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2 Part II Saturday. February 6, 1988 Metro Digest Local News in Brief utes after the abduction about a mile away. Police found Aguilar uninjured, locked in the back of the truck. Investigators suspect that the boy was taken by members of his father's family, who have been known to live in Mexico, Bolivia and Venezuela. The boy's uncle and grandfather reported to police last November that a baby-sitter had stolen Carlos from them.

But police later determined that Aguilar had abducted her own son and allowed Carlos to remain with her. The two men were booked in connection with the November incident for filing a false report but skipped bail and disappeared, police said. Nurses' Talks Continuing Negotiations carried through Friday and will continue today between unhappy Los Angeles County nurses and county officials. The nurses went on strike last week but were ordered back to work after three days by a Superior Court judge. The county has offered the 4,000 nurses who staff public hospitals and clinics a 14.5 wage hike over two years, but the nurses have asked for a 19.5 raise.

Talks are being held at the Sheraton Townhouse in midtown Los Angeles. -AJv 1 1 I IjS If ni Sf I Escaped Killer Captured A convicted murderer who's been five days on the run from a California prison was captured early Friday near Oklahoma City, authorities said. Vincent Van Motely. 27, who escaped Monday from the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, was captured without incident, Lt. Jim Gamboa said.

Motely was serving a sentence of 27 years to life for the May 14, 1979, kidnap and execution-style slaying of his neighbor, Robert Engen, a copy editor at the Pasadena Star-News. Motely called the prison Tuesday to boast about his escape. "He said he was in Kingman, Gamboa said. "He said that no other person was involved in helping him escape, and it took him about four months to plan the escape." Prison officials were unsuccessful in their attempts to convince Motely to surrender Tuesday. Details about Motely's arrest were not immediately available.

2nd Model Alleges Rape New felony charges were filed Friday against the owner of a Hollywood modeling studio who is being held on charges of raping an aspiring model during a photo session. Ross Washington, 55, was charged with one count each of rape by a foreign object and sexual battery after a 20-year-old Orange woman heard a news report about the earlier charge and contacted police, Deputy Dist. Atty. Steve Sitkoffsaid. Sitkoff said the woman was sexually assaulted at the modeling studio last June after she answered a newspaper advertisement placed by Washington, owner of Starmaker International and producer of the "Miss West Coast Beauty Pageant." Boy, 3, Kidnaped Again A 3-year-old boy who was the subject of a custody battle involving a clan of Mexican Gypsies last November has been abducted again in Downey by several people believed to be relatives of his dead father, police said.

Carlos Alvarez and his mother, Yolan-da Aguilar, 20, were forced into a rented U-Haul truck as they walked along a street Wednesday afternoon, Downey Police Sgt. William Courtney said. The truck, rented earlier in the day in East Los Angeles, was abandoned min jFram Below Libel Suit Ordered to Trial A libel suit against Carson council members Sylvia Muise and Tom Mills and council candidates Aaron Carter and Leon Cornell moved a significant step closer to trial when a judge rejected a motion to throw out the case. The suit stems from the hard-fought council election of 1986, in which Michael Mitoma ran against Muise and Mills, who won. Mitoma won a council seat a year later in a special election.

At issue is a brochure used against Mitoma, president of Pacific Business Bank, in the final days of the 1986 campaign. Mitoma had served as a government witness in a drug money-laundering trial. He asserts that in the brochure, his answer to a question was given with a new question substituted to make it look like he and his bank were participants in the laundering. Mitoma's lawsuit alleges that Carter and Cornell, at the behest of Muise and Mills, sent out the brochure under the name of Carsonites Organized for Good Government. A trial date has not been set.

Department of Health: SELECTED REPORTABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES Diseases reported to the Los Angeles County November November Year to Year to Date Date 1987 1986 1987 1986 Intestinal Infections Amebiasis 38 27 394 402 Campylobacteriosis 94 86 1,067 1,036 Giardiasis 136 173 .1,303 1,473 Salmonellosis 18TJ 156 1,675 1,419 Shigellosis 172 18TJ 1,320 1,424 Childhood diseases Mumps 14 8 59 62 Measles 12 0 40 50 German measles 2 40 39 Whooping cough 2 47 33 Scarlet fever 25 21 365 326 Venereal diseases Gonorrhea 2,804 3,440 34,793 43,430 Penicillin-resistant gonorrhea 61 144 1,373 758 Syphilis, primary and secondary 361 228 3,817 2,246 Other infectious diseases Hepatitis A 66 115 1,052 1,064 Hepatitis 39 74 833 1,097 Meningococcal infectionst 3 303 93 Tuberculosis U5 109 1,373 1,286 man Joseph Garner, 19, and Chris Culvert, 21. Investigators said the two were east-bound on 34th Street, approaching Hoover Street, about 2:45 a.m., when the driver apparently lost control. The motorcycle overturned and then slammed into a "cherry picker" hoist parked on the south side of the street. Both were taken to County-USC Medical Center, where Garner was pronounced brain-dead at noon, according to a hospital spokesman. Boy Charged in Shooting A 16-year-old admitted gang member was charged Friday with shooting a pistol at two school buses Feb.

2 on Rosecrans 'Avenue in Los Angeles County territory near Comp-ton. A spokesman for the district attorney's office said the boy is accused of firing two shots into one bus and one shot into another after students on the buses exchanged shouted gang slogans and hand signs with the arrested youth and some other bdys standing on the street. The subject drawn on, the cover of an old anatomy book cranes his neck to check out the competition at the and Rootenberg rare book stand, part of an antiquarian book fair being held at the Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he's jealous of the attention the visitor behind him is paying to a collection of drawings on the wall. The book, published in the early 19th Century, was written by Edward Tuson, an anatomy lecturer at the British Royal Academy of Surgeons.

