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Peaceful times may mean tailspin in local ecogomy, say officials Th~rming of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union could have a chilling effect on San Diego's defense-based economy, local economists testified yesterday at a congressional hearing. "A shift away from the military would have a very adverse impact on the region," said Max Schetter, vice pr ident of the economic research bureau of the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce. "Some compam will be able to adapt fairly easily and some will not be able to adapt at all," he said "We could see employment reductions and some companies may go out of business." / ___~----------'

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"I came here for football and aca- demics" said Todd J.!ckson. He cor- rected himself: "Academics first, then football second." Dunn acknowledged that the sea- son is over. Barring a miracle, Wis- consin-Platteville, ranked No. 4 in the Western Region, secured the re- gion's final berth with a victory yes- terday afternoon. "It was just a real good team ef- fort," Fogarty said, for the seventh time this season, "but I'm not really ready to give up this year." Among those scheduled to return are junior quarterback Brendan Murphy and sophomore place-kicker Dave Bergmann. Murphy completed three of five passes for 45 yards and gained 57 yards m seven carries. Bergmann kicked a 23-yard field goal to make it 10-0 early in the second quarter. He made 14 of his 18 attempts this sea- son. / Daily Journa ..

Jackson carried 30 times for 149 of USD's 369 rushing yards. His third touchdown run of the day, an 11- yarder, made it 31-13 with 2·39 left to play But Jackson still needed 3 yards to reach 1,000. Menlo's Dan Wahl gave Jackson his chance when he fumbled after running 69 yards and another Jack- son, USD's Darryl, recovered. Todd Jackson got the call straight- away, and Garcia and Carpenter, both seniors, gave him enough room. Those two, sophomore Gene Fonta- na, freshman Sean Parks and junior Ray Smith ''really wanted it,"Jack- son said. Wahl atoned for bis error by run- ning back a punt for a TD with no time left. Few Toreros cared. They celebrated like Division I national champions. "If you want to play for the love of the game, Di V1Sion III football 1s the place to be," summarized Dave Dunn a senior defensive tackle.

Jackson achieves 1000-yard season in 31-19 SD win The opposm punt returner had J t pinb lied 8 yard for a touch- down. and far a ay, a team bad knoc ed the University of San Diego out of the CAA playoff picture. Why, then, were th Toreros hugg- ing one another, dump ng water on their jubilant co ch and posmg for n talgic snapshots y terday after- noon' For tarters, bcca e they ill had beaten v ltmg enlo College for the first ttme m four trt 31-19. Other reasons. They had achieved a 7-2 record. th hool's b t ince 1981; they had given Coach Brian Fogarty bis best sea n in seven ye rs at the school and had evened hlS record at 33-33-2 A o they and the capacity crowd of mor than 4,000 had red a memorable moment hen a former

high school blocking back capped a superb collegiate career, one in which others did the blocking. With about two minutes left in the game and bis career, senior fullback Todd Jackson. once again following left tackle Mark Garcia and left guard Jeff Carpenter, gained 3 yards to re ch 1,000 for the season. "It was a big accomplishment," said Jack on, USD's all-time rushing leader. "It was a goal I had set for my elf when I came here." A do most Division III players, Jackson arrived unheralded. He m1ght have blocked 1,000 players, but Jackson did not approach 1,000 yards at El Dorado High in Placentia. He blossomed at USD two years ago when Fogarty switched from an I-formation to the Delaware Wing-T, which better suits Jackson's quick- hitting, linear style. The 5-foot-11, 205-pounder came ln bandy yesterday. Fogarty wanted to run the ball and the clock against enlo (3-6).

Schetter's comments came at the, conclusion of a two-hour hearing here y terday. Rep. Jim Bates, D- San Diego, who organized the hear- ing but did not attend, said in a press release that the purpose was to help determine the local impact of reduc- t10ns in defense spending. The hearing testimony will be re- viewed by four congressional com- mittees considering bills on the con- version of the nation from a wartime to a peacetime economy Jim Bartell, Bates' chief of staff, predicted that military pending cuts will come as early as next year. "Recent events, like those taking place in Poland and Hungary and Germany, are indicators that the world is becoming a democracy," Bartell said. ''What that means 1s that there will be less requirement to have troops overseas, less requirement for m1htary hardware overseas and less requirement for a U.S. presence overseas," he said. "That has to have a significant impact on our current industrial base." 1n San Diego County, where more than 20 percent of the jobs are de- fense-related, the effec of a cut- back in mllitary spending already are bemg felt. Contracts awarded to local mili- tary contractors fell 13 percent be- tween 1987 and 1988, Scheller said. However, the decline was offset by an increase in military payroll. ''It's already happening, but so far we're coping with it," he said. "We may not get any more ship , but the Navy is entrenched here." But even a relatively small 10 per- cent cut nationwide in military pro- grams, with a corre ponding $1 bi!· See Delena• on Pag, E-2

