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Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. fax
Kathleen Brown for Governor Campaign (5 pages)
8/16/94
Personal Misfile
002. letter
From: Bill Press, California Democratic Party, To: Ricki Seidman, Re:
9/13/94
Personal Misfile
Schedule (3 pages)
003. itinerary
Kathleen Brown Dinner Program (1 page)
9/15/94
Personal Misfile
004. schedule
Schedule for Hillary Rodham Clinton, Draft #1 [partial] (2 pages)
9/19/94
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] September 18, 1994
2014-0483-S
sb428
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)|
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information |(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information |(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information |(a)(4) of the PRAJ
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRAJ
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells ((b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
9/18/94
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
ROUTING SLIP
DATE: 9,12,94
FROM: Ricki Seidman
Assistant to the President
and Director of Scheduling and Advance
SUBJECT: academic Decathlon Los angeles
Joan Baggett
Anne McGuire
Rebecca Cameron
Mack McLarty
Lloyd Cutler
Leon Panetta
Rahm Emanuel
John Podesta
Mark Gearan
Jack Quinn
David Gergen
Carol Rasco
Jack Gibbons
Bob Rubin
Cindy Gire
Patti Solis
Pat Griffin
G. Stephanopoulos
Marcia Hale
Ann Stock
Alexis Herman
Stephanie Streett
Nancy Hernreich
Christine Varney
Harold Ickes
Joe Velasquez
Phil Lader
Melanne Verveer
Anthony Lake
Maggie Williams
Bruce Lindsey
Tony Wilson
Sept18
grace garcia
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FILE:
FYI
ADVICE
ACTION
COMMENTS: We will try to do in California on
Sept18019 - Rich
consider op oft back May 11,
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when
- ACCEPT
- REGRET
PENDING
Ricki Seidman
Check
TO:
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FROM:
Joan Baggett
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on
REQUEST:
For President Clinton to do a photo op in
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Washington D.C. with the National Academic recommed.
Decathion Champions from Taft High School
near Los Angeles, CA.
PURPOSE:
To recognize the best Academic Decathlon Team
in the country as well as the public school
system in Los Angeles.
BACKGROUND:
The Academic Decathlon is a nationwide
competition in the areas of math, science, and
the liberal arts where schools compete at the local
level and advance until there is one national
champion. Taft is last year's runner-up and this
year's champion. Congressman Anthony Beilenson,
one of our priority members, has strongly
requested this event.
DATE/TIME:
Open, event could be done in ten minutes.
REMARKS:
LOCATION:
White House (location flexible).
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Photo Spray.
RECOMMENDED BY:
Political Affairs.
CONTACT:
Tom Epstein: xx66257
Schedule Proposal
May 11, 1994
ACCEPT
- REGRET
PENDING
TO:
Ricki Seidman
FROM:
Joan Baggett
REQUEST:
For President Clinton to do a photo op in
Washington D.C. with the National Academic
Decathlon Champions from Taft High School
near Los Angeles, CA.
PURPOSE:
To recognize the best Academic Decathlon Team
in the country as well as the public school
system in Los Angeles.
BACKGROUND:
The Academic Decathlon is a nationwide
competition in the areas of math, science, and
the liberal arts where schools compete at the local
level and advance until there is one national
champion. Taft is last year's runner-up and this
year's champion. Congressman Anthony Beilenson,
one of our priority members, has strongly
requested this event.
DATE/TIME:
Open, event could be done in ten minutes.
REMARKS:
LOCATION:
White House (location flexible).
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Photo Spray.
RECOMMENDED BY:
Political Affairs.
CONTACT:
Tom Epstein. xx66257
ANTHONY C. BEILENSON
WASHINGTON OFFICE:
24TH DISTRICT. CALIFORNIA
2485 RAYBURN BURDING 203 15-0524
(202) 225-5911
COMMITTEE ON RULES
Congress of the United States
WOODLAND HILLS OFFICE:
21031 VENTURA BOULEVARD 91384-8400
CHAIRMAN
(818) 999-1990
SUBCOMMITTEE ON RULES or THE HOUSE
house of Representatives
THOUSAND OAKS OFFICE:
Hashington, DC 20515-0524
200 N. WESTLAKE BOULEVARD 91
3783
COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET
(805) 696-4333
May 11, 1994
President Bill Clinton
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I write with respect to Taft High School, whose team of nine
students recently became the National Academic Decathlon
Champions, scoring more points than any other school in the
history of the United States Academic Decathlon.
I am especially proud of this achievement as this public
high school is in the Congressional District I represent, and the
students are my constituents.
As you are well aware, Los Angeles is recovering from a
severe earthquake, and many of the homes and schools in the San
Fernando Valley sustained tremendous damage to their structures.
For this team of students to excel during such a difficult period
is a testimony to their outstanding strengths and commitment to
education. This was a momentous accomplishment.
For these reasons, I feel that it is very important to be
able to grant the one honor that has not yet been bestowed upon
these young people: to meet and be recognized by the President of
the United States. These students have already been recognized
by the State of California and City of Los Angeles, and their
academic achievements have been lauded. But, as the enclosed
letter so ably states, the one honor that would mean the most is
a meeting with the President of the United States.
I certainly understand that the many requests that you
receive make it impossible for you honor all of them, but I do
hope that this particular request will warrant the special
attention that I feel it deserves.
Sincerely,
ANTHONY C. BEILENSON
Member of Congress
Continuation of House Proceedings of April 25, 1994,
No. 46; and Proceedings of April 26, 1994. Issue No. 47.
Congressional Record
United States
of America
PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 103d CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
Vol. 140
WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1994
No. 47
House of Representatives
TRIBUTE TO TAFT HIGH SCHOOL,
WOODLAND HILLS, CA
HON. ANTHONY C BEILENSON
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, April 26, 1994
Mr. BEILENSON. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of
In March Taft defeated 42 California public
myself and my constituents in California's 24th
and private schools to place first in the State,
Congressional District, I am honored to call
and the team went on to the national match,
my colleagues" attention to the achievement of
competing against 41 States and the District
Taft High School of Woodland Hills, CA. This
of Columbia in 10 events, including math, fine
month, for the second time in 5 years, Taft
arts, economics, science, and literature. The
won the national championship of the U.S.
competition also included a gameshow style
Academic Decathion, the "Super Bowl" of sec-
super quiz that tested students' knowledge of
ondary-school academics. The nine-member
19 important documents, such as the Camp
team recorded the highest score in the 13-
David accords.
year history of the event, as well as the high-
1 congratulate the team members, their
est individual score. and won the more than
coach. Arthur Berchin, and the Taff faculty and
half of the $30,000 in scholarships awarded to
student body for this very special achieve-
Individual students.
ment. Their high level of excellence-espe-
The team members, who claimed five of
cially in the face of both today's tight school
nine awards for individual high scores, in-
budgets and the often unfair criticism of our
cluded: top student, Daniel Bedichevsky, 17;
schools and students-shows what can be ac-
Chris Huie, 17; Michael Michrowski, 17; Shel-
complished through dedication and hard work.
don Peregrino, 18; Rebecca Rissman, 17; An-
Taft continues to be a credit to our city and a
drew Salter, 17; Kimberly Shapiro, 16; Ste-
role model for other schools to follow.
phen Shaw, 16; and Sage Vaughn, 17;
I am enormously proud to be able to bring
These nine high school students and their
Taft's outstanding achievement to the attention
academic coach, Arthur Berchin, began pre-
of the Members of the U.S. Congress.
paring for the decathion last summer. After
competing with classmates for a place on the
Taft team, the students took practice tests
every day after school and studied over week-
ends and holidays, even after the January
17th earthquake damaged their homes and
school.
Joni,
THE
DRAFT #1
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Grace Garcia
FROM:
Sharon Kennedy
DATE:
September 15, 1994
RE:
Airport Greeters in LA
Following are the RSVP's for the Greeters at the aiport in LA on
Sunday.
YES:
Controller Gray Davis
Chairman Brad Sherman
Supervisor Chairwoman Yvonne Burke
NO:
Lt. Governor Leo McCarthy
St. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi
Council Member Marvin Brade (Taft HS)
Council Member Hal Bernson (Northridge)
TENTATIVE:
Mayor Richard Riordan
Supervisor Ed Edelmun
School Board President Mark Salvkin (Taft HS)
Council President John Ferraro
Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions.
Thanks.
cc: M. Hale
L. Avent
J. Hart
K. Mason
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SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. fax
Kathleen Brown for Governor Campaign (5 pages)
8/16/94
Personal Misfile
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] September 18, 1994
2014-0483-S
sb428
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency |(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information |(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors |a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRAJ
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
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DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
002. letter
From: Bill Press, California Democratic Party, To: Ricki Seidman, Re:
9/13/94
Personal Misfile
Schedule (3 pages)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] September 18, 1994
2014-0483-S
sb428
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRAJ
b(1) National security classified information |(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRA
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute |(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA|
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells |(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
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DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
003. itinerary
Kathleen Brown Dinner Program (1 page)
9/15/94
Personal Misfile
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] September 18, 1994
2014-0483-S
sb428
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRAJ
b(1) National security classified information |(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRAJ
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRAJ
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
h(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors |a)(5) of the PRA|
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy |(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells |(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1994
DRAFT #1.
