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QCI FRIDAY, JUNE, 1, 1990 PAdE A27 I.OS I'IMI'IS nn mm of a Louisiana insurance company. Federal prosecutors said he had been instrumental in funneling $2 million in loans from the company to the campaign of thestate insurance commissioner. The incident was particularly embarrassing to the ethics board, which had rejected Mayor Daley's choice for the position in favor of O'Neill. Board members said their background checks had failed to turn up the information about O'Neill. "Chicago is still a town where the fix is too often in evidence, but I do think it's changing," said Chicago Alderman David Orr, a Democrat who is frequently critical of his party.

"I think the aldermen are trying to set higher standards." The public, Orr said, "has been ready for reform for a long time." nun nnflw rviicpnir imilluvj HMR 7 GtMTiHS! Child Tells Court Buckey Raped Her at Preschool From a Times Staff Writer LOS ANGELES In testimony that was graphic but often sketchy and inconsistent with previous statements, the third and final child witness in the McMartin Preschool trial said Thursday that Ray Buckey raped her and then threatened to harm her parents if she told. The girl, now 13, said she feared Buckey after he cut off a rabbit's ears with scissors to underscore his threat. Describing a sexual attack while she and Buckey were both naked and playing a game called "horsey" a decade ago, the girl said, "Ray was on the floor. I got on top of him and he touched me." But she repeatedly answered, "I don't remember" when pressed for details on cross-examination. The girl, who was 3 when she began attending the Manhattan Beach nursery school owned by Buckey's family, is being used by the prosecution to support three of the eight counts of molestation-alleging vaginal and anal penetration with the penis and fingers-remaining against the 32-year-old former teacher.

A jury Buckey of 40 counts in January and the district attorney is retrying him on eight of the 13 counts that were ETHICS Continued from A26 Volgy spent $89,000 for a hotly contested race, he said. "I think the single most important thing folks can do in California is campaign finance reform," Volgy said. The city with the longest history of public financing is Seattle, which enacted a law in 1978. After two elections, the law expired in 1982, and a third election was held without public financing. A study of the three elections showed that under the public financing system, more contributions were made to campaigns, but they tended to be smaller.

In addition, more minorities and women ran for office. This, according to Stern, is what public financing laws are intended to do. The Seattle law was reenacted in a modified form in 1984. In Chicago, there is little apparent interest in public financing of political campaigns, and the city's 3-year-old ethics board has gotten off to a slow start. By law, the board may not investigate City Council members and has no real prosecutorial power.

The panel issues advisory opinions. The names of those investigated and the results of the probes are kept secret. Earlier this year, the board's second executive director, Gary M. O'Neill, resigned after only a month in office when reports surfaced that he was under federal investigation in his home state of Louisiana. Last month, he pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge stemming from his role in the collapse Amtrak Adds 2 Routes Serving Burbank Daily After two years of rumbling through on their way between Santa Barbara and San Diego, Amtrak trains will provide Burbank with twice-daily service beginning today.

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