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i BA Th Sacramento Sunday August 12 1984 Government -fj i -w are also on trial cities fight to give battleship a home USS Missouri means jobs big bucks 1 i i The battleship would Include as menu oc 7 AAA Affirc hnH pnlieUA MM VVV VVV MMO VMiMiWU personnel and at least 2000 Navy wives husbands and children Their arrival could pump $127 million annually into the home port economy creating 300 to 500 non-military jobs and a stable ship repair industry But winning the battleship could be a tough fight particularly for San Francisco and Honolulu which have particularly high costs of living Last week the Navy gave the competitors a five-page wish list The three cities have until Sept 15 to take their best shot In exchange for home-port status the Navy wants enough land to provide parking for nearly 900 vehicles and 65400 square feet for work space a clinic a commissary baseball diamonds a child-care center a warehouse and more It also wants 800 units of affordable housing for its officers and enlisted personnel which could be a problem Feinstein admits big question is of course the cost of she said we produce the housing people can get in other SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A heated war has been launched as three cities compete to serve as home port for the battleship USS Missouri and win the $127 million it could pump into the local economy each year San Francisco Long Beach and Honolulu have been fighting for the soon-to-be reactivated battleship since the Navy announced a month ago that one of the three cities could become home to The 40-year-old 888-foot battleship is a 21 -month $500 million overhaul and modernization at Long Beach Naval Shipyard After its scheduled completion in January the ship will carry equipment to accommodate helicopters 12 armored launchers air and surface search radar and modern communications devices But it would bring more than that to its home port course what it would bring to the city is additional work jobs the spending power of the Mayor Dianne Feinstein said obviously very interested in building the home-port capacity of San Francisco Bay area because it means ship repair jobs" LOS ANGELES (AP) Juror who decide the guilt or Innocence of John DeLorean on drug charge will alto deliver an implicit verdict on the propriety of government operations prominent attorneys predict The Jurors who have heard months of testimony about the un dercover operations that ted to arrest and Indictment on cocaine trafficking charges spent 13'i hours In deliberations last week but have not yet reached a decision Deliberations resume Monday DeLoreon a celebrity automaker with an International reputation was arrested in October 1982 after a four-month sting In which government agents and an Informant masqueraded 03 drug dealers and videotaped their meetings with DeLorean The automaker then desperate for funds to save his ailing car company was also introduced to a real drug smuggler William Morgan Hetrick to arrange a cocaine deal DeLoreon's attorneys said he was set up for arrest by overzealous officials trying to enhance their own careers The lawyers argued that he never engaged in a narcotics conspiracy but that If the government proved he did It was as the result of entrapment A DeLorean acquittal said Chicago defense attorney William Barnett would be slap in the face" for the type of sting that resulted in De Lore) n's arrest guilty verdict would tend to support the position that the Jury accepted (the government's) view of the matter" Barnett said But if the government lost "I would think It would cause the Department of Justice to take a second look at cases and be a bit more restrictive with respect to allowing such former Watergate prosecutor James Neal said the DeLorean verdict raise the consciousness Bee file An acquittal for John DeLorean here with his the type of government that resulted in wife Cristina would be slap in the for arrest a defense attorney says Storm Surfer heaveri is swimmer i nyi iii i iareA of the public to the dangers of undercover And Richard Ben-Veniste who defended Philadelphia lawyer Howard Criden in the Abscam sting case said such operations are dangerous and should be outlawed very much opposed to the sting operation utilizing the con man or otherwise convicted felon who becomes a part of the FBI apparatus to entice an individual Into committing crimes simply for the purpose of later prosecuting Ben-Venlste said the case of Mr DeLorean no matter what his morality or business shortcomings might have been there seems to have been no indication that Mr DeLorean was about to launch himself as a drug the attorney said think the sting should be on trial In every case that they use a Ben-Veniste said His client Criden was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery but Ben-Veniste said he was the victim of plan devised by con man Mel Weinberg Introducing congressmen to representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik" "Criden was in no way s-scted of being a fixer before Abscam nor did he know any political the attorney said the induce- ment that was designed was so bi-zarrely attractive that he eventually was able to introduce several congressmen to the undercover FBI Barnett likened case to the Greylcrd case in Chicago where the FBI created fictitious crimes and defendants in an effort to find judges who were susceptible to bribery think the sort of enforcement we should be engaged Barnett said seems to me the more they go overboard