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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

that." The youths are not suspects m any other pipe bomb explosions. He said the three apparently learned how to make pipe bombs by reading a book called "Improvised Mumuo~ B(ack Book,' published by Desert Pubhcat10ns of Cornville, Ariz. He said a copy of the book was confiscated from Smith's home ,n t'1e 6700 block of Bestwood C'ourt m San Carlos Stnke team agents also co:,hscated from the home a large cai;:he of explosives used to make hol')emade bombs A loaded AKM sem1-automat1c nfle ',1, as fot.nd near where the borrb ent off Detective John Buono said r force agents IJad been told by Giacalone and Smith hat Ham, al o 17, not on1y made the bomb that killed him hut also owned the rifle Donald Smith, the father o Daniel Sruth, said Thursday mght hat h ',1,BS mamly upset w1tn the ed a r ..ismg photograp'is of h s son. "They didn't have the right tc do that," d cla ed. "I have an attorney coming over here. nght now to prove they didn't have a right to do that " Please see Bl.AST, Pa e 4

reached the cene Barone said Smith and G1acalone, w'1o were treated for mmor m;unes, were qu ttoned by po11ce and then released Wcdnc day night to the custody of their parents. "We didn't handle them any different

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I f vm any other iuvemle, · he said. •W I r t take a ;uvcmle up to the hall, unless it's a capital-type cnme. I thmk the world 1 afe with these kids staying with their 1 ent " I sa strike team agents beheve that H m, Smith and Giacalone were respon- 1 le hr another pipe bomb blast that d extensive damage July 21 o a car n Wandamere Court m San Car o "Our mvest1gat1on md1cates they are probabli responsible for that," Barone said. " o, I'll say they are responsible for

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Del Mar, CA (San Diego Co.) Del Mar Surfcomber (Cir. 2XW. 1,845) JUl 1

When the San Diego cit. Jerk re- ported that an initiative m ended to halt the SANDER .1rash-to-energy proJect had not qualified for the No- vember ballot, the attorneys who drafted the measure went through "three or four days of unspeakable distress." But Robert Simmons and John Minan, professor at the. Q!iiversity of San Diego La School, refused to accept the conclusion that insuffi- cient valid signatures had been col- lected to qualify the initiative. For nearly a month, the news grew more and more gloomy for San Diegans for Clean Air, the group be- hind the mitiative. But Simmons and Minan had reason for optim1~m. "i 'e went from suspicion, to hope, to , onviction. to evidence tha t pr >ved our conviction," Simmons said. The city clerk's office dealt the first blow July 2, when it announced that a random sampling of the peti- tion had not produced a proportion of valid signatures high enough to qual- ify the initiative. Eleven days later, the situation grew ·orse, as the county registrar of voters declared that a mor e thor- ough check of the signatures had pro- duced 5,657 fewer than the 54,454 needed to qualify the measure. The City Counc il reluctantly agreed J uly 20 to spend $3 1 000 to conduct a signature-by-signature check of the more than 79,000 names gathered But a week la er, the regis- See SANDER on age 8-3

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~IVERSITY Of ..SAN DIEGO - Founders Gallery, San Diego, 260-4682. An art exhibition entitled ··conta Kent - Serigraphs" features 20 prints depicting love, hope and optimism. This artist has created numerous works of an, her most famous one being ·Love," depicted on U.S. postage stamps Noon to 5 p.m.

Teresa, who 1s marned but de- e! ned to give her current name, descnbed her brother as a "curious, inqu1S1live teen-ager.' She said her brother was "not mvolved in the making of the bomb." erne Forrester, who Itves In S,m Carlos, said she had met Giaca- lone through her children's in- volvement in Mission Trails Little Leagu". She said her husband, Peter, coached a Little League team and Giacalone had ~en espe- cially helpful with "coaching, um- piring The kids hked him a lot," very pohte, not obnoxious, just a ruce kid," Forre ter said o Mallclou • Intent Seen Maure n Hetzel said she was Hams seventh-grade science teacJ-,er and eighth-grade teacher at St. Michael's Ca1hobc School m Poway Hetzel and others ha e de~cnbed him as an ind str1ous and mq s· - t1ve youth Interested m scienre h offered theory as to what motivated Ham to start fooling around with explosives. "I don't believe that it was done with anything malic10us or de- structive m mmd," Hetzel i;aid. "Curiosity, perhaps experimenta- Forrester said. "He was a good k1

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said. She said she had met wit~ grieving fam1ty and the Harns are "de\astated." Ham delivered the Escondido Times-Advocate for more than four years until he quit in March, said Jeff Brinley, the circulation promotion manager. The family had owned the route for "quite Svme time," he said. Ham inherited the route from his olde1 brother, Chnstopher, who is a college student Ham earned about $170 a month from the route. Ham's route was in a hilly area of Escund1do, and he used a moped to deliver lhe paper. Brinley called Ham a "conscientious carrier."

