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SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER A-2 Monday, July 1991 CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM Algeria MATIER ROSS THE HERS lltl Slli immim Iff ill j-. tXJf i 1 ing heralded among insiders as THE most boring event of the year. About 350 of the Demo Party faithful paid $1,000 a head plus parking for stuffed chicken and overstuffed political rhetoric about Feinstein's upcoming U.S. Senate campaign. "The real money people were smart enough to send a check and duck the dinner," said one party regular.

Dimlights of the event included Tennessee Sen. Al Gore, giving a 40-minute speech that carried all the passion of a human metronome. But even when boring, Fein-stein can still pull it in: word is the dinner netted about $360,000 for her upcoming U.S. Senate campaign. w.

1 The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Luther King was assassinated in ROOM RK3GSNEW YORK TIMES VIA AP King was shot. The events began on the Fourth of July. With Jackson Kyles, front, and D'Army Bailey, Memphis judge, a former Berkeley and a force behind the museum. the centerpiece of the National Cwd Rights Museum. The Rev.

Jesse Jackson, center, in Memphis for events dedicating the museum, walks along the ffllllllMMf ITsMss steps up Islamic sweep Jails leaders and 700 followers By Rachid Khiari ASSOCIATED PRESS ALGIERS The army intensi fied its crackdown on Islamic fun damentalists Monday, announcing 700 arrests and occupying the headquarters of the main opposl tion party. Its two top leaders face trial for "armed conspiracy." Security forces also ordered the closure of two mosques in funda mentalist strongholds. The actions, including the arrests of the senior leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front, followed renewed clashes between fundamentalists and security forces. The army said four people, including a policeman, were killed and 15 peo pie injured. Fundamentalist sources said as many as 2,500 people were arrest ed.

The Islamic Front's president, Abassi Madam, and vice president, Ali Belhadj, were among those arrested Sunday. They issued a call Friday for a jihad, or Islamic holy war, it the government did not lift a state of emergency, and they defied summonses served on them after their speeches. Madani, 60, was arrested at his organization's headquarters, while Belhadj, 37, was taken into custody at a television station Algiers. Helmeted riot police circled the fronts headquarters at midday, evacuated all its personnel and took over the building. Hours later, hundreds of fundamentalist youths clashed with riot police in the Bourouba section of the capital, and a depot was burned down in the melee.

Police lobbed tear gas at youths erecting barricades in the street. It was not clear whether there were injuries. There had been sporadic gunfire in Algiers overnight, but it tapered off by morning. There was no immediate reac- tion from the Islamic Front to the arrest of its leaders. Radicals within the group favor escalating the confrontation with the government, while moderates have spo- ken of a compromise.

The government said Iran's ambassador, Javid Qorban Ughli, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to be warned Iran should stay out of Algeria's internal affairs. On Saturday, Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said he hoped Algerians would follow the example of Iran and establish an Islamic republic. ASSOCIATED PRESS SPAIN MedHemnetm i Sou MOROCCO ALGERIA 5 EEL rtf NIGER 400 nam Tenru, where Martin 1968, is becoming mm some of the things they wanted to walk on," DeMarcus said. "Our negotiating team went a little bit over" what the board actually intended to offer, she said. BART workers had begun set-.

ting up picket signs at 12:01 a.m., but took them down about 50 min- -utes later, when Wilson's action was announced. Golden Gate Transit's bus and ferry operations were operating without incident, despite the expiration of contracts for 350 district workers. The unions representing workers of that transit system de cided to delay the threatened walk' out for at least a week. Wilson named three retired judges to a panel which will recommend within a week whether he should impose the 60-day cooling off period during which negotiations would continue. He acted at behest of the BART board.

The panelists are: Allison "Al" Rouse, 71, chairman, a retired associate justice with of the First Appellate District Court, Division 2 and a former San Mateo County Superior Court judge and District Attorney. M. O. Sabraw, 64, a retired justice with the First Appellate Court, Division 4, to which he was appointed by former Gov. Deuk-mejian in 1984.

