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state 1 THE SUN-TELEGRAM Jon. 30, 1978 Arbitration plan in civil suits proposed by bar jhiii.h. imw) wi ii.hwii i iwiiipm I i-i i mi i ii I i ftr i I "i a5 ft Vmm f''i i I i rtWWMWWWUIIIlllliiWWIiWMinilJI.W iiwuwuwilliiniiii mmmmit fl if able to reject one prospective arbitrator without stating a reason. The arbitrator's decision could be brought to trial, but the board has proposed sanctions to discourage that action. If the person requesting a trial did not improve his position by 20 percent, he would be required to pay a penalty of either 10 percent of the court judgment or $1,000.

He would also have to pay his opponent's court costs. Board member Fulton Haight said he expected the Senate Judiciary Committee to balk at the proposed sanctions. But, he added, they were necessary to discourage plaintiffs from seeking higher awards and defendants from using arbitration to gather information about their opponent's complaint. Also, members of the State Bar board of governors agreed Saturday to support legislation requiring them to develop a conflict-of-interest code for approval by the state Supreme Court. Several board members have opposed the requirement, contending that full financial disclosure would violate their confidential relationship with clients.

Under an amendment to the legislation, which already has passed the Assembly, the board would be permitted to develop its own disclosure rules for California lawyers. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The State Bar board of governors has proposed compulsory arbitration in civil lawsuits involving less than $15,000 as an experiment aimed at cutting court congestion. The plan adopted Saturday could reduce the backlog of civil cases that has delayed many trials for three years. Andrew Schepard, consultant to the State Bar's special committee on court improvements, says 73 percent of the state's tort awards in 1970-76 involved less than $10,000. The board's plan varies from pending legislation by Sen.

Jerry Smith, D-Saratoga, because it would be initially limited to three California counties. Smith's bill would affect the entire state for at least five years beginning in 1980. The board said rules needed to implement the plan should be formulated by the State Bar and approved by the state Supreme Court. Under the proposed plan, plaintiffs could request arbitration until the conclusion of discovery proceedings in hich both sides exchange information or until 30 days before the trial. After that, only the judge presiding over a mandatory settlement conference could order arbitration.

The arbitrators who would be paid up to $200 a day from state funds could be lawyers or, if both sides agreed, lay persons. Like jurors, they could be removed for bias. In addition, each side would AP wirephoto iJacA1 on board again Youths in the Oakland area are glad to have the AC Transit buses moving again. A 10-week-old strike was settled over the weekend and the first buses began rolling Sunday. Normal service is expected to resume today.

Arizona official against importing Northwest water nhappy hotel banishes horse PHOENIX (AP) Wesley E. Steiner, executive director of the Arizona Water Commission, said Sunday he agrees with the California Colorado River Board's position that it is impractical to import Columbia River water into the Southwest. Steiner, also the state's water engineer, said that for the foreseeable future it is neither economically not politically feasible to talk about diverting water from the Northwest to either California or Arizona. The California board two weeks ago reversed its historical stand in favor of moving water from the Columbia to the Colorado River. A few weeks earlier, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors had asked the U.S.

Interior department to develop programs leading to such a transfer. Steiner said a copy of the supervisor's resolution was sent to Gov. Wesley Bolin, asking his endorsement. "I recommended that he not support it," Steiner said in interview with the Arizona Republic. The law authorizing the Central Arizona Project, which will bring Colorado River water to Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties, contains a provision forbidding consideration of interbasin water transfers for a 10-year period.

The 10 years run out this Sept. 30. Steiner said Northwestern water would be very expensive: "It would cost at least $200 per acre-foot in Central Arizona." The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which is construction the CAP. estimated last September that Colorado River water brought into the CAP service area would cost farmers $24 per acre-foot and municipal and industrial users $54.50 an acre-foot.

JDL member booked after throwing food LOS ANGELES (AP) A 15-year-old Jew ish Defense League member who threw a plate of food at a Soviet government official was booked Sunday for investigation of assault and battery, authorities said. Sheriff's spokesman Marvin Cavanaugh said the incident occurred at the Victoria Station restaurant at Universal City, here a party of about 57 Soviet officials were eating lunch during a Universal studios tour. Outside the restaurant, about 30 persons from the Jewish Freedom League and four or five Jewish Defense League members picketed, Cavanaugh said. The 15-year-old youth allegedly ran into the restaurant, grabbed a plate of food, and threw it at Vasili G. Rigoritzich Vysotin, head of the foreign relations department of the presidium of the U.S.S.R.

Supreme Soviet. The plate and most of the food were deflected by a U.S. Secret Service agent escorting the delegation, but that several morsels of food did hit Vysotin, Cavanaugh said. The youth was arrested and was being held ot the West Hollywood sheriff's station, Cavanaugh said. He said Vysotin cleaned himself up and the group finished their luncheon and tour as planned.

