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LOCAL NEWS WEATHER SECTION SUNDAY Cos Angeles Sfancs APRIL 30, 2000 CC 2 Die, 8 Hurt in Pasadena as Vehicle 10-MonthOld Girl Killed in Drive-By Attack Shooting: Two women are wounded in apparently gang-related incident. Hits Crowd Accident: Teenage driver lost control near a school carnival, police say. 1 IZ rw A til fit Vt ft vvWrfvJVi- 1 lli rjj By BOBBY CUZA TIMES STAFF WRITER A baby girl died in a burst of gunfire during an apparently gang-related drive-by shooting Saturday afternoon in Compton. Police said the child, 10 months old, was struck in the head by gunfire from a high-powered assault weapon outside her family's apartment building in the 100 block of East Cypress Street. She became the latest and among the youngest of small victims killed by errant bullets in the Southland in recent years.

Two women were also hit, but their wounds were not thought to be life-threatening. Police did not release the identities of the victims. The incident occurred about 3:15 as many people, including several children, were congregated in front of a trio of two-story stucco apartment buildings. A white car with three people inside drove down the street and rifle fire erupted, police said, before the vehicle sped off. No arrests had been made by late Saturday but police said they had strong leads and were searching for the suspects.

Paramedics took the child to Martin Luther King Jr. Drew Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 4:05 p.m., a hospital spokesman said. Other children killed by gang gunfire include Stephanie Kuhen, 3, whose family's car got trapped in a Los Angeles alley in 1995. In 1997, Erick Jimenez, 2, was shot as he rode on his father's shoulders in Inglewood, and Celeste Reyes, 3, died as she played in her Rancho Dominguez living room. By TERRY McDERMOTT TIMES STAFF WRITER A sport utility vehicle driven by a 16-year-old boy careened into a crowd of pedestrians near the entrance to a school carnival in Pasa-' dena on Saturday, trapping people beneath the vehicle and killing a woman and her daughter, police said.

The victims were identified as Sarah Karesh, 34, and her daughter, Madison, 4, said a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Eight other people, including Howard Karesh, 35, the husband and father of the two killed, were injured in the accident in the Prospect Park area of Pasadena, a hilltop neighborhood of big trees and bigger homes, the type of place, a neighbor said, "where nothing bad has ever happened." The vehicle was northbound on the Prospect Boulevard bridge when it veered out of control and jumped onto a sidewalk crowded with people attending the Chandler School's annual fund-raising fair. Pasadena Police Department Please see ACCIDENT, B3 Photos by CAROLYN COLE Los Angeles Times The Rt. Rev. J.

Jon Bruno, left, shares a light moment at Saturday ceremony with the Rt. Rev. Frederick H. Borsch, whom he will succeed. L.

A. Episcopal Diocese Ordains Next Bishop iii 11 2 i jy i 1 1 1 Lethal Bacteria Found at Biofem Doctor's Home Religion: Former policeman and pro athlete will take over when current leader eventually retires. By LARRY B. STAMMER TIMES RELIGION WRITER The Rt. Rev.

J. Jon Bruno, a former policeman and pro football center, was ordained successor bishop of the six-county Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on Saturday with a pledge to minister to children and Southern California's cultural diversity. In ancient ceremonies grafting him into what the church believes is a line of succession going back 2,000 years to the apostle Peter, more than 20 Episcopal and Anglican bishops from as far away as Mexico City and Belize joined American prelates in placing their hands on Bruno's head as he knelt before them. Repeating a traditional prayer as an estimated 4,000 Episcopalians and guests looked on at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the bishops called upon God to "pour out upon him the power of your princely spirit." With those words, the former Denver Broncos player and Burbank policeman, who is 6 feet 4 and weighs more than 270 pounds, became the 953rd bishop in the U.S. church since the American Revolution.

The Episcopal Church is a self-governing member of the 70-million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, whose spiritual leader Bruno kneels before other Episcopal bishops during service at Convention Center. Los Angeles diocese, which includes the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Riverside and San Bernardino. "I want you to look into the eyes of these young people," said Bruno, vested in regal robes and wearing a miter. "Tell them you will Please see BISHOP, B7 is the archbishop of Canterbury. Bruno, 53, who was ordained a priest in 1977, will succeed the Rt.

Rev. Frederick H. Borsch when Borsch retires. Borsch, 64, who became bishop in 1988, has not announced a retirement date. Bruno wasted no time in declaring that children would be his first priority as bishop in the By JACK LEONARD TIMES STAFF WRITER IRVINE Preliminary tests on substances removed from the Irvine home of biomedical researcher Dr.

Larry C. Ford found germs that cause cholera and salmonella, according to law enforcement sources. The FBI is trying to determine why the doctor kept the potentially dangerous bacteria in the house and whether they were related to his medical research with Biofem Inc. or somehow linked to his involvement with the South African military's biological weapons program, the sources said. Cholera is a highly contagious intestinal disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration and can be fatal if not promptly treated.

Salmo- Please see BACTERIA, B8 THE COURT FILES ANN W. O'NEILL Marx Brothers' Heirs Are No Comedy Team Woody Harrelson uncovered Blob, blob, blob 5 movie madness. Internet! For years, the heirs of Chico and Harpo Marx have squabbled with the estate of the third Marx brother, Groucho, claiming they're getting the short end of the shtick. On Friday, a federal judge said they might have a case. U.S.