From 1970 to 1984, he served on the Alameda County Superior Court and from 1968-70 on the Fremont-Newark-Union City Municipal Court bench. Donald R. Franson, 65, a retired presiding justice with the Fifth Appellate Court. He served on the Fifth District Court of Appeal by from 1972 to 1987, and before that was a Fresno Superior Court judge. The brief BART strike was officially announced shortly after midnight "The work stoppage has begun as of now, because of management's brinkmanship, and I think it's a damn shame, said Larry Gerber, a spokesman for Local 790 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents 537 balcony where Dr.

Sunday and end are the Rev. Samuel rear. Bailey is a city councilman Districts for gays, Asians? HE PLAY FOR A GAY DISTRICT: Word out of Sacramento is that S.F. may indeed get a "gay" dis trict out of the upcoming redis-tricting plan and that could make and break a lot of careers in The City. It all depends on the play.

For years, both of S.F.'s large gay and Asian communities have been split between the 16th and 17th Assembly districts the dividing line being Market Street, which runs right through the center of town. Assembly Speaker Willie Brown rules the 17th, which in cludes Chinatown, the Haight and about half of the heavily gay Castro District. The 16th dis trict is represented by John Burton, of the once all-powerful Democratic "Burton machine" and a longtime friend of Brown. Now it's redistricting time and district lines up and down the state are being redrawn to John Burton Cleve Jones conform with the latest census. The City's voter-active gays are demanding that the heavily gay Castro and Haight neighborhoods be consolidated into one district thereby giving them a good shot at an Assembly seat.

In fact, Names Project activ ist Cleve Jones already has announced he's running against Burton for the 16th seat. The idea of having to face a nationally known gay leader with a big fund-raising base is not too ap pealing to the liberal Burton. No one is going to run against the popular and powerful Brown, but he is already thinking of leaving the Assembly to run for mayor in 1995. Neither Burton nor Brown likes being messed with, but they see the writing on the wall. And there is now talk of a plan that would reward their friends in the gay and Asian communities, while punishing their enemies at the same time.

The plan: The Castro would go into the 17th, giving gays a good shot at winning the seat in "95 when Brown pulls out. Re moving the gay vote from the 16th would also seriously under cut Jones' chances of unseating Burton. In return, the heavily Asian Richmond District would move into the 16th district. San Fran cisco Asians are not as organized or united as The City's gays, so it could be years before Burton would face a serious challenge from that camp. Putting the Castro into Brown's district would also help Brown ally Supervisor Car ole Migden who will most certainly run for the seat if Brown decides to run for mayor.

Score: Mayoral candidate Brown makes points with both gays and Asians. He takes the heat off his friend Burton, rewards his ally Migden and dunks Jones all in one swood. FEINSTEIN'S GOLDEN YAWN- Dianne Feinstein's recent birthday party bash at the Fairmont Hotel, atop Nob Hill, is be- uovemor names judicial panel to decide if 60-day cooling-off period ii i ii will be needed By Tom Dowling OF THE EXAMINER STAFF BART trains rolled on schedule Monday, as last-minute intervention by Gov. Wilson derailed a work stoppage that would have made an unholy mess of the Bay Area commute. What was technically one of the shortest strikes in American labor history ended abruptly when Wil son took the first step toward ordering a 60-day cooling-off period to give unions and management time to resolve their contract problems.

By 9 a.m., 53,000 passengers had boarded BART, according to spokesman Michael Healy. That's 2,000 fewer than participated in the early commute last Monday. BART management is hopeful that it won't take 60 days to settle the dispute, even though representatives of both sides, who had been negotiating around the clock for 48 hours at the Clarion Hotel in Oakland, are taking a break. "We want this resolved as soon as possible," said BART board President Erlene DeMarcus. "We don't want the possibility of a transit nightmare hanging over the heads of the peo ple of the Bay Area." DeMarcus told a crowded Mon day morning press conference at BART headquarters that she expects tough bargaining, because of "the board's resolve to hold the line on excessive costs." Went a little bit over She expressed disappointment that the board's final offer had not been accepted by union negotiators.

