Week in review Sunday, January 20, 1985 Reno Gazette-Journal -4C Local Julien Sourwine, attorney for the two individuals, said they did not want to stop the shopping center but were interested in getting water service from Sierra Pacific. They live just down the road from the shopping center but in the past have been discouraged from applying, said Sourwine. wants a limit on hotel growth to harness the runaway increase in development. Sferazza says he will ask the Reno City Council to consider an annual limit on new hotel rooms approved by the city. The limit would be between 750 and 1,000 rooms, representing half of the 3 percent growth forecast for the next 20 years.
Sferazza says the city must safeguard its resources, especially water. erty tax increases for new revenues, while costs of child welfare programs rise. A new child care licensing program will cost $106,000 to run, commissioners said Monday, and the county Social Services Department will need $320,500 to hire about a dozen new workers. "Parents, taxpayers and kids ar getting the short end of the stick," Commi ssioner Belie Williams said. "We don't have monies in the budget to go forth and do the job properly." The state will pay 49 percent of the $663,000 cost of the program this year, but county commissioners say the state must pay a greater share of increased costs next year.
The county insists that it has the right to return child welfare programs back to the state to administer. tu. -'Itf '-I mm nf- h.M FOG BANK: Fog shrouds Reno-Cannon International Airport. Dozens of flights were delayed during the early part of the week. Heavy fog troublesome in Truckee Meadows Dense morning ground fog delayed jet flights in and out of Reno during much of the week and made driving hazardous.
Visibility was often down to a quarter of a mile at Reno Cannon International Airport, too little for flights. The fog was caused by moist air trapped leneath a high pressure area and covers much of western Nevada. Police reported a pileup of seven or eight cars on slippery U.S. Highway 395 northbound shortly after 8 a.m. in the fog.
The fog finally was blown out of the Truckee Meadows Friday. Innocent plea for High A plea of innocent was entered in Reno Justice Court Monday for University of Nevada-Reno bas-'. ketball star Curtis High, charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery in the beating of his girl-; friend. Justice of the Peace John Kad-: lie entered the plea when High did not appear and his attorney, Don i Nomura, declined to offer a plea High's behalf. Kadlic set trial for March 22.
The original complaint was filed after Laurie Hutchins, 25, a non-'. student, said she was beaten in High's room on the UNR campus "Dec. 25. The District Attorney's Office added charges for alleged beatings Dec. 24 and Nov.
26. High was averaging 22.8 points, State million in cocaine 'seized in Las Vegas Federal agents in Las Vegas arrested nine people and seized 85 kilograms of high-grade cocaine "worth $17 million, U.S. Attorney Lamond Mills said Thursday. Mills said the drug seizure was the largest single cocaine bust in the history of Nevada. The illicit drug was transported to Las Vegas Tuesday night aboard a twin-engine aircraft and agents conducted an around-the-clock surveillance of suspects before moving in to make arrests.
Government prosecutors said the cocaine came from Bolivia and most of it was destined for street sales in Las Vegas. Incline lawyer new judge Incline Village lawyer Lester was named Monday by Nation Self defense claimed in vigilante's case Bernhard Goetz is "not a vigi--lante" and will argue self-defense if indicted for shooting four teenagers on a subway, according to his newly appointed lawyers. "The facts suggest an obvious "defense. The man was attacked and he defended himself," said i Barry Slotnick, who was retained by Goetz to replace Frank Brenner as his lawyer Monday. I Asked if that meant Goetz would argue self-defense, Slotnick said, among other theories which I'd rather not discuss." Goetz, a self-employed electronics specialist, surrendered to police Dec.
31 in Corcord, N.H., saying he was the man who shot the youths Dec. 22. He has won broad public support for the shootings. He is out on bail, pending presentation of the case to a grand jury, which will decide whether to indict him. His alleged victims including one who remains in a coma reportedly asked for $5 before Ethiopian train derails, hundreds killed Ethiopia's transport minister took charge of an investigation into the derailment of a passenger train that plunged into 'a 40-foot ravine, reportedly killing at least 392 people.
Later unconfirmed reports put the death toll over 420. Rescue workers said all of the dead and injured have been removed from the site in central Ethiopia where the disaster occurred on Sunday. Traffic on the line was suspended after the derailment near Awash, about 125 miles east of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and normal operations on the line were not expected to resume for up to a The diesel engine was intact but all four passenger coaches were reported badly damaged. Ethiopia's state-run radio, in its first mention of the accident 30 hours after it occurred, said Monday night that 392 people "were killed and 373 injured. Earlier, relief workers said 449 of the Lane IvafMn Gazette-Journal Pacific Power to extend its water service to a proposed shopping center in Golden Valley north of Reno.
