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Sunny, hot Financial planning Woodstock I Sutton prepares' ThuXTbptZh PQnjtS of Memories remain to defend PGA title disabled Children on 15th anniversary -paooi-c Moreon4-A Paga1-B Page2-B a A Gannett newspaper-25 ShreveportBossier CityArk-La-Tex Wednesday, Aug, 15, 1984 r. i "ii i in M1 AP Loserphoto CD indicted in scheme to market bogus good sey and Florida. If convicted, they face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine on the conspiracy charge, five years and $1,000 fine on each wire fraud charge, and 10 years and a $10,000 fine on the interstate transportation of stolen property charges. The only Louisiana resident identified was Joseph R. Adams, 53, of Metairie.

During the yearlong sting operation, Secret Service agents posed as buyers of counterfeit merchandise for and Associates of Baton Rouge and made purchases across the United States. The Secret Service company had received or seized about 24,000 shirts and 500 watches since February. The merchandise had a street value of about $420,000, or more than $1 million retail had it been genuine, Bardwell said. Several of the defendants have agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges and cooperate further in the investigation, he said. The case is expected to have "a major impact" on the courterfeit trademark industry which has reached "epidemic proportions" in the United States, he said.

Retail Sales In Billions of Dollars Source: jam 7 allows Fairfield zoning to stan Chart traces changes in retail sales since August 1983 Retail sales down 0.9 during July BATON ROUGE (AP) Twenty people from eight states were indicted Tuesday following a Secret Service "sting" operation involving the manufacture and sale of counterfeit designer sports shirts and wrist watches. The 20, 18 of whom have been arrested, were indicted for wire fraud, conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen goods in what federal officials called the first case of its kind. The arrests, some of which took place as early as Aug. 1, were made in cities across the nation, said U.S. Attorney Stanford O.

Bardwell. All arrests took place without incident, Bardwell said. The investigation was based on information obtained in the counterfeit currency case of former Louisiana State University football star Billy Cannon. "The earliest information we received came from a wiretap in the counterfeit case," Bardwell said. "The investigation is continuing.

We don't have any information as to how big the practice is, but it's pretty open and widespread." Cannon, 47, a Heisman Trophy winner in 1958, is serving a five-year sentence after being convicted as the mastermind of a $6 million counterfeit scheme that was broken up about a year ago. Five people, including Cannon, pleaded guilty in that case, and a sixth man was convicted. Bardwell displayed several dozen sport shirts, some bearing the familiar alligator emblem and label of Izod-Lacoste, and about a dozen bogus Rolex and Piaget watches some of them studded with phony diamonds. An Aug. 24 arraignment had been set for several of the defendants, Bardwell said, adding that those indicted would be brought to Baton Rouge "in the normal course of business." The defendants live in eight states: North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Alabama, New York, Louisiana, New Jer it 1-: -J ondale hits defense posture Council usiness By RAY WADDLE The Times Amid intense opposition, Ed Ken-non got clearance Tuesday to sell his Fairfield mansion to an oil firm when the City Council narrowly voted to uphold a decision to rezone the property.

The 4-3 vote came despite the protests of dozens of neighbors who believed that allowing Kennon's 2610 Fairfield house to go commercial threatens the residential character of the area. Kennon had said that he would tear down the house and build townhouses if the council did not uphold the Metropolitan Planning Commission decision to rezone it for light business use so he could sell it. Many residents believed that Kennon was bluffing. But Councilman John Scotto, convinced that the Highland area house would be demolished, said voting to uphold the MPC decision was proper. The Special Public Interest District, which allows Kennon to request restricted business use, "is designed to preserve the architectural character of that neighborhood," he said.

Scotto was joined by Hilry GOP platform action, 16-C Little Rock to begin a three-state swing through the South that takes them on to Tennessee and Kentucky. Mondale also met with Arkansas supporters of three also-rans in the race for the nomination Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, the Rev. Jesse Jackson of Chicago and Sen. John Glenn of Ohio.