Scheduling Desk:
Julie Hopper
202-456-7561
office
202-456-2317
fax
202-387-6842
home
1-800-514-7828
WHCA #4096
PREV RON
The White House
NO PUBLIC SCHEDULE
RON
The White House
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WASHINGTON, DC:
WASHINGTON, DC EVENTS:
KENNEDY CENTER:
- Shear Madness
- Miss Saigon
- Flyin' West:
- NSO w/Conductor Andrew Litton
ARENA STAGE:
- The Perfect Gnash
FORD THEATRE:
-- Foreigner Comedy
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1994
DRAFT #1
Scheduling Desk:
Julie Hopper
202-456-7561
office
202-456-2317
fax
202-387-6842
home
1-800-514-7828
WHCA #4096
PREV RON
The White House
NO PUBLIC SCHEDULE
RON
The White House
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WASHINGTON, DC:
WASHINGTON, DC EVENTS:
KENNEDY CENTER:
Dem e in coult
- Shear Madness
- Miss Saigon
- Flyin' West
- NSO w/Conductor Andrew Litton
ARENA STAGE:
WA. State hear
- The Perfect Gnash
FORD THEATRE:
- Foreigner Comedy
Day Richardson
479
5153
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1994
DRAFT #1
Scheduling Desk:
Julie Hopper
202-456-7561
office
202-456-2317
fax
202-387-6842
home
1-800-514-7828
WHCA #4096
PREV RON
The White House
Feinstein
Will Rujbot Alland
NO PUBLIC SCHEDULE
Tom
event briefings
RON
The White House
lists
- political trietings
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WASHINGTON, DC:
WASHINGTON, DC EVENTS:
KENNEDY CENTER:
5 min remails?
- Shear Madness
- Miss Saigon
- Flyin' West
Little league
1
Photos
Academic decatholon
open arnival(1) open arnival(2)
cong Bilensori
Marsha Scott
2
State Party clutch
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DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
004. schedule
Schedule for Hillary Rodham Clinton, Draft #1 [partial] (2 pages)
9/19/94
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Liz Bowyer
OA/Box Number: 3986
FOLDER TITLE:
[HRC Daily File] September 18, 1994
2014-0483-S
sb428
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRAJ
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute |(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency |(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information |(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors |a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1994
DRAFT #1
Scheduling Desk:
Julie Hopper
202-456-7561
office
202-456-2317
fax
202-387-6842
home
1-800-514-7828
WHCA #4096
PREV RON
The White House
9:00 am
(b)(6)
004
XXXX am-
XXXX am
PVT MTG w/Maggie Williams & Patti Solis
HRC's Office
XXXX am-
XXXX am
PVT MTG w/Maggie Williams
HRC's Office
10:00 am-
10:15 am
DROP BY V.
(b)(6)
004
HRC's Office
CLOSED PRESS
PARTICIPANTS:
- HRC
(b)(6)
004
FORMAT:
- Informal drop by
NOTE: WH Photographer will be present.
Contact:
(b)(6)
212/891-2442 (w)
004
10:15 am-
11:00 am
OFFICE/PHONE TIME
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1994
PAGE 2
XXXX am-
XXXX am
PRIVATE MEETING [TIME TBD]
HRC's Office
CLOSED PRESS
PARTICIPANTS:
- HRC
- Mayor Jacques Chirac of Paris, France
- Melanne Verveer???
-
FORMAT:
- Informal meeting
NOTE: WH Photographer will be present.
Staff Contact: Julian LeBourgeois 456-9151
12:30 pm-
12:45 pm
(b)(6)
004
12:45 pm-
1:45 pm
LUNCH
1:45 pm-
4:30 pm
OFFICE/PHONE TIME
4:30 pm-
4:55 pm
TEA
Yellow Oval Room
CLOSED PRESS
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1994
PAGE 3
PARTICIPANTS: Approx. 8-10 expected to attend
[See briefing book for complete list]
FORMAT:
-- Informal mix and mingle
Staff Contact: Ann Stock
4:55 pm
PROCEED to Blue Room
5:00 pm-
XXXX pm
RALPH LAUREN RECEPTION
East Room
Attire: tbd
PRESS??
PARTICIPANTS: Approx. 180 expected to attend
[See briefing book for further info]
FORMAT:
-- Stage participants are announced from the Blue
Room
HRC gives welcoming remarks and intros Susan
Blumenthal;
-- Susan Blumenthal gives brief remarks and intros
Dr.
Lipman;
--
Dr.
Lipman gives brief remarks and intros
Ralph Lauren
-- Ralph Lauren gives brief remarks and intros HRC
-- HRC delivers remarks, closing remarks and
invites guests to proceed to the State Dining Room
for reception
RECIEVING LINE???
Staff Contact: Ann Stock, Melanne Verveer
RON
The White House
ECONOMY
The state Public Utilities Commission returned on the 15th to
discuss a telephone company proposal, opposed by consumer groups,
to raise basic phone rates and lower local toll changes. The plan
would reduce by 40 percent the charges for local toll calls.
Monthly charges, however, would rise 35 percent. Consumer groups
argue that the poor and the elderly will end up paying more
because they make fewer local toll calls.
The merger of Ralphs Grocery Co. with the owner of the Alpha
Beta, Boys, Viva and Food 4 Less stores creates a $2.5 billion
company that will rival Vons Cos. as Southern California's
biggest supermarket chain. According to company officials, the
merger makes sense because it eliminates duplicate operating
costs. They also believe that a year from, now more people will be
working for the company than now.
Hughes Aircraft Company will close its huge Fullerton aerospace
complex causing the elimination of 800 to 1000 jobs. Additional
cuts from factories in El Segundo, Long Beach, and Santa Barbara
will mean the further loss of 4400 jobs in the next 16 months.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chief Willie Williams ordered a sweeping reorganization of LAPD
management by demoting Assistant Chief Bernard Parks to Deputy
Chief with a pay cut. Deputy Chief Bayan Lewis was promoted to
Assistant Chief and Cmdr. Dave Gascon to deputy chief. After
threatening to sue, the city brokered an agreement with Parks
allowing him to resign with full pension. Williams gave no
specific reason for the shake-up only indicating that he wanted
the department to continue to move forward.
HEALTH CARE
The AARP and two major labor unions announced their backing of
proposition 186 which would create a single payer medical system
in the state. Under the measure, a state-run insurance program
would be offered as an alternative to private health insurance.
The state would collect a 2.5% surtax on all taxable income.
Corporations would pay a payroll tax of 4.4% to 8.9% depending on
the number of workers.
EDUCATION
The Los Angeles teachers union voted overwhelmingly to accept the
new contract offered by the school district. The contract
includes an 8 percent pay restoration for the 1994-95 school
year, after teachers took a ten percent pay cut in 1992 to help
the district balance its budget. Helen Bernstein, President of
the teacher's union, said, however, that they don't intend to
surrender in their salary wars with the school district. Many
teachers reluctantly agreed to the contract.
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Report: States Spend Millions for Aliens' Education, Health Care, Prison
By KIM I. MILLS= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) The seven states with the largest numbers of undocumented
aliens will spend nearly half a billion dollars this year to imprison aliens
convicted of crimes, according to a gövernment-commissioned study.
Those states, led by California, also spent $3.1 billion to educate
undocumented aliens in fiscal 1993, and $422 million on their Medicaid costs,
according to the analysis released Wednesday by the Urban Institute.
The study, commissioned by the federal government and based on data from
official government sources, did not calculate the net costs of undocumented
immigrants on state budgets.
`Furthermore, there is no consideration whether the federal government
should reimburse states and local areas for costs incurred because of the
presence of undocumented aliens or how such reimbursements should be
allocated,' the authors wrote.
The analysis was undertaken in response to complaints by the states that
the federal government should pay some of the costs of educating, imprisoning
and providing emergency health care for undocumented aliens.
Four of the seven states Texas, California, Arizona and Florida have
sued the federal government to recover some of this money. The other states in
the study were New York, Illinois and New Jersey.
The 199-page study, titled '`Fiscal Impacts of Undocumented Aliens:
Selected Estimates for Seven States, examined the cost of providing the
three services and the revenues generated by three types of taxes. It made no
attempt to measure undocumented aliens' contributions to the states' economies
as workers, business owners or consumers.
It was based on U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that
3.4 million undocumented aliens lived in the United States in October 1992. A
total of 86 percent of those, or 2.9 million, lived in the seven states that
were the focus of the study.
The report found that 395 illegal aliens were incarcerated in the seven
states in March 1994. California has a disproportionate share, and its cost of
incarcerating them was much larger than the other states' $368 million, the
report found. The next highest state was New York, $45 million.
The report estimated that 641, 000 undocumented alien children were
enrolled in public schools in the seven states in 1993-94. Of the $3.1 billion
spent by the seven states to educate these children, California accounted for
$1.3 billion, according to the study. This was 40 percent less than the
state's own estimate of what it paid.
The researchers questioned the reliability of states' data on Medicaid
costs for illegal aliens. They developed ''benchmarks,'' or estimated ranges,
to assess the costs reported by the states.
They found California and Texas reported Medicaid costs well above the
benchmark ranges, while Arizona, Florida, New York and New Jersey reported
costs considerably lower than the benchmarks. Illinois was on target,
according to the study.
The report estimated that undocumented aliens paid $1.9 billion in sales,
property and state income taxes in 1992.
Florida sued the federal government in April, seeking $1.5 billion
roughly what it says it will cost over two years to provide education, health
care, prison beds and other services to an estimated 345,000 illegal
immigrants.
Within weeks, California filed a similar lawsuit, seeking nearly $2
billion for the cost of imprisoning illegal immigrants. That suit seeks $377
million to cover the cost of incarcerating about 16, 700 illegal aliens this
year. It also argues that California should get compensation for the prisons
already built to hold illegal immigrants. Gov. Pete Wilson's administration
estimated the prisons cost $1.6 billion.
Arizona filed suit in May, demanding that the federal government reimburse
it more than $121 million for the cost of imprisoning illegal aliens convicted
of felonies.
Texas sued the government in June for nearly $370 million for the cost of
providing health care to illegal immigrants.
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AM-CA--People-Allende,180
Allende Bashes Anti-Immigrant Initiative
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Chilean author Isabel Allende is speaking out against
a controversial state initiative that would limit services to illegal
immigrants.
The author of "The House of the Spirits'' called Proposition. 187
`fascist in essence and mean in spirit, and added that her family ''didn't
come here to take but to give.
