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0 'X soFTbnu UA Hatches Niagara fall10 FILM HEUIEl'J The Horse IK' Saturday afternoon M3y 16 19S3 A Gannett Newspaper 1998 Tucson Citizen The Board of Supervisors will hear from competing interests on the volatile issue of managing development Meanwhile the Coalition for the Sonoran Desert Protection Plan will ask the board to consider a massive preserve that would connect pristine portions of desert including possibly Honey Bee Canyon northwest of Tucson And Huckelberry will ask supervisors to put together a Habitat Conservation Plan for the protection of the pygmy owl and other endangered wildlife in Puna County He wants to work toward a consensus opinion with input from developers before getting federal money to begin buying habitat talists planners builders neighborhood activists and developers to look at a long-term growth management Ask the Legislature for the power to bring a quarter-cent sales ballot question to voters know what the vision is of the community open space clean air and clean Supervisor Sharon Bronson said question is: How do we pay for Create a buffer overlay zone to protect the fringes of sensitive desert habitat from development Strengthen native plant protections to eliminate exemptions plan to the board and County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry will lay out his plan to protect endangered species lot of us have been waiting for this for a long said County Supervisor Raul Grijalva good good because it keeps the momentum The board will vote whether to: Establish a committee of local government officials environmen Catholic plans are looking up LOCAL A-10 flight Home Editio When: Tuesday 9 am Where: Supenor Courts BuStSng 110 Congress St A coaltKxi plans to map out a preserve then ask the community tor input Developers cal the strategy economically dangerous IB Supervisors plan another major growth meeting in duty to sharpen and strengthen a host of land orti- -j nances 33 1 Arizona: Casino violating compact The state says the Nation report 390 problems this year at Desert Diamond By STEPHANIE INNES Citizen Staff Writer Incidents of counterfeit money drugs and theft are among the latest problems the Desert Diamond Casino near Tucson has failed to report as part of the Tohono compact with the state Arizona Gaming Department officials charge The new allegations tribal offi cials say are part' of an ongoing disagreement between the tribt and the state over how to interpre the compact In a letter dated May 6 the Ari zona Department of Gaming claims the casino did not repor 390 incidents this year of andor suspectec violations of the compac with the state Arizona Department of Gaming investigator Henry Leyva discovered the 390 incident reports according to state documents obtained by the Citizen in a public records request this week Included in the report are 11 employee policy violations 17 counterfeit bill incidents 99 injur incidents 63 thefts and nine drug or drug paraphernalia incidents Tribal Chairman Edward Manuel said Desert Diamond officials informed tribal police of ail the incidents involving alleged criminal activity far as concerned we have reported everything to the proper he said a matter of interpretation whether (the incidents) were compact he said very CASINO continued! A Who has gaming compac1 in Arizona 4A Democrats the (Chinese) said one official who received an FBI briefing this week on account of the Chinese money was intended for Reacting to the information House Majority Leader Dick Armey R-Texas said: more serious violation of our campaign laws is The White House yesterday attempted to distance itself from any improprieties while acknowledging that Liu should not have been per mitted to attend the 1996 Los Angeles fund-raiser had no knowledge about the source of Mr money or the background of his said White House spokesman Jim Kennedy hindsight it was clearly not appropriate for Mr Chung to bring her to see the By BLAKE MORLOCK Obzfln Stai wmer smoldering growth debate could erupt Tuesday as the Pima County supervisors vote on a spate of plans to protect the Sonoran Desert from development If that enough' a new group of 30 environmental and neighborhood organizations will submit its growth-management Cops call Danaher DUI plea honorable By CT REVERE and DAVID LTEIBEL Citizen Stall Writers From patrol officer to chief police said plea bargain allowing an apologetic Capt Kevin Danaher to remain on the force as a lieutenant was a fair and honorable way to resolve his drunken driving accident all human We all make said Officer William Horton a shop steward with the Tucson Police Officers Association his plea agreement owning up to it as a man But Jan Blaser Upchurch vice president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Pima County said apology a little at least pleased that he does recognize he has problems and that he is not trying to escape from his actions and she said still have concern about the leadership he will be able to provide other police Danaher an 18-year Tucson Po- continued6A PREVIOUS REPRIMANDS! In his 18-year career with the Tucson Police Department Capt Kevin Danaher was twice reprimanded for crashing city-owned vehicles police records show And among his assignments with the department Danaher served for five months in 1984 on