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Torero ___w need a tourney By Mark Zeigler f) l.( CS taff Writer d- \ ") a league tournament to get an .inrit lion to the NCAA's postseason party. A year later, they do. But the more things change . . "I :;till don't think it's the fairest way to choose the be t representa- tive from the conference for the NCAA Tournament," Coach Hank Egan said yesterday. "We play a dou- ble round-robin schedule, and I think the team that emerges from that is the best representative. "But I guess you can say that from my own selfi h standpoint, the tour- nament is our only way out." !J'he Toreros, a year ago en route to a 13-l West Coast Athletic Confer- ence record, are 1-7 (9-12 overall) with six league games remaining. Tonight at 7:30 at the USD Sports Center, they host the Portland Pilots (6-15, 1-7), with whom they share the cellar. Tonight's game should have a bearing on the seedings for the WCAC tournament March 5-7 at Santa Clara. The cellar-dweller draws the first-place team - in other words, Loyola Marymount (18- 3, 8-0). The seventh-place team draws the second, which now is more mor- tal Santa Clara or Pepperdine. Yet Egan isn't talking tourna- ments - WCAC, NCAA or otherwise - with his young team. . "We're not good enough," he said. "I've got to get them competitive in this league before I can worry about that tournament." He can start with shooting. The Toreros are a miserable 44.9 percent from the field overall and a more miserable 42.0 in WCAC games. They opened Saturday's 68-64 loss at Port- land with 14 straight misses. Four- teen. A year ago, the D~ men's basketba niversit of San team I n't n

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' Deµkmejian Names 4 to Superior Court Bench e~ I By DANIEL M. WEINTRAUB, Times Staff Writer • •·

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SACfl:AMENTO-Goy ~ge Deukme11an on Tuesaay appointed a.l,fttrrtctpaf-~Qll[t judge and t)lree- lawyers lo fill four open positions on the San Diego Superior Court. Deukmejian promoted Municipal Judge William D. Mudd of San Diego to the Superior Court. The governor had appointed Mudd to the Municipal Court in 1985. , Also appointed were lawyers Kevin W. Midlam of Solana Beach James R. Milliken of San Diego and Christine V. Pate ofCoronado. Mudd, Midlam and Mil4ken are all former deputy city attorneys in San Diego. Mudd, 43, replaces Judge Thom- as Duffy, who retired. Before becoming a Municipal Court judge, Mudd served three years as a San Diego County court commissioner. A graduate of Cali-

TENNIS The Univer 1\y 0~1ego men's tenni team will play ho t to th 17th annual San Diego Inter- colleg1 le Invitational tennis tour- nament today through Saturday at SD and San Diego State. fending champion Cal tate Lon eh, thr -time winner P ppcrd n nd l 7 CAA D1vi -

fornia Western University and the Hastings College of Law, Mudd worked from 1972 until 1982 with the San Diego law firm of Sickels Chialtas and Mudd. ' Midlam, 43, will fill a newly created posiUon on the court. Midlam graduated from Willam- ette University and earned his Jaw degree from the same school. He has been in private practice with several San Diego firms since 1965, most recently with the firm of Ault Midlam & Deuprey. . ' Milliken, 44, will also fill a newly created position. Milliken has been with the firm of Mcin.iis, Fi tzgerald, Rees, Shar- key & McIntyre since 1971. He graduated from Occidental College and received his law degree from Cahfornia Western. Pate will replace Judge Franklin

Orfield, who has retired. Pate has been an attorney for the San Diego firm of Jennings, Engs- trand & Henrikson since 1971. She graduated from UC Berkeley and the University of San Diego

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"That was a strange game," Egan said. "I didn't think any of them were bad shots. You had to see it to believe it." Egan has his team shooting more in practice - substantially more than last season, when they shot at a 49.4-percent clip - and trying not to rush their shots in games. He also has stres.sed more shots inside and shorter ones outside. Encouraging about the Portland game was that the Toreros came back. They trailed b) 14-1 after their inauspicious start, yet trailed by one with 1:57 left. The Pilots' victory was their first in 10 meetings with USO and the first in the WCAC for new coach Larry Steele. • • • Probable USO starters: Marty Munn (14.6 mts, 5.1 re ounds) and John Sayers at forward, Danny Means (12 5 points) and Efrem Leon- ard at guard and Jim Pelton at cen- ter. Probable Portland starters: Wil- liam MrDowell and Robert Phillips (13.8 points) at forward, Ron Deaton and Adolphis Gaffney at guard and Adam Simmons (13.7 points, 7.7 re- bounds) at center.

