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10 Santa Cruz Sentinel Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1981 Mock Shootout Proves Real Thing v'U' 1 Reagan Refuses Social Security Spending Cuts (4 i Sif'r guns. "I'm pretty comfortable that this was an accident, but we're not ruling out anything," he said. Bill Martin, a spokesman for the shopping plaza, said, "the real shot was either in the stunt people's guns, which cannot let myself believe, or someone else came on the center and decided to take advantage of all the shooting and noise." There were three stunt groups and Porteous was the leader of one of them, the Southern California Stunt Corp. Porteous' group was joined by two re-enactment groups, the Civil War Association and the First Cavalry Corp.

Gary Harper, president of the Civil War Association and who has been taking part in battle re-enactments for 10 years, said he believed the incident was deliberate. "Judging by the line of fire, this would have to be a deliberate act," he said, adding that the pellets must have been fired across the staged action and could have come from the crowd. Harper said the stuntmen used blank cartridges they had loaded with black powder. He added that there was no mistaking a pellet cartridge for a blank because the pellets would be clearly visible with snakeload. Wade disagreed, however, saying that while a commercial snakeload would be plainly visible, a hand-loaded live cartridge would be indistinguishable from a blank.

"It's a stupid mistake, but it's one the stuntmen could make," he said. "You would bring a bunch of cartridges, some with the shot for trick shooting and blanks for the shootout, and you just mix them up when WESTLAKE VILLAGE. Calif. (AP) The stuntmen had gathered for a mock Western-style gunfight to promote the opening of a shopping center. They began firing at each other with what were thought to be blanks as about 200 people watched.

Suddenly, there were screams, and three people lay wounded after being sprayed by pellets of real ammunition. Police on Monday weren't sure whether one of the guns was accidentally loaded with the real thing or if someone in the crowd had opened fire, using the mock gunfight as cover. "At this point we don't know if we have a crime or an accident," said Detective Lt. Bill Wade of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department. The "shootout" that had been staged as a promotional event for the Westlake Hills Plaza.

"I was in the store and it happened right around the corner," said Todd Evans, a clerk at a nearby record store. "They were having this big shootout with blanks. I heard the gunshots, then some screams." "One of the stuntmen was face down on the ground, and a little girl was down also," said Evans. Stuntman Pete Porteous, 22, of Simi Valley, was in critical condition at the Westlake Community Hospital after being hit by about 30 pellets Sunday from a "snakeload" cartridge. Snakeload is similar to birdshot.

Irene Barnett of Thousand Oaks was hit by three pellets in the arm, and Danielle Garaway, 11, also of Thousand Oaks, was struck by pellets on the shoulder and head. Both were treated and released at Westlake Community Hospital. Wade said he thought two live shots were fired from one of the stuntmen's leaders and agreed to consider such areas for possible cuts because, Speakes said, there is "some sentiment" on Capitol Hill for them. Senate Republican leaders also brought to the meeting a set of "proposed ideas" about cutting interest rates, a congressional source said. The source, who asked not to be identified, said the senators were suggesting that Reagan consider forming a presidential commission on interest rates to monitor the situation.

However, the source added, the senators also felt there "should be no effort to overreact" by taking such steps as imposing credit controls. Some legislators, Republicans as well as Democrats, indicated last week they may seek enactment of credit controls if interest rates do not soon decline significantly. In addition, the senators agreed to ask Reagan to increase his proposed 1982 defense spending reductions to $4 billion to $5 billion. Reagan has proposed reducing defense spending next year by $2 billion as part of his plan to trim the overall military budget by $13 billion over the next three fiscal years. The source said there are indications the president "may accept more defense cuts." The GOP senators also were expected to suggest that appropriations for operations of the federal government be reduced and that the president make a nationally broadcast address to explain why the cuts are necessary.

But the "biggest disagreement" between the senators and the administration is over whether entitlement programs should be cut, the source said. One senior White House aide, who asked not to be be identified, sought to dampen speculation that entitlements would be cut. "The president has not been inclined to go that way. He is willing to listen to the arguments. He hasn't been persuaded," the official said.

Asked repeatedly whether he would rule out cuts in Social Security payments, Speakes avoided a direct WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan showed no sympathy today for proposals by Senate Republicans that he cut Social Security and other entitlement programs to reduce next year's fiscal budget deficit. "He certainly did not indicate any willingness to consider any entitlement changes in 1982," Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker said after conferring with the president. "It's just barely an open question." Sen. Paul Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend in the Senate, said after the congressional Republican leaders met with Reagan that there was "no serious discussion concerning any cuts in Social Security at all.

