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Mono pact protects lake, water rights A PRESS Friday. June 1983 Richmond fears police suit fallout teitk A ft jV" I 1 V. -iidfY A lobbyist In Washington. The measure would protect Ihe area from federal land sales, timber cutting and pending geothermal drilling leuse wiles by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, In a significant concession, the Department of Water Power would lose Its right under a 1930 law to buy federal land around the lake at 11.23 an acre.

Although the bill would prohibit the sale of land around the lake, It would preserve DWP's easements and other rights of way. The measure also would establish a study by the National Academy of Sciences on the ecology of the lake area. "I'm pleased," said Ed Grosswiler, spokesman for the Mono Lake Committee, which has lobbied to preserve the lake. In recent years, water diverted to Los Angeles has reduced the lake level by more than 40 feet. Environmentalists won a legal round recently when the California Supreme Court held that, in allocating Mono water to Los Angeles, the California Water Resources Board had not taken the public trust sufficiently into account.

If the courts uphold that decision, Los Angeles could lose much of its siable water draw from the lake. The bill is expected to come up June 21 in Seiberling's subcommittee. The measure also would authorize a $1 million visitors' center in the basin and establish an advisory board controlled by Mono County residents to provide advice on management of the scenic area. It would make boundary changes to exclude the most active local mine from environmental controls and it would protect the rights of existing private property within the area. Lehman said.

I.OS ANGELES (AP) City officials and environmentalists announced a tentative agreement Thursday that would declare the Mono Lake basin In the eastern Sierra a national scenic area without limiting Los Angeles' rights to water from the lake. Rep. Richard II. Lehman. siding with environmentalists trying to protect the lake, said the agreement is a major step toward solving a problem that has pitted the city against environmentalist, the Los Angeles Times said In Its Friday editions.

However, the dispute over how much water Los Angeles can take from the lake was left unresolved. That Issue is before the U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Dunne L. Georgeson, assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water Tower, said the compromise would "basically preserve the legal status quo" of the city's water rights pending a finding by the federal court.

"1 here was a willingness to put in what we believe is a meaningful protection of our water rights," he said. Lehman and Rep. John F. Sei-berling, DOhio, chairman of the House Interior subcommittee on public lands and national parks, worked out the agreement with Los Angeles officials. Under the compromise, Lehman's effort to protect Mono Lake by declaring it a national monument was dropped and a new bill was introduced to establish the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area.

Putting the word basin rather than lake in the designation was a significant change, as was the agreement to scale the protection back to a scenic area rather than a full-fledged national monument, according to Jim Seeley, Los Angeles' It's official San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Charles Manatt, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, sign the contract making San Francisco the city for the 1984 Democratic National Convention. The signing took place at a special luncheon Thursday. 'TWILIGHT ZONE' TRIAL Special-effects coordinator is fourth indicted in deaths RICHMOND (AP) The cily of Richmond staunchly defended its police officers against charges of racially motivated brutality. Now it faces a multimillion-dollar Judgment that may force cutbacks In services and encourage more suits. A federal court Jury ruled on June 3 that two white policemen violated the civil rights of two blacks by shooting them to death.

The panel ordered Richmond to pay the victims' families S3 million. The award equals almost 12 percent of the general fund budget for Richmond, a city where unemployment is 12 percent and nearly two-thirds of the 75.000 residents are non-white. The police force of 160 Includes 33 black officers and 12 Hispanics. Officials worry the award to the families of Johnny Roman and Michael Guillory may only be the first. There are at least 60 other federal claims pending, two involving deaths, and attorneys say the large award is likely to prompt additional lawsuits.

The pending cases, all involving blacks and Mexican-Americans, prompted charges from the regional counsel of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that a "deviant cult" of "cowboy" police officers has for years acted with reckless disregard for human life. "It's a police department which is virtually out of control." said NAACP attorney Oliver Jones last October. Official reaction to the suits has been minimal, although one of the upcoming cases has prompted the city to ban use of chokeholds by police. "As far as Other procedures go, the procedures are generally the same. There has been no change in general policy," said police spokesman Ray Ramer.

adding that there have been no major personnel changes in the department as a result of the civil rights allegations. "We're going to be moving as rapidly as possible in terms of attempting to heal a lot of apparent wounds and perceived wounds both within the department and in the community," said city manager James Fales, who assumed his job seven weeks ago. "The exact means by which we do that has not been determined, but it won't be very long before we start," he added. Seven police officers, including two involved in the Roman-Guillory case, are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged criminal violations of civil rights laws.

Plaintiffs in the pending federal cases include: Emilio Gallegos, who said officers attacked him with a police dog when he and his wife were stopped on their way home from a high school fund-raiser. Ramon Ortega and 27 others who say police used dogs and batons to break up a party at Ortega's home, seriously injuring' four people and knocking over Ortega, who's confined to a wheelchair. The family of Willie Lee Drumgoole, a burglary suspect who died from neck injuries after a scuffle with a jailer, two officers and a police assistant in the city jail. Police say they applied a chokehold when Drumgoole tried to escape. Twenty-seven other cases are now under arbitration, and two more cases are pending in federal court.

Last month, the city paid $25,000 to Rufus Kennedy, a black police officer who said harassment from department officials damaged his health. Kennedy is among the defendants in the Ortega suit. Roman, 25, was shot on Oct. 9, 1980. Police said he ignored a warning and raised a shotgun at officers.

Roman's family said there was no warning and no shotgun. Guillory, 21, was shot when an officer saw him pull something shiny from his pocket. It turned out to be a neck chain and a small plastic bag of marijuana. Jones, who represented the families at the trial, said the jury award should be viewed as a call for reform. But city leaders, who laid off 55 workers and spent Richmond's cash reserve to balance a $25.3 million budget last year, see the $3 million award as a threat to services.

