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Religion B3 Editorials B6 The Sacramento Bee Saturday April 21 1 984 mb Plot Syspects Tied Armored Oar Heist I license plate The two were arrested Tuesday after a ranger at San Juan Park in Citrus Heights found Campbell changing the license plates on a car Investigators say they have linked five cars and a van to the pair Three of the vehicles contained explosives and detectives speculated the bombs were to be exploded to divert attention from a crime The two may have been involved in a May 10 1983 robbery in Capito-la and may have planned to commit a similar robbery in the Sacramento area according to Sheriff Robbie Waters in a press conference after the arraignment said his detectives have received many reports from law enforcement agencies about Campbell and Greer While they have not found definite links between the pair and other crimes Waters said now focusing on several major crimes in Municipal Judge Darrell Lewis raised bail to $1 million each after detectives said the pair may have been involved in other crimes He refused a prosecution request to deny bail noting that two of the bombs though armed had not ex was no Indication they would be broken out of the courthouse" said spokesman Roger Dickson we want to risk transporting them and having a confrontation in the street or disrupting the In the Capitola crime a courier was robbed by two gunmen after he loaded $506000 from a Bank of America branch into an armored car said Tom Hanna deputy police chief Shots were fired by the robbers who got away in a car driven by a woman Hanna said Five cars used in the robbery were eventually By Mary Crystal Cage Bee Staff Writer A Bay1 area couple may have been frivol ved in a 1983 robbery of an krniored car detectives fcriid Friday as the two were arraigned and bail set at $1 million each 1 'III an unusual setting for a courtroom proceeding Donald Lincoln dimpbell 37 and Diane Mary Greer '30 were arraigned amid tight Security in a training room of the Sicramento County Jail They were Charged with possessing an incendiary device and a stolen California ploded Lewis scheduled another court hearing on the matter for next Friday lawyer San Francisco attorney James Larson objected to the bail is no justification for that high of bail" Larson said we have here is a posssessions charge There is no direct threat against Larson and attorney Clyde Blackmon of Sacramento also objected to the jail arraignment The unusual treatment of the defendants makes them like they are Larson said found but the money was never recovered and the case is unsolved Hanna said discovery in Citrus Heights of an elaborate plot that would have involved blowing up several cars as a diversionary tactic sparked new life in the Capitola investigation Hanna said While the Capitola robbery did not involve explosives Hanna and Sacramento detectives say they believe there are enough similarities between the two incidents to warrant further investigation For instance See ROBBERY Page B2 AF Knew Mather MD Was Suspected Of Child Molestation (ft art 4r -SB A fft fj -re i jo i tt BeeDick Schmidt Workmen lower a pre-cast section of concrete wall into place Friday on the new state prison under construction in Vacaville Prison Due For July Finish fi IL-'- city charges for utilities and budgeting changes he said It features construction methods never tried before in California prisons and expected to cut prison costs and completion times almost in half But the legislative analyst already has challenged the new prison design contending it includes features that are unsafe for its occupants Prison officials believe the design is safe and plan to use the same construction methods for at least seven of the 10 facilities proposed in the $11 billion pris "We have good relations with the group and try to show respect for what they are trying to sheriffs spokesman Roger Dickson said Of the eight protesters Hughes elected to go to jail rather than sign a trespassing citation The other seven Delaney said were released at a nearby parking lot after they signed their tickets and promised to appear In Muncipal Court May 11 Hughes another spokesman said elected to go to jail "because he was the only one who been The 12 arrested last year refused to sign their citations and were confined in the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center over the Easter holiday pending court arraignments They were sentenced to time served by Municipal Judge Arthur Eissing-er all signed releases and promised to appear in court because we are curious about what they will do to said Delaney who has spent 10 days in jail for her participation in previous protests at Mather By Laura Mecoy Bee Staff Writer Over budget and overdue the California Corrections Department expects a birth in July of the fastest-built prison in the West i 1 Complications set delivery of the 600-cell prison back about two i months and sent costs about $11 million higher than expected for the 2400-bed project going up alongside the California Medical Facility at Vacaville said Phil Guthrie Corrections Department spokesman i 1 on expansion program Guthrie said That program would add 19000 new beds by 1987 to the most overcrowded prison system About 100 new inmates are crammed into overcrowded prisons each week and about 39000 felons live in space built for 26000 Guthrie said By 1987 the population is expected to climb to 54000 To address that problem as quickly as possible the state adopt- See PRISON Page B2 Betty Danel is arrested at the seven other protesters dashed level at which the state would take action for contamination they are going to be sampling most of the wells only quarterly and others even less said Fisher means people could be drinking hazardously polluted water for a long time before they get official notification Air Force knows the pollution is there that it is spreading and that lt eventuatty will have to pro tigation failed to turn up any other reports of molestations involving McLaughlin Since then the boy has given a statement implicating McLaughlin as part of the current investigation Hake said The father of the 10-year-old victim was an administrator serving under McLaughlin at the base hospital when the incidents allegedly occurred between December 1982 and July 1983 Hake said The allegations surfaced last September when the father telephoned Brig Gen Bealer Rogers surgeon general of the Air Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio Texas Rogers told The Bee that the father told him involvement with his son caused him to request a transfer from Mather Rogers would not reveal specifically what the father said had happened to his son but Rogers said he urged the father to file a formal complaint Although the father asked Rogers not not to tell anyone Rogers said he then notified the Office of Special Investigations at Randolph and asked officials to investigate Rogers said the investigation took about eight weeks turned up negative and he he did nothing further said investigators at Mather were notified by Randolph investigators that the