. 48 million (37%)
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another new survey showed that the number of high school seniors
LAT
using drugs declined again last year, a long-term trend that has
seniors
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brought student drug use to its lowest level in 15 years.
There are other signs, visible in every city in America.
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In my old Congressional district outside Houston, the people got
12-7-89
together and took back a park from the drug dealers. In
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1-16-80 Alexandria, Virgìnia, I visited a neighborhood where they hold
all-night vigils every Friday to keep the pushers away from their
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kids. In the heartland, in Kansas City, I saw boarded-up crack
speech
houses bearing the six-word victory banner of the local
activists: "THIS NEIGHBORHOOD FIGHTS BACK AGAINST DRUGS." \\\
And here in Orange County, thousands are doing their part.
I think of heroic cops like Santa Ana Police Investigator Henry
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Cousin. Although severely wounded in a drug raid three years
Police
ago, Henry wouldn t quit. He joined a special federal task
Chief
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And I think of heroic mothers like Mrs. Rosa Perez, who's
fought in Santa Ana for six years to rid her neighborhood of
pushers. One time, even though she was pregnant, Mrs. Perez went
to the aid of an officer that was struggling with a dope dealer.
But the battle isn't only being fought in the streets.
10/13/88
About a year and a half ago, I came to Los Angeles for one of the
most critical moments in the campaign -- the 1988 Presidential
Debate. They asked if their were any heroes left in America. I
named an astronaut. An AIDS researcher. A freedom fighter. And
6
I named a high school mathematics teacher from East L.A., a
seenscript
teacher who helped his Hispanic students see beyond poverty and
in
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neglect to the real potential of their own minds.
[KOO-SEEN]
Jaime Escalante. Investigator Henry Cousin.
Mrs. Rosa
Perez. Three heroes. Two cities. One dream.
All three are here today. And all three deserve our thanks.
We've covered a lot of ground in the drug war. But tough
challenges remain. It's like when the Rams offense crosses the
50 yard line: With every yard you gain, your opponent digs in
and progress gets that much harder, not easier.
But we're going to beat drugs the same way the Rams beat
many of their opponents: Relentless offense. A defense that
refuses to give up a single yard to the opposition -- or a single
child to these merchants of death.
Against drugs, a good defense means reducing demand --
Nat" Durg
control
through efforts like the record funding my Administration has
strategy
Budget
devoted for increased drug education and treatment.
p.
And a tough offense means an attack on all fronts.
2/15/90
Last month's Drug Summit in Cartagena marked a good day for
law enforcement and a very bad day for the cocaine cartels.
President Barco's courageous crackdown has seized or destroyed
their cash, their homes, their labs, and their drugs. And 14
633-2007
accused traffickers have been extradited to the United States and
Justice,
now face American justice in courtrooms in Miami and Tulsa,
Atlanta and San Francisco.
7
The days of the druglords may not be over yet. But their
days are numbered.
Nat'l.
Here at home, my Administration recently designated the
Drug contal
L.A. Orange County region as one of the nation's five "high
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p.89-91
intensity drug areas," a distinction that means increased
resources and manpower this year. And nationwide, Congress has
approved funding for the new agents, new prosecutors, and new
prisons we asked for to catch, convict, and contain America's
most dangerous drug offenders. III
But Congress also needs to act, and act soon, on my new
anti-crime proposals. Congress needs to provide serious laws to
deal with a serious problem.
Before we conclude, I'd like to mention one other pressing
speech matter that requires Congressional attention. Last year, I
6/30/89 proposed a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning.
10/12/89
on
Facts
Congress disagreed, preferring to enact a law instead. And last
Dur Eramian
week that law was declared unconstitutional.
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For more than 200 years, the world's proudest flag has
protected the world's best Constitution. And now it's time for
the Constitution to protect the flag. Congress should pas $ the
constitutional amendment banning flag-burning now. 1111
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Ten years ago last month, in a tiny town in upstate New
p.155
ISS
York, a group of American kids seized the American flag and went
out and did the impossible. They beat an unbeatable team -- the
Soviet Olympic ice hockey team. And from that arena in Lake
8
Placid a chant. grew and swelled and boomed out across America:
U-S-A. U-S-A. \\ U-S-A! III
They called it the upset of the decade. And many today mark
it as a first step, an early trumpet call or America's road back.
The lesson of that triumph is simple. And it stands the
test of time: In the United States of America, all it takes is
desire and a dream. Because what Americans can dream, Americans
can do. III
We will win the war on drugs because we must. And let no
one doubt the commitment we have in Washington. The White House
has declared war on the crack house. And the only enemy response
we'll accept is called "unconditional surrender." \\\
Thank you for your warm greeting. God bless you. God bless
California. And God bless the United States of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 27, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON and
FROM:
EDWARD MCNALLY quu
SUBJECT:
"DRUG USE IS LIFE ABUSE" SPEECH
I.
SUMMARY
Attached are draft remarks for Friday afternoon's
address, the keynote speech at an anti-drug rally in the Santa
Ana Bowl.
II. DISCUSSION
At 12:20 p.m. on Friday, March 2, 1990, you are
scheduled to arrive onstage at the Santa Ana Bowl, a large, open-
ended stadium holding a crowd of 10-15,000 people. Although the
community of Santa Ana itself includes a large population of
Hispanic-Americans, the audience is expected to be drawn from
throughout the Orange County area and include many students,
local government workers, and law enforcement personnel.
The address (15 minutes, TelePrompTer) emphasizes the
efforts of your Administration to wage the drug war on both the
demand-side and the supply-side, calls on every element of
society to participate, and calls on Congress to pass your anti-
crime bill now.
The text also notes some "scattered but hopeful new
signs" of progress, and salutes the efforts of many in Orange
County who have made a difference. Three of the heroes cited in
the text (L.A. math teacher Jaime Escalante, Police Investigator
Henry Cousin, and local anti-drug volunteer Rosa Perez) will be
present on the stage.
McNally/Simon
February 27, 1990
Draft Two (B:LA-BOWL)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: "DRUG USE IS LIFE ABUSE" SPEECH
SANTA ANA BOWL, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1990, 12:20 P.M.
Thank you Jim [Everett, LA Rams Quarterback]. And there are
some people up here with me that deserve our thanks for making
this day possible: Sheriff Brad Gates, Mike Hayde [HAID],
President of "Drug Use is Life Abuse," and the Board of Directors
of that great organization, including Dr. Robert Schuller and
Frun-TEER-ER
Georgia Frontiere. Also up here is some of Orange County's
LAR Ras
congressional delegation: Bob Dornan, Bill Dannemeyer, Dana
Rohrabacher and Chris Cox. And I also have to salute one of
535-7267
America's best teachers: Jaime Escalante.
Thank you for that warm introduction, Jim. I hear someone
asked Jim if he was excited about being with the President today,
and he said: "Not as excited as I'll be next year -- when we're
invited to the White House after the Rams win the Super Bowl!"
No matter what team you like, you've got to admit that
Georgia Frontiere [[RAMS OWNER]] has built one of the toughest
teams in pro football. Who says there's no role for women in
combat?!
Although I follow football, my first love is pro baseball.
And if the Angels are looking for replacement players to get the
season started -- I hope they'll remember that I used to play
first base!
2
Since my oldest son is now a part owner of the Texas
Rangers, I asked him if I could come try out for the club. He
said: "Sure Dad. You can come down and throw the ball around.
But don't give up your day job!"
It's great to be back in Orange County.
Southern California is a place of both beauty and bounty,
blessed with some of the greatest wonders of nature and some of
the most wondrous works of man. It's home to many of America's
oldest traditions and newest ideas, the computerized pirate ships
of Walt Disney, the real-life cowboys of the Irvine Ranch. And
Orange County is a special place, a place that boasts productive
lands, productive minds, and productive people -- one of the
youngest and hardest working populations in the country.
And standing here today in Orange County -- leading the way
into a new decade and a new century -- it's easy to see why many
young people are looking to the future with a new sense of hope
-- and seeing a world of limitless possibilities.
Something is happening in the world. Something new,
something powerful, something wonderful. Czechoslovakia's Vaclav
Havel -- who began the year as a prisoner and ended it as
President -- summed it up in his visit to Washington last month.
Things are happening so fast, he said, that "we have literally no
time even to be astonished."
And today the wind rushing down from the mountains is not
the hot fierce menace called the Santa Ana wind, but the new
breeze I spoke of when taking office a year ago. It has swept
3
around the world, bringing new hope in Europe, new hope in
Africa, new hope in the Americas.
Vaclav Havel, free at last. Nelson Mandela, free at last.
Nicaragua and Panama, free at last.
And just as people around the world are casting off the
oppression of dictators, so people across America are casting off
the oppression of drugs.
Week by week, day by day, millions of Americans in thousands
of towns are standing up to make the same courageous choice:
Drug-free neighborhoods. Drug-free schools. Drug-free kids.
And anyone who thinks America lacks the will to win the drug
war better take a look at the spirit we have here today in Orange
County.
I know we'll win the war on drugs because you have what a
longtime resident of Orange County, John Wayne, had -- True Grit.
In one of his classic western movies, John Wayne spelled it
out in his simple, all-American, point-blank style. He said:
"There's right, and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the
other. You do the one, and you're living. You do the other, and
you may be walking around, but you're as dead as a beaver hat."
As he did in the conduct of his own life, in that movie John
Wayne stood for right, he stood for life.
And today in Orange County, thousands of you have made that
same choice. You've stood up for right. You've stood up for
life. And you sum it up in a phrase: "DRUG USE IS LIFE ABUSE."
4
The slogan is powerful in its simplicity. And the logo
itself is apt: In it, the word "LIFE" is literally torn apart,
just as the lives of our young are torn apart and destroyed by
the nightmare called cocaine.
While visiting Orange County last spring, I commended the
L.A. Rams for having every player wear a "Drug Use Is Life Abuse"
patch on his uniform -- a move that was copied by tens of
thousands of local fans and student athletes here.
The Rams wore the patches for a year. Then the N.F.L.
ordered them removed, saying the patches ran afoul of league
policies against "personal messages."
But a Rams spokesman said: "If it dissuaded one young man
or young girl from doing drugs, it was worth the whole year. "
I agree. In order to win, America's war on drugs must be
total war. Waged from the boardroom to the classroom. From the
White House to your house. No element of our society is immune
-- certainly not the world of professional sports. And with all
due respect to the league, I still think the patches are a good
idea.
Fighting drug abuse isn't a personal message -- it's a
public service. And if, as they do, the Steelers and the Bears
can wear patches saluting the heroes of yesterday, then the Rams
ought to be able to wear patches saluting the kids of today.
"Drug Use Is Life Abuse" is the right message because its
goal is not punishing those who are hooked on drugs -- but
deterring kids from ever getting started.
5
That message is beginning to sink in. By now just about
everybody knows this simple truth: Drugs aren't the answer.
They never were. And they never will be.
And recently, we have seen some scattered but hopeful new
signs of progress against the horror of drugs.
It began last summer, when a major nationwide survey found
that the number of current drug users in America had dropped by
almost 40 percent in just three years. Then just two weeks ago,
another new survey showed that the number of high school seniors
using drugs declined again last year, a long-term trend that has
brought seniors' drug use to its lowest level in 15 years.
There are other signs, visible in every city in America.
In my old Congressional district in Houston, the people got
together and took back a park from the drug dealers.
In Alexandria, Virginia, I visited a neighborhood where they
hold all-night vigils every Friday to keep the pushers away from
their kids. In the heartland, in Kansas City, I saw boarded-up
crack houses bearing the six-word victory banner of the local
activists: "THIS NEIGHBORHOOD FIGHTS BACK AGAINST DRUGS.'
And here in Orange County, thousands are doing their part.
I think of heroic cops like Santa Ana Police Investigator Henry
Cousin [koo-ZEEN]. Although severely wounded in a drug raid
three years ago, Henry wouldn't quit. He joined a special
federal task force, and recently helped take down the biggest
drug seizure in Orange County history.
6
And I think of heroic mothers like Mrs. Rosa Perez, who's
fought in Santa Ana for six years to rid her neighborhood of
pushers. One time, even though she was pregnant, Mrs. Perez went
to the aid of an officer who was struggling with a dope dealer.
But the battle isn't only being fought in the streets.
About a year and a half ago, I came to Los Angeles for one of the
most critical moments in the campaign -- the 1988 Presidential
Debate. They asked if there were any heroes left in America. I
named an astronaut. An AIDS researcher. A freedom fighter. And
I named a high school mathematics teacher from East L.A., a
teacher who helped his Hispanic students see beyond poverty and
neglect to the real potential of their own minds.
Jaime Escalante. Investigator Henry Cousin [koo-ZEEN].
Mrs. Rosa Perez. Three heroes. Two cities. One dream.
All three are here today. And all three deserve our thanks.
We've covered a lot of ground in the drug war. But tough
challenges remain. It's like when the Rams offense crosses the
50 yard line: With every yard you gain, your opponent digs in
and progress gets that much harder, not easier.
Make no mistake. Drug abuse in this country is still far
too widespread. There is far too much suffering -- far too many
wasted lives. But we're going to beat drugs the same way the
Rams beat many of their opponents: Relentless offense. A
defense that refuses to give up a single yard to the opposition -
- or a single child to these merchants of death.
7
Against drugs, a good defense means reducing demand --
through efforts like the record funding my Administration has
devoted for increased drug education, treatment, and criminal
justice.
And a tough offense means an attack on all fronts.
Last month's Drug Summit in Cartagena marked a good day for
the rule of law and a very bad day for the cocaine cartels.
President Barco's courageous crackdown has seized or destroyed
their cash, their homes, their labs, and their drugs. And 14
accused traffickers have been extradited to the United States and
now face American justice in courtrooms in Miami and Tulsa,
Atlanta and San Francisco.
The days of the druglords may not be over yet. But their
days are numbered.
Here at home, my Administration recently named Los Angeles
as one of the nation's five "high intensity drug trafficking
areas," a designation that means increased federal enforcement
manpower for the region. And nationwide, Congress has approved
funding for the new agents, new prosecutors, and new prisons we
asked for to catch, convict, and contain America's most dangerous
drug offenders.
But Congress also needs to act, and act soon, on my new
anti-crime proposals. Congress needs to provide tough laws to
deal with a tough problem.
Working together, we can -- we will -- defeat this scourge.
8
Ten years ago last month, in a tiny town in upstate New
York, a group of American kids seized the American flag and went
out and did the impossible. They beat an unbeatable team -- the
Soviet Olympic ice hockey team. And from that arena in Lake
Placid a chant grew and swelled and boomed out across America:
U-S-A. U-S-A. U-S-A!
They called it the upset of the decade. And many today mark
it as a first step, an early trumpet call on America's road back.
The lesson of that triumph is simple. And it stands the
test of time: In the United States of America, all it takes is
desire and a dream. Because what Americans can dream, Americans
can do.
We will win the war on drugs because we must. And let no
one doubt the commitment we have in Washington. The White House
has declared war on the crack house. And the only enemy response
we'll accept is called "unconditional surrender."
Thank you for your warm greeting. God bless you. God bless
California. And God bless the U.S.A.
#
#
#
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DRUG USE IS LIFE ABUSE
A UNIQUE JOINT VENTURE
The decade of the 1980's has been a dramatic increase in the use of illicit
drugs, particularly cocaine and heroin, in Orange County. Paralleling this
increase has been the proliferation of drug use in segments of our society pre-
viously unaffected by such trends. As Sheriff-Coroner of Orange County,
Brad Gates has been in a unique position to monitor the affects that this
increasing drug use has had on Orange County citizens - particularly young
people - and the facts are sobering. From January of 1987 through February of
1989 alone, 401 Orange County residents died cocaine- or heroin-related
deaths. And these deaths represent a broad cross section of our county's
population: from a two-year-old Infant who died from the accidental inges-
tion of cocaine left on a coffee table, to an 82-year-old retired engineer who
died of a heart attack while doing cocaine, a habit he had acquired in his mid-
seventies.
Tens of thousands of Orange County lives are being affected by illicit drug
use. We have seen the emergence of an entirely new criminal subculture;
thousands of innocent people victimized; an overburdened criminal justice
south...
system; staggering economic and social costs; and a deep erosion of the health
and well-being of our citizens. And the way in which we face the threat of
drugs today may well determine the success or failure of our entire country in
the future.
Law enforcement has made major inroads in stemming the flow of drug
ares in Home Drugs
trafficking into the county, in dealing with the supply side of the drug prob-
lem. Sheriff Brad Gates and the Orange County Sheriff's Department -
through a cooperative effort with numerous local law enforcement agencies
created the Regional Narcotics Suppression Program in 1986. This model
project has successfully pooled the resources of over a dozen different law en-
wm (took on (park) back
forcement agencies into a coordinated effort that has resulted in the confisca-
tion of 35 million doses of cocaine, over 9 million injections of heroin, 1
million marijuana cigarettes, and over $38 million in drug traffickers cash and
assets. Mississippi
But law enforcement, however successful, can only attack the supply side of
our current drug problem. It is only through an equal effort to diminish and
end the demand for illicit drugs that a complete solution to our drug problem
can be accomplished. The drug problem facing our society necessitates a level
KL back
of community response never before seen in this country. And to accomplish
that end, a mechanism must exist to channel such a grass-roots movement. It
was in response to this need that Drug Use Is Life Abuse was created. As a
support group of the Sheriff's Advisory Council, Drug Use Is Life Abuse is a
whis fight against
stand-alone, full-time entity working to coordinate and initiate drug use
prevention and awareness programs between the Sheriff's Department and
Advisory Council, the business community, student, parent, school, civic, and
religious organizations. Drug Use Is Life Abuse provides a means through
things
which various organizations and businesses in the community can get directly
involved in this effort. We now have the organizational vehicle necessary to
fight a full scale war on drugs.
DRUG USE
IS
LIFE ABUSE
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TO:
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FEB 20, 1990
6:04PM
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The Drug Use Is Life Abuse marketing plan calls for a cyclical focus on
various elements in the marketing environment, such as convenience stores,
the fast food industry, theme parks, and the entertainment industry, areas that
are both important and highly visible to younger market segments. But, just
as the drug problem is not confined to one segment of our society, neither
does this plan restrict itself to simply the younger audience. Business and
community groups are called upon; senior and religious organizations play
vital roles. The plan calls for a relentless image campaign supporting drug-
free lifestyles, a plan designed to support and promote a change in the way
society perceives drug use.
One constant and unifying element in this campaign is its professionally pre-
pared graphics package centering around the Drug Use Is Life Abuse logo.
By making the Drug Use Is Life Abuse logo available to businesses and
organizations, and encouraging its use, a mechanism exists for the entire
community to express a common sentiment and speak with a single voice.
The Los Angeles Rams debuted a Drug Use Is Life Abuse sports patch de-
signed around the logo worn on their uniforms during the '88 season cur-
rently over 25,000 Orange County CIF athletes are wearing a similar Drug use
life
Is Life Abuse logo patch, 45,000 County Little Leaguers were distributed
patches, and the California Angels are considering a patch program of their
a
own. Hundreds of businesses ⑉ from fast food franchises to life insurance
companies, automobile dealerships to residential developers * are currently
tom
employing the logo in their display advertising, metered mail, and collateral
materials.
apart
Drug Use Is Life Abuse intends to play a major role in a county-wide effort to
eliminate the demand for illicit drugs. To be successful, Drug Use Is Life
Abuse will work closely with the Sheriff's Department and must encourage all
segments of the prevention community to take advantage of its resources to
enhance their individual efforts. For, ultimately, our separate efforts have one
shared goal: we all support a drug free Orange County.
this
DRUG USE
IS
ABUSE
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TO:
2024566218
FEB 20, 1990
6:04PM
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"Positively Know"
A Drug Education Curriculum for 4th 4 6th Grades
This curriculum is designed for classroom presentations by a uniformed Deputy
Sheriff or Police Officer It consists of (4) fifty minute presentations, once a week for (4)
weeks.
The creation of this curriculum is the result of the combined efforts of professional
educators, law enforcement, private Industry, professional Sports and "Drug Use Is Life Abuse."
"Drug Use Is Life Abuse" Is a Non-profit charity dedicated to drug abuse awareness, education
and prevention which originated in Orange County.
Our Purpose is to:
Introduce characters that stimulate students' curiosity to continue on in the book.
Attract the reader.
Provide material that summarizes main points using graphics and simplified text.
Give information about drugs (graphics, street names, effects) in sequence of format used
by deputies.
Choose text and pictures that are most relevant to the audience (i.e. real pictures, immediate
effects.)
Increase student awareness and knowledge of drug addiction and the laws relating to them.
Increase student awareness of environment and social pressures around them.
Give students a strategy and opportunity to practice dealing with these pressures.
Emphasize the Idea that true friends only use positive pressures.
Provide opportunities for parent/child interactaction.
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TO:
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6:05PM
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Provide material that stresses and illustrates positive peer pressure, family involvement
and the importance of seeking help.
Provide local resources.
Emphasize the interdependency of the family and the impact drug abuse has on the family
unit.
Provide information about warning signs of and common reactions to drug abuse.
Provide helpful suggestions for prevention.
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TO:
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FEB 20, 1990
05PM
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DRUG USE IS LIFE ABUSE
MISSION STATEMENT
The abuse of drugs in Orange County continues to threaten the lives of
our young people and the future of our society. Burglary, robbery and
violent crime continue to be major problems, and the direct casual
relationship between drug use and criminal behavior has been clearly
established. Addiction, injury and loss of life are often the effects of
abuse. The individual, the family and all of society are at risk unless we
change the prevailing tolerant attitude toward drug usage and become
committed to the goal of a drug free society.
Drug Use Is Life Abuse, a support group of the Orange County Sheriff's
Advisory Council, was formed in response to this pressing need. The
Organization endeavors to bring together leaders in business, government,
education, religion, families and law enforcement to work together
towards changing the way society perceives drug use.
THE GOALS OF DRUG USE IS LIFE ABUSE INCLUDE:
1. To initiate action and coordinate efforts to bring the message "Drug
Use is Life Abuse" to every citizen of Orange County.
2. To provide tangible support for our citizens, particular our young
people, to let know that they are not alone in the campaign to create
a drug free society.
3. To empower each citizen to make a personal commitment not to
abuse drugs and to enable them to encourage others to make this
commitment.
4. To help our young people find positive ways of dealing with the
stress of growing up through the encouragement of life-positive
programs.
5. To rally support within the entire Orange County community to make
the commitment to accomplish these goals.
Thank you, Jim [EVERETT, LA RAMS Q.B.]. There are some
people up here with me that deserve our thanks for making this
day possible: Sheriff Brad Gates, Mike Hayde [HAID], President
of "Drug Use is Life Abuse," and the Board of Directors of that
great organization, including Dr. Robert Schuller and Georgia
Frontiere. Also up here is some of Orange County's congressional
delegation: Bob Dornan, Bill Dannemeyer, and Chris Cox. And I
also have to salute one of America's best teachers: Jaime
Escalante.
Further Fall in High School
Students' Drug Use Found
By DOUGLAS JEHL
reinvigorate an anti-drug offensive
TIMES STAFF WRITER
"where the coca is."
The latest survey by the Nation-
WASHINGTON- In a new indi-
al Institute on Drug Abuse con-
cation of a declining American
firmed that broad trends toward
appetite for illicit highs, a federal
declining drug use are continuing.
study has found that the use of
but it also showed that the reduc-
drugs by high school students con-
tions were becoming less steep and
tinued to decline last year even as
that the number of frequent users
the availability of the substances
of crack cocaine remained about
appeared to increase.
constant.
While the Bush Administration
The proportion of high school
hailed the new findings as evidence
seniors who said they had used
of success in curbing the demand
drugs within the last year dropped
for drugs, its top anti-drug official
to 35.4%, the lowest figure since
warned that the government still
the closely watched surveys began
must muster its energies behind
in 1975.
efforts designed to cut off their
The percentage of students who
supply.
acknowledged using cocaine with-
"More work needs to be done on
in the previous month decreased to
the supply side." said drug czar
2.8% in 1989 from 3.4% in 1988-a
William J. Bennett. underscoring
smaller decline than the year be-
the Administration agenda for this
fore. Almost all of last year's
week's summit in Cartagena. Co-
decline appeared to be in use of
lombia. where U.S. officials hope to
Please see DRUGS. A10
Los Angeles Times
2/14/90
DRUGS: Study
HIGH SCHOOL DRUG USE
Trends in frequent drug use among high school students.
Finds Declining
Figures reflect percentage of students reporting use of drugs within the last 30 days.
30
Marijuana
Use by Students
20
Cocalne
Crack*
10
Continued from A1
0
powdered cocaine, with regular
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
crack users essentially unchanged
Trends in occasional drug use among high school students.
at 1.4% of those surveyed.
Figures reflect percentage reporting use of the drugs within the last year.
Meanwhile, the proportion of
students who said cocaine would be
50
"fairly easy" or "very easy" for
Marljuana
them to get climbed to 58.7%, an
40
all-time high.
30
Researchers said the survey in-
Cocaine
dicated that drug use among hard-
20
core users has persisted in defiance
Crack
of an otherwise widespread shift in
10
national behavior. It also suggested
that future reductions in usage are
0
likely to be smaller than the dra-
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
matic declines of past years.
Figures not available for crack in 1985 and 1986.
