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Nation: Mormons ask respect for diversityA8 World: Rescuers turn efforts to India's quake survivors A7 Patrick Olson News Editor (909) 386-3847 Fax (909)885-8741 OITTHEAND The Sun Page A3 Sunday October 3, 1993 LOS PADRES FOREST FIRE (Dons dlospeD Rights wronged 1 laps THE MENENDEZ TRIAL AP WIREPHOTO By Linda Deutsch The Associated Press LOS ANGELES By Hollywood standards, Jose Menendez's life was a classic success story a Cuban immigrant who married a beauty queen, had two sons and built an entertainment industry fortune. But his sons say the glitzy surface of their privileged life hid a secret of their father's sexual perversion, which ended with Jose and his wife, Kitty, dead at the hands of their young sons. Now, the sons, Erik and Lyle, have lifted the curtains on life in a Beverly Hills mansion that they say was a private corner of hell. The testimony about alleged sexual torture by Jose Menendez was so extreme that some chose not to believe it. "Denial and shock permeate the fabric of these cases," attorney Paul Mones says in his book on parent killings, "When a Child Kills." But he notes that only extreme abuse amounting to torture drives a child to kill.

Mones is advising the defense. In two weeks of grim testimony, Erik and Lyle tearfully portrayed their father, Jose, as a sadistic demon who sexually tortured Erik for 12 years and raped Lyle when he was 7. "I just wanted more than anything else that when I died no one would find out this was happening to me," Erik said of his father's infliction of pain during sex. Trial witnesses have painted Jose Menendez as a controlling, dominating father. His own sister, Marta, said what she admired Rosa Alia, center, Joins about 400 other demonstrators marchingfor immigrants' rights on Saturday in downtown Los Angeles.

The crowd marched to the federal building to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation. The event was sponsored by the Pro-Immigrant Mobilization Coalition. Hunter calls forest fire a 'mistake' The Associated Press SANTA YNEZ The deer hunter who started the Los Padres National Forest fire with a cigarette said in an interview published Saturday that it was an "honest mistake" he deeply re- -i grets. "I am very upset. I have feelings of regret, grief, knowing it was a mistake," Scott Jouett, 22, of Santa Ynez told the Santa Bar-bara News-Press.

Fire authorities have refused to identify the hunter they say started the fire Sept. 25 with a cigarette. Jouett identified self and spoke with the News-Press to set the record straight. Jouett, an experienced hunter, said he and a companion were "completely taken by surprise" by the fire, which they tried to stomp out, failed and then immediately reported to authorities. Jouett said he met his friend on top of Figueroa Mountain at 8:30 a.m.

Sept. 25 and they headed down the mountain. Between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., a buck jumped in front of them, and his friend shot and killed it, he said. The buck was tagged and validated by authorities before the fire erupted, he said.

The two dressed the animal. Jouett's knife became dull, so he went to his pack to change knives. There, he found a cigarette. "I had smoked for six months but quit a couple months ago," he said. "I relaxed a few moments.

I then walked back over to the deer horns, picked them up and went back to my pack to sit down and finish my cigarette. My friend was continuing to dress the deer. "There was no horseplay involved," Jouett said. "I have always been cautious when smoking. "Moments later I saw a flame ignite where the deer horns had been.

I was completely taken by surprise," he said. The week-old wildfire has blackened 33,300 acres of wilderness in Santa Barbara County. On Saturday, firefighters scrambled into their trucks to escape a pre-dawn flareup that charred 2,300 acres outside containment lines on the wildfire. About 20 firefighters were on a containment line patrol on Figueroa Mountain road at 2 a.m. when a wind change sent flames surging up a canyon and to the road's edge, said a U.S.

Forest Service spokeswoman. The firefighters scrambled inside four engines and waited out the flames until they could drive out of the area, Lawrence said. No one was hurt, but plastic equipment on the engines melted, she said. in money-laundering case 8 plead guilty The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Eight defendants in a huge money laundering case stemming from a 1989 raid on the downtown jewelry district have pleaded guilty in what an attorney described as a deal with the government. Federal authorities have alleged that hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from illegal drugs were laundered through a jewelry company.

The chief defendant, Wanis Volunteers turn out to clean ceive probation, Cochran said. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Steven D. Clymer and Richard G. Rathmann confirmed the eight defendants' guilty pleas.

The prosecutors would not discuss the sentence agreements, but a prepared statement from the U.S. attorney's office said Koyomejian's maximum possible sentence was life in prison and a fine of $8.25 million. Clymef termed the outcome of the case ''very-favorable dispositions for the government." state beaches mates chimed in: "So we can save fishes' lives," said one. "So the beach can be clean," said another. "So the animals will be safe," said a third.

