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2 Part 1Wcdnesday, January 9, 1985 HoeArujetee Slimes The News in Brief Imm IIh; I ti thf Pom new, wirp in Part One As spring semester begins today, Los Angeles and San Diego community colleges expect another sharp drop in enrollment. (Page 3). Scores on the California Bar exam and the passing rate plummeted in last July's test, the Slate Bar reported. (Page 3.) Part of (he state law on pandering was ruled unconstitutional by an L.A. judge in sentencing a call girl.

(Page 3.) The first launch of the space shuttle from Vandenberg Air Force Base has been delayed until early next year. (Page 3.) in San Diego County in Sports The padres signed free agent pitcher Tim Stoddard of the Chicago Cubs to a three-year contract worth about $1.5 million. (Page 1.) Ruth Wysocki said that Mary Decker should apologize to Zola Budd for her comments after their collision in the Olympics. (Pagel.) Bernhard Langer, Europe's No. 1 golfer, will make his first West Coast appearance in the Bob Hope Classic starting today.

(Page 1.) The Denver Nuggets broke the Lakers' nine-game winning streak, scoring a 126-124 victory as Alex English scored 41 points. (Page 1.) In Business General Motors will set up its first new car division since 1918 to build and market new Saturn passenger models. (Page 1.) Stocks turned mixed, but the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, up 5.63 points Monday, gained another 1.11. (Page 2.) In Calendar There are countless qualities for which to praise "The Jewel in the Crown," says Howard Rosenberg, but one is especially rare: It's TV that people talk about. Page 1 In View Crossroads School, cited by the Department of Education for academic excellence, has the ambiance of a tire warehouse.

Page 1. The San Diego Mystery Club enjoys an elaborate meal and triv-ia-fest in honor of fictional gourmet sleuth Nero Wolfe. (Pagel.) Their future depends on equality for blacks, a visiting Sen. Edward M. Kennedy warned South African business leaders.

(Page 4.) The Administration was not "arbitrary or capricious" in lowering standards for car bumpers, the U.S. Court of Appeals rul cd. Page 5. Salvadoran forces have begun using a U.S.-supplied plane armed with three machine guns against rebels. (Page 12.) A Polish security officer on trial for killing a popular priest suggested the victim was responsible for his own death.

Page 16. Tough rules aimed at wiping out blight in downtown's Gaslamp Quarter won unanimous approval of the City Council. (Page 1. San Diego Gas Electric Co. agreed to pay $3 million to a Texas oil dealer it had sued for fraud.

(Pagel). The job switch between James A. Baker III and Donald T. Regan is seen as brightening President Reagan's outlook. (Editorial Pages.) Wider horizons await California's Gov.

George Dcukmejian, in the opinion of Sacramento writer William Kahrl. (Editorial Pages.) NBC, which for nine seasons was third in prime-time ratings but is now a strong No. 2, probably will be there for the rest of the season, an official has predicted. Page 1 The World The State Soviet Afghan Cuts Seen The Soviet Union has cut its troop strength in Afghanistan to 76,000, Jane's Defense Weekly said. The Soviets, who most recently were reported to have 115,000 men in the country, face "many more Afghan winters" fighting Muslim guerrillas, Mark L.

Urban, a London-based specialist on Soviet affairs, wrote in the military reference publication. Urban said the Soviet garrison now includes three infantry divisions, compared to the seven divisions estimated by Western intelligence. About 24,000 support troops and advisers back up combat troops, he said. Iraq said its jet fighters attacked three "naval targets" in the Persian Gulf. Two of the attacks were not confirmed, but a South Korean freighter, the Hanlim Mariner, radioed that it was hit by a missile and that two of its crewmen were badly hurt.

The vessel later dropped anchor off the Iranian coast. It was the 67th confirmed attack by either side in the so-called tanker war, an outgrowth of the 51-month-old Iran-Iraq war. Ida Milgrom, mother of jailed Soviet human rights activist Ana-toly Shcharansky, said she has received official confirmation that her son has arrived at a detention camp in the Ural Mountains. She told a Western reporter in Moscow that she has been authorized to visit him on Jan. 14.