"The further down we go, the
Figures not available for crack in 1985.
more difficult it will be," said
Source: National Institute of Drug Abuse
Frederick K. Goodwin, a senior
LIGAYA GRITZ / Los Angeles Times
official at the Department of
sike when
Health and Human Services.
available even to high school stu-
the use of tobacco and alcohol by
B
ennett, the architect of a new
dents.
high school students has failed to
Administration strategy de-
The latest indications of a gradu
decline at a similar pace.
signed to curb drug use, described
Pams Art
al decline in drug use held true for
the findings as a "welcome sign
He noted that the survey found
nearly every illicit substance, in-
that progress against the drug
that 29% of high school seniors
cluding marijuana, LSD and CO-
problem can be made." The slow-
were current smokers-the same
caine. The only significant increase
down in the rate of decline, howev-
proportion as in 1981-while the
was in the use of PCP, with current
er, showed that "the work may
percentage of those who had used
use reported up from 0.3% to 1.4%
now get harder,' he said.
alcoholic beverages in the last
in the past year. Federal officials
The conclusion that drug use has
month was 60%, only a modest
said they were concerned by the
continued to fall, which was based
decline from a 72% peak in 1980.
upsurge.
primarily on a survey of some
In an effort to help force prog-
the
17,000 high school seniors, was
T
he researchers who conducted
ress in those areas, Sullivan said he
supported by the findings of a
the latest high school study
would favor a bid to "push to the
companion study of about 10,000
acknowledged that it may tend to
forefront" programs designed to
high school graduates. The latest
underestimate the exact rate of
curb underage drinking and ciga-
grows
disclosures follow last summer's
drug use because it is based on
rette smoking. But Bennett, noting
yours
release of a major national institute
self-reporting by students and is
that his job description calls for
survey that found the number of
not administered to dropouts.
him to concentrate on illegal drugs,
regular drug users in American
But they said that studies of
said he was content to focus on
households had declined by 37%
frequent truants-regarded as
drug traffickers rather than beer
from 1985 to 1988.
"near dropouts" have also shown
company mascots.
line hardr, 50 not
"Demand is changing," said Uni-
overall declines in consumption of
"There's a difference between
versity of Michigan researcher
illicit drugs.
going after Pablo Escobar," he
Lloyd Johnston, who headed the
As secretary of health. Sullivan
said, "and going after Spuds
survey of high school seniors and
expressed particular concern that
McKenzie."
cited the likely influence of anti-
drug peer pressure, media cover-
age and drug education programs.
easier
Noting that the President's anti-
drug strategy has aimed in large
part at curbing demand, Bennett
and other officials emphasized at a
White House briefing Tuesday that
the Administration would continue
those efforts.
"We are on the right course,
said Louis W. Sullivan, secretary of
leshi
health and human services, "and
we must not allow our efforts to
slacken."
468-2600
But Bennett, a longtime cham-
pion of law enforcement efforts
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aimed at staunching the flow of
cocaine, said he found "particularly
disturbing" the parallel indications
that the drug remained readily
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Associated Press.
January 16, 1990, Tuesday, AM cycle
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LENGTH: 472 words
HEADLINE: Bush Visits Housing Project to Praise Residents Anti- Drug Efforts
BYLINE: By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: ALEXANDRIA, Va.
KEYWORD: Bush - Drugs
BODY:
President Bush dropped in unannounced on a public housing project Tuesday
to salute residents for holding all-night vigils against drug dealers.
"We simply have got to win this fight," he declared.
The president used his visit to the Charles Houston development in this
Washington suburb to promote both his administration's battle against drug
pushers and legislation to encourage more home ownership among public housing
residents.
"With home ownership comes pride. Along with ownership comes strengthening of
the family. So our program is aimed at this whole concept of home ownership,'
Bush told a group of community activists.
The president praised the courage of residents who, for the last four
weekends, have staged all-night prayer vigils and camped out in drug -infested
areas.
Speaking to a group of anti- drug activists in the kitchen of a community
center, Bush said he had dropped by "to say 'thank you' to those in the
community who are standing shoulder to shoulder with those who are fighting this
drug menace. We simply have got to win this fight."
Bush was accompanied by Jack Kemp, the secretary of housing and urban
development, on the early-afternoon tour.
Kemp said the visit should be seen as a signal to drug dealers that
"public housing no longer is going to be a free haven" for their activities.
Bush and Kemp discussed the adminstration's $$2.1 billion package,
introduced in November, to provide matching federal grants to make it easier for
public housing residents to buy their dwellings.
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The president called on Congress to act on the measure when it reconvenes
Jan. 23, and to pass a long-languishing proposal for urban enterprise zones that
would give businesses tax breaks for establishing in inner cities.
Security was tight for Bush's foray into the high-crime neighborhood;
reporters travelling in his motorcade were not told of his destination until he
arrived. Helicopters hovered overhead and the area was cordoned off by police.
In mild spring-like weather, a steadily building crowd gathered outside
hastily assembled police barricades to watch Bush, Kemp and other members of
their entourage visit an a unit in the development and then the community center
about a block away.
"We were just driving by," Kemp joked.
Their first stop was the home of community activists Pete and Corina Jones in
one of many of the two-story brick buildings that make up the housing project.
"I was a little shocked to see the president come into my house," Jones said
later. "It shows we do have a president who cares."
The president praised Ramona Younger, leader of the Alexandria Public
Housing Residents Council and an organizer of the all-night vigils.
"I've been inspired by the stories I've heard of her leadership, her
toughness, her willingness to take these people on," Bush said.
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September 7, 1989, Thursday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Column 5; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 570 words
HEADLINE: NFL JUST SAYS NO TO RAMS' SPORTING ANTI-DRUG PATCH
BYLINE: By GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI, Times Staff Writer
BODY:
Despite a series of gentle Rams protests, the National Football League has
prohibited the team from wearing jerseys featuring a small patch that reads:
# Drug Use Is Life Abuse. =
The patches, which made their debut on Rams jerseys during last year's Oct.
23 game against the Seattle Seahawks at Anaheim Stadium, were the idea of Orange
County Sheriff-Coroner Brad Gates. Gates then enlisted the help of Rams owner
Georgia Frontiere, who had the slogans sewn on every Rams uniform.
But unlike several other NFL teams that have added patches to their playing
attire in past years, the Rams failed to ask or even inform the league of
their plans. The result was predictable: The NFL sacked the patch.
Jim Heffernan, NFL director of public relations, said Wednesday that the
Rams were reminded last year of league policy concerning the use of such
uniform patches, even ones with noble messages. And two weeks before the start
of the 1989 Rams exhibition season, the NFL again expressed its dis pleasure
with the patches and told the team to remove them from the jerseys.
According to NFL rules, a player is prohibited from wearing or displaying
equipment, apparel or other items that carry commercial names, names of
organizations other than the player's team, or personal messages of any type.
The Pittsburgh Steelers wear a patch in memory of their late owner, Art
Rooney, and the Chicago Bears wear the initials "GSH" on their uniforms, in
honor of their late owner, George S. Halas. A league official indicated that
both teams petitioned the NFL for approval to use those emblems, which honor two
of the NFL's founding fathers.
Rams team officials readily admit that they didn't tell the NFL about the
patches last year. But then again, they said they saw no reason to.
"We felt that it was really in compliance with the league's drug policy
.
We just felt it was something that should be done," said Marshall Klein,
Rams vice president for media and community relations. "It's not a commercial
message, any more than you would say, 'God bless America. I mean, nobody has to
check before they do the national anthem."
Klein said Frontiere was "disappointed" by the NFL's decision but that the
organization would abide by the rule and had no plans to appeal the decision.
And while Klein said the Rams understood the league's motives for creating
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the rule, he suggested that perhaps the NFL had missed the point of the patches.
"If it is a commercial message, it's a message of the highest priority,"
Klein said. "If it dissuaded one young man or young girl from doing drugs, it
was worth the whole year.
"We would have thought that the league would have let it continue."
Gates could not be reached Wednesday for comment about the league's decision.
The patches, according to the Orange County Student Advisory Council Against
Drug Abuse, are worn by more than 50,000 high school athletes. Plans call for an
additional 80,000 patches to be distributed to elementary school athletes.
In a letter sent to NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the council criticized the
league's decision, asking why "such a successful and mutually beneficial program
would be terminated."
Heffernan, while supporting the sentiment of the patches, said the ruling is
final. Klein reluctantly agreed.
"We saw no downside," Klein said. "But the league, in its opinion, feels the
uniform is no place for special interests."
GRAPHIC: Photo, A Rams player wearing the controversial anti-drug patch.
SUBJECT: DRUG EDUCATION; UNIFORMS; NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE; LOS ANGELES RAMS
(FOOTBALL TEAM); SPORTS RULES AND REGULATIONS
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Drug Wars-Hey, We're Winning!
Bush's Message in Cartagena Should Be That the Cocaine Crackdown Works
2/11/90
The first positive evidence, almost ignored
inals were arrested; almost no cocaine was
By Guy Gugliotta
at the time, came in the last half of 1986
seized. It looked bad on the evening news
when the United States embarked on a bold
another misguided failure in the misguided
HIS THURSDAY, President Bush
T
experiment in the wilderness of northern
war on drugs.
will join Presidents Virgilio Barco of
Bolivia. Six U.S. Army Blackhawk helicop-
But one thing was encouraging. During
Colombia, Alan Garcia of Peru and
ters were sent on a mission to destroy jun-
the time the Blackhawks were there, Bo-
Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia for a summit
gle cocaine laboratories and disrupt an illicit
livia's cocaine trade virtually stopped. No-
meeting at the Colombian resort city of
agribusiness then worth $600 million per
body made cocaine, nobody sold cocaine.
Cartagena. The presidents will talk about
year to hundreds of thousands of impover-
See INTERDICT, C2, Col. 1
drugs, devising an "Andean strategy" that
ished Bolivians. The operation was code-
will seek to press the advantages won by
named Blast Furnace and it lasted nearly
Colombia's six-month crackdown on cocaine
four months. Results seemed disappointing.
trafficking. And they will be energized by a
simple lesson learned in fighting the drug
A few labs were found; some low-level crim-
trade over the last few years. The lesson is:
Repression works-not perfectly, but well
enough to make strong-arm tactics an im-
portant component of any drug control
strategy.
Guy Gugliotta is a Latin America specialist
and co-author of "Kings of Cocaine," a
history of the Medellin cartel.
RANDALL ENOS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
destined for military purposes. But the strat-
ther Peru nor Bolivia has the slightest incen-
intimidation and threats. Barco is now locked
Winning the Drug War
egy also extracts promises of U.S. economic
tive to curtail the coca business. The good of
in a death struggle to rescue his nation from
aid and development projects for the front-
mankind? What good does it do for campe-
institutional collapse. And so far, he has done
line states of the Andes. If the crackdown
sinos if the government bankrupts them,
well. With Rodriguez Gacha's death, the bomb-
continues, Barco will need to refill his war
INTERDICT, From C1
tries. But Colombian security forces, by sup-
takes away their livelihood and puts them in
ings and murders declined markedly. Escobar
chest. If the Peruvian and Bolivian campe-
pressing the traffic in their own country,
the ranks of the unemployed?
took over as field general, and kidnapings be-
Most important, nobody bought coca leaves
sinos give up coca farming, they will need
have caused a massive dislocation affecting
The Colombian case is more complex, and
came the favorite tactic. When this didn't
from thousands of campesino farmers who
something else to do. This is the price of the
the entire cocaine industry. Nature has made
more urgent, for the war on drugs there is
work, the traffickers began freeing their cap-
war.
grew them. And unlike the fat-cat traffick-
Bolivia and Peru the only countries in the
rapidly reaching a crossroads. In mid-January
tives and "surrendered."
ers with rainy-day money socked away in
It is a price that we in the United States
hemisphere capable of growing high-yield
the drug traffickers issued a much publicized
should be willing and eager to pay. The An-
11-point "surrender" document, accepting
his is the seductive and innovative as-
European banks, the campesinos had no
coca. Enterprise and ruthlessness have made
dean nations, like the Democrats here, be-
savings. If processors weren't buying leaf,
the Colombians dominant as cocaine produc-
"the triumph of the state" and promising to
T
pect of the traffickers' current peace
the campesinos couldn't eat. Maybe they
ers and traffickers. The Colombians must
lieve that curtailing U.S. demand is the key
give up cocaine trafficking, turn over their
proposal. Why should Barco not pro-
should find another line of work?
to final victory in the drug war-that the
weapons, release their hostages and cease
claim victory, cut a deal and retire in splen-
buy coca in Peru and Bolivia, and the cam-
violence and crime that are cocaine's hand-
But funding for the operation ran out by
pesinos of Peru and Bolivia must sell to
their bombings and their murders of public
dor? Not a bad swan song for a not particu-
maidens can only be controlled if the number
mid-November, and the Army went away.
Colombians. By interrupting this equation,
figures. In return they asked nothing, simply
larly popular president who has only six more
The traffickers fired up their processing
of U.S. drug users shrinks to a manageable
expressing "the hope of obtaining from the
months to serve.
the Colombian government has given the
size.
plants and labs, and pretty soon it was busi-
rest of the world an unprecedented oppor-
government and from society respect for our
Except the war isn't over. U.S. officials es-
ness as usual. Blast Furnace was forgotten.
tunity. For the first time in the sordid, 15-
B
ut the Colombian crackdown has also
rights and our return to our families and
timate it will take another four to six months
year history of big-time cocaine, the good
demonstrated that curtailing supply
communities."
of depressed prices before Peruvian and Bo-
U
ntil now. During the last six months
guys can see a ray of hope.
through repression and law enforce-
The "surrender" marked the traffickers'
livian campesinos begin to abandon coca cul-
Colombia's drug crackdown has sent
It would be nice to report that President
ment can work, too, at least in the short run.
third full-scale peace proposal in the last six
tivation in large. numbers and another year
traffickers scurrying for cover as
Barco won his victories through persuasion
Our responsibility to our allies is clear: We
years. This one, like the others, was seen as
before the cocaine pipeline empties out and
never before. Their cocaine has been seized,
and sweet reason, but that would be a lie.
should help them economically, for by fight-
a ploy to buy time and win sympathy from
the U.S. market begins to show scarcities. It
their labs destroyed, their bank accounts fro-
Last August, in what has to be their stupidest
ing their war, they are fighting ours.
those Colombians so tired of the violence and
will take even longer for U.S. economic aid
zen, their hideouts ransacked. Colombia has
blunder ever, the traffickers killed presiden-
And unless we help them, they will likely
stress that they would accept a settlement at
and development projects to be installed and
extradited 14 accused traffickers to the Unit-
tial candidate Luis Carlos Galan and declared
abandon us. What most Americans fail to un-
any price. And "respect for our rights," the
ready to provide alternative employment.
ed States. On Nov. 22 police and soldiers
"total and absolute war" against the Colom-
derstand is that other countries don't nec-
government believes, is yet another euphe-
So Colombia must keep the pressure on,
came within an eyelash of capturing Medellin
bian state. Barco took them at their word. He
essarily identify with our problems. Drug
mism for amnesty and immunity from extra-
for even if the Medellin cartel is indeed reel-
cartel boss Pablo Escobar, driving him from a
proclaimed a state of siege, ordered martial
abuse, for instance, is not a major issue in
dition, the traffickers' long-standing baseline
ing and near death; there are a hundred traf-
safe house in the middle of the night and forc-
law in some cities and sent troops and police
Latin America. Also, it would be hard for a
demands.
fickers ready to take its place. While the Me-
ing him to escape down a jungle river, wear-
rampaging through the Colombian under-
resident of Medellin, Colombia to get excited
Barco has publicly rejected the current
dellin traffickers were wasting strength and
ing nothing but a pair of jockey shorts and a
world.
about Washington, D.C.'s one-a-day murder
proposal, but he knows that the peace lobby
resources in a bloody confrontation with the
sub-machine gun strapped to his arm. And on
And it worked. Barco, the nondescript bu-
rate; Medellin has 17 murders a day, the
is a strong current in Colombia, where the
government, their brethren from Cali bided
Dec. 15, a task force stalked, trapped and
reaucrat with the opaque personality and the
most violent city in the most violent country
public mood yo-yos radically with each suc-
their time and quietly grew more powerful.
finally killed Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha,
Coke-bottle glasses, landed on the Medellin
in the world not undergoing a full-scale civil
cess or failure in the anti-drug campaign.
U.S. drug agents now believe the Cali cartel
another Medellin chieftain, at a ranch near
cartel like the plague. Cops and soldiers took
war. Similarly, crack babies and drug-ridden
When Rodriguez Gacha was killed, Barco's
is responsible for at least 50 percent of the
the Caribbean coast.
more than 20 ranches, mansions and apart-
slums have little significance for the govern-
ratings went way up. But when Escobar and
cocaine coming into the United States.
The effects of the crackdown outside Col-
ment buildings away from Rodriguez Gacha
ments of Peru and Bolivia and their impov-
other traffickers began to kidnap prominent
And the Cali traffickers have no quarrel
ombia have been slow to materialize, but in
before they killed him, froze $60 million of
erished citizens. Paz Zamora has to worry
people, Barco's ratings went way down. The
with Barco or Colombia's democratic insti-
the last 100 days, coca leaf prices, both in
his bank assets, seized tons of his cocaine and
about finding new jobs for more than 300,-
peace track currently enjoys support from
tutions. Its members will give the Colombian
Bolivia and Peru, have plunged. The Colom-
put a $625,000 bounty on his head. In Oc-
000 people who make a living from cocaine.
two ex-presidents and the Roman Catholic
government no reason to crush them: The
bian traffickers, lying low to avoid capture,
tober they arrested his cocaine shipper and
Peru's Garcia has an empty treasury, unpay-
cardinal of Bogota.
war is over, let's do business.
are not buying leaf, and campesinos today arè
extradited him to Tulsa. Early in December
able debts and a full-scale Maoist insurgency
There are those who think that the govern-
Without an obvious reason to continue the
offering it for $10 per hundred pounds. A
they released his imprisoned son Fredy and
to conténd with. The point is that all na-
ment is negotiating with the cocaine bosses
war, Colombia may thus lose its resolve. We
year ago they could get $100 for it.
followed him until he led them to his father.
tions-unless they are ruled by madmen or
even as you read this, but nothing that Barco
cannot let this happen, for our war is not
What we have today is Blast Furnace writ
Fredy died with his father, and the police
fools-fight wars for their own reasons.
has done up to now suggests that he is going
over, and we need Colombia to help us fight
large. The U.S. Army isn't on hand. Indeed,
dumped both bodies in a pauper's grave.
Take those reasons away and the war is over.
to back off. He came to office nearly four years
it. Barco has proved to be a faithful and cou-
in the wake of the Panama invasion the An-
The strategy that the presidents will dis-
It thus behooves us to listen to our allies
ago with the idea that he could ignore drug
rageous ally. He and Colombia should have
dean countries have made it clear they will
cuss at Cartegena envisions $2.2 billion in
and heed their requests. Without U.S. eco-
trafficking, but his administration was quickly
something to show for their efforts besides
not allow U.S. combat soldiers in their coun-
U.S. aid spread over five years, much of it
nomic aid and development assistance, nei-
and repeatedly humiliated through violence,
blood, sweat and tears.
TVI
New York Times
A16
2/14/90
Survey Shows Use of Drugs
Drug Use on the Decline
By Students Fell Last Year
Percent of high school students who said they used one or more
illicit drugs in the last 30 days.
40%
All illicit drugs
By RICHARD L. BERKE
Special to The New York Times
30
Marijuana
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 - The num-
Dr. Sullivan and other officials at the
ber of high school seniors who say they
conference, including William J. Ben-
have used illicit drugs at least once
nett, the Federal drug policy director,
20
continued a downward trend last year,
attributed the shift to heightened con-
although there was no decline in re-
cerns among students about the ill ef-
ported use of the highly addictive
fects of drug use.
crack, according to a national survey
But critics of Administration policy
10
released today.
immediately questioned the study, not-
Cocaine
The federally financed annual sur-
ing that the figures probably under-
vey, by the Institute for Social Re-
state the problem because they do not
0
search of the University of Michigan,
include high school dropouts, unem-
questioned 17,000 of the nation's 2.7 mil-
ployed workers and other groups
lion seniors. It found that narcotics use
among whom the drug problem is
'75 '76 '77 '78 '79 '80 '81 '82 '83* '84 '85 '86 '87 '88 '89
continues to be a grave problem, with
particularly pronounced.
Based on a confidential survey of high school seniors by the Institute for
50.9 percent of those questioned in 1989
The survey did break out respond-
Social Research, University of Michigan, In 1989, 16,700 responded.
reporting that they had at least tried an
ents who are frequently truant or have
*In 1983, nonprescription stimulants were excluded.
illicit drug like marijuana or cocaine,
poor grades, and it showed that among
as against 53.9 percent in 1988 and 56.6
those seniors the trends were generally
percent in 1987. The 3.1 percent of sen-
the same as for the overall sampling.
The New York Times/Feb. 14, 1990
iors who said they had used crack in
The confidential survey of 17,000 stu-
the past year did not mark a shift from
dents at 135 public and private high
the previous year.
schools across the country, is one of the
Little Change
The survey found little change in
Administration officials, highlighting
most widely used indicators of drug
In Crack Use
cigarette smoking rates in the past
Federal anti-drug efforts two days be-
use in the United States. Although it
decade, with 29 percent of the seniors
fore the drug conference in Colombia
can never be known how forthright stu-
Percent of high school stu-
questioned saying that they smoke
on Thursday, called a news conference
dents are in revealing their own drug
dents who said they used
regularly. Mr. Johnston called the find-
at the White House today to hail the
use in the confidential survey, those au-
crack or cocaine in the
ings about cigarettes "by far the most
study as evidence that their national
thorities who conducted it said that
last 30 days.
disappointing part of the story."
drug strategy was succeeding and that
they believe the trends over the years
5%
narcotics use was becoming unfashion-
have been consistent and supported
Crack
Federal authorities also said they
were concerned about the use of crys-
able among young Americans. At the
other surveys.
drug conference, Latin American lead-
The institute that conducts the sur-
Total
tal methamphetamine, or "ice," a
ers are expected to urge Mr. Bush to in-
vey does not say the results show the
cocaine
stimulant that has many of the effects
4
of crack and was included in the survey
tensify efforts to reduce drug demand
exact percentage of high school seniors
for the first time last year. About 1.2
n the United States.
in the population as a whole using
percent of the seniors surveyed said
"It is obvious from these survey find-
drugs. Since the figures that the insti-
tute provided are only for the group
3
they had used the drug in the past year,
ngs," said Louis W. Sullivan, the Sec-
and use was highest in the west, where
retary of Health and Human Services.
surveyed, they do not involve a margin
3 percent of the seniors sdaid they had
'that young people have made dra-
of error as is the case when a survey
used it.
natic changes in their own use of most
group is used to project trends in the
llicit drugs, as well as changes in their
overall population.
2
attitudes toward drug use by others
Representative Charles B. Rangel,
Druges Easier to Obtain
during the decade of the 1980's."
Democrat of Manhattan who is the
Despite the overall decline in re-
chairman of the Select Committee on
1
ported drug use, a considerably higher
Narcotics Abuse and Control, said that
percentage of seniors said it would be
3ig Cocaine Dealer in Capital
the survey was of "extremely limited
easy for them to get drugs. Forty-seven
value" and cited Federal figures show-
percent said they could get crack fairly
Sentenced to Two Life Terms
ing a high school dropout rate of more
0
easily in 1989, an increase of 4.9 per-
than 27 percent. "The individuals with
centage points from the previous year,
the greatest drug and crime problems
'87
'88
'89
while 58.7 percent said they could get
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (Reuters) -
are not even included."
cocaine, an increase of 3.7 percentage
1 Federal district judge today sen-
Crack Use Is Little Changed
Source: Institute for Social Research,
points.
enced Rayful Edmond, one of Wash-
University of Michigan
The survey showed no significant re-
ngton's biggest cocaine dealers, to two
ductions in crack use, with occasional
On the positive side, the use of mari-
erms of life in prison without possibil-
use of crack among high school seniors
The New York Times/ Feb. 14, 1990
juana in the prior 30 days reported in
ty of parole.
surveyed not changing appreciably,
the survey was down to 17 percent in
Mr. Edmond, 25 years old, was con-
falling to 4.7 percent in 1989 from 5.4
1989 from a peak of 37 percent in 1979.
types of information that there are
icted in December of conspiracy and
percent in 1987 for who reported ever
plenty of heavy users out there." But
Cocaine use in the previous 30 days,
unning a continuing criminal enter-
using the drug. Still less change was re-
which began declining in 1987, fell from
rise. Prosecutors described him as
he said that with time there may be a
ported among users who reported
he head of a drug-selling network that
decline in crack use, citing as evidence
6,2 percent in 1986 to 2.8 percent in 1989.
using crack in the past 30 days, the
for that a slight drop in use from 1987 to
Amphetamine use in the prior 30 days
etted up to $2 million a week in the
group with the most serious addiction
1989 among college students and other
was down to about 4 percent last year,
apital.
problem. Use by people in that group
from more than 12 percent in 1980. The
United States Attorney Jay B. Ste-
young adults also questioned as part of
hens said that the sentence, imposed
remained unchanged, at 1.4 percent in
the survey.
reported use of tranquilizers, barbitu-
1989 as against 1.3 percent in 1987.
There were other troubling signs in
rates and methaqualone have reached
y Judge Charles Richey, was appro-
riate and that it "should be a lesson to
Lloyd D. Johnston, a University of
the survey, notably an increase in the
such low levels that they showed little
additional decline.
he young people in this community be-
Michigan social psychologist and the
reported use of PCP, a dangerous ani-
ause they will learn from this sen-
principal investigator of the study, said
mal tranquilizer known for its hallu-
Most of the seniors questioned said
ence that if you deal in drugs, if you
that the crack problem may be even
cinogenic effects. Reported use of PCP
they drink alcohol, but the proportions
se drugs to avoid the tough decisions
worse than the survey suggests. "We
among the seniors questioned rose to
declined. Sixty percent of the seniors
enalty." bout your future, you will pay a heavy
know we are not going to capture many
1.4 percent in 1980 from 0.3 percent the
said they had consumed alcohol in the
heavy crack users in these surveys,"
year before. Dr. Johnston said he could
previous 30 days, down from a peak of
he said. "And it is clear from other
not explain the increase.
72 percent in 1980.
McNally/Simon 26
February 23, 1990
Draft One: (B:LA-BOWL)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: "DRUG ABUSE IS LIFE ABUSE" SPEECH
SANTA ANA BOWL, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1990, 12:45 P.M.