Teal was one of about 150 kids from Pacoima Elementary School at the cleanup who had collected and redeemed cans to pay for their trip to the beach Saturday. Also dbnating time to the Playa del Rey cleanup were four members of the Nagayama family from Norwalk, a city just south of Los Angeles. "Hopefully, they'll grow up and be socially responsible," said Mark Nagayama of his 5-year-old son, J.T., and 3-year-old son, Evan. "But for now, they think it's fun." Menendez trial watch Monday: Erik Menehdjez "i testifies that his fathers- ually molested himfof years. Tuesday: Menendez fes-tifies about abuse by his far 6 and ending only when he' was 18 and killed his par-v ents.

i Wednesday: Menendez testifies that he was driven to seek psychiatric help after a enduring flashbacks of s- ual torture and nightmare a bout suicide after the slay1- ing of his parents. Thursday: Prosecutor-Lester Kuriyama begins cross-examination of Me- nendez. Friday: Kuriyama atj. tempts to paint Menendfez asaliarafterrevealingtliat a gun store where Menerfe dez claimed to ha ve looked at a gun was notsellinggu'ns? at the time. I most about him was his ability to intimidate people.

"He was a great humiliator," said author Dominick Dunne, who is covering the Menendez story for Vanity Fair magazine. "The people who were abovg him admired him enormously. But anyone who worked under' him despised him. He had a savage manner of speaking to people." 3 AP WIREPHOTO called his home. After Jensen contracted lymphoma in 1989, the company paid only $3,400 out of $47,000 in medica' bills.

Diamond bar Kim probe continues The FBI searched an engineering firm formerly owned by Rep. Jay C. Kim, who has come under investigation for allegedly using corporation money for campaign expenses, newspapers reported Saturday. Agents served a search war- rant at JayKim Engineering Inc. on Thursday and took documents and computer equip- ment storing company data, the Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register said.

The Alexandria, office of an accountant recently hired by Kim, R-Diamond Bar, also was searched, the newspapers said. The presence of FBI agents at JayKim Engineering was confirmed Friday by Kim's son-in-law, David Kim, who' i now runs the firm, but he said the probe centers "on a matter of Jay Kim, the congressman." He said JayKim Engineering and its employees were not under investigation and have co-' operated with From Sun News Services THE LAW CENTER PRIVATE SUITES FOR LEASE. WALKING DISTANCE TO COURTHOUSE" Iftclwdw: low library, Rwrrptiortttf, Private Conl. Room, Covered Parking, and orheY omeni'Mei. VANIR TOWER 884-9477 -7 7 T'-m s.

David Wood and Kurt Gray, both 11, help Kurt's mother, Linda Gray, pick up trash at a Santa Monica beach on Saturday. Southland in brief Through The odds and ends By Ernest Sander The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Tens of thousands of schoolkids, environmentalists and other volunteers turned out Saturday to purify beaches across California as part of an annual coastal cleanup day. Cleanup crews combed 450 beaches on more than 1,100 miles of coastline looking for cigarette butts, bottle shards, cans, plastic and other items, in an effort to beautify and educate people about garbage disposal. On sewage drains along some city streets, other volunteers stencilled warnings not to throw trash into the sewers because it the palms of Southland life lumbus Day, by turning on giant radiotelescope "ears" in California and Puerto Rico. The JPL and NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View were coordinating the project.

Astronomers said the United Nations should help decide how Earth should respond if alien radio signals were discovered. But in an era of huge federal deficits, SETI had its share of congressional critics. Rep. John Duncan, said last year that the search for aliens "is just another reason there are so many people who are so angry and disgusted and fed up with the federal government." From The Associated Press Koyomejian, 51, pleaded to three counts including conspiracy to launder money, money laundering and conspiracy to aid and abet in possession of cocain with intent to distribute. Koyomejian, who had faced 14 felony counts, agreed to a 23-year prison term, said his attorney, Steve Cochran.

He surrendered to federal authorities this week as part of the plea agreement. Four others agreed to prison terms and three others will re- Environment mixes with rainwater, winds up in waterways and eventually washes onto beaches. Small groups outfitted with different colored bags one for the recyclables, the other for non-recyclables and checklists to record what they collected, fanned out to various sections of Playadel Rey. Asked why it was important to pick up trash on the beach, 10-year-old William Teal, who has been studying ocean conservation in school, said: "So we can save the Earth." Before he could say more, a bunch of his fifth-grade class Long beach USS Racine retires Amid somber salutes and the lowering of flags, USS Racine crewmembers watched as their ship was decommissioned Saturday after 22 years at sea. The tank landing ship, named for a city and county in Wisconsin, primarily served as a training vessel for reservists learning amphibian warfare, Navy spokesman Lt.