Allende, a resident of San Rafael, made her comments during a rally at San
Francisco City Hall that was staged by a coalition of activists opposed to the
' 'Save Our State'' initiative, as backers nicknamed it.
The novelist fled her native Chile in 1973 after her uncle, Salvador
Allende, was killed during a violent military takeover. She settled in San
Rafael with her children.
Her first and best known novel, "House of the Spirits, was made into a
movie starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons,
Proposition 187 would deny public schooling, non-emergency medical care
and social services to undocumented residents. Police would be required to ask
anyone they arrest about their citizenship and immigration status:
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Political Survivor Pete Wilson Bounces Back, Leads Re-Election Polls
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AP Photos
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By DOUG WILLIS= AP Political Writer=
SACRAMENTO (AP) Gov. Pete Wilson is back on top in the latest polls for
re-election, despite the political wounds of four years of unrelenting natural
and economic disasters in California.
He leads Democrat Kathleen Brown, his attractive, mediagenic opponent, by
nine points in the latest Los Angeles Times poll.
Wilson's zigzag, middle-of-the-road policies have alienated both liberals
and conservatives during his four years as governor. His monotone speeches are
long on numbing detail and short on inspiration.
But Wilson is a tenacious political survivor.
He trailed Brown by up to 23 percentage points in polls a year ago, when
his job performance rating hit a record low 15 percent. From certain political
death he has staged a remarkable comeback.
The Nov. 8 election will be Wilson's third confrontation with the Brown
family, the state's Democratic dynasty, in three decades.
In 1962, Wilson, then a 29-year-old law school graduate, was a campaign
advance man for Richard Nixon during the future president's unsuccessful
governor campaign. Nixon was defeated by incumbent Pat Brown, Kathleen Brown's
father.
In 1982, Wilson, then mayor of San Diego, defeated Kathleen Brown's
brother, Gov. Jerry Brown, in a race for the U.S. Senate. Wilson left the
Senate after eight years to run for governor in 1990.
Wilson, 61, has spent three-quarters of his adult life in elected office
five years in the state Legislature, 11 as mayor of San Diego, eight in the
U.S. Senate and four as governor. He lost only one election in three decades,
a 1978 campaign for the GOP nomination for governor.
Wilson has defeated now-U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein for governor,
then-Reps. Pete McCloskey and Barry Goldwater Jr. for the Senate nomination
and Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy in two Senate campaigns.
He started most of those campaigns as the underdog and fought to narrow
victories. Rivals describe him as a dogged foe who seldom inspires but rarely
makes mistakes.
Bill Press, chairman of the California Democratic Party, describes Wilson
as ''the toughest SOB in California politics
a
very
skilled
campaigner.
The former Marine's re-election campaign this year is built on the premise
he is "tough enough'' to manage the problems that have devastated California
during his four years as governor.
They range from drought and earthquakes to crime, economic recession and
the post-Cold War slashing of California's defense industry.
'We've cut taxes. We've reformed workers compensation. We've slashed red
tape,' the Republican governor says. ''We in fact are going to make
California shine again. We're going to make California safe, safe for jobs,
safe for job creators, safe for families.
Most of all, Wilson is campaigning against crime. Despite a decline in
incident rates, crime has grown astronomically as, a voter concern due to
high-profile news ranging from the Los Angeles riots to the Polly Klaas
murder.
'Nothing is more important to the people of California than to guarantee
the most fundamental of rights, to be free of crime, said Wilson, who signed
a ""three-strikes'" life sentencing law for repeat felons and sought even
tougher penalties for rapists, child molesters and arsonists.
Fighting illegal immigration, which Wilson blames for taking $2.7 billion
a year in services and benefits away from legal residents, is the other
central theme of his campaign.
Those are also issues, along with the economy, on which Brown attacks
Wilson for failing to provide leadership. ''Pete Wilson's legacy is no legacy.
He is a governor without promise, Brown says.
While crime, immigration and the economy have grown into more serious
political problems under Wilson, polls show that on all three issues voters
have more confidence in him than in Brown.
In some cases, disaster may have helped rather than hurt Wilson.
His tough-enough-for-the-job, can-do image got a boost from the Los
Angeles earthquake earlier this year, when his administration rebuilt and
reopened the Santa Monica Freeway, the nation's busiest highway, in 2&1/2
months.
Still, it's been a rough road back to a political pulse for Wilson.
Faced with deficits of up to $14 billion annually due to the national
recession and cuts in defense spending, Wilson has steered
a zigzag fiscal course in compromises he offered to share the pain among all
interests.
He raised some taxes while lowering others, imposed record college fee
hikes while courses were being reduced, cut deeply into most state programs
and ran up record deficits.
Conservatives tarred and feathered an effigy of Wilson at a Republican
state convention, labeling him a traitor to his party for raising taxes.
Similarly, environmentalists who once counted Wilson as the No. 1 Republican
ally have condemned him for sacrificing environmental protections to stimulate
economic development.
Democrats criticize him as a heartless and failed governor while teachers'
unions and students cast him as the No. 1 enemy of education. Only the state
prison system has grown under his administration.
''He's alienated the right, and the middle and left don't like him. The
antipathy to Wilson is overshadowing everything else, pollster Mervin Field
said less than a year ago.
At the same time, the media-savvy Brown daughter of one governor and
sister of another was enjoying a series of glamor-struck national print and
television profiles which wrote Wilson off or ignored him while in some cases
doing everything but electing Brown by acclamation.
But while Brown has stumbled politically, Wilson was quietly
rehabilitating himself and rebuilding fences.
He hammered out a workers compensation and regulatory relief legislative
package last year which was widely praised by business leaders and bolstered
his claims of helping California's economy. At the same time, his anti-crime
message was resonating with voters.
Although voters in the Times Poll were evenly divided over his job
performance, with 47 percent each approving and disapproving, Brown's
popularity has been slipping. And Wilson has made gains on key indicators,
favored by 2-1 over Brown as best to fight crime and by 4-3 as best prepared
to manage the economy.
Polls say voters have never been enthusiastic about Wilson, and still
aren't, but that he has won their respect. The latest Times Poll reported that
the No. 1 reason voters gave for supporting Wilson was simply that he was
''doing the best he can.
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PM-CA--Phone Rates, Bjt, 450
EDs: Lead planned before 11 a.m. with PUC action.
PUC Takes Up Higher Rates, Lower Toll Charges
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By BOB EGELKO= Associated Press Writer=
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) After a one-year detour, the state Public Utilities
Commission returns today to a telephone company proposal, opposed by consumer
groups, to raise basic phone rates and lower local toll charges.
The plan also includes allowing long-distance companies to compete for
local toll service, now monopolized by Pacific Bell and GTE California.
Customers could reach one of those companies by dialing a special access code.
The proposal unveiled by the PUC in July would reduce by 40 percent the
charges for local toll calls, those of more than 12 miles that are within one
of the state's 11 local phone service areas.
Starting Jan. 1, basic residential monthly charges for Pacific Bell, which
has 9 million customers, would rise by 35 percent, from $8.35 to $11.25. GTE,
which has 3.1 million customers, would raise monthly rates by 56 percent, from
$11.20 to $17.49.
Phone companies say savings from the toll cuts and new competition would
offset the service charge increases and help the economy by encouraging more
toll calling. But consumer advocates like San Francisco-based Toward Utility
Rate Normalization say most residential customers will pay more, particularly
the poor and elderly, who make few local toll calls.
The PUC, controlled by appointees of Gov. Pete Wilson, has eased
regulatory controls on energy and communications utilities and shifted some
rate burdens from businesses to residential customers. Commission members say
they want to promote competition and set rates closer to the cost of serving
each group of customers.
The commission voted a year ago for a similar rate-shift plan, with even
steeper increases in basic service charges. The plan was to have taken effect
this year but was shelved after disclosures that a Pacific Bell official had
been allowed access to PUC staffers the night before the vote, in violation of
PUC rúles, and had actually written part of the commission's order.
The incident prompted legislators to pass a bill that would have forbidden
private contacts with PUC members after the public comment period on any
issue, strengthened open-meeting standards for the commission, and required
all proposed decisions to be circulated to the public 30 days before a vote.
Wilson vetoed the bill, saying portions of it went too far. Several of its
provisions, including the requirement for advance circulation of all PUC
decisions, were also contained in separate bills now on the governor's desk.
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Magistrate Backs Challenge to Wilson's Power To Block Parole
Eds: Moved Earlier for AM Use
By BOB EGELKO= Associated Press Writer=
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Ever since 1991 when Gov. Pete Wilson first used his
power to block a convicted murderer's release, attorney Dennis Riordan has
insisted the action was unconstitutional.
Riordan's argument that the state was using a new law to increase
prisoners' punishment retroactively was rejected by state courts in two
separate decisions the lawyer doggedly attributed to politics.
But now, after three years, he has his first glimmer of hope in federal
court.
A U.S. magistrate in Sacramento has recommended that a federal judge order
the release of a San Diego man convicted of a 1977 murder. The prisoner was
found suitable for release by the parole board in 1991, only to have his
parole vetoed by Wilson.
The governor was using the authority to overrule the parole board that was
granted under a November 1988 ballot measure. The initiative gave him the
final say on any decision granting or denying parole.
But federal Magistrate Gregory Hollows, in a July 27 decision, ruled that
the Constitution prohibited Wilson from blocking the parole of any prisoner
whose crime was committed before November 1988.
If the decision stands and defendant Robert Johnson goes free, he's likely
to be followed by at least 10 other prisoners whose paroles have been thwarted
by Wilson, Riordan's office said.
California has about 6,000 prisoners, nearly all convicted murderers, who
were sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for pre-November 1988
crimes. The ruling could affect any of them who persuade a future parole board
that they are suitable for release.
