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The Arizona Republic SECTION rrn FRIDAY JULY 19, 1991 AT 7 'Psychic9 fugitive arrested Charged patients to remove tumors with bare hands Senate pay: Politics is like night and day It turns out that if you can understand the difference between day and night, you can understand politics. I wasn't aware of this until a few days ago, when our politicians in Washington, D.C., decided to stage a simple demonstration to prove the point. They even chose to illustrate the concept by using an actual day and an actual night Wednesday. And it worked. I believe we all under Gary Magno The Filipino can't be returned to the United States because of a lack of an extradition agreement ties about Magno because Jones' family was spending large amounts of money at the couple's clinic.

Jones told a reporter he was given a release to sign and told not to take a bath immediately after surgery because that would "mess up the spiritual powers." He said he was told to disrobe down to his underwear, given a bathrobe to put on, and then taken to the operating room. See DfJENDART, page B4 By Gall Tabor The Arizona Republic A woman who fled Arizona after she and her husband were charged with running a "psychic surgery" hoax on desperately ill people has been arrested in the Philippines. Terry Magno and her husband, Gary, charged patients in Phoenix and Tucson $50 to $75 a visit for removing cancerous tumors without a knife, investigators said when the couple were arrested in 1986. At the time of their arrest, police found a plastic pouch in Gary Magno's waistband containing vials of red fluid and packets of meat. The items apparently were props used in the "surgery," when Magno would use his bare hands to appear to remove the offending part from the body.

At the time of the 1986 arrests, truck driver Randy Jones was quoted as saying that Magno believed he didn't need a scalpel to perform miracles. Jones informed authori Terry Magno Will be arraigned today before a federal magistrate on a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. TUNING IN TO LOLLAPALOOZA Indian School i purchase stand politicians a little better now, because of what happened that one day. That one night. During the day on Wednesday, the U.S.

House of Representatives passed a bill called the Workplace Fairness Act. If signed into law by the president, it would prohibit employers from permanently replacing union workers who are on strike over wages, benefits and working conditions. In many European countries, and in Japan, this is already a law. They believe it's unfair for an E.J. MONTINI Republic Columnist rejected Developer balks after swap stalls By Martin Van DerWerf Wife f'vWfe In the crowd at Compton Terrace, some music fans relax (left), but acts such as rapper Ice-T (below right) -combined with half a can of hair spray are enough to male Troy Stewarts hair stand on end.

The diverse crowd gathered in Chandler on Thursday for the first-ever Lollapalooza festival, a concert featuring seven rock acts that will tour more than 20 cities. Story, B2. employer to dump striking employees when the strike is settled. Veto of fairness act promised President George Herbert Walker Bush, however, in broad daylight, promised to veto the Workplace Fairness Act if it ever reaches his desk. Mr.

Bush's secretary of labor said such a law "would be detrimental to the nation's economic health." It turns out, however, that the bill might never get to the president. It isn't expected to make it through the U.S. Senate, where some senators believe employees shouldn't go around making salary demands of employers. At least, that's what the senators believe during the daytime. At night, it's a different story.

On Wednesday night, the senate voted its members a pay raise of $23,200 per year. Not one single senator jiad to go on strike to get the money. That's because the "owners" of the U.S. Senate, meaning us, turn over all the money for wages to "the employees," meaning the senators, and then tell them, "Pay yourselves whatever you want." Which they do. Arizona senators voted 'no' Our own two senators, Dennis DeConcini and John McCain, voted against the raise.

They spent all day Thursday telling radio and television audiences what a terrible idea they thought the pay raise was. A few of us even believe them. The light of day, it turns out, doesn't help some people see better. Before the vote on the pay raise was taken, leaders in the Senate counted heads. They made sure they had enough votes to pass the pay raise without the votes of senators who either are coming up for re-election next year, or are in trouble for other things in their home states.

That's why, of 31 senators up for re-election next year, 23 voted against the raise. Sen. McCain was one of them. Sen. DeConcini, who doesn't come up for re-election until '94, also voted against the raise.

Neither of them, however, had any choice. They're in enough trouble with voters as it is. Besides, they don't need the money. The senators did decide to stop taking money for speaking engagements. But they chose to continue accepting free trips from wealthy constituents, such as, for instance, our own Charles Keating.