Karl Johnson said. The ship and its crews never participated in combat and were stationed off the Vietnam coast just as hostilities had ceased. Lt. Cmdr. Bien Venido Valerio said his ship's service helped win the Cold War.

Racine Mayor N. Owen Davies also was on hand to commend the crew and accept items from the ship. He promised that a portrait of USS Racine and its bell would be put on display in Wisconsin. The ship will be placed in safe stowage in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. LONGEST PIER REOPENS: California's longest wooden pier reopened Saturday after undergoing a $3.5 million rehabilitation.

The Ventura Pier has a new deck, some new pilings and other amenities, including a swell-actuated sculpture by San Francisco artist Ned Kahn that spouts seawa-ter when waves roll by. The pier was built in 1872 and was known at the time as the San Buenaventura Wharf. jOver the decades it has been Conference committee retracts antennas, ends search for aliens A House-Senate conference committee voted to eliminate funding for NASA's biggest search for alien civilizations less than a year after the galactic listening effort began, a project manager said. Friday's action on NASA's fiscal year 1994 appropriations bill must be approved by both chambers of Congress. It would provide only enough money to shut down the $100 million Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, said Michael Klein, project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

The space agency launched its 10-year search last Oct. 12, Co killed a panhandler who was acting aggressively toward him at a gas station, police said. The district attorney's office, however, hasn't reached a final decision concerning Charles Hoyle. 25, in the Sept. 23 shooting of Reggie MacKay.

25. According to police, two witnesses have stated that Hoyle shouted "back off' twice before shooting. Witnesses have also said MacKay consumed beer and used cocaine before the confrontation. A friend of MacKay told police Thursday that MacKay was armed with a screwdriver and demanded money from Hoyle, said Detective Steve Fisk. INSURANCE CASE SETTLED: Norman Jensen, 52.

of Burbank was awarded $25 million in punitive damages by a jury thai found he was defrauded when his health insurer refused to pay for cancer treatments. Jensen also was awarded 100,000 in compensatory damages for emotional distress. A spokeswoman for Texas-based Transport Life Insurance Co. said the company will appeal. Jensen said he bought what he believed was a major medical policy from Transport Life after a telephone solicitor MAUI CONDO Hawaiian Ocean Front Available By Week or Month (909) 338-4772 damaged by storms, fire and weathering.

LOS ANGELES Slain nurse mourned Friends and family gathered Saturday to mourn the death of Kellie O'Sullivan, a nurse who was kidnapped and killed earlier this month. O'Sullivan, 34, was remembered at a memorial service at St. Jude the Apostle Church in suburban Westlake Village as a strong, vibrant Woman who was in love with life. O'Sullivan disappeared Sept. 14 from outside a dry cleaner's store.

After a massive search, her body was found in the hills north of Malibu last weekend. Her 1991 pickup was found in Reno, a few days after her disappearance when Mark Scott Thornton was arrested in a casino parking lot. Authorities say Thornton used the truck to kidnap his girlfriend, but she escaped and called police. Thornton, in custody in Ventura County, has denied any part in O'Sullivan's disappearance and death. PANHANDLER SLAYING: Witness accounts support a man's claim that he acted in self-defense when he shot and Gregory H.

Kassel Attorney at taw All Criminal Matters Misdemeanor, Felony, DUI FrM Contultortion Plsotft otk for Gregory H. Kami (909)884-6455 The ii o'clock news KABC's Saturday night broadcast BODIES FOUND: Two people are found shot to death at Foothill Boulevard and Towne Center Drive in Laverne. Police say they have a few leads. IMMIGRANTSUPPORT: A coalition of activists holds a rally in support of immigrants and in protest to proposed anti-immigrant legislation. DetailsAbove QUAKE IN INDIA: The search for bodies in the aftermath of the earthquake in India comes to an end, and military now is concentrating on helping the survivors.

DotallsA7 QUAKE AID: A cargo plane from Dover Air Force Base departs from Dover, to deliver supplies to quake area, especially drinking water. LOS PADRES FIRE: A shift in the wind causes a flare-up in the week-old fire in Los Padres National Forest. The blaze has claimed at least 33,000 acres so far. DotallsAbovo.