The case has a long way to go, though. Hollows' decision, attacked by the
state, is under review by U.S. District Judge David Levi. His decision is sure
to be appealed.
Politically, the case is comfortable for Wilson, who is cast as the
defender of longer imprisonment for murderers as well as the will of the
voters who passed the 1988 law. Legally, the governor is on less-certain
footing, particularly in the federal courts, which have recently rejected
some of his welfare cuts and overturned two California death sentences.
In a ruling that could be crucial to the case, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals decided this February that another California law, postponing
annual parole review of some imprisoned murderers, could not be applied to
those who committed their crimes before the law passed. The state has appealed
that ruling to the Supreme Court.
The dispute dates back to 1983, when a state appeals court ruled that
then-Gov. George Deukmejian had no power to block the Board of Prison Terms'
release of William Archie Fain, a convicted murderer-rapist from Stanislaus
County.
In response, voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional
amendment in 1988. It specifies that no parole board decision becomes final
for 30 days, a period in which the governor can modify or veto either a grant
or a denial of parole.
Wilson, the first governor to use the law, blocked 11 paroles between 1991
and 1993, upheld six others either intact or with modified conditions.
No one has questioned the governor's power to overrule the parole board.
But Riordan argues that the U.S. constitutional ban on ex post facto laws
those that apply new criminal penalties to acts already committed was
violated when Wilson used the new law to block the paroles of pre-November
1988 convicts.
State lawyers reply that the law doesn't increase punishment because it
doesn't change any inmate's actual sentence of up to life in prison, and it
allows the governor to grant as well as deny parole.
'Although (the governor's) review might have been a negative factor for
any given inmate, the process is neutral on its face and neutral in its
application, said Deputy Attorney General James Ching in papers filed with
Judge Levi.
California's courts have sided with Wilson. The 3rd District Court of
Appeal ruled 3-0 in 1992 that the new law was merely ''a procedural change to
add a level of executive review'' and could help or hurt individual prisoners.
After the seven-member state Supreme Court unanimously denied review,
Riordan turned to the federal courts, saying he had more faith in life-tenure
federal judges than in elected state judges. His first client was Johnson, who
had been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in 1977 and was found
suitable for parole by the board 14 years later. A day before his scheduled
release in October 1991, Wilson intervened and kept him in prison.
The case was referred to Magistrate Hollows, who found, contrary to the
state's position, that the 1988 law was intended to, and actually works, a
lengthening of punishment.
Quoting ballot arguments that urged voters to protect themselves from the
''early release of murderers,' Hollows said the law's sole purpose and effect
was to let the governor block paroles. He also said the U.S. Supreme Court has
established that the delay of an inmate's release from prison is punishment,
even if the inmate's original sentence is unchanged.
Wilson could not constitutionally use his power over parole decisions to
block Johnson's release, the magstrate concluded, because that power did not
exist when Johnson committed his crime.
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Illegal Immigrants Use Billions More Than They Pay In Taxes, State Says
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By STEVE FARR= Associated Press Writer=
SACRAMENTO (AP) The state taxes paid by California's illegal immigrants
don't cover the costs of providing them with services, according to two new
studies.
A Wilson administration report found that illegal aliens will receive at
least $2.7 billion more in state services than they will pay in state taxes.
State officials said that's not surprising given illegal immigrants' low
incomes.
''Low-income legal residents also use more in services than they pay in
taxes, said the report released Wednesday.
The state survey was released on the same day as a federal report by the
Urban Institute that concluded illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers a
net $1.8 billion last year.
Administration officials said the state report by the Office of Planning
and Research and the California Department of Finance lent support to Gov.
Pete Wilson's call for federal reimbursement.
'This report, we hope, will lead to some legitimate action on the part of
the federal government,' said Russell Gould, director of the Department of
Finance.
The state's review of 16 separate studies found that California's 1.7
million illegal immigrants will consume $3.4 billion in state-funded services
in fiscal year 1994-95 while paying the state just $739 million in taxes.
Most of those services $2.4 billion worth are mandated by the federal
government, the report said. They include $1.5 billion spent on public
education, $474 million for incarcerating illegal immigrants, and $395 million
for Medicaid and other health care programs.
Illegal immigrants also will use $1 billion worth of other state services
this year, including courts, roads, parks, and environmental protection, the
report said.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates there are 1.7 million
illegal aliens in California, or 5 percent of the state's population.
California is home to 43 percent of the nation's illegal aliens, but has 71
percent of the illegal immigrants incarcerated in U.S. prisons.
The state cost estimates do not include the costs to states and counties
of arresting and holding illegal immigrants in jails, nor do they include the
costs of emergency services and local health programs for the indigent.
The state report coincided with the release of a federal report on the
impact of illegal immigration in seven states. That study, conducted by the
nonprofit Urban Institute for the Office of Management and Budget, found that
illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers $1.8 billion this year.
Wilson said the Clinton administration should insist that Congress pass a
supplemental appropriations bill before it adjourns in three weeks to cover
the costs of immigration to California and other states.
Enough is enough, Wilson said in a statement. ''No more foot-dragging,
stonewalling and stalling.'
The Urban Institute, the Washington D. C.-based research arm of the
National League of Cities, estimated that incarceration costs for illegal
adults as of March were $367 million, or $19 million more than the state's
estimate.
The institute's report also pegged education costs at $1.3 billion, or
$200 million less than the state, and placed health care costs between $113
million and $166 million, well below the state's figure of $350 million.
The institute also estimated that illegal aliens contribute just $732
million to state coffers, $7 million below the state's figure.
"The Urban Institute agrees in large part with the assumptions that
California has made,'' said Wilson spokeswoman Leslie Goodman. 'We've had
enough studies and California can't wait any longer. We need action, we need
reimbursement and we need it now /
California is one of five states including Texas, Arizona, Florida and
New Jersey that have sued the federal government to recover some of the money
spént on illegal aliens.
Florida sued the federal government in April for $1.5 billion, the
estimated cost for two years of providing education, health care, prison beds
and other services to an estimated 345,000 illegal immigrants.
California filed a lawsuit within weeks, seeking nearly $2 billion for the
cost of imprisoning illegal immigrants. The suit seeks $377 million to cover
the incarceration of about 16,800 illegal aliens this year and $1.6 billion in
compensation for the prisons built to hold them.
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PM-CA- California Digest, 1, 060
California AP News Digest
Thursday PMs
Here are the top stories. in sight at this hour for PMs of Thursday, Sept.
15, 1994. The supervisor in Los Angeles is Niko Price, followed by John
Antczak, and can be reached at (213) 626-1200. The supervisor in San Francisco
is Elizabeth Weise, followed by Karyn Hunt, and can be reached at (415)
621-7432. For photos in Los Angeles, call (213) 626-2500. For technical
problems, call Los Angeles at (213) 626-5833 or San Francisco at (510)
463-9180. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
O.J. SIMPSON
Sources: Final DNA Tests Link Simpson to Crime Scene
LOS ANGELES Final DNA tests show some of the evidence found at
a bloody murder scene matches the blood of O.J. Simpson, sources said, as the
athlete' lawyers tried to suppress gloves, watch caps and 100-odd other
items that could be used against him in court, it was reported today.
Slug PM-CA--Simpson-Slayings.
By Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch.
As Legal Bills Soar, O.J. Liquidates Stock Holdings
LOS ANGELES As the bill for his all-star legal team soars, O.J. Simpson
has begun liquidating more than a half-million dollars in stock holdings he
acquired while serving on four corporate boards.
Slug PM-CA--Simpson-Stock.
By Business Writer E. Scott Reckard.
San Francisco Coroner Declines Offer to Testify in Simpson Case
LOS ANGELES Prosecutors want San Francisco's medical examiner to testify
against O.J. Simpson in the upcoming murder trial, but officials say they
can't spare Boyd Stephens.
Slug PM-CA--Simpson-Coroner.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Illegal Immigrants Use Billions More Than They Pay In Taxes, State Says
SACRAMENTO The state taxes paid by California's illegal immigrants don't
cover the costs of providing them with services, according to two new studies.
Slug PM-CA--Illegal Immigration.
By Steve Farr.
Illegal Criminals Forming Gang in California Prisons
SAN DIEGO Criminals who are illegal immigrants have formed a violent,
mercenary gang inside state prisons, a gang expert warned the California Board
of Prison Terms.
Slug PM-CA--Illegal Criminals.
By Amanda Covarrubias.
With:
PM-Illegal Aliens.
PHONE RATES: PUC Takes Up Higher Rates, Lower Toll Charges
SAN FRANCISCO After a 1-year detour, the state Public Utilities
Commission returns today to a telephone company proposal, opposed by consumer
groups, to raise basic phone rates and lower local toll charges.
Slug PM-CA--Phone Rates. Lead planned before 11 a.m. with PUC action.
By Bob Egelko.
MERVIN FIELD: Field Poll Founder Says Governor's Race Close
SAN FRANCISCO Michael Huffington probably won't get to tack a senator's
title before his name, and Kathleen Brown had better change her tactics if she
wants to be governor, the founder of the Field Poll says.
Slug PM-CA--Field Talk.
By Lisa Alcalay Klug.
With:
PM-CA--Times Poll
GEORGE BURNS: Comedian Improving, Enchanting Nurses With Mirth
LOS ANGELES George Burns is recovering steadily from the surgery that
removed fluid from the Oscar-winning comedian's brain, doctors say, and his
manager said the 98-year-old entertainer still has his sense of humor.
Slug PM-CA--George Burns. AP Photos LA12, LA110 of Sept. 14.
By Jeff Wilson.
SUPERMARKET MERGER: Ralphs-Alpha Beta Merger OK'd
LOS ANGELES The merger of Ralphs Grocery Co. with the owner of the Alpha
Beta, Boys, Viva and Food 4 Less stores creates a $2.5 billion company that
will rival Vons Cos. as Southern California's biggest supermarket chain.
