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Ee everria's 21 Points G. ~er USD Career Lea Cand~!ia Echeverria made a pair pomts) lifted the Tritons, while of free throws late in an 84-62 Anne Krumrine's 18 point.$ ,md. 1I Victory over Arizona State Satur- rebounds led Franklin & Mars ~11 day night to become the University J>LNC was paced by Shar1non of San Diego's all-time leading Abrams' 21 points and 12 rebounds, women's basketball scorer. and Camille Armijo aqde

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barbe hop A they waJted for a haJrcut, the governor and C mp dlscu ed politics and Deukmej1an's future. Wh Deukmej1an ettled into the barber chair, Camp satd Boulding a k d the governor." 'How about Dave fUh~ v cancy on th barb r board''" Camp rec lied that the governor asked him whet~er he would be interested in the post. Camp replied posttlvely nd about three days later got a letter nnouncing the appointment. Flanig n cautioned, "That's certainly not how all th ppolntments ar made," but joked, "What better dv1c can you get [than} from your personal barber?" Boulding sa,d he has cut the governor's haJr regularly since the e rly 1970s. Because Deukmejlan now tays in Sacramento much of the time, he gives the overnor a tnm only about four or five times a y r "We re not an appo ntment shop," Boulding said, o the gov rnor takes a number and waits in line bke ny other customer Boulding, who moved from Long Beach to El Toro 10 y ra go, said that about sLX months after D ukm jtan was elected, 'he was in on a Saturday morning and asked m if I would be interested in n ·ing on the Board of Barber Examiners." It was almost as easy for a Deukme11an neighbor, James Woodward, who markets high-tech equipment to h ital , to get named to his $44.898-a-year post on th Medical A tance Commlss1on The panel con- t1c1cts with health-care provider to dehver services to low tncome and elderly people in the Medi-Cal program Woodward d he m t the governor 12 years ago when moved onto DcukmeJ1an's block. Deukmeji- an' thr e children at various ttmes have been baby ttera for the Woodwards' children, Woodward d "We're n I hbors You say 'Ht' to them. Once in awh1i Invite him over to chat," he sad. About a year ago, Woodward said, he told the governor that h may have some time to erve on a state board but did not eek a pec1f1c assignment. Woodward d cr1bed his commJSSlon po 1t1on as "Just nother Job I don't get any ego satisfaction out of it. l'miust a qui t person who 1s doing a)Ob." Other , such as Al Taucher, a member of the Fish and G me Comm1 on, have known Deukme11an for 30 ye rs Taucher said he unsucc ssfully ught a eat on the comm1 on from then-Gov. Ronald Reagan. Taucher, who owned a Long Beach spcrting goods tor 1d h1 neighborhood "might have more people who have hlS [Deukme11an'sJ ear," but dismissed ugg lions that ppclntees exercls pohucal clout. However, Charles G Bell, author of a textbook on tale gov rnment, said he believes gubernatorial appo ntee,, can wield influence either with the gover- nor or in setting public policy. "The appointee may very w II be at a recept10n at the governor's home or me social funcuon that gives them a point of access that other kinds of individuals don·t have," Bell said. v rtheless, Long Beach Mayor Ernie Kell said, "The gen ral con ensus ts that Long Beach wasn't h lpcd that much" by the appointments The one exception he sserted. 1s Bryan W Llttlef1eld, who man g an area beer d1str1butor hip and has used a seat on the Arts Council to promote local arts program . Former Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Robert Phihbosian. a one-time Deukme11an aide who now rves on the Council on Criminal Justice and the Board of Corrections, d1Snussed suggesuons that appomte shave special access to Deukme11an. "Th governor listens t o a lot of people, but he makes up his own mind. There's no such thing as clout or havlng the governor's ear," maintained Philibosian, who lives in Tarzana m the ZIP code 91356-with s ven appoin tments representing the most of any San

