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LOCAL NEWS WEATHEROPINION PAGE I I I () nDte SUNDAY NOVEMBER 19, 1989 CCt CoBAtifleles Sftmes so County 1 HIGHLIGHTS Brodericks' Life Style Revealed in Documents Finances: A test of wills is woven through a series of tangled financial dealings. A judge in the divorce action said neither was being reasonable. "iifc Photos by VINCE COMPAGNONE Los Angeles Times New convention center, with Point Loma showing in background, will open to the public for the first time Friday. Convention Center to Open, at Last CENTER OPENS: After much delay, San Diego's new waterfront convention center is set to open the day after Thanksgiving with a three-day "Community Celebration." Bl ENCROACHMENT: Navy officials are besieged as city and county agencies hit them with 26 different proposals for using land at Miramar Naval Air Station. But some city officials believe the only solution to the region's airport problem is to make Miramar into a joint civilian-military facility.

Bl BRODERICK FINANCES: Financial papers contained in court records document the role of money in the escalating tensions between Daniel and Elisabeth Broderick during and after their divorce. The papers also provide a portrait of the glamorous life style the couple enjoyed the way of life Betty Broderick desperately tried to hold on to. Bl REFLECTIONS Just five years ago, Christine White, discovered rowing. Now White, 27, has honed her skill so sharply that last August she won her age division in sculling, an individual event, at the U.S. Masters Rowing Championships.

B4 OPINION AIRPORT HINDERED: When the San Diego City Council lifted a building moratorium on much of Otay Mesa, it made a land-use decision for the whole region that hinders the search for a new commercial airport. B2 A HELPING HAND: "I thought about that Itinerant Preacher 2,000 years ago and wondered why nobody seemed willing to stretch the hand of Christian fellowship to the tall, slightly bowed figure with bulging plastic bags in each hand." B2 CHESS After seven of 15 rounds, GM Roman Dzindzichashvili leads the 1989 U.S. championship with 5-2. B16 ON THE RECORD "You see the problem is that the Navy is always located next to coastlines. Where's the most valuable property? Coastline.

And so the Navy will always have encroachment problems." Capt. Al Katz, Miramar Naval Air Station's public works officer, on attempts to claim part of the land. Bl LOTTERY RESULTS Nov. 18 1 I ft frill; Development: After many delays, the public will see San Diego's long-awaited downtown showpiece the day after Thanksgiving. Was it worth the wait? Supporters think so, and bookings have exceeded expectations.

By ARMANDO ACUNA TIMES STAFF WRITER The long journey of the San Diego Convention Center, the largest and most expensive project ever attempted by local government in San Diego County, reaches a milestone the day after Thanksgiving, when it finally opens to the public. That doesn't mean the center is finished. It most likely will be March before the last bolt is tightened, the final nail is driven and the hard-hats are gone. But enough things are ready now, and the anxiety level of center officials has climbed sufficiently, to bring the ribbon-cutters to the christening of the eye-catching structure that sits within feet of San Diego Bay like the huge sailboat it is supposed to resemble. Within hours after the three-day public celebration ends a week from today, rent-paying customers such as conventions and trade shows will begin moving in.

After all, it was primarily built for out-of-towners with fat wallets and expense accounts and a need to sleep in hotels, eat in restaurants and be tourists. If there was one thing the convention center people could not afford to repeat, it was yet another delay, credibility of scheduling being a prime currency in the convention center business, say officials, who for months have been hand-rholding their customers and reassuring them that the facility would be ready. What officials feared most was having to cancel the center's first round of trade shows and conventions, a lightning bolt that could have spread through the industry herd and caused a stampede away from San Diego, not to mention a public-image debacle. It has taken years to get to this point. San Diego is the only city among the U1 i Workmen put the finishing touches on the ground floor of the main exhibition hall, above.

The room is the length of five football fields. At left, a window washer cleans one of the large circular windows on the upper level. "I think right from the beginning the attempt was not an architectural statement as much as a real embellishment for the city, something that fit the setting. That's why we picked the nautical theme." ARTHUR ERICKSON Architect responsible for center's design last eight years has been involved in the key decisions affecting the center as a member of the Board of Port Commissioners, the appointed trustees overseeing the agency paying for the center's construction. "I think the community will take the building to heart." The imposing structure, which covers Please see CENTER, B6 -5, it-; I By ALAN ABRAHAMSON and RICHARD A.

SERRANO TIMES STAFF WRITERS In late 1986, Betty Broderick told her ex-husband, Daniel, a successful attorney, that she had become accustomed to a certain life style and deserved $30,000 a month in alimony. Dan Broderick, who was making more than $1 million a year, told her his figures showed she could have $7,316. Eventually, a judge would tell them that neither was being reasonable. The Brodericks' test of wills is woven through a series of tangled financial dealings connected to their divorce, according to court documents obtained by The Times. Dan Broderick and his second wife, Linda, were killed two weeks ago in their bedroom, and Betty Broderick is charged with their murders.