Shcharansky, 36, was sentenced in 1978 to a prison 500 miles east of Moscow. His whereabouts have been unknown since his mother failed in an attempt to see him after he completed the first of two prison terms in October. Chess champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov agreed to a draw in the 39th game of their world championship match in Moscow. Play resumed on the 41st move after Monday's adjournment, and Karpov offered a draw after the 48th move. The next game is scheduled for today.

Karpov leads the match, 5 to 1, and needs one more victory to retain his title. The Greek government approved a new defense policy that implies that a NATO ally Turkey poses a greater threat to Greece than does the Soviet Union or neighboring Communist states. Last month the government announced that it was redeploying its armed forces to face Turkey, rather than Bulgaria, a member of the Soviet Bloc. Officials said, however, that the new policy does not affect Greece's obligations to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greece and Turkey have long feuded over conflicting territorial claims.

Four Latin American foreign ministers opened a two-day meeting in Panama City to discuss objections to a proposed Central American peace plan. Panamanian Foreign Minister Fernando Car-doze predicted eventual success but stressed that he and his colleagues cannot impose a solution. The ministers of the Contadora Group Panama, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela prepared a draft treaty last spring, but El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica objected to some provisions. Japan launched its first deep space probe, a test spacecraft designed to go into solar orbit near Halley's Comet as it swings by in February, 1986, on its 76-year orbit of the sun. The launch is part of a multinational project also involving the United States, the Soviet Union and the European Space Agency.

A Japanese-built rocket called Saki-gake (Pioneer), carrying a 300-pound payload, was launched from the southern tip of Japan's home islands. In three days, it is to be propelled out of Earth's orbit on a 14-month, 106-million-mile trip around the sun. NASA and the University of Arizona signed an agreement for a joint project to mount a $100-mil-lion telescope atop a space station to search for planets outside the solar system. The memorandum of understanding was signed at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center in Mountain View. The project's principal scientists are David C.

Black of Ames and Eugene H. Levy, director of the university's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Black said the telescope, expected to be placed on the planned space station by the mid-1990s, would help determine whether other planetary systems exist. Congress has yet to approve and fund the project, but Levy said initial work on it should begin soon. Two men accused of participating in a white supremacist group's armored car robbery in Northern California were ordered held without bail in Kalispell, Mont.

Virgil Bar'nhill, 28, and Richard Harold Kemp, 22, did not resist when police and FBI agents, acting on a tip, arrested them at a downtown bar, Police Chief Martin Ste-fanic said. A U.S. magistrate denied bail for Barnhill and Kemp, who face a hearing in Missoula on whether they will be returned to face charges in the Brink's holdup near Ukiah on July 19. The men arc believed to be members of the Aryan Nations, an Idaho -based white supremacist group, Stefanic said. Former Black Panther leader Huey Newton's challenge to his conviction and two-year prison sentence for possession of a gun as a former felon was turned down by U.S.

District Judge Robert Aguilar in San Francisco. The judge allowed Newton to remain free on bail for 30 days while appealing his conviction. The charge grew out of Newton's alleged pistol-whipping of a man in 1974. Newton went to Cuba and returned in 1977. He was acquitted of the pistol-whipping charge when the alleged victim refused to testify but was convicted of possessing a gun.

Associated Press and his wife, Betty, on stairs, became concerned after the fatal beating of a man last week in their neighborhood of transient hotels. Beware Dick Clark, 63, strikes a threatening pose as he displays the club he uses to keep order in his Rochester, N.Y., rooming house. He The Region Four Dead in Death Valley Plane Crash The Nation Mother Sees Son Executed The wreckage of a single-engine plane, its emergency signal monitored by a Soviet satellite and bounced back to Earth, was found in the mountains of Death Valley after it crashed during a snowstorm, killing all four people aboard. The V-tailed 1951 Beech-craft V-35 crashed Monday at the level in low clouds that afforded poor visibility, National Park Service Ranger Dick Rayner said. The dead were identified as pilot Chuck Downs of Norco and passengers Edith, Wes and Dorothy Menke, he said.

