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2 Part IMonday, November 18, 1985F Cos Angeles (Times The News in Brief Compiled horn trie tos Angeies Times, ttie tos Angeles Times Washington Post news seinte and majcx and supplemental news agencies In Part One In 1987, the state hopes to dedicate a Vietnam War monument in Sacramento, but the project is already almost broke. Page 3. Officials of California Rural Legal Assistance have lodged sharp complaints about a federal monitoring team. Page 3. Lob NoI, the president of Cambodia who was ousted by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, died in Fullerton at age 72.

Page 3. Amateur astronomers have spotted Halley's comet in Southland skies, but some were disappointed. (Page 3.) In Metro Americans soon will be able to buy an English-language version of Pravda, the official organ of the Soviet Communist Party. Page 1. The supermarket strikelockout has been called a reflection of changing practices in the grocery business nationwide.

(Page 1.) Does the great popularity of Lee Iacocca and Peter Ueberroth unveil a yearning for a corporate state in America? Editorial Pages. President Reagan's chief adviser on trade issues warns the United States is threatening itself with protectionism. (Editorial Pages.) In Sports The Rams playing perhaps their worst game of the season, lost to the Atlanta Falcons, 30-14, in Fulton County Stadium. (Page 1.) Marcos Allen caught a seven-yard touchdown pass to give the Raiders a 13-6 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. (Page 1.) The Chicago Bears won their 11th straight game this season, a 44-0 victory over the usually tough Dallas Cowboys.

(Page 1.) The Lakers won their sixth consecutive game, a 138-119 victory over the New Jersey Nets at the Forum. (Page 1.) In Business Several builders are pressuring the state to allow them to buy what could be "worthless" mortgage insurance from Ticor. (Page 1.) Argentina's Austral Plan, which stopped runaway inflation in its tracks, is inching toward a critical second stage. (Page 1.) In View When Jean Lipman-Blumen watches the famous and the powerful, she's actually gauging their personal success styles. Page 1 The sun has temporarily set on Ma Maison Hollywood's favorite bistro.

Marylouise Oates reports on restaurant's last lunch. Page 1 Stuart Chase, a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "brain trust" who coined the term "New Deal," died at age 97. Page 10. The Sanctuary movement trial in Tucson is pitting the federal government against a widely endorsed alien-smuggling effort (Page 10.) Protestant backlash in Ulster against a new Anglo-Irish agreement is likely to be blunted by the structure of the pact Page 11.) Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) said his House panel now faces "real tough issues" in its tax overhaul deliberations.

(Page 13.) In Calendar TV is girding for the Geneva miniseries, in which it intends to provide exhaustive coverage of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit, Howard Rosenberg writes. (Page 1.) Clint Eastwood is the National Assn. of Theater Owners' choice as "Star of the Decade" as they get together in New Orleans for a convention. (Page 1.) The World The Region Ex-Officer Admits Theft 100,000 Protest NATO Liberia recalled its ambassador to neighboring Sierra Leone and said it is closing the border after President-elect Samuel K. Doe charged that forces that tried to overthrow him got transportation, arms and other assistance from the neighboring West African state.

A Monrovia radio station quoted one rebel as saying that the leader of the coup, Thomas Quiwonkpa, promised to pay each rebel $100,000 and send them to the United States for training. Sierra Leone has denied involvement in the coup attempt. An advanced Soviet task force will join the Soviet Pacific Fleet by midweek in a significant expansion of the nation's naval power in Asia, U.S. officials said. The task force, led by the Frunze, the Soviets' first nuclear-powered cruiser in the Far East, steamed south of Taiwan over the weekend and was observed during an overflight by naval intelligence officers and journalists.

The officers said the cruiser and two guided-missile destroyers will significantly enhance the 500-ship Soviet force. Final returns showed Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, retained its 146 seats in provincial elections. The Central Electorate Office said the main opposition Tangwai, or "those outside the (Nationalist) party," won 34 of the 191 contested seats for mayors, magistrates and provincial assemblymen. The remaining seats were scattered among small parties and independents. Egypt has Informed seven foreign envoys of alleged Libyan terrorist plots in their countries, the interior ministry said.

The countries involved are Britain, West Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Austria and Nigeria. The details of the plots were obtained in confessions from four men, identified by Egypt as Libyans, who were detained in connection with a plot to kill Libyans in Egypt. More than 100,000 left-wing demonstrators marched through downtown Athens to the U.S. Embassy calling for Greece to oust American military bases and leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Protesters later threw firebombs at police, who shot at them, killing a teen-ager, police said.

The marchers, mostly students, commemorated a 1973 student uprising against Greece's military regime. The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement and the Greek Communist Party sponsored the march, but the main opposition, the pro-Western New Democracy, refused to participate. A Shia Muslim group said it was holding four Jews kidnaped in Lebanon and demanded the release of prisoners held by Israel and its militia allies in southern Lebanon as the price of their freedom. The claim from the "Organization of the Oppressed in the World" came in a typewritten Arabic statement delivered to a news agency in Beirut. The group accused Israel of holding more than 300 "strugglers" at Khiam in southern Lebanon.

