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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 207,415) (Cir. S. 332,920)

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ry faces strong challenge in 41 grcss)is that 1 want to make a differ- ence and I thlllk I can" H; advocates lowering the federal

national situations must take a back seat in importance to the nuclear issue because ''those kmd of prob- lems could Just vanish in a bolo '- caust." Ho tetter, who now makes 1!1odels of new cars for Chrysler, said San Diego is one of the top five cities m the United States targeted for nucle- ar destruction by the Sov1 t Umon because of the naval presence here. "It's gomg to happen, sooner o~ later, unless someone does somethmg to stop it" he said, pomting to a table- top. "Tllis is Ground Zero" Lmda Carl ton, representing the Democratic Party egment headed by Lyndon LaRouche, said she is ru~- nmg for Congr becau no candi- dates representmg her views have come forward. A newcomer of. l!'.SS than three months to San Dieg?, Carlston said he recognized sb 15 considered an underdog. but planned to run a campaign of "ideas and ob- servations." "I've waited for years for someo.ne to come along," she said in ~xplam- mg her support of LaRouche s Ideas for advanced techo logy. See 41st on Page B-2

deficit through closing corpor_ate tax loopholes, iunk1Dg the expensive MX missile, cutting government spend mg and squeezing the fat out of the Pentagon budget. Simmons supports a militarily strong United States but wants "to put a cap on what I conSid- er an insane and suicidal nuclear es- calation" by the superpowers. He de- nounced us. involvement ID Central America under its present rol_e, say- ing the same mistakes of_ Vietnam and Cuba are being made ID El Sal- vador and Nicaragua. Hosteller, 42, is running a ingle- the political arena after losing a bid for Congress 14 years ago and decided to return for another , hot only after llis three children had been raised. Hostetter was a research engineer for Lockheed for 10 years, working on advanced weapons systems which he terms "more frightening than any thing to date . . . The plan for the future are just insane." He said local problems and other issue campaign f n clear war that of the danger . . He vanished from

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8 • tendency to vote one way and come back into the district and tell everybody you upport the other ide" He aid the congressman has vot~d against the Equal Rights Am ndment twic while aymg he upports women's rights, and bas m1 repr nted himself on a bal- anced budget amendment and some environmental and economic sub- jects. h "l know it's going to be a toug fight, but rm prepared," 1mrno~ ul.. "l want the people of the dis- trict to know they have a choice Look, I'm 56 years old I have ten- ur here l enjoy teaching law I moved my family to lead th good life m San Diego. Three months off, paid vacatio . l enjoy t~at. My only reason for doing it (running for Con- I

