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Gos Angeles Slimes Friday, October 12, 1984Part I 3 State Moves Against Six Caribbean Medical Schools By PAUL JACOBS, Times Staff Writer 'It's fair to say that the students are not the culprits; they have become the Kenneth Wagstaff, Board of Medical Quality Assurance which are required to approve programs for training medical students in hospitals. As a result of the medical board's probe of the schools, David L. Glendenning, a recruiter for Ross University in the West Indies, was arrested in Los Angeles Thursday, according to a board spokesman. Medical board documents charge that Glendenning falsely represented himself as a physician while operating a recruitment and placement office for Ross that was located inside the Beverly Hills Medical Center in Ldfe Angeles. The board also charged that three individuals associated with St.

Lucia Health Sciences University in the West Indies presented fraudulent records when they sought medical licenses in California. The dean of the school, Thomas J. Gibbs, represented himself as a graduate of another Caribbean medical school when he applied to become a physician. But the board documents stated that he was act ing as dean at the St. Lucia school at the very time when he said he was a student at the other school, CETEC Medical School in the Dominican Republic.

An associate dean and faculty member at St. Lucia, William H. Tabb, claimed to be a graduate of St. Lucia, but the state board documents conclude that his degree contained false entries and may have been fraudulently obtained. Another associate dean at the school, Heidi Winkler, successfully obtained a license to practice medicine.

But the board contends that she compiled more than 1,920 hours of clinical course credits while she served on the faculty and administration of the school and was employed as a doctor of osteopathy at a Texas hospital. The board turned its findings in these three cases over to the Sacramento County district attorney to review for possible criminal prosecution. SAN FRANCISCO The state Board of Medical Quality Assurance charged Thursday that six Caribbean medical schools placed students in unapproved training programs in Southern California hospitals or falsified the credentials of graduates seeking licenses to practice medicine in the United States. Among them was St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, where more than 500 of the school's enrollees were evacuated by U.S.

Marines last October. St. George's was one of three schools charged with placing students in training programs that lacked the required medical board approval. The other schools were the American University of the Caribbean and Ross University, both in the West Indies. Three other schools were charged with falsifying the credentials, training and qualifications of their students.

The schools are St. Lucia Health Sciences University in the West Indies, CIFAS University School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic and Universi-dad Technologica de Santiago School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic. As a result of the allegations, the medical board's licensing division told all six schools that it will no longer honor their degrees. The action also means immediate termination of training for scores of students now getting their first taste of practical experience in California hospitals. Such action could also cast a cloud over the futures of a smaller number of graduates of the schools, including many who are now enrolled in recognized, legitimate internship and residency programs, and a few physicians who are now licensed and practicing medicine.

"It's fair to say that the students are not the culprits; they have become the victims," said Kenneth Wagstaff, the board's executive director. The board said it would reconsider its action on Nov. 15, at which time the schools will have an opportunity to respond formally to the allegations. Representatives of the medical schools who attended the emergency meeting Thursday complained they were given no opportunity to give testimony rebutting the charges. "It's a kangaroo court," said Bernard J.

Ferguson, a New York attorney representing Parents League of Americans Studying Medicine Abroad, a group that includes students, parents and foreign medical schools. Ferguson contended that Thursday's action is part of a conspiracy to limit entry into the medical profession in the United States by "those who feel that medicine ought to be a closed shop, who feel that they are an endangered species." Technically, according to the board's documents, the students in unapproved programs were guilty of practicing medicine without a license. Wagstaff stressed in an interview that the charges against the schools were serious, and not simply a technical failure to file papers with the board and the state Department of Education, both of 2 Biting TV Commercials Airing to End 'Confusion' Jarvis Lying, Say His Prop. 36 Foes By RONALD L. SOBLE, Times Staff Writer 1 pl gan and other ploys, has succeeded in creating "tremendous confusion" among the electorate.

Jarvis argues that Proposition 36 was designed to close loopholes opened by the courts in Proposition 13. Among other things, Proposition 36 would trigger big property tax refunds for some, raise taxes for all property owners and put a strict cap on the ability of local government to approve new taxes and fees or raise old ones. The anti-Jarvis commercials talk about his "big lies," citing the pro -Proposition 36 mailer to millions of Californians, which looks suspiciously like a property tax bill; Jarvis' often-repeated statement that property taxes will double unless the amendment is approved, and his pronouncement that the measure will help everybody, whether they own property or not. Clint Reilly, the San Francisco political consultant who designed the two commercials, said they QuakeyShakeyVan Earthquakes Are Bearable; Just Ask Yogi By CAROL McGRAW, Times Staff Writer The van parked in front of the Los Angeles Children's Museum lurched back and forth. Excited screams from inside the van could be heard above the morning traffic.