[[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]]
Thank you for that warm introduction, Jim [[EVERETT, L.A.
RAMS Q.B.]]. I hear someone asked Jim if he was excited about
being with the President today, and he said: "Not as excited as
I'll be next year -- when we're invited to the White House after
the Rams win the Super Bowl!"
No matter what team you like, you got to admit that Georgia
Frontiere [[RAMS OWNER] has built one of the toughest teams in
pro football. Who says there's no role for women in combat?!
Although I follow football, my first love is pro baseball.
And if the Angels are looking for replacement players to get the
season started -- I hope they'll remember that I used to play
first base! \\\
Since my oldest son is now a part owner of the Texas
Rangers, I asked him if I could come try out for the club. He
said: "Sure Dad. You can come down and throw the ball around.
But don't give up your day job!" \\\
It's great to be back in Orange County.
Southern California is a place of both beauty and bounty,
favored by some of the greatest wonders of nature and some of the
most wondrous works of man. It's home to many of America's
oldest traditions and newest ideas, the computerized pirate ships
of Walt Disney, the real-life cowboys of the Irvine Ranch. And
2
Orange County is a special place, a place that's been blessed by
productive lands, productive minds, and productive people -- one
of the youngest and hardest working populations in the country.
And standing here today in Orange County -- leading the way
into a new decade and a new century -- it's easy to see why many
young people are looking to the future with a new sense of hope
-- and seeing a world of limitless possibilities.
Something is happening in the world. Something new,
something powerful, something wonderful. Czechoslovakia's Vaclav
Havel -- who began the year as a prisoner and ended it as
President -- summed it up in his visit to Washington last month.
He said: "Things are happening so fast that we have no time to
be astonished."
And today the wind rushing down from the mountains is not
the hot fierce menace called the Santa Ana wind, but the new
breeze I spoke of when taking office a year ago. It has swept
around the world, bringing new hope in Europe, new hope in
Africa, new hope in the Americas.
Vaclav Havel, free at last. Nelson Mandela, free at last.
Nicaragua and Panama, free at last.
And just as people around the world are casting off the
oppression of dictators, so people across America are casting off
the oppression of drugs. III
Week by week, day by day, millions of Americans in thousands
of towns are standing up to make the same courageous choice:
Drug-free neighborhoods. Drug-free schools. Drug-free kids.
3
And anyone who thinks America lacks the will to win the drug
war better take a look at the spirit we have here today in Orange
County.
I know we'll win the war on drugs because you have what a
longtime resident of Orange County, John Wayne, had -- True Grit.
In his classic movie about the liberation of my home state
of Texas, John Wayne stood before the Alamo and spelled it out in
his simple, all-American, point-blank style. He said:
"There's right, and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the
other. You do the one, and you're living. You do the other, and
you may be walking around, but you're as dead as a beaver hat."
As he did in the conduct of his own life, in that movie John
Wayne voted for right, he voted for life.
And today in Orange County, thousands of you have made that
same choice. You've stood up for right. You've stood up for
life. And you sum it up in a phrase: "DRUG ABUSE IS LIFE
ABUSE.'
The slogan is powerful in its simplicity. And the logo
itself is apt: In it, the word "LIFE" is literally torn apart,
just as the lives of our young are torn apart and destroyed by
the nightmare called cocaine.
While visiting Orange County last spring, I commended the
L.A. Rams for having every player wear a "Drug Abuse Is Life
Abuse" patch on his uniform -- a move that was copied by tens of
thousands of local fans and student athletes here.
4
The Rams wore the patches for a year. Then the N.F.L.
ordered them removed, saying the patches ran afoul of league
policies against "personal messages."
But a Rams spokesman said: "If it dissuaded one young man
or young girl from doing drugs, it was worth the whole year."
I agree. In order to win, America's war on drugs must be
total war. Waged from the boardroom to the classroom. From the
White House to your house. No element of our society is immune
-- certainly not the world of professional sports. And with all
due respect to the league, I still think the patches are a good
idea.
Fighting drug abuse isn't a personal message -- it's a
public service. And if, as they do, the Steelers and the Bears
can wear patches saluting the heroes of yesterday, then the Rams
ought to be able to wear patches saluting the kids of today. \\\
"Drug Abuse Is Life Abuse" is the right message because its
goal is not punishing those who are hooked on drugs -- but
deterring kids from ever getting started.
That message is beginning to sink in. By now just about
everybody knows this simple truth: Drugs aren't the answer.
They never were. And they never will be.
And recently, we have seen some scattered but hopeful new
signs of progress against the haze and horror of drugs.
It began last summer, when a major nationwide survey found
that the number of regular drug users in America had dropped by
almost 40 percent in just three years. Then just two weeks ago,
5
another new survey showed that the number of high school seniors
using drugs declined again last year, a long-term trend that has
brought student drug use to its lowest level in 15 years.
There are other signs, visible in every city in America.
In my old Congressional district outside Houston, the people got
together and took back a park from the drug dealers.
In Alexandria, Virginia, I visited a neighborhood where they
hold all-night vigils every Friday to keep the pushers away from
their kids. In the heartland, in Kansas City, I saw boarded-up
crack houses bearing the six-word victory banner of the local
activists: "THIS NEIGHBORHOOD FIGHTS BACK AGAINST DRUGS.'
And here in Orange County, thousands are doing their part.
I think of heroic cops like Santa Ana Police Investigator Henry
Cousin. Although severely wounded in a drug raid three years
ago, Henry wouldn't quit. He joined a special federal task
force, and recently helped take down the biggest drug seizure in
Orange County history.
And I think of heroic mothers like Mrs. Rosa Perez, who's
fought in Santa Ana for six years to rid her neighborhood of
pushers. One time, even though she was pregnant, Mrs. Perez went
to the aid of an officer that was struggling with a dope dealer.
But the battle isn't only being fought in the streets.
About a year and a half ago, I came to Los Angeles for one of the
most critical moments in the campaign -- the 1988 Presidential
Debate. They asked if their were any heroes left in America. I
named an astronaut. An AIDS researcher. A freedom fighter. And
6
I named a high school mathematics teacher from East L.A., a
teacher who helped his Hispanic students see beyond poverty and
neglect to the real potential of their own minds.
Jaime Escalante. Investigator Henry Cousin. Mrs. Rosa
Perez. Three heroes. Two cities. One dream.
All three are here today. And all three deserve our thanks.
We've covered a lot of ground in the drug war. But tough
challenges remain. It's like when the Rams offense crosses the
50 yard line: With every yard you gain, your opponent digs in
and progress gets that much harder, not easier.
But we're going to beat drugs the same way the Rams beat
many of their opponents: Relentless offense. A defense that
refuses to give up a single yard to the opposition -- or a single
child to these merchants of death.
Against drugs, a good defense means reducing demand --
through efforts like the record funding my Administration has
devoted for increased drug education and treatment.
And a tough offense means an attack on all fronts.
Last month's Drug Summit in Cartagena marked a good day for
law enforcement and a very bad day for the cocaine cartels.
President Barco's courageous crackdown has seized or destroyed
their cash, their homes, their labs, and their drugs. And 14
accused traffickers have been extradited to the United States and
now face American justice in courtrooms in Miami and Tulsa,
Atlanta and San Francisco.
7
The days of the druglords may not be over yet. But their
days are numbered.
Here at home, my Administration recently designated the
L.A./Orange County region as one of the nation's five "high
intensity drug areas," a distinction that means increased
resources and manpower this year. And nationwide, Congress has
approved funding for the new agents, new prosecutors, and new
prisons we asked for to catch, convict, and contain America's
most dangerous drug offenders.
But Congress also needs to act, and act soon, on my new
anti-crime proposals. Congress needs to provide serious laws to
deal with a serious problem.
Working together, we can -- we will -- defeat this scourge.
Ten years ago last month, in a tiny town in upstate New
York, a group of American kids seized the American flag and went
out and did the impossible. They beat an unbeatable team -- the
Soviet Olympic ice hockey team. And from that arena in Lake
Placid a chant grew and swelled and boomed out across America:
U-S-A. U-S-A. U-S-A!
They called it the upset of the decade. And many today mark
it as a first step, an early trumpet call on America's road back.
The lesson of that triumph is simple. And it stands the
test of time: In the United States of America, all it takes is
desire and a dream. Because what Americans can dream, Americans
can do.
8
We will win the war on drugs because we must. And let no
one doubt the commitment we have in Washington. The White House
has declared war on the crack house. And the only enemy response
we'll accept is called "unconditional surrender."
Thank you for your warm greeting. God bless you. God bless
California. And God bless the U.S.A.
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LIFE AND DEATH
desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of all
(Screenplay by Sidney Buchman and Seton I.
life! It's what makes a rose want to be a rose and
Miller; based on HEAVEN CAN WAIT, a play by
want to grow like that, and a rock want to con-
Harry Segall)
K
Si
tain itself and remain like that."
2.
"What can I do, old man? I'm dead, aren't I?"
7
-Charles Chaplin pep-talking, with mime, to a suici-
dal Claire Bloom in Charles Chaplin's Limelight
(Original Screenplay by Charles Chaplin)
-Orson Welles preferring to hold on to his official
"deceased" status than help his friends in Carol
Reed's The Third Man
13.
(Original Screenplay by Graham Greene)
S
"To life! To the magnificent, dangerous, brief,
brief, wonderful life and the courage to live it!
S
3.
You know, Baron, I've only lived last night, but
"Now, I may sound like a Bible-beater yelling
that little while seems longer than all the time
up a revival at a river-crossing camp-meeting,
that has gone before."
but that don't change the truth none. There's
-Lionel Barrymore drinking and talking himself
right, and there's wrong. You gotta do one or
into a faint in Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel
the other. You do the one, and you're living.
(Screenplay by William A. Drake; based on the
You do the other, and you may be walking
play and novel by Vicki Baum)
around but you're dead as a beaver hat."
ALSO SEE: Life and Death; Live; Adolescence-
-John Wayne voting for right and life in John
3; Cameras-3; Champagne-2; Children-1; Chil-
Wayne's The Alamo
(Original Screenplay by James Edward Grant)
dren-4; Cigarette-3; Death-4; Eyes-1; Fear-5;
Fights-8; Firsts-9; Firsts-10; Goals-1; Good-
4.
byes-8; Head-2; Help-2; Illusions-5; Knowl-
"You're just walkin' around to save funeral ex-
edge-7; Lies-24; Love-18; Love-40; Mad Act-2;
penses."
Men-19; Nature-2; Never-11; Prayers-1; Prison-
3; Privacy-2; Realities-5; Screenplays-3; Self-
-Valerie Perrine noting the burned-out condition of
Perception-11; Similarities-2; Suicide-8; Tired-
her ex (Robert Redford) in Sydney Pollack's The Elec-
tric Horseman
3; Together-3.
(Screenplay by Robert Garland; based on a screen
story by Paul Gaer and Robert Garland and story
by Shelly Burton)
LIFE AND DEATH
5.
1.
"No, I'm fine. In fact, considering I've been
"You remember the last time I went up in that
dead for, 16 years, I'm in remarkable health."
plane? Well, something went flooey, and the
-Howard St. John dating his death from the time he
ship went into a spin, and then one of those
sold out to Broderick Crawford in George Cukor's
guys that goes around collecting people-he
Born Yesterday
pulled a boner. All the time he thought I was
(Screenplay by Albert Mannheimer; based on the
dead, I wasn't dead at all. He grabbed me up
play by Garson Kanin)
before my time, and, while I'm arguing with
him whether I'm dead or not, you cremate me.
6.
Then, they gotta make good. They gotta get
"Yes, it's pleasant to be back again, amongst
me another body. Get it?"
the living. Hurray!"
-Robert Montgomery explaining his rather un-
-Leslie Howard welcoming an exciting crisis to his
precedented predicament to James Gleason in Alex-
otherwise drab life in Archie Mayo's The Petrified
ander Hall's Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Forest
February 23, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
EDWARD McNALLY
SUBJECT:
THE PHANTOM DRUG TRAINING CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY
Less than a year ago, on April 25, 1989, the President
traveled to Orange County and spoke at Rancho del Rio, a fugituve
drug trafficker's estate that had been seized by Justice
Department and other authorities. Standing next to Orange County
Sheriff Brad Gates, the President announced that:
"This is the first piece of forfeited drug property turned
over for use by local officials in Orange County. It's
going to serve as an International Narcotics Training Center
and as a reminder to these merchants of death: Your money
won't help you; in fact, we're going to use it against you.
"So, what you see on these tables behind us is over $4
million
of laundered drug money recently seized by U.S.
Customs [and others]. And today I'd like to formally turn
these funds over to Sheriff Gates to help fund the Rancho
del Rio project.'
However, last night I learned from the United States
Attorney's office in Los Angeles that -- far from becoming the
International Narcotics Training Center announced by the
President -- local officials in California have decided to sell
Rancho del Rio. The status of the $4 million we gave Orange
County to run the new center is unclear.
One week from today, the President will return to Orange
County to speak at an anti-drug rally in the Santa Ana Bowl --
and again be flanked by Sheriff Brad Gates. The concern here --
that our opponents will seek to exploit this autonomous, local
action as evidence that the federal war on drugs as phoney as
this phantom training center -- is obvious. I would recommend
that the Departments of Justice and Treasury (Customs) be asked
to look into this matter as soon as possible.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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LA Debate
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10/13/88
Dukakis: Well, I think when I think of heroes, I think back
not presently, Anne, but there are many people who I admire in this
country today. Some of them are in public life, in the Senate and
the Congress some of my fellow governors who are real heroes to
me. I think of those young athletes who represented us at the
Olympics, who were tremendously impressive. We were proud of them.
We felt strongly about them and they did so well by us.
I can think of doctors and scientists Jonas Salk who, for
example, discovered a vaccine which cured one of the most dread
diseases we ever had; and he's a hero. I think of classroom
teachers classroom teachers that I have had, classroom teachers
that youngsters have today who are real heroes to our young people
because they inspire them, they teach them, but more than that,
they are role models. Members of the clergy who have done the same.
Drug counselors out there in the street who are providing help to
youngsters who come up to me and others and ask for help and want
help and are doing the hard work, the heroic work which it takes to
provide that kind of leadership, that kind of counseling, that kind
of support.
I think of people in the law enforcement community who are
taking their lives in their hands every day when they go up to one
of those doors and kick it down and try to stop this flow of drugs
into our communities and into our kids. So there are many, man
heroes in this country today. These are people that give of
themselves every day and every week and every month. In many cases
they're people in the community who are examples and are role
models.
And I would hope that one of the things that I could do as
president is to recognize them, to give them the kind of
recognition that they need and deserve so that more and more young
people can themselves become the heroes of tomorrow, can go into
public service, can go into teaching, can go into drug counseling,
can go into law enforcement and be heroes themselves to generations
yet to come.
Moderator: One minute for Vice President Bush.
Bush: I think of a teacher right here largely Hispanic school
Jamie Escalante, teaching calculus to young kids, 80 percent of
them going on to college. I think of a young man now in this
country named Valladeres who was released from a Cuban jail; came
out and told the truth in this brilliant book, ''Against All Hope''
about what is actually happening in Cuba.
-14-
I think of those people that took us back into space again
Rick Hauck and that crew as people that are worthy of this. I
agree with the governor on athletics. And there's nothing corny
about having sports heroes, young people that are clean and
honorable and out there setting a setting the pace. I think of
Dr. Fauci probably never heard of him you did? (reference to
Ms. Compton) He's a very fine research, top doctor at the National
Institute of Health, working hard doing something about research on
this disease of AIDS.
But look, I also think we ought to give a little credit to the
President of the United States. He is the one that has gotten us
that first arms control agreement and the cynics abounded
Moderator: Mr. Vice President
Bush: and he is leaving office with a popularity at an
all-time high
Moderator: Mr. Vice President, your time has expired
Bush: because American people say, he is our hero.
Q: Anne has a question for you, Mr. Vice President.
Q: Let's change the pace a little bit, Mr. Vice President. In
this campaign, some hard and very bitter things have been spoken by
each side, about each side. If you'd consider for a moment Governor
Dukakis in his years of public service, is there anything nice you
can say about him, anything you find admirable?
Bush: Hey, listen, you're stealing my close. I had something
very nice to say in that.
Q: Somebody leaked my question to you?
Bush: No, look, I'll tell you what, no, let me tell you
something about that. And Barbara and I were sitting there before
that Democratic convention, and we saw the governor and his son on
television the night before, and his family and his mother who was
there. And I'm saying to Barbara, ''You know, we've always kept
family as a bit of an oasis for us. You all know me, and we've held
it back a little. But we use that as a role model, the way he
took understandable pride in his heritage, what his family means to
him.
Tuesday, February 20, 1990 -- B-9
PRISON OVERCROWDING
ABC's Joe Bergantino reports that the Springfield, Mass. sheriff on Friday
ordered his deputies to take over a crosstown National Guard Armory,
which was virtually empty most of the time, and then move 15
prisoners from the overcrowded jail in.
(Sheriff Michael Ashe: "As far as I'm concerned, taking the National
Guard Army might seem extreme, but it doesn't to me because I think
it called for this kind of action when you look at what's happening in
our criminal justice system today.")
In recent years, jail overcrowding has forced Ashe to release 1,200
prisoners before their sentences were up. Last week 30 felons
sentenced to serve time were set free because of lack of space.
(Sheriff: "This means that the criminal's taken over the system, and
what I'm trying to show is that I'm not going to be part of this. I
want to stand up, be counted.")
The sheriff's bosses, the Hampden County commissioners, are
standing behind him, as are some residents of Springfield. But
National Guard officials who say the armory belongs to the state and
not the county are accusing the sheriff of trespassing. Tomorrow a
court hearing will be held to determine whether the sheriff can
continue using this armory as a makeshift prison until a new county
jail is completed in 1992.
(ABC-8, NBC-7)
Brokaw: The nation's prison crisis shows no signs of letting up tonight.
In Oklahoma, state officials now have told seven counties to stop
sending prisoners to the state system because of severe
overcrowding. The Oklahoma system was designed to handle fewer
than 8,000 inmates; as of this weekend, the prison population had
topped 10,000.
(NBC-6)
FEMALE GANGS
Sawyer reports that in the past year or two, police from New York to
L.A. have had to confront the emergence of female gangs.
ABC's Karen Burns reports that female gangs have broken away from
male gangs, creating a language, culture and style outsiders can't
penetrate. They roam the streets staking out territory and dealing
drugs. In ten years, the FBI says arrests of women for violent
crimes have increased by 41 percent, almost twice as much as violent
crimes by men. Cops on the street say that women are often more
violent and brutal than men, and that much of the crime is related to
gang activity. In addition, many of the girls are now mothers. It is
estimated there are now 7,000 female gang members in Los Angeles,
and thousands more around the country.
(ABC-7)
VMI/JUSTICE DEPT.
Sawyer reports that the Justice Department is at war tonight with one of
the nation's most prestigious military schools, the Virginia Military
Institute. The Justice Department says their policy barring women is
against the law and has told VMI that they must come up with a plan
to do something about it by tomorrow. VMI has already said no.
-more-
The two had met for two hours on
systems.
this
Consumers without cable service
In a joint press conference in
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Islamabad with Pakistani Prime
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antenna for about $300 and pay
Minister Benazir Bhutto, French
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bara
subscription fees that would come
President Francois Mitterrand an-
been planned
to roughly $25 a month, Murdoch
nounced, "France is committed to
A White House statement issued
es
told reporters at a Manhattan press
authorize French industrial enter-
after the meeting said the two men
re
conference. Sky Cable officials
prises, in possible cooperation with
had expressed support for Soviet
oes
hope that local cable operators in
one or several foreign partners, to
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev,
ich
many parts of the country will
make a technical and commercial
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offer for the sale of a nuclear power
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ODAY'S TIMES
Celebrated Math Teacher
ite
Escalante Says He'll Quit
est
an
By ELAINE WOO
LAT
of
and LARRY GORDON
ab-zz-t
11
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Taking aim at what he called the
ne
ingratitude" of fellow teachers
1-
and at parents who do not value
academic achievement, celebrated
calculus instructor Jaime Esca-
of
6
lante said Wednesday that he will
resign from the Garfield High
School faculty.
Escalante, 59, whose unorthodox
IS
il
methods brought national acclaim
to his faltering East Los Angeles
TOM KELSEY / Los Angeles Times
high school, said he may leave
1
Rescuer axes through ice.
Garfield as early as June. He said
he may seek employment in anoth
er school district-perhaps in San
LAKE VICTIMS WERE WARNED
Diego, Ventura or San Francisco
1
Three teen-agers who drowned
or return to the private sector to
in Convict Lake were warned
design computers. An engineer be
shortly before their deaths that
fore switching to teaching, he has
the ice they were playing on
taught in the Los Angeles Unified
was too thin, officials said.
A3
School District for 16 years.
JOSE GALVEZ / Los Angeles Times
Please see ESCALANTE, A22
Jaime Escalante in his office
LOS ANGELES TIMES
8TH GRADE WRITING TEST SCORES
ESCALANTE: Celebrated Teacher Says
I
These scores are for the larger Los Angeles
County school districts and reflect combined results
of eight tests of writing skills administered to
He'll Resign From Garfield High School
California's eighth-graders last spring. The state
provided scores for only the larger districts on
Continued from A1
Wednesday. The Times intends to publish scores for
The Bolivian-born educator, whose success in
all local districts and individual schools soon
teaching calculus to inner-city Latino youngsters was
the subject of the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver," said
DISTRICT NAME
NUMBER TESTED
SCORE
the "No. 1" reason for his unhappiness is a handful of
Statewide
308,800
255
letters he received recently from parents who said
Arcadia Unified
580
318
their children want to drop advanced mathematics
Azusa Unified
617
193
classes. In some cases, students were said to prefer
Baldwin Park Unified
976
228
sports over advanced math.
Bassett Unified
307
213
Such requests "hurt me more than anything else,"
Bellflower Unified
561
259
Escalante said in his office, which adjoins a classroom
Bonita Unified
669
278
plastered with colorful movie posters from "Stand and
Burbank Unified
792
271
Deliver" and unique motivational slogans. "They
Charter Oak Unified
395
243
[parents] don't see education as the way to succeed in
Claremont Unified
401
283
this country."
Compton Unifled
:481
145
Escalante also cited what he perceived as the
Covina-Valley Unified
775
258
"ingratitude" of fellow faculty members, particularly
Downey Unifled
1,023
260
in Garfield's math department, as well as a lack of
East Whittler City Elementary
627
254
district administrative support, as major reasons for his
JOSEGALVEZ / Los Angeles
Monte City School
900
234
decision to leave.
Rancho Unifled
660
209
However, some teachers at the school speculated
Jaime Escalante says he'll quit Garfield High
Garvey Elementary
594
254
that Escalante may be grandstanding for more re-
Glendate Unified
1,515
269
sources for the calculus program.
full load of five classes.
US
Glendora Unified
399
252
As for his relations with other Garfield teachers
Hacienda La Puente Unitled
480
249
eachers and students also said they believe that
Escalante expressed dismay at what he perceives as'a
Hawthome Elementary
520
238
Garfield's calculus program would do well under
lack of appreciation of his efforts to improve teaching
Inglewood Unifled
936
205
teacher Ben Jimenez if Escalante leaves. Jimenez is an
skills and draw more students into tough academic
Lancaster Elementary
829
258
Escalante protege who won a $25,000 California
courses.
Las Virgenes Unified
630
335
Educator Award from the state Department of Educa-
"Mainly, it is a kind of jealousy," he said.
Lennox Elementary
416
171
tion last year.
The teachers' union representative at Garfield
Long Beach Unified
4,004
232
Escalante said he has not yet received or sought job
Brian Wallace, said that Escalante has been dis
Los Angeles Unified
134,013
202
offers from private companies or school districts, but
gruntled for months over what Escalante says is a lack
Lynwood Unified
777
186
he believes that finding another position "is not going
of support from the school district and the Garfield
Monrovia Unified
334
279
to be a problem."
administration. Escalante was particularly upset that
Montebello Unified
1,961
224
"I have to leave sooner or later," he said during a
Garfield Principal Maria Tostado criticized him at
Mountain View Elementary
568
238
noon interview at Garfield. "But I have to finish this
faculty meeting for his use of a federally funded aide frt
Norwalk-La Mirada Unifled
131
235
semester." He is helping his students prepare for the
the advanced placement program when such an aide
Palmdale Elementary
747
243
advanced placement exams in calculus, which take
was supposed to be used only in lower-level courses
Palos Verdes Peninsula
654
366
place in May.
Wallace said.
Paramount Unified
752
184
But Escalante said there is a chance he will prolong
"He was upset that she didn't come to him first
Pasadena Unifled
1,319
224
his stay for another year because of a commitment to
Wallace said, even though other funds were found
Pomona Unified
1,426
205
supervise a National Science Foundation program at
pay Escalante's aide.
Rowland Unified
1,348
271
East Los Angeles College, which gives low-income
Tostado could not be reached for comment late
Santa Monica-Mallbu
598
279
Latino students accelerated mathematics, science and
Wednesday.
Torrance Unifled
1,241
289
English classes and trains teachers in Escalante's
Wallace also said the movie about Escalante put tod
Walnut Valley Unifled
854
304
methods.
much emphasis on high-achieving students and neg
West Covina Unifled
541
236
The math teacher said he has received phone calls,
lected the vast majority of students who were not in
Whittier City
596
237
both at school and at his home, from people threaten-
Escalante's courses and the many other instructors at
William S. Hart Union
1,364
291
ing to do him bodily harm. The calls are worrying his
the school. Some teachers resented the Bush visit and
wife and two sons, he said. "God knows" why the
Escalante's endorsement of Bush for president.
15g
threats are being made, he said.
VIII
Los Angeles District Supt. Leonard Britton said
232, a gap which has remained the same for two years.