The wreckage was found by a Civil Air Patrol plane, which tracked the Emergency Locater Transmitter signal that "was picked up by this orbiting satellite," Rayner said. The plane took off Monday morning from Corona for Yerington, hometown of Edith Menke, 67. Her son, Wes, and his wife, Dorothy, lived in Norco. A goal of 7,000 more new housing units to be built or rehabilitated by the City of Los Angeles this year has been set by Mayor Tom Bradley. During a press conference called to bring attention to existing housing programs for low- and moderate-income people, Bradley invited more city residents to take advantage of the programs.

The Los Angeles City Council has asked the courts for more time to comply with a state law requiring it to bring its zoning into conformance with its more restrictive community plans. The council also asked its Planning Committee to report in two weeks on a compliance program, including a proposed citywide building moratorium on projects that do not conform to the plans. The action was prompted by a suit brought by homeowners seeking to enforce a state law that went into effect July 1. 1982. The Los Angeles City Council voted to approve Occidental Petroleum bid to drill for oil in Pacific Palisades, leaving the fate of the environmentally sensitive project in the hands of Mayor Tom Bradley, who vetoed it in 1978.

Bradley, who has refused to say what action he plans to take this time, has 10 days to exercise his veto. Occidental's supporters argued that the company has met environmental concerns by agreeing to bolster nearby slopes, which have given way in the past, and by eliminating any unpleasant side effects, such as noise or odor. Occidental officials have estimated that there are 60 million barrels of oil in the ground beneath the site. A long legal battle apparently ended for James Craig 51, of Inglewood when he reported for work as a Los Angeles County Harbor Patrol officer at Marina del Roy. A state appeals court ruled that Craig, a former Santa Monica Harbor Patrol officer and county park patrolman, does not have to attend the Sheriff's Academy for updated training or be placed on probation in order to assume the new position.

His attorney, Gerald Kroll, had argued that the county was simply trying to make his job more difficult for Craig, who filed a suit alleging racial discrimination when he did not gel the job 15 years ago. Benedict Canyon Drive between Mulholland Drive and Hutton Drive will be closed intermittently for the next several weeks while road repairs are made, public works officials said. More than a mile of the road was closed Monday after an eight-inch water main broke, causing a minor landslide and undermining part of the roadway. A slate law requiring five-year sentence increases in cases where there arc prior convictions of "serious" felonies does not cover assault with a deadly weapon, a state appeals court ruled. The ruling by the 1st District Court of Appeal in a Lake County case could limit some of the major sentence increases imposed under a crime initiative approved by state voters in 1982.

The state attorney general's office plans to appeal to the state Supreme Court, Deputy Atty. Gen. Morris Lenk said. The high court has not yet ruled on the sentencing provision and most other major features of the Proposition 8 crime initiative. Newsmakers Elvis: Golden Moments Recalled Convicted killer Roosevelt Green, insisting he was innocent, was executed in Georgia's electric chair with his mother watching.

Green's mother, Annie B. Green, was among the 14 witnesses who saw the 28-year-old black former migrant worker put to death for the 1976 slaying of a white college coed. Prison spokesman Fred Steeple said to his knowledge, no mother had ever witnessed her child's execution in Georgia. He said Green had formally requested his mother witness the execution and warden Ralph Kemp had agreed. Green was convicted twice of killing 18-year-old college student Theresa Carol Allen, who was abducted from a convenience store where she worked.

Air safety investigators urged the Federal Aviation Administration to order that all Embraer 110 Bandcirante commuter planes be grounded to check again for possible structural weaknesses in the tail section. Concern about the 19-seat aircraft was raised when one of the planes, belonging to Provincetown-Boston Airline, crashed Dec. 6 when the tail section broke off shortly after takeoff from Jacksonville, Fla. All 13 persons aboard were killed. Officials estimate there are about 130 of the Brazilian-made commuter aircraft in operation in the United States.