Which means that senators such as McCain probably won't have to alter any future vacation plans. All this was done quickly and in the dark. And, unlike the Workplace Fairness Act, which might help working stiffs, who deserve more money, to get it, President Bush is expected to sign the bill giving more money to senators, who don'L It's all as simple as day and night. Locally, for example, bakers now on strike against the Holsum company, and security guards from Palo Verde out walking the picket line, would be considered "detrimental to the nation's economic health" by the president and the senators. These politicians believe that employers should be able simply to dump employees who ask for bigger salaries.

This principle, it turns out, is something worth remembering when you're trying to figure out how to pay your bills. Which you probably do late at night. You might even be able to put theory into practice, should you see the light of day. Election Day, for instance. The Arizona Republic WASHINGTON The Barron Collier Co.

on Thursday declined an offer to buy the Phoenix Indian School property, leaving in limbo an emotionally charged proposal to swap it for Florida swampland. Although Interior Department officials portrayed the Naples, developer as still interested in the 1 1 1 acres at Central Avenue and Indian School Road, a Barron Collier attorney said the deal simply doesn't work. "It would take a very, very substantial change in the plan for that property to retain the company's interest," said Paul Meyer, Barron Collier's Phoenix-based lawyer. Meyer said that to make the land attractive, Phoenix would have to allow a more-dense development on the property or Congress would have to put more money for Barron Collier into the deal. Otherwise, the firm, which spent more than five years negotiating for the land swap, likely will walk away.

Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson said Thursday that there is no way the city will agree to allow a density of development greater than the 1.4 million square feet of commercial development already approved. Barron Collier had proposed a development of commercial offices, retail shops and residential units totaling 7.7 million square feet. The Interior Department now will put the Phoenix property up for bid. The minimum acceptable bid, according to 1988 legislation authorizing the swap, is $80 million, but a recent appraisal reportedly pegged its value at about $25 million to $35 million. Johnson said he plans to travel to Washington in two weeks to lobby Congress to add more money to the package in order to complete the swap.

The city has proposed that Congress provide money to Phoenix for park improvements and to Barron Collier to make up for the gap between the original price and the current appraisal amount The land-swap proposal called for Barron Collier to exchange 108,000 acres of wetlands it owns in Florida for the Indian School property. If there are no bids in the acceptable range, Barron Collier will be given another opportunity to buy the property for $80 million, said Bob Walker, an Interior Department spokesman. If no deal is consummated by Nov. 18, the legislation allowing for the land trade will expire. If that happens, the city will try to acquire the Indian School property for a 90-acre park, Johnson said.

The rest of the property would be set aside for expansion of the adjoining Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center and a state nursing home for veterans. (c yyo if ftr 1 Photos by John SamoraThe Arizona Republic nome ouyers Dark past can scare .111 zz 7 handle it," she said. Ellie Shapiro, a realty agent with Coldwell Banker, said one home in Phoenix, the scene of a homicide, still had blood all over the family-room carpet when she was asked to handle its sale. "The house kind of scared me, but I took this couple in there, and it didn't bother them a bit," she said.

"I handled the Steve Steinberg house in McCormick Ranch. I got two helpers and never walked in there again. But it sold in six months." See DARK PAST, page B4 home, most agents say the seller must reveal other things as well. "If someone is allergic to cats, the broker must find out if cats have ever been in the house," said Donna Kobashi, consumer representative for the state Department of Real Estate. Cats are one thing.

Barbara Smith of Russ Lyon Realty said houses keep their reputation for years if notoriety has been linked to owners. Buyers want to know everything, even if there's been a death by natural causes. "We must disclose it, and a lot of people can't By Gall Tabor The Arizona Republic It isn't bad enough that the real-estate market is soft, money is tight and it's summertime in Phoenix. Realty agents" often also must battle a house's reputation. Blood on the carpet, anyone? If a home has been the site of a slaying or a drug bust, has belonged to a Mafia leader even if it housed cats buyers want to know.

And sellers must tell them. Although state law requires the seller to disclose material defects in a Kee RashThe Arizona Republic i.