The four kidnaped men were identified in the statement as members of the committee in Lebanon for the support of Israel's Establishment. A senior aide to Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat expressed the belief that Syria will attempt to destroy a Jordanian-PLO accord for Middle East peace. Arafat has welcomed last week's rapprochement between old foes Jordan and Syria, but Abu Iyad, deputy leader of Arafat's Fatah faction, told reporters in Amman, Jordan, that despite the Jordanian-Syrian thaw, "Syria will still try to destroy the special Jordan-PLO relationship." Meanwhile, members of parliaments from 12 Arab nations ended a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, by warning the United States that it must adopt a balanced stance toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Nation iliipsittii could find jobs or relatives, authorities said. The Immigration and Naturalization Service was called by sheriffs deputies, who learned that a metal building at 4768 E.

Floral Drive was being used to harbor illegal aliens, sheriff's Deputy Sam Jones said. Two alleged "coyotes," men who illegally transport foreigners, were arrested. The Mexican citizens were taken to a federal facility, where they will await extradition, Jones said. An off-duty Los Angeles firefighter died of injuries suffered in a collision on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The California Highway Patrol said James Meier, 34, of Oxnard was northbound on Pacific Coast Highway when his car was struck broadside at the Coastline Drive intersection by an automobile driven by Hugh Taylor, 28, of Eads, Tenn.

The CHP said Taylor told investigators that his brakes had failed on a steep downgrade leading to Pacific Coast Highway. Meier died six hours later at UCLA Medical Center. Taylor was not cited. A Compton man pleaded innocent to a 1980 murder that went unsolved until police used the state's new computerized fingerprint data bank to find him. Melvin Mikes, 25, entered the plea at his Long Beach Superior Court arraignment for the murder and robbery of Harold Hansen, 76, who was bludgeoned in his Long Beach television repair shop.

Long Beach police lifted fingerprints from the shop but were unable to find a match. Police recently submitted all prints from their unsolved cases to the Department of Justice's new computerized fingerprint data bank in Sacramento. Police were notified last month that a match had been made with prints taken from Mikes when he was detained in South Gate in 1979. Local civil rights activists joined a nationwide campaign to collect 100,000 signatures from people opposed to South Africa's minority white government and its controversial policy of apartheid. The California drive spearheaded by Assemblywoman Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), the National Assn.

for the Advancement of Colored People and the Brotherhood Crusade is expected to last until December, when a four-member delegation plans to present the "freedom letter" to Bishop Desmond Tutu. "Basically, it says that the people of the United States are against the South African government and its apartheid issues, and over 100,000 signatures are here to support fighting the injustice of the system," said Sheila Eldridge, a spokeswoman. No time to lose Yelling to alert medical personnel, a volunteer rushes a mud-caked volcano victim from a helicopter to an aid station in Armero, Colombia. Helicopters on Sunday continued to search for survivors of the disaster. (Story, Page 1 The State Rare Albatross Sighted A fired Compton police narcotics officer has pleaded guilty to grand theft in the stealing of six grams of cocaine he seized during an investigation.

Theodore Brown, 39, pleaded guilty in Superior Court as part of an agreement with the district attorney's office that guarantees that he will not be sent to state prison when he is sentenced Dec. 12. Brown will instead be placed on probation by Superior Court Judge Clarence A. Strom -wall, Deputy Dist. Atty.

James E. Roller said. Conditions of his probation could include time in County Jail or in an anti-drug educational program. Brown stole the six grams of cocaine, valued at $600, from a quantity of the drug he seized last June while serving a search warrant during an investigation. At least 11 employees of Garrett AiResearch Manufacturing Co.

were disciplined in connection with an FBI investigation into kickbacks on subcontracts. Company supervisors told the purchasing department employees to clean out their desks and leave the plant. No arrests have yet been made in the investigation, which began at the company's request, said Thomas Bennett, vice president for human resources for the Westchester-based Garrett parent company of AiResearch. "There is a joint investigation with federal authorities concerning possible fraud on the part of employees," Bennett said. "This was brought to the attention of our management, who brought in the FBI." Bennett declined to comment further on the investigation.

A blackout left a 10-block area without lights, causing traffic signals to malfunction and home burglar alarms to activate, police said. A faulty underground cable caused the early-morning power outage in an area bounded by Santa Monica and Hollywood boulevards, Wilton Place and Kingsley Drive. Electricity was restored in less than two hours, when Department of Water and Power workers repaired the faulty cable. Three fishermen in a drifting lifeboat were rescued about 80 miles southwest of Santa Barbara by a Coast Guard helicopter crew. The skipper of the California Maid, William Potts, and two crew members had to abandon ship after their vessel began taking on water.

