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i City State A2 S.F. EXAMINER Apr. 21, 1984 -si De Lorean tapes reveal his change of heart Bail soars to $1 million 2 in the 'arsenal-car' case LOS ANGELES (AP) John Z. De Lorean tried to back out of a proposed cocaine deal more than a month before his arrest by weaving an intricate tale of financial mishaps and links to the Irish Republican Army, a tape played at his drug trial showed. But the maverick automaker later could be heard yielding to suggestions by an undercover FBI agent that he continue negotiations, and he tantly agreed to bring his fashion model wife with him.

Cristlna Ferrare De Lorean listened to the tapes through big black earphones along with jurors in her husband's drug trial. At the end of yesterday's court session, she walked over to her husband, laid her head on his shoulder and embraced him. De Lorean, 59, is charged with conspiring to distribute $34 million worth of cocaine. He faces a maximum sentence of 72 years in prison if convicted on all charges. The latest installment of government tapes focused on De Lorean's effort withdraw from the deal which was actually a government "sting" operation.

De Lorean had been talking for weeks to an FBI agent he thought was a banker, trying to raise quick cash for his failing auto plant in Northern Ireland. A drug deal had been proposed. "We have ah, a problem and I think it's pretty serious," De Lorean said in the Sept 15, 1982, phone conversatloa Fabricating an elaborate ruse, De Lorean told agent Benedict Tisa that the Irish Republican Army contact who was supposed to provide $2 million for the drug purchase had changed gears. Instead of delivering the money for drugs, De Lorean said, the IRA man deposited It with the receiver of De Lorean Motor Co. in Belfast to save the car plant from closure.

"It's, ah, sitting there right now and I honestly dont know what to do about it," said De Lorean. He named the IRA contact as Rob-in Bailie. Defense attorney Howard Weitz-, man said Friday that Robin Bailie is actually the name of a Belfast solicitor and former politician who had dealings with De Lorean's car plant, but no links to the IRA. In the phone calL Tisa told De Lorean, "You really put me in a bad spot now Vou just screwed up a hell of a deal." "I know that," said De Lorean, "but It is, ah, it wasnt a matter of choice." The agent continued to express displeasure, saying, This is gonna make us look extremely, extremely bad--" Tisa finally asked, "So, what do you want to do? Do you want me to kill this deal?" "I don't see any alternative right now unless you've got some other idea," said De Lorean. He hung up after agreeing to think about alternative financing, adding, "It's not optimistic because the timing is just too tough." Tisa testified that he, felt at that point he had "slipped up and given Mr.

De Lorean a chance to delay." But he added, There was no doubt in my mind he wanted to continue" In a call the very next day, Sept 16, De Lorean appeared to have a change of heart He said he had talked with James Timothy Hoffman, a government informant and accepted his suggestion to post collateral rather than money for the drug deal. "We're running out of time now," van and a pickup truck. Ail had beet bought recently, for cash, and regis tcred under phony names. One car contained rubber Hallow een masks, including a full-face masl of President Reagan. The car also hel a flak jacket capable of withstandinj gunfire from standard police-issui weapons, a camouflage vest, two wal kie-talMes, a scanner-type radio witi frequencies of local police agenda taped to it and gallon containers illoc with a flammable liquid.

Tm not aware of anything exactlj like this; it's bizarre," said FBI special agent Ronald Kloepf er in Sacramento "It would be considered very unusual wherever it occurred. There are sever al aspects of the case that are verj much different from the average bur glary or another average crime." After the Loomis Armored Cat robbery outside a Bank of America branch in Capitola, federal agentj named Marilyn Buck, a fugitive radi cal with connections to the Tribal Thumb urban terrorist organization, as the key suspect She is still at large In the Capitola holdup, two people in coveralls, full-face Halloween masks and semi-automatic weapon? took $506,000 from a Loomis guard. Al least one woman helped the bandits, believed to be men. And investigaton there, too, turned up cars with phony registrations. In Tuesday's arrests, Campbell at first gave his name as David Robert Browning and presented a driver's 1 cense with that name and an address that turned out to be a private mail-drop service.

Greer gave police a San Rafael address, but had moved away from there a year ago. The couple are being investigated in other crimes in California, including a $500,000 armed robbery of jewels in the Bay Area and a series of holdups of convenience store clerks making night bank deposits. ft if I "l- i Automaker John De Lorean and said De Lorean. who had stressed the urgency of raising money for his car company. "-Robin Bailie's back in Ireland so uh, ah, I have his authori- ty to proceedSo I'm gonna proceed." such fees.