MELMELCON Los Angeles Times No one was injured. HUD Quake Relief Grant Whittier will receive $500,000 in federal money to help revitalize the earthquake-shattered Uptown business district, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced. City officials flew to Washington in December to lobby for the money, which came from the $3 million discretionary account of HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce. HUD has to approve the city's plan for spending the money before the funds can be received. That plan probably will include land acquisition for redevelopment, improvements to streets and public areas, and loans for merchants ordered to make their, buildings seismically safe, Assistant City Manager Robert Griego said.

Earthquake damage has forced the demolition of 26 Uptown buildings. Whittier sustained $70 million in damage from the 5.9 earthquake Oct. 1 and its aftershocks. Superior Court by William Tallman, who claimed he was "viciously attacked and repeatedly bitten" by the dog, named Cassir, nearly a year ago. "The Bronsons knew or should have known that Cassir was a dangerous animal with known vicious propensities because Cassir had attacked and bitten humans prior to the attack on the plaintiff," said the suit, filed by attorney Arthur Barens.

The suit did not say where the alleged attack occurred. Nor would Barens discuss it, indicating that he hoped to settle the matter as quickly and as quietly as possible. Bronson and Ireland were unavailable. A spokeswoman at the office of his agent said, "We don't know anything about it." By JACK JONES From staff and wire reports Today's Quote "Everyone was standing around in shock and saying this is too close to home. Our little ivory tower of San Marino is no longer inviolate.

Nobody's safe." Anne Edmondson, who lives one block from where a fatal confrontation between federal agents and drug-dealing suspects ended. Hepatitis A is spread by fecal-contaminated water or food or by contact with another infected person. Hepatitis is spread by contaminated blood or unsterile needles. Meningococcal infections can cause spinal meningitis and blood poisoning. Source: L.

A. County Department of Health Services Research: Tracy Thomas Los Angeles Times People and Events Officer Held on Drug Count A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department community service officer was arrested on suspicion of selling cocaine after deputies discovered an undisclosed amount of drugs in a search of his Lancaster home, officials said Friday. Christopher Wizner, 20, a civilian employee with the department for six months, was released on $5,000 bail after being booked at the Antelope Valley sheriff's station Thursday night, Deputy Richard Dinsmoor said. Wizner was booked on suspicion of cocaine possession for sale, Dinsmoor said. As a community service officer, Wizner helps out with routine reports and is not assigned to field patrol.

Cyclist Killed, Friend Hurt A USC student was declared brain-dead and a companion was reported in critical condition Friday after an early morning motorcycle accident on the campus near Exposition Park. The victims were identified as fresh JACK GAUNT Lm Angeles Timea Motorcyclist Bob Hallgren and his canine traveling companion, Mitzie "world record" he and Mitzie already hold. How does he know it's a world record? iU (I "4- I ft 1 rm rr Only 111 L.A. A don't run cars off the road or if shoot at them in pursuit," said Los Angeles Police Sgt. Alan Bollinger after six young suspects in a stolen pickup truck were chased at high speed.

"We just follow them until they stop." This time, Bollinger noted, it "took a bit longer to stop than most." Indeed. The action began in Central Los Angeles about midnight Thursday, when police rah a check on the license plate and concluded that the truck was stolen. It took off and, according to officers, hit more than 100 m.p.h. through Los Angeles County and into Kern County. After 100 miles of that, California Highway Patrol officers simply rolled a spiked rubber strip across a road near Bakersfield, blowing out the truck's tires.

Four men and two juvenile boys scattered, but five were caught immediately. The sixth suspect hid in a tree until the officers left the scene, police said, then hitched a ride with a trucker. He bragged about the chase. The trucker turned him in. Another long-distance driver, however, expects no trouble with the cops.

"No one else has ever attempted it." It took two sheriff's deputies the better part of 45 minutes to talk a 21 -year-old Commerce man down from a power pole where he perched angrily, apparently after an argument with his wife. The deputies were called to the 1400 block of South Sydney Drive to handle what the Sheriff's Information Bureau referred to as a "family disturbance." When they got there, they said, they found Andrew Marchado sulking at the top of a Southern California Edison Co. pole. He refused to descend. Finally, though, Deputy Bonnie Bray talked him into it.

He was booked on suspicion of trespassing. "It's against the law to climb a Southern California Edison pole unless you work for Southern California Edison," information bureau officer Hal Grant explained. It's all very well for Charles Bronson to run around in movies, keeping the streets safe by blowing people away, but at least one man thinks the actor ought to keep his dog off the street, too. Bronson and his wife, actress Jill Ireland, were sued in Los Angeles Having already ridden more than 16,000 miles through 23 states with his dog on the back of his motorcycle, Bob Hallgren of Lomita says he and Mitzie are taking off again Thursday to do nearly 50,000 miles in all the states except Alaska and Hawaii. "We're going to set every record with a dog that's ever been done," vowed Hallgren, 53, a semi-retired industrial spray painter.

"Last year I woke up in the middle of the night and knew I was to set a record that could never be broken." He was doing fine on his first attempt last year until his motorcycle hit a brick in the road near Boomtown, Nev. "Mitzie went straight up in the air, but neither of us got hurt." The motorcycle wasn't so lucky. The experience apparently did not dim Mitzie's love for tandem riding. Hallgren says the 5-year-old Belgian shepherd has been doing it since she was a few days old. "She has a little seat and sits up or stands and puts her head on my shoulder." The planned nine-month trip is being backed by a Lomita Yamaha dealer and others.

In addition, Hallgren plans to sell T-shirts along the way. They are decorated with what he says is the.