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El Cajon Piclcs hiefJudge Eddie C. Sturgeon has be n selected 1990 presiding judge of the El CaJon Municipal Court. Sturgeon was in private practice for 14 years before his appointment to the bench in January 1988. He is a graduate of San Diego State University and the University of Santa Clara School of Law. Christine K. Goldsmith was selected assistant presiding judge. Goldsmith, a graduate of the Univers· of-San Di~

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Continued from Page 1 real help and burnishing the image 01 the legal profession as well. Lat~, car~ recorded, her experi- enc_~ m orgaruzmg, advertising and re- Cl1.lltin~ government officials and lawyer speoalists for the clinics would be adopt- as the starting point for a comprehen- s!ve State Bar plan for dealing with natural disasters. In A:ugu st ' on taking office as the repre- sentative of rural Northern California law- yers_ on the bar board, Clinch was handed the Job of .tran~lating her 13-page memo on ~e subJect into a real, specific plan for action. The objective, Rothenberg told her :hen he m_ade the appointment, was to me ?P with a comprehensive program of making sure victims could receive quick and free l~gal help while at the same time strongly discouraging ambulance-chasing. th only two months until Oct. 17, that plan was far from being a final docu- ·: m~nt ':'hen the earthquake struck, but Wi

the quake, Clinch and associate Tamara Dahn up shop m the offices of the Bar Assooatton of San Francisco, which had offered help as soon as its top officials heard about Clinch's plans. Set Up a Manual By the e~d of the week, along with a slow_ly growing cadre of assistants, Clinch co:i~ued ~o plan and organize, a maior pnonty bemg the compilation of a manual on disaster-related legal issues that would be used by lawyers volunteering to help in the effort. Eighty hours after the quake, a 300- plus-page. ~ual was in hand, and Clinch wa~ presiding over the first session to train local lawyers in the ins and outs of catastrophe law. ere: on hand for that ses_s1?n; four days later, at her second trammg program, more than 100 took part. And some of them, in turn, became 1?stru~tors for ot~er lawyer organiza- tions, 1mpartmg thel.l' newly gained knowl- edge of disaster law to volunteers who would staff clinics put on by BASF and the San_ta.Clara and Alameda County bar as- sooations, among others. She also has helped set up a hearing s~heduled for Dec. 2 in San Francisco: With 0e.State Bar and the American Bar Assooatton to gather information on the legal community's response to the earthquake. _Clinch, 39, a family law specialist, main- tains a sole practice in Nevada County She_and_her husband, Grass Valley lawye; Craig Diamond, have a 6-year-old daugh- ter, Lacee Diamond. A fifth-generation Nevada City resi- dent, Clinch earned an undergraduate de- gr~e i~ politi~al science from the University ?f Arizona. She received her law de~ee m 1976 from the niversi of ~n Diego S~l of Law;. and practi two years m that oty. - MICHAEL]. HALL A~ut 30 people f BU ,,_ Atf orney l,Y\'S\ Local attorney Daniel T. Hatt was recently elected to the Redlands Community Hospital Foundation board of directors. The mission of RCH Foundation is to raise funds, sponsor events for the promotion and bettennent of Red- lands Community Hospital and develop and maintain an endowment fund to ensure continuity of funds for future needs. Hatt's specialty is estate and business planning and he is a share- holder in the Redlands law finn of McPeters, McAleamey and Shimoff. A graduate of Pacific University, he received his law degree, cum laude, from the University of San Diego. He also serves as vice president of the Crafton Hills College Foundation and on the board of directors of the Estate Planning Council of San Bernardino. A native of Oaremont, Hatt lives in Redlands with his wife, Martha, and their two children. \0011 OCii • UIUI , Redlands Daily Facts (Cir. D. 9,530) (Cir. S. 9,614) NOV 1 3 ,es9 Jlllc,. ·• ,. C. 8 f,r

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• Growth: Clearly a response by the City Council 1· a prcfierred way to deal with the problem . But that has not happened to date.

Most importantly, 1t differs from earher efforts in its philosophy. The for the full cost of additional public fac1ht1es either before or concurrent witb 1 proposed development in order to . , , ~. prevent ensuing taxpayer subsidization -:_., of these facilities through higher truces: . ; , ,