A spokeswoman for the commission said the developers for the center have already spent $500,000 in plans and acquiring water rights. There were protests from two people to the expansion of the water service territory but they were withdrawn. to declare the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, a state holiday, a spokeswoman said Monday. News Secretary Karen Galatz said however no final decision has been made. The governor declined to use his discretionary power to declare Jan.
15 a holiday this year in honor of King's birthday. The governor can declare two holidays a year. Galatz said the governor did not want to go against the will of the Legislature which in 1983 rejected the suggestion for a holiday on Jan. 15. Bryan met Monday with black leaders Bertha Mullins and the Rev.
John Collins of Reno to discuss the subject. Governor backs sports Gov. Richard Bryan says he will recommend $750,000 in state aid each year for the athletics program at the Reno and Las Vegas campuses of the University of Nevada. feet away from the embassy they are picketing. Denial in aid fraud The president of International Christian Aid has denied reports that the group has raised millions of dollars for famine-stricken Ethiopia but failed to deliver any aid to the African nation.
L. Joe Bass, president of InterAid which also uses the name International Christian Aid, accused the news media Monday of conducting a "witch hunt" and making "wild and reckless statements that he said have "hurt all relief efforts and, ultimately, the needy people we serve." "It has been reported that we have raised as much as $20 million in the last quarter of 1984 for Ethiopia and that none of the aid has gone there," Bass said. "The truth is that this is 80 times more than we raised for Ethiopia, which was only $251,487. "There are no missing millions. There is no money missing.
These widely reported millions are the product of the imagination of unnamed, unknown sources," he said. late last year after it boycotted territorial elections in the Pacific island chain. The native Kanak, or Melane-sian, population is about 40 percent of New Caledonia's population of about 140,000, and the rest are European, Polynesian and Asian immigrants. The settlers generally oppose the Kanak demand for independence from France. Municipal judge named Attorney Mark Handelsman will fill the remaining five months of former Municipal Court Judge Robin Wright's term.
The term expires in June, and Handelsman said he will seek election. The City Council voted 6-1 Monday to give him the $32,000 job. No massages or escorts The Sparks City Council has passed two ordinances prohibiting sexually oriented massage businesses and escort services. The ordinances approved Monday are aimed at discouraging prostitution. They require that massage and escort businesses keep offices open while technicians are working.
Applicants also must fill out extensive forms each year for review by police. Child care cases debated Washoe County Commissioners are saying they are running out of money to administer increasing child abuse and neglect cases, and may have to turn the workload back over to the state. Officials say they're hampered by the state-imposed lid on prop- This restores the cut he made two years ago when the state faced financial problems. At present each campus program is receiving $600,000 a year from the state. Bryan's recommendation will be included in his biennial budget being submitted to the Legislature Jan.
23. Rural gaming growing Gaming in rural Nevada is increasing at a faster pace than in the state urban areas, bringing the chance for diversified business growth and greater opportunities for farmers. University of Nevada-Reno agricultural economist Tom Harris says gaming revenues increased 18 percent in the last four years in rural areas, compared to a 1 percent decrease in urban areas. Border towns, like Wendover, Jackpot and Laughlin accounted for much of the rural growth, Harris says. Rural casinos increased in num Associated Press PROTEST ARREST: Sen.
Lowell Weicker, is arrested outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. Seniors face penalties Thousands of senior citizens could oe hit with penalties on top of the income taxes they must pay on their Social Security benefits A U.S. official at NATO said the building is "a support facility run by the U.S. Army and provides social facilities for U.S. armed forces personnel." It houses classrooms, a basketball court, a library, a cafeteria and a small commissary, he said.
Riots in Jamaica Snipers and i ock-throwers harassed police and soldiers overnight in Jamaica as they tried to clear roadblocks put up by demonstrators protesting increased fuel rices. At least three people were illed in violence that spread across the island. Winter is peak tourist time in Jamaica, but authorities said none of the estimated 12,000 foreign visitors on the Carribean island were reported injured in any of the disturbances Tuesday. Police said the situation, at most tourist resorts was close to normal. Police said that officers killed one man in Kingston after he fired on police at a roadblock and that-a motorist in Kingston was shot and killed by someone in another car.