"Earthquake!" "Help!" "Oh, icky!" If few Angelenos felt the earth move Thursday morning in downtown Los Angeles, it was because they weren't in the Yogi Bear Quakey Shakey Van, a new $70,000 educational tool that will visit area schools to teach youngsters how to weather a real earthquake without panic. Or as Yogi Bear told the 200 visiting schoolchildren: "Hey! Hey! Hey! Earthquakes are BEARable." Half a dozen children crammed into the van and, far from being terrified, reacted with glee at being shaken from head to foot. They giggled as the vehicle did a mean imitation of the 1940 El Centro Earthquake (which registered 6.4 on the Richter scale). And they screeched loudly as the the hero of the day a walking, talking costumed version of Yogi pretended to lose his footing and almost fell into their laps. Cooperative Project The Quakey Shakey Van is a project of the Los Angeles City and County Earthquake Preparedness Committee.

The advisory group started on the project last year after Councilman Hal Bernson, who is the city's representative on the committee, saw a similar van at an earthquake seminar in Japan. Committee co-chairman Joseph Barbera, president of Hanna-Barbera Productions volunteered his cartoon character Yogi for the project, and the company's staff created a two-minute educational cartoon and comic book. The cartoon will be used on the van and the book will be distributed to 300,000 schoolchildren. There also will a billboard campaign in which Yogi advertises the earthquake committee's non-emergency earthquake information phone number, (213-PREPARE). Cuong Tiuong, 10, one of several Castelar Elementary School children who watched the educational cartoon in the van, grimaced when the animated Yogi warned, "Here comes Shakey.

One simple rule. Just stay COOL." As the van jiggled, Yogi Bear stuffed animals fell off shelves. The children squealed and held up their hands to keep from being beaned. (The soft toys drop during each Please see YOGI, Page 23 KEN LUBAS Los Angeles Times Above, fourth-graders Muo Ly Lu, 8, left, and Linh Hong Cao, 9, read earthquake preparedness booklet while waiting their turn in the Yogi Bear Quakey Shakey Van, below, which shakes to give children the feeling of being in an earthquake. iTTrrp Stung by what they believe is "the tremendous confusion" in voters' minds caused by Howard Jar-vis' campaign on behalf of Proposition 36, opponents on Thursday launched two biting television commercials that accuse Jarvis and his strategists of lying to the public about the November ballot measure.

The ads represent an attempt to undermine Jarvis' credibility and, along with it, his effort to turn Proposition 36 into a referendum on Proposition 13, the 1978 voter-approved property tax-cutting measure. One of the commercials opens with the question: "How long has Howard Jarvis been lying to you?" Then a character actor with the unmistakable chubby appearance of a young Jarvis appears dressed like George Washington. 'The Politicians Did It' Presented with the question about who cut down the cherry tree, the Jarvis look-alike responds; "Father I cannot tell a lie, the politicians did it." This was a reference to Jarvis' frequent sharp criticism of lawmakers as the source of much of the state's ills. Jay Curtis, a tax attorney who frequently has opposed Jarvis in Proposition 36 debates, said: "I think that's a very accurate depiction of what Howard Jarvis would have looked like as a child. We prefer (that the campaign) stick to the high road." Carole B.

Stevens, who represents Los Angeles homeowners opposing Proposition 36, told reporters at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club, where the two commercials were unveiled, that Jarvis' bludgeon-like method of debating was "unbeatable unless you deal with him the way he deals with you." Both Stevens and Curtis said that according to their campaign polls, Jarvis, through his "Save 13" slo California Elections were intended to "point out the bombasity" of the Jarvis campaign and the "absurdity" of his claims. Having done that, Reilly said, it is possible to target specific issues. For his part, the 82-year-old Jarvis, when informed of the commercials, said, "I was called a liar" during the Proposition 13 campaign six years ago and "it doesn't bother me at all" to be called one again. On his depiction by a character actor, he laughed almost uncontrollably for more than a minute. Then, recalling that the national brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch Co.