Mondale praised Gov. Bill Clinton, a fellow Democrat, and the state's two Democratic senators, David Pryor and Dale Bumpers. Clinton introduced Mondale at the Old State House. Pryor and Clinton lunched privately with the nominee later, then participated in the meeting with backers of Hart, Jackson and Glenn. The response of those who attended the meeting was favorable to Mondale.

The Rev. James Demus, a Jackson supporter, said he was impressed The announcement of the arrest came just hours after a telephone caller to the Paris bureau of The Associated Press claimed the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia was responsible for planting the bomb. Discovery of the bomb had appeared to mar an almost-perfect security record for the Summer Olympics, where teams deemed susceptible to terrorist attack, such as the Turkish delegation, were protected with extraordinary measures. One of the biggest worries was Armenian terrorists, who want Turkey to acknowledge slaughtering 15 million Armenians during World War I. Turkey does not acknowledge any such massacre.

Pearson originally was credited with discovering the bomb aboard the bus, disarming it just as the timing device went off, and then running with it for 60 yards before placing it on the mercial property. The house had been on the market for nearly three years, he added. Leading the opposition to Kennon's request was Councilman Dee Peterson, who said he fears that such a commercial use request sets a hazardous precedent for the neighborhood. He stated that the request goes against the trend that Fairfield "has become more residential than was the case four years ago." He also said that the council is bound to uphold the wording of the special district ordinance, which says that substantial support from neighbors must be present if such a request as Kennon's is to be granted along parts of Fairfield. He said that such support did not exist for this case.

A city attorney's opinion suggested that the "substantial support" condition could be challenged in court. Joining Peterson in voting against Kennon's request were Tom Arceneaux and Bill Bush. The vote was witnessed by several opponents who could be heard murmuring their disappointment Please see FAIRFIELD, 12-A Trestle collapse kills worker An Arkansas man was killed and a Texas man was injured Tuesday when a Southern Pacific railroad trestle they were working on collapsed on them. Harold Fife, 58, of Pine Bluff, died yesterday at South Park Hospital where he was taken after rescuers pulled him from the wreckage Bill D. Yates, 31, of Diboll, Texas, was also taken to South Park Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

A Caddo Parish sheriff's spokesman said the men, both employees of Southern Pacific, were repairing the trestle about half a mile south of Williamson Way when part of the trestle broke. It struck the men and pinned them to the ground AP Lawrphoto i'f 'ft: A Officer James Pearson US Commerce Department Stock prices fall, 15-C fell 7.6 percent from the year-ago period. Ford Motor Co. posted a 9 percent gain. The 0.9 percent July decline in overall retail sales including cars followed a 0.5 percent June increase.

The pace set from May through July translates into an annual rate of 1.1 percent, far below the 11 percent rate recorded during the first 17 months of recovery from the 1981-82 recession. The July dropoff was the first since a 1.5 percent March decline. While that setback was followed by a strong April rally, most analysts do not expect a similar recovery this time around. But no one is predicting the July slump portends anything worse than a moderation of the sizzling growth rate experienced in the first six months of this year. The Reagan administration found good news in the decrease, saying the financial markets are likely to see the slowdown as a sign that inflation will remain under control and interest rates will fall.

"Slower growth of consumer spending should help to relieve pressure on the credit markets resulting from the record installment borrowing of recent months," Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said. they won a house in a charity drawing were ordered to return to Mexico within four months. 16-C. Unemployment Only four states suffer double-digit joblessness in June, the Labor Department reports. 16-C.

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He said the defense issue between himself and the prospective Republican presidential nominee, incumbent Ronald Reagan, would be "are we getting defense that makes us more secure, are we getting the preparedness we are paying for? "The answer is no," Mondale told about 300 people in a legislative chamber of the Old State House. "The reason is the leadership of the president we now have." About 200 people stood outside the columned, white antebellum building in 90-degree heat because it was too small to hold everyone. Mondale and his wife, Joan, came to WASHINGTON (AP) Retail sales slumped 0.9 percent in July from June, the government reported Tuesday, providing another sign of an economic slowdown. The Commerce Department said cue July decline, to a seasonally adjusted $107.8 billion in sales, stemmed from a fall-off in a broad range of consumer categories, from automobiles to clothing, compared with a month earlier. (July sales figures for Shreveport and Bossier City are not yet available.