County to investigate emptying of reservoir a special-effects explosion. The district attorney's office asked the grand jury to conduct hearings on the deaths to determine who was responsible for placing the mortar and positioning the helicopter. Stewart told an investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board that he and Landis had discussed placing mortars inside the huts, but Stewart said he balked at that idea. "I'm not going to put them in the huts, John. It's too dangerous, because you haven't got any control over it," Stewart recalled having said.

However, investigators said a mortar was placed under a hut. One of Stewart's assistants, Jim Camomile, told a board investigator that the mortar was placed under the hut on Stewart's orders, the paper said. Landis has said the explosions were larger than he expected. Toyota expects OK for GM plant plan DETROIT (AP) Toyota Motor Co. executives say they expect the U.S.

Federal Trade Commission to approve plans for a Toyota-General Motors Corp. joint venture, according to a published report. FTC approval of plans to manufacture a GM-Toyo-ta subcompact car at an idle GM plant in Fremont, is expected after August, the Journal of Commerce said Thursday, quoting unnamed Toyota executives. LOS ANGELES (AP) A special-effects coordinator is the fourth "Twilight Zone" crew member indicted by grand jurors probing the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children, the Los Angeles Times said today. Paul Stewart was named in a secret indictment Wednesday, said the paper, which had reported Thursday that director John Landis, associate producer George Folsey Jr.

and unit production manager Dan Allingham also were indicted. Exact charges won't be known until the grand jury indictments are unsealed in court next Friday, the day the film is scheduled to open nationwide, but attorneys for three of the four say they believe their clients are accused of involuntary manslaughter. "I don't know what else it could be," Stewart's attorney, Howard Swainston, said Thursday. Swainston said he learned Wednesday from the district attorney's office that his client had been indicted, but he was unable to notify Stewart until Thursday because he was "out of town on location." "He was shocked, as I was," Swainston said. Stewart was subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury, but declined to give evidence without a promise of immunity from prosecution, Swainston said.

The jury did not accept that offer, he said. All three of the other defendants did testify, however. Morrow, 53, Renee Chen, 6, and Myca Dinh Le, 7, were killed July 23 when a helicopter crashed on them as they waded across a stream in a mock Vietnamese village near Saugus, 40 miles north of Los Angeles. The helicopter had been crippled by debris from SANTA ANA (AP) The release of billions of gallons of Prado Dam reservoir water into the sea was a wanton waste" by the Army Corps of Engineers, says Orange County Supervisor Ralph Clark. Clark successfully asked his fellow supervisors Wednesday to order a county investigation after learning that, since June 6, water has been flowing from the now nearly empty reservoir through the normally bone-dry Santa Ana River into the Pacific Ocean.

About 6.5 billion gallons were released so the Corps could start a $500,000 maintenance project on the steel gates that control the water flow, said Corps spokesman Maury Peeren-boom. The Corps began releasing the water June 6 at a rate of 1,500 cubic feet per second because snowmelt from the San Bernardino Mountains was adding water at a faster rate than the Corps had been releasing it. Peerenboom said. By Wednesday, the Corps was releasing water at the rate of only 440 cubic feet per second. By the beginning of next week, the reservior should be empty and in six to eight weeks, Peerenboom said, the ground should be dry enough for maintenance work to begin.

County government and water agencies, which otherwise would have to pay for water, want to save the water. "We'd like to be able to hold water and make conservation releases, but when push comes to shove, flood control comes first." State revenues exceed estimates North Coast Floors says: SACRAMENTO (AP) The legislative analyst says that general fund collections fell $3 million below estimates in May but still wound up $230 million ahead for the first five months of 1983. The estimates had been made by the Department of Finance in January. The report Thursday noted that the state controller reported May revenues to be about $117 million above estimates, by counting only the money that has reached the controller's office. The legislative analyst's figures include money collected but not yet sent to the controller's office.

The legislative analyst said the May revenue performance reflects mostly weaker-than-expected receipts from the personal income tax, offset by stronger-than-expected collections from the sales and use tax and other non-tax revenues. The shortfall in personal income tax revenues reflects primarily higher-than-expected refunds, the report said. This occurred because refunds were substantially below estimates in April due to time lags in processing returns with refunds, and this backlog of refund returns was eliminated. House says BART can't expand out of East Bay OAK TREASURES SOLID OAK TABLE Use this solid oak table for dining or substitute it as a desk. Natural or dark oil finish.

tk Mo Puritans on MYftowR If approved, it would prohibit BART from using any federal funds appropriated for 1984 on expansion outside San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. There has been discussion about extending BART to San Francisco International Airport and to other areas south of San Francisco. "Residents of our county have every right to demand that they receive the' service they have been promised. WASHINGTON (AP) The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday accepted a report that would bar the Bay Area Rapid Transit system from using 1984 federal funds to expand outside the counties it already serves. The report will accompany the bill covering 1984 appropriations for the Department of Transportation and must be approved by the entire House of Representatives.

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Margosian once registered his cat to vote to dramatize the weakness of the postcard registration law. Fidelio Saenz, 47, a Bonita lawyer specializing in U.S.-Mexico civil litigation, as director of the Office of California-Mexico Affairs. The job pays $38,172 a year. Hodge's appointment requires con-firmaton by the state Senate. The others do not.

SACRAMENTO (AP) Gov. George Deukmejian has appointed Karney Hodge of Fresno as the director of the California Housing Finance Agency. The announcement Thursday said Hodge, president of a men's apparel firm, replaces Walter Farr of Berkeley, who resigned last month to take a job in private business at a higher salary. Hodge, a Republican, was named to a five-year term. The housing finance agency sells mortgage revenue bonds to help low-and moderate-income persons with low-interest loans.

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