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TMI MESS DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, NOVEMIEN 4, 1 EMZSIBSHrE $130 million for ballot initiatives A 350-time magnification of the AMOCIAttOPMM Appendicitis symptoms? It might be worms head on display at the National Archaeological Museum In Athens, said Getty curator Marlon True. Plane crashes EL TORO Two men were critically injured Thursday when their small airplane crashed in rugged Gypsum Canyon shortly after takeoff from a Marine base here, authorities said. The two unidentified passengers were airlifted by Marine helicopter to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, where they were listed In critical condition, said hospital spokeswoman Ja-netta Inlow. Teacher arrested on sex charges SAN JOSE A high school teacher active in regional theater was arrested for investigation of running a gay-male prostitute ring for clients throughout the San Francisco Bay area, police announced Thursday. Charles Michael Traw, 48, was released on bnil from Santa Clara County jail Wednesday after his arrest for investigation of pimping and pandering, according to Lt.

Dennis Guzman. His house, where Traw allegedly ran the service, also was searched, according to Sgt. Jack Farmer, who added that none of the prostitutes appear to have been Traw's students. "It appears he led a double life," Farmer said. The ring charged $100 an hour, offering services through ads in gay newspapers in San Jose and San Francisco.

Extortion letters LANCASTER Threatening letters were sent to more than 100 prominent Antelope Valley residents this week demanding that they send thousands of dollars to other prominent persons, authorities said Thursday. The motive was unknown but Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators were taking the letters seriously despite the bizarre demand. The local sheriff's station received 104 complaints about the letters on Wednesday, said Deputy Bill Wehner, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department. "The letters, which look like computer printouts, demand that each victim send varying amounts of money to other prominent local citizens," Wehner said. Press Democrat news services by the Insurance Industry, would limit contingency fees of plaintiffs' attorneys In auto and other liability cases, a move that critics say would make It more difficult for some Injured people to sue.

The FPPC said spending on the five propositions had topped $76.08 million, with most of that money coming from Insurance companies. The $76.08 million represented 72 percent of spending on all ballot measures, according to the FPPC. Since Oct. 22, those companies have plowed more than $9 million Into campaigns to pass their Initiatives and defeat the ones backed by consumer advocates and trial lawyers, according to FPPC and Associated Press totals. McCarthy, Wilson focus on environment ByJOHN ANK.AK Associated Press LOS ANGELES Lt.

Gov. Leo McCarthy said he will take oil companies to court to clean up alleged storage tank leaks and Sen. Pete Wilson pledged more wilderness area Thursday as the Senate candidates stressed environmental themes. The new California Poll found Wilson on his way to a rout of McCarthy. Wilson now leads McCarthy, 50 percent to 3fi percent, among all registered voters, with 14 percent undecided.

His lead is even greater among those considered most likely to vote, 52 percent to 36 percent. With just days left in the race, the campaigns traded shots in trying to discredit each other's record on environmental issues and bolster their own. The Democratic lieutenant governor filed notice under a provision of Proposition 65 of 1986, alleging 174 gasoline tanks threaten groundwater in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco and San Joaquin counties. The notice gives state and local prosecutors 60 days to decide whether they wish to take action themselves. If not, McCarthy can file suit himself.

"I strongly supported Proposition 65," McCarthy told a press conference outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse. The Republican incumbent, meanwhile, campaigned in Monterey at the dedication of a federally funded ocean research center and in Goleta, where he said he will introduce legislation to create more than 250,000 acres of new wilderness area in Los Padres National Forest. IN BRIEF Morlarty released LOS ANGELES -Fireworks magnate Wallace Patrick Morlarty, whose political dealings were the focus of one of Callfor- Moriarty nia-s bluest corruption scandals, walked out of federal prison Tuesday after prosecutors agreed to dismiss three mail fraud convictions. The dramatic turnubout set Morlarty free from the U.S. penitentiary in Lompoc after serving 29 months of a seven-year sentence on five mall fraud convictions for bribing elected officials and laundering campaign contributions.