Slug PM-CA--Supermarket Merger.
By Business Writer E. Scott Reckard.
WILSON PROFILE: Political Survivor Pete Wilson Bounces Back
SACRAMENTO Gov. Pete Wilson is back on top in the latest polls for
re-election despite, the political wounds of four years of unrelenting natural
and economic disasters and the challenge of an attractive, mediagenic
opponent.
Slug BC-CA-ELN--Wilson Profile. AP Photo. With Bio Box.
By Doug Willis.
BROWN PROFILE: Brown, Believer in ''California Dream.
IRVINE, Calif. She grew up believing in the California Dream the promise
of good jobs, a home, wide-open freeways, top schools and unlimited
possibility. A lot has changed since Kathleen Brown's father was governor.
Slug BC-CA-ELN--Brown Profile. With AP Photo. With Bio Box.
By Sally Streff Buzbee.
PARAMOUNT-SALHANY: Ex-Fox Executive to Head New Paramount TV Network
LOS ANGELES Lucie Salhany, who was the first woman to head a television
network before she resigned from Fox Broadcasting Co., was named president and
chief executive officer of Paramount's new TV network.
Slug PM-CA--Paramount-Salhany.
By Television Writer Lynn Elber.
PLANE MISHAP: 747 Blows Tires On Takeoff, Lands Safely
LOS ANGELES Flying over the Pacific Ocean, the passengers on Thai
Airlines flight 1771 were told there was a technical problem as they watched
fuel stream out of the jet. In fact, the plane had blown at least two tires
during takeoff, but it landed without incident.
Slug PM-CA--Airliner Mishap.
By Michael White.
WILSON-PAROLE: Magistrate Backs Challenge to Wilson's Parole-Blocking
Power
SAN FRANCISCO Ever since 1991, when Gov. Pete Wilson first used his power
to block a convicted murderer's release, attorney Dennis Riordan has insisted
the action was unconstitutional.
Slug: PM-CA--Wilson-Parole.
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Report: Police Chief Orders Assistant to Retire or Take Cuts
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LOS ANGELES (AP) In their first meeting since a public demotion earlier
this week, Police Chief Willie Williams told his No. 2 man to accept the pay
cut, pension reduction and lower rank or retire within 10 days, it was
reported today.
The ultimatum came during a Wednesday morning meeting in which Williams
served Assistant Chief Bernard Parks with his demotion papers and the two
exchanged harsh words, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing unnamed police
officials.
As the two met, a police officer began packing up the personal belongings
in Parks' office, the Times reported.
The Daily News of Los Angeles cited an unnamed police officials who
described the meeting as tense.
A lawyer for Parks said his client was weighing whether to file
a lawsuit against the city in an attempt to save his job.
''He's considering all his options, said attorney Skip Miller.
Another lawyer for Parks, Barry Levin, said Williams had made several
errors in handling the demotion, including failing to give the assistant chief
adequate notice of the pending action. But Gary Greenebaum, a member of the
Police Commission, said he believed the proper procedures had been followed.
Wednesday's 20-minute meeting was the first between the officials since
Williams announced a sweeping reorganization of LAPD management on Monday.
Parks was abruptly demoted to the rank of deputy chief, and Deputy Chief
Ronald Banks was promoted to fill Parks' role in a new position, first
assistant chief.
The chief promoted Deputy Chief Bayan Lewis to assistant chief and Cmdr.
David Gascon to deputy chief.
Accepting the demotion could cost Parks an estimated $15,000 a year in
lost salary and more than $500 a month in pension payments for the rest of his
life.
Police pensions are based on an officer's last salary, so Parks would lose
the money unless he stayed with the department and eventually regained a
position as an assistant chief.
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PM-CA--Supermarket Merger, Bjt, 750
Ralphs-Alpha Beta Merger OK'd
Eds: Also moving on financial wires
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By E. SCOTT RECKARD= AP Business Writer=
LOS ANGELES (AP) The merger of Ralphs Grocery Co. with the owner of the
Alpha Beta, Boys, Viva and Food 4 Less stores creates
a $2.5 billion company that will rival Vons Cos. as Southern California's
biggest supermarket chain.
The deal had been delayed several days by France's Banque Paribas, which-
owns 10 percent of Ralphs' stock, over concerns that majority shareholder
Edward DeBartolo Corp. was getting a better deal.
That dispute was resolved and the agreement was signed Wednesday, said
Byron Allumbaugh, chairman of Compton-based Ralphs.
Allumbaugh will be chief executive of the emerging Ralphs Grocery Co.,
which will have about $5.3 billion a year in sales. The chairman will be Ron
Burkle, who heads Yucaipa Cos., the Century City-based owner of the other
markets, and Yucaipa's Food 4 Less Supermarkets Inc., which operates them.
They described the merger as friendly and in the strategic interests of
both companies.
'Both management groups have been instrumental in bringing these
companies together, Burkle said.
Two kind of stores will be operated: Ralphs supermarkets and Food 4 Less
warehouse grocery stores. The Boys, Viva and Alpha Beta names will be
eliminated. Some too-small and duplicate stores will be closed but the
company plans to open about 24 large new markets, Allumbaugh said.
The 100 or so new jobs at each of those markets will help offset the
effect of the inevitable layoffs that follow mergers, at least in terms of the
numbers of workers at the company.
''I think a year from now we' 11 have more people working for us than we do
now, Allumbaugh said.
Other savings will come from applying Ralphs' advanced electronic
management systems and from lower overall advertising costs in newspapers,
radio and television.
'We'll probably save $20 million to $30 million a year in advertising
alone, Allumbaugh said.
The two companies presently operate 368 supermarkets throughout Southern
California, 25 in Northern California and 38 in the Midwest.
The merged chain will include about 360 locations 280 Ralphs and 80 Food
4 Less warehouse stores in about a year, Allumbaugh said.
Because the chains overlap so little Ralphs is stronger in Los Angeles
and much of Orange County, Yucaipa in outlying and inner-city areas there are
only about 20 stores in the same trade areas.
Some closures will result, Allumbaugh said. In other cases, the company
will operate one store as a supermarket, the other as a cheaper-priced
warehouse. Prices will fall at Yucaipa's many inner-city stores as Ralphs'
more efficient operating methods take hold, Allumbaugh predicted.
Discussions are under way with government antitrust overseers. Allumbaugh
said he believed the anti-competitive problems could be worked out within a
week.
The merger will create a company with about 22 percent to 23 percent of
the overall Southern California market, the same as Vons, and a slightly
higher percentage in Los Angeles. Lucky has about an 18 percent share, meaning
there will be three major supermarket competitors in Southern California.
Those shares are far less than in many other major markets. Washington,
D.C., Denver and Chicago have chains with more than 50 percent market share,
and in San Francisco Safeway and Lucky have about 40 percent each.
The merger makes sense because it enables the companies to eliminate
duplicate operating costs at a time when non-traditional competition is
heating up, Allumbaugh said. Old-line supermarkets these days must compete
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against Price Club, Wal-Mart and Smart & Final stores, just to name a few.
The current Ralphs shareholders, led by the DeBartolo real estate concern,
bought their stakes from Federated Department Stores during that company's
bankruptcy proceedings in 1992. Yucaipa is paying them $500 million plus
assuming $1 billion in Ralphs debt, valuing the company at $1.5 billion.
The deal values Yucaipa at $1 billion, putting the worth of the merged
company at $2.5 billion.
Financing for the merger will include additional investment from Apollo
Investors, a limited partnership that already has a major stake in Burkle's
companies. Apollo is headed by Leon Black, once a top executive with 1980s
junk-bond giant Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.
It will carry a heavy debt load of about $2 billion, but Allumbaugh noted
that cash flow from the current Ralphs operations is more than enough to
handle the interest payments. Ralphs' cash flow was about $230 million this
year.
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PM-CA--SoCal Briefs, 500
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LOS ANGELES (AP) They were trying to locate water pipes to avoid
rupturing them in the future. Instead, the crew punctured an eight-inch main,
flooding an intersection and cutting water service off to a Hollywood already
beleaguered by subway construction.
About 20 businesses were forced to spend the day without water.
"These people have no idea what the hell they' re doing!" said Stan
Seiden, president of the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
'We apologize, MTA spokeswoman Andrea Greene said. 'We know how
extremely frustrating this is.
The break occurred when Metropolitan Transportation Authority construction
crews "exposed pre-existing cracks in an eight-inch water line'' at the
intersection of Argyle Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard.
The eight-inch pipe, installed in the 1920s, had existing cracks which
began to leak as crews worked nearby, said MTA spokeswoman Andrea Greene.
Streets in the neighborhood about a mile from Wednesday's problem were
previously closed when the ground underneath it was weakened by subway
tunneling.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) A mother whose son was murdered has hired a
nationally renowned criminal sketch artist after police failed to produce
clues about his killer.
Alice Sommer is determined to find the killer of her 23-year-old son Kenny
Paul, and his friend Chen Cosmo Maui Blanchard, also 23. Both were murdered in
this surfside town March 31 shot to death after leaving a restaurant on Main
Street.
Sommer called sketch artist Jeanne Boylan after seeing her featured in a
magazine. Boylan has drawn more than 7,000 sketches in her 16-year career.
Many have been used in high-profile cases, including the kidnaping of
12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
With descriptions from two witnesses police had interviewed, Boylan
sketched a composite drawing of a suspect.
''I felt at a dead end,'' Sommer said at a news conference Tuesday to
release the drawing. "I need to do this as a mother.
Huntington Beach police said their investigation is still open but has
stalled as tips dried up.
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COMPTON, Calif. (AP) More than two dozen shouting parents demanded more
Hispanic officials and employees be hired in the Compton Unified School
District at an elementary school.
'We are not represented in all aspects of this school, parent Angelina
Gonzalez said at the gathering Wednesday.