Imposition of fees for extracurricular activities is an issue in Michigan and Florida as well. Bird said a school that conditions a student's participation in educational activities upon the payment of a fee clearly is not a free school "Perhaps, in the view of some, public education could be more efficiently financed by peddling it on the open market" she wrote. "Under the California Constitution, however, access to public education is a right enjoyed by all not a commodity for sale." Her opinion drew two votes, those of Justices Allen Broussard and Cruz Reynoso. Justices Stanley Mosk, Otto Kaus and Joseph Grodin agreed with the result but each filed a concurring opinion. In an unusual action, Bird also filed a separate 15-page concurring opinion to state that she finds the i High court bars charges for after-school activities By K.

Connie Kang I Examiner staff writer Saying that extracurricular activities, such as dancing and sports, constitute an "Integral component of public education," the state Supreme Court has barred public schools from charging students fees to defray the cost of those activities. The high court said yesterday that the imposition of fees for extracurricular activities violates the free school guarantee of the state Constitution and the state Administrative Coda The court also said school districts cannot get around the constitutional problem by providing waivers to indi-. gent students. Chief Justice Rose Bird, writing for a severely split court, told the school districts a solution to their financial difficulties lies not In charging fees but elsewhere, "for example, through By Leslie Guevarri Examiner staff writer Authorities have raised bail to $1 million for a couple arrested Tuesday on explosives charges. They're suspected in a $506,000 armored car robbery in Capitola in May 1981 Donald Lincoln Campbell, 37, and Diane Mary Greer, 30, are charged with possession of destructive devices and stolen property.

They' were arraigned yesterday. Their bail had been $250,000 and is now $1 million each. Their lawyers called that excessive because their charges could result at most in four years in state prison. Chet Smith, a Sacramento County sheriffs lieutenant says he believes "they were involved in the planning and commission of the Capitola case." He believes at least two other people are Involved in the holdup, what he called an "interrupted robbery of an armored car." The latest incident might have gone undetected except for a keen-eyed park ranger, Tom Grunwald. He thought there was something peculiar about the couple who pulled in to San Juan Park Tuesday afternoon In an area usually frequented by tennis enthusiasts and kids playing Softball.

Grunwald saw the man put a second license plate over one already on his late-model sedan. When Grunwald moved In to question them, he found semi-automatic weapons, ammunition, radio equipment disguises and explosives. An elaborate but cryptic plan written with color-coded keys led investigators to five other cars and more explosives. One had been set up to be detonated by remote control. All were found within a one-mile radius of two big shopping malls.

The cars, most of them seven years old or older, ranged from sedans to a Protesters end lab Examiner East Bay Bureau LTVERMORE Nuclear arms protesters have ended an Easter week of demonstrations at the Lawrence Liv-ermore National Laboratory, with many of them remaining in the county jail at nearby Santa Rita over the weekend. About 500 turned out yesterday morning to block an intersection leading to one of the employee lab entrances. California Highway Patrol officers arrested 38, charging them with obstructing traffic. By late afternoon, all 38 had accepted citations and were released from Santa Rita, according to Alameda County sheriff's deputies. The arrests followed a Good Friday service conducted off the roadway at the intersection of Vasco Road and East Avenue, which was attended by several clergy, including northern California and Nevada United Methodist Church Bishop Wilbur Choy.

Warrants dropped California authorities have dropped two bench warrants against Gus Econopoulos, the San Francisco man who won a $1.7 million slot jackpot only to have it disallowed. Econopoulos had been sought on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge out of San Francisco. The former warehouseman won what at the time was the world's largest slot machine jackpot last August at San Francisco ready offered their songs to Kopp. Lesoine wrote his song, "Hello San Francisco," with his friend, Ed De-vany. The song is part of a musical play the men are writing called "Last Night in Playland." The song is sung in the play by a 93-year-old vaudeville entertainer who you guessed it has been all around the world but never found any place as nice as San Francisco.

Schroeder, a retired commercial business teacher from Lowell High' School offered two of her own songs for consideration, The San Francisco Cable Cars" and The Cable Car Days." Bofi McCowat. Circulation tm itm local 0TH-n. a. ttaw Tn saa Ffaaaana UHl AdvartloJng Hati c0an mo, itm Francttce. Umm Omem, 1 to fit Uem4 Stom totta Mi it.tM.4wao To wart hw.