Wednesday he had not heard from Escalante but is
H
owever, Escalante won back much favor from
fellow teachers when he took a public stand in
Among ethnic groups, Asians and Anglos scored the
upset at news that the teacher plans to resign. Britton:
favor of the Los Angeles teachers strike last spring,
highest, 290 and 289, respectively; Latino students
said he will investigate Escalante's complaints.
Wallace said.
scored 218, while blacks scored 211
"He'd be a loss at any school district and at any
Escalante often takes controversial stands that
school, particularly at Garfield," Britton said. "I'd hate
rankle other teachers. For example, while most other
to see him leave because of perceived or real
educators decry large classes, Escalante tolerates
administrative issues."
them. One of his current classes has 60 students.
Is CSU's Building Plans
Escalante rose to national prominence because of his
Lupe Robles, Garfield's PTA president, said she had
success teaching calculus to low-achieving students,
not heard of many parents who want to take their
who many educators believed could not handle the
children out of advanced math classes: "They all feel
from 4% to 3.7%
difficult subject. The results of a 1982 advanced
our kids need to be challenged," she said of Garfield
CSU spokesman Stephen MacCarthy, responding to
placement calculus test were so stunning that officials
parents.
questions raised by Hill about the campus construction
of the Educational Testing Service, which administers;
Garfield students said they hope that Escalante
program, said,' "We believe our growth plans are
the exam, invalidated Escalante's students' scores.
stays at the school.
appropriate: We are projecting an increase of 180,000
They took the exam again, with most earning passing
"It would be terrible for the school if he left," said
students over the next 15 years, and the only way to
marks.
junior Jose Sandoval, who has taken algebra, trigo
sustain that growth is to build new campuses." (Hill
Since then, the numbers of students enrolled in
nometry and calculus with Escalante. "He is an
believes that the state "Department of Finance's
advanced placement courses have soared at Garfield.
inspiration to us all. He motivates us and forces us to
enrollment projections of 105,000 new students are
And Garfield, which was in danger of losing its
do our work and keep on learning."
closer to the mark
accreditation eight years ago, now ranks high nation-
MacCarthy saidvcars are being provided for vice
ally among schools offering the rigorous academic
O
ther teachers and former students, however, said
chancellors because they are considered to be "on duty
exams.
that because of resentment over Escalante's
24 hours a day and there are only a limited amount of
celebrity status, some people will actually welcome his
pool cars available." As for the questions raised about
n 1988, school officials said that distractions con-
departure.
the salary hikes for Reynolds and the others, MacCar-
nected to the movie-including a visit to Garfield
"I think once he leaves, the school will go back to
thy said top CSU administrators were being paid 19%
from then-Vice President George Bush and his wife,
normal again and start doing good things. The movie
less than officials in comparable positions in other
Barbara-contributed to a worrisome drop in the
really made things bad for us at school," said Alfonso
parts of the country.
calculus advanced placement test scores. However,
Gil, a UCLA freshman, who was in Escalante's classes
Hill's report also focused: on the high cost of
scores bounced up impressively in 1989, said Philip
for three years and graduated from Garfield in June
financing anti-drug programs. While drug and alcohol
Arbolino, national associate director of the College
Catherine Carey, a spokeswoman for United Teach
use is on the decline in the general population, heavy
Board's advance placement program.
ers-Los Angeles, said that she is sorry to hear that
use by hard-core abusers is on the rise, the budget
About 57% of the Garfield students who took the
Escalante is leaving Garfield but that his departure
analysis said.
rigorous exam in May received a passing score of 3 or
symbolizes deeper frustrations.
Citing a study by the national Drug Abuse Warning
higher on a scale of 1 to 5, up from 46% in 1988 but still
"If he is frustrated with the school district, imagine
Network, the report said that between 1983 and 1988
below the 65% in 1987. Garfield students ranked 22nd
what the other teachers are feeling," she said of
there "was -451% increase: in emergency room
in the nation and eighth in California last year for all
Escalante.
treatments of cocaine users in California and a 457%
advanced placement scores, including calculus, ac-
Escalante's summer program at East Los Angeles
increase in cocaine-related deaths. The budget review
cording to Arbolino.
College and the "Stand and Deliver" movie received
said California will spend more than $1 billion in state
Escalante said he receives 30 requests a day from
financial support from the Atlantic Richfield Co. Or
and federal funds for anti-drug programs during the
education groups across the country to make public
Wednesday, Larry Bershon, Arco's director of corpo-
current budget year and local governments will spend
appearances and share his expertise with other
rate advertising, predicted that Escalante "will find
another $2 billion. On the state level, the largest share
teachers. He is busy with such engagements nearly
another Garfield and do his thing all over again. He
of the money, $501 million, will be spent incarcerating
every weekend, which he said are in addition to his
will never stop teaching. He will die in the saddle
drug offenders in state prisons.
duties chairing the math department and teaching a
teaching."
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD HOUSE
February 21, 1990
WASHINGTON, DC,
The gentleman from New York [Mr.
[Applause, the Members rising.]
February 20, 1990.
Hon. THOMAS S. FOLEY,
MRAZEK];
The SPEAKER. Members of the
The Speaker, House of Representatives,
The gentleman from Illinois [Mr.
Congress, it is my great privilege and I
Washington, DC.
MICHEL];
deem it a high honor and personal
DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per-
The gentleman from Georgia [Mr.
pleasure to present to you His Excel-
mission granted in Clause 5 of Rule III of
GINGRICH
lency
Vaclav
President
of
the
the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa-
The gentleman from Michigan [Mr.
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
tives, I have the honor to transmit a sealed
BROOMFIELD];
envelope received from the White House at
[Applause, the Members rising.]
The gentleman from California [Mr.
2:47 p.m. on Tuesday, February 20, 1990 said
LEWIS];
to contain a message from the President
waiving the application of certain subsec-
The gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr.
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY
tions of the Trade Act of 1974 with regard
EDWARDS]; and
VACLAV HAVEL, ESIDENT OF
to Czechoslovakia.
The gentlewoman from Rhode
THE CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIAL-
With great respect, I am,
Island [Ms. SCHNEIDER].
IST REPUBLIC
Sincerely yours.
The VICE PRESIDENT Presi-
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
dent of the Senate, at the direction of
(The following address was delivered
Clerk, House of Representatives.
that body, appoints the following Sen-
in Czech, with a simultaneous transla-
ators. members of the committee on
tion in English.)
WAIVER OF CERTAIN TRADE
the part of the Senate to escort His
President HAVEL. Dear Mr. Speak-
Excellency Vaclav Havel into the
er, dear Mr. President, dear Senators,
PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT
Chamber:
and Members of the House, ladies and
TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA-MES-
The Senator from Maine [Mr.
gentlemen:
SAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
MITCHELL];
OF THE UNITED STATES (H.
My advisers advised me to speak on
The Senator from California [Mr.
this important occasion in Czech. I
DOC. NO. 101-151)
CRANSTON];
don't know why. Perhaps they wanted
The SPEAKER pro tempore laid
The Senator from Rhode Island
you to enjoy the sweet sounds of my
before the House the following mes-
[Mr. PELL];
mother tongue.
sage from the President of the United
The Senator from South Carolina
The last time they arrested me, on
States; which was read and, together
[Mr. HOLLINGS];
October 27, of last year, I didn't know
with the accompanying papers, with-
The Senator from Delaware [Mr.
whether it was for 2 days or 2 years.
out objection, referred to the Commit-
BIDEN];
Exactly 1 month later, when the
tee on Ways and Means and ordered to
The Senator from Arkansas [Mr.
rock musician Michael Kocab told me
be
BUMPERS]:
that I would probably be proposed as a
(For message, see proceedings of the
The Senator from Michigan [Mr.
Presidential candidate, I thought it
Senate of Tuesday, February 20, 1990.
LEVIN]:
was one of his usual jokes.
at page S1252.)
The Senator from Illinois [Mr.
On the 10th of December 1989, when
SIMON]:
my actor friend Jiri Bartoska, in the
The Senator from Kansas [Mr.
RECESS
DOLE]:
name of the Civic Forum, nominated
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-
me as a candidate for the office of
The Senator from Wyoming [Mr.
ant to the order of the House of
SIMPSON];
President of the Republic, I thought it
Wednesday, February 7, 1990, the
The Senator from Mississippi [Mr.
was out of the question that the Par-
House will stand in recess subject to
COCHRAN];
liament we had inherited from the
the call of the Chair.
The Senator from South Carolina
previous regime would elect me.
Accordingly (at 10 o'clock and 8 min-
[Mr. THURMOND];
Nineteen days later, when I was
utes a.m.), the House stood in recess
The Senator from Indiana [Mr.
unanimously elected President of my
subject to the call of the Chair.
LUGAR];
country, I had no idea that in 2
The Senator from Minnesota [Mr.
months later I would be speaking in
BOSCHWITZ]; and
front of this famous and powerful as-
JOINT MEETING OF THE HOUSE
AND SENATE TO HEAR AN AD-
The Senator from South Dakota
sembly, and that what I say would be
DRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY
[Mr. PRESSLER].
heard by millions of people who have
VACLAV HAVEL, PRESIDENT OF
The Doorkeeper announced the am-
never heard of me and that hundreds
THE CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIAL-
bassadors, ministers, and charges d'af-
of politicians and political scientists
IST REPUBLIC
faires of foreign governments.
would study every word I say.
The ambassadors, ministers, and
When they arrested me on October
The SPEAKER of the House presid-
chargés d'affaires of foreign govern-
27, I was living in a country ruled by
ed.
ments entered the Hall of the House
the most conservative Communist gov-
The Doorkeeper, the Honorable
of Representatives and took the seats
ernment in Europe, and our society
James T. Molloy, announced the Vice
reserved for them.
slumbered beneath the pall of a totali-
President and Members of the U.S.
The Doorkeeper announced the Cab-
tarian system. Today, less than 4
Senate who entered the Hall of the
inet of the President of the United
months later, I am speaking to you as
House of Representatives, the Vice
States.
the representative of a country that
President taking the chair at the right
The members of the Cabinet of the
has set out on the road to democracy,
of the Speaker. and the Members of
President of the United States entered
a country where there is
the Senate the seats reserved for
the Hall of the House of Representa-
freedom of speech, which is getting
them.
tives and took the seats reserved for
ready for free elections, and which
The SPEAKER. The Chair appoints
them in front of the Speaker's ros-
wants to create a prosperous market
as members of the committee on the
trum.
economy and its own foreign policy.
part of the House to escort His Excel-
At 11 o'clock and 8 minutes a.m., the
It is all very extraordinary.
lency Vaclav Havel into the Chamber:
Doorkeeper announced the President
But I have not come here to speak
The gentleman from Missouri [Mr.
of the Czechoslovak Socialist Repub-
for myself or my feelings. or merely to
GEPHARDT]:
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talk about my own country. I have
The gentleman from Florida [Mr.
The President of the Czechoslovak
used this small example of something
FASCELL];
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I know well, to illustrate something
The gentleman from Michigan [Mr.
committee of Senators and Represent-
general and important.
BONIOR]:
atives,
We are living in very extraordinary
The gentleman from Maryland [Mr.
of Representatives, and stood at the
times. The human face of the world is
HOYER]:
Clerk's desk.
changing so rapidly that none of the
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Heroes
Santa and
Investigator Henry Cousin
Police Chief
3anta Ana Police Department
Paul
714-834-4801
Walters
Recommendation for Award
Dedication and courage are two words that best describe Santa Ana
Police Investigator Henry Cousin.
After a mere brush with death at the hands of # drug dealer, this
officer remains steadfast in his commitment to eradioate drugs
from the streets of Santa Ane.
Known by his fellow officers as "Hank" he started his law
enforcement career at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office in
1971. In 1975 he transferred to the Santa Ana Police Department.
Even in the early days of his career Hank always maintained an
interest in narcotics investigations. On his routine patrols he
clearly saw that the root of most crime was stemmed in narcotics.
In 1978 Cousin was assigned to B. street narcotics task force
where he would be assigned as a full-time undercover narcotico
investigator.
Cpl. Cousin's commitment to narcotic enforcement was tested on
the afternoon of July 11, 1986.
Santa Ana police officers attempted to serve a search warrant at
a home on the west-side. The search warrant was obtained after
an investigator had made two purchases of heroin from a subject
at the residence.
Officers approached the front door of the residence and announced
their presence. After no verbal response from the occupants
inside, Cpl. Cousin forced open the front door. As soon as the
door swung open Cousin was fired on by a male subject in the
living room. The one round struck Cousin in the upper part of
the left shoulder and was deflected by his bullet resistant vest.
The other round struck him in the mouth.
Officers returned fire at the suspect. The suspect and two
females fled out the back of the residence and were taken into
custody.
The suspect was charged with attempted murder of # police officer
and sales or a controlled substance.
Henry later recovered from his injuries. As a chilling reminder
of this incident - the suspect's bullet remains lodged in Hank's
neck.
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Today, after 15 years of working underoover narcotics,
Investigator Cousin is on acsignment with a special federal task
force with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Most recently
Investigator Cousin was involved in the largest single drug
seizure in Orange County history - 2 1/2 tons of coosine with an
estimated street value of 450 million. His work with this task
force is all part of a cooperative relationship between this
agency and Federal Government in the common gual to cease
narootic activity.
004
Mrs. Rosa Perez
842 S. Baker "A"
Citizens Award
City of Santa Ana
Rosa Perez and her family have resided on Baker Street in Santa
Ana for six years.
During this time Mrs. Parez has become very actively involved in
trying to rid her neighborhood of drug dealing. From the window
of her small apartment Rosa has been able to report drug related
crimes she witnesses on a daily basis. Her calls to the police
department have resulted in numerous arrests for drug related
crimes.
Even when faced with verbal threats by drug dealers and vandalism
to her family's vehicles she continues to wage her own fight
against drugs.
Mrs. Perez has had several Community Oriented Policing meetings
to help inform other families in the neighborhood. She also
avails her apartment to undercover and uniformed officers for
surveillance purposes.
Approximately four years ago when Mrs. Perez was pregnant, she
assisted an officer that was on the ground struggling with a dope
dealer, She was able to return the officers portable radio so
holp could be summoned.
Mrs. Perez clearly represents a citizen dedicated to combatting
the narcotic activity in her neighborhood.
When Mrs. Perez was recently asked why who would not move, she
stated, "For one thing, we don't have the money, and while I am
here I will do my best to clean the streets."
02/23/90
13:45
005
ATTACHMENT
Since September of 1986 Cpl. John Reed has taught the D.A.R.E.
program in 5th and 6th grade. He has taught 17,981 students
about drug abuse awareness for a total of 1,966 hours.
Drug Statistics Bring Hope to Capital
By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr.
Drug use dips,
we haven't had good news like this in a
Special to The New York Times
long time. Maybe police pressure and
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 - New
but will the trend
all the publicity about the dangers of
statistics seem to indicate an encour-
drugs and the cyclical nature of drug
aging turning point in this city's fight
epidemics in general is finally coming
against one of the worst drug epidem-
continue?
to a head.
"But what concerns me is that other
ics in the country, but the authorities
say they want to study the data further
indicators like the murder rate, at least
before they can be sure.
in the city, and drug availability don't
murders continue to occur at a record
In recent months the number of ar-
confirm the trend or reassure us that it
rate in the city but have fallen off
rested people testing positive for CO-
won't reverse itself next month."
dramatically in the county.
caine use has dropped to 54 of every 100
Thus far this year in the District, the
from an earlier figure of 67 of every
Federal drug experts, including
police say, roughly one person a day
President Bush's Director of National
100.
has been dying as a result of drug-re-
At the same time, the rate at which
Drug Policy, William J. Bennett, are
lated violence. A year ago, the figure
crime is growing each year within the
also monitoring these figures closely.
was the same.
Mr. Bennett's aides said that when he
city, much of it believed to be drug-re-
In Prince Georges County, by con-
told Congress last week there were
lated, has fallen to less than 2 percent,
trast, the murder rate is down. A year
from a previous annual increase of
scattered but clear signs" that the
ago, there was a drug-related slaying
country was beginning to win the war
more than 15 percent.
about once every five days. This year,
against drugs, he was referring in part
the rate is about one every 10 days.
An Echo in Maryland
to the statistics here and in Prince
Area drug agents are also puzzled
Similar statistics have been re-
Georges County.
that they have detected no significant
corded just across the city's southeast-
Some of the other signs he had in
change in the price of drugs as figures
ërn border in Prince Georges County,
mind. the aides said, were reports that
for drug use have fallen. Normally,
Md., a suburban area that has also
the number of drug-related crimes had
price is one of the best indicators of
been hard hit by drugs and, like Wash-
fallen in Tulsa, Okla., and Dallas, that
drug activity.
ington, also administers drug tests to
Kansas City, Mo., had reported a de-
'We Just Don't Know'
almost all people arrested on criminal
crease in the number of drug markets
operating and that drug use among the
"This is a hard one to figure." said
charges.
Drug experts are not sure now to ac-
middle class appeared to be declining
Lieut. Reginaid Smith, the spokesman
count for the declines. They note that
in some parts of the country.
for the District police department. "We
police enforcement efforts have
Stephen Rickman, the director of
need to go over the figures really care-
changed little in recent months and
statistical analysis for the District of
fully to see if there's some factor that
that drugs are still readily available,
Columbia's Office of Criminal Justice
we've missed that will explain things.
with cocaine preferred by about 95 per-
Plans and Analysis, said the figures for
Is the murder rate still up because the
cent of all users. Further, they point out
the Washington area seem at first
drug market is shrinking and causing
that none of the 20 or SO other large
glance to indicate an important turning
more turf fights? If the market is
metropolitan areas in the country that
point in a drug epidemic that over the
shrinking but there's still plenty of
test people for drug use after they are
past three years has resulted in almost
stuff available on the street, how come
arrested have recorded a parallel fall-
400 drug-related slayings and 50,000
the price of drugs isn't dropping? We
off in both drug usage and crime.
drug arrests. But he urged caution.
just don't know at this point.
Most puzzling of all to the experts
"You have to take encouragement
In Prince Georges County, the de-
are figures indicating that drug-related
from the figures," he said, "because
cline in drug usage, as indicated by
tests of people who have been arrested,
has been even more dramatic than in
Washington, with fewer than one of
every two people now testing positive
for cocaine use.
The decline began in both places
about mid-summer last year and. ac-
cording to available statistics, has con-
tinued steadily. Both jurisdictions test
about 1,500 suspects a month.
No Sign of Reversal
The Prince Georges crime statistics,
NY
Times
like those of Washington, do not cover
all of 1989 because the figures for fall
have not yet been compiled. But police
analysts say they have no evidence
that the downward trend, particularly
2/12/90
for drug-related crimes like burglary,
robbery and car theft. has reversed.
In 1988, crime in the county in-
creased by more than 5 percent. Last
year. according to available figures,
the rate of increase was less than 1 per-
cent.
BI
Both jurisdic ions are expecially in-
trigued that the decline in crime has
paralleled the decline in drug use.
"Yes, we've got some falling fig-
ures," said Willie J. Nelson, who di-
rects the county's drug testing pro-
gram. "No, we don't know why or
whether we have a solid trend. We'll
just have to wait a bit longer and take a
closer look at things."
Apr. 25 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
gress-does. And our proposal urges a new
To Willie von Raab, the Commissioner of
tax credit to make child care more afford-
the Customs, I am delighted he is here.
able. And it puts money in the hands of the
Sheriff Gates very generously telling me of
low-income parents, limits Federal inter-
the superb cooperation between the U.S.
vention, and increases options. A church
Customs and the sheriff's office here. And
can help, or grandparents or professional
that's what it's going to take if we're going
nursery. When it comes to child care, we
to have further victories in this war.
say: Let the parents decide. Keep the
I'm delighted to be here with Senator
family strong. And we must do that.
Pete Wilson, an outstanding leader in the
For in the end, it's decisions we come
Senate, a man who has been really a con-
down to: decisions to say yes to child care,
science of the Senate in terms of antinarco-
more funds for space and other high tech-
tics, and Mike Hayde as well. And may I
nology; decisions which serve the entire
pay my respects to-I know four Members
community-workers, investors, students,
of the United States Congress are here
parents; decisions to invest in America so
today-Bill Dannemeyer and Congressman
that we can create a more competitive
Cox. I believe I'm a little insecure in my
America.
lines here. I think we're in Chris' district,
As Californians, you know what I'm talk-
unless we flew over it. So, I'm glad to be
ing about. You've always believed in daring,
hosted by Congressman Cox and then Con-
aspiring, and charting unexplored frontiers.
gressman Bob Dornan, Congressman Gal-
And you look ahead, not back. And you
legly as well.
know that nothing is impossible. And by
So, I'm delighted again to be here. And
giving of yourselves and to your country,
let me just say this: that somewhere out
you give lift to the American Dream.
here are 50 undercover narcotics agents;
Thank you for that. Thank you for a fasci-
and let me say to you, you are the unsung
nating day in the laboratories here. Thank
heroes in this war, risking your lives almost
you for your kindness and your generosity.
every single day behind enemy lines, if you
God bless you, and God bless the United
will, to save our kids' lives. And you know
States of America. Thank you all very
who you are, and we salute you and thank
much.
you for laying your lives out there for the
rest of us. All of you are fighting fierce
Note: The President spoke at 9:27 a.m. in
battles in one of the largest and toughest
the facility's cafeteria courtyard. He was in-
drug markets in the country, and somebody
troduced by Donald Rassier, president of
dies every other day in Orange County as a
Ford Aerospace Space Systems Division.
result of drugs. I don't know how many of
Donald E. Petersen is chairman of the
you have seen the visuals, the display, but
board of Ford Motor Co.
there is a penetrating chart that demon-
strates dramatically the amounts of lives
that are lost in Orange County from narcot-
ics. And these people that have lost their
Remarks to Members of the Law
lives-they've ranged from an 82-year-old
Enforcement Community at Rancho
man to a 1-month-old child. It doesn't spare
del Rio in Orange County, California
anyone. But you're not backing down, or
April 25, 1989
you're not giving up And that's one of the
reasons I wanted to come here today. The
Thank you very much, Sheriff Gates. And
communities here in Orange County are
thank all of you, the supervisors, law en-
united. Law enforcement agencies crossed
forcement community. Thank you for that
over sometimes competitive lines and
warm Orange County welcome. And it's
banded together. And you're an example of
good to be here. And I'm very proud that
hope, determination, and the true Ameri-
our great Attorney General is with me,
can spirit. You know, we won't build a
Dick Thornburgh, who's doing a superb job
better America until we win this war on
in this battle against drugs and against
drugs. And so, today I want to touch on
crime all across the board. Dick, welcome.
both sides of the equation: education, to cut
612
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Apr. 25
Commissioner of
ted he is here.
off demand for drugs, and enforcement, to
I own is my name. I don't take signing my
isly telling me of
cut off the supply.
name lightly." Well, I want to join her. I
etween the U.S.
And I might say parenthetically that our
want to proudly sign one of these cards, too,
office here. And
new drug czar, Bill Bennett, former Secre-
and I hope we can after this.
ke if we're going
tary of Education, is tackling the problem
So, many are getting the word out. But
this war.
on both sides of the equation; education
I'd like to enlist one other group in the L.A.
The
re with Senator
and interdiction. And I'm just delighted
area that has a special responsibility: those
ng leader in the
that he is doing the job he is in Washington.
in the entertainment industry. Television,
een really a con-
I wish he were here with us today so I
films, and music are a positive influence.
rms of antinarco-
could brag on him in public.