"I don't feel they (the unions) were truly serious, because in the last hours we tried everything to avoid a strike We recommended to tan TAXING PROPOSAL: Look for Supervisor Harry Britt to propose an increase in The City's I payroll gross receipts tax something Mayor Ag-nothas been careful to avoid in an election year. In fact, Agnos, who took heat Harry Britt from the business community when he temporarily increased the payrollgross receipts tax over the past two years, underscored in this year's budget message that he didn't want to balance the budget on the backs of local business. But Britt, who is backing Assessor Richard Hongisto for mayor, claims that Agnos' proposed budget already is underfunded and he doesn't like balancing the budget by increasing Muni Railway monthly Fast Pass fares. "It's unconscionable not to have any of the burden paid by business," he says. "It was the Reagan strategy that you can't tax the rich." It's still questionable whether the rest of the supes will go along with Britt.

DOMESTIC SHOWDOWN: A little-known group, apparently centered in Chinatown, has launched a petition drive to repeal San Francisco's domestic partners legislation and that has the campaign of former Police Chief Frank Jordan worried. Chinatown Attorney Rodney Jeong, who represents the group, Frank Jordan declined to say exactly who is behind San Franciscans for Responsible Government, the group sponsoring the repeal effort. However, petitions being circulated describe it as a business, religious and community coalition. The group wants to overturn the new S.F. law that allows straight, lesbian and gay live-in lovers to register at City Hall as legally recognized couples.

And Jordan is nervous. Reason: A Nov. 5 referendum on the hotly contested domestic partners issue would almost certainly bring out San Francisco's gay vote and gay voters are more likely to support either incumbent Mayor Agnos or Assessor Hongisto than the more conservative Jordan. By Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross 77ie Insiders appear Monday and Thursday in the Examiner. train operators and station agents.

By 12:30 a.m. more than 30 sign-carrying pickets had thrown up their line surrounding BART Headquarters. About a half-hour later, BART General Manager Frank J. Wilson stepped into the TV lights on the street to announce that he had asked the governor to intervene. "It would be irresponsible to let the strike continue," he said, "just as it wouia be irresponsible to give in to the (unions demands." Finite pot of money Gerber said he doubted the con-cessions the unions had wrung from BART management earlier in the negotiations would still remain on the table.

"We have a finite pot of money. We are a public agency. We are in the midst of a recession," said BART deputy general manager John Haley. "We have to be re- sponsible." In making its final offer, BART management abandoned its insistence that union members contribute co-payments to one of the available health insurance plans in the first year of the contract and agreed to full retirement benefits for fully vested 55-year-old BART workers. It also offered to raise the wage package from its initial 3.25 per cent annual increase.

Manage ment's final offer was a 4 percent pay raise in each of the first two years of the three-year contract, followed by a 5 percent raise in the third. The unions had sought 5 percent raises for each of the three years. BART management's proposal carries a price tag of $32 million, spread over three years. Three key issues remained in play: Management's insistence on being able to impose mandatory overtime; its demand to exempt 140 positions from union jurisdiction; and stickiest of all retention of a co-payment plan in the health package's second and third years of $17 and $45 a month re- spectively. and saw the office and decided to break in." Champlin was charged with grand larceny and second-degree burglary.

He remained in jail Sunday. A computer hard drive containing medical histories of 250 campers was among the items stolen during the burglary Thursday night. A postage meter and seveital checks also were taken. All the stolen items were recovered, authorities said. Camp is scheduled to start July 6 at Camp Pee Dee in Cheraw, a rural community about 100 miles north of Charleston.

1C a ER: LEARN BUSINESS SKILLS Start A New Career! Thief returns stolen medical records rv ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. A man accused of stealing computer equipment containing important records of children with cancer had a change of heart and turned himself in. Michael R. Champlin, 25, walked in to police headquarters Friday after seeing news reports of the burglary at the Charleston office of Camp Happy Days, which sponsors a summer camp for children with cancer, police said. "He said he was depressed and had been drinking," said a deputy who asked not to be identified.

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