has contributed $100,000 to the anti-Proposition 36 campaign, Jarvis reflected: "I wonder what the president of Merrill Lynch would think of paying for a commercial like that?" Voter Sign-Ups Halted in Guru Row Suspect in 2 Murders May Be Tied to String of Rapes 'Slum Court' May Go After L.A. Landlords By RUSSELL CHANDLER, Times Religion Writer By BORIS YARO, Times Staff Writer A 20-year-old Los Angeles dog groomer has been arrested in the rape -murders of two women and is being investigated in at least one other homicide and a string of clined to discuss the nature of the physical evidence. Haley, who is employed by a Los Angeles veterinary clinic, is expected to be arraigned today on two Oregon election officials have stopped all new voter registration in rural Wasco County, where followers of a controversial Indian guru have been accused of plotting to take over the county government. The action triggered an angry response Thursday from leaders of the religious commune of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who said they, in turn, will close the sect's city of Rajneeshpuram in central Oregon to state officials unless voter registrations are restored by Saturday. "Because I have reason to be lieve there are organized efforts to fraudulently register people in Wasco County to vote in the November general election, I have decided to do a blanket rejection of all new voter registrations," Wasco County Clerk Sue Proffitt said in a statement read Wednesday at the county courthouse.

About 30 Rajneeshees had been bused to The Dalles, the county seat, to register. The guru's followers, many of-them claiming to be Vietnam veterans, then left, "complaining loudly and vowing they would be back with 3,000" registrants, depu ty clerk Karen LeBreton said in a telephone interview Thursday. Proffitt said she was acting on the advice of Oregon Secretary of State Norma Paulus, and that any would-be registrants must now appear at individual hearings that will be set to determine their eligibility to vote on Nov. 6. This applies to longtime Wasco County residents as well as newcomers, she said.

Oregon law permits registration until election day. With the recent influx of several thousand street Please see GURU, Page 23 burglaries and rapes over a five-year period, police said Thursday. Kevin Bernard Haley was arrested at his home on South Bronson Avenue by Wilshire Division Detectives Woody Parks and Jim McCann on Wednesday after they received information linking him to the Sept. 27 murder of Dolores Clement, 55, from Wilshire patrol Officer Elliot Rada. Further investigation turned up evidence linking Haley to the June 26 mur counts of murder and two counts of burglary, police said.

"He (Haley) has given us information leading us to seven or eight rapes we didn't have any reports on and we suspect probably a lot more than that," Martin said Thursday. "We are hoping that victims, seeing his picture, might come forward." The lieutenant said that investigators learned during conversations with Haley that he may also have been involved in as many By ANDY FURILLO, Times Staff Writer The Los Angeles City Fire Commission, concerned by continuing evidence of dangerously substandard housing, decided Thursday to study the creation of a specialized municipal "slum court" to handle criminal cases against landlords. "We want to do everything possible to preclude the possibility of having any more Dorothy Maes," said Commissioner Aileen Adams, referring to the 1982 hotel fire that killed 25 people and prompted a city ordinance aimed at eradicating fire hazards in older apartment buildings. City Fire Marshal Craig Drum-mond told the commission that speedy prosecution is the best way to force landlords to correct potentially dangerous buildings. He added that a specialized court would quicken the judicial process and thus ensure additional criminal filings.

"It's an approach that has proven successful in some Eastern cities, and there's got to be a way found to speed it up here," Drummond said after the Thursday meeting. "We Please see LANDLORDS, Page 23 Woman Faces Up To and Conquers Half Dome YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (IP) Ellie Hawkins braved two storms and lost nine pounds off her already slight frame to become the first woman to climb the northwest face of Half Dome. "I'm so happy to be through with it," said Hawkins, 34, of Calaveras County. "I had two storms with rain and snow, and I'm bushed." The 100-pounder hauled 130 pounds of food, water and mountain-climbing supplies 4,800 feet up the granite landmark, including a vertical wall overlooking Yosemite Valley. "My hands are so tired from hauling gear that I can hardly move them," she said.

The climbing instructor reached the summit Monday after climbing 10 days, spending the nights suspended in a cot anchored to the mountain. "As it was, I used more energy than I had food," she said. "I think I lost nine pounds during the climb." Occasional rock showers "forced me to wear a helmet most of the time," Hawkins said. "One falling rock almost severed one of my ropes." She has climbed for 14 years and believes that a learning disability, dyslexia, has helped her to improve. The most common symptom of dyslexia is seeing letters or words backward.

"I know I have a problem, and I pay more attention to detail," she said. "In climbing, that is very important." Kevin Bernard Haley der of Laverne Stolzy, 56, who, like Dolores Clement, was found raped and murdered in her home. Lt. Bob Martin, commander of Wilshire Division detectives, de- as 100 unsolved burglaries over the last five years. The suspect also is being investigated in other homicides, Martin said.

Please see MURDERS, Page 23.