MnonXotaHrtay.laja High state court rules for and against children of illegals Associated Press his wife, Christina, arrive at court But De Lorean again insisted he was backed by the IRA They're pretty high class people in a lot of ways" and said they had a strong interest in keeping his plant alive. fee system to violate not only the free school guarantee under the state Constitution but also its equal protection provision. Bird apparently couldn't get others to agree with her on that point Retired Justice Frank Richardson, sitting temporarily with the court by assignment dissented, arguing that local school districts ought to be permit-, ted to charge a fee for "optional par-, ticipation" by high school students In' extracurricular activities. In the spring of 1980, the Santa Barbara School Board decided to cut its budget by $1.1 million because of a drop in revenues due to the effects of inflation, declining enrollment and Propositiori la That led to the adoption of a $25 fee for each extracurricular activity. Welfare officials had treated her as if she had only three children, the court said, because the three undocumented children were ineligible for welfare.

This situation is not unlike cases involving illegitimate children wherein the challenged classification is dependent upon the marital status of the parents but operates In effect to deprive children of their rights," Reynoso wrote, Bird, Mosk, and Broussard signed the Reynoso opinion. The Supreme Court issued a flurry of decisions yesterday afternoon because it was the last day for Richard-son. K. Connie Kang bring entertainment He has ordered a film clip of Jeanette MacDonald singing the title song from the 1936 movie "San "It will blow them away," Kopp said of the film clip. "I guarantee it" Kopp said he also intends to invite John A.

Ertola, presiding judge of the Superior Court, to the hearing. Ertola was president of the Board of Supervisors in 19G9 when the board adopted 1 Left My Heart in San Francisco" as The City's song. At least two San Francisco natives, Bob Lesoine and Marguerite Schroed-er, are considering bringing their own songs to the hearing. Both have al the political process." Santa Barbara attorney Kirk Ah Tye, who represented a group of Santa Barbara parents and community organizations in challenging the $25 per activity fee adopted by the Santa Barbara Ihgh School District In 1980, hailed the ruling, saying it preserves the concept of free public education in the state. Attorney Thomas Anderle, who represented the school district was disappointed with the ruling and expressed concern that It may prompt the school board to cut back on some of the extracurricular activities.

This case has drawn widespread interest prompting 68 school districts to file a friend-of-the court brief. The case has been watched closely by other states as well. It is the first ruling on the issue from a state Supreme Court Montana and Idaho have approved County for expenses county officials say they incurred because of his son, Identified only as Jerald C. by the court Yesterday the high court agreed with him. It held that because neither an adult confined for the protection of society in a prison or mental Institution nor his relatives may be charged for the cost of his support and confinement requiring relatives of minors to do so is arbitrary, irrational and In violation of the Constitution's equal protection requirements.

"Our conclusion that the county may not recover Its costs does not mean that parents will be unjustly enriched," Justice Allen Broussard wrote for the court." murder conviction strata, every occupation, all races, reli gions and political ideologies," he wrota "Citizens may become registered voters at no cost and regardless of their ethnicity or financial well being. "I suggest that any citizen whether in the majority or minority population who steadfastly ignores or avoids his simple civic duty to register and vote would be likely to Ignore or avoid his more onerous civic duty to serve on a jury. And if he were by some means identified and reluctant ly compelled to perform Jury service, he would in all likelihood not be a conscientious Juror." demonstration Choy said they were joining their "Christian brothers and sisters in saying "no to the continuing arms race We join them in saying to the continued design, manufacture, testing, deployment and willingness to use nuclear weapons." After the demonstrations at the lab, a smaller group of protesters went to the lab's Site 300, a chemical explosive testing area located on 7,000 acres 15 miles away near Tracy. About two dozen milled around outside the entrance, and two were arrested when they climbed over a fenee.A spokesman for ARC, one of of demonstrators, said several more were loose inside the compound, including seme who sneaked inside before dawn yesterday. Yesterday's arrest brought the week's total to 89, Including 37 at the lab on Tuesday, six each at Site 300 Wednesday and Thursday and yesterday.

against Econopoulos Lake Tahoe, but Nevada gaming authorities disallowed the prize, insisting the machine that paid off had been tampered with. Harrah's Tahoe recovered all but $200,000 of the jackpot Econopoulos has not been charged with any crime for his role In the alleged cheating scheme, and his whereabouts remain unknown. SFNA president joins Public Utilities bocrd Joseph F. Barletta. president of the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, has been named to the cityl Public UtihtiesCommissioa i.