A third fatality was a man killed by gunfire from a van in Maypcn, tops in the Big Sky Conference, when Coaxh Sonny Allen suspended him after the arrest. He reinstated the star point guard when the conference season opened last week. Water for Golden Valley The state Public Service Commission Monday authorized Sierra Gov. Richard Bryan to fill a vacant 9th Judicial District Court seat based in Minden. Bryan picked Berkson over lawyers David Gamble of Genoa and Mel Beauchamp of Carson City.
The three were recommended by the state Judicial Selection Commission for the seat vacated by Howard McKibben, recently named to a federal court seat. Berkson, 55, has lived in Douglas County for 20 years and has been practicing as an attorney in Nevada since 1955. Bryan said the new judge "is a seasoned lawyer with experience in all facets of the law." A total of eight applicants were considered by the Selection Commission. Those not nominated by the panel included Richard Legarza of Winnemucca and Richard Minor of Reno, both voted out of District Court seats in the Nov. 6 general election.
King holiday considered Gov. Richard Bryan is considering asking the Legislature again they were shot. All the youths had arrest records and three carried screwdrivers in their pockets. Weicker under arrest Sen. Lowell P.
Weicker the first Republican lawmaker to be arrested in anti-apartheid protests here, says the racial policies of white-ruled South Africa are rem-niscent of Nazi Germany. "The principles that South Africa espouses are no different from the principles that Nazi Germany espoused and against which many Americans died," Weicker said shortly before he was arrested Monday outside the South African Embassy. Weicker's arrest came as the protests against South Africa's policies of racial separation entered their ninth week. Several big city mayors and 16 congressmen had been arrested previously during the demonstrations in front of the South African embassy. Weicker and five others were charged with violating a city law that requires protesters to stay 500 roughly 1,000 passengers were killed.
The locomotive safely cleared the bridge but "the speed and weight created by a sort of centrifugal force jettisoned the wagons into the ravine." An investigation was being non-ducted under the direction of Transport Minister Yussuf Ahmed. Argument in sex case The state Supreme Court was urged Tuesday to cancel a lower court order that defense lawyers get all prosecution interviews of children in the sexual abuse case of former Reno Montessori school owner Ruben Babayan. Washoe County District Attorney Mills Lane said Washoe County District Judge John Barrett exceeded his jurisdiction in issuing the ruling favoring Babayan and two co-defendants, Greg Sarkissian and Manouchihr Rashidi. But attorney Fred Pinkerton, representing Babayan, said that without access to the interviews the defendants face up to 63 counts without the possibility of a fair trial. The 63 counts against all the defendants represent 28 alleged victims, all children between three and five years old at the time.
But the investigation reportedly entailed videotaped questioning of more than 50 and possibly up to 100 children. The high court will issue a ruling at a later date in the case. Court of Appeals. In the appeal, the defense claims Conforte received an illegal plea bargain in exchange for his testimony, and that prosecutors knew the Conforte-based charges were phony and scrapped them for the second trial. Claiborne also claims federal agents were illegally used as agents of the grand jury to gather evidence under the guise of grand jury afjents.
Snowpack below par The general lack of storms in the Sierra Nevada since mid-December has caused a decrease in the mountain snowpack. The Soil Conservation Service said Wednesday the Tahoe-Truckee Basin is 85 percent of average while the Carson-Walker is at average. It said water content in the northern portion of the state remains above average. The Humboldt Basin is 178 percent of average and the Snake-Owyhee is 124 percent of average. Precipitation since Oct.
1 in all basins is near or above average. men and leaving a seventh missing and presumed dead, authorities said. The HH-53 helicopter was attempting to airlift a crew-member from the Panamian ship to a hospital when the copter slammed onto the deck and started a fire as the ship was 540 miles north of Honolulu. Product safety studied The Consumer Product Safety Commission Wednesday today that it is important for industry to develop voluntary safety standards for its products, but then voted unanimously against endorsing such standards. The idea of throwing the commission's weight behind voluntary standards has been under study since last summer, but proved to raise more problems than anticipated and the commission staff recommended dropping the idea.
