News Scrapbook 1986

San Diego. Calif. Union (C1rc . D 217,324) (C1rc. S 339 'i83)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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NOT DELIVERABLE: Maybe Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York needs to update the mailing list. Or downplay the cute message. The District Attorney's Office received a solicitation letter the other day addressed to Deputy D.A. Thomas Hardy. "You may never need us," comes the pitch from Memorial Sloan-Kettering, "but right now we need you." Well, no. Hardy died three years ago of cancer. LIFE IN THE CITY: Ambassador Alan Woods, the deputy U.S. Trade Representative, was among the first-nighters this week at the new Grant Grill. And Woods wondered if Michel Marcais, the new Grant chef out of New Orleans, planned to prepare the Cajun-style blackened red fish here. "No, sir," Marcais replied, "I haven't spent 28 years cooking to burn fish." ... When an old a~versary of Roger Hedgecock's described the ex-Mayor's radio performance this week as "borderline arrogant," an old Hedgecock friend had a riposte: "See, all this has mellowed Roger." . . Hotel del Coronado proprietor M. Larry Lawrence played host this week to a dozen Hoteliers de la Cote d'Azur, the cream of the French hotel operators, in San Diego to promote their hotels here.. . . Huddled over breakfast Monday morning at the Westgate Hotel: Rep, Jim Bates and D.A. Ed Miller. And mindful of monitors on elected officials, Bates paid cash for his breakfast: an immodest $6.72 for coffee and rolls. PRIMER? The tape of last weekend's hugely successful UCSD symposium, featuring eight former White House chiefs of staff, won't appear among this week's top 10 videotapes. It's not on the market of course. But it's hot in high places.' Requests for copies of the uncut, 2½-hour tape that ran Friday night over KPBS are coming in to producers and organizers of the program from all over. Not least among the requests: one from Colorado Sen. Gary Hart and one from Don Regan, the current White H- ehicl of staff. -)-

G AMESMANSHIP: Those who cannot afford $1 million for a one-minute message durmg Sunday's Super Bowl telecast might wish to take a bargam option. TLI, the Chicago-based ad agency with offices in Rancho Bernardo, is offering $10,000 and 50,000 Super Bowl spots and lookmg hard for buyers. Small catch: This Super Bowl telecast will air - via delayed tape - in the People's Republic of China during the Chinese New Year (around Feb. 10). TLI will attempt to make the historic broadcast scrutable in the inscrutable East by translating and simplifying the commentary. Also included in the package: a tape of the ''Super Bowl Shuffle" and, perhaps, an interview with William '·The Refrigerator ' Perry. "The only worry," says TLI's Kelly Carle, "is that The Fridge might sca re away the Chinese viewers." ITEMS INFINITUM: Art Rivkin, who's been trying to buy a local A radio station since the sale of the family-owned Coca-Cola bottling company here, has settled for an out-of-town one. Rivkin's offers on KSDO and KOGO in San Diego didn't pan out, but his purchase of KPLM- FM in Palm Springs. for a reported $1.5 million, is before the FCC. And he'll be a commuter station owner. . .. QSD.2res. Authur Hughes and his wife Marjorie will be the honorees at Catholic Community Services' third Spiri t of Charity Ball, June 13 at Town & Country.. .. Casting director Sam Warren, working on a locally produced, G-rated film called "CryWilderness," is having a tiny casting call. He needs just one player: a North American Indian, aged 50 to 70. . . Bill Seaton, the Lottery PR chief, was home in San Diego yesterday to talk to the Public Relations Society at the Reuben E. Lee. And share the news: Next week, the Lottery will sell its billionth tjcket

TRIAL RUN FOR EW TELECONFERENCING SYSTEM IN SUPERIOR COURT From left, attorney John eitman, Judge Donald Smith and law professor Robert Simmons

