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FINAL Tin: Arizona Hi ri hi ic SHCTION EYTATE wtdntsday AI'Kll. J. I'WI YA Police need Fhoeiiix9 airiiiies compromise scapedog in AIRPORT SOLUTION An agreement Ivlwcc Phoenix ami AnH iicj West Airlines allows the aiilme loom to build 100 million worth of m.iiiiien.iiice l.u iliiu and rival Southwest Antilles to build a $1(1 million h.iiH'.ir. i To America West gates biting case The Phoenix Police Department has promised a thorough and unbiased investigation into circumstances Friday that led a highly trained police squad to smash down an apartment door and send a highly trained "canine officer" to bite, gnaw and chew on a man named Jon Jesewski, who, at the lime, was found to be suspiciously asleep in his bed. Mr.

Jesewski was not the man the police were jj expansion! Hi America IT1 NX International concourse America West, Southwest both get room By Ken Western Ttt Aftzon Republic The way was cleared Tuesday for America West Airlines to build $100 million worth of maintenance facilities at Sky Harbor International Airport and Southwest Airlines to build a hangar costing $10 million. Phoenix and America West worked out a deal enabling the Phoenix-based carrier to proceed with a major expansion of its aircraft-maintenance operations at Sky Harbor. The agreement will be announced at a news conference this morning by Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson and America West Chairman Ed Beau-vais. The planned expansion by America Wot is expected to create up to 2.01)0 jobs. Although not entirely happy wiih all aspects of the deal, Ik-juvuis termed the agreement a "workable compromise" for his company.

America West had warned last week that the jobs were jei)ardied by Phoenix's plans to lease a prime 12-acre site ut Sky Harbor to rival Southwest Airlines. The agreement does not affect Dallas-based Southwest' plans to build a hangar on the disputed site. The Southwest hangar is scheduled to open as early as August and ill employ 2(K) initially. America West comes out of the deal with a 16-acre parcel and possibly an additional 15 to 20 acres for further expansion of its facilities. Executives involved in the talks characterized the agreement as a "double win" for Johnson, who was able to keep both the America West and Southwest projects in Phoenix.

See AIRLINES, page B2 I America West "1 1 parking hangar 7n ih.naarsltel3r7 Ed hat is off to Mayor Johnson. If this plan works, he will have scored a double win for the Valley." Wl J0U Goldwater Terminal 1 i Mr A I 1 nc i uir tu 1 Southwest gates E.J. MONTINI looking for. The police were looking for an alleged parole iolator named John J. Jeschke.

Highly trained experts from the Maricopa County Adult Probation Department apparently identified Mr. Jesewski as Mr. Jeschke, which led the highly trained police to send in their highly trained dog. And soon. The Police Department, as is customary with such cases, has pledged to get to the root of the problem.

This means the Phoe Don Foiey the Arizona Republic WHEELS AND DEALS GET AUTO SHOW IN GEAR Republic Columnist 3,,. nix police will use the Phoenix police to investigate the Phoenix police, among others. By-the-book probe vowed The department does not permit independent i i (h SfvK SS3TE2C -J' I All j' V. v. citizen-review panels to lx)k into such incidents.

The police say that the police are perfectly capable of policing themselves. A department spokesman promised a by-the-book investigation. No special consideration is to be shown fellow officers who may have erred. Actions will be assessed. Witnesses will be interviewed.

Statements will be taken. The guilty will be held accountable. Personally, I have great confidence in the police. In fact, I'd guess that department investigators already have narrowed their list of culpable individuals to one. I figure they'll blame everything on a rogue cop; a cop who overzealously attempted to sniff out crime; a cop whose bark is normally worse than his bite, but ho, this time, bit off more than he could chew.

In other words they'll say it was the dog's fault. It was the "canine officer," after all, who sank his teeth into the wrong suspect. The police already have admitted it was a "mistake" for their dog to treat Mr. Jeszewski like a large serving of Alpo. A headline in Saturday's paper read, "Police dog mauls wrong man." Which is to say, there would have been no problem, as far as the police are concerned, if the dog had mauled the right man.

Appearing to be a suspect Is that what Officer McGruff means when he asks lie tn "tnl- a hitp nut nf TPrm Michael MeisterThe Arizona Republic Gustavo Gonzales gets some last-minute cleaning done in preparation for today's vans and trucks. Also, automotive designers will show off futuristic "concept cars," grand opening of the 1991 Arizona Auto Show at the Phoenix Civic Plaza. More than such as the Pontiac Sunfire and the Chrysler Voyager III. The show opens at 4 p.m. 450 new vehicles will be displayed at the sixth annual show, including luxury sedans, and will resume daily, with varying hours, through Sunday.

Indian School panel disbanded by Phoenix Minorities focus of new UA leader Remember, when the "canine officer" was sent into the house, the "suspect" was guilty of nothing more than lying in bed, possibly with the intent to get up. If that's enough to get you mauled by a dog, imagine what could happen if the police caught you doing something really bad, like holding the refrigerator door open while you drank milk right out of the container. So far, the brunt of the police investigation seems to be aimed at Mr. Jeszewski himself, as if the whole incident were his fault for not trusting or cooperating with the police who first came to his door. Even if he didn't cooperate, that only makes Mr.