Mather detachment could brief appropriate command officials including the wing But Tarsoly said he was unaware of any allegations against McLaughlin until arrest As immediate supervisor Tarsoly admitted he should have been informed He said an investigation has been ordered by the Inspector office of the Air Training Command to see if the investigators acted improperly in the McLaughlin investigation Anorexic Loses Case By Ronald Powell Bee Staff Writer The state Department of Health Services has exonerated the University Medical Center in its treatment of a 28-year-old anorexic patient who has been held and treated against her will for almost four months In a statement prepared by its legal staff the department ruled that its investigation into the case of Betty Steele indicated that her treatment was medically justified and In her best interest under state regulations involving psychiatric treats ment However the department did find in which rights were withheld but the officials would not reveal details The ruling supported a similar finding by the UMC staff after an internal investigation of the case Medical Center officials sa4 early this month that the hospitsf staff had acted properly in legal and administrative areas of care Steele voluntarily checked into the hospital in late December anti was placed under Sacramento County conservatorship a status that restricts her from leaving the facility She is diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa a little-understood mental and physical disorder in which the victim has an abnormal fear of becoming fat As part of her treatment Steele was shackled to her bed at times and also force-fed through a plastic tube placed in her nose when she refused See ANOREXIC Page B2 By Fahizah Alim Bee Staff Writer US Air Force investigators knew Col Lloyd A McLaughlin a Mather Air Force Base pediatrician was suspected of child molesting six months before he was arrested by Sacramento County deputies on child sex charges Air Force officials aid the Air Force Office of Special Investigation dropped its inquiry into allegations involving McLaughlin and the 10-year-old son of one of his assistants because they substantiate the charges However investigators failed to notify the wing commander at Mather Col John BTarsoly of the investigation and delayed telling civilian authorities about the accusation for six months officials said Tarsoly said he did not know anything about the accusations against McLaughlin until the pediatrician was arrested March 8 by deputies McLaughlin who was former commander of the Mather Air Force Base hospital is facing civilian charges of eleven counts of felony child molestation involving boys ranging in age from 4 to 1 1 Of those 1 1 purported incidents at least one and possibly two others occurred between the close of the Air Force investigation and arrest said Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Kenneth Hake Members of the Air Force investigating team at Mather refused to comment on the case but a spokeswoman at the headquarters in Washington said not notifying the wing commander was a violation of Air Force procedure Air Force OSI procedure is to brief commanding officials of allegations involving members of their said Maj Kathy director of public affairs reading from a prepared statement said the father of the victim would not allow his son to testify last September and the Air Force inves- Mather Field gate after she and past military police vide alternative water They should do it now Otherwise it is asking the people to take too high a Toxic Industrial solvents some of them linked to cancer in laboratory test animals have been percolating into underground water supplies for decades since the Air Force started disposing of them in unlined pits and trenches on the base just past the See POLLUTION Page B2 8 Arrested At Mather Nuclear Arms Latin Policy Protested ti I Prison officials frequently under fire for past construction delays and overruns consider the higher price tag or the missed May deadline on the medium-security prison to be serious he said the fact this is an entirely new approach to prison construction we are pleased it is going as well as it Guthrie explained The first addition to the prison system since 1967 the new estimated cost climbed to $134 million and its opening date was moved back two months because of bad weather unforeseen Chris Delaney spokesman for the protesters and one of the eight arrested said those taken into custody ran through the gate on purpose ignoring warnings from military policemen The demonstrators made no attempt to block traffic entering the base a tactic they have used previously and many of the passing motorists honked their horns in recognition or and waved salutes to the protesters Delaney identified the others arrested as Sacramento area residents Trude Britton Ida Curtice Marcia Frahmin Betty Danel Barbara Weidner Ella Lively and Bill Hughes Delaney Britton and Frahmin were among 12 demonstrators arrested In a Good Friday protest at the base last year The demonstrators many of whom said they are well-known by now to the deputies laughed and exchanged friendly greetings with the officers tion of intent to sue but we are required to provide them 60 days to respond before the suit' is actually said Sacramento attorney Duane Miller whose firm claims to represents dozen near the base Air Force officials said Friday they have not had time to study the letter and would not comment on it because litigation is pending But Lt Col! Bill Shimkus the base By Max Miller Bee Staff Writer Eight people were arrested in a Good Friday demonstration at the main gate of Mather Air Force Base after they dashed past military policemen and unfurled a United States flag in a protest of nuclear arms and US military actions in Central America offered no resistance when they were ushered quickly into a van and driven away as their supporters cheered and waved Those arrested on charges of obstructing a thoroughfare were part of a larger group of about 50 protesters who carried signs and crosses as they lined the street in front of the base to pray and sing i Leaders of the protest said most of those taking part are members of the Grandmothers for Peace and the Sacramento Catholic Worker organizations that have demonstrated every Friday morning at entrance for the past two years It Neighbors Threaten To Sue McClellan Over Well Pollution public information officer said the Air basic position is unchanged: Free clean water will be provided only to owners of wells so heavily contaminated they had to be shut down Mary Fisher chairwoman of the citizens group trying to force the military to move more quickly to clean up its toxic wastes attacked the refusal to serve alternative water to welijS efore they reach the By Tom Harris Bee Staff Writer i McClellan Air Force Base officials may be sued if they extend their offer of free and unpolluted water to nearby residents whose wells have been only lightly contam-lriated so far by hazardous wastes from leaking sludge disposal pits on the sprawling base have filed the ftrmal notifica.