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ust as Republicans joined Com- mon cau e leaders in backing that measure, Proposition 14, San_ Diego Democrats are considered logical al• lies of this one, as they now occup:; only two or the eight council seats. "Usually the group on the outl backs it. That might, in this case, 1M the liberals and the minorit: groups," Fellmeth said. He add~ that council members who expect t "have their throats cut" in a council- devised reapportionment "will be sympathetic - that's always what . The first hurdle the group faces is gathering the 84,038 signatures - 15 percent of the city's re~istered vo~- ers - that are now reql11fed to quali- fy a City Charter amendment for the ballot. Because of a state law that took effect Jan. 1, the signature thes~old is roughly twice what was_ required to q lify the district elecb~ns mea- sure in 1988, according to city elec•y tions officer Mikel Haas. / .,,1, happens." plete data permitting greater politi- cal latitude. The charter amendment drawn up by Fellmeth, Zerbe, attorney John McEvoy and oth rs would establish a seven-member citizens' commission charged with developing a redistrict- ing plan following each nationa1 cen- su , be nning in 1990. In a system that parallels the grand Jury selection process, com- mi ion rs would be chosen by the Superior ourt pre !ding judge, b ed on n mmabon from the pub- lic. The comm 10n, accordmg to the proposed charte language, would have g graphic, social and ethmc diversity and would "include individ- uals with a demonstrated capacity to rv with impartiality in a non-par- ti an role'' It would meet m public and direct a city-funded staff, and its members would agree not to seek elected of- fice for at least five years. The redi tricting plan, according to the charter language, would "pro- vide fair and effective rep esenta- llon for all citizen ... p rve iden- tifiable communities of interest, be geographically compact ... and not be drawn for the purpo of advan- taging or protecting incumbents." The measure bas been circulated to the local chapter of the League of Women Voters and to the executive board of California Common Cause, and Fellmeth said be is confident of s pport from both organ11.alions, as ell as the environmental groups that supported district elections. "I fully expect 1t to be backed by the full phalanx of meritorious but See City Council on Page

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Semin will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Manchester Center at the U~ersity of San Diego. The principal speaker will be Los Ange es attorney Dennis ~- Kasper, !l1l elder at Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Details are available from Tom Smith at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, telephone 818-584- 5338 or 800-235-2222, Ext. 5338.

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USO School of Bu lness Administration 1s o~em,nar, "Crealing a Personal Marke_!· mg Plan," from 7·30 to 9 a.m. The speaker will discuss the key elements of a personal market; ing plan and cover strategies on how to use ,~ to accomplish your goals. The cost of the session 1s $15, which ncludes materials and a continen• tal breaktast. For reg1strat,on information, call Jack Freiberg at 260-4644. ~~--- .,

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P C B I Step~L::~lal Issues .Committee IS hosting United Nar s, a Canadian Ambassador to the N . ions, who will speak on "U S e1ghbor _ A Can d. p . . as . a •an erspective" at 7 at the University of San Diego Th p.m. part of a series of com . · e program ,s the committee's 1989 ~unity f?,rums based on Diverse Past C eme. The Americas: wrll contrnue ~a~h ~m:n future?" The forums p.m in the Universitue ay through May 2 at 7 information call Juciy ~nter Forum. For more John blune; at 260-4682. auner 260- 'l~r

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to No. 11 of Southern California, 5-2, in its final match of the Blue/Grey National Collegiate Tennis tournament in Montgom- ery, Ala. USD's two victories came at No. 4 and No 5 singles. Dan Mattera defeated Murphy Jensen, 7-6, 6-1, then Tim Bilbnack defeat- ed Paul Brandt, 5-7,6-3, 7-6. USD, ranked 21st, is 19-5, and USC is 13-8. ,

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St te Bar Choosing Judges in Secret Contil u from Page 1 to the Supreme Court would be made spent several long weekends in Decem- public. ber winnowing the applications to come But suddenly, after debating their up with candidates for the jobs. choices in closed session later in the And when the board members finally month, members of the bar's governing settled on a list of nominees they thought board decided they would not release the meritted serious consideration, the names, even though the most they could names of those nominees and briefbiogra- have done was to trim six names from the phies of each were made public. 33 who had been announced as semi-

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the three-year-old reform effort. For the first time, charge,, of miscon- duct against California lawyers will be de- cided by a corp of full-time judges. The judges will be hard to remove, rela- tively insulated from policital pressure and paid salaries 1dent1cal to those drawn by the state's trial court jurist - all part of a plan to assure a system that is as inde- pendent and worthy of public respect as possibl . six to preside over heanngs and three, including one non- lawyer. to handle api>ea!s - are du~ to take office July 1, replacing the longtune practice of having a volunteer attorney- heanng officer preside over each case. To make sure they are as isolated from pres- sure as po sible, the final sele~on ?f the judges i to be made by the California Su- preme Court. The process of selecting the judges be- gan la t fall with a flurry of news releases from the State Bar soliciting applications for the positions. Apphcants were asked to fill out the ame detailed forms u ed by Gov. George Deukmejian 's office to creen potential nominees to the municipal and supenor court b nch , and members of a special committee of the bar Board of Governors SH Back Paga f SECRET • The nine Judges -

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finalists. No explanation was made for the rever- sal, and the Supreme Court has not decid- ed whether it will make the names public. That awaits a conference of the justices once they officially receive the bar's nominations. As ofMarch 24, the nominations hatln't yet made their way down the two blocks separating the bar and Supreme Court buildings in San Francisco. At the State Bar, they'd only say that the nominations would be delivered to the Supreme Court by the April 1 deadline. They won't talk about why the bar's promising experiment with openness has come to a clos/ ---~-- ---

In all, bar governors had narrowed the list of hundreds to 33 applicants, some of whom were applying for more than one position. Included were a sitting Los An- geles Superior Court judge, federal and state administrative law judges, research and staff attorneys for appellate courts, and several senior staff attorneys for the current State Bar Court. The bar's governing board had been scheduled to pare the list of nominees down to 27 names - three for each posi- tion - at a meeting in early March, and it was expected that after the disappointed applicants had been notified that the list of those whose names had been forwarded

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Qu~J lecture series opens tomorrow The San ~ ego Natural History cussing plate tectonics and the quake hazards to buildings and Museum will present a series of lee- prehistoric earthquake record in bridges on April 18, lures and field trips about earth- Southern California. The museum also will offer two quakes this month, in cooperation Earthquake ground motion and all-day field trips. The earthquake with the county earthquake pre- topography of the desert will be stud- paredness program. San Diego's quake history will be th e ied April 9 during an outing with

topics April 11 in lectures by SDSU professor Steven Day and Michael Reichle of the California Division of Gilbert A. Hegemier, director of the structural systems lab at UCSD and university professor Frieder Sei- ble will discuss bow to reduce earth- Mines and Geology.

SDSU's Abbott and Rockwell. San Diego's faults will be explored April 29 by Abbott and Dick Phillips of the University of San Diego. Tickets for the lectures and field trips may be obtained by contacting the Natural History Museum at 232- 3821, Ext. 203.

The museum's lecture series be- gins tomorrow and continues April 11 and 18 at 7 p.m. in the Balboa Park museum. The first program features San Diego State professors Patrick L. Ab- bott and Thomas K. Rockwell dis-