The judge in the $50-million libel trial between former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and Time magazine gave lawyers in the case an outline of the instructions he will give to the jury on critical issues later this week. When court resumes today, U.S. District Court Judge Abraham D. Sofacr is expected to decide whether to admit into evidence testimony from Israeli Judge Yitzhak Kahan about the contents of secret Israeli documents central to the case. Bernhard H.

Goctz, the man accused of the so-called vigilante shootings of four youths aboard a New York subway train Dec. 22, was released from jail after posting $50,000 in cash bail, authorities said. "I'm very dirty," Goetz said before going home to his Manhatr tan apartment and entering the building by a service entrance. "I'd really like to go home and shower and change these clothes," he said. A "Welcome Home Bernie" banner was on display in the lobby.

On the mail table in the lobby was a box for donations to the "Bernhard Goetz Fund." The Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity asked President Reagan to reverse the decision to use 200 non-union performers without pay at his inaugural celebration. Equity's executive council also authorized the use of emergency funds to mount a demonstration in Washington if Reagan does not intercede, Dick Moore, the union's spokesman, said in New York. In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan, a former guild president, "certainly supports the union" and had been unaware of the inaugural committee's call for singers and dancers to perform for free. A 3-year-old boy with herpes spent a second day as the lone pupil in his classroom in Pasadena, while in Council Bluffs, Iowa, dozens of students returned to school after a one-day boycott to protest the enrollment of a 3-year-old girl with the disease. Meanwhile, Dr.

Ward Cates of the U.S. Public Health Service said the spread of herpes infections among children can be easily controlled. The Justice Department went to federal appeals court to oppose a court-ordered busing plan that integrated the Norfolk, public school system 14 years ago. The government went to court on behalf of the Norfolk School Board, which wants to establish 35 neighborhood elementary schools and end 14 years of cross-town busing. Hundreds of Elvis Presley fans from around the world visited their dead idol's mansion in Memphis, leaving bouquets shaped like teddy bears and guitars at his grave site to mark the 50th birthday of the king of rock 'n' roll.

About 1,500 people visited Graceland, Presley's white-columned mansion, and those delivering flowers were granted special entrance to the "meditation gardens," where the singer's mother and father are buried. "I care about Elvis," said Phyllis Ingling, a retired waitress from Hyattsville, who said she came to Memphis with 44 other people by bus from Washington, D.C. "Elvis was different. He sang gospels in Las Vegas." We love him and we love his mother and father." Presley, who was born in Tupelo, on Jan. 8, 1935, died of heart disease in Memphis more than seven years ago.

Among the fan club members was Fred Whobrey, 44, of Mount Zion, 111., who belongs to a dozen Elvis fan clubs. "When I was growing up, I spent a lot of hours listening to Elvis music," he said. "If there was a bad time I was going through with my girlfriend or folks or a basketball game or whatever, I could get my head together with Elvis." Former President Richard M. Nixon is in "excruciating pain" with a case of shingles that has plagued him for the last month, the New York Daily News reported. A friend of the former President told the News that Nixon's physician, Dr.

Harvey Klein, called it "the worst case of shingles he has ever seen. It has affected the President's upper back and his shoulders and he is experiencing excruciating pain." The disease is caused by the chicken pox virus and affects the nerve endings, often resulting in blisters and sores. Nixon, who turns 72 today, finished work on his latest book "No More Vietnams" despite coming down with the ailment in December, the report said. Nixon has not been hospitalized with the condition but has remained in his Saddle River, N.J., home. Yul Brynner began his final run in "The King and on Broadway, giving his performance as King Mongkut.

After the show, Brynner, who has been performing the role for 33 years, said: "When I first played the part I was too young. I originally painted age lines on the king's face. Time has taken care of that." Brynner received congratulatory letters from New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, New York Mayor Edward I.

Koch and President Reagan. The President's letter, read after the curtain calls, said: "Your longtime success in 'The King and I' is no puzzlement to your audience." JENNINGS PARROTT Associated Press An Elvis Presley fan at Memphis ceremonies..