In an agreement approved by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss the three mail fraud convictions In exchange for Moriarty withdrawing his appeal on two other mail fraud counts. An Orange County fireworks tycoon who founded Pyrolronics which manufactures Red Devil Fireworks, Moriarty pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with illegal contributions and Inducements to Influence fireworks legislation. Cocaine seized LOS ANGELES Police seized $11 million in cocaine at a Holiday Inn on Thursday, and unveiled another 684 pounds of cocaine valued at $93 million seized the day before in a raid on a Pomona construction company. Hugh Lynr.

Sample, 24, was arrested in the raid on the Holiday Inn on Vermont Avenue a 195th Street, where he allegedly ran a drug distribution center. On Wednesday night, sheriff's narcotics deputies, working with U.S. Customs agents and Brea police, raided and Construction seizing an AK-47 assault rifle.a revolver, $160,000 in cash, and 684 pounds of cocaine valued on the street at $93 million. Achilles fake LOS ANGELES A marble head of Achilles once displayed at the J. Paul Getty Museum as a work of art was probably made this century by a student working from a plaster model, an official said.

The head, removed from view at the museum in October 1987 because the museum believed it to be a fake, was probably copied from a cast taken from a State study By KATIILKEN GRUBB Associated Press SACRAMENTO State officials released a long-awaited draft study Thursday detailing plans to protect water quality in the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay. The recommendations call for stricter regulation of pollutants discharged into the waterways and reduction of water consumption through conservation by cities, industry and farms. The plan also calls for a reduction in exports of water to Southern California during the spring and summer, with the difference being made up by increased storage of Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Raw or undercooked fish such as sushi can cause a serious intestinal illness often mistaken for appendicitis, doctors warned Thursday. The disease, anisakiasis, is caused by eating fish infested with larvae of worms known as anisakid nematodes. Cooking kills the worms.

The doctors said about 50 cases of aniskaiasis have been reported in the United States, but "this may be the tip of the iceberg." Drs. James H. Kerrow and Judy Sakanari of the University of California, San Francisco, and Thomas L. Deardorff of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration described the infection in a letter in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

The doctors said the emer State's record number Associated Press SACRAMENTO A complicated ballot and fears of jammed precincts have created an unprecedented demand for absentee ballots, with nearly one out of every five California voters expected to cast them. "We know that it's going to be a record, far, far more than ever before, more than double the previous record," said Caren Daniels-Meade, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State March Fong Eu. The crush of absentee ballots, especially those turned in late, could cripple the chances for definitive early returns, she added. "Absentee ballots that come in on Election Day will not be processed until election night. And it is possible that there are some close races where we will not know the larval stage of the gence of the disease was partly due to the popularity of sushi and sashimi and lightly-cooked fish.

Salmon and pacific snapper are most commonly Implicated in the disease. Another factor, they said. Is the increasing number of seals, sea lions, and other marine mammals that harbor the parasites in their stomaches. The animals expel worm eggs in their feces, which are then eaten by other sea creatures, including fish. People who eat wormy fish sometimes cough up live worms or feel the worm in their throats, a condition known as "tingling throat syndrome." In more serious cases, the worms burrow into the wall of the stomach or the intestines.

They are removed by a tube that is pushed into the digestive system. of absentee ballots outcome until as much as a week or so later. It all depends on when the; absentee voters get their ballots' in." On Thursday, the secretary of" state completed a survey of 15 counties representing 79 percent of California's 14 million registered voters. "They (the counties) have had an average of 13.5 percent of their registered voters requesting' absentee ballots," but the actual absentee turnout on election day is expected to be significantly higher. "That's because not all registered voters actually vote," she said, making the absentee turnout proportionately greater.

Assuming a 70 percent turnout, the final proportion of absentee votes would be about 19.3 percent, Daniels-Meade said. 1 7 UJ Insurance issue leads funding Aumciilrd Prm SACRAMENTO Fueled by an orgy of spending on five Insurance Initiatives, supporters and opponents of California's 29 ballot measures have raised more than $130 million and spent more than $105 million, the state's political watchdog said Thursday. The spending spree easily dwarfs the records for spending on a group of propositions and a single ballot measure, the Fair Political Practices Commission reported. Before this year, the record for spending on a single proposition was set in 1986, when $10.96 million was spent on Proposition 51, a tort reform measure. According to FPPC figures, spending on each of two Insurance initiatives and a tobacco tax proposal has already topped the old record for a single Initiative.