theory or PLAN is to make growth pay· - ; Clinch Jumped in to implement what she

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true to pay for Jails and courts, increases in water and sewer fees and additional fees for disposal at landfills. In hght of this s1 ualion, we should ask: Why did these growth-control measures fail last November? And, how is PLAN different from the failed initiatives? Clearly, these growth-control measures were not reJected because San Diego has solved its growth-related problems. San Diego continues to experience growth unparalleled in its h1slory. Last year the county added close to 90,000 people with no sign of abatement. Providing adequate public services lo accommodate this growth-without an arcompanying decline in the quality of life-will be the ma.)or challenge for the City Council and county Board of Supervisors in the 1990s. Two fundamental reasons contributed to the failure of the growth-control initiatives last November. The first was the complexity of the m1liat1ves. Although there are exceptions, the public generally will not vote for initiatives that are difficult to understand All of the failed growth initiatives-the ones ~ponsored by Citizens for Limited Growth and the ones sponsored by the city and county governments-were long and complex. And because they covered the same general subJect, the public found them difficult to distinguish. The second contributing factor was the philosophy embodied in the iml1atives. Mo t people would agree that there 1s nothing inherently wrong with growth. The challenge I succes fully planning for 1t and then effectively managing it. It 1 poor planrung and management to worry and fret about providing sufficient chools, parks, libraries and other n ccssary public service after the hu,ldtngs have been constructed and occupied. But the initiatives put before th voters la t fall were not responsive to the real problems facing San Diego. They focu ed on limiting building permits, not planning and management. Is PLAN different from the failed growth-control initiatives? I would answer with a qualified yes.

a t November, the voters rejected two growth-control mea ures In lh c1ly of San Diego Now, another growth initiative 1s being sponsor d by a group of concerned citizens called Prev nl Los Angelization Now! who believe that the trad1t1onal legislative d cmon- making process 1ssllll unr pon Ive. Its pon ors hope that the Ctty Council will adopt its prov1 ions, and if not. they will attempt to qualify the 1111t1at1ve for the June or November, 1990 b llot. Another group has announced its intent to pon or an initiative that would compete with PLAN. The likely re ult 1s voter confu ion.

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rates or fees. The emphasis is on planllihg ; pomt person mputting together a massive and managing the cost of new facilities ... ~'. P_rogram of _le~ aid to earthquake vic- by having development pay its way, not ·,,; tims, coo rdina ting the efforts of volun- on artificially limiting growth through' ·: .: t~ers from aU over the state, networking caps. In this sense, PLAN addresses the ..~: wi th local attorney organizations in the af- On the downside, PLAN is technicaUy·•: ' pnvate agenaes for money and oversee- complicated as the growth initiatives that, has trained more than 200 attorneys in complicated. It is not. however, as - ~- mg real problem facing the city. .,, • •;: fe~ted areas,_ lobbying government and th e. establishment of a program that :: th e fin~ points of disaster law and govern-

GLASN_OST: Iu_USD's Jtudent p~per (Vista), Eric Brown's re- view of the Symphony's "Alexan- der Nevsky" seems to tell us at leaSl as much about the critic: "It was better than sex and it lasted longer" CITYSCAPES: Gaslamp Quar- ter people are asking the railroad mu eum In Perris to return two old electric trolley cars that Gaslamp gave them four years ago . The cars ould go back in ser~re.on the original track, now buried 111 asp. alt along Fifth Av- en~e. · · · Aqua-green glass is go10g up at the 30-story Emerald Sh pe~y office tower. The glass alone 1s a five-month project; the tower ope~s next •ummer. . .. Most Soviet festiv I street ban~ers are coming do n; con- vention center banner go up 00 Saturday. STAR !RACKS: Four of the six st~dents m this year's first gradu- ating class of the TJSD/Old Globe drama program a~sing their ~r~,am_s. Barry Mann is starring m Prmc1p1a Scnptoriae" at Stu- dio Theatre m Washington, D.C ~terlmg Macer recently starred m Romeo & Juliet" at the Dallas Theater Center Matt Edwards appeared in the Old Globe's re- cent productwn of "Death and the Black mith " And Richard Ortega has been cast in the Rep's production of "A Christmas Carol."

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hAc~ rdi ng to Ro~en~erg and others w O ave_ seen her m action, what Clinch ,een nothing short of phenomenal. . t more, they said, she was able to swmg ~to action just houn; after the di- Within _three houni of the earthquake, I[Swas Wk!13g to other members of the tate B3: ~] Board of Governors and we wer~ d~ding what to do and how to be- The day ~er the quake was spent in further plannmg and organizing, contact- mg bar leaders a~ over the state from her hon:e and office_ Ill Nevada City _ often times to get a line mto the affected area . Two days after the q~ke, with p~- rung well u_nder way, Clinch was driving th _e 15 0 miles to San Francisco, armed sa~!er h 1 !• gm, Clinch recalled.

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without implementing offsettjog mitigation.measures. Second new development is not permitted to create water shortages, a proposition that 1s likely to be readily accepted by the votmg pubhc. Yet, determimng when,-~ increased traffic congeslio11i,wou bp properly attributable to propo~d • \ development or when a water-shortage would be created by it will involve complex administrative determinations. Citizen-sponsored initiatives ultimately limit the discretion of our .

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The City Council should assure this public debate by giving far more .

attention to PLAN's initiative than it has Wi th portab!e coi_nputers, paper and bro- thus far, because this proposal cuts to the chures dealing With problems faced by di-

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The recent election results suggest that the public is prepared to hold the City Council accountable for its land-use ?hn 1!· Minon is associate dean of the Unpier_ 5 ,t!l..!l1So.n Pie.ia ScluJDl of Law, He ha:; wntten e:ctensil!ely on land-use decisions. J ,

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