While the commission voted 4-0 to withdraw the proposal, however, it also instructed its staff to study other ways of encouraging industry to increase safety efforts. Ele and 30,000 head of livestock ave been killed. More than 100 people, including many firefighters, have been injured since the bulk of the fires broke out Monday, and thousands of wild animals, including kangaroos and koalas, were believed to have been caught in the fast-moving flames. The death toll rose to five after a firefighter in the state of Victoria died from severe burns and a second firefighter drowned in New South Wales after a firefighting boat sank in a lake, officials said. Extortion suspects found Police said Wednesday they had arrested a couple in Tokyo on charges of trying to extort $400,000 from Sapporo Breweries by threatening to poison its product.
Terukuni Nakano, 46, former owner of a waste water disposal company, and his common-law wife, Michiko Hiroshima, 34, threatened in a note dropped off at the brewery president's house on New Year's day to "distribute poisoned beer" unless Sapporo paid the money, a Metropolitan Police Agency spokesman said. Nuclear dump opposed The Reno City Council has joined its counterpart in Las Vegas in officially opposing location of a high-level nuclear dump in southern Nevada. The resolution adopted by the Reno Council also decried the possible transpo rtation of nuclear wastes through Washoe County, traversed by 1-80 and other federal highways. The federal government has chosen Yucca Mountain as one of three top sites i the country for the underground storage of wastes from commercial reactors Hotel room limit urged Reno Mayor Pete Sferazza ber from 30 to 42, he says, and increased employment by 10 percent. Laughlin in southern Nevada increased gaming revenues in four years from $24 million to $80 million.
And Elko County jumped in the same period from $32 million to $60 million. Claiborne gets bill The Justice Department is sending a bill for $14,384 to U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne to cover costs of his trial last year. Claiborne was found guilty of filing false tax returns involving $111,000 income for 1979 and 1980. His two-year prison sentence has been stayed while he appeals.
At an earlier trial, the jury was unable to reach a verdict on a seven-count indictment that included bribery charges involving brothel owner Joe Conforte. At the second trial, the government did not press the Conforte allegations. Wednesday, Claiborne filed an appeal with the 9th U.S. Circuit for the first time, a congressman says. Rep.
Edward Roybal, the chairman of the House aging committee, said Monday, "The imposition of penalties on top of this new tax would be a terrible injustice." Roybal said he has asked Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan to issue a blanket waiver of any penalties arising from the new tax. If Regan fails to do so by late January, Roybal said he ana Rep. Matthew Rinaldo, will introduce legislation to mandate a waiver. Regan said through a spokesman Monday "he would be happy to cooperate with Congress to resolve any problem that may have developed from this situation of taxing Social Security benefits." Copter crash kills 6 A merchant marine ship steamed toward Hawaii Wednesday after a.U.S Air Force helicopter trying to evacuate a sick seaman from the ship crashed on the vessel, killing six helicopter crew 30 miles northwest of Kingston, police said.
Soviets launch satellites The Soviet Union announced Wednesday that it has launched six satellites into orbit from a single carrier rocket. The official news agency Tass said the satellites numbers 1,617 through 1,622 in the Cosmos series were launched Tuesday and carry instruments intended to continue studies of space. Tass reported the instruments were functioning normally. Multiple launchings from one rocket have been carried out in the past by the Soviet Union. The latest launchings came as the United States prepares to send up the space shuttle Discovery next week on its first military shuttle mission.
French accused in killing The leader of the pro-independence movement in this French island territory Tuesday accused French authorities of involvement in the slaying of his military chief. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, head of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, said the group's defense chief, Eloi Machoro, was "murdered with the agreement of" French government envoy Edgard Pisani and gendarmerie commander Gen. Jean Deibero. Machoro was killed along with his aide Marcel Nonnaro in what police described as a shootout last Saturday. He was the security chief of the provisional government declared by the Kanak front 1 Blast aimed at U.S.
post A car bomb heavily damaged a U.S. Army social center in Brus-sis Tuesday and slightly injured two American guards, police reported. An extreme leftist group claimed responsibility for the attack, the eighth bombing in Belgium in four months. Police said the bomb exploded at 3:30 a.m. inside a small passenger car parked in front of the three-story building, less than a mile from NATO headquarters on the eastern edge of Brussels.
The blast destroyed the car, blew out all the windows in the building, wrecked its entrance hall and shattered windows in a 300-foot radius. Australian fires rage Dozens of brush fires blazed out of control across southern Australia Wednesday, burning farmland and igniting homes in a Melbourne suburb. Authorities said five peo- I.
