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Ppge 2 Wednesday, July 11, 1984 Brette De Lorean ctory se eyes vi Valestra and other key witnesses chronicled an operation that officially began July -11, 19B2, when an informant met with De Lorean at a Newport Beach hotel and reported that the automaker was eager to enter into a drug deal. The informant, James Timothy Hoffman, was the government's star witness, recalling in vivid detail his conversations with De Lorean some of them secretly taped, others' unrecorded. Walsh and prosecutor Robert Perry called only seven witnesses in all, but their testimony spanned 47 days as the defense chipped away at the-government's case with acrimoni tious agents eager to arrest a celebrity. One FBI agent admitted destroy: ing documents in the case; Valestra admitted back-dating official records. Hoffman was attacked as a liar in 18 grueling days on the stand.

"The government case has fallen apart." defense attorney Donald Re told reporters Tuesday. "We are in a much better position than we could have hoped to be at this We are not only optimistic but truly en-' couraged." Weit7.man added. "We didn't think the testimony would come out as fa--vorably as it did. Wc thought the witnesses would be more together." ous crossxamination. The prosecution scored its strongest points by playing and replaying dramatic, secretly recorded vided-1 tapes showing De Lorean apparent-' ly in league with men he thought were drug dealers.

He was seen listening calmly as the other men, government agents-in disguise, openly discussed heroin and cocaine. De Lorean himself spoke of a code word for cocaine. The defense responded by dissect-' ing the actions of the agents. -contending that De Lorean had no interest in a drug deal but was lured into compromising situations-by ambi. jj Put a gator ziji your motor PORT NECHES, Texas (AP)' and Sharon Gray had heard of having a tiger in their tank, but they never expected to find an alligator dri their engine.

i warming up their car Tuesday: morning, Gray at first thought the strange noises coming from under the hood indicated engine trouble. Instead, he discovered that a foot alligator had taken refuge near the radiator. "It was blocking the air flow Gray said. Mrs. Gray mistook the gator's curled toes for a tree branch.

But a neighbor who was walking by yelled, "What's that under your car?" When Gray looked, he thought it was a plastic bag. But closer observation revealed the reptile. didn't scare me. I've seen them in the wild before," he said. Gray told his wife to run and get the camera so he could record the event.

"I did tell her to kill it if it started at me while I was taking its picture," he said. The Grays then contacted Texas Parks and Wildlife officials, who picked up the alligator and will relocate it. mm LOSE WEIGHT 3-7 Lbs. Per Week -flOO00 CONTEMPLATION Russian horticulturalist Abdujabber Abdu-jamikov, 87, considers his riBXt move during a chess game in his village of Khalkabad, in the Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan. Chess is very popular in this region among both the old and the young.

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I feel I'd recommend this program to anyone. Best of all LOS ANGELES (AP Two years after federal agents targeted John Z. De Lorean in a "sting" oper-. ation, prosecutors rested their case in the automaker's drug trafficking trial, with defense attorneys pro claiming "the government case has fallen apart." De Lorean stood by silently Tuesday as his attorneys confidently predicted victory, saying they would ask Thursday for acquittal on grounds of insufficient evidence but were prepared to call "a lot" of witnesses if the motion were rejected. There's been no decision' on whether De Lorean himself will testify, defense lawyer Howard Weitz-mansaid.

"I don't think the case presented by the government proves John De Lorean committed any crimes," Weitzman said at a news conference moments after Assistant U.S." Attor- -n ey James Walsh abruptly declared the prosecution's case at an end. "Your honor, at this point the government would rest," Walsh, the veteran prosecutor who has devoted the past two years to the De Lorean case, said Tuesday. The announcement came as a surprise, because attorneys had predicted at least another week of government testimony. U.S. District Judge Robert Ta-kasugi called a one-day trial recess today for attorneys to prepare and file written motions.

De Lorean. 59. is charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his Financially troubled sports car company. If convicted of all charges, he could face up to 72 years in prison. The last major prosecution witness -was Drug Enforcement Administration agent John Valestra.

an architect of the De Lorean sting, who spent 13 days on the stand, most of it under accusatory cross-examination. The man who arrested De Lorean, FBI agent Jerry West, also made a brief appearance. Car leasing firm agrees to refunds ERIE, Pa. (AP) A Buffalo based car leasing company has agreed to refund a total of (3,600 to four consumers who allegedly were misled about the mileage of the used lease cars they bought. Marine Midland Leasing Corp.

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