News Scrapbook 1985

Son Diego, CA (Son Diego Co.I Son Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,3241 (Cir. S. 339,7881

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OF ALL THE PEOPLE: First , Mayor Hedgecock's attorney, Oscar Goodman, rested his case _yesterday without calling a single witness. Then the Mayor and his lawyer held a high-level meeting t City Hall. The subJect Yom K1ppur Goodman planned to attend servic~s today ~t the Civic Theater, but he d left h!S yarmulke in Las Vegas. "No problem," said Hedgecock. "You want the plain one or the . ceremonial one?" And then man expansive mood. Hedgecock instructed his secretary to get Goodman "the nice one," a hand~ome, hand-embroidered model. "After all " the Roman Catholic Hedgecock dead-panned "I am the mayor of all the people.· SAN DIEGO HUFFLE: San Diego's Bill Seaton, in Sacramento as publicity director for the n w California lottery, expect to be domg volume business. He's workir g with PacTel on a phone system geared to answering a million calls a month by next June (The New York lottery handl a mill10n calls a week.) ... The LA Time5'Paul Conrad, second-hottest political cartoonist 10 the Southland just now, will address the DPress Club at its annual awards dmner tomorrow night at the Sheraton-East. .. • Developer Rob Lankford has struck a deal with La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art to design lobby space for public art display m the second tower of his Regents Square office complex in the Golden Tnangle. Ground will be broken for the second tower Saturday night during an opening celebration for the first tower. CONTINUING SAGA: Councilman Uvaldo Martinez's home-dining tastes wl'uld appear somewhat less epicurean than his feastings on the city tab. Page 25 of the Police Officers Assn. cookbook, "What's Cooking San Diego," carries the councilman's recipe for "Martinez Chicken Bake," a concoction of chicken pieces and frozen corn. .. . Sign on the chalkboard at Bunbury's restaurant: "Yes. We accept San Diego city credit cards." ... On the other band, Martinez may be modifying his away-from-home habits. He and Police Chief Bill Kolender lunched at Chuey's the other day and Kolender covered the $8 tab. Cash..

El Cajon, CA (San Diego Co_) Daily Californian (Cir. D 100,271)

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OSS OF THE MONTH: Nationi.l City Mayor Kile Morgan is feuJmg " th his

city manager over a pay I aise. B~t not for himself. The mayor says his secretary of 20 years, Millie Valdez, · the only one of some 2~0 r1ty employees (excluding him:;elf) . passed over for a recent 6.2%raise. And so Morgan says he'll make up the difference - $125 a month - with his own personal check. The ity v.on l act as conduit for his heck the city attorney overruled hat. But, says Morgan, "She's gonna get a raist one way or another. I don't have to write the check to the rity. A d I 11 pay this as long as she' here an 6.2% behind e,erybody else " SO RCES' MOUTH ; Chief Justice Warr n Burger, Sens. Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurmond, and House Speaker Tip O'Neill are among the political a1 d Jt1d1c1al_ heavyweights due in n Diego m February. Bernard Segan, a USD law professor and expert oiiThe Constitution, invited his colleagues on the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution to hold their Feb. 2-3 meeting at USD. And they accepted.... John Worcester, Supervisor Susan Golding's old Carleton College classmate and top aide, had a hefty pay raise approved, without discussion, by the Board ?f Supervisors yesterday. His 50 gr~nd a year is a record for a county aide and only about $4,000 short of h!S boss' salary. But you get what you pav for: Golding notes that sllll amounts to a pay cu for Wor~ter, who made more as a Padres p. before joining . er staff.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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Meese predicts drug 'disaster' 2 ll ~('" forces with a stepped-up military force to cut off "the By Ann Levm flow of drugs into the country. Tribune Staff Writer . . . Meese also said more education is needed to cure the America's drug problem is "a nat1o~al disaster m the debilitating addictions of the nation's drug users. . making" says Attorney General Edwm Meese. " Meese's half-hour speech was part of the 65th anm- lnternational drug smugglmg ha~ spiwned t fr~ versary celebration of the Kiwanis Club of San Diego. iuerri,11~.;:_r;:!~~;~I~~g~f~~~~!\ 1 ::t ni~:~ 0 Meese joined the local chapter of t~e Kiwanis Cl~b 1 ;~~; t~afficking in_countz:ies..5uch ash ~~u, Mexi~ ~~:reH~eli;:~: ~r~fJta:!~~e;;i:~1~!~r!~ve~e~ to and Colombia 1s causmg .social . ana!c Y, .~se sai ' _ nd before he moved to Washing- and contributing to a pobl!cal s1tuation that ope_ns ~p then-g~r !le~gan a1981 to become Reagan's White new opportunities for Eastern Bloc, Soviet expansion. ton. • •• JD anuarf Meese warned of dire ''geopolitical" conseque~ces .IJ:l· House counselor. less the U.S. departments of State and Justice JOm Please see MEESE, -15