creating these phony crimes it causes a lack of respect on the part of the normal law-abiding Rival zoo snares 2 monkeys buffs like someone holding a rope down there and pulling you said Richard Austin 15 with his friend Danny Williams gave up trying to ride Boogie boards at Huntington State Beach Rescues more than tripled at Hungtington Beach on Friday and the 50 rescues reported at San mente Friday represented a fourfold increase over normal 1 I Blauer said there were 75000 people at Newport Beach Saturday ft a typical weekend he said 14 Attendance at Los Angeles beach-' es was also running about average for a summer weekend but the surf was not particularly spectacular Lifeguard Scott Moore said the coum west-facing beaches were pro-" tected from the effects of Hurricane Iselle by Catalina Island and the Palos Verdes Peninsula 1 r1 NEWPORT BEACH (AP) Surfs up and so are rescues at Orange County beaches thanks to a week-old hurricane now moving northwest off the Baja California peninsula and out to sea Waves of up to 13 feet Friday and Saturday made for a paradise at the Wedge a popular surfing spot on Balboa Peninsula But swimmers unable to cope with the turbulent waters spawned by Hurricane Iselle also kept lifeguards busy Some 385 rescues were logged at Newport Beach Friday Marine Safety Officer John Blauer said Saturday Normally Newport Beach lifeguards only have to pull 15 to 20 people out of the water we have surf this size we always have more rescues but we normally have surf this Blauer said In some spots the surf was so strong that it discouraged water LA Zoo loses Chinese official to poacher (- Marcia Hobbs wrote a letter of protest to Sheldon Campbell president of the Zoological Society of San Diego In an interview with the Los Angeles Times Hobbs later said "It was pointed out to me that the head of the Chinese delegation had had lunch with their people We were on an official schedule and it had created confusion here at the One of the San Diego Zoo representatives involved was Clayton Swanson an outside consultant to the zoo on wild animal collections felt what happened was a misunderstanding and I never Intended in any way to hurt the Los Angeles Swanson said Swanson who said he has worked with the Chinese on animal exchanges since 1979 said he was at his home the day the Chinese delegation arrived in Los Angeles and received a telephone call from the Chinese With Swanson was Dr Edgar Liong a San Diego Zoo veterinarian from Hong Kong who knows Li Swanson said he and Uong agreed to meet Li the next morning at the Los Angeles Zoo and Swanson said he and Liong expected to meet Li and then go into the zoo think there was a suggestion from their group to go talk at their Swanson said "So I followed them in my car" Swanson said there was never any of Li and pointed out that a Los Angeles Zoo official did the driving for Li The Los Angeles Zoo executive director Warren Thomas conceded it was one of his people who did the driving but said it was a curator of reptiles (the driver) was the only one who knew the way to the Thomas said always a language barrier and things can get muddled back and forth Whenever you have visiting dignitaries and they request to do something you try and honor that request It was the first day here and they were confused what the program Swanson said that after his meeting with Li he returned to the Los Angeles Zoo with a member of the Chinese delegation and was immediately confronted by Thomas say he was Swanson recalled Although the two zoos publicly play down whatever animosity might have been caused by brief disappearance the matter illustrates a rivalry that has existed in both cities in obtaining rare Chinese animals The San Diego Zoo was given two rare Chinese monal pheasants in 1982 and earlier received two red pandas and Asiatic red dogs from China The Los Angeles Zoo has had a large increase in visibility during the loan of the pandas with 13000 people seeing them last weekend I think there is a healthy rivalry between all zoological institutions in this said Charles Bieler executive director of the San Diego Zoo have had a good relationship with the Los Angeles Zoo But the American tradition to LOS ANGELES (AP) Los Angeles Zoo officials say they were undercut by a poacher from the rival San Diego Zoo who bagged a visiting Chinese official in the LA own parking lot and' won two rare Chinese monkeys for his efforts The law of the jungle prevailed after the July 14 meeting and two weeks later the San Diego ZW announced a tentative agreement with the People's Republic of China to receive two golden monkeys (also called golden langurs) The monkeys which number between 500 to 1000 and exist only in China are prized for their long golden coats colorful faces and height Males can grow to 5 feet They are considered more valuable than giant pandas and have not been loaned by the Chinese since 1939 A Los Angeles Zoo luncheon on July 14 was to honor a Chinese delegation for the Olympic-year loan of two giant pandas to the Los Angeles Zoo That was to have been followed by a tour of the zoo grounds and a visit to the new $300000 China Pavilion where Ying Xin and Yun Yun the rare black-and-white pandas will remain housed until October But the head of the visiting delegation Li Gulling secretary general of the China Wildlife Conservation Association never showed up Instead Chinese official had been met by two men in thd parking lot and left with them in a car driven by a Los Angeles Zoo 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