That should be put to rest." Earlier, Reagan said he had not decided whether to heed the Senate Republicans' advice and reduce Social Security spending in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Asked also if he would rule out changes in the way Social Security cost-of-living increases are calculated, Reagan had a rare "no comment" to reporters at the start of the morning meeting. The Senate Republicans urged the administration to cut spending for Social Security, Medicaid and food stamps to help trim $18 billion from the anticipated 1982 budget deficit. "No decisions (have been) made on anything of that kind," the president said when asked about possible changes in the cost-of-living formula.

"That's wny we're holding these meetings." Asked if he would rule out adjusting the formula in his efforts to reduce the burgeoning 1982 federal deficit, the president said, "I'm going to make no comment on anything because it never seems to come out. The end of his sentence was drowned out by laughter in the Cabinet Room. On Monday presidential spokesman Larry Speakes first said there were no plans "right now" to touch entitlement programs, but later said the president would consider such changes. Speakes' reversal came after White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III conferred with the Senate Republican General Assembly Opens 36fh Session Chemical Warfare Probe Demanded Bill LoveioySentinel Crossed Up At The Fair Nicole Amaral of Watsonville and her mom, Jane, got a little crossed up with their goat "Ritsie" at the County Fairgrounds this morning.

No matter, they'll have Nicole's pride and joy ready for the six-day fair that opened today and continues through Sunday. For more pictures on the County Fair and events tonight and Wednesday, see Page 19. GRENADE ATTACK FROM PAGE 1 Kroesen said what the terrorists fired "was reportedly a suspected antitank grenade of some kind fired from the hillside along the road we were traveling," a two-lane highway near, the Neckar River. Military police arrived at the scene and "dismounted from (their) car with weapons drawn," the 58-year-old, four-star general said. He said the terrorists also fired small arms at the car but he did not know if the MPs returned fire.

The other occupants of the car an aide, Maj. Philip E. Ondine, and the driver, a German who was not identified were unhurt, an Army spokesman said. The car was badly damaged, police said. Kroesen went to his office after he was released from the hospital and told reporters he did not see the attackers.

After the grenade exploded, he said, "the car stopped and I looked to see if my wife was all right, and waited to see what was going to happen next. "We looked to see if everyone had arms and legs in order," then the driver found he could start the car and drove away. The car also came under small-arms fire, but "none of them penetrated the car." Police said two people were seen in the area shortly before the attack, but no arrests were made immediately. In Washington, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, asked on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" if he and other officials are concerned that today's assassination attempt is part of a pattern, said: "We have to be very concerned about it because it. developing into what looks like a bit of a pattern.

I know the German government is very concerned about it and we are taking all the steps we can to insure the safety and security of our people there." The incident, he added, "has to be viewed very seriously indeed. It seems to be part of a worldwide attempt to discourage any kind of defense of freedom." He said the United States, in the wake of the attempt, is stepping up "personal security" and insuring "that only authorized people are on the posts. Kroesen, whose stateside residence is in Burlington, N.J., is a much-decorated 40-year Army veteran who enlisted during World War II and also fought in Korea and Vietnam. He is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to be attacked in Germany since World War II.

The West German government condemned the attack and said it resolved "to do everything to guarantee the safety of U.S. troops, who are stationed in the Federal Republic for the protection of Western Europe." The current rash of anti-American attacks coincides with a growing movement against the stationing of medium-range American nuclear missiles in West Germany as part of a NATO plan to counter Soviet missiles targeted on Western Europe. But it is believed the anti-American attacks are the work of West German anarchists taking advantage of the anti-nuclear movement. In the first attack, a car bomb in the parking lot of the U.S. Air Force headquarters at Ramstein injured 18 Americans including a brigadier general and two West Germans on Aug.

31. Several cars belonging to U.S. troops were set afire in Wiesbaden several days later. Firebombs were thrown at the residence of the U.S. consul-general in Frankfurt early Sunday, but no one was injured.

The Red Army faction, the name used by the Baader-Meinhof gang of German urban terrorists, said it was responsible for the Ramstein bombing. 1 there were strong echoes of his earlier expressions of support for the independent Polish labor federation Solidarity and his counsel that it pursue its aims with moderation. "In order to achieve social justice in the various parts of the world," he wrote in the encyclical, there is a need for ever new movements of solidarity of the workers and with the workers." He said unions are "a mouthpiece for the struggle for social justice" but added that they must be aware of their nations' economic problems when pressing their demands. The pope said workers in the capitalist system have a right to participate to some extent in the management of their companies. "In consideration of human labor and of common access to the goods meant for man, one cannot exclude the socialization, in suitable conditions, of certain means of production," he said.

