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ST mm 1 992 The Arizona Daily Star Vol. 151 No. 254 Final Edition, Tucson, Thursday, September 10, 1992 U.S.50 in Mexico 60 Pages In new a ANALYSIS Company to relocate 6 weapons programs By LA. Mitchell The Arizona Dairy Star Hughes Aircraft decision to move nearly all of its newly acquired missile lines to Tucson will bring 2,700 new jobs here, a company executive said yesterday. Edwin Biggers, a vice president of the newly formed Hughes Missile Systems Co.

subsidiary, said the relocation of six weapons systems recently bought from Consolidation was key to company's survival By LA. Mitchell The Arizona Dally Star For Hughes Aircraft selecting one site for the company's missile production lines was the only way to stay competitive in a highly volatile market. With the Tucson plant site operating below capacity, Hughes had no choice but to consolidate in some way. By selecting Tucson over Pomona, the company can save millions in the long run, said Edwin Biggers, a vice president of Hughes Missile Systems the More on the Hughes move. Page 8B.

General Dynamics represents "a crucial turning point" in making the company more competitive amid dwindling defense allocations. As a result of the consolidation, Biggers said, Tucson employment will jump from an estimated low of about 3,500 at the end of this year to 6,200 by the end of the consolidation process, within two years. Biggers said the jobs will be filled by an undetermined mix of Hughes employees, previously laid-off employees and former General Dynamics employees, who See HUGHES, Page 2A new subsidiary created to merge the former General Dynamics missile lines with Hughes' existing missile business. "We had tremendous support from the community," Biggers said. "But the bottom line In the decision was operating costs.

This is an economic" decision only." Biggers said the costs of operating from salaries to taxes are much cheaper in Tucson than In California cities. Many economic development groups said the mix of financial and other incentives used to court the city's largest private employer also were crucial. In fact, See DECISION, Page 2A Upsets usher in Arizona's year of the woman Jimmy Judd loses Cochise sheriff's race Claire Sargent, Karan English win their races -r 1 i it, fl i i mf By Ignaclo Ibarra The Arizona Daily Star BISBEE The music was festive, but the mood was clearly somber at the "victory" party at 12:40 yesterday morning when Jimmy V. Judd conceded to reporters he'd lost his bid for a fifth term of office. Judd, 59, the sheriff of Cochise County for 16 years, had gone into the campaign optimistic that his experience and political organization would win him another term.

But he fell victim to a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment that gave challenger John F. Pintek, 46, an impressive 56.4 percent of the 11,403 Democratic votes cast. From the posting of the first precinct results at 9 p.m. Tuesday to the posting of the final report at 2:30 a.m., one precinct after another went by convincing margins to Pintek. Judd won only seven of the county's 58 precincts, including his hometown, St.

David, where he received 68.9 percent of the 287 Democratic Votes cast compared with 28.6 percent for Pintek. Judd also won three precincts in Benson, the Whetstone and the Po-merene-Dragoon precincts on the See JUDD, Page5A mm-. 4 4. By Steve Meissner The Arizona Dally Star The year of the woman has come to Arizona. Claire Sargent, now the Democratic nominee for the U.S.

Senate, and state Sen. Karan L. English, the Democratic candidate in Arizona's new 6th Congressional District, brought it to the forefront by beating a pair of well-funded men in Tuesday's primaries. Now they have to do it again in the Nov. 3 general election, when they face two more men with strong GOP backing and big bank accounts.

Sargent will challenge incumbent Sen. John McCain, while En- Tuesday's numbers. Page 11A. 2 Cochise supervisors attribute defeats to anti-incumbent mood. Page IB.

1 glish faces Doug Wead, a conservative Republican with strong ties to the evangelical community. Both Sargent and English won despite being outspent in their primaries, however, and some financial help seems to be on its way. Liberal fund-raising groups in Washington, D.C., are already showing new interest in their races, thanks to the strength shown by Sargent, who defeated retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Truman Spangrud by nearly a 3-2 margin, and by English, who trounced Senate Majority Leader Alan Stephens, D-Phoenix, by 8,000 votes, or 14 percent of the total ballots cast.

And that interest will translate into cash. "We'll be meeting them here with the red carpet," said Jane Danowitz, executive director of the Women's Campaign fund, an abortion-rights organization that supports candidates from both parties. The campaign fund and other groups that traditionally support Democratic candidates took a wait-and-see attitude toward both Arizona women, due in part to uncertainty about whether they or their male competitors would win the Democratic primaries. Some also backed Stephens and See WOMAN, Page5A 1992 Star file photo Cochise County Democrats surprised Sheriff Jimmy Judd by defeating him In his quest for the party's nomination for a fifth term Morrison sports new look after primary defeat ANALYSIS money and the big backers. Marsh raised only $9,000 through the first reporting period, ended Aug.

19. Davis had $73,000. including $35,000 of his own money. Morrison had $64,000, including $37,000 from his own pocket. Although details of the lavish spending won't be known until financial reports are filed Sept 28, Morrison gave a hint of how money was wasted.

With Marsh and Davis working absentee voting, Morrison's campaign crew tried to play catch up. They spent $3,400 for direct-mail absentee requests. They got three back, Morrison said. "We were shooting at ducks in the pond three days after they flew away," Morrison said. Marsh captured the absentees, then the early votes that came from knocked on the doors of 9,000 homes during his one year of campaigning.

Marsh visited 13,000 homes. Morrison had neither the time nor plan to match that type of campaign. Instead, Morrison spent money on television ads that apparently did not help. Davis' problem of peaking too early was made worse by ill-timed and misdirected mail and apparently unreliable polling. Marsh, meanwhile, had surprisingly accurate tracking polls.