A flyer written in Spanish was distributed days before the gathering,
calling for parents to state grievances at McKinley Elementary, said district
superintendent Harold Cebrun.
The group of about 30 protesters met at 2:30 p.m. and were forced off
campus when it closed at 4 p.m. because they didn't have
a permit to gather there, he said.
The parents said their children are not getting the bilingual education
they need because the school is dominated by blacks.
''Our PTA, our school council, everything in here all these forums,
(are run) by black Americans, African Americans. We don't want them out, we
want them in. But we want to be in together with them, Gonzalez said.
The last four of five principals hired in the district, which is more than
50 percent Hispanic, were Hispanic, Cebrun said.
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PM-CA--Illegal Criminals, 0560
Expert Tells Prison Panel Illegal Criminals Forming Mercenary Gang
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By AMANDA COVARRUBIAS= Associated Press Writer=
SAN DIEGO (AP) Criminals who are illegal immigrants have formed a
violent, mercenary gang inside state prisons, a gang expert warned the
California Board of Prison Terms.
Members of the gang have banded together in the last eight years to
protect themselves against U.S. gang members in prison who harass them, said
Carlos Chacon, a San Diego Police Department sergeant who works with gang
members on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
'These are the most violent, aggressive inmates,' Chacon said Wednesday.
''These individuals don't care if they' re deported. They have nothing to
lose.
The board is holding three hearings to hear ways to renegotiate
a U.S. -Mexico treaty that allows the United States to return undocumented
criminals to serve their prison terms in their home countries.
But reformists say the treaty is flawed, noting that in the past 5&1/2
years only five prisoners have been returned to Mexico.
They also point out that there's no guarantee inmates will serve their
full sentences in Mexico if they're sent there, and that undocumented felons
have to agree to be deported. Most decline.
More than 20, 147 undocumented felons are in California prisons, making up
16 percent of the total prison population, said Joe Sandoval, secretary of the
Youth and Adult Correctional Agency.
Illegal immigration remains a hot topic nationally, especially in
California, which has sued the federal government to recover nearly $2
billion for the cost of imprisoning illegal immigrants.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown called this week for a
border blockade in California like one in El Paso, Texas. Gov. Wilson began
running ads encouraging Californians to call President Clinton and demand
action against illegal immigration.
And voters will be asked Nov. 8 to decide on Proposition 187, which would
deny school, health and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants.
John Nielsen, chairman of the Board of Prison Terms, said the state does
not deport serious, violent offenders such as drug traffickers, but only those
who commit more low-level crimes.
Gov. Pete Wilson directed the panel to hold the hearings, also scheduled
for Santa Ana and Fresno.
Although he has no jurisdiction over the international treaty, Wilson
plans to present his recommendations to the Clinton Administration, said a
Wilson spokeswoman.
Even when criminals who have served their California prison sentences are
deported to Mexico, they often return to the United States and commit more
crimes, Chacon said.
To prevent that revolving door, they should be returned to the interior of
the country, where they have less chance of re-crossing the border, he
súggested.
And the United States should monitor Mexican prisons to make sure
criminals are serving their sentences.
'Without these checks and balances, it's not going to work, Chacon
said.
Gangs of criminal illegal immigrants have become savvy in how to buck the
system, he said.
They learn English in language classes offered in jail and they memorize
the names of Los Angeles high schools and U.S. hospitals to tell officials
where they were supposedly born.
\This country has created a system of criminals who are Mexican
nationals, Chacon said. "They know our system and they take advantage of
the system we have.
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Poll Finds Voters Likely to Pass Immigration Measure
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LOS ANGELES (AP) A California ballot measure that would deny schooling,
health care and other services to illegal immigrants has overwhelming voter
support, according to a poll published Wednesday.
Proposition 187 is favored by 62 percent of those likely to vote in the
November election while only 29 percent oppose it, according to the Los
Angeles Times Poll.
Registered voters favor the proposition by nearly the same margin.
The survey found support for the measure crossed demographic lines,
winning wide acceptance from both Democrats and Republicans, conservatives
and liberals, and voters of all ages, sexes, incomes and educational levels.
Proposition 187 would cut off welfare and medical benefits to illegal
aliens and kick undocumented children out of public schools. The school
provision likely would spark a court fight because a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court
decision declared that undocumented children are entitled to public education.
Critics say 187 is anti-Hispanic because that group comprises the majority
of illegal aliens in California. Mexico also has condemned the proposition and
said it will work to defeat it.
But the poll found even Hispanic voters favored the measure by 52 percent
to 42 percent.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated in 1992 that
there were 786,000 Mexicans illegally in California. Gov. Pete Wilson claims
they cost the state $3 billion in services each year a figure challenged by
other studies and initiative supporters blame them in part for the state's
prolonged recession.
Among registered voters, 90 percent felt illegal immigration was
a problem, the poll found.
Asked why they would vote for Proposition 187, 34 percent of those
surveyed checked the answer: 'We've got to do something about illegal
immigration.'
The nebulous nature of that response shows the support isn't based on
details of the ballot measure, said poll director John Brennan.
"Much of the pro-187 momentum seems founded on sheer frustration rather
than on specifics, Brennan said. ''It's as if some people are saying: 'Do
something, anything, no matter what it is.
On another controversial measure, the poll found likely voters support
Proposition 184 by 59 percent to 29 percent.
The so-called `three strikes' initiative mirrors state legislation that
took effect this year that calls for prison sentences of 25 years to life for
third-time felony offenders.
Voters apparently don't know enough about two other propositions to form
opinions.
Proposition 186 calls for a state-run health system, and Proposition 188,
a measure backed by the tobacco industry, would establish statewide smoking
restrictions which could override stricter local ones.
About two-thirds of the likely voters said they hadn't heard enough about
the measures to form an opinion on them.
The poll of 1,502 adults including 1, 165 registered voters and 721 likely
voters was conducted from Sept. 8 through Sunday. It has a margin of error of
plus or minus- 4 percent for likely voters and 3 percent for registered voters.
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PM-CA--Times Poll, 320
Poll Shows Feinstein's Lead Over Huffington Slipping
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Sen. Dianne Feinstein's lead over challenger Mike
Huffington is slipping, but the incumbent Democrat still holds
a nine-point advantage in November's election, according to a poll published
today.
Feinstein was nine percentage points ahead of the Republican congressman
from Santa Barbara among registered voters, 49 percent backing Feinstein and
40 percent backing Huffington, according to the Los Angeles Times poll.
The lead was smaller among respondents who said they were likely to vote
on election day 49 percent to 43 percent, the survey found.
In March, a Times poll found Feinstein 30 percentage points over
Huffington, but after a relentless television attack on Feinstein's record
and character Huffington has gained ground. A poll in May showed her lead
dropping to 52 percent to 38 percent.
But while the advertisements apparently have caused some voters to move
away from Feinstein, they haven't created a broad base of support for her
challenger, according to the survey.
Some 54 percent of voters, and almost half of Huffington supporters, said
they didn't know him well enough to have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of
him.
The rest of the voters were split 23 percent on each side between a
favorable and an unfavorable view of Huffington.
Feinstein's favorable rating among registered voters was 42 percent in the
poll.
The poll, conducted Sept. 8 to Sept. 11, surveyed 1, 165 registered voters,
including 721 who said they were likely to vote in November. The margin of
error for registered voters was plus or minus three percentage points, and it
was plus or minus four percentage points for likely voters.
The survey also found that President Clinton's favorable rating has
dropped from 59 percent in March to just 44 percent among registered
Californians in the latest poll. Almost half of the respondents said they
disapprove of Clinton's job performance.
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BC-CA--Political Fundraiser, 290
Former U.S. Cabinet Secretaries Stumping for Sybert
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Former U.S. Cabinet secretaries William Bennett and Jack
Kemp put their names behind Republican congressional candidate Richard Sybert
as he campaigned to beat Democratic incumbent Rep. Anthony Beilenson.
About 400 people attended a $150-a-plate breakfast for Sybert at the
Warner Center Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, which followed a $500-a-head private
reception with Kemp and Bennett. The events raised about $75,000, said Sybert
campaign manager James Vaughn.
'Want to change America? Change Congress, Kemp told the audience.
'Every stupid piece of legislation that infringes upon and disenfranchises
the American people has arisen from the Democrat-controlled Congress' in the
last 30 years, he said.
Sybert is one of only three California hopefuls getting help from Bennett
and Kemp at campaign fund-raisers.
Voters in the 24th District, which stretches from Sherman Oaks to Thousand
Oaks and Malibu, are split about evenly between the two major parties.
Sybert, an attorney and businessman making his first run for public
office, is among the best-financed congressional challengers in the nation.
But Beilenson, a Democrat who has been in Congress for 18 years, also is
getting some help from the national level, said his campaign manager Craig
Miller.
Vice President Al Gore attended a Beilenson fund-raiser July 16, and Donna
Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Human Services, is expected to attend a
future fund-raiser, Miller said.
Kemp, an ex-congressman and former housing secretary under President Bush,
is regarded as a likely GOP presidential candidate in 1996.
Bennett, former education secretary and ex-drug czar, also was viewed as a
contender until his recent announcement that he will not seek the Republican
nomination in 1996.
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PM-CA--Calif. Digest Briefs, 0974
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Gloves, knit caps and a script are among some 100 items
O.J. Simpson's lawyers are trying to suppress, and sources close to the case
say some final DNA evidence matches with the athlete's blood, it was reported
today.
Final DNA tests point to Simpson as the source of at least two of the
blood drops found near the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman,
the Los Angeles Times reported today.
Tests of genetic material gathered as evidence are still being conducted
by two laboratories and some of the tests are inconclusive, but a batch of
final results were forwarded to defense lawyers and prosecutors this week, the
Times reported.
Tests of such material could provide some of the most damaging scientific
evidence against the football Hall of Famer who has pleaded innocent in the
slaying of his ex-wife and her friend.
