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Cofl Arifidcfl dimefl tus July 31, 1979-Part I 3 rown Files Papers to Seek Presidency Governor Ready to Campaign Against Kennedy, Committee Chief Quinn Says BY W. B. ROOD Tlmn Stiff Wrlttr SACRAMENTO In all but his own words, Gov. Brown Monday became a presidential candidate-filing official documents allowing him to raise money and organize a campaign and also giving him legal standing as a candidate under federal election law. mmwmmmmmmmmm wtw iiiu i iwi i mini -r? ifcf.

Mate lit" i. (i 'K t't11 I Mosk Urges High Court to Rule on Probe RESCUE Richard Byless digs in turtle breeding area on oil -threatened Mexico beach, helping weaker hatchlings to escape nests. Timet photos by Rick Meyer BABY SEA TURTLES AIRLIFTED OVER OIL SPILL "It means he's running for Pres ig for Pres- ident," said state Air Resources Board Chairman Tom Quinn, listed in documents filed in Washington as chairman of the Brown for President Committee. Quinn will relinquish his ARB post. While Quinn said the committee was exploratory in nature and that Brown would not make a formal announcement until "sometime this fall," he added nothing short of disaster, not even Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy could turn Brown back now. "I think it would take some fairly cataclysmic event to have us conclude the exploration was unsuccess-ful-an unexpected cataclysmic event, I might add," Quinn said. "We're fully prepared to campaign against Sen. Kennedy, if it comes to that.

I would not put that in the unexpected-cataclysmic-event category." As expected, Brown Monday named ARB Vice Chairman Mary D. Nichols to succeed Quinn as ARB chairman and also as special assistant to the governor for environmental protection. In that dual capacity, she will be the Brown Administration's top environmental official, having overall responsibility for regulatory programs concerning air, water and solid waste. With few exceptions, Ms. Nichols and Quinn have taken similar stands on air pollution issues, and she is expected to continue the tough regulatory policies he has followed since 1975.

Brown himself sounded very much like a candidate Monday as he boarded a flight to Mexico City for a meeting with Mexican President Jose Lo-pez-Portillo. "Most of the surveys indicate Pres-Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 4 a4 1 I BABY Day-old Kemp's Ridley involved operating on foreign soil. Without permission from the Mexican government, the U.S. helicopters would never take off.

And while approval of such a mission of mercy at first would seem to be a matter of routine courtesy, the issue of the Kemp's Ridley was not considered routine by the Mexican Hi if High -Rise Moratorium on Ventura Blvd. Wins OK Continued from First Page other beach in the world to wade ashore together and lay their eggs in the warm sands. i This egg laying en masse, known as the arribada, once brought as many as 40,000 females waddling onto the beach at once. But in years past the eggs of the Kemp's Ridley were believed to possess aphrodisiac qualities and the nests here were plundered mercilessly until now it is believed no more than 2,000 adult turtles remain. Listed on the U.S.

Endangered Species List, the Kemp's Ridley is considered to be on the brink of extinction. Still, the simultaneous egg laying of the surviving females meant that the hatchings also would occur within a short time of each other, enabling the scientists to collect almost all the expected 10,000 baby turtles within several days. But what then? "We needed to get the turtles over the oil and on their way," said Byless. "You can't just drop them from high up and you can't just drop them anywhere. We decided we needed an airlift with helicopters to set them down gently, in the kind of setting they needed to survive." In Albuquerque, officials of the Endangered Species program had anticipated such a contingency when the oil well blew on June 3.

