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demanding limits on growth, as seen in managed-growth initiatives re- cently adopted by voters in Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista. "Growth limitation of some form is a reality right now in this region," Worden said. "And the task for us is: Are we going to relegate it to wild- fire initiatives or are we going to get together and develop it into a respon- sible, regional program and do it right?" Worden proposed that a govern- ment agency be created to coordi- nate the county's municipalities in balancing growth. e also favored Please see GROWT. , B-2

hope we can say it to them because they live nearby. I( we follow (Whar- ton's) v1 w we may have to be say- mg ti over the telephone, long-dis- tance, ause they won't be able to afford to live here." Wharton and Friedman were ad- versan m the debate yesterday at the Lyceum Theatre, which ad- dr cd the qu hon of whether a plan hould be adopted that would involve all local governments in the San Diego region in tting limits on growth. Th debate was ponsored by th University of San Diego and was one of a number of forums planned to potltght cntical regional i ·ues.

Wharton, who argued for growth ltm1ts, supported his position by call- ing on Lynn Benn, chairwoman of the county Community Planning Com- mittee and a member of Mayor O'Connor's Growth Management Task Force, and Dwight Worden, for- mer Del Mar city attorney who fought creation of the North City West development. Friedman, who argued agamst 1m- posmg growth limits, brought to the witness stand Fred Schnaubelt, a for- mer San Diego city councilman now in rt! J estate development, and Kim Kilkenny, legislative analyst for the San Diego Construction Industry

Federation. Benn recited a litany of the prob- lems the San Diego region faces in air quality, traffic congestion, sew age disposal, garbage disposal and water supplies. She said that 1f cur- rent situations continue, they all will worsen as another million people come to the area by the year 2010 as projected, raising the county popula- tion to more than 3 million. "We have to solve our existing problems before we grow anymore," Benn said. "We need to slow down, catch up and get control of our lives and then look at where we're going." Worden said the public already is

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ontinucd from Page l uof o'l search and seizure laws as an example. "In the whole system there has been a total removal of discretion," said Benke. "The courts are hesitant to let people do their job and trust them to do 1t right. "If I have a philosophy it is that I would like to re tore faith in the system. Unless there is faith in the system it won't be al- lowed lo function ." Some attorneys believe Benke will excel as an appellate justice. "I think she'll probably be good because she 1s thorough, very academic, and very intelligent " said one defense attorney. eely of the district attorney's office said Benke should make an excellent appellate justice because "she has the skill of knowing what happens in the ~ourtroom, a,perspec tive not all appellate Judges have. . For Benke it will be a return to her first love . researching and writing opinions. She said she has tremendous respect for the role the appellate court plays in everyday life. Deukmejian's continued promotion of Benke has aroused some speculation about the governor's motivation. Benke sai~ ~ne colleague suggested that she was rece1vmg support because she's Armenian. In fact, ~er family is from Syria. Her grandparents im- migrated to the Newcastle steel region -0f Pennsylvania arly in this century. The fam- ily moved to Pasadena in 1955. Anewspaper article had it that Benke be- cam~ clos~ fri~nds with Deukmejian after ~orkmg ~1th him at San Diego public televi- sion stallon KPBS. Benke, who graduated ~rom San Diego State University before earn- m~ a !aw degree at the Uni~ of San D1~ m Hn4, did work at the station durmg h~r college aay ,aiiITTJer husband, Donald, is stlil en,iployed there as a studio production supervisor, but Deukmejian never worked at the station. Working under Deukmejian when he was attorney general, Benke met him only once or twice, she said Teacher Stages Bar Exam Besides her municipal court campaign Benke's political involvement has been limit~ ed to writing position papers for Pete Wil- son's campaigns for mayor of SanDiego and later, the U.S. Senate. ' "It was.a great experience," she said of the m~c1pal court race, ''because it helped me decide that politics is not what I want to do." Instead it was a ninth-grade teacher in Pasadena who provided the push for Benke's legal career. The teacher staged a full court- room scene and bar exam. From then on Benke said, sh~ wasn't sure what she wanted to do with her hfe, but she knew it would be in the legal profession. "I just love to research and write " said Benke. "I'm not a big career planner." 21

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Contmued From B-1 setting limits not only on residential de"velopment, but on commercial and industrial growth. Schnaubelt and Kilkenny respond- ed to Benn's and Worden's proposals by saying any go,ernment-imposed caps on growth would result in high- er housing prices, higher unemploy- ment. greater disparity between the quality of life for wealthy and low- income persons, reduced revenues for governments and, consequently, fewer public services. Schnaubelt said the question fac- ing the San Diego region 1s not whether it should ha\ e a regional growth plan but rat er who should do the planning. "I think we should rely on the ex- perts," be said, ··the people that put millions of dollars of their own money on the !me - the home build- ers who, with their architects, their engineers, their landscapers, have to meet the demands of the buying pub- lic." Kilkenny said a moratorium on growth would result in 150,000 to 200,000 workers, mostly in middle-in- come positions, losing their jobs and an increase in the county's unem- ployment rate to 14 percent from its ,current 6 percent.