Some sources said Davis' personal style of confidence came off as arrogance and put people off as did his Mercedes and Jaguar cars. Lunn said it was unfortunate that Morrison even succumbed to See MORRISON, Page5A By Chris Umberis The Arizona Dally Star Tossed out convincingly by the Republicans he worked to serve for eight years, Supervisor Reg Morrison went to work yesterday with a fresh spirit. In short sleeves and tie but no coat, Morrison took a seat In the early afternoon in a receptionist's chair at the offices of the Board of Supervisors atop the Pima County Administration Building. He even offered, quietly, to hand over his county car a deep maroon Ford Crown Victoria to Democrat Raul Grijalva. Smiling broadly and beginning the process of reminiscing, the 72-year-old chairman of the board proclaimed that he was "relieved." The semi-retired funeral home and cemetery executive can now de- precincts in the eastside city Ward 2, where Marsh ran last year for City Council.

Marsh lost to Democrat Janet Marcus in the citywide election, but easily collected more votes than Marcus in Ward 2. Davis was unable to gain on Marsh in Green Valley. Supervisor Greg Lunn, the Republican who is vacating his northside and central District 1 seat, said Marsh benefited from several factors. "He had the residual from his city race, he was not the target of any of the negative campaigning and his lack of money and lack of a country-club image tended to cast him in heroic proportions," Lunn said. Marsh's peripatetic campaign style, reminiscent of that of Mayor George Miller, also helped.

Davis frequently boasted that he cide again how to semi-retire. "I have four months to decide," he said. Part of the work was already done. "My chore was to keep Davis from winning," Morrison said of former Steinfeld's Department Store executive Lee Davis. The District 4 race was won dramatically by Paul Marsh, who worked at J.C.

Penney Co. and Montgomery Ward Co. before creating a financial planning business. Morrison, who in April reversed his nearly 2-year-old decision to retire at the end of his second term, said he was not surprised by Marsh. Morrison and Davis, residents of the Tucson Country Club, had the big WEATHER Spreading hunger now afflicts 30 million in U.S., study says Property, equipment from drug tunnel in Douglas scheduled to be auctioned High ClOUdS.

Today is expected to be mostly sunny, with a few high clouds. Southwest winds of 5 to 10 mph are forecast. Look for a high near 103 and an overnight low in the upper 60s. Yesterday's high was 100, the low 67. Details on Page 17A.

INDEX Accent 1-7D Horoscept 7D Bridge ID Money S-12B Classified I-HD Obituaries Camics 4D Public rectrds 4B 1J-1IA Sports 1-C Crossword Tucson today 2D In 1985, Brown led a national task force that warned that 20 million Americans suffered from hunger, defined as a condition where health is threatened because a person repeatedly doesn't consume enough nutrients. Brown said he has confidence in the updated figures because three different methods were used to calculate them, and each resulted in a total around 30 million. Brown said the profile of hunger has changed as the problem has grown. "The stereotype is that this is largely an inner city and minority problem," he said. "Those stereotypes no longer hold.

"It's very dramatic to go into the Midwest and hold a malnourished See HUNGER, Page 4A private contractor that manages the sale of seized and abandoned property for U.S. Customs, said the auction will include the Douglas Ready Mix equipment yard that encompasses nearly a square block of property adjacent to the Mexican border. Fam said a gravel pit and 80 acres of range land located north of Douglas, cement mixers, dump trucks, utility trucks, rock crushers, and a bulldozer will also go on the block. He said a warehouse built over the entrance of the tunnel is among the property to be sold, but he could not say what will become of the tunnel itself. Customs spokeswoman Pamela Previa, in Houston, was also unable to provide information about the condition of the tunnel, or how it will be secured if it is sold.

Officials who could provide that information and information on the status of the tunnel investigation could not be reached. U.S. Customs officials announced the seizure of the runnel and related property on May 18, 1990. At the time, the officials said the tunnel had operated for about six months and at least 1 ton of cocaine was shipped through it The tunnel entrance on the Mexican side was located under the pool table in the game room of a $250,000 house also owned by Camarena. The pool table could be raised on hydraulic jacks on a concrete platform activated by a sprinkler valve in a side lawn.

Under the platform, Mexican Federal Police found a large storage bunker, with a 30-foot-deep shaft See TUNNEL, Page 2A By Ignacio Ibarra The Arizona Daily Star DOUGLAS Two years after the discovery of the Douglas drug tunnel, the man alleged to have built it is nowhere to be found. Tomorrow, the U.S. Customs Service will put some of the nearly $2.3 million in property and equipment seized from Francisco Rafael Ca-marena on the block in a special auction that begins at 9 a.m. at 601 First St in Douglas. The sale will take place at the site of the former Douglas Ready Mix, which served as the cover for the construction and later the operation of a 300-foot-long, 30-foot-deep concrete-lined runnel connecting the construction yard warehouse with a home on the Mexican side of the border.

Mark Fam, of Dynatrend, a BOSTON (AP) About 30 million Americans fail to eat enough food as hunger spreads beyond inner cities to the heartland, a report says. The research, prepared at the request of the Democratic chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger. Tony Hall, D-Ohio, estimates hunger has grown by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. "When we see increasing poverty and decreasing incomes, it's not at all surprising that hunger has increased," said J. Larry Brown, director of Tufts University's Center on Hunger.

Poverty and Nutrition Policy. The increase in hunger also creates the potential for more learning deficiencies among young children, more illness among the elderly and diminished productivity for workers, he said. 5D ZD TV. Dear Abby 7 5.