the anh-drunken driving squad He damaged a patrol car in an April 1982 collision while responding to a police call Eight years later he drove a city-owned car into a metal pole in a garage at police headquarters Danaher was issued written reprimands for both incidents The Tucson Citizen filed a state public records request for file and the details were revealed by police legal adviser Lisa ncaica i I 1 St Christopher 2 St Ann Seton 3 St Odilia 4 St Thomas 5 Sacred Heart 6 St Frances Cabnm 7 Most Holy Trinity 8 Holy Family 9 St Margaret 10 SS Peter Paul 11 St Cyril 12 St Pius 13 St Augustine 14 Santa Cruz for utility construction lot-splitting and right of way clearing Put together a bureaucratic structure that would enforce all environmental land use regulations under one unifying policy Put the ban of unregulated lot splitting on top of the 1999 legislative agenda A property owner now can cut up his land into five chunks without worrying about the subdivision law Work on ways to make the urban area more attractive and livable to keep Tucsonans from heading to the outskirts of town Bishop Manuel Moreno says ployees took 10 percent pay cuts Catholics had a right to be angry Tucson Bishop Manuel Moreno said about the debt think everything that I went through they must have gone through themselves: disappointment frustration anger disillusionment he said But Catholics helped in vari- DIOCESE continued8A Catholic Chancery damage starts to have some fallout 8A army is an executive of an aerospace concern and the daughter of an important general It was previously reported that Liu attended a $25000-per-couple Democratic fund-raiser in Los Angeles in 1996 at invitation And it was known that Liu paid Chung an estimated $300000 -which Chung called an investment of the (Chinese) the Chinese for An on fund-raiser Diocese cuts debt makes plans to add 4 parishes school The expansion and renovations are in the works now that an 1 1-year-old $33 million deficit has mostly been erased national D-M Air Force' Base felencia Vail 15 St Ambrose 16 St Joseph 1 7 Our Mother of Sorrows 18 St Francis de Sales 19 Our Lady of Fatima 20 St John 21 Our Lady Quwn of All Samis 22 St Monica 23 San Xavier 24 St Rita Future Parish Sites A Tucson Citizen director of development services for the diocese along with a solid financial recovery plan has helped the diocese reduce its debt from a whopping $33 million in 1987 to a manageable $52 million today The huge deficit was the result of unexpected expenses related to the establishment of a diocese-owned television station here The recovery plan included painful actions: selling the TV station and the cemeteries here and laying off 14 diocesan employees The remaining em MARY CHINDTucson Citizen the future is bright IDIOCESEFACTSI The Diocese of Tucson encompasses 42707 square miles It serves about 300000 Roman Catholics in Cochise Gila Graham Greenlee La Paz Pima Pinal Santa Cruz and Yuma counties It has 64 parishes 26 of them in Pima County and 31 missions It has three private high schools (two in Tucson) 18 parochial schools and two private elementary schools and serves more than 18000 students involved in parish religious education Chung: Chinese army gave money to IfJSiDE By ANNE DENOGEAN Citizen Staff Writer Eleven years after facing a mountain of debt the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson plans to add as many as four parishes open a new East Side high school and renovate its downtown headquarters you want to know how it happened because we have been faithful When this crisis came we take the low ground we took the high said Robert Heslinga WEATHER No matter how Hard I pray The heat appears Here to stay -MoZiss Warmer and breezy today with highs in the lower 90s Low 55 to 60 Tomorrow highs in lower 90s and breezy in the afternoon High yesterday 85 Low yesterday 47 Complete weather 6B WHITEWATER: Alleged cash payoffs to Bill Clinton of $2000 a month and a supposed promise to pardon Susan McDougal Convicted felon James McDougal in a new book fired off one last round of accusations before his death all of them denied by the lawyer Story Page 2A INDEX the money was from government Some of money was intended official who received an FBI briefing this week Johnny Chien Chuen Chung's (left) account Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON Congressional investigators who long have sought a firm link between campaign contributions to the Democratic Party and the Chinese government said yesterday that one has emerged in new information provided to federal prosecutors by fund-raiser Johnny Chien Chuen Chung Chung a Torrance Calif businessman who became one of the largest donors in 1996 has confirmed that a lieutenant colonel in the Liberation Army provided a large portion of the money he gave to the party and that the money originated in the Chinese military account to prosecutors has given a better view of his connections to Liu Chao-ying who in addition to being in the Chinese Crosswords: Classified Page 2 Puzzles: Classified Page 2 1 fllp'l In 36' 7 '50 3 9 Delivery: 573-4511 snr But new account indicates that the Chinese army was the source of a large part of the $100000 in Democratic contributions he made before the 1996 presidential election and that Liu had acted as the conduit of the money was not from corporation but from.