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U D (9-12 overall) mis cd its fir I 14 shots from the field in Saturday's game with Portland and fell b htnd, 14 -1. Freshman John Sayers cored a season-high 18 poinL~ lo lead a USO comeback that fell short. Sayer has played well recently aft r struggling arly mconference play However. his teammates pl yed w II early but no1,1, are strugghng The Toreros arc hoping to fmd some cons1 t nc at h me, a place

that used to be good to them. USO was 44-6 under Coach Hank Egan, now in his fourth year, before it lost three in a row on its most recent home stand. Portland (6-15) has struggled most of the season under its first- year coach. Larry Steele. The Pi- lots finished third in the conference a year ago but have been unable to adequately rl)place three starters from that team. -CHRIS ELLO

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Alan Dershowitz believes Edwin Meese has "violated his trust in every way." Harvard's Dershowitz urges firing of Meese, not quitting By Lorie Hearn Staff Writer

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That memo '·talked about a crime being planned," a violation of the Overseas Bribery Act, Dershowitz said. Although Meese has denied any involvement with the pipeline project and has said that he at no time had any indication of illegality, Dershowitz said a "light should have gone off." "It was too close to corruption," Dershowitz said. "He saw a crime come across his desk and he did nothing about it." . On other topics, Dershowitz said the country's )udi- c1al selection process is more political than it ever has been. The Reagan administration is the first to apply a litmus test to judicial candidates, he said, adding that Bernard Sieg_an, a I.@versity of San Die20 law 11rofes- sor and nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- peal, is "the victim of the backlash against that." Siegan's nomination already has been criticized but Dershowitz supports him, calling him a "liberta'rian conservative." Dershowitz said he was "very disappointed" with the r_evelation that for~er Harvard professor Douglas H. Ginsburg, a close friend who was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, had smoked marijuana. He disapproved of that violation of the law, but said those acts should not have disqualified Ginsburg from taking a seat on the Supreme Court. _The story "was leaked by a bunch of liberal hypo. crites who themselves smoke marijuana," Dershowitz said. "They leaked it because they disagreed with Doug Ginsburg's political views. That to me is left- wing McCarthyism." He would not identify those people, but acknowl- edged that some are professors at Harvard. . Re~ecting on the ;ight years of the Reagan admin- istration, Oershow1tz said they have created a "healthy climate" for civil liberties in the United States because of the attention forced on thCQL

Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and na- tionally known~civil libertarian, insisted yesterday that embattled U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III should be fired because "resignation is much too easy a way out." With several im•estigations of Meese heated to a froth, Dershowitz said, Meese should not be "the role model for lawyers . . . (or) the symbol of justice in this country." Commg close to committing crimes does not mean indictment is justified, he continued, "but it sure as heck means you should not be full time the top law enforcement officer of this country." Dershowitz, a frequent critic of Meese, made his comments in an interview yesterday evening before delivering a speech to more than 1,000 people at Con- gregation Beth El in La Jolla. Dershowitz - a lawyer whose name is perhaps most widely associated with the successful defense of Claus von Bulow on charges of attempting to murder his wealthy wife - predicted that Meese "will leave" office. That would not only be in President Reagan's inter- est. he contended, but also would be in the interest of Vice President George Bush. With Sen. Robert Dole's statement last week that he would fire someone in Meese's position, Dershowitz said Meese's troubles have become a campaign issue. For a man who has "violated his trust in every way .. . I think the political realities will take over," Der- showitz said. He pointed to a recently disclosed secret memo to M~ese, r~J)?rtedly _suggesting bribe to Israel's then Prime Minister Shimon Peres m connection with a $1 billion Iraqi pipeline deal, as the "smoking gun" m the investigation of Meese.

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"The only thmg l have going for me is that maybe the people who read the stone. won't Leheve it," Steele said. "Maybe they'll think it's a m1sprmt I don't know how to describe it. I'll have to ask you guys to help me." How often do coaches ask re- porters for help' "Only when it's that tndcscriba- ble," Steele said. "The first half was the ugliest I've ever ~een. Please see SD, Pa e 5A

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