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4 Part II Tia-sday. February 21. 1989 GosAnflclcg (Eimes PROJECTS: Shock Over Slaying r-E: 1 j-r ft' tV-if 1 7 IRIS SCHNEIDER Los Angeles Times weekend after the killing of a young mother at a housing project. Continued from Page 1 not a member of the Kast Coast Crips First Street gang, a predominantly black gang that police officers say controls the cocaine trade in the projects. The area in the past was the territory of Latino gangs and police believe the shooting resulted from the growing tension between the two groups.

Caught in the middle of the showdown are the residents who. for the most part, seem to enjoy life in Pico-Aliso. Dolores Leyva a 22-year-old single mother of two whose $150-a-month two-bedroom apartment is next to a freeway on-ramp a lifelong resident, is one of them. "I grew up here," she said. "I know my neighbors and I have friends here.

All that other stuff with drugs bother me. I'm not into drugs." Other Latinos, who make up an estimated 90 of the projects' residents, are more tentative, perhaps because they do not speak English or do not have legal residency in the United States. Approached by a visitor, a group of chatty women hanging out their wash on clotheslines late one recent afternoon said they wanted peace and that they opposed the gangs. But in the next breath, several of them said they were powerless to prevent their sons' involvement in the gangs. "Look, senor, I try to do the best I can with my four sons," said Avelina Martinez.

"But I can't be at all places at the same time to see if they're getting into trouble." Ofelia Gomez added, "I just want to get out. But I can't afford to. I'm stuck, no?" Anita Moore, another Aliso Village resident, is more hopeful. "I feel safe here," the mother of five boys said, "I really do. Period." As she spoke several days after the shooting police officers raided several nearby vehicles, looking for a cache of semiautomatic rifles and other weapons.

The noise of screeching tires and loud voices occasionally drifted into Moore's Spartan -looking living room, forcing a listener to lean forward to hear her words. Reminded of the police action outside, Moore, who has lived in the project for 17 years, proudly said one son, Keith, has a steady job and her youngest, Marty, aspires to become a psychologist. fill Police were out in force over the As darkness falls, children play at the Aliso Village project, despite the threat of new violence. TERNS: Nesting Birds an Annual Bother specify for only $45. Grade District County rhu.

Ep. Date Many of the Pico-Aliso units are currently being painted and anti-graffiti projects are an ongoing campaign. Some graffiti eulogizing the Garrett woman was among the first to come off the walls after the shooting. "That graffiti with her name is just plain vandalism," Mendoza said. McDuffie has talked about erecting a fence around the housing projects to keep strangers out.

The wide-open areas of grass between the apartments, the parking lots and the adjacent streets make it easy for outsiders to come in. But the fencing may give some residents, already down on themselves for living in public housing, further embarrassment. "We don't want people to feel fenced in," McDuffie said. Mendoza, the mother of three, is involved in organizing protests and community events to avert violence. She was among many residents who campaigned for more police foot patrols in the area and for citizen watch groups in her part of Aliso-Pico.

Ironically, on the night of the Garrett shooting, the 60ish- looking Mendoza helped organize a dance-less than a mile from the crime scene where the evening passed peacefully. "Everyone enjoyed themselves," she recalled. "There were even some gang members there and they, too, had a good time. I saw the police cars as I was leaving the dance. "I didn't know someone had been killed until the next morning." The best hope for the projects' residents, most agree, is the fight against drugs.

But it's a struggle that few realistically expect to win. Frequent patrolling by Los Angeles police and Housing Authority officers scares away dope dealers for a while, but they return when the heat is off and police manpower is diverted elsewhere, authorities say. The most disheartening side effect of the battle against the gang-controlled drug trade is is in how the projects' young are affected. "I was outside the other day," recalled Mendoza, "and this little chavalito, only 6 years old, says, 'I'm from TMC a local gang that is allied with East Coast Crips. "Can you imagine a 6-year-old boy saying that?" Southern California that are conducive to the tern, and because the wildlife agencies want the mating sites spread out across the coast, the port-managed nesting area must be between Pt.

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"I could go out in the middle of a gang fight and they'd stop. I'm not a God or some kind of queen because maybe they may go fight somewhere else. "I want to stay because I want to make them gang free. The day after the interview, however, Moore's upbeat mood turned to anger. One of her other sons had been arrested for stealing a car.

The killing of Garrett has reinforced the need for more security and better accommodations at the Eastside projects, according to tenants' representatives, who are among the most vocal in Los Angeles. For the most part, city Housing Authority police and Hollenbeck Division officers provide the only security for the two housing projects. There are no physical barriers to keep out strangers who wander into the area. Most units, built during the flurry of post-Depression construction in Los Angeles, need painting, new floors and other repairs. Representatives like McDuffie and Lucia Mendoza are constantly talking to neighbors, carrying their ideas to city housing officials, who promise to do their best to help them out.

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The least tern is able to handle the urban environment if it is left the few essential things that it needs." But in the coming decades, with the port projecting a demand for its services that will far exceed its capacity, those few essentials may be gone from Terminal Island. The port's 2020 Plan so named because it will govern expansion through that year leaves no space on Terminal Island for the least tern, and port officials say they have already begun looking for another breeding ground. Finding one won't be easy, however. There are few places left in ailing 71-year-old wife Elsie suffered a mild heart attack and was hospitalized Saturday, the day after the raid occurred. The elderly couple were forced to stand outside in the cold while deputies went through the home on McDivitt Avenue.

The couple's 29-year-old son, Keith, who has served jail time for drug possession, was booked on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a handgun. The deputies were part of a joint sweep operation targeting gang members in eight locations in East Compton and Lynwood, sheriff's spokesman Gabe Ramirez said. REMODEL FOR FRENCH DOORS BAY WINDOWS FAMILY ROOMS BATH ROOMS KITCHENS mm? riKKI'ONrCONSTKIKTIONCKOIII' UC H453620 Continued from Page 1 body, black -tipped wings and black-capped head, the least tern, which grows to about 9 inches in length, is the smallest of the tern family. Biologists say they do not know precisely where the terns go each winter South America or Mexico is their best guess. They do know, however, that the birds return each spring; Fancher says they are "more predictable than the swallows of Capistrano" in that regard.

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