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A16 The Ottawa Citizen, Friday, January 19, 1996 World Thief pinches lost photos of Kennedy assassination mains skeptical of the find the images were also inside the combination-lock Samsonite briefcase stolen from courier George Gebhardt. City officials say the theft was a freak accident and the Los Angeles City Council has approved a $5,000 reward for information leading to the film's return. Enyart and his attorneys suggest a more sinister motive is at work. "They're playing fast and loose with the facts," Enyart said. "They don't have my film.

They destroyed my film a long time ago because it showed things they didn't want the public to find out about." Enyart, now 43, said in an interview that he believes the film may have undermined the investigation of Sirhan or showed questionable conduct by police. City attorney Skip Miller suggested Wednesday that Enyart has watched too many Oliver Stone movies. "I think (the courier's testimony) completely debunks any allegation of any conspiracy" Miller said. Attorneys for the city say the photos carried by courier were indeed En-yart's and they had planned to introduce the images at trial to show that nothing was lost. During a brief hearing Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Gebhardt said he believes the theft occurred as he sat in his car at a gas station, telephoning his rental company for help after having car trouble.

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12 of the briefcase was just the latest trou-bling twist in a 27-year effort to get back his photographic images of a nation's tragedy: the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy "All I want," the Los Angeles man said, "is my three rolls of film back." As a 15-year-old Fairfax High School student on assignment for his school's newspaper, Enyart says he was snapping photos of Kennedy when Sirhan Sirhan's bullet felled the Democratic presidential candidate. For 20 years he was told the film was locked away in police files. But in 1988, Enyart was told the film was gone, apparently burned along with other photos related to the official police investigation. He sued the city of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department and the state. City officials battling the $2-million lawsuit say the film finally turned up in August 34 photos and 29 negatives misfiled among non-photographic evidence in the California State Archives.

Unfortunately for Enyart who re- Endangered crocs slither a bit close to South Florida neighborhoods By Heather Dewar Knight-Ridder MIAMI How do you live with a wild crocodile? Very discreetly, as some South Floridians are learning. Until recently, the endangered reptiles, far rarer and more reclusive than their alligator kin, stuck closely to their last North American haven, a maze of brackish streams and mangrove forests near the point where the Florida Keys meet the mainland. But efforts to protect the rare creatures have been so successful that their numbers have risen dramatically, from around 200 when American crocodiles were placed on the endangered species list in 1975 to somewhere between 300 and 500 today Now the saltwater-loving crocs have begun to wander up Florida's eastern and western shores. Some are even setting up new homes within crawling distance of popular tourist haunts such as Fort Lauderdale's neon-bright oceanfront strip and Sanibel Island, the shell-seeker's getaway "The crocodiles are dispersing because they're doing so well in the areas that were set aside for them," said University of Florida crocodile expert Frank Mazzotti. "It's extremely interesting and encouraging that this is happening with an endangered species in Florida, which has so many people and is growing so fast.

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