"The judge has directed us not to discuss the evidence and I'm going to
honor that, lead defense attorney Robert Shapiro said.
Simpson's defense lawyers have pursued an aggressive assault on the
physical evidence in the case, saying it was gathered illegally or in a sloppy
fashion.
The defense's evidence suppression motion filed Wednesday, an amendment to
papers submitted earlier, listed 112 items of evidence.
New items on the inventory from Simpson's bedroom included two sets of
gloves, two caps, a black knit head scarf, dark shirts and the TV movie script
titled ''Frogmen'' which featured Simpson as an ex-Navy commando.
A knit watch cap was found outside the condominium where Ms. Simpson, 35,
and Goldman, 25, were found slain on June 12.
Simpson, 47, has pleaded innocent and is scheduled for trial Sept. 26.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Michael Huffington probably won't get to tack a
senator's title before his name, and Kathleen Brown had better change her
tactics if she wants to be governor, the founder of the Field Poll says.
''I don't predict elections,' Mervin Field said, however. '''m always
ready for the next set of data to change my mind.
The polling expert, whose independent Field Poll is widely recognized as a
sound measure of voter opinion, discussed the November elections Wednesday at
a luncheon sponsored by the local chapter of Radio-Television News Directors
Association.
Although Republican Gov. Pete Wilson previously trailed Brown by 20 poll
points, polls show he is now slightly ahead of the Democratic contender, Field
said.
''That's a very close race, he said. 'Kathleen Brown is the underdog.
She can't continue the way she has the past two months.
Turning to the U.S. Senate race, Field said Huffington, a Republican from
Santa Barbara, made a dramatic impact by spending about $10 million on
television commercials.
His ads sharply criticize incumbent opponent Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat
from San Francisco, but Huffington is being scrutinized by reporters, Field
said.
"Right now, I'd be very surprised if he were to win,'' said Field, who
expects to release his next poll in a few weeks.
However, a poll by the Los Angeles Times released today found that
Feinstein's lead over Huffington is slipping, although the incumbent Democrat
still holds a nine-point advantage in November's election.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) The state taxes paid by California's illegal immigrants
don't cover the costs of providing them with services, according to two new
studies.
A Wilson administration report found that illegal aliens will receive at
least $2.7 billion more in state services than they will pay in state taxes.
State officials said that's not surprising given illegal immigrants' low
incomes.
'Low-income legal residents also use more in services than they pay in
taxes, said the report released Wednesday.
The state survey was released on the same day as a federal report by the
Urban Institute that concluded illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers a
net $1.8 billion last year.
Administration officials said the state report by the Office of Planning
and Research and the California Department of Finance lent support to Gov.
Pete Wilson's call for federal reimbursement.
'This report, we hope, will lead to some legitimate action on the part of
the federal government, said Russell Gould, director of the Department of
Finance.
'Enough is enough, Wilson said in a statement. ' 'No more foot-dragging,
stonewalling and stalling.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif. (AP) Visa is using missile detection technology to
combat credit card fraud.
The technology, similar to that used in guided missile systems, identifies
unusual spending patterns.
Foster City-based Visa on Wednesday began using the technology known as
"'neural-network'" to help its computers spot suspicious transactions then
quickly notify card owners.
The company hopes the technology will help it stem an estimated $655
million in fraud reported worldwide last year alone.
Many banks, credit card and telephone companies already use computers to
identify charges that exceed certain spending limits. But the `neural
network' goes one step further by analyzing an individual customer's buying
habits to identify any that are out of character.
If a particularly expensive purchase is flagged or the program notices a
large amount of spending in a foreign country or unusual location, the system
notifies the card holder electronically or the bank that issued the card can
call the person directly to ask if the purchase was theirs.
Visa tested the system at 15 banks over the course of a year and found it
cut fraud losses by more than $20 million.
Visa is just the latest company to adopt the technology. Bank of America
and Wells Fargo Bank have used similar networks.
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PM-CA--LA Teachers, Bjt, 400
With Most Votes Cast, Teachers Union Overwhelmingly Approves Contract
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By NIKI KAPSAMBELIS= Associated Press Writer=
LOS ANGELES (AP) Members of the Los Angeles teachers union say despite
overwhelming approval of a contract offer, they don't intend to surrender in
their salary wars with the school district.
Helen Bernstein, president of United Teachers-Los Angeles, said the union
will wage a full-scale public relations campaign in an effort to rally public
support for teachers.
''We will use whatever means is necessary, Bernstein said. 'We' re not
saints, and we haven't chosen to join some order.
...
We need to make a living
wage.'
Of the 22,004 ballots cast by members of United Teachers-Los Angeles,
19,513 or 88.6 percent approved the contract, while 2,491, or 11.4 percent,
rejected it.
''There was not one member of UTLA, I'm sure, that was happy with this
proposal, Bernstein said. ' 'We didn't win anything. I think the district
barely escaped a strike.
Union officials had recommended approval of the proposal, which includes
an 8 percent pay restoration for the 1994-95 school year. Teachers took a 10
percent pay cut beginning in 1992 to help the district balance its budget.
Of the pay restored, 4 percent is permanent, and another 4 percent is
guaranteed this year and will continue if money is available.
Before the 1992 salary cuts, teachers were making an average of $45,005 a
year. The average pay is now $40,662.
Union officials had sought full restoration of the pay cut, and threatened
to strike when previous offers by the school district fell short.
The 630, 000-student district had earlier offered only a 7 percent salary
restoration made up of a 4 percent permanent restoration and a 3 percent
one-year pay hike.
Bernstein said full restoration will continue to be an issue in future
contract negotiations.
David Tokofsky, a social sciences teacher at Marshall High School in Echo
Park, said he voted for the contract, reluctantly.
'`The offer soothes some of the financial hardship of the last three
years, but continues the sense of demoralization, because it's not completely
paying up,'' he said.
But he acknowledged that the approved contract was better than nothing.
''In the economic climate that we have in the state
it's probably
better to get the agreement now,'' he said.
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PM-CA--LAPD Shakeup, 320
Reports: City Works Out Deal With Demoted Assistant LAPD Chief
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Concerned over the possibility of a lawsuit, the City
Council has brokered a deal that would let demoted Assistant Police Chief
Bernard Parks retire with full pension, it was reported today.
The deal would keep Parks on the payroll as assistant chief until February
but would prohibit him from working at police headquarters, according to
reports in the Daily News and the Los Angeles Times, both of which cited
anonymous sources.
In return, Parks would agree not to sue the city, Police Chief Willie
Williams or Mayor Richard Riordan, the Times said.
The Daily News cited highly placed City Hall sources who said the basic
deal had been agreed upon and probably would be announced today. The paper
said Williams had approved the deal. Williams declined comment.
'We are heading towards an amicable resolution whereby Chief Parks will
be able to move on with his life in a dignified and respectful manner and
without any lingering bitterness,' said Parks attorney Skip Miller.
And it would be in a way that would not hurt him financially, Miller
said.
The deal reportedly uses accumulated vacation and compensatory time to
keep Parks on the books until February, when he completes 30 years with the
department.
Pensions are based on rank at retirement, and Parks threatened to sue the
department because his demotion would reduce his retirement pay. If demoted to
Deputy Chief, Parks' pension would drop from $7,489 a month to $7,111 a month,
said Gary Mattingly, general manager of the city Pensions Department.
Williams on Monday announced a shakeup of his top staff, demoting Parks
from Assistant Chief to Deputy Chief. On Wednesday, he gave Parks 10 days
notice of the plan. Miller said Parks found out about the demotion from news
reports.
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Copyright 1994 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
All rights reserved
ABC NEWS
SHOW: World News Sunday (ABC 6:30 pm ET)
August 28, 1994
Transcript # 435-8
TYPE: Package
SECTION: News
LENGTH: 1412 words
HEADLINE: Northridge, CA Little League Team
HIGHLIGHT:
The boys of Northridge, CA, dubbed the "Earthquake Boys" after most of them lost
their homes during L.A.'s January earthquake, are home after losing the Little League
Championship game.
BODY:
DICK SCHAAP: The baseball season's over for the little leaguers of Northridge,
California. As Brian Rooney reports, it was a memorable year.
BRIAN ROONEY, ABC News: [voice-over] The Northridge All-Stars returned home
this afternoon to a heroes' welcome. Heroes, they found out, don't always have to
win the last big game. They nicknamed this team the Earthquake Kids. The day
after the big Northridge quake, most of these boys were out of their homes. But they
dusted themselves off and went back to playing baseball.
Their friends and fans gathered in a local restaurant yesterday to watch Northridge
play for the world championship of Little League baseball.
BARBARA CASSEL, Player's Mother: It was beyond our dreams that they could get
up this far.
BRIAN ROONEY: [voice-over] The odds against reaching the finals are big. They
were bigger for Northridge than for anybody else this year. This was what their
hometown looked like after the January 17th earthquake that erupted right beneath
them.
DAVE ESLICK, Northridge Little League: No matter what adversity faced them - at
home, if they couldn't live in their homes; they were being rebuilt because of this
earthquake - they had the heart from within. And that thing from within is what
really helps a kid.
BRIAN ROONEY: [voice-over] And the ground under this ballfield never stops
shaking.
IRV SELMAN, Northridge Little League: We were having a game where you got one
of those 5 point-plus tremblers. And the whole field shook. And it sent a panic
through the crowd and everybody had to call home and make sure the rest of
their family was okay. And that's what we've been living through.
BRIAN ROONEY: [voice-over] But winning is a tradition with the Northridge Little
League. They have sent teams to the playoffs in Williamsport three times since 1967.
ANNOUNCER: We talked about the resiliency of this Northridge team.
BRIAN ROONEY: [voice-over] Yesterday, they had to put up with nature again.
