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26 Part I Saturday. March 11. 1989 Cos Angeles (Times BOMB: Blast Destroys Van Belonging to Captain of Vincennes WW il i0 "It could have been a guy with a remote-control device who popped the bomb," he said, "or it could have been somebody who saw the explosion and was trying not to get hurt" Sharon Rogers, 50, was on her way to her job as a fourth-grade teacher at La Jolla Country Day School when the bomb went off. Other Vehicles Undamaged Though the van was surrounded on three sides by other vehicles, none of them were damaged, witnesses said. "I believe she got out just as it blew," said Kurt Lent, a laborer who was walking down a dirt embankment toward the vehicle as it exploded.

Sharon Rogers was dazed but walking under her own power, when the laborers reached her. They took her to a pickup truck, where she told them that she was the van's sole occupant and asked them to call her husband. Will When Sharon Rogers was interviewed, one law enforcement source said, she was nervous and shaken, but she did not immediately connect the explosion with any possible retaliation for her husband's role in shooting down the Iranian jetliner. The official also said that the van had been parked in the driveway overnight, but that neither the Rogerses nor any neighbors reported prowlers near the vehicle. He also said the Rogerses have a family watchdog.

"The dog didn't bark, and the dog barks at everybody," the official said. He also said Sharon Rogers told investigators that her family had received no threats since the airplane was downed. "There were no threats, nothing," he said. "That's what's funny. If you're getting telephone calls in the middle of the night and threat-Please see BOMB, Page 27 Rogers arrived at the scene within a few minutes, and police took the couple to the San Diego Police Department's Northern Division headquarters.

"She looked like she'd just been rear-ended or something," said Charles Archer, one of two masonry workers to reach Rogers first. "She was surprised and shocked, but she wasn't burned and she wasn't bleeding." San Diego police and FBI agents rushed to the Rogerses' home on Sherlock Court, checking two other vehicles and the home with dogs specially trained to sniff for explosives. Investigators also used mirrors to look beneath the vehicles. Two law enforcement sources said Will Rogers left the couple's home about 6:30 a.m. and drove in the van to a doughnut shop.

He returned, drank coffee with his wife, and then Sharon Rogers, who usually drove the van, left in the vehicle, investigators said. Continued from Page 1 in San Diego in late December for a Syrian national allegedly linked to the Dec. 21 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 259 passengers and crew members in Scotland last year. A copy of the FBI document, obtained by The Times, said the Los Angeles FBI office had received an anonymous phone call alleging that the Syrian, identified as Farwan Abdin, was "involved in or responsible for the Flight 103 bombing over Scotland." The FBI added: "Also mentioned were Navy quarters or TV station. No further information given." The FBI's assessment at the time was that the call was "shoddy" but that efforts should be made to locate Abdin.

Officials said Friday that a serious investigation of the call was never launched. The Rogerses were being protected Friday night by the Naval Investigative Service and other Navy personnel at an undisclosed location. "They are not home, and we will not disclose their location," said Chief Craig Huebler, a Navy spokesman. "And we won't discuss it beyond that. That gets into security, and you can understand the sensitivity to that." He said that no special security precautions had been undertaken for Rogers, crew members and their families after the Vincennes returned to San Diego.

"Why should the Vincennes crew be treated any different?" he said. "There was nothing to indicate a threat to the crew or to their families." All 360 sailors assigned to the Vincennes were alerted by their commanders Friday morning of the bomb in the Rogerses' van and urged to take whatever precau- BBrtBaHiaBaD CLIP THIS C0UP0M FACTORY-DIRECT i bUAHAN I ttU LUW fHIUtS II within 30 days, you find a lower advertised price we'll meet that price, plus 10 off the difference! CUSTOM MADE VERTICAL BIOS boost Ironi curved PVC vinyl aluminum Fabric Scotch -guarded 60 off group A Heavy Aluminum Track 5 vtar outran tat 10 Dayt Ottrvtry Inilal- latton Avail Group B. C. 0, E. all site.

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After the bombing Friday, an FBI spokesman said the Rogerses' van was usually driven by Sharon Rogers, but two highly placed law enforcement sources told The Times that Will Rogers drove his wife's van to a doughnut shop without incident about an hour before the blast. The explosion occurred while the van was in the left-turn lane on Genesee Avenue, south of La Jolla Village Drive. A law enforcement official, who asked not to be identified, said Sharon Rogers told investigators that she pulled up behind standards, however, as long as they would achieve a negative net increase of nitrogen oxides. They also could ban new pollution sources. Many valley cities, including Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto and Tulare, approach or exceed federal ozone standards of 12 parts for every 100 million parts of air.

Cause Health Problems Ozone levels from auto exhaust and industry can cause respiratory problems and aggravate asthma and heart trouble. The dirty air, trapped in the valley by weather conditions, reduces growth of cash crops such as cotton, seedless grapes, tomatoes, fruit and nuts that costs farmers $300 million a year in lost production, board researchers reported. A rash of small power plants that has sprung up in the valley since 1980 are blamed for evading the offset requirements and worsening the air pollution. Since 1980, the number of cogen-eration plants has increased from one to 49. Another 65 have obtained permits but are not operating, and at least 51 more are expected to seek permits by the end of the century.

A coalition led by the city of Kingsburg and Citizens for a Healthy Environment citing massive air pollution violations, petitioned the state board to begin work immediately on establishing a basin-wide air pollution-control plan. mi figure i ijtcuqib HFfa From United Press International SAN MATEO, state Air Resources Board, heeding pleas of farmers and conservationists, unanimously agreed Friday to take immediate steps toward meeting clean air goals in the smoggy San Joaquin Valley. The panel voted to notify the eight counties in the valley to adopt proposed rules lowering the amount of pollution new industries may put into the air before being required to offset the damage by reducing other sources of contamination. If the counties fail to act quickly, the state board will step in and adopt the standards, members said. "We want to keep their feet to the fire, and let them know we're serious," said Jan Sharpless, board chairwoman.

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