Texas San Antonio defeated $iln Diego State, 67-65, in the onsola• lion championship of the Zuma Jay Lady Wave Classic at Peppordin . The Aztecs dropped to 1-8. With 22 points, SDSU's Juhe EvanA was the game's leading scorer. Will Cunningham pulled down eight rebounds to break Chnsltan Heritage's school career rebou,nd• mg record in the Hawks 96-83 nonconfetcnce victory over Point Loma Nazarene at Grossmont Col• lege. Cunningham was tied with Christian Heritage graduate a~lst- ant Dave Kirksey with 471, but now holds the record with 470. With 1:37 to play, the Hawk's'Brad Soucie hit a three-pointer that ended PLNC's 7-2 scoring run, and Christian Heritage forced four turnovers in the next minute. Christian Heritage (8-3) has i,von five consecutive games. MEN'S BASKETBALL

Her 18th and 19th points, free throws with four minutes 18 sec- onds left, tied and broke the USD record of 1,010 points set by Debbie Theroux m 1983-86. Theroux is now an aSS1stant for Coach Kathy Marpe. "She de erves it," Theroux said. "She works hard for every point she gets. We still have a half a year to go, so I'm sure she's going to add quite a bit to 1t." USO shot 46% from the field to just 'l:1% for Anzona State, which lost for iust the second time this season and is now 7-2. It was the fir t time USO has beaten the Sun Devils in four attempts. USD went up by as much as 17 points in the first ha!! and led at halfume, 44-32. ASU drew to with• In 51-41, but seven in a row for USO-four on two 17-foot jumpers by Angie Straub-essentially put it away. Echeverria, who played only 26 minutes, had 13 points m the first half but did not score in the second until 7,11 remained. A 15-foot shot from the left baseline and a driving

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Robert 0. Boulding, a member of the state Board of Barber Examiners, at work in his Belmont Shore shop.

Westside "I could have lived in Tarzana or Watts. It's Just a comc1dence," he said. Even so, there seem to be differences among cities with roughly similar populations. For instance, Pasa- dena, with an estimated population of 138,000, has 20 DeukmeJlan appointees serving on state panels, whereas Pomona, with an estimated population of 117,800, has only two, according to data supplied by Deukme11an's office. After being told of the difference, Pomona Mayor Donna Smith said: "I would say that Pomona is definitely under-represented as far as the governor's appointments." She said Pomona, with a large, ethnl• cally diverse and low-income population, "would love to be represented and have our voice heard." Back in Long Beach, barber Boulding, who has a picture of himself with the governor hanging in his shop, said he encourages critics to drop by the shop for a chat with DeukmeJ1an. '"He listens real thoroughly to people's ideas," Boulding said. Tlmea staff writer Ralph Fr • mmollno contributed to thl1 story.

