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I Ghoulish Books Art of makeup and monsters ID iMllllllt.l 1992 The Arizona Daily Star Vol. 151 No. 296 Final Edition, Tucson, Thursday, October 22, 1992 U.S.50 In Mexico 50 Pages i World Series rVO Jf jays win, look to end it tonight Jj Sports, Page 1C sr. Judge slcisBis -liiil jury award so Keating case ages each against Keating and Continental Southern, $518 million against Wolfswinkel as well as $300 million against a fourth defendant, Saudi European Investment but Bilby took no action yesterday concerning the foreign company. He has encouraged a Saudi European settlement with plaintiffs before a final judgment is imposed.

Bilby also cut in half a $1.5 billion punitive damage award against Keating, saying the jury's figure was too much. And he threw out the punitive damages the jury awarded against Wolfswinkel ($410 million) and Continental Southern ($500 million). Under state and federal racketeering laws that apply in the case, Bilby is to triple the compensatory damages. But he has discretion to do so before or after deducting settlements with other one-time defend- See KEATING, Page4A Immigrant law failing, panel says Abuse of farm workers reportedly still rampant By Peter T. Kllborn 1992 The New York Times WASHINGTON The law Congress enacted six years ago to combat illegal immigration has done nothing to stop exploitation of migrant farm workers, one of its principal objectives, a government-appointed, bipartisan commission has found.

The panel, charged with assessing the law's impact on agriculture, confirms earlier reports that illegal immigration continues largely unchecked. The commission attributes the problem to lax enforcement, widespread fraud and the tenacity of people in fleeing severe unemployment at home for jobs in the United States. Congress was both tough and benign in adopting the Immigration Reform and Control Act. To stop illegal immigration, the law established sanctions against' employers who hire unauthorized workers, and it granted amnesty to 3 million workers who could show they had worked at least 90 days in agriculture in the United States in the year that ended May 1, 1986. But inadvertently, the law also gave birth to a bustling market in counterfeit documents that has undermined the objectives of the law.

The resulting tide of new illegal immigrants who possess phony documents and who accept substandard working conditions leaves employ- ers with little incentive to improve those conditions. Unless a document is obviously bogus, it is evidence enough to protect an employer from the law's sanctions, ranging from a $100 fine for sloppy bookkeeping to six months in jail. Indeed, if an employer is overly cautious and demands additional proof from a worker who turns out to be legal, the employer risks being charged with discrimination. The law's failings are most apparent in agriculture the focus of the commission's scrutiny. The migrant and seasonal farm labor force is the easiest place for illegal immigrants to find work, and agriculture, especially labor-intensive fruit and vegetable farming, is the industry See ILLEGAL, Page 2A CI 3 i i 11 The Associated Press 1 ff-y 1 TL iff ifi, Sf I 4 Economists yesterday began matches near a tires more than to win West; to hold South By contrast, Bush had his ticket punched aboard a chartered train across North Carolina, a state Republicans usually have locked up in the race for the White House.

Ross Perot was back home in Texas, pursuing his independent bid by now-familiar unconventional means. His campaign has purchased 30-minute network slots for commercials today, tomorrow and Saturday. Among the day's campaign curiosities: Bush stopped by a Waffle House for breakfast before boarding his train, possibly for the food, more likely to underscore his charge that Clinton waffles on one issue after another. The local diners engaged the president in a game of riddles, and he was ready with a joke. "Did you hear the one about the See CAMPAIGN, Page4A v.

i By Arthur H. Rotstein The Associated Press A federal judge in Tucson yesterday cut in half the damages a jury awarded against one-time executive Charles Keating Jr. and slashed those for two of three other defendants in his civil fraud trial. A jury had ordered Keating, Arizona developer Conley Wolfswinkel and Continental Southern an Atlanta developer, to pay more than $3 billion to thousands of investors they found had been cheated by Keating's American Continental Corp. and its Lincoln Savings.

Acting on a request from an attorney for Wolfswinkel, U.S. District Judge Richard Bilby reduced compensatory damages awarded July 10 against the three to $288.7 million the amount in losses that plaintiffs claimed during the 3i2-month trial. An 11 -member jury had assessed $600 million in compensatory dam Clinton out Bush trying By David Espo The Associated Press Bill Clinton panned for electoral gold in the West yesterday, offering traditionally Republican voters a "new Democratic Party" instead of the tax-and-spend habits of the past. President Bush likened his rival to a "struggling Little League manager" not ready for the Oval Office. His presidency in peril, Bush was asked if anyone had told him his reelection race was already lost.

"Not anybody I trust," he replied to his CNN interviewer. With less than two weeks remaining until Election Day, it wasn't so much what the candidates said that counted; it was where they said it. Clinton's chartered jet was touching down in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana as he bid for victory in a region of the country that has voted Republican each year since 1964. nue Service more than $125 billion, while Medicare and Medicaid each year pay more than $2 billion in health costs that private insurers should cover, Conyers said. The examples were compiled from previously released audits.