Jeszewski, at worst, guilty of appearing (in the eyes of our highly trained police) to be a suspect. A panel of private citizens might wonder about a police department that, rather than allowing sleeping suspects to lie, sends in a vicious dog to tenderize him before questioning. Citizens panel would be nice The police, of course, will say we don't understand them. They say it is standard procedure to send in a dog in such situations as a way of protecting their own officers. Theirs is a dog's life, they'll say.

Which may be true. It would be preferable, however, to have private citizens telling us so, rather than other police officers. The police, I suspect, will conclude that the only thing the police did wrong Friday was to listen to the probation department. The dog, they'll say, thought he was biting Mr. Jeschke, when he was really biting Mr.

Jeszewski. And, while the incident may have left a bad taste in the "canine officer's" mouth, as well as ours, I doubt that any policies or procedures will be changed. The police have been doing these types of Manuel Pacheco Says that every job he ever has taken has presented him with tasks that he never had accomplished before. "I'm very accustomed to taking on new challenges," he says. Group defied council on Florida land swap By Joyce Valdez The Arizona Republic A volunteer planning committee that tangled with the City Council last week over a land-use plan for the Phoenix Indian School site was disbanded Tuesday by the council.

In a letter to the committee's chairman, Burton Barr, Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson said, "The planning team has completed its task. Accordingly, we are notifying you that the planning team has no further legal or official role in the planning process for the Indian School site." Craig Tribken, who heads the City Council's Indian School subcommittee, said Tuesday that the group had abandoned its advisory role in favor of becoming an "advocate" for a Florida-based company that wants to develop most of the site. "It was an appropriate time for us (council members) to say, 'Let's proceed' without Barr's team, Tribken said. The team could have continued its involvement in the planning process if it had appealed the subcommittee's earlier rejection of the plan, he added. Barr said Tuesday night that he had not seen Johnson's letter.

"I never got a letter," he said. "Nobody called me. Nobody said anything." Barr said the council has a right to disband the committee. "As far as I am concerned, I am fine (about the action)," Barr said. "I think the other members of the committee deserve a lot better treatment, especially because when you are a volunteer and you put in an extraordinary amount of time and effort, you deserve a lot better treatment." Johnson acknowledged the Barr committee members' two-year effort and said they could continue to participate in the Indian School planning process as individuals.

The committee consisted of Barr, a former majority leader of the Arizona House; three other citizens; and Roy Cawley, president of Barron Collier Co. of Naples, Fla. The 105-acre tract at Central Avenue and Indian School Road is owned by the U.S. Department of the Interior. The federal agency wants to swap 68 acres of the former school campus for thousands of acres of Florida Everglades swampland owned by Barron Collier.

The remainder of the land would be used to See INDIAN SCHOOL, page B2 By Victoria Harker The Arizona Republic TUCSON The University of Arizona's new president said Tuesday that minority issues are his forte and that he plans to work to improve conditions for fellow Hispanics and members of other minority groups. Manuel Pacheco, 49, a specialist in foreign-language education who currently heads the University of Houston-Downtown, said in Tucson that he wants to work to reduce the high-school-dropout rate among minorities in Arizona. His appointment was hailed Tuesday by UA and community leaders as sending a message to the rest of the country that Arizona is not a racist state despite its rejection of a paid state holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "Not all folks down here are rednecks or racist," said Jose Canchola, president of Tucson's Hispanic Professional Action Committee.

He said he often has heard comments on Arizona's racist image because voters last, fall See NEW, pageB2 investigations on themselves for a long, long time. And like they say, it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Driver leaves leaky ammonia tank in field, 1 hurt More Local News the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office. The pickup is green and white, and was last seen driving south through the field at a high rate of speed, Sauerbrey said. The owner of the tank was not known Tuesday night, Jensen said.

The ammonia was for agricultural purposes. Firefighters sprayed the tank with a fog of water, Jensen said, and found that a loose diaphragm was releasing ammonia. The diaphragm was tightened and the leak stopped about 7 p.m., he said. When authorities arrived, they found the driver of the second pickup, Richard C. Teal lying by his vehicle, gagging.

Teal was taken to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, where he was released Tuesday night, a hospital spokesman said. "He did the right thing, pulling the trailer off," said Steve Jensen, a spokesman for the Phoenix Fire Department. The driver of the truck pulling the tank had not been found Tuesday night, said Lt. Paul Sauerbrey of According to Maricopa County sheriffs officers, the driver of a pickup heading west on Buckeye Road apparently noticed the leak, pulled off the road into an empty field, unhitched the tank and left. The field is near a trucking company in the 5600 block of West Buckeye Road.

Minutes later, a man driving a second pickup saw a cloud caused by fumes from the tank and drove through the cloud toward a trucking company office, apparently to notify officials, investigators said. By Bill Goodykoontz The Arizona Republic One man was injured and about 50 people evacuated from their businesses and homes Tuesday night after the driver of a truck apparently hauling a leaking tank of ammonia left the cargo in a field and drove off, authorities said. The incident, which closed traffic to an area bounded by 51st and 59th avenues, West Van Buren Street and Lower Buckeye Road, occurred about 5:50 p.m. TV news leads 'Republic' in trust survey A new poll says that 33 percent of the public greatly trusts television news, more than twice the number who greatly trust hat they read in The Arizona Republic. B8.

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