And my advice to them, my entreaty, is:
well. And may I
Demand for drugs is driven by a sense of
Use that influence wisely to do good. I
W four Members
hopelessness. Last year-this is so sad-an
know that many in the business are already
ngress are here
18-year-old member of one of these gangs,
concerned and active, but I never want to
nd Congressman
in this instance the L.A. Crips gang, was
see a movie again that makes drug use into
insecure in my
asked, "If you could change the world, how
something humorous. It is time that they
in Chris' district,
would you do it?" And he said, "I wouldn't
got behind this crusade. This community
), I'm glad to be
know what to do. I wouldn't know what to
has raised your voices. You've raised your
OX and then Con-
change." And later he was asked, "What do
voices so effectively in the cause of so many
Congressman Gal-
you think you'll be doing in 10 years?" And
he said, "I don't think I'll be alive in 10
issues. Can you not raise them once more in
years." And that is life without hope, with-
support of a cause so important? In the
to be here. And
out meaning. And we're looking at a des-
work you do and the lives you lead, help us
somewhere out
peration that money alone will never cure.
send a strong message, the right message, to
narcotics agents;
We won't win this one with our wallets
a new generation of Americans: We want a
u are the unsung
alone. We will only win it through our col-
drug-free America.
your lives almost
lective effort and our collective will. And
You get some marvelous mail in my line
nemy lines, if you
that means education-cutting off demand
of work here as President, unbelievable. I
S. And you know
through community involvement at all
quoted one yesterday from some kid, an
te you and thank
levels.
eighth-grader or something, who said:
out there for the
Mike Hayde and Sheriff Gates and so
"Well, you've got to do better. You've got
e fighting fierce
many others, your Drug Use Is Life Abuse
to do better on the fight against drugs and
gest and toughest
program is one outstanding community
helping the environment." He wrote it on
ry, and somebody
awareness effort. And you've got business,
January 20th, the day I was sworn in.
ange County as a
government, schools, religious groups, fami-
[Laughter] But nevertheless, he has a point.
ow how many of
lies, and law enforcement all personally
But here's one, a young woman: "I have a
the display, but
committed to halting demand. There are
brother who has wasted time, opportunity,
hart that demon-
the students that Brad was telling me about
and finally his mind. I've watched my
amounts of lives
who produced the antidrug video that runs
mother and father cry and spend years of
unty from narcot-
before the movies start, the workers who
energy and effort on their addicted son in-
at have lost their
roll by on a sanitation truck painted on its
stead of themselves. I hate drugs. Drugs
m an 82-year-old
side "Drugs Are Garbage," and every L.A.
have virtually destroyed my family." She
d. It doesn't spare
Ram-no matter who you're for but I
deserves better. We all do. With the strong-
backing down, or
commend the Rams in this one-every L.A.
est means of enforcement we can devise,
I that's one of the
Ram with a Drug Use Is Life Abuse patch
we must disarm, dismantle, and destroy the
e here today. The
on his uniform, over 22,000 student athletes
drug market in America.
ange County are
on teams in Orange Country who will wear
You heard Brad Gates, the sheriff, tell us
agencies crossed
the same patch. And then there's my
something of the history of this ground that
titive lines and
friend, Reverend Robert Schuller, who's got
we stand on. It was the core of an interna-
i're an example of
churches all over the county delivering a
tional marijuana and cocaine smuggling
the true Ameri-
sermon on drug abuse every 3 months, and
ring. How many lives, how many families,
ve won't build a
again the students, distributing tens of thou-
how many hopes and dreams have been
win this war on
sands of cards for people to sign, making a
destroyed with these chemical weapons of
want to touch on
personal commitment against drugs. And
death and destruction-drugs? Death
education, to cut
that idea came from a 16-year-old child—
bought and sold by the ton-this operation
16-year-old girl-who says: "The only thing
had commercial packing equipment, under-
613
Apr. 25 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
ground storage vaults, large vans with
That is my message to you today. Keep up
hidden compartments, jet aircraft, ocean-
the good work and continue to set an exam-
going vessels. Once a warehouse of death,
ple for the rest of our great country.
now it is a source of hope. Rancho del Rio
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless
has been reclaimed. Thanks to the Compre-
the United States of America.
hensive Crime Control Act of 1984, pushed
through by your former Congressman, Dan
Note: The President spoke at 12:23 p.m. out-
Lungren, we can now seize drug dealers'
side of the main ranch house. He was intro-
assets and use them in the war on drugs.
duced by Orange County Sheriff Brad
And this is the first piece of forfeited drug
Gates. In his remarks, he referred to Mi-
property turned over for use by local offi-
chael K. Hayde, president of Drug Use Is
cials in Orange County. It's going to serve
Life Abuse, a nonprofit support group of
as an International Narcotics Training
the Orange County Sheriff's Advisory
Center and as a reminder to these mer-
Council. Rev. Robert Schuller is pastor of
chants of death: Your money won't help
the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County,
you; in fact, we're going to use it against
CA. Prior to his remarks, the President
you.
toured the facility, and following his re-
So, what you see on these tables behind
marks, he attended a working luncheon in
us is over $4 million-line up-[laughter]-
the ranch house with law enforcement offi-
$4 million of laundered drug money recent-
cers.
ly seized by U.S. Customs and the Regional
Narcotics Suppression Program in Oper-
ation Shackle. And today I'd like to formally
turn these funds over to Sheriff Gates to
help fund the Rancho del Rio project. I
Remarks to Members of the Spanish-
hope that all of you can help make this
American Community in Los Angeles,
project a reality I'm also pleased to present
California
another $6 million in drug money-confis-
April 25, 1989
cated through a joint DEA [Drug Enforce-
ment Administration]-local sting operation
Thank you very much. And, Mr.
in California and Arizona-to fund more ef-
Schwartz-Murray, thank you, sir, for the
fective, cooperative efforts between local,
warm welcome back to this campus, and I
State, and Federal enforcement agencies.
am so delighted to be here. This is a non-
This money then, totaling $10 million, is
partisan appearance. And therefore I will
the bounty of defeated drug criminals. And
resist any partisan commentary except to
we won't stop until we nail every coward
make note that it was here-not in this very
who deals in death and put them where
room, but right on this campus-Murray
they belong.
Schwartz referring to my last visit here that
Now, you have had outstanding results
was highly politicized, perhaps one of the
over the last 2 years, thanks to the team
most dramatic moments in our whole cam-
efforts of local, State, and Federal agents:
paign cycle, but certainly in my life. And so,
nearly 40 million in cash confiscated, the
I have a feeling, a good feeling, and very
equivalent of 9 million injections of heroin
pleased to be welcomed back by two
and 38 million doses of cocaine seized. And
people who give so much to UCLA [Univer-
that's 15 doses for every man, woman, and
sity of California at Los Angeles].
child in Orange County. Do we need any
I would just give a word of welcome to all
other reason than that to win this war? Let
of you. And I'm delighted to salute UCLA,
these funds go then to fighting the war they
one of our great universities. I would simply
once financed. Let us raise awareness and
say that expressing gratitude is not always
build strength through a constellation of
easy. But I do want to express my gratitude
concerned Americans in every town, city,
for this warm reception. I had a chance to
and community in this country. And let us
meet with some of the organizers early on
send a message, loud and clear, to every
to tell them how grateful I am for this won-
drug merchant in America: You're going to
derful get-together on relatively short
be out of business. That is our message.
notice.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Mrs. Bowers:
18, 1990
Thank you for your very thoughtful and moving letter.
Barbara and I were touched and inspired by your son's
that I
as much
remarkable insights and by your gracious gesture of
support for the war on drugs.
eks, my
We will always remember the brave Americans who gave
nomes on
their lives or were wounded in order to see justice
id said,
not be
done and freedom restored in Panama. As your son has
expressed so well, their sacrifice has not been in vain.
some who
Their legacy will live on in a democratic Panama and in
ed." And
the hearts of grateful Americans like Joey and your family.
TB said,
to take
eir lives
While long-standing White House policy prevents acceptance
year old
of your generous contribution, Barbara and I want you to
BEO
know how much your willingness to help combat drug abuse
hose men
means to us. D.A.R.E. is a nationwide organization, and
you may wish to direct your contribution to the chapter in
he names
your homestate.
19 Abuse
Hearing from members of our military and their families
and the
is always a wonderful encouragement to Barbara and me.
mily and
Your loyalty, courage, and love for our Nation make us
country
ever proud of the land and truths we cherish.
alize is
because
With our appreciation and warmest wishes to you and your
Elear to
family,
9 us. For
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ann Bowers
Box 30923
HHC 16th Engr. Bn.
APO New York 09696
January 18, 1990
Dear President and Mrs. Bush,
I am writing this letter to relate a conversation to you that I
had with my twelve year old son and hope it touches you both as much
as it did my husband and I.
After watching the events of Panama over the past few weeks, my
son was watching some of the soldiers returning to their homes on
television. With big tears in his eyes, he looked UP at me and said,
"Mom, there are some children's fathers who died and will not be
coming home, isn't there?" I replied, "Yes, Jcey, there were some who
died.' Before I could go on he said, "Mom, I know why they died. And
with a lump in his threat and tears running down hi= cheeks, he said,
"It's because they didn't want their kids, American kids, to take
drugs! Isn't it? These men haven died in vain. They gave their lives
SD our children can have a drug free country. If a twelve year old
child can see this and understand the mide 53 these ment,
then maybe it's a real start towards a crug tris America. These men
are his heroes and I thank them for the
dullination.
Our family would like to donate t:... enclosed check in the names
of these who died in Panama to be used :- the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse
Resistance Education) programs in the military schools.
WE would also like to thank you for your stand in Panama and the
dofense of American dependents. We too are E. military family and
although we do not where a uniform, WE believe we serve our country
along side my husband. What some civilian people may not realize is
sometimes our safety in a foreign country Can be at risk just because
we are married to American coldiers. Theme SC_ for making it clear to
the world that cur government will not tolegoto anyone harming us. For
WL COMME cur country WITH grout Aride atte.
Respectfully,
Bowers
Mr. Ant.
Don 32.20
HHC 16th Ingr. B...
APO NY 07698
02-22-90 06:26 PM FROM CONG DANNEMEYER
P01
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, B.C. 20515
WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER
39TH DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Ed McNally
FROM:
Mike Franc MF
RE:
Mr. Dannemeyer's Views on Drug Use
DATE:
February 22, 1990
Thanks so much for the call today. Anything you can do will be
greatly appreciated.
Shortly after we spoke today Mr. Dannemeyer called and I told him about
the President's speech on March 2nd in Santa Ana. He views the drug issue
as a symptom of the deterioration of values in our society. You may be
familiar with the writings of the British historian Paul Johnson (Modern
Times), who has argued that the rise of moral relativism explains most of
the totalitarian excesses of the 20th century. Secretary Bennett and
Professor Allan Bloom make the same point in slightly different ways,
Dannemeyer is firmly in their camp..
Feel free to treat the following as a direct quote:
"We will never succeed in our efforts to reduce the demand for
drugs until we recognize that the decision to 'just say no'
requires the individual to recognize a standard, a value, which
says that the use of illegal drugs is wrong. The increased use of
illegal drugs among some groups in our society reflects a
rejection of that standard and, not surprisingly, follows closely
schools. on the heels of the Supreme Court's decisions to ban prayer in our
"Ted Koppel was correct when he told the audience at Duke
university a few years ago that when Moses came down from the
mountain, he was carrying the Ten Commandments, not the Ten
Suggestions. If we are to ever win the war on drugs, it is
essential that our children be exposed to the notion that there is
a higher being, a Creator, to whom they will ultimately be held
accountable. We must once again find the courage to state these
values boldly in our classrooms and in the public square."
As an aside, Mr. Dannemeyer encountered a curious, but revealing
response from a witness at a hearing before the Health Subcommittee last
October 30th on drug treatment issues. One of Rep. Waxman's expert
witnesses described religious beliefs as an "addiction" and ridiculed its
role in drug therapy "because what these women need to do is to learn how to
stand on their own independently without needing something to rely on."
Religion, this witness concluded, does not give the recovering drug addict
"concrete coping skills."
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Another expert witness at the same hearing told Mr. Dannemeyer that she
was unaware of any laws which make it illegal to use drugs!
I have included the actual transcript if you find these exchanges hard
to believe. This view appears to be the norm among drug treatment
professionals.
Hope to see you soon.
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Mr. DANNEMEYER. Have you found that a religious
experience in the life of an addict is of any value in
resisting further dependence on drugs?
Ms. WELSH-DAVIS. No. I find that, if I could respond--I
find that many women who come into the program have
attempted to get into, heavily involved in a religious
experience. And if I may speak frankly from my own
experience, I find that to be substituting one addiction for
another, because what these women need to do is to learn how
to stand on their own independently without needing
something to rely on.
Mr. DANNEMEYER. Is it coming into the life of one of
these addicts of a religious experience, have you found that
it has been a benefit to an individual who is an addict?
Ms. WELSH-DAVIS. From my experience, I have not found
that to have a long-term effect. I have found it to have a
short-term effect, that they will quit using and maybe clean
up their lives a bit short-term, but they need coping skills
and that does not give them concrete coping skills.
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House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, October 30, 1989
Mr. DANNEMEYER. You are saying that these people were
just following the practice that existed in the environment
in which they were reised?
Ms. MILLER. I think that is part of it. I see addiction
as a health problem, that it is genetically passed along.
I wanted to comment that in 1970 in the district of
Columbia when we used to have that rule that said that any
time a heroin addict was overdosing and had to go to the
emergency room at the hospital, the police had to be
;
notified. $0 none of the heroin addicts would go into the
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hospital because they didn't want to get turned over to the
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police.
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It was only when we changed that law that said that they
had to be reported did the heroin addicts start going back
to the hospital. That is just another piece of evidence I
think that continues to refute the notion that prosecution
is going to deter addiction.
Mr. DANNEMEYER. If we follow that thought along, though,
we have a law that says we are not to use drugs and we don't
prosecute those who do. We are a short ways removed from
legalization of drugs, aren't we?
Ms. MILLER. I don't sea that we do have a law that says
that you are--it is illegal to use drugs, I think we have
laws that say that if you deal drugs that it is illegal, but
I don't see that we have laws that say that it is illegal to
use drugs.
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I call upon advertisers themselves to shun the temptation of
this tainted money, stained by addiction, disease and death. The
most courageous, prudent and morally correct action would be for
advertisers to kick the tobacco habit.
Finally, I call upon smokers and potential smokers --
including young people, women, minorities and blue-collar workers
-- to exercise good judgment and personal responsibility. The
life you save may not only be your own, but also the life of
someone you love or maybe don't even know, who might passively
breath the deadly tobacco fumes.
This truly is a question of life, and the gravity of our
choices will determine the longevity of life and the quality of
life. We must all make the right choices. I thank the
Interagency Council on Smoking and Health for all of their hard
work to end the tragedy of smoking.
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Copyright (c) 1989 The Times Mirror Company;
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December 12, 1989, Tuesday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 1; Column 6; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 1205 words
HEADLINE: DRUG LOOT USES STIR CURIOSITY OF SUPERVISORS
BYLINE: By GEORGE FRANK, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SANTA ANA
BODY:
The drug-forfeiture program has become big business for Orange County law
enforcement officials, who predict that police agencies in the county will divvy
up nearly $35 million in cash confiscated 50 far in narcotics busts.
An estimated $6 million of that amount has been allocated to the Sheriff's
Department - and the Board of Supervisors, often at odds with Sheriff-Coroner
Brad Gates over budget matters, wants to know how the money is being spent.
Under a 1984 federal law, a portion of the money seized during drug
investigations is returned to local law enforcement agencies to fight drug
abuse. The county Regional Narcotics Suppression Program task force was formed
in 1986 to take advantage of that law, and all but four of the county's smaller
police departments participate in it and share in the proceeds.
The Sheriff's Department has used its share of the money to pay for a
presidential visit, a drug education program and a narcotics investigators'
training facility. The regional task force has spent money on such items as
office supplies, rental cars for investigators, overtime pay and helicopter
surveillance.
None of the supervisors have accused the sheriff or the task force of
spending the money for non-drug-related items.
But they have asked for a report outlining how the money is being spent and
how police agencies in other counties are spending their drug money. The report,
being prepared by the county administrative office, is due in late January and
was ordered in October when Gates said he could not legally use the money to pay
for the county's new genetics-testing laboratory.
"I think we got to get a handle on it," Supervisor Don R. Roth said. "I'm in
no way saying that there is anything wrong, but I think we need uniformity on
how this money can be spent doing the most good. If something goes wrong, they
won't run to the auditor or the sheriff, they'll come to the Board of
Supervisors."
Information Needed
Roth said he knows of one police department that bought guns with the drug
money while other departments use it only for drug enforcement. The
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supervisors should be fully informed on how the money is spent - both by the
sheriff's narcotics program and the regional task force, he added.
Twenty-four federal and county law enforcement agencies staff the task force,
which does surveillance work, enlists informants and makes actual narcotics
raids.
The cash seized under the federal-forfeiture program comes back to the
regional program headed by a 14-member executive board made up of local police
chiefs, Gates and a variety of federal law enforcement officials. Some of the
money is then redistributed to cities for use by their police departments.
The federal government retains 10% of the seized drug money to administer the
program and the regional task force keeps 25% to finance its operation.
Sheriff's Capt. Tim Simon, who heads the regional drug task force, said
Monday that a total of $47 million had been confiscated since the regional
anti-drug effort began in December, 1986, but $12 million of that was
transferred to police agencies outside the county for participating in joint
investigations.
So far, Simon said, the regional task force has received $7.8 million and
another $27.2 million is in "the pipeline." He said he did not know how long it
would take for that money to make it through an "overburdened and bureaucratic"
federal system.
About $2 million of the $7.8 million has been disbursed to the Sheriff's
Department, with local police departments getting another $4 million or SO.
Simon said the Sheriff's Department would eventually receive about $6 million
of the $35 million.
"The good thing is that none of the money we spend comes from the county
general fund," Simon said. "None of it is tax dollars. All the money is seized
from major drug dealers."
Major expenditures of the sheriff's drug-fighting money so far have included
the launching of a countywide drug abuse education program along with nearly
$350,000 to fix up the confiscated Rancho del Rio, a remote property near the
Riverside County line which lawmen hope someday will become an international
drug investigation training facility.
The task force has had $1 million-plus seizures totaling 11, Simon said.
During those drug raids, agents have confiscated 11,000 pounds of cocaine.
The largest single seizure, of $5.2 million, came in early 1988 when regional
narcotics agents raided residences in South Gate and Riverside. In addition to
the cash, agents confiscated 18 pounds of heroin and arrested three Mexican
nationals.
Simon said the county auditor-controller monitors expenditures by both the
sheriff's narcotics program and the regional drug-fighting program. The regional
task force is also subject to federal and state audits, he added.
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Surprise Audits
Even the Sheriff's Department conducts surprise audits of the regional
program, Simon said.
Records at the auditor's office showed that much of the money spent by the
regional task force went for day-to-day operations such as telephone bills, car
rentals, overtime for agents, and, in some cases, office equipment and supplies.
Bills for cellular car telephones used by drug investigators, informant payments
and money used for drug buys are not itemized but are kept in what is called the
240 account.
That account can run a balance up to $1.8 million.
Rental car bills can run as high as $18,000 a month. Investigators change
cars continuously to avoid detection by suspects, Simon explained.
"There's not much glitzy stuff," Simon said, adding that the cars that the
investigators drive are like the ones driven by the average person. But he
added: "When we need a stretch limo or a big Mercedes, we can rent it."
Monthly helicopter costs for the task force can run into the tens of
thousands of dollars. Crowded freeways, officials said, have made the use of
helicopters a must when following drug traffickers. Overtime for narcotics
agents becomes a major expense because of long stakeouts during lengthy
investigations.
Gates' use of the drug money also became a focus of controversy earlier this
year when it was learned that he spent thousands -- the final bill was $335,061
-- to pay for President Bush's visit to Rancho del Rio last April. The U.S.
Justice Department determined that the financing of Bush's anti-drug speech was
a proper use of the money, but Supervisors Chairman Thomas F. Riley said he and
his colleagues "would have swallowed several times" had they known what the
final cost would be.
County auditor's records showed that $3,995 of the sheriff's drug-fighting
money was used for a catered lunch at Rancho del Rio when the President
visited while tens of thousands were used to paint, fix up, and re-grade the
road to the remote ranch. Another auditor's item showed that $7,239.03 was paid
to Abbey Party Rents Inc. to prepare for the Bush visit.
Another $29,083 was paid to a lumber company and $64,942 to the Ortega Rock
Quarry for improvements to the ranch road.
Other bills paid out of the sheriff's program included $3,610 for rubbish
removal, $750 for laser firearms fees and $259 for a rented trailer to haul
furniture to Rancho del Rio.
SUBJECT: DRUG SEIZURES; DRUG ARRESTS; DRUG EDUCATION; UNITED STATES -- LAWS;
ORANGE COUNTY FEDERAL AID; ORANGE COUNTY - FINANCES; IMPOUNDMENT
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September 7, 1989, Thursday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part 2 Page 1; Column 5; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 839 words
HEADLINE: AUDIT SAYS GATES' USE OF $335,061 ON BUSH VISIT WAS LEGAL
BYLINE: By DAVE LESHER, Times Staff Writer
BODY:
A county auditor's report released Wednesday says that Sheriff Brad Gates
spent $335,061 from his drug-fighting budget to pay for President Bush's
Orange County visit last April and that because the event was considered an
"emergency" it did not require approval from the Board of Supervisors.
The report says the speedy and extensive work needed to prepare the remote
canyon site called Rancho del Rio "required some creativity and bending of the
rules at various times." But it concludes that no state or county laws were
broken.
"No one involved initially realized the actual extent of the work necessary
to prepare for the president and the ultimate costs that would be involved,"
Auditor-Controller Steven E. Lewis wrote in the report. "If management would
have known the final cost figures, they probably would have acted differently
and would have required more approvals and closer adherence to established
procedures.
Gates said the White House selected Rancho del Rio as a site for Bush's
visit because the 213-acre property was seized by authorities during a drug
investigation. But turning the backwoods ranch near Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness
Park into a one-time-only staging area for the president and 1,400 invited
guests required extensive work on a 3.5-mile dirt road as well as the addition
of telephone lines, electricity, toilets and furniture.
Lewis said the $335,061 he calculated does not include several thousand
dollars in labor and equipment that was donated to the effort, including more
than a dozen buses and drivers from the Marine Corps to transport guests.
All of the money was confiscated by the Sheriff's Department during drug
investigations. A 1984 federal law allows local law enforcement agencies to keep
money they seize in narcotics investigations as long as it is spent to fight
drugs. The U.S Department of Justice determined that Bush's anti-drug speech was
a proper use of the money.
Lewis said that the supervisors should have been asked to vote on the expense
but that the lack of a vote did not violate proper procedures. Chief Assistant
County Counsel Bill McCourt also said that the sheriff did not break any rules
but that "if somebody sued us, then we'd go back and get it ratified"
retroactively.
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The report did not resolve one of the central questions surrounding the cost
of the President's visit -- whether Supervisors Chairman Thomas F. Riley
approved the plan. Gates has insisted that Riley endorsed the project, while
Riley repeated Wednesday that he was never asked for his opinion.
Gates, who was unavailable for comment Wednesday, has said that he didn't
talk to any other supervisors and that he assumed they would be notified about
the work by Riley. But none of the supervisors said they were aware of the
extent of work being done at the site, and several said they were surprised when
they saw the total cost.
"I think all of us would have swallowed several times if we knew (the cost)
of what was happening," Riley said Wednesday.
Riley disputed a phrase in the auditor's report that said "the chairman of
the Board of Supervisors endorsed the concept of the visit." He also questioned
a sentence that said, "We believe the board has granted a waiver of normal
internal procedures for work done in preparation of the president's visit."
Trying to Avoid Problem
Riley said he will propose a county ordinance to avoid such problems in the
future. He said the ordinance would implement a recommendation in the report
that would require county agencies to describe the size of such projects to the
supervisors and the County Administrative Office "prior to getting a formal or
informal commitment to proceed."
"In addition, top management of involved departments should be instructed to
consult county counsel and reach agreement as to whether a true emergency
exists," the report says.
Under such an emergency, state law allows counties to ignore such rules as
the requirement that purchases or labor be put out to bid.
The law defines an emergency as a "sudden, generally unexpected occurrence"
that requires immediate action to prevent the loss of essential services or
finances. County Counsel McCourt said, however, that court interpretations have
expanded the definition to "cover any circumstance where it's just not practical
to go to bid."
"As a practical matter," McCourt said, "this may not be an emergency. But
what are you going to do? Say to the President, 'You can't come because we have
to go to bid'?"
The most significant work required to prepare Rancho del Rio was on the
dirt road stretching to the site from Ortega Highway. The road, which was in
such bad shape that it was impassable at places, required extensive grading and
the addition of several tons of gravel 50 that Orange County Transit District
buses could use it.
Normally, county rules might have required the board to approve that work.
But Lewis' report said the board approval could be waived if the work was
considered maintenance rather than construction.
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SUBJECT: AUDITS; ORANGE COUNTY -- FINANCES; ORANGE COUNTY -- GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS; GATES, BRAD; DRUG SEIZURES; PRESIDENT (U.S.) -- SECURITY; BUSH,
GEORGE; ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
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June 15, 1989, Thursday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Column 6; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 689 words
HEADLINE $250,000 IN DRUG-FIGHTING MONEY SPENT ON BUSH'S VISIT
BYLINE: By DAVE LESHER, Times Staff Writer
BODY:
The Sheriff's Department revealed Wednesday that it spent about $250,000 from
its drug-fighting budget to prepare a remote canyon ranch for an Orange County
visit by President Bush in April.
The expense was immediately criticized by a county Democratic figure who said
it was inappropriate to spend money intended for drug investigations on a "dog
and pony show' for the President.
"Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars could go a long way to build more
drug rehabilitation centers, pay more adequate salaries for our law enforcement
personnel and help train more officers so we can stop drugs, instead of paying
for a public relations campaign, which is what that was," said John Hanna,
former county Democratic chairman.
Most of the money was used to turn a rustic backwoods ranch into a 90-minute
staging area for the President on April 25. Workers graded and spread gravel on
a 3.5-mile dirt road, added a stage and put in telephone lines, electricity,
toilets and furniture for a closed-door lunch for Bush and local drug agents.
The money also paid for several buses from the Orange County Transit
District to carry about 1,400 invited guests to the ranch, near Ortega Highway
and Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park.
The 213-acre site, known as Rancho del Rio, was formerly owned by a
notorious drug smuggler and was seized in 1985 during an investigation conducted
by the Sheriff's Department. The county now owns the ranch.
Promoters of Bush's visit selected the site as a good setting for his
anti-drug speech, during which he presented the county and other local law
enforcement agencies with a $4.39-million check for money seized during a
separate county drug investigation.
Assistant Sheriff Walter Fath said the $250,000 will be paid from the
county's share of that check.
Under a 1984 federal law, the money seized during a drug investigation must
be spent on suppression of drugs. Fath said the U.S. attorney's office in Los
Angeles - at the county's request -- ruled that the President's anti-drug
speech constituted a drug education expense and was therefore a proper use of
the seized money.
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Fath, who said he was speaking for Sheriff Brad Gates, said that the cost was
close to what the department expected when it started the project and that Gates
"made both the Board of Supervisors and the County Administrative Office aware
of the visit. They knew it was coming out of the narcotics fund, and people knew
what we were doing up there."
Thomas F. Riley, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, was unavailable late
Wednesday.
County Administrative Officer Larry Parrish said that he was unaware of the
exact cost of the President's visit but that he was "generally aware."
He said Gates met with Riley before he proceeded with the improvements at the
ranch, and "that's fine with me."
Fath also said that with the improvements, it is now possible to use the
ranch as a training facility and conference center for law enforcement agencies.
That is the purpose Gates has suggested to the Board of Supervisors for the
ranch.
But officially, the future of the ranch remains under study. Privately, some
county officials would rather see a different use. It has been suggested that
the ranch be sold to gain more money for the Sheriff's Department or even that
the site be used for a remote jail.
Parrish predicted Wednesday, however, that Gates is now more likely to get
his wish for a training center, because the improvements needed for that purpose
have already taken place.
"It was fortuitous (for Gates) that the President of the United States showed
up," Parrish said. "Certainly, activities (improvements) were possible in that
scenario that would have been far more difficult. So when you've got all the
(political) talent in the world and all the luck in the world, you're in pretty
good shape."