drug use is rising. Of great concern to federal authori- ties, Meese said, is the burgeoning use of cocaine, the powerful animal tranquilizer PCP and so-called "de- signer," or synthetic, drugs. Meese offered these statistics: • One of five high school students tries cocaine before graduation, and 10 percent of suburban high school stu- dents are regular users. • 24 million Americans will use cocaine this year. • Recent studies with laboratory animals have shown that cocaine is three times as toxic as heroin. • Interviews with cocaine addicts have shown that 71 percent of them prefer cocaine to food, 50 percent pre- fer cocaine to sex and 72 percent put a higher worth on the drug than on family activities. The U.S. government is giving money and helicopters to foreign countries to help shut off the drug supply, he said, and combat units from all four armed services have been asked to help patrol the borders with sophisti- cated technology. In the last four years, FBI jurisdiction has been ex- panded to include drug-related offenses, 1,000 more drug agents and 200 assistant U.S. attorneys were hired, and 13 regional drug task forces were created, Meese said. Prosecutors have obtained 6,300 criminal indictments of drug traffickers, winning 2,500 convictions and seiz- ing $219 million in property forfeitures, Meese said, adding that the task forces, made up of federal, state and local agents, have seized 4½ metric tons of heroin and 11,000 metric tons of marijuana crossing the border. At home, marijuana cultivation on private land and in the national forests is under siege, Meese said, noting that 12 million marijuana plants were eradicated in 1984. Meese closed his remarks by urging the audience to support drug prevention programs at home. "I would suggest to you that the ultimate success .. . will begin and end at home. No amount of law enforce- ment will ever be sufficient ... as long as young people continue to use drugs," he said.

Reagan nominated Meese in January 1984 to head the 60,000-employee agency that includes the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administra- tion, and Immigration and Naturalization Service. Questions concerning Meese's ethics and personal finances, including delayed payments on the mortgage for his La Mesa home, held up Senate confirmation 13 months. He was confirmed last February on a 63-31 vote. More than 500 people attended the chicken dinner at the Scottish Rite Temple in Mission Valley to pay trib- ute to outstanding Kiwanians. Meese received standing ovations before and after his speech. Among the crowd were U.S. Attorney Peter Nunez, FBI supervising agent Gary Penrith, DEA supervising agent Diogenes Galanos, District Attorney Ed Miller, San Diego Police Chief Bill Kolender, INS Commission- er Harold Ezell and other federal and local law officials. Meese arrived at Lindbergh Field on a commercial jet late yesterday afternoon to begin a six-day tour thro~California.- - - He is scheduled to return to San Diego Friday to address the San Diego Crime Commission at 7:30 p.m. at the Hotel Inter-Continental, in what Justice officials have billed as a major policy speech. On Saturday, he will meet privately with groups from the Uniyersity of San Diego, where he briefly taught criminal law in the ate 1970s:-At 4 p.m. he will address the California Bar Association, which is holding its an- nual state convention this weekend at the Town and Country Hotel. Calling drug abuse this administration's "top priori- ty," Meese said officials favored a "two-pronged ap- proach" to the problem - a police crackdown coupled with awareness programs. Meese reeled off statistics that purported to show that marijuana and heroin use is decreasing, while other

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