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Monday, September 24, 1990 A-f THE TRIBUNE, Oakland, California Local. k' ii PROPOSED JRAVISIAT10N SITES' Cominute train service on track 2Vo ballot measures provide money for Sacramento-to-San Jose route jl i i 4 A A i I funds for the Sacramento-San Jose train, plus about 8225 mil-. lion that the project can tap for trains and cars, McCallum Political McCallum said the goal is to have 10 roundtrips a day at the end of the decade, but that depends on the availablity of funding. Sometime in the future could be high-speed train service, if the estimated 8600 million to 8800 million becomes available. Consultant Wilbur Smith Asao- dates studied 43 station sites along the corridor and narrowed down the list to 19 from Auburn to San Jose.

Of those 19, eight are at existing Amtrak stations, including sites in Berkeley, Richmond and -Martinez. Initially, the trains would use the Oaklands existing Amtrak See TRAIN, Page A-8 ropolitan Transportation Commission. The project rolls further along today when an MTC committee studying the rail corridor meets in Davis and receives a consultants report recommending 19 specific station sites and a plan for implementing service. The committee is expected to adopt the report, which also needs approval by the state Legislature, after hosting two public hearings late next month. Proposition 108 was a 1 billion bond measure to fund passenger rail projects.

The new State Transportation Improvement Plan approved last week by the California Transportation Commission includes 25 million of Prop. 108 i it it hold on Berkeley And Proposition 116, a 81-9 billion rail-bond measure, could provide about 885 million for the project. Service would start with extensions of Amtraks current trains that serve the San Joaquin Valley three times a day. The extension would link Sacramento to San Jose and cost 88.4 million to 814.7 million. The next step in the subsequent three to seven years would be adding more 70-mph trains, increasing service to six round-: trips per day serving 19 at a cost of about 865 million.

the candlelight vigil maslc In the San Francisco speech, Pelosi warned that tl)e United States is being Judged by the health, education and wellbeing of our children rather than the military might that we ItbSckening, said Honig, that this society, with the riches that we have, cant figure out a way to allow our youngsters to grow up in more decent no BERKELEY The Berkeley Citizens Action Party, which has placed Its progressive social stamp on Berkeleys politics from rtnt control to low-income housing for nearly two dec-; ades, may be in for trouble this year. There is some evidence that Berkeley voters may desert the party and its less liberal opponent, the All Berkeley Coalition, in droves in this Novembers race for mayor and all eight city council maty. In fact, 1990 may become the year of the independent candidate hi Berkeley. A number of candidates for city council, school board and rent board have professed their independ-'ence from political machines. Consider this piece of political gossip, for example: An elected city official here got an astounding phone call the other day.

The caller, a candidate for one of Berkeleys elected boards, asked for the council members endorsement Thats a normal sort of thing that happens regularly in every city in America. But this was Berkeley. The candidate was a well-known, longtime activist in Berkeley Citizens Action. 7 Sinn the mid-70s, the idea of Bay Area-to-Sacramento commuter train seryice has faced a roadblock: not enough passage of the two rail-fonding measures on last Junes ballot. Propositions 108 and lit, a Jias removed that roadblock and opens the way for the start of train service by 1992 or 1992 with at least six roundtrips a day While the proposed Auburn- Sncrdmento-Oakland-San Jose ICAThim faces some tough obstacles, passage of the rail measures makes this a go, project, said John McCallum, the project manager for the Met WV a Ilf 8 Thousands attend Bay vigils, rallies 6JI Of Urn Mw aMT mi mm switas HOUSANDS OF people and more than 22 Bay area organizations last night participated in an of speeches and candlelight vigils to support this weekends United Nations World Summit for Children in New York.

In San Francisco, in angry, impassioned pleas, Rep Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig challenged a group of 150, the nation and the world to improve the lot of desperately underprivileged children. We have to put our own bouse in order in this country, Pelosi said during a candlelight vigiL Whether it comes to education or nutrition or housing; we must promote the interest of children. The local vigils also were scheduled at Eastmont Mall and Acorn Community Center in Oakland, the public library in Hayward, Sproul Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley, San Jose, Palo Alto, Vallejo and Napa. They were just a smattering of the 2,600 vigils being held in 77 countries to draw attention to the summit, local organizer Emily Sto-per said. Eighty-two heads of state, including President Bush, plan to meet in New York to discuss the needs of children worldwide, Stoper said.

Mayola Deans and grandson iH i By 6mm rThtTnOuna slates Why ask for my endorsement? Youve been endorsed by the BCA, the amazed officeholder asked the candidate. Oh, Im running as an independent this year," the candidate reportedly said. I about fell off my chair, the office holder said in an interview. Now, all of a being independent is in fashion. If this is the year of the independent in Berkeley and no one is really sure it would be a radical change for this most radical of Bay Area cities.

According to local historians, a majority of Berkeley voters have supported one political slate of candidates or another for dty council and other local bodies for nearly a century. The change, political observers believe, is due to an initiative, approved by voters, that took effect 1986. Since then, city council members have been See SLATES, Page A-8 who watched him grow up. He was Just the type of person you wouldnt expect this sort of thing to happen to. Born in Oakland on March 7, 1962, Thompson lived here until 1982.

It was then that he accepted a football scholarship to W0-ber State College in Ogdeg, Utah. In 1980, Thompson graduated from Fremont High School where he had been an all-city athlete In football and wrestling. Thompson earned an associate's degree from Merritt College in 1982. It was there that hfe prowess as a nose tackle and linebacker won him the scholarship to Weber State. He graduated Weber State in 1984 with a degree in physical education.

Thompson remained in Ogden where he worked as a coach at See PREP, Page A-8 they had no real explanation fofr the decline. It a nationwide trend, ang one of great concern, Fetter said. Of the 1,600 new students, 2 percent are Asian America 10.3 percent Hispanic, 6A percent black and 1 percent American Indian. I Stanford does not set admissions quotas but each year invites 15,000 high school seniors in three minority groups -black, Mexican American and American Indian to apply. Formerjjrep grid star dies in Utah stabbing By Danhl 8.

Levine Tim 1 Lorenzo Thompson, a former, football standout at Oaklands Fremont High School and Merritt College, was stabbed to death early yesterday morning in Salt Lake City following a traffic dispute. Salt Lake City police said the incident occurred at 2:28 a.m. MDT. Thompson, 28, had just left a club with two men got in an argument with three men in another car. During a fight, Thompson was stabbed in the chest.

He was taken to a nearby hot- pital, but was unconscious when he arrived and died shortly af-ter. Police have made no arrests but said they have a number of He was very sweet, very helpful," said Shea Glenn, a former neighbor of Thompsons notai ty JUittSnr JL LttDm Ttibmm at Eastmont Man in Oakland. conditions, (and it) should shame all of us children are dying. Honig called on government leaders to give focus and direction to citizens who want to do something to ease the plight of suffering children. He scoffed at those who dismiss such efforts by saying, you cant throw money at the problem.

the vigil Shawnday Boaette danced te the Gregory Brewa were Minority enrollment up at Stanford, but fewer blacks STANFORD More than 41 percent of Stanford University's class of 1994 belongs to a racial minority, an increase of about 5 percent over last years freshman class. increase was due mostly to the Increase in new Asian American students, university officials said. It affirmative action, said Jean Fetter, dean of undergraduate admissions. Meanwhile, the number of new Mack students at Stanford fell slightly, but officials said Huddling en Deretha Levis lap to keep, warm i were Jamena Levi, 7, and Melody Thompson, 3. rtn I A.