Fath said the $250,000 estimate does not include several thousand dollars in
goods and services donated to prepare for the President's visit. The food for
the invited guests and the President's lunch were donated, as well as $8,000 in
flowers and the landscaping crews to plant them.
SUBJECT: ORANGE COUNTY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; BUSH, GEORGE W; DRUG EDUCATION;
DRUG SEIZURES; ORANGE COUNTY --- FINANCES; ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S
DEPARTMENT; PRESIDENT (U.S.); REMODELING; POLICE TRAINING
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April 22, 1989, Saturday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Column 2; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 674 words
HEADLINE: TEST BUS CONQUERS BUSH COUNTRY
BYLINE: By DAVE LESHER, Times Staff Writer
BODY:
There were some incredulous faces this week when the White House announced
plans to stage an event at the remote canyon headquarters of a former drug
smuggler - to be attended by 1,500 people.
After all, the smugglers wanted it to be difficult to get to their hide-out.
So how was the county going to get 1,500 people to the site over a rough,
unpaved road?
Well, the smugglers would be amazed. On Friday, Orange County Transit
District bus No. 4147 - carrying about half a load of passengers to make the
test more realistic - pulled up to the front door, almost as if the treacherous
mountain road were part of a normal route.
"It was far easier than I expected," said Vicki Harris, an OCTD analyst. "Of
course, we're not used to having our buses drive through grass."
It was all part of the county's mammoth effort to bring this idyllic country
ranch - with no telephones, electricity or running water - into national focus
for about 60 minutes Tuesday when President Bush will make an anti-drug address
there.
For 2 days, the county's road equipment and gravel trucks worked on the road
to the ranch, smoothing out the roughest spots. And when the 50-passenger coach
successfully negotiated the road, it resolved one of the most difficult
logistical problems facing the event's organizers.
They had worried that the bus might get stuck on a hill or slip on the loose
dirt and gravel road. There are also some sharp hillside turns that looked
difficult for a 90-foot-long bus.
And nobody had any idea how to get the crowd of 1,500 into the backcountry if
the bus didn't work.
But after the 13-minute ride, about 4 miles from Ortega Highway to the front
door of the ranch, the dry run was called a complete success.
"It wasn't as bad as we thought it would be," said Woody Franklin, manager of
the OCTD Irvine division, which will supply the buses to be used for the
President's visit. "Actually, I thought it was pretty comfortable."
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In all, OCTD will provide 20 of its 50-passenger buses Tuesday and another 10
buses will be supplied by the nearby El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. The event
is by invitation only and the guest list includes county dignitaries as well as
elected officials -- city, county, state and federal.
During the event at about noon, Bush is scheduled to present Sheriff Brad
Gates with a $4.39-million check, the county's share of a drug bust it made last
year. Rancho del Rio, the site of the event, was also deeded to the county
last year after it was seized in a separate drug investigation.
The orange and white Gillig Phantom buses are the newest in the OCTD fleet,
all less than a year old and costing about $163,000 each. They have chocolate
brown fabric upholstery, a wood-paneled interior, large tinted windows and air
conditioning.
"They're our newest and we wanted to show off our best stuff," Harris said.
Appropriately, a medical center's advertisement on the side of the bus Friday
said, "We'll treat you right."
From Ortega Highway, the road to the ranch is unmarked except for some
temporary warning signs for motorists about construction activity. Bus No. 4147
turned off the highway about 10:40 a.m. Friday, followed by a maintenance truck
that was equipped to handle possible breakdowns.
For the first mile, the road is a steady climb up a winding, narrow path
through trees and thick brush. The bus crawled at barely 5 m.p.h., swinging as
wide as possible on the turns, with those seated on the left side looking out
over a steep cliff.
At the top of the hill, the view expands over a series of gentle rolling
hills covered with deep, green grass. The rest of the road is smooth though
winding, dipping once through a dry creek bed.
Scott Keeler, the bus driver and a 5-year OCTD veteran, said after the
experimental ride: "It was great. It's even easier than driving in traffic."
But Harris said it was a new challenge for OCTD drivers and those who
navigate the course should be decorated with a special badge.
"We'll call it the Trailblazer Award," she said.
GRAPHIC: Photo, Rancho del Rio -- the scene of the rally on Tuesday for
President Bush. CHRISTINE WALTER / Los Angeles Times; Photo, Truck's load will
smooth the way. Los Angeles Times; Photo, An OCTD bus chugs along on a trial
run to prepare for Tuesday, when it and others will take dignitaries to the Bush
rally. The bus had to negotiate 4 miles of rough road from the Ortega Highway to
Rancho del Rio. ; Photo, The county has brought its heavy equipment to bear on
the rough road. ; Photo, OCTD bus driver Scott Keeler, who made the trial run,
said, "It's even easier than driving in traffic." DON KELSEN / Los Angeles
Times; Photo, The trial-run bus completes it trip to Rancho del Rio, where a
sheriff's deputy stands guard.
SUBJECT: BUSES; PRESIDENT (U.S.); BUSH, GOERGE; DRUG SEIZURES; DRUG SMUGGLING --
ORANGE COUNTY; DRUG TRAFFICKING -- ORANGE COUNTY
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April 21, 1989, Friday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Column 1; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 1252 words
HEADLINE: BUSH VISIT ON TUESDAY SENDS COUNTY OFFICIALS SCRAMBLING
BYLINE: By STEVEN R. CHURM and DAVE LESHER, Times Staff Writer
BODY:
President Bush is coming to Orange County next week. But don't mark your
calender just yet.
The date and time --- even the nature of the event - has changed almost
hourly in recent days, much to the chagrin of frazzled county officials who are
coordinating logistics for the visit with White House aides.
Thursday was the coup de grace.
After officials were told that Bush would deliver an anti-drug speech
Wednesday at a remote south county ranch once used by smugglers, the local-level
planning for the high-level visit began in earnest in Supervisor Thomas F.
Riley's office.
The Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday was canceled. Nearly 1,500
invitations to the private event were printed at taxpayer expense. Bulletins
outlining the President's itinerary were dispatched or sent to key county
agencies.
Then came a phone call to Marilyn Brewer, one of Riley's staffers, about 3:45
p.m.
Bush's visit had been switched to Tuesday at noon.
Brewer hung up the phone and walked into her boss's office to deliver the
news.
"The supervisor looked me and said, 'You're kidding me,' = she recalled. "I
looked at him and said, 'I wish I was.' =
Stop orders were immediately placed on all preparations and county officials
raced to make revisions.
Said one aide for another supervisor: "It's been like a fire drill around
here lately. Nobody knows what is fact and fiction."
The facts, as of Thursday night, surrounding the presidential visit were
these:
As part of a West Coast trip, Bush will come to Orange County Tuesday
morning. Traveling aboard Air Force One from Northern California, he is
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scheduled to land between 11:15 and 11:30 at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, a
White House spokesman said. The President will then be flown by helicopter to
Rancho del Rio, the isolated and scenic hideaway of a former drug smuggler. He
will then tour portions of the canyon retreat, replete with a vineyard, a wine
press and eight stone houses.
Seized during a 1985 drug investigation, the ranch is to form the backdrop
for Bush's latest pitch against drugs. During his 90-minute stay, he is
scheduled to talk with narcotics agents and address an invitation-only gathering
of 1,000 to 1,500 local elected and law enforcement officials.
Bush will present Sheriff-Coronor Brad Gates and other law enforcement
officials with $4.39 million in cash -- their share of money confiscated during
a heroin bust made by the Orange County Regional Narcotics Suppression Task
Force on Feb. 10, 1988.
At 1:30 p.m., the President's helicopter is scheduled to whisk him away to a
Beverly Hills hotel, where he will stay overnight before meeting Wednesday with
former President Ronald Reagan.
Riley said Gates told him that the cost of staging the event will be paid out
of the money the Sheriff's Department receives.
"The sheriff has offered to do that," Riley said. "I think that is kind of
the good sheriff. It's right in the spirit of this whole thing.
...
I just
hope this thing comes off. Lots of people are walking on eggshells around here."
The White House spokesman said that a luncheon will be part of Bush's ranch
stop. But that word had not reached Riley's office late Thursday.
"That's news to us," Riley aide Brewer said. "This thing has become 50
cumbersome and crazy. It's hard to keep track of who's coming and going."
Going to see the President may be an adventure in itself.
Barely Accessible
The ranch, tucked deep in the Cleveland National Forest near the juncture of
Orange, San Diego and Riverside counties, is 4 miles from Ortega Highway. It is
accessible by narrow dirt road only.
At this point, the plan is to take invited guests and the media to the ranch
in Orange County Transit District buses. Those with weak constitutions hold
on.
The buses are "obviously not made to travel on these roads, but they're about
the only things that will carry so many people comfortably," said OCTD
spokeswoman Joanne Curran. "This will be fun."
Transit officials are concerned whether the suspension systems on the buses
can carry a full load on such a steep, winding road. About 30 buses - almost
every bus in the county not in normal service -- will be used to ferry visitors
to the one-time drug den. County crews spent Thursday laying gravel over the
roughest spots in advance of a scheduled test-drive today by a fully-loaded,
40-passenger bus.
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If it fails, Curran said, there are no backup plans.
"We'll know by noon today," she said.
The entrance to the ranch road is about a quarter of a mile south of Caspers
Regional Park, which will be the staging area for arriving guests.
Fire Officials Concerned
On the heels of a relatively dry winter, county officials expressed concern
about the fire hazard posed by so many vehicles driving over dry grass in the
remote area. Firefighters were surveying the situation at the ranch Thursday,
and county officials have requested at least five trucks for the event.
"It's very dry out there, so we're going to have our engines out there,"
County Fire Department Capt. Hank Raymond said. "We're going to be a little
pro-active."
And how are all those reporters and White House officials traveling with the
President going to communicate with the outside world from this remote corner of
the county? The phone company has the answer.
"We can use microwave, we can use cable, and it can all be put up pretty
quickly," Pacific Bell spokeswoman Linda Bonniksen said.
Then there is the guest list. Who's on it, who's not?
Riley said that White House officials requested a crowd of up to 1,500.
"They thought that would make the proper backdrop for this event," Riley
said. "You know, the President has been less than happy with the press response
to his drug war. So he wanted something real visual for the cameras. I'm just
glad we can help. It's a good cause."
It is a handpicked audience, for sure. Simple, one-page invites will be sent
to all city council members and mayors in the county, as well as local state
Senate members, Assembly members and congressional representatives. Selected
county department heads will also be included, as well as a group of Gates'
friends and supporters.
GOP Officials Left Out?
Some local GOP officials may be conspicuously absent from the guest list.
Greg Haskin, executive director of the Orange County Republican Party, said
the party had few details about the Bush visit.
"Our understanding at this point is this is not a partisan political event
and we have not been asked to play a role in it," Haskin said.
As of Thursday afternoon, he said, party officials had been telling people
who called the local office to gather at 9 a.m. at Caspers Park Tuesday to be
taken by shuttle to the event.
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Those going are best advised to wear comfortable shoes. Riley said the only
guaranteed seating is for a small cadre of VIPs who will sit with Bush. Among
the lucky ones are the five supervisors, mayors from each city in the county,
and state and congressional lawmakers.
Spouses will have to stand.
Arriving on time may be hardest for the supervisors. Because the dates were
switched at the last minute, the supervisors could not cancel their regularly
scheduled Tuesday morning meeting which begins at 9:30 a.m. To legally cancel,
the board must give notice 3 working days before the meeting. Brewer said Riley
is considering calling the session to order and then continuing it to Wednesday.
Times staff writers Claudia Luther and James Gerstenzang contributed to this
story.
GRAPHIC: Map, RANCHO DEL RIO
SUBJECT: REIMBURSEMENT; BUSH, GEORGE; ORANGE COUNTY --- GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS;
DRUG SEIZURES; DRUG ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; GATES, BRAD; SPEECHES; LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES ---------- FINANCES
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'88-'89: 58,671**
'89-'90: 67, 472**
*Area includes E1 Toro, Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, Laguan Niguel, Ailso Viejo,
Rancho Santa Margarita and canyons.
**Projected
Source: Orange County Sheriff's Department
GRAPHIC: Chart, Calls for Service, Los Angeles Times
SUBJECT: ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS;
ORANGE COUNTY --- FINANCES; POLICE --- ORANGE COUNTY; HIRING
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last Friday
...
He hasn't done that yet."
Schneider is on vacation this week. Cable, as the assistant administrative
officer, is scheduled to meet with the two remaining supervisors, Roger R.
Stanton and Harriett M. Wieder, today.
The last few months have been rough going for Gates, who has increasingly
found himself at odds with the Board of Supervisors and the county staff over
his budget requests.
Last year, some board members told Gates that the new genetics testing
laboratory he wanted should be paid for with money seized in drug raids. Gates
eventually got funds for the lab without using the drug-raid money. But Gates
was dealt another, big setback when the board voted to sell Rancho del Rio,
where the sheriff had wanted to build an international narcotics enforcement
training facility.
Earlier this month, a Gates-backed plan to increase the sales tax to pay for
a new jail was ruled unconstitutional by a Sacramento County judge, leaving the
county's plans to relieve jail overcrowding in disarray.
Capt. Doug Storm, commander of the South County sheriff's substation in
Laguna Niguel, said he did not want to comment on the county administrative
office recommendation to delay the new hires until the matter goes before the
board next month.
"We're still hopeful that something can be worked out," Storm said.
Among the three alternatives the board will consider are plans to hire 20,
39, or 54 new deputies, at initial costs of $1.3 million or $2.6 million or $3.6
million.
There are now 122 deputies to patrol South County -- the same number as in
1984. According to a county report completed last December, population in the
area has increased about 18% a year and calls for service have increased about
15% per year in the unincorporated area.
The report also says that South County deputies spend almost 60% of their
time responding to calls for service and writing reports, and 13% of their time
on "preventive patrol" -- that is, developing contacts, stopping people who are
acting suspiciously and patrolling neighborhoods to seek suspects and deter
crime. The average response time for the highest-priority calls, including those
for crimes in progress, is more than eight minutes, the report says.
The general standard for law enforcement is to have patrol units spend
between 40% and 60% of their time on preventive patrols; the average response
time for highest-priority calls should be five minutes.
Calls for Service
Number of calls for service received by the Orange County Sheriff's Department
from South County residents.*
'84-'85: 33,803
'85-"86: 37, 136
'86-'87: 43,603
'87-'88: 51,018
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February 22, 1990, Thursday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 1; Column 6; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 843 words
HEADLINE: DELAY IN HIRING NEW DEPUTIES RECOMMENDED
BYLINE: By BOB SCHWARTZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER
BODY:
The county administrative office is recommending that the hiring of between
20 and 54 new sheriff's deputies for the South County area be delayed until the
1990-91 fiscal year.
Adding the deputies for the unincorporated part of South County -- where the
patrol staff is stretched thin and there has not been a manpower increase since
1984 -- was considered during last year's budget hearings, but the Board of
Supervisors agreed to delay a decision until the mid-year budget review.
That review was completed last month. The Sheriff's Department did receive
$4.6 million to cover a budget shortfall, but action on the South County patrol
issue was delayed once again, with the county staff promising to return to the
board with its analysis and recommendation within two weeks.
The initial recommendation by the administrative office was to simply defer
any consideration of new deputies until the 1990-91 fiscal year. But after
meeting with three supervisors Wednesday -- South County representatives Gaddi
H. Vasquez and Thomas F. Riley and Board Chairman Don R. Roth - Assistant
County Administrative Officer Murry L. Cable agreed to put the item on the
agenda for the board's March 6 meeting, with a recommendation from his office
that new hiring be delayed.
"The issue needs to be deliberated in public in a board meeting," said
Vasquez, whose district includes the unincorporated communities of El Toro, Lake
Forest, Rancho Santa Margarita and Coto de Caza. "It's something that I'm
concerned about."
Riley, whose district includes Laguna Hills and Aliso Viejo, said he hopes
that he and Vasquez can persuade at least one other supervisor to approve the
hiring this year.
"The time is now," Riley said. "The growth in South County is great; the
needs are there. We sometimes think of it as a rural area when really we should
think of it as urban."
Sheriff Brad Gates, who was in Los Angeles much of Wednesday and had not yet
heard about the county administrative office recommendation, responded angrily
when he heard the news.
"I haven't been told that," Gates said. "The agreement we had with the CAO is
that (County Administrative Officer) Ernie Schneider was supposed to call me
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help out again.
The sheriff's report also projects that the training center will more than
pay for its own operation over several years. But the county staff report says
that projection is based on a revenue stream that is "subject to fluctuations."
That, it said, could result in the county having to spend more money.
SUBJECT: GATES, BRAD; POLICE TRAINING; DRUG SEIZURES; ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S
DEPARTMENT; GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; DRUG ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; ORANGE COUNTY
FINANCES; SURPLUS PROPERTY
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Copyright (c) 1990 The Times Mirror Company;
Los Angeles Times
January 23, 1990, Tuesday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part B: Page 1; Column 2; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 387 words
HEADLINE: GATES DETAILS PLAN FOR DRUG TRAINING CENTER;
LAW ENFORCEMENT: COUNTY OFFICER'S REPORT RECOMMENDS SELLING SOUTH COUNTY RANCH,
BUT SHERIFF WANTS TO TURN IT INTO A TRAINING FACILITY FOR LAWMEN.
BYLINE: By BOB SCHWARTZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SANTA ANA
BODY:
A narcotics training center that Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates wants to
build at a remote South County ranch would cost about $4.3 million to develop
fully, according to a Sheriff's Department report.
The report, shown to county supervisors' aides last week, is Gates' most
detailed presentation of his plans to turn the 213-acre Rancho del Rio ---
confiscated in a 1985 drug bust - into a regional training center for lawmen.
But a separate report from the county administrative officer recommends
selling the ranch to supplement the Sheriff's Department budget, which this year
is running a deficit of $4 million to $5 million. The Board of Supervisors is
expected to consider the recommendation to sell next week. Supervisors' Chairman
Don R. Roth has said he favors selling.
Gates, meanwhile, has been lobbying to convince supervisors that a regional
narcotics training center is needed.
Late Monday afternoon, Gates met with County Administrative Officer Ernie
Schneider to dispute cost estimates contained in a draft of the report that
recommends selling the ranch.
According to Gates' report, the first-year development phase would cost about
$388,000, including construction (using inmate labor), salaries and operating
costs. Narcotics-related training would be given to about 20 students a day for
90 days during the first year, said Assistant Sheriff Walt Fath.
Three subsequent development phases, which include plans for additional
classrooms and a dog kennel for canine training, student and instructor housing,
a dining facility, a swimming pool and two tennis courts, would follow only if
there is enough demand for the training, Fath said.
Initial costs would be covered by tuition, fees, regional narcotics
suppression program funds and a donation from the Sheriff's Advisory Council, a
residents group, the report says.
It does not detail where some of the money needed for future development
would be found, but Fath said the Sheriff's Advisory Council would probably
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agencies.
Facing an estimated $5-million budget deficit in the Sheriff's Department
this year, supervisors are considering a staff proposal to sell the property,
which could bring in up to $2 million.
Gates has said that the proposed sale could violate the intent of federal
drug laws.
Brosio's letter reminded board members that the ranch was deeded to the
county "based on the representation that the property would be developed into a
law-enforcement training center."
Grace Denton, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles,
explained the letter further: "We're not going to give them (the Board of
Supervisors) money because they can't balance the budget. If the money (from the
sale of the ranch) were used to pay for programs already in the budget, it would
violate federal drug laws."
According to Wahlstedt's memo, however, the county would be using the money
to pay for programs for which there are currently no funds.
"As we understand the facts, the sheriff's office is substantially over its
1989-90 budget, and sale is intended to partially alleviate this situation and
permit that office to continue its operations for the remainder of this fiscal
year," Wahlstedt said in his memo.
GRAPHIC: Map, Disputed Ranch, Los Angeles Times
TYPE: Column; Brief
SUBJECT: DRUG SEIZURES; GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; SURPLUS PROPERTY; UNITED STATES --
LAWS; POLICE TRAINING; ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT; ORANGE COUNTY --
FINANCES; ORANGE COUNTY - BUDGET; PROPERTY SALES
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January 25, 1990, Thursday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 2; Column 1; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 551 words
HEADLINE: ORANGE COUNTY FOCUS: COUNTYWIDE;
U.S. ATTORNEY BACKS GATES' RANCHO PLAN
BODY:
The Justice Department and the County Board of Supervisors are poised for a
showdown over Rancho del Rio, a sprawling smuggler's haven seized by federal
drug agents five years ago and given to the county to be used to enhance local
law enforcement.
A terse, two-page letter from U.S. Atty. Robert L. Brosio, warning the county
that a proposed sale of the property might violate federal drug laws, indicates
that the federal prosecutor "does not fully understand the situation or the
county budget process," according to a staff memo prepared Wednesday for the
supervisors.
Further, the board should not concern itself with the U.S. attorney's
"implied threat" that selling the property might bar the county from receiving
proceeds from future federal drug seizures, the memo said.
The memorandum was prepared by Assistant County Counsel Arthur C. Wahlstedt
and forwarded to the board by the county administrative officer, Ernie
Schneider.
"I was very much concerned by the tone of the letter (from Brosio) and the
prohibitions it purported to place on the possible sale of the property,"
Schneider told the board.
Federal agents seized Rancho del Rio in 1985 after the Orange County
Sheriff's Department found evidence that the 23-acre ranch in South County was
the base for a drug-smuggling ring.
Acting under a 1984 law allowing the government to donate assets seized
during drug raids to local law enforcement efforts, federal officials gave the
ranch to the county in 1987.
But the county could just as easily work through state authorities in future
drug seizures, Wahlstedt said in his memo.
"With respect to Mr. Brosio's implied threat to keep Orange County from
receiving forfeitures in the future, you should know that there is a parallel
program in the state," Wahlstedt wrote. "Future forfeitures could be handled in
this manner."
The county staff's response to Brosio's letter is the latest development in a
battle over the future of Rancho del Rio. Sheriff-Coroner Brad Gates has
proposed converting the ranch into a training center for local law enforcement
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January 28, 1990, Sunday, Orange County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 11; Column 1; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 133 words
HEADLINE: SHERIFF GATES AND PUBLIC'S TAX BURDEN
BODY:
Congratulations to the Board of Supervisors for its attempt to sell Rancho
del Rio as a means of recovering some of the $6-million debt incurred by
Sheriff Brad Gates. It is about time that our representatives started coming up
with ways of relieving the public of our tax burden.
According to the sheriff, that sale would violate the federal drug laws. If
that is true, I suggest using the ranch as a treatment center for the thousands
of victims of chemical dependency who are on long waiting lists for the only two
residential facilities in the county.
Maybe then we wouldn't need the sheriff's training center and 90 new officers
each year, thus saving their salaries and at the same time turning addicts into
productive, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.
DOROTHY CHAPMAN
San Clemente
TYPE: Letter to the Editor
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Jan. 4, 1988: The federal government hands over title to the 213-acre ranch
to Orange County under the terms of a 1984 federal law that allows local
police agencies to share in assets seized from suspected drug traffickers. The
property is the largest ever transferred under the law.
April 25, 1989: President Bush travels to Rancho del Rio and delivers $4.39
million in seized drug assets to local police.
Sept. 6, 1989: A county auditor's report reveals that the county spent
$335,061 from the sheriff's drug-fighting budget to pay for the Bush visit.
90
Jan. 24, 1989: County Administrative Officer Ernie Schneider signs off on a
staff report recommending that Rancho del Rio be sold. The Board of
Supervisors is scheduled to consider that recommendation Tuesday.
GRAPHIC: Photo, Sheriff Brad Gates insists there's a critical need for narcotics
training center. KARI RENE HALL / Los Angeles Times; Map, PROPOSED REGIONAL
DRUG-TRAINING FACILITY AT RANCHO DEL RIO, STEVE LOPEZ / Los Angeles Times
TYPE: Chronology
SUBJECT: DRUG SEIZURES; GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; SURPLUS PROPERTY; UNITED STATES -
LAWS; POLICE TRAINING; ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT; ORANGE COUNTY --
FINANCES; ORANGE COUNTY - BUDGET; PROPERTY SALES; GATES, BRAD
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"We can set up the scenario and say, 'This is a rock house,' = Fath said. =
'It's fortified, booby-trapped -- now, how are you going to get in there
safely?' =
Other Courses
Donna J. Picard, dean of applied arts and sciences at Rancho Santiago College
in Santa Ana, said field training at the campus has not always worked out so
well. "We've done homicide scenarios here on campus," Picard said. "Some
students have come on to the scenarios and were quite upset. They thought it was
real."
The Sheriff's Department is working on a curriculum of other courses, in
addition to the basic narcotics investigation course, that it would like to
offer at Rancho del Rio, Fath said.
Gates is asking the Board of Supervisors to give him at least one year to
prove the regional training center's value. While his initial development plans
call for expenditures of $388,000 in the first year, future development phases
would bring the construction cost to about $4.3 million and the annual operating
cost to $2.9 million.
Fath said the Sheriff's Advisory Council, a private group that has helped pay
for Gates' projects in the past, would likely step in and help cover any deficit
for the drug training facility.
Gates has also submitted a far more expensive development plan to Sen. Pete
Wilson's office, which has forwarded the plan and a request for federal money to
pay for it, to the White House.
That plan, which will probably not be considered for at least several months,
calls for an international narcotics training center that would bring in drug
experts from around the world. The price tag: $26 million.
"Sometimes we have to say no," Supervisor Stanton said. "Whether we do in
this case remains to be seen."
PROPOSED REGIONAL DRUG-TRAINING FACILITY AT RANCHO DEL RIO
The Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Tuesday on Sheriff Brad Gates'
plan to begin development of a $4.3-million narcotics facility on a 21.3-acre
ranch seized in a 1985 drug raid.