But he warned that communist managers may carry out their tasks badly by "claiming a monopoly of the administration and disposal of the means of production and not refraining even from offending basic human rights." John Paul made a special plea for the poverty-stricken agricultural inhabitants of the Third World, saying millions of them are exploited, without hope of ever owning land, paid "miserably," and without legal protection in case of old age, sickness an unemployment. I UNITED NATIONS (AP) The 36th session of the U.N. General Assembly, convening today, will provide the backdrop for the first high-level contacts between the Reagan administration and the Kremlin. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who is seeking re-election to an unprecedented third term during the session, said in his annual report Monday that he hoped the meeting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko next week "will constitute a new beginning in the efforts to restore dialogue and resume constructive "negotiations" on limitation of nuclear arms. Haig and Gromyko are coming to New York for the assembly's opening parade of policy statements by each member government.

They are scheduled to meet Sept. 23 and again Sept. 28. President Reagan is expected to address the assembly early next month, and there is speculation he might also meet with the veteran Soviet foreign minister. Waldheim, who completes 10 years in the top U.N.

post Dec. 31, decried a O'CONNOR FROM PAGE 1 She promised the committee that, if confirmed as the 102nd member in the high court's 191-year history, her job will be "one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it." Her nomination has been endorsed by an American Bar Association committee, which found that she "has demonstrated the necessary qualities of professional competence, judicial temperament and integrity." But the ABA committee stopped short of giving her its highest rating, saying her "professional experience to date has not been as extensive or challenging as that of some other persons who might be available for appointment." Mrs. O'Connor served as a state trial judge in Arizona from 1975-79, when she was appointed to the state appeals court. including dizziness, choking and vomiting. Death often occurs within hours.

Briefing reporters Monday, scientists from the State and Defense departments and from intelligence agencies said three potent mycotoxins poisons typically produced in nature by living organisms were used in the operations. The experts, who asked not to be identified, stopped short of holding the Kremlin responsible for use of the agent, even though all three countries where it has been detected have pro-Moscow governments and receive aid from the Soviets to fight armed resistence movements. Nonetheless, statements by the scientists and background papers provided reporters left the clear impression that the administration believes the Soviets have been using the agent in violation of a 56-year-old agreement banning chemical weapons. servatives' complaints were "sound and fury basically about nothing" and that the new division of the county is "in essence non-political." Patton and Supervisors Joe Cucchiara Robley Levy argued all along that the planning staff was correct in saying the board should keep the new lines consistent with census boundary lines so the county can prove its population counts if the redistricting is challenged. Patton and Cucchiara referred to a group that has put up money Patton said $7,500 to legally challenge the board on some major issue, possibly on the redistricting.

Patton also said Forbus was mainly complaining because his aide, Faye Isaak, was moved to the Fifth District in the Hutchinson Road change. Moore fought to keep the city of Watsonville intact within the Fourth District, but the liberals wouldn't allow that with Patton noting that the city of Santa Cruz area provides territory for portions of three districts. Cucchiara said the lines were drawn "according to stringent criteria rather than at the political whimsy of how someone would like to draw their district." Forbus asked him, "How can you come off the wall with those kinds of comments after giving me Opal Cliffs and Pasatiem-po, an area you would lose three to one?" WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration is asking the United Nations to investigate what it calls "strong and compelling" evidence that an outlawed chemical poison has been used during military operations in three pro-. Soviet countries in Asia. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick asked U.N.

Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on Monday to send a four-man panel of experts to visit Cambodia, Laos and Afghanistan. The panel was set up last year to investigate allegations of chemical warfare use in Asia, and Kirkpatrick offered to provide the unit with "significant new information." At issue is the use of an agent described as "yellow rain," a yellow powder spread by aircraft over the ground, structures, vegetation and people. On contact with humans, it causes a variety of symptoms, REDISTRICTING FROM PAGE 1 other and are based on an average population for the five districts of 37,628. Estimates are that the changes approved this morning will mean the Fifth and Second districts losing about 2,200 and 1,000 residents, respectively, while the Third District gains some 2,500 and the First and Fourth will share in the addition of 500 persons. The First District now has Second 37,748, Third has 36,887, Fourth 38,656 and the Fifth 37,442.

Pajaro Supervisor E. Wayne Moore Jr. voted against the redistricting along with First District Supervisor Dan Forbus with Moore saying, "The Fourth is the fastest growing district in the county and you have given it the greatest population. "In turn, the First District is the slowest growing and it has the least. This plan denies the principle of one-man, one-vote." Forbus said the redistricting plan, basically drawn by county planning staff "isn't worth voting on." He said the liberal majority had taken the opportunity to dump their unwanted conservative pockets of voters into his district.

He earlier said they planned to do that in order to keep the county divided with a three-member liberal board majority. Chairman Gary Patton said the con "sharply intensified upward spiral in the arms buildup" and said he would support an East-West summit to consider it directly. The assembly session also will provide the opportunity for a meeting Sept. 24 of Haig and the foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, France and West Germany. They are seeking a way to overcome South Africa's reluctance to implement a 1978 plan devised by the Western five to bring about independence of the territory of South-West Africa, also known as Namibia.