District Judge Dickran Teverizian blocked distribution of a cartoon version of the Marx Brothers slapstick comedy trio until representatives of the estates cut out the monkey business. The Marx Brothers' film legacy includes such classics as "Animal Crackers," "Monkey Business," "Horse Feathers" and "Duck Soup." The Chico and Harpo estates claim that Groucho's estate cheated them by concealing a deal for the animated Marx Brothers television show. The judge agreed Please see FILES, B6 Readers, Authors Celebrate Written Word at Book Festival i1 i' I' nnmm te waning iwm sponse to any question customs officials had was "thank you," they told her she would have to go back to China. She broke down in tears. "I said, 'Please, give me a chance, give me six months.

If I don't learn English, I deport recalled the 43-year-old Min, who now lives in Hacienda Heights. Since then, she has learned English, written three books in English, and earned enough literary praise to be sitting on a panel about the "new China Please see FESTIVAL, B7 ByCARLAHALL TIMES STAFF WRITER When Anchee Min left her native China in 1984 for the United States, her grasp of English was, well, awful. Cleverly, she had avoided speaking much English to get a visa (consular officials thought she was just determined) and a letter of acceptance from the Art Institute of Chicago (they liked her paintings). But when she stepped off a plane from Shanghai in Seattle and her re i man- i Reading B2 Lottery B3 Weather B4 Air Quality B4 Obituaries B5 WALLY SKALLI Los Angeles Times Alan Gilder finds a reading niche Saturday outside Royce Hall. The Downtown Blues i asked that of Carol Schatz, president place into a 9-to-ll place.

We forge ahead six hours at a time. There's the new cathedral too, the Taj Mahony, but that's not likely to lure a lot of night-lifers. The Disney Concert Hall, with its planned shops and restaurants, might. Both dream-spinner and blueprint realist, Schatz talks about turning ideas into the kinds of projects that will transform what has been the Realm of the Chicken Boy into a carefree place of fun and bright lights, as in the old Petula Clark song. And it'll happen, she says, within the next five years.

of our Central City a tough, lucid lady, who says it's coming. Not just to one street but to a lot of streets in downtown L.A. Shops and restaurants and moonlight, and all that jazz. I don't know how many times I've heard to AL MARTINEZ Maybe it was the full moon. Maybe it was the deep, warm tones of the alto sax.

Maybe it was just because I wasn't in L.A. But I think I've fallen in love with San Diego. Not all of San Diego, just the Gaslamp Quarter, that chunk of downtown territory rooted in a history that trails back to the Civil War. Restored to a Victorian mix of shops, clubs and restaurants, it beckons alluringly to guys like me who yearn for busy nights and mellow places. Boosters have described the 131-year-old district as a combination of Bourbon Street, Soho and Fisherman's Wharf.

Maybe so. Its 16 city blocks do evoke that dreamy, almost mythical era before street gangs, cell phones and dot-coms. It wasn't always that way. Pete Wilson was mayor when he got tired of San Diego's seedy, sailor-oriented downtown and initiated the effort that resulted in what's there today. I went slouching south, lured by a mountain of letters that said I'd dismissed San Diego too easily in a column last month.

I stayed in the remodeled, 90-year-old U.S. Grant Hotel, roamed the streets and ended up seduced by moonlight and jazz. And I found myself wondering during the euphoria of a two-day hiatus from calamity, why not all this in L.A.? building at 6th and Flower into the first major central city hotel in a decade. What's old is new again. AH of this doesn't guarantee the kind of strolling street I was talking about, but it does promise life to an area that pretty much dies at sunset.

Almost 400,000 people who work downtown every day head home at night without looking back. Habits have to be broken and trust restored in the moonlight hours. San Diego did it. Santa Monica did it at the Third Street Promenade. Pasadena did it at Old Town.

We've got to convince the diners and drinkers and music lovers that it's safe to come downtown. It's OK to be mellow again. There's a lot of moving and shaking going on in L.A. There's a lot of dream-spinning. Born and raised here, Carol Schatz has a vision that mixes moonlight and mist with hammers and saws.

"I'm a passionate believer in a downtown that really flies," she says. "We won't be a real city until it does." In the meantime, I'll just saunter down to San Diego once in a while, catch some moonlight and jazz and wait for our own dream to come true. It's only taken about two centuries to come this far. What's a few more years? Al Martinez's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. He can be reached online at a.martne7atmes.com.

that song before. We've gotten high-rises and a lot of nice places in the past 20 years, but no, well, strolling street. No Gaslamp Quarter. Our history is centered around Olvera Street's ethnic clutter. It's great if you're buying a sombrero or having your picture taken on a burro, but that's about it.

A new downtown is in the works, says Schatz. "I've had this goal for 10 years to create a 24-hour center, and it's beginning to happen now." She points to Staples Center as the catalyst and says it has already lured in new restaurants, converting at least that section of town from a 9-to-5 One does see signs. The Southern California Institute of Architecture, whose graduates are helping shape the look of the future, will be moving in. It will occupy a restored, century-old railroad freight building in the artist's loft district of downtown. Other signs: The prestigious, Pasadena-based Art Center College of Design is considering a proposal to move its entire campus to Bunker Hill.

And developer Tom Gilmore, who, at 6-3, towers over downtown in more ways than one, will turn three historic, skid row buildings into 250 apartments. Other investors will reshape an old office i.