Superior Court to lend an ear to phones

Test will decide if time and money can be saved for legal system

By Bill Callahan Tribune Staff Writer An experimental program of conducting some Judicial busine by telephone to save time and money for courts, lawyers and clients is bemg expanded in the San Diego judicial system. The program - handling limited proceedings over the telephone to eliminate the need for per- onal appearance by attorneys and their clients - was outlined by legal officials yesterday in Su- perior Court, where it will be used in a five-month test. If the experiment works, such a system could save att rneys. clients and the courts hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, said Robert Sim- mon . a Univer ·ity of San Dieeo Jaw professor overseeing tire program. "Inmy opinion, this is one of the most potential- ly valuable developments to come along in the court system in this century," said Simmons, a

former Ohio judge. The system has been used in U.S. District Court in San Diego since Dec. 10 by U.S. Magistrate Edward Infante. Simmons said Infante "has been quite pleased" with the program. The equipment involved includes four outside phone lines for each courtroom, enabling a judge to preside over a hearing with up to four attor- neys. So far, the system is being used only in non- evidentiary, pretrial civil hearings and adminis- trative matters. "Under the present rules," Simmons said, "at- torneys have to leave their offices, drive to the courthouse, arrive in the courtroom and then await their turn for proceedings that may take only five to 15 minutes. "This will eliminate much of that otherwise wasted time." The experiment has the support, including a

$1,000 donation, of the San Diego Bar Association. Many individual lawyers and law firms also have made donations to help finance the experiment, which eventually could cost about $25,000, Sim- mons said. Said John Seitman, association president: ''The experiment we're undertaking is one that the San Diego Bar Association has bad a keen interest in. There is a great concern today about the cost of delivery of legal services, and we'd like to see if this gives us a concrete way of lowering these costs." Presiding Superior Court Judge Donald Smith, in whose courtroom the equipment is being in- stalled this week, said the test has the backing of the judges. "We're anxious to go forward and try this for the next four months," he said. The project also has the financial support o~l~h1/ county, which is ~rwriting $5,000 of the cos/

San Diego, Cal if. Southern Cross (Cir. W. 27,500)

Lemon Grove, CA (San Diego Co.) Lemon Grove Review (Cir. W. 7,004)

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JAN23 1986

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

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ternational Terrorism Talks To Laun~ 'Great Decisions' Series Fru~ tiin O\·er the coun- with the personal rank of Am- try's inability to respond ef- bassador in 1974. An attorney, fe.ctively: to terrorist acts Dale has had a multi-faceted threatening American citizens career, including international has catapulted the issue of affairs, publishing, and sports. international terrorism to the HE is currently t!le Commis- forcfront of public dialogue. sioner of the Major Indoor The World Affairs Council of Soccer League. San Diego will launch the an- International Terrorism will nual "Great Decisions Pro· be one of the 8 world affairs gram" series with a discussion topics in the 1986 "Great Deci- on terrorism led by former sions" discussion series pre- Ambassador to the United Ka• pared by t he Foreign Policy tions European headquarters in Association of New York. More Geneva, Switzerland, Francis than 30 commun ity groups in L. Dale. San Diego County h a v e al- Following Am bass ad or ready been crgani7ed tn spend Dale's presentation, Executive the months of February and Director of the World Affairs March on discussion and anal- Council, former Ambassador ysis of such topics as Star t,, Kuwait Frank Maestrone War s and the Geneva Talks, and ~ Associate Professor frrae l and the lI.S., et c. of Political Science Joh n I nformation on the program Chambers w i 11 a d d further and reservations can be had comments at a meeting sched- by calling the World Affairs uled for Wednesday, January} Council of San DiegQ, 23Hlll.l

"living room" of USD'~s _ was "topped out" Jan 17 as the last olsome 800 tons of steel beams was installed. Construction. of the $9 million, 70,000 square foot, two-level building began in September 1985 and is ch ·dulecl to be finished in October. THE FACILITY will be a student center, housing a lounge, . tud_ent and faculty dining areas, a grill, a deli, st11dt"n1 affairs offices, a game room, a student union n·nrer, student publications offices, and conference roorns _VS~ pr.,,idt·nt Autho~ E. Hughes and Eugene Trepte, of the frcptc Construc11on Company, were present for the _ ceremony. Others attending were Roy Drew, archttect, 1-ferm,rn Kopf, vice president of Artimex Iron Mi_ke ~ing, pre 1dent of Trepte Construction, and lllllvt·r tty board mt>mbers , Oltic-iatmg rnernhrrs and work!'rs signed the white br-,1111 before JI was hoisted into position. The rrnter is the fourth multi•million dollar building to b wnstructcd at VSD smtc 1983. L--~---~--------~--~-

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29 at 7 p.m. in t he Mancheste r ..l Executive Confer ence Center, · 1 University of San Diego. ,I The "Great Decisions" key- note speaker, Francis L. Dale, was appointed U.S. Represen• tative to the United Nations