The federal agency had access to the helicopters needed for the turtles, but the plan TURTLE CAMP Sign put up by y'- "-lir'HP r--r jaiwgyiL BY PHILIP HAGER Tlmas Stiff Wrlttr SAN FRANCISCO The California Supreme Court should ignore public opinion and decide itself whether to reopen the state investigation of the court to the public, Justice Stanley Mosk contended Monday. Mosk, in a sharply worded brief, told his fellow justices: "If this court succumbs to fear of public opinion or to a not-so-veiled prediction of dire consequences to the justices themselves, then the court will have lost its most important qualities independence and courage." Mosk, reiterating his belief that open proceedings were illegal, derided the contention by the state Judicial Performance Commission that the justices should appoint a special panel of judges to decide whether the public should be admitted to the proceedings. Commission special counsel Seth M. Hufstedler had argued that the court should honor the ancient ethical standard that "no man should be a judge in his own case." For the justices to decide the fate of an investigation of themselves, Hufstedler said, would "precipitate an unprecedented crisis of public confidence in the integrity Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 6 MERL Wrlttr From Balboa west to Lindley the current three-story (or 45-foot) limit would continue.

Homeowners pushing the moratorium and chambers of commerce and boulevard landowners opposing the ban filled council chambers Monday in heated argument. Led by their councilman, Marvin Braude, the homeowners pleaded for the moratorium to slow the burgeoning growth until the specific plan can be enacted. But many merchants and landowners argued that halting growth would do little to relieve the noise, traffic congestion and lack of parking that plagues the valley's only southern east-west surface thoroughfare. And, the opponents argued, the limit would cripple Encino's stature as the business and financial center of the valley all for a plan they said has little hope of passing. The moratorium itself had been stalled in the council's Planning and Environment Committee for months, forcing representatives of both sides to argue and reargue their cases.

62, Producer Shows, Dies Bill Todman He married Frances Holmes Bur-son in December, 1950. Besides his wife, Todman leaves his son, William and daughter, Mrs. Lisa Plough of Memphis. Services will be held Wednesday in New York. Todman and Goodson owned radio station KOL in Seattle and were stockholders in firms that held controlling interest in 16 newspapers.

UNITED STATES Uy" Monterrey MEXICO 10 Gulf of TURTLE Mexico HATCHLINGS AMIES Timet map Nuevo, the first phase of the rescue plan began. It was not pleasant work. Rancho Nuevo beach is a steamy, airless shore, full of mosquitos and ticks, backed by miles of still lagoons and swamps. During the day, the beach radiates a furious heat under the summer sun, and the few breezes seem routed through boiler rooms just over the horizon. At night the heat subsides to a sweaty stillness with the main activity supplied by biting insects and teams of land crabs scuttling over the camp kitchen, stealing food like wharf rats.

Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 under way to save a species. Judge Rebukes Two Attorneys Action Occurs During OPEC Antitrust Case BY CHARLES MAHER Tlmts Ltgil Affaire Wrlttr A federal judge rebuked two lawyers in open court Monday amid disclosures of conflict among those pressing an antitrust suit against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The lead lawyer on the case, it developed, has been fired by the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which brought the suit against OPEC.

He was reprimanded by U.S. Dist. Court Judge A. Andrew Hauk for not reporting his dismissal sooner. Another lawyer was scolded because his nephew had solicited information about Hauk, the judge said, while posing as a magazine reporter.

The discharged lead counsel is Richard I. Fine, a Century City antitrust lawyer. Hauk said his reading of correspondence in the case was that Fine's association with the machinists ended June 11. In light of this, Hauk said, it was improper for Fine to appear in court on behalf of the union on June 25. At Please Turn to Page 10, Col.

1 Ik MatanwrotuPI J7 3 50 100 I turtle, about to be taken to sea. government. American officials were made to understand that it carried implications of national pride. The specter of Americans saving Mexican turtles from a Mexican oil spill was not one savored by national leaders in Mexico City. Meanwhile, on the beach at Rancho growing impatient over the board's inaction on the issue.

Ms. Rice, joined by John Greenwood, drew a concession from Mrs. Fiedler that parents should not believe busing will be in any way altered this fall just because the motion passed. "It's a first step," Mrs. Fiedler said, explaining she called for the review Monday because Egly had commented last week that the junior high school portion of the busing program had proven "monstrous" and ineffective.

Egly ordered last May that the board not make any changes without his permission. Halvorsen said such approval cannot be expected before Egly's full-scale trial is completed. The trial is due to begin in late summer or fall and could last several months. Only Rita Walters, the board's lone black, opposed Mrs. Fiedler's motion.