After two scoreless innings, the game was delayed three hours by rain. When it
resumed, Northridge was in the game all the way. But they didn't get their fairy tale
ending. Spencer Gordon hit a homer for Northridge, brining them within one run.
SPENCER GORDON, Northridge Little League: I'm not disappointed. We're going
home the best team in the United States. There's nothing wrong with that.
BRIAN ROONEY: [voice-over] The end came quickly. One last strike and Northridge
was out. One minute these kids were holding back tears; the next, they were getting
over it.
MATT CASSEL, Northridge First Baseman: We'll just do it next year or sometime
later.
BRIAN ROONEY: [voice-over] They learned a long time ago there are worse things
than losing a ballgame.
Brian Rooney, ABC News, Northridge, California.
DICK SCHAAP: And the news on the big league front - none. Carole?
CAROLE SIMPSON: Thanks, Dick. And that's World New Sunday. Tomorrow,
watch ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
I'm Carole Simpson. Have a good week and good night.
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August 28, 1994, Sunday, Southland Edition
SECTION: Sports; Part C; Page 1; Column 4; Sports Desk
LENGTH: 574 words
HEADLINE: NORTHRIDGE FALLS TO VENEZUELA, 4-3;
BASEBALL: THREE-HOUR RAIN DELAY DOESN'T DETER SOUTH AMERICAN
TEAM IN FINAL GAME OF LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES.
BYLINE: From Associated Press
DATELINE: WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.
BODY:
Venezuela ended the United States' two-year run as Little League champion,
beating the California team whose city was ravaged by an earthquake seven months
ago.
Venezuela came back after a three-hour rain delay Saturday and defeated
Northridge, 4-3, to become the first Latin American team to win the title since 1958.
The game was scoreless in the third inning when rain, hail and lightning stopped
play.
The storm left 18 inches of water in the outfield and when the game resumed 3
hours 5 minutes later, it was 7:20 p.m. EDT and ABC had cut away from its telecast
in the East.
Northridge pitcher Justin Gentile, whose palm ball worked well before the break,
and Venezuela pitcher Cesar Hidalgo each were in control when the severe weather
hit. But after the game resumed, Gentile threw five wild pitches and gave up seven
hits.
Gentile had a 3-2 count on Effinson Mora with two out in the top of the third
when the storm came. After the delay and after a foul tip, Mora doubled to right
field, where more than a foot of water had stood only two hours earlier. Mora took
third when the next pitch sailed over catcher Matthew Cunningham's head and
scored two pitches later on Esteban Avila's single to right.
The Venezuelans picked up another run in the fourth when Guillermo Quiroz
reached on an error, moved to second on Hidalgo's single and scored two wild
pitches later.
Northridge tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the fourth.
Mathew Fisher walked, then Matthew Cassel and Peter Tuber singled to load the
bases. Michael Frost's grounder to second forced Tuber at second, but Mora's throw
to first for the double play was off the mark and let Cassel score behind Fisher.
In the Venezuela fifth, Elio Perez singled to right, moved to second on a wild pitch
and scored the go-ahead run on Avila's second run-scoring single. Avila himself
scored -- on a wild pitch -- after Erik Villalobos walked and Hildago singled.
Spencer Gordon hit his second home run of the Series in the bottom of the fifth,
dropping the ball just over Avila's glove in center field. Gordon's three-run homer in
Thursday's semifinal put Northridge in the title game.
Cassel, Tuber and Frost went in order in the sixth to end the game.
Northridge was attempting to become the third California team in a row to win a
World Series title. Long Beach won the last two.
Little League's Latin American region hadn't won a World Series championship
since Monterrey, Mexico, won consecutive titles in 1957 and 1958. U.S. teams hadn't
won three consecutive titles since they won eight in a row after Monterrey's last title.
The game marked Venezuela's first appearance in a championship game.
Three California teams - El Cajon, San Jose and Granada Hills - won consecutive
championships from 1961-63. Pennsylvania, with titles in the first two World Series,
1947 and 1948, is the only other state with titles in consecutive years.
Torrents of rain, then hail, inundated Lamade Stadium for 30 minutes. Fire station
pumpers had water off the field in another hour.
The National Weather Service at Williamsport recorded three-quarters of an inch of
rain within 25 minutes - a rate of nearly two inches per hour -- and hail up to half
an inch in diameter.
Lightning became so vivid that the public address announcer warned fans not to
take shelter beneath the outfield scoreboard or stand too close to the 60-foot flagpole
past the right field fence.
GRAPHIC: Photo, Northridge Manager Larry Baca (left) and coach George Saul try to
keep team equipment dry during rain delay. Associated Press
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August 29, 1994, Monday, Valley Edition
SECTION: Special Section; Part S; Page 1; Column 3
LENGTH: 1004 words
HEADLINE: NORTHRIDGE LITTLE LEAGUE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS;
MAKING A RUN AT GLORY AND FUN;
COACHES: SPIRIT OF VOLUNTEERISM -- AS EXEMPLIFIED BY FRANK POLITO -
HAS BEEN A HALLMARK OF LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL.
BYLINE: By JACK CHEEVERS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
BODY:
For 55 years Little League has endured. And for 40 of them, Frank Polito has been
there. Polito, 79, is among the tens of thousands of volunteer coaches in Little
League, an organization that last year attracted 2.7 million children in 79 countries,
including 2.5 million in the United States.
They are insurance agents and lawyers, plumbers and business executives -
hard-working, blue-collar and middle-class parents who give up countless hours of
their time for the pure, simple pleasure of teaching kids to play ball.
For Polito, it has been a passion for 40 seasons. Get to know him and you see why
Little League carries on. In an era in which major league baseball strikes seem
inevitable, Little League remains a summer certainty, as comfortable as a favorite
glove.
Polito has been a fixture of Little League baseball in Alhambra, a gruff former
truck driver who has coached hundreds of kids, a hard-nosed taskmaster who
players unfailingly address as "Mister Polito."
Not Coach. Not Frank. Mister Polito.
Over the years, he coached both of his sons -- now in their 50s -- and all four of his
grandsons. He won so many Alhambra National Little League championships he
doesn't remember the exact number.
Former players recall Polito bellowing commands so loud they were audible two
playing fields away.
But his players also talk of him patiently teaching the fundamentals not only of
baseball but of life: the perils of showboating, the rewards of teamwork, how to win
with humility and lose with grace.
"If you didn't play on the Giants, you were intimidated by him," said his son Vince,
51, who himself coached Little League for 18 years. "But if you played on the Giants,
you loved him."
Many Little League coaches volunteer in hopes of forging a special bond with their
sons or daughters through sports. But others, like George Saul, assistant coach of this
year's Northridge Little League, have no children.
"We have several people like that, who dedicate their time to the kids," said Denise
Aronson, a former longtime board member and volunteer for the Northridge league.
"They honestly care about kids and the game of baseball."
For many coaches, Little League represents a chance to instill in their children the
virtues of hard work, loyalty and self-sacrifice, small-town American values
encouraged by the league since it was founded in 1939 by a Williamsport, Pa.,
lumber-yard clerk, Carl E. Stotz.
But over the years coaches often have been at the center of controversies that have
smudged Little League's squeaky-clean image. Among them: cheating scandals and
even on-the-field violence.
Last year, the Little League international division disqualified teams from Taiwan
and the Dominican Republic from the Little League World Series after coaches
fielded ineligible players.
In June, 1992, the Little League season in Albuquerque, N.M., was cut short
because of hostility and fighting among adults. A postgame fight that sent one person
to the hospital included a group of parents, a league director, a coach and even the
coach's mother.
That same year, a coach in Whiteville, N.C., used a pocketknife to slash the throat
of another coach in front of 100 Little Leaguers, spattering blood on one boy's jersey.
Moreover, gung-ho coaches are perennial targets of critics who say they push kids
too hard to win, fail to let less-talented kids play and set bad examples by arguing
and swearing.
"We have all seen managers who exerted a wonderful influence upon their boys -
an influence which was as fine an educational experience as any lad might undergo,"
wrote the late Dr. Arthur A. Esslinger in the official Little League rules handbook.
"Unfortunately, we have also observed a few managers who were a menace to
children."
Despite the excesses of some adults, Little League is more popular than ever. From
1 million players in 1982, its player rolls burgeoned to 1.8 million five years ago and
2.7 million today.
And they are led through seasons both good and bad by coaches such as Polito,
whose hard-guy exterior and foghorn voice disguise a fundamental affection for kids
that was never lost on them.
The grandson of Italian immigrants, Polito for many years drove a trailer truck for
the Vons supermarket chain.
After work on game days, he showed on the field dressed in his gray work
uniform, his arms sternly crossed over his chest, his eyes squinting from beneath the
lid of a black Giants cap as his young charges played their regulation six innings.
Over the years, he has watched as changing demographics and social mores have
altered Little League, pushing it inexorably out of the innocent, Leave-It-to-Beaver
years of the 1940s and '50s into the more contentious, and
more democratic 1990s.
He saw the forced admission of girls into Little League baseball in 1974 (when
Congress revised the Little League charter over league officials' objections).
He has seen the effects on kids of a rising divorce rate.
He has seen how the growing Asian and Latino communities in Alhambra have
changed the racial makeup of local teams.
He approves of the admission of girls into Little League baseball, saying they have
been among his better players.
"I had one year when I had two girls," he said. "I had one in the All-Stars
She
handled herself pretty good."
He worries about competition for playing fields from adult softball teams. And he
frets about parents who use Little League as a cheap baby-sitting service.
But when all is said and done, he keeps coming back, season after season, year
after year, a gravel-voiced Mr. Chips in cleats, eager for the next inning, the next
squeeze play, the next home run.
"I think he loves the kids," said his son Vince.
"I think he loves to see their development. I think he gave a lot of his heart to the
kids. And they in turn felt that."
Vince Polito still plays too - in a softball league every Tuesday night. And in the
stands, every week, there is Frank Polito, watching his boy play ball.
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