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Concentration keyfor Sonics D camp By MIKE KAHN .:zrw5 cClatchy News Service SAN DIEGO - Showtime 1989-90 is here for the Seattle SuperSomcs, who began training camp Friday at the U iversit of San Diego. Who are-they going to be? Is this the team that took a 41- 19 lead on the Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs? Or is thi · the team that blew that 41-19 lead to get ousted from the Western Conference semifi- nals? "That's what this year is all about for us - consi tency," Sonics guard Dale Ellis said . "We have to be able to do the same thmg almost every night to be among the elite teams." The Sonics are In San Diego because they were booted from Northwest College due to zoning problems in Kirkland. In actuali- ty, this might help the training camp schedule because they can have six consecutive double ses- sions of practice before they play the Lo Angeles Clipper in the first exhibition game Thurs- day night at the San Diego Sport Arena . "We'll be able to concentrate a lot better b cause we won't have as many distractions," Sonics point guard 'ate McMillan aid. "We won't have family or friend around. It's Just about basket- ball. This 1s the time we all get used to each other and the new guys get comfortable with the system" The Sonics enter camp with 16 players, only 12 will make the ballclub. Returning from last year are Elli , McMillan. Xavier McDaniel, Derrick McKey, Olden Polynice, Michael Cage, Sedale Threatt, and Avery Johnson. New faces include first-round draft choices Dana Barros and Shawn Kemp , along with Brad Sellers, Y.ho vas ac- qwred from the Chicago Bull in a predraft trade. Au t alian r- drew Gaze heads a group of fr agents invited to camp. Othe s are veteran center Chris Engler, Mike Champion, Montana center Wayne Tinkle, and former Il- linois fo ard Scott Meents.
JUlf!n '• Pc s , , 1l!x, ~he University of San Diego will present a Business~ Breakfast Seminar entitled " Total Quality Management: TOM in Manufac- turing, Se,vice and Support Organizations." Dr. James Caltrider, associate professor of man- agement will be the speaker. A continental breakfast will be held at 7:30 a.m., with the semi- nar beginning at 8 a.m., in the Manchester Con- ference . Center The fee is $1 s . £~more infor~10n, call 260-4644. ~.:>~
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lgn language: The four signboards posted on successive telephone poles 11long La Cresta Boulevard on Friday may have lacked the rhyme and meter of the old Burma Shave ads. But the message was clear: Happy Birthday from Joanne ... I Still Love You •.. But the Bunny Doesn't .. . You're Going to Be a Daddy! Snoop du jour: At a meeting on the proposed takeover of Harbor Police hy SDPD, Port Director Don Nay lost his point on at least one of the city officials present. Outlining duties of Harbor Police at Lindbergh Field, Nay allowed as how they were, basically, doing •·women' work." Councilwoman Gloria McColl's stone face wasn't softened by Nay's attempt at recovery: 'Tm sure Gloria understands what I mean." . . Paul Aposlolides, who chauffeured Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov on his tour of San Diego last week, gave the Russian a parting gift before he boarded an Air Force jet out of town: a golf shirt, bearing the "Paul the Greek" limo service logo. And Yazov, apparently moved, gave Apostolides something in return: a wristwatch with a Red star on its face.... "Flight of the Intruder," the new Paramount film that industry insiders are calling "the second coming of Top Gun," starts shooting here Nov. 13 aboard the carrier Independence.... Anchorman Dan Rather is scheduled to broadcast his CBS Evening News from Channel 8 here Nov. 13. Wandering I: With the seattle Supersonics in at USD's Sports Center Friday to open trainTng camp, the local sports media were out in force. But one enterprising Channel 8 photographer got a leg up on the competition. He brought along his own stepladder, for an eye- to-eye interview with 6'9" forward Michael Cage. . . Jackie Main, who's taken over the political newsletter founded by the late Nell Good and renamed it SD Political Watch, mailed a copy of the first issue to publisher Lowell Blankfort, on holiday in London. And she was amazed to hefl.r it arrived there before most copies were delivered here. But then, she notes, the Postal service had an extra day. It was postmarked, "Sept. 31, 1989." ... Ex- San Diegan Robert Miles Parker, a New York transplant, has found success in the Big Apple. His latest book, "The Upper West Side," is selling briskly, and a one-man show featuring his drawings of American architecture opens Tuesday at SoHo's Helio Galleries. -~--,..n--•~...--~
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~odding Carter comes to USO Monday to moderate a deliate on the changing role of religion in society, 7:30 p.m., Manchester Conference Center. Panelists in• elude Cal Thomas, syndicated newspaper columnist; John Bu- chanan Jr., a former Alabama con gressman and chairman of Ameri- can Way; Judith Banlu, associate director of lnterreligiow; Affairs of the American Jewish Committee; Rev. Robert Ard, pastor of Christ Church of San Diego; Larry Stirl- ing, Municipal Court judge; Rev. Dennis Mikulanis, pastor of Holy Spirit Church; and Robert Sim- mons, USD law professor. Admis- sion 1s $15 and advanced ticket purchase is required. ;275'5"
B. Draper Jr., 54, /ei~ctep,.pre,s)aing judge Vl5'Y!'1_~ .fudge William B. Draper Jr. has been elected pre id- ing judge of the North County Mu- nicipal Court. He will begin his one-year term on ,Jan. 1 replacing current Presiding Judge Victor E. Ramirez. A presiding judge, Draper will a ume the admini trative dutie of the court. One of his immediate problem will be findmg addition I courtroom pace. Draper, 54, of Vista graduated from Dartmouth College and re ceived his Jay. degree in 1965 from the Unilic~San Diego. He re- tired from the IT.S:- Marine Corp m 1978 after 21 years ofactive duty and served as a prosecutor from 1978 until his appointment to the bench in 1985. Draper and his wife Betsy are the parent of three children and h1ive four grandchildren.