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pwvide as much information a, possible so there can rhen be in- formed deba1e in the communi - ly," said Yandell an assis1ant professor of economics. \\'har1on, a veteran land use attorney, said he is hope ful 1ha1 lhe forum will act as a calaiyst for change. "The bes! oulcomc (of the forum) we can hope for is tha1 the cities and county govc111- ment will work together," the la11 professor said. Sheldon Krantz, dean o f USD's School of Law , wi ll modera1e lhe program. Globe and San Diego Repe~ theaters have been reiained for set des ign and production. The fo rum is free and open to 1he pu bli c. Because of limited searing, tickets must be obln ined fo r admission. Fo r more informarion, please contact John Nunes at 260-4682 . Professionals from the Old

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might compromise the university's independence by linking it with Reagan conservatism. San Diego bas a number of high-powered connec- tions to the Reagan administration. Attorney General Edwin Meese lI1 once lived in La Mesa and taught at the Unix~rsity of Diego. A spokesman for the university said yesterday that he didn 't know whether university officials had ap- plied for the Reagan library, Repre- sentatives of San Diego State Univer- sity and the University of California at San Diego said the same. * * * BATES SK FOR ISVESTIGA- TIO .. Rep. Jim Bates, back from a three-day trip to Nicaragua, has a ked the tate Department and the House Armed Services Committee to launch an official investigation into the death of an American volunteer working for the Sandinista regime. The Amencan. Benjamin E. Lind- er, a 27-ye..r-old mechanical engi- neer from Portland, Ore., was killed April 28 when his armed work crew was ambushed t y rebels in the north- ern province of Jinotega. He had been workmg on a hydroelectric project and was said to be carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Bates, who met with Linder's fam- ily in Managua on Friday mght. said the State Department should interro- gate the U.S.-backed Contras to fmd out how Linder was killed and whether he was targeted by the Con- tra for a~ inatton. "We ant to know who killed him,"

Bates said. "We think the Contras know and we want them to be brought to justice." Bates is not the first to demand answers from the State Department. Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Oregon, sent a letter to Secretary of State George Shultz the day after Linder's death askmg him to answer a number of questions, including whether the killers were " armed , trained, advised, supplied or funded by the United States government." AuCoin represents Linder's Port- land district. * * * HANGING IN THERE. . . Mean- while, Bates returned to the United States to find his favored presiden- tial candidate, former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, steeped in allegations that he had spent Friday night and most of Saturday in the company of a 29- year-old actress. Bates, one of 13 House members to endorse Hart, said it is "not time to abandon ship •.. but I'm thinking about bis candi- dacy" in light of what occurre:!. "He (Hart) has admitted that he used poor judgment and I would agree with him," Bates said. * * * AIB SAFETY... Rep. Bill Lowery,

R-San Diego, has introduced legisla- tion with Rep. Bob Badham, R-New- port Beach, to require general avia- tion planes to install sophisticated equipment that would enable control towers to identify them on their radar screens. The bill would amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the installation and operation of "alti- tude encoding transponders" in all aircraft flown in the Los Angeles and San Diego basin areas. Currently, all aircraft operating above 12,500 feet must now carry a transponder. Concern over air safety in South- ern California was heightened last summer when a general aviation plane collided with a Mexican com- mercial airliner over Cerritos, kill- ing 82 people. There are seven major commer- cial airfields from Sao Diego to northern regions of the Los Angeles basin, four of which are on the Fed- eral Aviation Administration's list of the 10 most active airports in the United States, according to Lowery's office. The transponders cost from $850 to $1,500 per airplane, but Lowery as- serted the costs could be defrayed through lower insurance premiums.

MYSTERY UNIVERSITY.. . A San Otego umversity has approached the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation about locating a $100 illion library and public affairs nter on its campus. G ry Jon , executive director of the Wa hington-based foundation and a former Reagan undersecretary of education, aid he is looking •at Southern California as a site for the library. Jon aid th foundation has IK.-en contacted by a number of education- al institutions in Southern California, including a university in San Otego. He said he couldn't remember the name of the San Diego institution but probably will be receiving an appli- cation from it oon Last month, the found'ltion an 1ounced that it had abandoned tanford University a a 1te for the library and center, The f ulty at Stanford had· ex- pre d oncern that the library High-mount hr e lights cutting rear-end era he WA HINGTON (AP) - A tudy ha concluded that the h1gh•mounted re r br e lights required on all cars inc 11186 have helped prevent rear- nd colll ions. Th partment of Transportation tudy found that cars with the extra llght r 22 per nt I likely to be truck from the r ar while braking.

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$7,500,ys~ from golf The Uajversity of San Diego men's basketball program has received $7,500 from the proceeds of this year's Celebrity Golf Classic. The tournament, held Jan. 26 at Bernardo Heights Country Club, was sponsored by Coast Distributing Co. and the Garvey Marketing Group. FOOTBALL CLINIC - Fom -r Chargers offensive coordinator Err ;e Zampese, now with ,he Los Angeles Local Briefs Rams, will be the featured speaker at USD's football clinic tomorrow. Registration ($15) begins at 7:40 a.m. in the University Center, Forum A. For information, call_'USO_ coach Brian Fogarty at 277-4274 or 260.:,.,-- 4803. ,..,,.,.... COMMUNITY COLLEGES -