Sales tax income for both cities an indicator of sales has increased steadily in both cities for the past several months.) In another report Tuesday, the government said that consumers took out $7.83 billion more in installment debt in June than they paid off. While this was down from the record $10.23 billion taken out in May, it was still the second-largest gain ever. However, analysts said this gain was likely to moderate even further in July, given the decline in retail sales. In Detroit, the U.S.i automakers said their sales in early August were off 0.8 percent compared with a year ago, led by sales drops at General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp.

GM said sales were down 6.1 ecntridCJiryleadtsaJp CaddoBossier Archaeology A lecture and slide Drogram on ruins of cities on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is scheduled. 2-A. Sentence A Florida man who nleaded euiltv to a 10- count indictment of cocaine-related charges is sentenced to five years in prison. 12-A. Arh-La-Tex Pleads innocent Roger Cassidy Clinton, younger brother of Gov.

Bill Clinton of Arkansas, pleads innocent to drug charges. 8-A. Treen Former Republican Gov. David Treen withdraws his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

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Commentary If Congress and administration won't balance the budget on their own, maybe they 11 be pressured into it, says a Times editorial. 6-A. Winners lose An illegal alien couple spotted bv immigration officials when their picture was published because Ed Kennon at City Council meeting. Huckaby, Larry Ferdinand and Joe Shyne. "I feel very good," Kennon said after the meeting.

"It was a tough decision. It was the right decision." The vote gives Kennon the go-ahead to sell the house to Chaparral Exploration Inc. The sale price was $595,000. He said he had been unable to sell the house to a resident and was forced to offer it as a com that Mondale had chosen Ernest Green, formerly of Little Rock, to be a Mondale deputy campaign director. Green, one of the nine children who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, was a Jackson supporter.

It was Mondale's first visit to Arkansas since he won the nomination in June at San Francisco's Democratic Convention. Most of the state's 42 delegates supported Mondale. He last was in Arkansas in January when he was campaigning for the nomination. Mondale said Reagan's defense budget is tilted too far toward nuclear weapons and away from conventional military supplies. He said a Pentagon study showed that U.S.

conventional military supplies would be exhausted by one short, small, overseas war and then the United States would have to Please see MONDALE, 13-A tarmac. Gates called Pearson "a real hero" Monday afternoon. But Gates said Tuesday that investigators began to suspect Pearson after deciding that no one but he could have approached the guarded bus in the first place to plant a bomb. They also discovered the nine-year veteran of the force had experience with explosives. Gates said Pearson concealed the bomb in a briefcase before planting it in the bus wheel well at the airport.

Gates said Pearson made the device four days ago but had no chance to plant it until Monday. Pearson took two polygraph tests and confessed shortly before taking the second one early Tuesday, Gates said. "He Pearson) says he did not rig it to explode but it was an explosive device." Gates said the pipe bomb was Please see 5-A 'Hero' booked for possession of bomb LOS ANGELES (AP) A police officer hailed as a hero for disarming a bomb on a bus carrying the luggage of Turkish Olympic athletes was arrested Tuesday after confessing he planted the device to attract the attention of his superiors. Officer James Pearson was booked for investigation of possessing a destructive device and held in lieu of $60,000 bail following the discovery of the pipe bomb Monday at Los Angeles International Airport, said Police Chief Daryl Gates. "He indicated he was having problems with his supervisors Gates said at a news conference.

"He wanted to do something to cause them to take notice. We have all noticed him at this point." "This is particularly sad. He had a remarkable record." Gates said of Pearson. "He had numerous commendations. We are very sad that he has chosen to do this.".