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minutes, a 20-yard sconng p from backup quarterback Doug Pip r to re- serve Brad Leonard Todd Jackson rushed for 116 yards m th first haU (H earned one for one yard in the cond half). His two touchdowns, on ru s of one and 29 y rds, and Ty Barksdale's eight-yard scoring run gave USO a 21-0 halftime I d. Leonard's touchdown nd a 38-yard field goal by Dave Bergmann made it 31-0. Bergmann has made 10 of 13 attempts thlS season: his next will equal th school r cord et by Robert Lozzi m 1981 and '82. Scott Bradley, Lenny Tcrnto and ark Cnsc1 each had an mterc pllon. Bradley's, after a 17 yard return gave USO a first and at lhe five and set up 1ts first touchdown Temto s, at Pomona's 21. t up its fmal touchdown ot always the ca m the past, Fogarty pointed out. "The d fense knows now that lf they get the ball back, the offense ts gomg to put it mto the end zone."
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Judge David W Ryan wa elect- ed to s rve a one-year term as th assistant pre 1 San Diego, Calif .. (San Dlo4ro Co) SAN DI GO RIBUNJ: OCT -1 / ,, , C B IIU 9 vjets propose rights study program vrn the American Civil Liberties Union would help Soviet lawyers department at a Soviet law school to focus on human rights, Tribun &J, cal/on Writer start a Soviet-style equivalent of the ACLU. according to an article in the Human Rights Quarte_rly. . Just wh n you thought there were no urpr left in the ASoviet Civil Liberties Union? The article described Nazarov as a former section ct:.:1 at gl n t•dnven vt t Union, alon com a plan to et up an "If they're serious about this, why not?" said ACLU board the U.N. Center for Human Rights in Geneva and an adv<><:ate of exchange pro r m m human rights at a oscow law chool and member Peter Irons, a key player in the proposed exchange. A expanded civil rights in the ~viet Unio~. Na.~rov was m ~-n v ral San Di go 1nsutullons UCSD political science professor, Irons is the driving force on Diego recently with a delegation of Soviet citizens to partic1- If th plan or , faculty nd tud n the American 1de of the infant program The other San Diego pate in a U.S.-Soviet dialogue. . tut of La In cow would attend cl at the University of professors are Bert Lazerow from the University of San Diego, Nazarov proposed the exchange program to Irons, who IS Cahforma al n D1 go, Cahforma Western hool of Law and Howard Berman of Cal Western and Philip Roeder of UCSD. well-known in legal circles for his civil-rights work on behalf of th Univ 1t of n D o School of Law The driving force on the Soviet side is Professor Boris Na- Japanese-Americans interned in camps during World War II. tuden from thos choo would study Soviet law in Mos- zarov, a law professor and chairman of the newly formed Irons mentioned the idea at an ACLU board meeting last week, cow human-rights department of the All-Union law institute. and it was well received. A an dded payo!f, attorn y from the San Diego affiliate of The department was started in 1988 and is the first academic Pleas1 see EXCHANGE: B-5, Col. 1 BOOM CITY: Consul General Larry Colbert recommended seven sites as options for a new U.S. mission to replace the pres- ent overcrowded quarters in Ti- juana. Such wheels move slowly~ at the State Department. By the time an inspector arrived to study the sites, all were being de- v loped. CITYSCENES: The Auto Club gave a plaque to Ed Reed and Scott Greenwood, but look what those two SDPD officers did for the Auto Club: They recovered more than 350 stolen cars last year - a third of them with driv- ers behind the wheels. . .. Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon say they'll visit SDSU early next year to dedicate the new Billy Wilder editing/screening complex. To- morrow's preview at the Mann at the Grove of "Look Who's Talk- ing," the baby Bruce Willis film, will help raise funds. NOTEPAD: Director Des McAnuff's happy ending if the fund drive at La Jolla Playhouse succeeds: "We hope to compete with Yale as the major American center for new drama and drama research." . . . More perestroika on the Baja border: County Water Authority directors have been working quietly with desperate Tijuana water managers and in- terceding for them with other California water agencies. San Diego water was diverted to Tiju- ana