The rest of the picketers had dispersed by late afternoon. Two sisters latest victims of East Area Rapist SACRAMENTO (AP) The so-called East Area Rapist claimed two more victims during the night, the Sacramento County sheriff's officer reported Sunday. Sheriff's spokesman Bill Miller said the rapist came earlier than SODA SPRINGS, Calif. Coco, the pony that was stuck in the Soda Springs Hotel's basement for two months, was finally picked up and carried out of its self-made prison by six concerned volunteers Sunday. "We finally contacted a large animal vet who agreed to tran-quilize him," said Maggie Littens-tein, the hotel's owner.

"The vet as great. He gave him a shot in the vein, turned him over, put his feet in the air and tied all four feet together." Then six people, all friends and employees of the Littensteins, picked him up and carried him up the stairs and into a waiting horse trailer. The horse is being transported to a three-acre apple orchard near Sacramento. "We are so happy, we are so grateful, we are so relieved," she said. The horse problem began when three of Littenstein's children led the pony in through a big ground-level entrance last Thanksgiving to shelter him from rough winter weather.

It snowed for 21 straight days, blocking the entrance with 30-foot snow drifts. The pony couldn't get out, except through stairs that lead up to the lobby. Littenstein said that getting the horse out was easier than everybody thought. "It looked pretty silly, but it was really easy," she said. "We thought the horse weighed more than it did." "It must have looked funny to all the customers," she said.

"The horse was going out the front door while people were arriving here for brunch." She said local fire department officials had told her the horse would have to be hoisted out of the basement. But the vet told her that kind of operation might have broken the horse's legs. Coco has been a constant problem for the Littensteins before and after he got stuck in the basement. She said Coco would crawl out of the corrals on his belly and eat other people's grain. He also liked to eat all the cross country skiers' lunch.

The Littensteins finally decided to give the horse away, but before that happened, their truck broke down. Then it started snowing and snowing and snow ing. So Nadia, Nina and Sarah Littenstein put the horse in the basement to protect it from the weather. Once the horse got inside, he wouldn't come out. They tried pulling him out by a rope, cutting off his food supply and enticing him out with apples, but nothing worked.

Then the authorities got wind of it, and threatened to arrest them because it's illegal to keep a horse in the basement. "We didn't like having the horse in there either" she said. "We had to 'Pine Sol' the place four times a day to get rid of the smell." She said the horse also ate the wooden top off her father's table saw and then started in on some of their antiques. She said that since Coco's plight had made national news, suggestions had been pouring in from all over the country, but none were feasible. Local fire department officials also agreed to help, but then reneged on their offer, saying it was not a fire department problem.

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The petition drive was begun Sept. 14 after the legislature killed two bills that would have thinned tobacco smoke in public places. Groups behind the petition drive included Californians for Clean Indoor Air and GASP (Group Against Smokers' Pollution), which claims 3,000 members in California and has chapters throughout the country. If approved by voters, the iniative would ban smoking in most enclosed public places and enclosed places of employment, most educational facilities and any health facility or clinic. Restaurants would have to provide no-smoking sections but the owners could determine its size.

Smoking would be allowed in bars, retail tobacco shops, hotel and motel rooms, halls used exclusively for private social functions, lobbies and waiting rooms if an equal area were set aside for non-smokers, and some enclosed offices occupied only by smokers. Rock concerts, boxing matches, wrestling exhibitions, professional roller derbies, pool halls and gambling halls would also be exempt. usual this time. It was only about usual inis ume. ii was uuiy auuui j-v I'SSttSSSSr'SS McDonnell Douglas negotiators plan strategy talks this week CAEPET CLEANH tiating committee planned to meet by Tuesday at the latest to evaluate comments made by rank-and-file members at meetings before the voting here, as well as at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Palmdale and Cape Canaveral, Fla.

SENIOR CITIZENS 10 OFF! Community College. Miller said the victims were two teen-age sisters, who were awakened from their sleep. When the parents of the girls came home about an hour and 15 minutes later, the rapist was gone. The parents found the girls tied up. As in other attacks by probably the same person, the rapist wore a ski mask, carried a hand gun, and had what appeared to be a knife.

The girls were the 29th and 30th supposed victims since 1975 of the East Area Rapist, whose method of operating appears to be consistent. STEAM One Day Service LOS ANGELES (AP) Union negotiators for 4,800 machinists at McDonnell Douglas plants in California and Florida are to meet today or Tuesday to discuss strategy following rejection of the company's latest contract offer, a union spokesman said Sunday. The workers, members of the International Association of Machinists, voted 51.6 percent Saturday to turn down the proposal, said IAM spokesman Ted Nema. Nema said Sunday that the nego OF CARPETING CLEANED FOR ONLY LEGAL ADVERTISERS THRIFTY FAMILY WANT AOS Flea Killer Furniture Moving Deodorizer, Color Brighteners, all included! 100 Money Back Guarantee OVER OEtfll 180,000 yyP expires HOMES 2-4-78 SERVICED 1 1 1 I I NO SIZE LIMIT II 1 LINE 0 DAYS for (TYi i your convenience CU "si PAID IN ADVANCE 1 mum HALLWAYS BATHROOMS FREE Animal Spots, Too! SAN BERNARDINO 825-0657 RIVERSIDE 687-7050 ONTARIO 3 LINES MAXIMUM, EXTRA LINES $1.00 EACH. Private Parties Only.

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