Fernando Valley ZIP code DeukmeJian has named a large number of fellow Armenian-Amencans, including Philibosian. to state boards and comm1ss1ons. Marvin Baxter, an Armeni- an-Amencan who served as Deukme11an's former appointments secretary, said the governor credits the Armenian community with providing "the support he needed to be a viable candidate," especially in the 1982 Republican pnmary. Richard R. Terzian of Westwood, who sits on the Commission on California State Government Organi- zation and Economy said, "All governors wind up g1vmg appcintments to people who are early and faithful supporters." Even though Terzian supported DeukmeJian and helped raise money for h,s 1978 attorney general's campaign, he did not immediately win an appointmenL He sought one in 1983 or 1984, but it was several years later before he was named to the commission, better known as the Little Hoover Commission. "What I did was I asked people I knew . .. who also knew the governor and who supported the governor and other people prominent in the community to write letters" n his behalf. Some Deukmeiran apoointees hav<: become engulfed in controversy even after winning spots on state panels. For instance, earlier this month Mar1anthi Lansdale, wife of Long Beach developer Wilham M. Lansdale, apologized after 1t was reported that she had misstated her academic credentlals when she told the governor's office that she had received an associate of arts degree from Long Beach City College in 1959. Some Blocked Seats on high-profile and full-lime boards usually require Senate conf1rmat1on. Sometimes the confirma- tion hearings spark disputes that result in an appoint- ment being blocked. For example, in early 1988 the Senate Rules Committee reJected the reappointment of Angie L. Papadakis of Rancho Palos Verdes to a second term on the State Board of Education. She was criticized by lawmakers for opposing bilingual education programs. Papadakis said that after her rejection she was reluctant to take another state post, explaining, "I wanted to go on a cruise. I didn't want to be tied down to another responsibility." Nonetheless, later in 1988 Deukmejlan named her to the California-Nevada Superspeed Ground Transpor- tation Commission, which JS seeking to attract a private company to build a 300-mile-an-hour traJn between Las Vegas and Anaheim. Senate confirmation was not required When a DeukmeJian aide queried her about her intere t in the comnussion, Papadakis recalled telling him she didn't know anything about trains. She said the staffer asked: "Do you drive a car? Have you ever been stuck on a freeway? ... Then you qualify." Papadakis said she has never received a call from DeukmeJian telling her how to vote. "Once he appoints us, he gives us our head," she said. Some Deukmejian appointees concede that others might have more expertise to sit on a board or comm1ss100. "'There are hundreds and hundreds ... who are probably more qualified than I am," declared Tirso del Junco of Pasadena, a DeukmeJian appointee to the University of California Board of Regents. Del Junco said that after Deukmejian was elected governor he received a letter asking if he was interested in a state appomtment. He recalled voicing an interest in the Regents. But Del Junco speculated that his political ties-he is a former State Republican Party chairman-and the Administration's desire to name a physician to the Regents may have prompted his appointment. Del Junco minimized the importance of his address in landing an appointment. So, too, did George Fenimore, a Deukmejian appointee to the Fair Political Practices Commission, who lives in Brentwood on the

WRESTLING layup off an assJSt from Paula ___________;.;..,..._ Mascari (16 points) put her w1thm Valhalla graduate Rich Balfoy one of the record. was handed his first defeat, of the Echeverria was set up for the season by Brian Dolph of Mich gan record when she took a pass on a State in the 150-pound final~ of. the fast break and was fouled attempt- Midlands Wrestling Chaqip1on- mg a layup. ships at Northwestern University In the Toreras' first game, Eche• in Evanston, Ill. Bailey, seeded verria broke the school mark for third and competing for Cal State free throws in a career. Bakersfield, lost, 7-1. -JIM LINDGREN D UC San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene won their third• and TENNIS La Jollan Ditta Huber, 13,

her girls' 16s semifinal sing s match in the Fiesta Bowl JU1Uor Tournament in Scottsdale, Ariz. Huber, the eighth-seeded player, easily handled sixth-seeded Tracee Lee of Honolulu, 6-3, 6-4, and will play ninth-seeded Lindsey i;>aven- port of Pacific Palisades in today's final at 9:30 a.m. Davenport defeat- ed San Diego Section champion Nikki Willette of Serra High School in the quarterfinals. Huber, the No. I-ranked girls' 18s player in the county, is San Diego's e- maining entrant in the tournament.

seventh-place games in the final day of the UCSD Tournament at Triton Gym. The Tritons defeated Franklin & Marshall, 63-59, to finish third, whtle the Crusaders posted a 69-56 victory over Roch- ester for seventh. Simpson defeated William Jew- ell in the championship game, 90 71. Wilham Paterson defeated Occidental, 61-58, m the fifth- place game. Bernadette Diepenbrock ( 17 points) and Kathleen Alvarez ( 11