Source: Sheriff's Department
RANCHO DEL RIO'S CHECKERED PAST
The following is a chronology of Orange County's involvement with Rancho
del Rio.
March 1, 1985: Drug agents, armed with search warrants, storm the ranch and
seize $23,000 in cash and more than 50 weapons and make two arrests. The ranch's
owner, Daniel James Fowlie, is not there, but he is later arrested in Baja
California and indicted on 26 felony counts of drug smuggling.
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minute - says that while it would be nice to have a drug training facility in
Orange County, law-enforcement officers can get that training elsewhere. The
report adds that "more pressing and basic needs" dictate the sale of the ranch.
Law enforcement officials in Orange County and throughout the state,
however, say that specialized narcotics training is not 50 easy to come by ---
and that the Rancho del Rio facility would enable them to tailor drug training
to particular situations found in the county.
"There is a critical need for a regional training center for Orange
County, 11 said Garden Grove Police Chief John Robertson, who headed a committee
of police chiefs that studied Gates' proposal. "It's not that the current
training is bad, but it's limited
and someone else is setting the
standards."
All police officers receive a minimal number of hours of drug training at
their academies --- the police equivalent of boot camp. For the basic narcotics
investigation course, however, most officers in Orange County must travel to
the state Department of Justice's Advanced Training Center in Sacramento --- if
they can get in.
The center offers an 80-hour course, which covers such topics as clandestine
drug labs, search and surveillance and officer survival. The course is offered
10 times a year, with about 30 students per class, said Jack Beecham, chief of
the center.
The waiting list to get into one of the classes is about a year, Beecham
said. Other law-enforcement officials said the wait ranges from a few months to
as long as 18 months.
"We are not meeting the need," Beecham said.
Gary Miller, director of the police academy at Gavilan College in Gilroy near
San Jose, said the shortage of specialized narcotics courses results in officers
finding themselves in dangerous situations they may not be trained for.
"There are people in the job right now that haven't been trained,' Miller
said. "Not that they don't know police work, but they haven't had the
specialized training
in topics like informant development
to deal
with special problems."
Gavilan College and the Orange County Sheriff's Department were both
recently approved by the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and
Training, which is trying to expand the list of providers, to teach the basic
narcotics investigation course.
The Sheriff's Department will begin offering the course, probably in the
spring, regardless of whether the Rancho del Rio facility is approved, said
Assistant Sheriff Walt Fath.
While portions of the narcotics class could be offered at the sheriff's
training academy in Garden Grove, some of the curriculum requires field
training, for which Rancho del Rio is ideally suited, Fath and law-enforcement
training providers say.
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The National Guard facility, however, is intended to help managers of
law-enforcement agencies and the military coordinate their drug-fighting
efforts, as opposed to the narcotics investigator who would be served at a
Rancho del Rio training facility.
While Roth's vote to sell the property appears certain, other supervisors
were noncommittal last week.
Supervisor Roger R. Stanton said he was leaning toward selling Rancho del
Rio, but he added that he was impressed by Gates' presentation Friday morning
and had not made up his mind for sure. "The issue is more complex than it
originally appeared to be," he said.
Similarly, Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez said he would hear Gates out on the
proposal before making up his mind.
Supervisor Thomas F. Riley declined to comment on the matter, and Supervisor
Harriett M. Wieder could not be reached.
Both Roth and Gates dismiss the notion that Tuesday's vote is shaping up as a
political showdown between the new board chairman and the popular sheriff who is
expected to win his fifth term in November.
"The sheriff's a friend of mine," Roth said.
"I don't get involved in personalities," Gates said.
That may well be, but Roth's goal to get the county budget in order and
establish priorities in the sheriff's wish-list could set him on a collision
course with Gates.
Besides favoring the sale of Rancho del Rio, Roth has proposed building a
regional, maximum-security jail in the Riverside County desert -- a plan that
Gates, who favors continuing with plans for a Gypsum Canyon jail, opposes. And
Roth has talked about following the lead of other counties and states and
privatizing at least part of the county jail system as another cost-cutting
measure.
"He's got the cowboy hat," said Roth recently of Gates. "I've just got a few
ideas about the budget."
Legal Questions
Still unresolved is the question of whether the county can legally sell the
land and use the proceeds to pay for the Sheriff's Department's budget overrun.
The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles has sent a letter to the county
saying that the land was deeded to the county with the understanding that it
would be used for narcotics training, and that any money from its sale cannot be
used to pay for items already in the law-enforcement budget. But a county
counsel's memo drafted in response to the letter said the county's intended use
for the money supplemented the departmental budget and therefore is legal.
The county report recommending the sale of Rancho del Rio the language
and details of which Gates haggled over with staff members until the last
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HEADLINE: SHOWDOWN DUE ON DRUG RANCH;
LAW ENFORCEMENT: COUNTY SUPERVISORS ARE SCHEDULED TO VOTE TUESDAY ON THE
SHERIFF'S PLAN TO TURN RANCHO DEL RIO INTO A NARCOTICS TRAINING CENTER FOR
POLICE OFFICERS.
BYLINE: By BOB SCHWARTZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER
BODY:
Almost five years after it was seized in a drug raid, the fate of Rancho
del Rio could finally be decided Tuesday, when the Orange County Board of
Supervisors considers Sheriff Brad Gates' proposal to build a regional narcotics
training center on the 213-acre property.
Gates says the facility will help place the "domestic soldiers" in the war on
drugs on an equal footing with highly sophisticated dealers. And, he says, he
can pay for the facility with tuition, private donations and money seized in
drug raids.
"This will cost the general fund absolutely no dollars," Gates promised last
week between meetings with county supervisors, whom he was lobbying for support.
But some of the supervisors are skeptical of the idea, citing more urgent
needs for both the drug money and the estimated $2 million the sale of the ranch
might bring. A county staff report says Gates' funding plan for the training
center is uncertain and recommends selling the property.
"The sheriff has a $4-million budget deficit, and I have to try to make it
up," said Supervisors' Chairman Don R. Roth.
Roth also questioned why the Board of Supervisors has not been presented with
alternative sites for a training facility, if one is 50 sorely needed. He
suggested at least looking at using county-owned land at the James A. Musick
honor farm near Irvine.
"I'm not saying I'm smarter than the sheriff," he said. "But is it a higher
priority than spending money on a remote jail? We have an extremely high
priority to build more jail space
and I believe that ultimately (the
training center) will cost money to bring up to standards."
Gates, however, said the Musick land is used to grow crops for jail kitchens
and that training undercover narcotics officers in close proximity to 1,000
inmates would cause serious security problems.
The California National Guard is also setting up a drug training center in
San Luis Obispo, and some supervisors said they would like to know if Gates'
proposal could be incorporated into that plan.
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HEADLINE: ORANGE COUNTY NEWSWATCH
BYLINE: By Steve Emmons and Mark I. Pinsky
BODY:
LAST LAUGH? Supervisor Don R. Roth, whose maneuvering squashed Sheriff Brad
Gates hopes for using the confiscated Rancho del Rio as a drug training
center, could only restrain his gloating for two days
Thursday, before
the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, Roth said Gates has "always been running around
saying 'no' to dope, but he's never had anybody say 'no' to him before." Replied
Gates: "I'm sorry to see him make statements like that. It's pretty obvious that
he didn't vote to help us with the drug war and for officers' safety. He did it
for political reasons." Steve Emmons and Mark I. Pinsky
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SUBJECT: ROTH, DON R; GATES, BRAD; ORANGE COUNTY ------------------------- GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS;
POLICE TRAINING; ORANGE COUNTY - BUDGET; SPEECHES; DRUG SEIZURES; SURPLUS
PROPERTY; GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
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HEADLINE: GATES' BACKERS MAY BUY RANCH FOR TRAINING USE
BYLINE: By BOB SCHWARTZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SANTA ANA
BODY:
Sheriff Brad Gates' hopes to build a training center for narcotics officers
at remote Rancho del Rio - apparently dashed last month when the Board of
Supervisors voted to sell the property ---- may not be dead just yet.
The Sheriff's Advisory Council, a nonprofit organization of about 600 friends
and supporters of Gates, is trying to come up with enough money to buy the
213-acre South County property, a member of the council's board said Tuesday.
"We're trying to find some method whereby the advisory council can make this
available to the sheriff for international narcotics training," said Donald
Burns, a past president of the advisory council and chairman of a committee that
has worked on the proposal for the drug-training facility.
Burns, a Newport Beach businessman, said he did not know, however, exactly
where the council's efforts to find the several million dollars needed to
purchase the ranch stood.
"A lot of people are pretty incensed at what happened," said Burns, referring
to the board's decision to rezone the land and sell it, with the proceeds going
to help pay the sheriff's ever-increasing budget. "The county is just not
thinking, in my estimation."
While the land, confiscated in a 1985 drug raid, has been valued at about $2
million, developers say that it could be worth several times that amount with
proper entitlements and water and road improvements.
Gates said he could not comment on any possible advisory council proposals.
"I'm not at liberty to talk about anything at this point," he said.
Advisory council president Clint Hoose said he was not aware of the training
facility committee's most recent effort.
"I haven't seen a proposal," Hoose said. "But we have a subcommittee that is
working on this project.
The Sheriff's Advisory Council has always stood
ready to support that project and go into the private sector to raise the funds
if that was deemed necessary."
The council raised about $500,000 in cash and in-kind contributions to build
the Sheriff's Department's Laser Village training facility in Orange. That was
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its largest fund-raising effort for a single project, Hoose said.
Gates' proposal for an international drug training center includes several
phases of development totaling about $26 million. A grant request for that
amount to build and operate the center has been forwarded to the White House by
the staff of Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.).
SUBJECT: ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT; GATES, BRAD; CONTRIBUTIONS;
POLICE TRAINING; DRUG SEIZURES; GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; PRIVATIZATION; SHERIFF'S I
ADVISORY COUNCIL; DRUG ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; ORANGE COUNTY -- FINANCES; FUND
RAISING; ORANGE COUNTY -- BUDGET
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12/81
UR BOAT LURCHED through dark waves in
O
grottoes below Disneyland. Cannonballs thun-
dered from computerized pirate ships; docks
and forts were set ablaze. As we passed phan-
tom captives, groaning in plastic irons, Ron
Dominguez leaned close and shouted:
"This is where I was born! Just above here! Back
then, in 1935, my folks' orange grove was right over us!
My mom's folks had settled here soon after Orange
County split off from Los Angeles in 1889.
Since Walt Disney came down from Los Angeles in
the 1950s and bought out the ranchers, Ron Dominguez
has advanced on the site from farmhand to ticket taker
at Disneyland, and now is its vice president of oper-
ations. Donald Duck works for him, and Mickey
Mouse and Minnie, and, in summer, 7,500 more.
"It's been so fast," he told us. "Before Disneyland
opened in 1955, all us farmers went into Anaheim on
Saturday nights and knew everybody. Then all of a
sudden everything changed."
For the two million people of Orange County such
change, a bizarre and dizzying alchemy, has trans-
formed this southern California coastal oval, long over-
looked between Los Angeles and San Diego, into a real-
world Tomorrowland.
Its essence is its incongruity, a blend of almost feudal
ranch life and Orwellian futurism. Within its borders,
besides the cowboys and farmers on the giant Irvine
Ranch, are walled and gated clusters of multimillion-
dollar homes and miles of industrial and office parks
that throb with high technology and optimism.
Ron Dominguez is a rare link between the fantasies of
California, past and present. His ancestors have lived
on this land for some 200 years, descending from
Catalonia-born José Antonio Yorba, who came with
the Spanish Army to colonize California in 1769. He
sees Orange County as the focal point of a new southern
California, one that can still live up to the golden leg-
end: sunshine, fun, wealth, freedom.
More than half the size of Rhode Island, Orange
County retains a baronial and pastoral mien-not unre-
lated to its reputation for ultraconservatism. Politicians
used to say that rich, homogeneous Orange County
was the place good Republicans go to die. (Its voters
chose Democrat Jerry Brown for governor in 1978 but
swarmed back more than two to one for Ronald Reagan
for President in 1980.)
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Land rush on a gold coast: For decades newcomers to California have been
drawn to Orange County, with its Mediterranean climate and spectacular shore.
Here in the Newport Beach to Laguna Beach area the influx continues, as the
Irvine Company, the county's largest rancher and major landholder, opens more
coastal hills to luxury development. Plans include ocean-view hotels, estates,
and parkland on the still empty stretch to the south. The company's Newport
Center, left, places high offices behind an oval of shops, giving each building a
view. Much of the county has been transformed-from Spanish rancho of the
early 1800s to citrus grove; from bedroom for Los Angeles in the 1940s to modern
metropolitan area, home of high technology and high incomes.
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Reaping the blessings of Orange County's climate, the Crystal Cathedral of
at
Garden Grove Community Church shines under 10,660 panes of glass. An 82-foot-
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long flag above the altar marks Fourth of July in the church, which can seat only
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a third of its 10,000 members. Walls beside the pulpit open to allow worshipers
parked in their cars and tuned in by radio to see the Reverend Robert H. Schuller,
who started this Reformed Church congregation in a nearby drive-in theater.
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The northern
In Laguna Hills we visited residents of
third of Orange County, adjacent to Los
Leisure World, which lies behind 8.5 miles of
Angeles, is a jumble of spilled-over towns
six-foot-high walls and sentry posts. It was
with imperceptible borders. There are 26
justselling the last of its retirement homes for
Orange County cities, none with more than
$350,000 and up. The youngest of its 21,000
Lake
225,000 residents, Anaheim being the larg-
residents, by mandate, is 52; the oldest, by
Mathews
est. Like the begats of the Book of Genesis,
chance and good health, is 103. Delivery
they merge: Anaheim becomes Garden
"boys" for the weekly newspaper are in their
Grove and Garden Grove becomes Santa
70s. Children are welcome-as visitors.
Ana; Santa Ana becomes Tustin and Tustin
Shopping centers around Leisure World,
becomes Orange.
like many in the county, are thick with
Across the center of the county lies the
financial institutions and travel agencies.
Irvine Ranch, a 77,000-acre checkerboard
The opulence of Leisure World reflects
of ranchland, orderly communities, and
the wealth of Orange County. Median fam-
industry. The ranch, which its master plan-
ily income is close to $30,000, high even in
ner, architect William Pereira, calls the
Califcrnia. Retailers hasten in from across
nation's largest planned urban complex,
the land: Neiman-Marcus opened its first
sweeps from the millionaires' coast to bare
southern California store not in Beverly
gray mountains rising higher than 5,000
Hills but in Newport Beach. Last year Roy
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feet: a swath 22 miles long and between 4.5
Carver's automobile agency there sold more
and 9.5 miles wide.
Rolls-Royces than any outside London.
Spanish Flavor Under Siege
Henry Segerstrom, a one-time lima bean
farmer who refused to sell out to developers,
The southern third of Orange County re-
himself developed the family land into
tains a quieter Spanish influence, although
South Coast Plaza, one of the world's most
convoys of yellow earthmovers race across
profitable shopping centers. He presents
DECO.
its horizon like herds of crazed gophers,
office visitors with burlap sacks of beans
GOCO.
turning ranchland into grosses of expensive
from adjacent acres. He is also donating 11
tract homes. Raw exposed dirt is the em-
blem of Orange County, and the black
clouds on some days are only puffs of air-
borne earth. Open rangeland lies in wait for
TON.
the oncoming Sunbelt migration.
DRPS
All along the county's 42-mile coastline of
coves and cliffs are sleek and chic commu-
D
nities laced with silvery public surfing
beaches. From Huntington Harbour and
Newport Beach south to Laguna Beach and
Dana Point are aristocratic homes for those
who scorn aristocracy, and at their docks are
the 12,000 yachts that mirror their opulence.
For weeks we merged into the frenetic
flow of vehicles on freeways that arc over
towns and sere ranchland. We strolled the
sands of Laguna Beach and visited artists in
cozy canyonside bungalows that climb from
the sea. We sailed from Newport Harbor
past imposing rows of yachts and south to
Dana Point, which Richard Henry Dana de-
scribed as "refreshing as a great rock in a
World's favorite mouse brought fame
weary land. We watched the steady beat of
to Anaheim when the city helped Walt
Disney put together a 300-acre site for
rocker pumps at Huntington Beach, where
his pioneering Disneyland park, opened
oil derricks, both on- and offshore, boost
in 1955. Here in January 1981 Mickey
energy supplies.
welcomes the 200 millionth visitor.
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Silhouettes of success range from
backyard oil pumps in
Huntington Beach (left) to the
glitter of the South Coast Plaza
complex along Bristol Street
(above) in Costa Mesa.
Santa Ana-born J. Robert Fluor
(right) heads the corporation that
engineered a billion-dollar
petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia
and pumping stations on the
Alaska pipeline. He moved Fluor
headquarters from East Los
Angeles to Irvine after surveying
employees, who opted for "the
bright and new and appealing."
Orange, a Most California County
759
million dollars in land and cash toward con-
fire fighters were seeking to save canyon
good,"
struction of a performing arts center meant
communities from a 28,000-acre brush fire
so I cou
to equal Los Angeles' Music Center.
fanned by the searing winds. We drove
this lar
But no one in wealthy Orange County has
through blackened land to a trailer home
move 0
yet found a way to buy off the natural forces
that had escaped the conflagration and
The
that plague it. All over southern California,
met Ray Serrano, 80. He'd spent all day
Civil \
erratic Santa Ana winds, which probably
fighting flames nearby in what he called the
Irvine,
take their name from Santa Ana Canyon,
Indian way: flapping wet gunny sacks on
into a
bring hot, dry days and fire warnings.
hot spots.
almost
One November afternoon near El Toro,
"I worked as a cowboy on the Irvine
later V
the Santa Ana was gusting to 60 miles an
Ranch until I was 66," he said as his wife
time, t.
hour, shaking the orange trees as well as
served cold beer and homemade jalapeño
from L
eucalyptus trees planted as windbreaks. In
jam on crackers. "It used to be two dollars a
ty seat
the mountains to the northeast, hundreds of
day and board and bunkhouse, and it was
commu
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good,' he said. "When I quit, I came up here
In 1950 Orange County was primarily
e
so I could keep my own 20 head of cattle. But
rural. By the 1960s the new Santa Ana-
e
this land is being developed now. I got to
Anaheim-Garden Grove metropolitan area
e
move on. Maybe I'll go to Mexico."
was the second fastest growing in the nation,
The Irvine Ranch was shaped after the
behind Las Vegas, Nevada. The surge was
y
Civil War by a gruff entrepreneur, James
so disruptive that communities incorporat-
e
Irvine, who merged three early land grants
ed for protection. Dairymen established the
n
into an agricultural cornucopia that lay
town of Dairyland to keep developers out,
almost unchanged until 1950. A few years
cows and chickens inside, and taxes down.
e
later Walt Disney arrived. About the same
(Dairyland joined the urban rush in 1965,
e
time, the Santa Ana Freeway was completed
changing its name to La Palma; today it has
)
from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, a quiet coun-
nearly 16,000 residents and no dairies.)
3.
ty seat. Suddenly it was within 40-minute
As the county began to be bisected by
S
commuting range of swollen Los Angeles.
more freeways, these bedroom cities of the
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Newcomers in a land of immigrants,
some 67,000 Indo-Chinese refugees,
mostly Vietnamese, contribute to the
county's changing face. Only Los Angeles
County holds more Asian refugees in
the United States. A new market (left)
in a Vietnamese shopping center in
Westminster takes its yellow and red
colors from the flag of fallen South
Vietnam, whose former premier, Nguyen
Cao Ky (above), lives in nearby
Huntington Beach. But poverty daunts
many refugees, often resented by Anglos
and the largest minority, Hispanics.
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Goldfish in a straitjacket
serves as a useful subject for
studies of how the retina
connects to the brain. Dr.
Ronald L. Meyer conducts
this research at the University
of California's Irvine
campus, opened in 1965 and
now serving 10,000 students.
At American Edwards
Laboratories, workers mount
pig heart valves on frames for
human heart valve replacement.
Other medical devices made
here depend on sophisticated
computers, typical of
Orange County manufacturing
that helps generate
40,000 new jobs a year.
north were joined by an exodus of business
Orange County seems almost graphed: "Un-
and industry from Los Angeles, spurred by
til 1960 the businessman's uniform around
white flight and low labor unionization. The
here was blue denims, Hawaiian shirt, and
county also lured major sports franchises.
Top-Siders. Then a few real estate brokers
The former Los Angeles Angels of the
in dark suits and black wing tips were sent
American League were reborn as the Cali-
down from Los Angeles to open offices.
fornia Angels of Anaheim; the Los Angeles
They thought they were going to be martyrs,
Rams of the National Football League also
but they invested in land and made fortunes.
moved to Anaheim Stadium. Baseball's vet-
That's when outsiders began to take us seri-
eran Buzzie Bavasi, executive vice presi-
ously and moved in-particularly young
dent of the Angels, told us: "This is simply
people. It's a young population of doers It's
the hungriest sports market around."
what the people of southern California used
Land was the key to growth. Perhaps no-
to think of as southern California before it
where else in America does so much open
got like everyplace else."
land lie in the pincers of comparable popula-
tion growth. Don Koll, 48, a Californian
Ranch Spawns Building Boom
who has helped turn part of the ranchland
Vaster fortunes by far are being made in
into city, strode with us through lushly
land than were made in the California gold
landscaped business communities he has
rush. The ,000-acre Irvine Ranch, sold in
built near John Wayne Airport.
1977 for 337.4 million dollars to a private
Koll, who builds more than 100 million
consortium that includes Henry Ford II,
dollars a year in commercial property in
sells about 700 acres each year but still owns
western states, explained his zeal for Orange
one-sixth of the county.
County: "It's like you had built all of Los An-
On the original ranch have risen a 1,500-
geles," he told us, "and saved the best like
acre University of California campus, ten
Beverly Hills for the last. Los Angeles is full.
shopping centers, three golf courses, eleven
To build there, you have to tear down. Here
apartment communities, six marinas, busi-
there is flat, empty land, and people lining
ness centers, portions of several towns,
up to buy half-million-dollar houses."
and the new city of Irvine, incorporated in
For Koll, who moved with his family to
1971. A gulch that was about to become a
Newport Beach in 1958, the evolution of
county dump has been transformed into the
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grandiose Big Canyon Country Club; even
the Irvine Ranch opened in 1965 as the jewel
with memberships going for as much as
of the master plan. Its grounds are sur-
$80,000, there is a long waiting list. The
rounded by tawny rangeland. Set almost out
ranch's remaining 3.5-mile shoreline was
of sight from major thoroughfares, it faces
sold to the state as parkland. About 3,300
problems of community linkage. Its distin-
acres of orange groves remain, and 7,000
guished academicians, like physicist Fred-
acres planted in row crops and avocados.
erick Reines, a co-discoverer of the neutrino
Nearly 70,000 acres are still undeveloped.
who received the Oppenheimer Award in
The fantasies of Disney seem to have es-
1981, are better known in other parts of the
caped beyond the gates of Disneyland. On
nation than in Orange County. "If we were
Irvine acres, ranches look like planned com-
the leading business forecasting center of the
munities, and new communities like Medi-
West Coast, they'd all know about that,"
terranean villages. Churches may stand
the university's executive vice-chancellor,
alone in cattle pasture because they were
James L. McGaugh, told us.
master-planned to be there. Some look like
The university and the land-oriented
corporate showplaces, with mirrored glass
Irvine Company grope for common bonds.
skins, acute angles, rounded corners.
Some thought the new city of Irvine might
Neighborhoods grow around them.
form such a bond. Attorney Dennis Carpen-
The University of California's campus on
ter, former state senate minority leader,
Before the crowds roll in, Newport Beach offers a quiet morning roost to artist-
designer Ron Henderson and his macaw, Macky. A Los Angeles native, Henderson
painted 12 years in Europe before his 1979 move to Orange County, whose
changes he applauds. "This is where the promise is," he says. "And the beach."
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told us: "Irvine didn't exist as a city in 1970.
unionization is a lure-about half the rate of
Now it's the second biggest in area in the
California statewide.
county. The Irvine Company created the
Some industries are exotic. One night at
city that has become a monster lashing them
American Edwards Laboratories, in the
regularly on growth-control issues. Like
midst of a seven-mile-long financial and in-
any new city with sophisticated planning,
dustrial corridor, we watched workers un-
Irvine has become its own place; its leaders
load cases of iced pig hearts flown that day
resent outside interference.
from U.S. slaughterhouses to Los Angeles
Near El Toro, home base for most West
Airport. A waiting assembly line quickly
Coast U. S. Marine Corps aviation units, we
sorted them by the quality of their heart
found the ranch headquarters of the Irvine
valves, removed the valves, and cleaned
Company. Old frame ranch buildings were
and sterilized them for implantation into hu-
sheltered by stately eucalyptus windbreaks.
man patients across America (page 762).
At the general manager's desk, Fred Keller,
In a mirrored-glass headquarters rising
a smiling, open-collared farmer, told us he
like a space castle from green slopes, we
had no illusions that agriculture is more than
visited J. Robert Fluor, chairman of a six-
a holding action on this costly acreage.
billion-dollar firm bearing his name (page
"We have sort of strange problems," he
759). Fluor employs about 35, 000 people and
said. "Local sound ordinances, in effect
builds energy facilities from Kuwait to South
from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., mean less noise in
Africa and the Alaskan North Slope. Before
decibels than our talking here right now.
moving his base from Los Angeles, Fluor
Normal farm operations are curtailed at
polled his employees: 60 percent already
night. We take unusual care with pesticides.
lived in Orange County and commuted. Be-
But when people in these new towns all
cause traffic within the county ranks with ex-
around us get sore throats, they'll call me up
pensive housing as a threat to future growth,
and say, 'You been spraying?'