The previous record for spending on a group of propositions was set in the fall of 1984, when $32.39 million was spent on ballot measures, said Sandra Michinku, an FPPC spokeswoman. The FPPC's contribution totals were for the period ending Nov.l. Spending totals were for the period through Oct. 22. Final full pre-election reports filed by candidate and proposition campaigns cover the period through Oct.

22, but campaigns must report contributions of more than $1,000 received after that date. The bulk of the spending on this fall's ballot measures has been aimed at passing or defeating five Insurance initiatives Propositions 100, 101, 103, 104 and 106 and most of that money has come from the insurance industry. Proposition 100, sponsored by consumer groups and trial lawyers, would require a 20 percent reduction in automobile insurance premiums for so-called good drivers. Proposition 101, sponsored by Coastal Insurance would reduce auto insurance premiums for bodily injury liability coverage up to 35 percent by limiting attorney fees and injury claims. Proposition 103, a consumer-sponsored measure backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, would cut insurance premiums to 20 percent less than November 1987 rates and freeze them at those levels until reviewed by a new elected insurance commissioner taking office in 1991.

Proposition 104, sponsored by the insurance industry, would enact a no-fault auto insurance system under which accident victims would be reimbursed for losses up to a certain amount from their own insurer regardless of who is to blame for the mishap. Proposition 106, also sponsored a year of public hearings on water quality in the delta. The sprawling watershed made up of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, Suisun Marsh and San Francisco Bay provides two-thirds of the water used in California and 40 percent of the state's drinking water. The California Aqueduct carries water south from the delta. Walt Pettit, chief of the Water Resources Control Board's water rights division, said at a news conference that the study assumed that a peripheral canal to divert more water to Southern California is "a dead issue." While the plan would reduce water exports to the South during the summer to maintain water quality in the rivers and better protect wildlife, it would keep annual water volumes sent south relatively constant.

If Southern California customers practiced conservation measures, their annual need for delta water would increase about 6 percent from 5.02 million acre-feet to 5.33 million acre-feet by the year 201 0. The proposal would establish a "California water ethic" of conservation that Pettit said "really "tes't anything new." The policy calls for shared responsibility of all Califor-nians for saving water. The plan sets objectives for increased conservation of delta water by the year 2010, estimating that cities and industries could cut back by 20 percent and farms by nearly 4 percent. "There's a caveat here," said David Beringer, chief of the water board's Bay Delta unit. "That is that farms are expected to do their part." The goals for "reasonable" consumption could be achieved by water-saving plumbing, appliances and landscaping in cities and more efficient irrigation methods on farms, the study found.

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A. 'underwear bandit' case EVERYTHING MUST GO (CflDS'JT? OR CLOSE TO IT. SOME ITEMS BELOW COST. water diverted during the winter for use during warm months. Officials with the State Water Resources Control Board, which developed the recommendations, said the plan could require hydroelectric dams on the San Joaquin River to reduce power production in summer months.

And while the plan would place stricter restrictions on toxins in the delta, consumers in some parts of the state may have to get used to drinking water that is safe but tastes saltier, they said. The study, which could help determine rights to delta water, was released in two draft reports totaling more than 500 pages after cream store in Rowland Heights. Arresting officers found 10 pairs of women's underwear in Lyons' car along with $335 in cash stuffed in a Baskin-Robbins bag. The bandit earned his nickname after it was learned he made at least 10 female employees of the stores he robbed take off their underwear. In some cases, the bandit wore the panties on his head and masturbated in front of his victims, said Al Albergate, spokesman for the Los Angeles district attorney.

About $3,500 was taken in the robberies of bridal, beauty, video and import shops. In one case, a notary public's office was robbed. A preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 23 in the charges addressed Thursday. Another arraignment was set for Friday involving charges stemming from the Baskin-Robbins robbery.

Lyons was held in lieu of $1 million bail. Associated Press LONG BEACH An out-of-work bus driver pleaded innocent Thursday to being the "underwear bandit" who robbed 21 businesses and forced women employees to I Lyons give him their panties. Bruce Allen Lyons, 33, of Moreno Valley, entered the plea to 23 counts of robbery, four counts of sexual battery, two counts of lewd conduct and one count of assault with intent to commit rape. Lyons, who appeared in Los Angeles County Municipal Court here, faces similar charges in Orange County. He was arrested Oct.

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