Church m Poway. Before JJ10vmg to Escondido, Ham's family was active in the parish. Ham's father, Charles, an ortho- pedic surgeon, an. wered the door Thursday at ,us Escondido home but declined to comment. A neighbor who a ked not to be 1dentif1ed said the Hams have livP.d in the house about SIX years The woman, who has known the Hams for five years, called them a "won- derful family." The Hams normally were aware of where their sons were at all times, the neighbor ~aid. Ham had received pcrmissio to spend the night at Daniel Smith's nouse the night of the explosion, the neighbor

tion, led him to his mvolvement, but whatever the reason, 1t was not malice. "He was always one of the top wmners in the scien e fair." Ham has an older brother, Chns- topher, 19, and a younger brother, Brian, 15. Hetzel said Ham's broth- ers are equally bright and that they, too were frequent science fair w,nne . "He liked to learn and was a very inquisitive child. I can't imagine him doing .µiything destructive. It'~ not withm the realm of posi,;. bility," said Hetzel, who has taught at St. Michr.el's for eight years. The fu era! for Ham is scheduled at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Michael's

SA!NDER: ~ -5~ Profs Kept up the fight Continued from B-1 trar's office announced that the initi- ative still was 2,956 signatures short of qualifying. Its chances of making it to the November ballot seemed to be evaporating. Meanwhile, however, Simmons and Minan were spending hours researching the law. They carefully reviewed the City Charter. It con- firmed that an initiative, in order to qualify for the ballot, must contain valid signatures from 10 percent of The ree:istrar's ~e .had -~ ----~r 1980 election voter rolls as the benchmark for qualifying the initiative. At a meet- ing between Simmons, Minan and members of the clean air group, no- body could agree as to whether the 1986 election was a general or a spe- "I decided that the easy way to find out was to go and check," Minan Minan's review of the council's ac- tion ordering the November 1986 election defined it as a special elec- tion, primarily because there were only a series of initiatives before vot- ers and no candidates were sched- So the registrar's office had erred, Minan and Simmons concluded. The last general election, held Nov. 5, 1985, should have been the bench- cial election. said. uled to run citywide.

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He was initially concerned for his immediate family, which includes two children, 8 and 14, but soon that concern extended to others. "I thought of the 15,000 schoolchil- dren within a three-mile radius (of where the plant would be), and their accumulation of toxins," he said. "I saw a significant effect on those least bl to defend themselves, like children and the e derl} " The initiative would ban trash-to- energy plants, or "garbage incinera- tors," as Minan prefers to call the plants, within three miles of schools or hospitals, effectively killing the SANDER project. Simmons is no stranger to public policy issues. He has been active in Utility Consumers Action Network, a watchdog group that keeps an eye on SDG&E, and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1984. But the SANDER cause has sparked his interest on both environ- mental and legal grounds. "This is the most fascinating of all public interest issues I've ever been involved in," Simmons said. "There are challenging and fascinating legal issues. And we're talking about pre- serving the quality of life."

mark. And because there were fewer registered voters during that elec- tion, the initiative had enough signa- lures to qualify for the ballot from

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not far from Lake Murray and San Diego State Umversity It damaged t?e passenger door of the 1985 Ford Escort shattered the back ',1,1r dow id I ned aJl other windows hinges. A loaded AKM f em1-automat1c assault rifle was ater found near the site of the blast, apparently where the boys th rew it mto some bushes. GunTrated from th

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. cache of explosives was f ome of Dame! Smith ar OS m not goin~ to confirm o~den anythmg," Barone said. "I didn{ give anyone any information W ~oun~ a lot of stuff (at Ham's h~mei' fo~ln~ .m not gonna say what w~ "I . do know the family knew rathmg about that stuff. The fami- y "':as completely unaware a they re still ma state of shock•.. nd w. I~ ~~~~f.is an oprthoped1c su~geon ice m owa} The H ltve man affluent sect10~ of E ams Hd1do. The funeral for Kevin M1~~:~j am was held Frida . chael's Catholic Churc~ i·natpSt. M1- Ba . oway, rone said he and his staff w ll meet next week with 1 t1.ves of th S . representa- . e an Diego Co t d1str1ct attorney's office t un Y me d h o recom- andn P:ualrgGes aglamst Daniel Smith 1aca one He d charges could be · sai the manslaughter a felo~ serious as likely would f~II d ->:: but more un er possession Bestwood Court in San C I " I' th h oun e

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of ~xplosive and dangerous devic- es, also a felony. Barone said no explosives had g~e~ found at Giacalone's home on nsmark Avenue in Del C nor has Giacalone been linked e[i~ pipe bomb explosion on Wander- ~er~ C? 1 :;t m San Carlos on July . . m1t and Ham have been linked to that incident which caused $1,000 damage to, dercarriage of a car. the un- Material 'Primitive• Sgt. Grayson of the sherifrs arson . and bomb squad said the material uncovered from H ' home was "very primitive !: s deadly, very erratic-that's' hyy he died." w He said a boy was killed in 1985 when a pipe bomb simllar to Ham's exploded in his face. Grayson said several books offenng instructions on how lo make such h b ... . om s are mcreasmgly available" . h county. He listed them as .. ;n t e Please see FOUND, p: f O - -

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movement for some time, said they acted out of a conviction that the San Diego Energy Recovery plant would have lasting detrimental health ef- fects on their families, friends and The measure would block the plant planned for Kearny Mesa from being built. The plant would burn 2,250 tons of city trash to make electricity for Minan, a Tierrasanta resident who has spent years researching and writing on solar technologies, said he became interested in the issue after reading a pamphlet handed to him at fellow citizens. 60,000 people each day.

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