General Accounting Office investigations, hearing records, inspectors general reports and other studies, he said. "Until now there has never been a comprehensive congressional review of the size and extent of serious management problems across the executive branch," Conyers said. The Bush administration immediately dismissed the report as partisan, particularly because it was released just before the presidential 5.06 percent. Rates held steady equity loans percent. While about this senior were rates was Yields one-year But Burning rubber A group of southwest Phoenix residents wait at a park after smoke from burning tires forced about 2,000 people from their homes.

The fire when two children played with 3-acre lot covered with 250,000 legally allowed, officials said. expect small rise in interest rates Douglas studying plan to build prison, get Jimmy Judd to run it justable-rate mortgages rose to 5.15 percent from on new car loans stopped declining and at 9.14 percent, Heady said. Home fell 0.03 of a percentage point, to 7.33 borrowers got something to grouse week, savings account holders, including citizens who live off their interest income, heartened as the severe downturn in arrested. on certificates of deposit were unchanged, with the 6-month at 3 percent and the at 3.23 percent, Heady said. those figures are cold comfort for small See RATES, Page4A institute an economic-growth package that will increase the federal deficit and be inflationary.

Consumers are already feeling the ripple effect of the uptick in rates. "The Clinton factor has begun to hit the consumer's pocketbook; some of it is good, some bad," said Robert K. Heady, publisher of Bank Rate Monitor, a North Palm Beach, consumer-banking newsletter. Of all consumer loans, home mortgages are among the most sensitive to interest-rate fluctuations. As of yesterday, the average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages had risen to 8.31 percent from 8.15 percent the previous week, according to HSH Associates, a mortgage research company in Butler, N.J.

The rate on one-year ad NEW YORK (AP) Interest rates including those on mortgages and other consumer loans will probably head higher in the next several months, economists predicted. But the sluggishness of the economy will keep a lid on them, they said. The yield on the Treasury's 30-year bond a closely watched indicator of where other interest rates are headed has risen more than 0.3 of a percentage point since Oct. 1, to 7.6 percent, in bond market trading. Economists predict it may go up an additional quarter point to half point by the end of the year but should stop there.

Market rates are rising not because of any economic fundamentals, but because of widespread fear among bond investors that Bill Clinton will be elected president in November and By Ignaclo Ibarra The Arizona Dally Star DOUGLAS City officials agreed unanimously Tuesday to study a proposal from a private developer that could make Cochise County Sheriff Jimmy Judd the manager of a 250-bed prison. Judd, who lost his bid for an unprecedented fifth term last month, attended the presentation but did not address the council. He said after the meeting that Jim Garrison dies at 70; JFK conspiracy proponent Study is criticized as political but finds $310 billion in federal waste in 12 years he is considering the offer to head the management team should the prison be built, but said that is just one of several options he is considering. "This is all just in the preliminary planning stages. If it were to happen, it would be a tremendous challenge and I've always liked challenges," said Judd, who will leave office in January when a new sheriff will replace him.

Richard Carr, president of In-See PRISON, Page 2A 1973 AP photo i WEATHER Cloudy, breezy. Today is expected to be mostly cloudy, with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Look for a high in the mid-80s and an overnight low in the upper 50s. Yesterday's high was 87, the low 60. Details on Page 13A.

INDEX Accent 1-7D Horoscope 2D Bridge JD Money MB Classaied (-2ID Obituaries 8D Comics ID 14-15A Public records 2B Sports MC Crossword ID Tucson today 2D DetrAbby JD TV 7D 50136' 00001 NEW ORLEANS (AP) Jim Garrison, the pistol-packing prosecutor whose often scoffed at conspiracy theories about President Kennedy's assassination inspired the director of the movie "JFK," died yesterday. He was 70. Garrison, who served 12 years as New Orleans district attorney and 12 years as a judge on the state's 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, never stopped believing CIA hard-liners had Kennedy killed to keep the United States in Vietnam. The cause of Garrison's death wasn't listed, but heart trouble forced him to leave the appeals court on Nov. 1, 1991, three weeks before his 70th birthdav and manda- See GARRISON, Page 4A WASHINGTON (AP) Government waste ranging from the petty to the absurd amounted to $310 billion in lost taxpayer money over the past 12 years, the chairman of the Committee on Government Operations said yesterday.

Rep. John Conyers, released a staff-compiled report citing hundreds of examples of wasteful spending across federal government agencies. Among those he considered the most egregious offenders was a weapons plant contractor who used taxpayer dollars for a custom-made grandfather clock, wood inlaid staircase, wine press, liquor still and special coins and medals. Deadbeats owe the Internal Reve election and because no lawmaker? besides Conyers, including Demc crats on his committee, took part in the report. Conyers maintained the timing was unrelated to the pending election.

Yet the report spanned 12 years, all under Republican administrations, and focused on the four years that President Bush has been in the White House. The congressman from Detroit said he had hoped to release the report before Congress recessed earlier this month, but it wasn't done by then. "This is the soonest that I could get it," he said. Rep. Frank Horton, the committee's ranking Republican, See WASTE, Page 4A Jim Garrison.