Mayor Feinstein announced the appointment yesterday, saying she was "pleased to put Barletta's management expertise to work for the city." The San Francisco Newspaper Agency handles production, advertising and circulation for The Examiner and the Chronicle. Barletta will be sworn to the five-member board Friday. Chief Justice Rose Bird and Justice Stanley Mosk signed the Broussard opinior Justice Otto Kaus wrote a separate concurring opinion. Justices Cruz Reynoso, Joseph Grodin and Frank Richardson signed the Kaus opinion. In the second case, the court barred state welfare officials from enforcing regulations that adversely affect American-born siblings of undocumented aliens.

The case involved Bernadette Darces, a single parent who lives in Los Angeles County. She has six children, three of them undocumented aliens and the others born In this country. Songsmiths leaving their art in The state Supreme Court has ruled that parents are not financially liable for the criminal actions of their minor children and, in a separate decision, held that illegal aliens with children who were born in this country are entitled to welfare for the children who weren't born here as welL The-court's ruling In the first case involved Hiranv Gutierrez, the father of a Ktyearold boy who was confined at tiroes In the Clara County Juvenile Hall, the county Boys Ranch and the California Youth Authority. Gutierrez had challenged as unconstitutional a state law imposing financial liability on a parent for the criminal actions of a minor child. He had refused to reimburse Santa Clara High court reverses From Page Al sources has been required by state law.

San Francisco uses voter registration and Department of Motor Vehicles records. The court said it was not taking a position on the retroactivity of the ruling because a majority of the justices do not agree on the issue. In his dissenting opinion, said that he saw no reason to preverJ exclusive reliance on voter registration lists. These Ms Include fxnom ho are citizens, of legal age, nvn and women; they represent all parts of the community, the area and the county, they are drawn from all economic Bay digest Compiled from Examiner staff service reports The great song debate at City Hall could culminate in a citywide casting call for songwriters hoping to get their tunes adopted as The City's anthem. Two residents already have thrown their musical compositions into the competition.

Meanwhile, Supervisor Quentin Kopp, the man leading the charge to make "San Francisco" The City's official song, said he is scheduling a May 3 public hearing on the matter. That hearing could end up resembling a Broadway audition, with residents offering singing, instead of spoken, testimony to the supervisors. Kopp already has promised to aV 'f STfittttfcflj Examiner and wire Canton Ml 20 St, Frnctm tm mdm mm io iih tmt iwaatiaa Are robberies linked? OAKLAND Police are reviewing robbery cases similar to the one that cost a 2fryearld man his Ufa Two suspects have been charged in that robbery, and police are trying to link them to other crimes. Michael Tucker, 28, a postal worker and skating instructor, was shot Dec 27 after men demanded his lOspeed bicycle on Church Street In East Oakland. Police Sgt Bob Conner said that Tucker was shot wfJiout provocatkm.

The bicycle was the only thing taken by the robbers. The suspects are identified as Johnnie Walker and Robert Lee Dixon. Both are 22 and residents of Oakland. Walker has been in custody since Jan. 5, when he was Jailed for outstanding warrants.

He was arrested for the murder Wednesday at the Alameda County work furlough center, where he was doing time for marijuana sales. Conner said that a telephone tip led officers to question Walker about the Tucker murder. Dixon, on parole for rape, was arrested at his parole agent's office $25,000 reward in girl's death PLEASANTON A reward has been posted for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of FoothlU High School student Tina Mary Faelz. The 14 year-old as apparently on her way home when she was subbed to death April 5. Police Chief William Eastman said contributions to the reward fund came from the city, the Dublin-San Ramon Service District, businesses, community leaders, and the stepfather of the victim, Hayward Fire Captain Steven Faelz.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the department at 847-8127. There have been no new clues in the case, Eastman said. The reward posters carry a picture of Tina, and a a map of the area where her body was found. The young woman was apparently stabbed to death near the entrance to a drain culvert that runs under Interstate COO. Police closo coliego carnival OAKLAND Police closed down a carnival operating out of Laney College property yesterday, but it was reopened later in the day hen proper permits were obtained.

The police action came after vice officers closed down several games on charges that the games were almost impossible to win. Officer Mark Neely said the Butler Amusement operation was closed because it was functioning without a city permit Citations were issued to the owner of the operation, and an employee was arrested for operating a booth while under the influence of alcohol, police said. Neely said the carnival operators had been given permission to use the land by Laney but that the owners had failed to Je city permits. When operator Ed Butler succeeded in obtaining the permi'J, the carnival was back In business. TTJ TKa; totam Mmmmj0mim.mm-mnmmmtMmttiM.lmmJ' 11 boys rape S.F.

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