The five are under intense pressure from black African states and their supporters at the United Nations. On Monday, a special emergency session of the assembly voted 117-0 to call for a total boycott of South Africa to force it out of the territory. The Western five were among 25 delegations abstaining. Waldheim, a former Austrian foreign minister, announced last Thursday as expected that he would consider it a "duty and an honor" to serve a third term if the Security Council and the General Assembly want him. This morning, a Highway Patrol helicopter made occasional low passes over the area, checking campsites and the progress of marchers toward the facility.

Some Highway Patrolmen stationed at the Diablo Canyon site are from the Santa Cruz office. Officers, the AP reported, have been broken down into "arrest groups" and "booking groups" to handle what they expect to be massive numbers of arrests. Jail facilities were set up at the county jail in San Luis Obispo and at the California Men's Institution, a state prison also in San Luis Obispo. The officers have been issued hundreds of Flexicuffs, disposable thin plastic restraints that lock firmly into place, according to the AP. Local anti-nuclear spokesman Haiflcy said that when protesters from this area are jailed, blockade supporters here "will spare no effort in finding out where they will be taken and when and where they will be released." Haiflcy said that even if the blockade isn't successful in stopping the operation of the nuclear power plant, it still has a purpose.

"We will create a powerful dilemma for which will focus national attention on the plant. Millions will applaud the action and this will strengthen the movement for safe energy Most importantly, will make a statement in defense of ou. future and the future of our children." DIABLO CANYON FROM PAGE 1 Patrol officers just outside in patrol cars, according to the AP. ENCYCLICAL FROM PAGE 1 en work in nearly every sector of life." "But it is fitting," he continued, "that they should be able to fulfil their tasks in accordance with their own nature, without being discriminated against and without being excluded from jobs for which they are capable, but also without lack of respect for their family aspirations and for their specific role in contributing, together with men, to the good of society-Women, said the pope, must "not have to pay for their advancement by abandoning what is specific to them and at the expense of the family in which women as mothers have an irreplaceable role." The encyclical, a letter informing the Roman Catholic Church of the pope's views on a subject, carried the Latin title "Laborem which the Vatican translated as "On Human Work." John Paul said he would have published it in May on the 90th anniversary of the first major papal encyclical on social questions, Pope Leo XIII's "Rerum Nova-rum," but the attempt on his life May 13 delayed the publication. The pope was wounded in the abdomen, leg and finger by Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca two days before the anniversary of the 1891 encyclical, a milestone in church policy that questioned capitalism but also said Marxian socialism was insufficient.

John Paul did not refer specifically to, the labor unrest in his native Poland, but' The land-based operation launched today was backed by protesters heading toward Diablo Canyon in rough seas. The sea-going protesters left in a small flotilla of boats, towing motorized rubber rafts which they plan to use to penetrate the two- by eight-mile area off the coast of the nuclear power plant which has been cordoned off by the Coast Guard. The sea-faring portesters, some wearing wetsuits and at least one carrying a surfboard, had about a five-mile trip by sea to the Diablo Canyon coastline. The Greenpeace Foundation vessel, Stone Witch, arrived at Port San Luis before daybreak today and acted as the base for the launching operation. The 70-foot schooner stood offshore after being hustled out of the 16-square-mile Coast Guard safety zone Monday night.

Since the protesters hadn't reached the main gate as of noon, was able to bus in without incident about 700 construction workers to the plant shortly after 7 a.m. spokesman Dick Davin said the workers, all members of the building trades, would be bused in and out of the plant daily. The blockade is designed to keep these workers out of the plant. In anticipation of the protesters' arrival today, about 30 riot-helmeted policemen and San Luis Obispo County sheriff's deputies were stationed inside the main gate to the plant, with another 10 Highway SOVIETS-EGYPT FROM PAGE 1 Polyakov has been in Egypt since 1974. The status of the other Soviet Embassy personnel involved was not known.

However, the authoritative Al Ahram newspaper in editions earlier Tuesday said First Secretary Anatoly Pismennyi was a "KGB agent." Al Ahram said Pismennyi was unmasked by Egyptian security through the cooperation of a Christian university professor who had studied in the Soviet Union. The professor informed Egyptian intelligence of meetings with Pismennyi which "revolved around sectarian strife in Egypt," the paper said. The official Soviet news agency, in a dispatch from Beirut on Monday, called the Egyptian allegations "an absurd fabrication" and said the "Egyptian secret police are trying to justify somehow the current repressions against the national patriotic forces and religious leaders.".