briefly during a recent emer- gency. Tijuana, with its soaring population at the end of the Colo- rado River line, faces a daily water crisis. .. . UCSD expects to name a dean for its new architec- ture school next month. DOG'S WORLD: Psychologist Janice Orr has a partner in therapy: Sara, a Doberman pinscher. "Children find it easy to tell Sara their secrets,'' says Orr. "Adult trauma victims feel braver about going back to the scene of the crime with Sara." And Orr doesn't get stressed out about leaving her new 300 ZX, even with it windows open, when Sara's inside. &m Diego, CA. (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217 ,089) (Cir. S. 341 ,840) OCT 9 - 1989 ..All~,.·. ,. C B I IU , fl ~he flag is desecrated by law, the flag burners have won ~s'd outrageously It is those hbertie that ------------------------- Because the burners can burn the -:--.., Monday, October 9, 1989 lf"1 fl "th 1 1 · ·t th · t t '-10mmen ary protection and punishing flag burn- ing, by diminishing liberty of expres- sion, to that extent diminishes and desecrates the flag as symbol of lib- erty, Ironically, President Bush and Congress, by proposing that we make physical destruction of the flag con- stitutionally protected blasphemy, are poised to deliver a victory to the flag burners that the latter could never achieve by their own counter- productive efforts. If the proposed constitutional amendment is adopted, the flag will wave less proudly over a land a little less free, and it will be our elected officials and ourselves, not the flag burners, who will be responsible for this, the only way to desecrate the flag. Alexaader is a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. · xan er By I rry A. the nag a ~Ir a. ls contempt for those liberties and ------------------------- tempts to desecr_a~e the flag this way the efforts made to tabli h and pre- WilJlam G. Stotbers, whose column of media comments runs each Monday, are self-un~errrun1:fig, !he flag as a erv them that Ilag burning is on a signment. symbol of !Jberty nses m esteem as a It is the policy of The San Diego Union to correct all errors. To discuss consequence of their attempts to expr accuracy or fairness in the news, please write William G. Stothers, reader's desecrate it. Burning the flag 1S odious because representative, Box 191, San Diego, CA 92112, or telephone {619) 293-1525. But paralleling the delicious irony th 1d 1t ymbolizes, contempt for -------------------------- of the flag burners' unsuccessful at- the con titutional lJberties the nag tempts to desecrate the flag is the ymbollz , is an odious idea. But if symbolize are constitutionally pro- concluded. Because we all have the bitter irony of President Bush's and burning the flag ls an odiou symbol- tected, even if hateful. constitutional liberty to express con- Congress' efforts to outlaw flag burn- IC act, o, too, are other acts that Punishing flag burners is really no tempt for the very liberty we have, ing through a bill which has now symbollz the sam or related ideas, different from punishing those who flag burners are no Jess protected passed both houses or, worse, uch s raising th Swa tika, the express the same idea through rais- than anyone else expressing the through an anti-desecration constitu- Hammer and ickle, or the tars and mg the Swastika, the Hammer and same idea, however misguided and tional amendment. Bars Sickle, and the stars and Bars, or offensive. President Bush and Congress have those who express the idea through But herein lies the irony. The flag fallen victims to the same paradox the written or spoken word. burners, by being granted the consti- as have the flag burners they are out The logic of punishing flag burners tutional liberty to burn the flag, can- to get. For just as constitutionally extends to punishing these others and not succeed in desecrating the flag as protecting the desecration of the ma- thus goes to the very heart of the a symbol. For the flag as a symbol of terial flag makes it impossible for first amendment, as the majority of liberty is strengthened in the very flag burning to desecrate the flag as the Supreme Court justices correctly act of allowing the burpers to burn. symbol, removing that constitutional ymbol proclaims, and it ag WI ega 1mpuru y,
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