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· B E,, 1888 / Echeverria gets record for scoring 1n USD/win :z.q.p h Senior guard Caridida Echeverria as made more free throws than an other player in mm WlUW'n's baskel ball history. _When she stepped to the free-t_h~ow !me yesterday with 4:10 remam1~g tn USD's 84-62 victo over Arizona State at the USD spo/~ Center, she made two more to be- Teome the. all-time leading scorer in oreras history. . Echeverria, who scored a game- high 21, finished the game with 1 013 career points, three better than 'the total scored by current assistant coach J:>:ebby Theroux (1983-86). The victory was the eighth strai ht for USO (9·1). For the third time t{is season, the Toreras beat a Pacific 10 LOCAL TEAMS team for the first time. Previously USO had topped Arizona and Orego~ State. Coach Kathy Marpe says depth IS the reason USD, a member of the West Coru:t Conference, can now CO~pete with _the Pacific 10 teams. Our dep~h is one thing no one can match ~p with and it was a key again tomght, Marpe said. "When we broke the gam_e open in the second haU, we had five substitutes in the game."

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University of San Diego law prnff:ssor and expert on state boards and commissions. Terrance Flanigan, a San Diego native who is Deukmejian's appointments secre- tary, minimized the degree to which geog- raphy enters into the selection process. Said Flanigan, "If you had a governor from the Central Valley or from somewhere in Northern California . .. 1t probably would surprise no one 1f a large number of appointments were from that area." As governor, "you can appoint people to positions who you are familiar with" and whose judgment you rely upon. "This is one of the p'rerogatives you have as a gover- nor," Flanigan said. Los Angeles County-with an estimated 30% of the state's population-has about 500 appointments-only about 16% of the statewide total, according to a review of the figures. About 120 Deukmejian appointees live in the Southeast/Long Beach area. The ZIP codes with the highest n mber Please see ZIP CO E, J4

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San Diego 85, Columbia 58 G) Ian Dottin st·ored 13 points and Pat Holbert added 12. all on three-pomt baskets. as the Uni- versity .Q[ San Diego/ beii'tt;nt:- um~1a. c=zq,5') _Five Toreros scored in double 1gures m the victory, as Craig Cottrell, Wayman Strickland and Anth~ny Thomas each had 10. Stnckland chipped in with • seven assists, and Randy Thompson also had seven assists for the winners. The victory raised San Diego's record to 5-7. Columbia is 2 . 7 L'!

The starting guards, Echeverria and for~er Monte Vista star Paula Mascan .(16 points), were the only Toreras m double figures. But all 12 players who played scored for USD "If they get 18, 20, 22 or 24 minute~ most pla~ers will be happy with that - especially if they're winning " Marpe said. "There's a lot of res~t among the team of each other's skills." The Toreras beat San Diego State for ~e first time last month. They received their first-ever vote in the NCA~ poll last week. This week USD got mne votes. The players now feel they're the best wome1/s team in the county. "The kids were just ecstatic when they got that first vote" Marpe sa·d "Our ls bef • 1 goa ore the season were t~ get an automatic berth in the NCAA ~ament and get some reco ni- t1on for our conference." g

a review of gubernatorial appointees indicates. By MARK GLADSTONE I IMt r Aff WRITEk

tracts L ving near the governor eems to be one of the easiest ways to land a JOb on a state board or commission. Based on a review of 2.923 current members of boards and commissions obtained from the gover- nor's office, Deukme11an's 90803 ZIP code has the highe t number of appointees- 26-of any in Los Angeles County. After the governor's, the county's other ZIP codes with clout are, well-to-do com- munities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula m ZIP code 9027 •. with 16 appomtees. Next in hne, v.1th 13 appointees, 1s ZlP code 90049, covering Westwood, Brentwood and Bel- Atr 1n West Los Angeles. Beverly Hills' 90210 ZIP code and another section of Long Beach in ZIP code 90815 follow, with 11 appointees each. "The governor f els the stale ends just south of Long Beach, but he's not exactly

SACRAME 'TO-When Gov George D ukm JI n take a number to wait in line at a bar r hop ne r his Long Beach home, h g ts hi halr cul by Robert 0. Boulding. a m mber of the Board of Barber Examm•

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