Fluor tries to counteract both problems by
Four cowboys oversee about 3,500 cattle
operating van fleets that shuttle employees
that serve as lawn mowers for close to 50,000
to and from homes as distant as 90 miles.
rolling acres still in rangeland. We left
Soft-spoken and religious, Bob Fluor is a
Keller's ranch office with livestock manager
major force in the Republican Party. But he
Bob Elder in his truck, his horse in the back.
and others told us the county's conservatism
During a long wait at a red light to cross busy
has been diluted in recent years by a surge of
Coast Highway, Elder grinned.
in-migration.
"I've got to drive six miles through this
"People in the East don't really under-
kind of traffic to where I can mount my horse
stand California politics very well," Fluor
and get movin'!" he said.
said as we sat in his lofty executive suite.
County Welcomes Rocketing Industry
"They've read about Orange County and its
presumed arch-conservatism, but we have a
Much of that traffic is related to the ava-
pretty even political party registration. Still,
lanche of industry into Orange County.
California seems three times as far from
Aerospace and electronics dominate, with
New York as New York seems from Califor-
facilities of Hughes, McDonnell-Douglas,
nia. If you travel, you soon see all the nuts
Rockwell International, Beckman Instru-
are not out here, I can guarantee!"
ments, and others. John Wayne Airport is a
His appraisal of the county's political
jungle of private aircraft and home of Air
balance was echoed by James McGaugh on
California. Despite stringent curfews, the
the University of California's Irvine cam-
airport ranks as the fourth busiest in the
pus. "When we moved here, my wife and I
nation in total takeoffs and landings, after
were almost the only two Democratic voters
Chicago's O'Hare, Long Beach, California,
in our precinct," he said. "Now the ballot
and Atlanta International.
stacks are about even. Orange County is a
Besides the aerospace industry, high-
very comfortable place to live. This is a
technology companies in computers and
buzzing, booming place of broad-gauge
pharmaceuticals have found a home in the
pragmatists. Right-wing extremism has be-
county. For all of them, relatively low labor
come a nonissue."
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The strength of the extremists has become
stores, 200 mall shops, four million square
diluted by the growth of technology and
feet of office space, and three hotels.
educational facilities, a procession of trans-
"People keep telling us there's no real fo-
planted corporate headquarters teams, and
cal point in Orange County," Peter Kremer,
the county's 286,000 Hispanics, 87,000
Irvine's 41-year-old president, told us.
Asians (many Vietnamese and Cambo-
"We're building one."
dians), and about 25,000 blacks. The stu-
Worshiping in a Glass House
dent body of the Irvine university is about
one-fourth Asian, black, and Hispanic.
But that lack is not what some residents
East of the university in the "golden trian-
mean when they talk of the shallowness of
gle" of a freeway junction, where strawber-
life in instant communities, or in crowded,
ries were being picked on the day we visited,
older ones. Churches try to fill the voids.
the Irvine Company plans to build a 480-
Some Orange County residents find solace
acre center. It will include eight department
within the imposing 16-million-dollar Crys-
tal Cathedral in Garden Grove (pages 754-
5), where we worshiped on a December
Sunday when 5,000 poinsettias brightened
10,660 panes of mirrored glass. Choreo-
graphed fountains dazzled the smiling con-
gregation as a procession of bell ringers
moved down the aisle and the Reverend
Robert H. Schuller produced his televised
"Hour of Power," beamed through the Unit-
ed States, Canada, and Australia with an an-
nual budget of more than 24 million dollars.
As the service began, two 90-foot glass
walls swung silently open so that the minis-
ter could be seen by drive-in worshipers
from their cars. He calls his church a "ser-
vice center for God," and his enterprises are
so diverse that the church has 42 listings in
the telephone directory.
Looking about at the congregation, we
marveled at the cheery faces. Many people
of Orange County seem fresh and uncom-
mitted, prone to quick fixes of body and spir-
it, enchanted with their place and time,
fancying their particular labors, and ab-
sorbed in the search for comfort, wealth,
leisure, and hope. Most are not disadvan-
taged. That morning the minister invoked
the name of John Wayne, an Orange County
resident for years, as a symbol of good.
Later we drove through the shaded streets
of older Santa Ana to Our Lady of Guada-
lupe Church on Central Avenue, where,
Mouth-watering specialties, from
each Sunday, four Masses are conducted in
avocados to strawberries (above),
Spanish, one in English. Families lingered
flourish in one of the state's more
productive farm counties. Yet agriculture
after Mass as if awaiting a traditional plaza
is considered by many only a holding
promenade in Guadalajara, the women in
operation until development comes.
lace mantillas, the men standing apart.
Irvine Company cowboys (facing page)
One night we talked to Mexicans in an
move Brangus and Brafords across
amiable queue outside Santa Ana's tiny
pastures near homes of Laguna Hills.
Western Union office. Many workers send a
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share of their wages via telegraph to families
"Neither local government nor industry
illegal
in Mexico. Several grinned when we asked
has faced up to its responsibility," Father
each (
why they didn't mail it.
Allan Figueroa Deck told us. He is the for-
"In Mexico," one said, "it is no good to
mer pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish
send money through the mails. Always the
church, and now director of the Roman
Th
telegraph."
Catholic mission to county Hispanics. He
in the
As of the 1980 census, Hispanics are the
concedes that Mexicans earn in one day here
becau
largest segment of Santa Ana's population.*
what they earn in a week in their native
Marin
But Hispanics have not achieved a propor-
land, and that their labor is essential to
Th
tionate influence in local government. So-
economic growth.
in a₁
cial services and schooling sag. Santa Ana
"But their sacrifice is culture shock. Their
towns
still has an all-white school board, and poli-
social life, their family patterns, their tradi-
Few S
ticians fret over the millions billed for medi-
tions collapse here. You cannot encourage
pressi
cal care of indigent aliens. (The Hispanic
or allow people to come, whether legally or
tition
community is fed by overnight bootleg shut-
housi
*Griffin Smith, Jr., looked at the Mexican Ameri-
tles from the Mexican border, bringing in
Th
cans' swelling numbers and growing ethnic awareness
illegal aliens at $300 each.)
in the June 1980 GEOGRAPHIC.
spoke
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Orang
Striking poses for art's sake,
volunteers portray Nicolas de
Largillière's "Louis XIV and His
Heirs" during Laguna Beach's 50-year-
old Festival of Arts. For the Pageant of
the Masters, some 40 works come to life,
accompanied by narration and
orchestra music.
bring out some possessions. Among them
was Nguyen Cao Ky (page 761), the former
South Vietnamese premier, who lives in a
Spanish-style house in Huntington Beach
and operates a liquor store nearby. "Later
arrivals," Ky said, "seem to have it harder."
Mrs. Jessie Thacker, principal of Cook
Elementary School in Garden Grove, where
as many as half of the pupils are Vietnamese,
studies their language by night. Texas born,
she is among many who seek to ease the new-
comers' path.
"First we had to explain to parents and
pupils that it was not a matter of whether we
would take them," she told us, "but how we
could best educate them. None of us knew
much of their culture. We searched for inter-
preters-I have three now-but my refugee
funds have expired, and the children speak
little or no English when they enroll. They
need three years to learn."
Another who strives is Nguyen Nhu To-
Oanh, a woman of 21 whose voice is as gen-
tle as a wind chime. Oanh (pronounced
Wan) left Vietnam for refugee camps in
1975. She works at the refugee center at
St. Anselm's Episcopal Church in Garden
illegally, and keep shoving them on top of
Grove, helping with daily classes in English
each other."
for 300 Asians from 17 to 57.
"Our people have opened restaurants,
Refugees Face Uphill Battle
food stores, and other shops," she told us.
The county has also had the largest influx
We saw their signs and banners along Bolsa
in the nation of Asian war refugees, mainly
and Westminster Avenues.
because many were processed at the U.S.
Do her people expect to return home
Marine Corps' nearby Camp Pendleton.
someday?
Their plight may be direr. As they cluster
"I think the new ones do," she said. "Just
in apartments in predominantly white
as used to think I would. Now we are work-
towns like Garden Grove, tensions grow.
ing. We know there is little chance, little
Few speak English; cultural trauma and de-
hope really to go back. And it would not be
pression are common. There is bitter compe-
the same."
tition with other minorities for limited jobs,
And her own dreams?
housing, and welfare aid.
"I did not allow myself to think about
The first wave of Vietnamese in 1975
dreams for a while," she said, "but someday
spoke some English and had been able to
I hope to go to California State at Fullerton.
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Maybe I will become a fashion designer.
require different boards for different surfs.
That is my American dream."
Custom-made boards sell for $300; serious
The campus that is Oanh's goal is the
surfers may own ten. At Dana Hills High
larger of the two four-year universities in
School, as at others along this coast, surfing
Orange County, with 26,000 students. Its
is taught for credit in lieu of gym classes.
program for disabled students has drawn
Pupils convene on the beach in wet suits at 6
1,000 persons.
a.m. The talk on campus is of new vari-
"It was relatively easy for us to meet fed-
ations in fast and maneuverable twin- and
eral standards for such a program," Paul K.
triple-fin boards.
Miller, director of Handicapped Students
End of an Era-Punk Debunked
Services, said. "Our campus is on flat
ground. Like so much else around here, it
The proximity of schools and beach is part
used to be an orange grove. Our walkways
of growing up in Orange County. Fads in
are flat, and our elevator-equipped build-
music, dress, sports, and slang flow back
ings are close together-easier for students
and forth. Punk-rock bands, formed in the
moving between classes with crutches,
1970s by bored, out-of-work British youths,
wheelchairs, and Seeing Eye dogs.'
soon appeared in Hollywood, then Hunting-
Another skillfully adapted plot of land has
ton Beach and Costa Mesa. Cases of vio-
become Roger's Gardens, across from New-
lence followed. Punkers with close-cropped
port Center, a showplace shopping-office
hair, dyed gaudy colors as part of a defiant
center that houses the Irvine Company
image, slashed out at society and each other
headquarters. A dazzling retail nursery, it
with broken bottles or knives. But both
ranks as a regional botanical shrine. Its cli-
punks and police agree the cult has ebbed.
entele is made up not of farmers but of the
"Orange County is too wealthy to spawn
owners of sprawling new estates behind
real dedicated punks," complained a Los
guarded walls, some selling for five million
Angeles punk musician.
dollars and more.
"That era is passing," said Steve Rogers,
The best addresses are in and around
28, a surfer and lifeguard at Huntington
Newport Beach and its harbor islands.
State Beach. "When a fight breaks out on
Those who claim status in Orange County
the beach, it's usually because the surf's
tend to descend not from Spanish grandees
down and it's crowded. Surfers have a terri-
but from old-line Angelenos, to whom all
torial attitude about a beach. There are a lot
Orange County ever meant was a weekend
of standoffs and stare-downs between old-
house at Newport Beach and perhaps a
timers and newcomers, but there isn't vio-
back-yard dock. These sheltered waters
lence in the air. I walk the beach every
offer many of the charms and challenges of
day and see punk hairstyles, mostly on
the Atlantic coast, but they offer them
teenagers. But surfing is still a clean sport
around the year.
out here."
Yachting and surfing are no longer mere
It was Angelenos driving down to New-
avocations; they have spawned industries of
port Beach who helped a farmer named
research and design. Orange County's
Walter Knott survive the Depression. Now
Hobie Alter, 47, who was a pioneer of
92, he began selling berries from a roadside
custom-made balsa, fiberglass, and foam
stand on ten rented acres in 1920. His wife
surfboards in the 1950s, built the speedy
added homemade jams and pies and began
twin-hulled Hobie Cat, one of America's
cooking chicken dinners for passing motor-
most popular weekend sailboats. Surfboard
ists. Their daughter, Virginia Knott, re-
shapers introduced the notion that surfers
cruited as a waitress from the first night,
Catch of the day-rockfish-lands a smile from Jay Brewer, 17, youngest fisherman
in the 12-man Dory Fleet whose morning hauls have gone on sale beside Newport
Beach pier since 1891. Camaraderie links the fleet, but each man works alone,
putting out in a pointed-bow dory to pull lines set the previous day. At 15 Jay built
his boat to join the life he considers "best in the world."
Escape to mountains and sea: The
California promise of individual freedom
materializes on a checkerboard of year-
round playgrounds. Windsurfing
(below), a cross between the perennial
California favorites of surfing and
sailing, is popular in protected harbors
along the Orange County coast.
In the rugged foothills of the Santa
Ana Mountains (right), those with
mechanical bravado live out their
fantasies at Saddleback Park. On 700
acres leased from the Irvine Company,
land-scarring trails attract dirt bikes
and other off-road vehicles. In the
distance Irvine Lake, stocked by the
company, offers trout, bass, and
bluegills. Such recreation is important
both to residents and the 750-million-
dollar-a-year tourist industry.
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remembers that they served eight dinners at
the original, tumbled by earthquake in
their living-room table and used their wed-
1812. Pageantry surrounding the return of
ding china.
the swallows to this mission each March per-
Knott, who became a kingmaker among
petuates venerable Spanish folklore. The
political conservatives, built Knott's Berry
oranges that still grow in the county are
Farm, a homey 150-acre spread that draws
Valencias, their stock brought from Spain.
5.5 million visitors a year to its rides, enter-
Rancher Richard J. O'Neill, who sold the
tainments, restaurants, and shops. It ranks
site for Mission Viejo to Philip Morris Incor-
third in attendance, after the Disney parks,
porated, showed us an aerial photograph of
among U.S. theme parks. It and Disney-
the property taken in 1964. It was houseless,
land have helped to make the Anaheim Con-
like most of the magnificent acres O'Neill re-
vention Center one of the seven largest in
tains east of San Juan Capistrano.
the country.
Stout and tousled, O'Neill combines en-
"But we're still farm people," Virginia
gaging warmth with stubborn determina-
Knott told us. "It's been a family partner-
tion to remain an Orange County and Old
ship through three generations. We were
West original. He and his sister inherited a
frightened out of our wits when we heard
sizable remnant of the vast Rancho Santa
Disney was coming. But Walt told my dad
Margarita, bought in 1882 by their grand-
there would be plenty for us all, and there
father and James Flood. Flood had parlayed
certainly has been."
his Comstock Lode into a banking fortune
and a Nob Hill mansion that is today San
Taking Pride in Swimmers and Floaters
Francisco's Pacific Union Club.
Unlike the Anaheim area, near Los Ange-
Before World War II the ranch was
les, the southern third of Orange County has
250,000 acres. Then the government bought
been slow to grow-until recently. Mission
180,000 acres for Camp Pendleton Marine
Viejo, with about 55,000 people, shows the
Corps Base. Its rugged, scruffy hills and cir-
civic pride of a newly established community
cling helicopters seem to stand ready for film-
in its Olympic swimming medalists. Its near
ing of an opening scene of TV's "M*A*S*H."
monopoly in recent years of the sweepstakes
"Of course, the Irvine Ranch is larger.
award in the Tournament of Roses Parade at
We're the Avis of Orange County," Mr.
Pasadena is the fruit of intense civic endeav-
O'Neill said, grinning as he swabbed a thick
or. Instead of hiring professional float deco-
slab of beef with hot sauce in his ranch
rators, developer Philip Reilly has enlisted
kitchen. He swallowed it happily. "When
citizens to go to Pasadena by the busload and
the government bought Pendleton, there
help build their prizewinners. "Somehow,"
went our 17 miles of shoreline. All we have
says Gavin Herbert, president of Allergan
left is 42,000 acres. Our main game is taking
Pharmaceuticals, "Phil has kept Mission
the land from agriculture into the 21st cen-
Viejo from being just a bunch of subdivi-
tury. The way Orange County is going, that's
sions. It has a hometown atmosphere."
about 25 years' worth of land." He peeled a
The Spanish influence reflected in its
banana and it disappeared in a flash.
name has been felt in this area since 1769,
That afternoon as cloud shadows scudded
when the Franciscan missionary Father
across his green valleys and gray hillsides,
Junípero Serra marched up from Mexico to
past wild holly and gnarled live oaks, he
begin building the chain of California mis-
drove us to his Thoroughbred ranch,
sions. A replica of his church at San Juan
walked us through the Cow Camp that has
Capistrano is being built near the ruins of
served vaqueros as a site for roundup and
Sold out before the rafters rose, a new neighborhood of $160,000 homes takes
shape in Mission Viejo. The planned community, begun in 1965, today boasts
55,000 inhabitants. But home ownership increasingly eludes middle-income
families in Orange County. It now requires developers of unincorporated areas
like Mission Viejo to build 25 percent of their units within the price reach of
families whose earnings fall around the $30,000 county median income.
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branding since 1882, and confided that he
was about to retire after his two-year term as
state Democratic Party chairman.
"In Orange County we Democrats out-
registered the Republicans a few years
back," he said, "for about 15 minutes. No
matter. Nearly half register Democrat, but
they mostly vote Republican."
Great View, Gloomy Observation
The county's best known Republican,
Richard Nixon, was born in the Quaker
town of Yorba Linda in the north, and re-
treated from Watergate and the White
House to live for a time at San Clemente in
Casa Pacifica, the sea-cliff estate that had
served him as western White House. In 1979
pharmaceuticals magnate Gavin Herbert
and his wife, Dorraine, bought the house,
On a Saturday afternoon we strolled with
their children and pets through acres of gar-
dens. It is a happier place than in the past.
The undergrowth that shielded Richard
Nixon from curious beachcombers has been
cut back to give a majestic sea vista.
In gazebos where Secret Service sharp-
shooters watched, there were board games
and books and the easel of daughter Pam
Herbert, an art student at the University of
Southern California. She also sprays old ten-
nis balls black and, using a Civil War can-
non from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer back
lot, gleefully fires harmless volleys among
the surfers offshore.
Upstairs in the study where Nixon spent
soul-searching hours, the new owner settled
into an easy chair and sat staring at the sea.
He is one of many who have made fortunes
from scratch in Orange County; when Aller-
gan was sold to the giant SmithKline Cor-
poration in 1979, he became SmithKline's
largest stockholder. He did not appear to
have nagging worries.
But, we learned, he has concerns, not un-
like those that had haunted us as we roamed
this bustling county.
"What do you like best about Orange
County?" we asked.
He never looked away from the gleaming
sea as he answered.
"The openness," he said softly. "The or-
ange trees. The feeling that there is room for
Early-bird roller skaters in Mission
P
everybody. The quiet. All the things we like
Viejo catch a rare glimpse of snow on the
C
county's highest elevation, Santiago
h
best are disappearing."
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MISCELLANY/ NEWSMAKERS AND MILESTONES
BODY:
Vice President George Bush put his political palate to the test last week
when he sampled the menudo at Santa Ana's Cinco de Mayo festivities ----------
consuming a spicy concoction of COW entrails, COW feet and chili.
Bush drew applause from a crowd of 6,000 when he praised Latinos for their
traditional family values and pointed out a Latino family connection of his own:
His daughter-in-law is a Mexican citizen, "and our three grandkids can habla
that Espanol, and I'm very proud of it, I'll tell you."
Later, at an elegant $200-a-plate fund-raising dinner for Rep. Robert K.
Dornan (R-Garden Grove), Bush praised Dornan's loyalty to the Administration
and promised quick retaliation against Libya or any other nation that sponsors
an act of terrorism.
"If we don't defend the cause of freedom, who will? If we don't stand up and
protect our people, who will?" the vice president asked. Times Staff writers Kim
Murphy, Mark I. Pinsky and Bill Billiter compiled the Week in Review stories.
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HEADLINE: BUSH TELLS ANAHEIM AUDIENCE U.S. WILL RETALIATE FOR TERROR
BYLINE: By LANIE JONES, Times Political Writer
BODY:
If Libya or any other terrorist nation sponsors an act of terrorism, the
United States will retaliate, Vice President George Bush said at the
Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim Sunday night.
When President Reagan decided to bomb Libya, the decision was not an easy
one, Bush said. But after Leon Klinghoffer was executed aboard the Achille
Lauro and after Seaman Robert Stethem was shot aboard TWA Flight 847, both after
hijackings, "we thought: If we don't defend the cause of freedom, who will? If
we don't stand up and protect our people, who will?" Bush said.
"And we acted. Not with pleasure. Not with any Rambo psychoses. But with
concern for the future of freedom if we did not act."
Bush was in Orange County to speak at a glittering $200-a-plate
fund-raising dinner for Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove).
Earlier in the day Sunday, Bush spoke at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in
Santa Ana Stadium, where the vice president drew applause from the crowd of
6,000 when he praised Latinos for their traditional family values.
And he drew on a Latino family connection of his own: His daughter-in-law is
a Mexican citizen, he said, and "our three grand kids can habla that Espanol,
and I'm very proud of it, I'll tell you."
Bush also singled out three Santa Ana natives, one an activist Democrat,
for praise. He mentioned attorney Mike Silva and businessman Bob Miranda, both
members of the Santiago Club, a Santa Ana business club that organized the
event as part of the community's Cinco de Mayo festivities. (The holiday marks
the Mexican army's victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862.)
But he then gave special attention to a third member, Democrat Miguel Pulido
Jr., 30, whose family successfully battled the city of Santa Ana to save their
muffler shop from demolition for redevelopment.
Pulido has been so successful, Bush said, that "I can't figure out why he
hasn't become a Republican yet." Pulido, a board member of Orange County's
Democratic Associates, said later that he is pleased by the attention both
Bush and Dornan lavished on him Sunday but that he does not intend to switch
parties.
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Later, at the evening fund-raiser for Dornan at the Disneyland Hotel, Bush
turned his attention to the congressman, who is seeking reelection to a second
term in his Orange County district. Bush praised Dornan for being "a loyal
supporter of President Reagan" and for helping prevent tax increases.
Bush said Dornan last year rounded up a third of his House colleagues and
got them to sign a letter saying that if Reagan vetoed a government spending
bill, they would back up the President.
"What Bob Dornan did, in effect, was to make the President's efforts to curb
spending veto-proof. Afterward, the President said: 'Bob, you made my day."'
Bush's appearance Sunday was expected to net more than $125,000 for
Dornan's reelection campaign.
As the fund-raiser began, about 100 pickets organized by the Hotel Employees
and Restaurant Employees Union Local 681 walked outside the hotel's Cerritos
Avenue entrance chanting: "Boycott the Disneyland Hotel."
Bush and his entourage successfully detoured around the pickets and arrived
at a different entrance.
The hotel's nearly 1,200 restaurant workers have been working without a
contract since Feb. 28. As the union had predicted, the picketing Sunday was
loud but orderly.
GRAPHIC: Photo, Protester at a Disneyland Hotel fund-raiser for Robert Dornan.
ANNE DOWIE
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May 5, 1986, Monday, Orange County Edition
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HEADLINE: CINCO DE MAYO MENUDO TESTS POLITICAL PALATE
BYLINE: By MARIA L. La GANGA, Times Staff Writer
BODY:
'A lot of us here are Mexicans, and we all can have fun.' - Nora Cortez
Vince Garcia said he was making "menudo for America, because I like what we
did to Kadafi, 50 I put a little elbow grease in it for the old U.S."
The 32-year-old Carson man, who headed one of 30 teams in a menudo cook-off
at the Santa Ana Bowl Sunday, said he usually concacts the spicy mixture for
hangovers, but hey, "by bombing Libya we got some self-respect back," and that's
as good a reason as any to dedicate his mix of cilantro, COW entrails, COW feet
(patas), New Mexico chili, hominy and a "secret ingredient."
"The magical powers are, if you have a bad hangover, the chili drains the bad
alcohol out of your system, and the tripe absorbs the bad stuff, too," Garcia
said.
It was a Cinco de Mayo celebration unlike all others Sunday at the Santa
Ana Bowl. For starters, it was actually Cuatro de Mayo, although no one seemed
to be counting. And then there was no mistaking the mix of patas and politics.
While an estimated 6,000 celebrants in casual dress packed the downtown
stadium to listen to mariachis, drink beer and cook menudo, a large handful of
gray-suited Secret Service men with earphones and attaches cased the joyful
crowd, adjusting their dark glasses and stepping gingerly over toddlers napping
on the lawn.
By 2:45, the black-clad SWAT teams had arrived, marching stoically past
coin-toss games and cotton candy vendors, jostling their way through the small
bunches of nacho-eating festival goers, carting their cases of high-powered
rifles up to the top of the stadium press box.
By 3:10, the helicopters began circling the festival, flying low over the
grizzled old men in cowboy hats, the children sporting balloons with emblems
ranging from Garfield the cartoon cat to the Mexican flag, over signs
proclaiming "Burritos, Carnitas, Churros, Nachos, Tacos, Fried Rice, Egg Roll,
Teriyaki," and the fenced-in enclosure for the "ninos perdidos, lost children."
Most of the participants at the annual two-day festival spent the day
celebrating Mexico's independence from French rule, which was secured in the
1862 Battle of Puebla. Said Nora Cortez, an 18-year-old Santa Ana resident:
"I'm here to have fun. I hardly go out, but I decided to this time. A lot of us
here are Mexicans, and we all can have fun."
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But many were there because of Vice President George Bush, who made his
Cinco de Mayo debut in Santa Ana on Sunday wearing a light-blue guyabera, or
men's summer formal shirt, and tasting menudo.
"Ola," Bush said, as SWAT teams perched on the Orange County Courthouse
watched the cheering crowd, "y buenos dias
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But the finale was Bush's show of cultural elan, when he, wife Barbara,
Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove) and Dornan's wife, Sallie, spent 15
minutes in a hot-seat they were not used to, as official tasters of competition
menudo.
Cinco de Mayo festivities were also held in Anaheim and San Juan Capistrano
over the weekend, even though the celebrated day, May 5, is not until today.
The day starts early, with Aztec and folkloric dancers, as part of a daylong
cultural event that begins at 8 a.m. at Cal State Fullerton's University Center
Amphitheater.
At UC Irvine, a Latino student group today begins a week of Mexican cultural
events, including a performance by singer Jesus Negrete at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the
Cross-Cultural Center.
GRAPHIC: Photo, Vice President George Bush and his wife, Barbara, sample spicy
menudo during the Cinco de Mayo festival Sunday in Santa Ana. DON KELSEN / Los
Angeles Times
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