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3 JAN 8 1391 TUESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1991 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Riegle Denies Arranging Keating Meetings Sign Jegel's testimony contradicted testimony by a Keating lobbyist. Riegle's role in assisting Keating is one of the thorniest issues before the committee. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen.

Donald W. Riegle told the Senate Ethics Committee on Monday that he had played a minor role in the intervention by five senators on.behalf of savings and loan figure Charles H. Keating Jr. Riegel's testimony contradicted testimony by a Keating lobbyist The committee is investigating whether Riegle and four other senators acted improperly by intervening with regulators on behalf of Keating, who raised almost $1.4 million for their campaign committees and related political organizations. The failure in April 1989 of Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, which was embroiled in a dispute with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, could cost taxpayers more than $2 billion to pay federally took to Keating's headquarters in Phoenix, three weeks before the April 2 meeting.

Bennett produced documents indicating that fund raising had been one reason for the trip, but the senator denied it Riegle contended, "There was no fund raising associated with that trip as relates to any kind of a fund-raising event at American Continental," which is Keating's company. He acknowledged that he had gone to Phoenix partly to raise money from supporters of Jewish causes and employees of life insurance companies. Riegle's appearance Monday followed appearances Friday by Sens. John McCain, and John Glenn, D-Ohio, who also testified in their own defense. Sens.

Dennis De-concini, and Alan Cranston, are to testify this week. happen." Riegle contended that he had not arranged the meeting; he said he had attended a second meeting with regulators a week later only because another senator had invited him. Riegle repeatedly cited his faulty memory in finding himself unable to recall meetings with Keating or his aides that appeared on the senator's own calendars. The committee's special counsel, Robert S. Bennett, hammered Riegle about the purpose of a trip the senator California, Minnesota, Wisconsin Seat Republican Governors SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) Republican Pete Wilson was sworn in as governor on Monday, facing a $6 billion deficit and Democratic majorities in both houses of the Legislature. Elsewhere, Minnesota inaugurated Republican Arne Carlson, a long-shot gubernatorial victor who didn't get into the race until two weeks before the election. And Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, a Republican, took the oath in Wisconsin after promising improved schools and efforts to reduce violence in Mil Reservoir Reveals '63 Crash MILPITAS, Calif.

(AP) A small plane that rescuers believe crashed 27 years ago has been exposed after drought and maintenance work lowered the Calaveras Reservoir by 100 feet. Since the plane disappeared on Father's Day in 1963, the family of Robert Antoine Lou-viere has returned to the reservoir often, at times casting red roses onto its surface. On Saturday, Louviere's three children again returned to the reservoir, a day after rescuers brought up two skeletons found in the small aluminum plane, which had been embedded in the reservoir's muddy bottom. Robert Louviere was just 4 years old when his father and a friend, Cliff Gillman, disappeared while on a pleasure flight. No trace of the plane was found, but an oil slick was spotted on the reservoir.

"I figured it was history, it was gone," the son said. "Who expected the water to go down this far? I was just telling my daughter the other day, 'I wish I could see my dad for and now here he is." The younger Louviere, of Sunnyvale, was joined at the reservoir by his sister, Wanda Hall, 30, and his brother, Clifford, 27, who was born three months after the plane disappeared and was named for Gill-man. Their mother, Betty, 51, also came to the reservoir but did not stay long. "My mom is kind of in shock," Hall said. She has never remarried.

Officials with the Santa Clara County sheriff's office said positive identification would be made within a week, using old medical and dental records, as well as a number on the plane's engine. Rescuers were 99 percent certain that the remains were from the aircraft that went down in 1963, said sheriff's Sgt. Ken Conn. The reservoir has reached such a low level that acres of its bottom have been revealed. The drought is partly to blame, but water officials also have been purposely using water so that a new pipe can be installed to a filtration plant.

ga Slight lncraM lor long lock-In 1ST bttt price. Ifc based on credit, aBfgB pawm sales service ree. eeaj $200,000 I II II III I insured deposits. Riegle's role in assisting Keating, a major political donor, is one of the thorniest issues before the committee. James Grogan, Keating's former lobbyist, testified last month that Riegle had arranged a crucial meeting between the four other senators under investigation and the nation's top thrift regulator, Edwin J.

Gray, on April 2, 1987. But Riegle said Monday, "I didn't go and talk with Mr. Gray and collect a group of senators and organize a meeting. That just didn't waukee without raising taxes. Shortly before being sworn in, Wilson resigned the U.S.

Senate seat he had held for eight years. The ceremony was moved inside as the first substantial rainstorm in weeks swept across the drought-stricken Sacramento Valley. Wilson, who narrowly defeated former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, offered an olive branch to Democrats. He promised to work for bipartisan solutions and stressed education, health and environmental pro CP 1-HR LABS grams backed by most Democrats. Wilson acknowledged the severe budget crunch that his new administration faced, with a deficit estimated at $6 billion in a $55 billion annual budget.

He did not discuss specific proposals but spoke in favor of more programs to provide prenatal care for poor women, dropout prevention in .120 S. Central yri Clavton sEBvici I Missouri MORTGAGE ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RA IE 9.25 The above are based only in $80 UOO loan Sc a 20 down payment Monthlv Humerus of 1743 for 15 imp SSK Terms nay change without fVVTm nolle. Willi Ttila I the --gn Possible slight Increase pjjka loan to LOANS OVER ft schools and drug education. In St. Paul, Carlson, who defeated incumbent Democrat Rudy Perpich, began campaigning just two weeks before the election.

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We felt very strongly that the ordinance was unconstitutional on its face because of the way it treated political speech." Efforts to reach Mayor Edith J. Spink and lawyers representing Ladue wer unsuccessful. Irt her ruling, Hamilton rejected ar-- guments that the ordinance was justified to protect Ladue residents' safety and "aesthetic interests." 1 Ladue officials had contended that the ordinance was "content-neutral" be-; catise it banned all political signs, re-' gardless of the message. i Hamilton saw it another way. "An ordinance that completely bans all political speech but that permits certain forms of commercial speech is noty.

content-neutral," the judge said. j- She added, "While privacy, safety and-aesthetic interests are recognized -'justifications for content-neutral re-" strictions, the Ladue ordinance in i question is not content-neutral." Hamilton granted Gilleo's request forn preliminary injunction against enforcement of the ordinance. Ladue offttfals may ask Hamilton to hold a heefyjng for a permanent injunction, take the case to the 8th U.S. Circuit CoiW of Appeals or, as Margo said, "re write the ordinance." The ordinance bans yard signs, ex-- cent real estate signs, and strictly regulates signs on businesses. Gilleo's lawyers have said Ladue officials flip-.

1 flopped on whether the ordinance gives the City Council authority to grant a special permit for a yard sign such as Gilleo's. Lawyers for Ladue had said in court documents that municipal officials historically have enforced the sign ban without regard to the politics ex-k pressed by such placards. 1 They noted that Gilleo was free to distribute fliers, telephone her neighbors and mail letters discussing her views. But her neighbors should not be "captives" of a yard sign, Ladue's law- yers added. -ftre Ladue City Council, citing the sigftian, voted unanimously Dec.

17 to Jgny Gilleo a permit for a sign in hejjard, on Willow Hill Road. tSUeo has said she learned of the ordinance after she reported to police that a sign she put up earlier was knocked down, apparently by vandals. I Thejjirst sign she put up, on Dec. 8, disappeared. The American Civil Liberties Union has taken on her case.

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