The balance sheets, calculations and account ledgers document the two years 1985 and 1986 during which Dan and Betty Broderick separated and divorced, a period a lawyer in the case told a judge was "tumultuous for this couple, at best." The financial papers also provide a portrait of the heady and glamorous way of life the couple enjoyed the life style Dan Broderick had after they split and which Betty Broderick desperately wanted to hold on to. "My client has a lynx coat," one of Betty's lawyers, Tricia Smith of San Diego, would tell a judge during the alimony battle. "She has dresses that cost $2,000. She has ball gowns that cost $8,000. They took trips to Europe, they brought friends on their trips.

Their life style they gave gifts, they gave parties, they went to charity balls all of those kinds of things are extremely expensive. "That was when they were married, and that was the life style," Smith said. Even after the couple separated, and with a monthly income of only $9,036, thousands less than she was used to, Betty Broderick continued to lead the life style of a rich lady, the documents indicate. During one four-month period in 1986 after the divorce became final Betty spent $215 just on her fingernails, she said. Her expenses "admittedly were high," she said, but were "consistent with the type of living standard I earned during my lengthy marriage to Dan." Dan and Betty Broderick, who were married in 1969, separated Feb.

28, 1985. Dan filed for divorce in San Diego Superior Court on Sept. 23, 1985. In August, 1985, the two agreed informally that Dan would give Betty $9,036 a month for expenses and that she would not pay taxes on that money. Between August, 1985, and December, 1986, Dan made those payments every month, he said in a sworn statement.

During those 15 months, he also said, Betty received four other payments from him of $10,000 or more, proceeds from the sale of properties or club memberships. One of those checks, he said, was for $127,784 from the sale of their house on Coral Reef Avenue in La Jolla a sum that fled quickly for Betty. Dan Broderick said the money represented half of the net Please see COURT, B4 Rear Adm. Phil Anselmo, commander of Miramar's Pacific Fleet fighter wing. But the most menacing of all the bids on the Miramar is the proposal for a joint-use, civilian-military airport.

It's a proposal that has been shelved and revived several times through the decade. But, with each revival, it gains more force as the city fumbles for a solution to replacing Lindbergh Field, which experts say cannot keep pace with San Diego's booming growth. A decision last week by the San Diego City Council to permit developers to build in the area around Brown Field shortens the list of alternatives for Lindbergh. And the spotlight on Miramar has intensified. Next month, the San Diego Assn.

of Governments is scheduled to release recommendations for an airport site based on a 14-month, $350,000 study. There are two key options: Miramar or a Please see MIRAMAR, B9 fx 1 -V Iff 1 mm country's 10 largest without a convention center not because the city's leaders didn't want one, but because controversy, delays and budget-busting construction estimates have marked the center's history. So was it worth the wait? "It took us longer than we anticipated and there was a significant amount of controversy," said Bill Rick, who for the "It's mind-boggling. You name it, if they don't want it in their back yard, they want to put it at Miramar." REAR ADM. PHIL ANSELMO Commander, Pacific Fleet Fighter Wing "'iS 1 Jl Miramar Pulls Big Guns To Bar Civilian Airport S.D.

Shipyard Hosts Open-Tunnel Party Inside Exxon Valdez Saturday's Winning Number: 3-8-20-25-4O-48 Lotto Jackpot $10.4 million Bonui number 16 Recorded Information English 976-4275 Spanish 976-5275 By NORA ZAMICHOW TIMES STAFF WRITER Capt. Hoss Pearson is besieged by 26 proposals from San Diego city and county clamoring for parcel of land that once nobody wanted: Miramar Naval Air Station. As soon as Pearson fends off one request, he's hit with another. In most cases the requests are for undesirable projects that most neighborhoods fight: a sewage treatment plant, sludge and garbage landfills, a jail, roads, a petroleum tank farm, a power plant, and a police and a fire academy. "Everybody wants a piece of action out here," said Pearson, commanding officer of Miramar, one of the nation's four master jet stations, a hub for the Navy's sophisticated fighter jets situated 13 miles north of downtown San Diego.

"It's mind-boggling. You name it, if they don't want it in their back yard, they want to put it at Miramar," said By ALAN ABRAHAMSON TIMES STAFF WRITER The first step in fixing the Exxon Valdez is done, so officials and workers at the San Diego shipyard where it's under repair had a party Saturday. It's not every day, they figured, that they could show off a 600-foot-long tunnel cut out of an oil tanker. All invited were encouraged to roam through the tunnel, cut through the belly of the giant tanker by slicing through 1,600 tons of steel, as well as to gaze up at the ribs, the skeleton and the scrubbed oil and ballast tanks rising above and to ponder the awesome destruction told in the eerie spectacle under the ship's right side. There, sitting on concrete and wooden blocks three feet above the ground, are what's left of the sheets of steel that used to form the starboard hull of the Valdez before it ran aground in March on a submerged reef in Alaska, causing the nation's worst oil spill.

Illuminated by powerful work lights and crisscrossed with scaffolding, whole sheets of the ship's Please see VALDEZ, B5 INDEX Opinion B2 B9 Bll B12 B13 B14 B15 San Diego County Movies Roll Call Auctions This Week Weather San Diego County Classified.