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41st: Lowery faces strong challenge 1Q;l--- - f p th ugh Del Mar and Cardilf by the atlnued lrom B-r' ag ID exchange for oil from mind, and believe other inland rom r:~~ r;est- Sea. Despite the Democrat- •. . Tb re is cone •rn that Me11co; registration of people should make their Santee and h ' f th ic figures it is generally not bcrng repre nled by worn n for national service own decisionsl' • ward across muc o e considered a Republican tbe candid tes or the slmil r to the draft reg1 - Baase said sbe had been northern part of the county t gbold although med, . Th re 15 1 f hog trallon for men, nd a "Sal>- interested in running for to. the coastal areas .,!ro~ Li~e~'s iwtial election in that things ar not being bath for the atmospnere" in office "almost smce '· be- Miss_1on Beach upht~ ~c!s 1980 was only by a margin ta.ken c.ire of " which one da y a week came involved" m politics, dia, mcluding;ucil" oc:eaoch, of 10 percentage points. Dr. Norman M nn, a re- would be t aside during but was loo busy until tllis as La J olla, ac ic ./ tired La Jolla d nl' t, is which no intern I combus- year. '1'here are so many origmally from Brooklyn, lion eng1n (such as auto-- critical issues involved and N v., and moved here about mobiles) would be operated. Mr . Lowe r y ce rt a inly l9!12 hil with tb Navy. lie is pending the entire doe s n' t r e pr esen t my H r n for Congr ·•but I t month of May, unmediately views," she said 14 y an1 ago, and d sded lo before the pnmary election, Haase said her party is l.iuncb nolh r bad bccaw;e working in the Middle East "not Just concerned about or di.ssausractioo with the B ase , S6, could be the deficit. It's the whole •»upermegabucks" of the termed an "Atari Liberian- budget tha t's the problem." ftderal budg t deflcal. an " I" mated with the She also advocates the mili- " Tb ltu sia n , who emerg1Dg age of the com- tary budget bemg "drasti- pcomised to bury us, were puter while obtainmg ber cally cut." wron&," b • id "But we're magna cum laude degree in She iS firmly Libertarian h ble to drown ID a sea of mathematics at New York on foreign policy, opposing red ini., thank s to the Universi ty in 1967, the all U.S. military involve- agan budget " Brooklyn resident beaded ment abroad and emphasit- His own solullon - "the West and earned a doctor- mg such things as diploma- Mann Piao" - calls for all ate rn mathematics from cy and trade for int.erna- congr 10 nal candidat to Berkeley durmg lhal col- tional relations. Baase said refu:ie to raise the debt ceil- lege's days of unrest 10 the Washington bas DO "legiti- mg. "Tb n they must go lo late 1960s. She is back at mate moral case" for its work and er te budget Berkeley on a research sab- military presence in Ceo- that must be balanced," he batical. . . tral America. She en- id. "We have to operate She became a Libertanan courages Mexican unnu- lhe government llK; w.iy we ,while ID colle e afte,~ "an gration, documented or not, would o_pcrple our business awrut lot of read111g and and opposes sanctions on 'b\l our' bome." 1 has been active in the party employers who hire them Mann also proposed a SID~ about 1972 because "I because . ''it }macks of po- barter ID which San Diego believe ID md1v1dual free- lice statISm. _ . would pr T1iuaoa sew- dom and makmg up my own The 41st D1slncl reaches Escondido, C Daily Times Advocate (Cir. 0. 31,495) (Cir. S. 33,159) APR 9 Jll/"11'• P C B I I H8 By Ann P~rry The r.me,, Arl..-\ Jle POWAY - For Jean Harr\3, former cil~torney of Poway, the return to private llfe has nc,t been eal!y. When Harris sent out invitations In December lo an- nounce the reopening of his private law practice he was ~.urpr!sed to find several returned with a m'essage: Cnnunals should go to Jail."

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Harris, 45, said the hostile re~ponses are typical ot the atl!tude he _has encountered since st~pping down Nov. 15 as Poway c1ly attorney. He left the post a day after plead- Ing guilty to one misdemeanor count of selling subaivided land withou t state registration. Though he pleaded guilty, Harris maintalned tha t he was lnn~cent - but could not afford the costly legai fees for a cnmtnal trial and did not want to pu t any more strain on hls family. In exc,hange fo r his plea, the district

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J13a~ Harris, fo rmer Poway city attorney..

-•H~rris l1 said. " I don't ha ve a law practice." During an Interview in his Rancho Ber- narda office last week, Harris explaine

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like any lawyer can make a priest look- like a bad guy." Uthe private dealings of public officials are subjected to intense inquiry. Harris said, potentially qualitied pers-0ns will not seek out public employment. " You never get that type ot dynamic person ... who's been tn business, been successful .. ," he said. " What you get are people In office who are what I call 'drones.' Not that there aren't some good people in government. You make people fearful of stepping forward. . " I really object to that kind of thinking (that public officials should adhere to higher standards ). They're human. They have kids that they kiss and send off to school. If they weren't human, why would you want them in public office?" In a written statement Harris made public last week, he said that because- of his criminal case " a terrible injustice has come to the city of Poway . .. The city's Inequity ls that the community will never know the impact I would have had upon the future of this city and the cities throughout the state. "I had always envisioned myself as a unique city attorney. This, because I did not come trom the bureaucratic mold but from the trenches of a business communi- ty and wanted to see the city run with busi- ness efficiency . .. For 10 years I gave and never took from this community. Now, all of this has been destroyed .. ." At the time he ~signed, Harris, said, he was working on Ideas that could have saved Poway and other California cities mlllloru of dollars. These Included length- en.Ing the time a contractor on a city project must lru!ure his work and r!!ducing salaries contractors are required to pay