The extra money for security allocated Monday will be used primarily to hire more patrol agents and campus supervision aides. Money for a walkie-talkie system, no-trespassing signs and fences also was approved. An appropriation to purchase uniforms for the district's army of security agents was rejected. Currently, Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 3 Mexico fishing department marks area of beach where effort is School Board to Review Busing Program May Then Ask to Make Changes but Egly OK Held Unlikely BY JEAN Timtt Stiff A bitterly fought moratorium on high-rise buildings along a two-mile strip of traffic-clogged Ventura Blvd.

won tentative approval from the City Council Monday. The ban on constructing buildings taller than six stories (or 75 feet) represents a major victory for Encino homeowners and proprietors of small businesses, who have been pushing for it since Feb. 1. The moratorium would last for six months or until the highly controversial, growth-restricting Ventura Blvd. Specific Plan can be adopted.

Councilman Hal Bernson, the only one to vote no in the 12-1 roll call, sided with much of the large-business community in criticizing both the moratorium and the proposed plan as choking the economic vitality of the entire San Fernando Valley. Like the proposed plan, the moratorium would place the six-story height limit from the San Diego Freeway west almost to Balboa along an area where 10- and 12-story office buildings have begun towering above the treetops. Bill Todman, of TV Game NEW YORK (UPI) Bill Todman, who along with his partner Mark Goodson produced many popular television game shows, is dead at 62. Yone Fleming, Todman's secretary, said the producer had been ill with a heart ailment for months. He was hospitalized last Tuesday and died Sunday night.

He would have celebrated his 63rd birthday Tuesday. The name "Goodson-Todman Production" is familiar to millions of television viewers who have watched What's My Line, I've Got A Secret-two of the longest running programs in TV history-To Tell the Truth, The Price is Right, Password and The Match Game. Besides game shows, the two men produced many live film and dramatic programs. Todman, who lived in Scarsdale, N.Y., and Palm Beach, was born in New York City. He was graduated from John Hopkins University in 1938.

Before forming his partnership with Goodson in 1946, Todman worked as a free-lance writer and producer for radio. Their first show, Winner Take All, was broadcast by the CBS radio network. passed 5 to 1, simply called for evaluation of "every pair, cluster and midsite in order to make a determination as to whether the district should ask permission" to make changes before September. A district-ordered evaluation of the current desegregation plan's first phase is nearing completion. But Mrs.

Fielder said the board should conduct its own review, perhaps through public hearings. Kathleen Brown Rice, a board moderate, questioned whether the move was political grandstanding by Mrs. Fiedler, who appeals to a San Fernando Valley constituency that strongly opposes busing but may be FILING DATES SET FOR OFFICE SEEKERS Candidates for any of the public offices to be filled Nov. 6 in 106 Los Angeles County School and special districts may file nomination papers Aug. 9 through 30.

Registrar-Recorder Leonard Parish said his office is moving its election operations to new quarters at 5557 Ferguson Drive, City of Commerce. The former building was at 808 N. Spring SL in Chinatown. BT KEVIN RODERICK Timtt SaHWrtttr The Los Angeles School Board voted Monday to review its mandatory busing program as a possible prelude to asking court permission to make changes before school starts in September-even though such changes are considered unlikely. At the same time, the board sought to quash any expectation that such approval would be granted or that the busing plan would change before fall.

Asst. Supt. Jerry E. Halvorsen, a board legal adviser, said Superior Court Judge Paul Egly has indicated that last year's busing schedules will remain in effect this fall. Even in the review of the program's effectiveness finds that the busing is not actually desegregating schools as review sponsor Bobbi Fiedler claims the board is not willing to challenge Egly for fear he would take more authority over the school district The board also decided Monday to pump an extra $1 million into campus security in the wake of well-publicized attacks on teachers and a shooting incident last week involving a school district security agent.

Just how the desegregation review would be accomplished was left unclear. Mrs. Fiedler's motion, which.