workers on certain government projects. Harris said he has a special feeling for Poway because he helped create it. Li ke the majority of the Clty Council members. he was active m the city's incorporation drive. Poway became a city in 1981. A native San Dlegan, Harris moved to Poway in 1972. He earned his b~lor's de.me from San Diego State University in 1964, then servecl in the Navy lor three years before attending }.!,w school at the Univermty of San Die_go. (He con tinues to serve as a Naval reserve offi cer.) After law school, Harris worked for the San Diego city attorney 's office and then in private practice. Shortly after moving to Poway, Harris said, he was persuaded to run for the Poway Planning and Development Pro- gram committee, a citizen's- planning group which eventually paved the way for Incorporation. After serving on that com- mittee, he was elected to the Pomerado County Water District board of di rectors During the often controversial drive for incorporation, Harris c;µnpaignetl active- ly. U seemed only right, In his view, that he should work for the newly created city. Harris said he " envisioned that the city would be run by people who had a lways been active in this city. It would still be our city." From the beginning, Hams said, Poway officials vowed their city would be " differ- ent" from others. Poway would not feel obliged to lit traditional molds. And Harris - known around City Hall for his stylish mss and collection of ex- pensive sports can - did not want to !it the mold. either. . "I'm not a conservative ~non." Harris said. He recalled that upon being hired as

city attorney one councilman called hlm "a ma verick. " Harris said that unlike most other city councils, there was little divis iveness among Poway council members. For that reason, he said, lhe council a ccomplished a great deal. "I would always start with the question, 'What do you want to do?' Then I would ask, 'Is it lawful?' " Harris said. The council quickly earned a reputation for fa voring slowgrowth and requiring de- velo~l"'S to meet high standards. Starting in 1981 Harris found himself at the center of a city legal problem. A group of Poway property owners, unhappy be- cause of delays In getting city approval to divide their parcels, accused him of a con- flict of Interest. The property owners said Harris should not participate in decisions about their land beeause his Ramona subdivision was adjacent to theirs and he had been feuding . with one ol them over a road . Harris bowed out of the case, and it was handled for the city by another attorney. In 1982 one of the owners sued, and the city w&s ordered to reconsider its require- ments for approving the parcels. . But jus t as the disgruntled property owners were about to win permission to divide their parcels last year, Harru turned over some court records to the city. The documents led the city council to de- clare that the existing parcels had been Illegally subdivided and that costly im- provements had to be made before further divisions were made. Harris sald he sees no similarity be- tween what he did - m providing !nforma• tlon to tbe city of Poway - and what the attorneys for the disgruntled property

owners did - in supplying lnformatlo about his subdivision to the district attor- ney's office. He said that as a publlc om- clal he had to turn over what he knew. "I don't want anybody to say I withheld anything," he said. In tiling criminal charges against Harris. the dlstrict attorney's oftlce also accused him of creating an illegal subdivi- sion in violation of the county regulations. Illegal subdiv isions are usually created to avoid costly improvements such as roads and streetlights. Harris, a real estate broker, has insisted . that he circumvented the county's subdi- vision rules to save time - and not to save money on Improvements. And he insistecl that he did not create an illegal subdivi- sion. · Meanwhile the disputed road to Harris' subdivision has not been built and the partnership which put up the money for the property remains tn bankruptcy, fall- Ing further behind tn mortgage payments. Harris said he decided to file a civil rights suit against those who helped bring criminal charges against hlm - rather than try to have the criminal case itself overturned. He said that unlike a criminal case, a civil rights case will allow l\im to recover damages plus legal expenses. And he hopes it will help clear his fami- ly's name. The publlclty from the criminal case, he said, "was tearing my family apart. I've seen people institutionalize for a lot less." Meanwhile, Harris said he will try to rebuild his law practice. "If I wasn•t such a good lawyer it wouldn't upset me so much," he said. "I hate to leave It." ·

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