The three escaped injury but the 38-foot boat was lost, Coast Guard spokesman Pat Milton said. The fishermen were found within an hour by a Coast Guard plane and long-range helicopter based in San Diego, Milton said. Immigration officers raided an East Los Angeles building and arrested 45 Mexican nationals who were being sheltered until they Do Fair Job your handicrafts or wares." A cat burglar with shifty yellow eyes has been prowling a suburban neighborhood of Nash- Reuters Snowstorm Chills West TOM LANDERS Boston Globe The leader of an animal rights group and her parents were arrested when 175 dogs and numerous cats were found wandering in and around their smelly, soiled house in French Camp, 90 miles east of San Francisco in San Joaquin County, authorities said. "It was a nightmare," said Sheriff's Lt. Ken Wagner.

"The carpet was so soaked with urine it felt like you were walking on a sponge." The animals appeared well-fed, but the house was smeared with animal feces and littered with garbage, he said. Belinda Gascon, 28, president of the local chapter of Mobilization for Animals, and her parents, Adolfo, 52, and Romona, 51, were booked for investigation of animal cruelty and ordered to clean the house in a week or face sanitation violations. The Gascons have a kennel permit, "but they don't have a permit to use their house as a kennel," a county official said. are leery of giveaways like free turkeys or things from the food bank. Sometimes, people are too proud," said Marie Stankowski, 49.

"You're less embarrassed to sell Bird watchers reported sighting the first great white albatross seen in California waters in nearly a century. Watchers reported seeing a bird with a seven-foot wingspan dive through a cloud of gulls off the Cordell Bank north of the Golden Gate. The albatross is legendary among marine navigators because the birds accompany ships in all kinds of weather. The short-tailed albatross was proclaimed extinct in the 1930s. It was thought to have been largely exterminated by Japanese feather collectors on its breeding island in the Bonins, east of Japan.

Between 1899 and 1902, five million were killed. A few survived, although until last week they were absent from California waters, where once they were a common sight between breeding seasons. Newsmakers Jobless in Pittsburgh Area Snow fell over much of the West, with more than 12 inches reported in the Colorado mountains, and arctic air blanketed most of Montana as the wind chill fell to minus 25 degrees in some areas. The snow stretched from the northern Plains across the northern and central Rockies to the northern Plateau. Another storm that dumped up to nine inches of snow across Wisconsin moved eastward, bringing heavy rain and snow to parts of New York, New Jersey and New England.

Gale winds pounded the northeastern coast and travel advisories were posted. Hurricane Kate, with gusts of 109 m.p.h., continued its westward drift and hurricane warnings were issued for the southeast Bahamas and the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The storm also threatened to become the first November hurricane to make U.S. landfall in half a century and could be in southern Florida in 72 hours, National Hurricane Center forecaster Bob Case said in Coral Gables, Fla. The storm was last reported 75 miles east of Grand Turk Island, about 700 miles east-southeast of Miami.

Vice President George Bush overwhelmed his potential opponents for the 1988 Republican Party presidential nomination in a poll just released. Pollsters from Arthur J. Finkelstcin Associates interviewed 1,005 Republicans in early November and results were released in the Nov. 25 issue of Newsweek. Bush was tabbed by 44.3 of those interviewed as their choice for the Republican nomination in 1988.

Former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee was a distant second at 9.5. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas was next at 9.2, and New York Rep.

Jack Kemp won the approval of 7.6 of those surveyed. A group led by the two daughters of slain Rep. Leo Ryan held a memorial to mark the seventh anniversary of the 1978 murder-suicide of more than 900 residents of the People's Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana. Ryan and 912 others were victims of the murder-suicides on Nov. 19, 1978, in the South American jungle where the California congressman had gone to inspect conditions at the settlement run by the Rev.

Jim Jones. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said CIA Director William J. Casey does not feel U.S. intelligence agencies should be publicly criticized or held accountable to the American people. Sen.

Dave Durenberger the committee chairman, was replying to an open letter to him from Casey in which the CIA director criticized public discussion of intelligence matters. In a written reply published in Sunday's Washington Post, Durenberger said, "Whether Casey likes it or not, the public does hold the CIA accountable and the public must know the oversight process works." A former naval officer apparently denied a medal during his lifetime because of feuding within the intelligence community over the Battle of Midway will be honored posthumously for breaking a key Japanese code during World War II. Capt. Joseph J. Rochefort, who died in 1976, broke the code 43 years ago, when he was serving in a naval intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

The widow of one of five Communist Workers Party members killed in a 1979 shoot-out at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., has received a $351,500 settlement from the city, but officials said it was not an admission of liability. The payment, awarded In June and approved Nov. 5 by a federal court, was made to Martha Nathan. Her husband, Michael, was killed Nov. 3, 1979, in a clash between the communist demonstrators and members of the Klan and the American Nazi Party.

as Craftsmen ville, but instead of filching gems and gold he mostly hits clotheslines for potholders and dusting cloths. The victims so far are still amused by the cat burglar named Stymie, a 4-year-old jet-black Manx who drags the goods home between his legs. He disdains rodents, and now he has started to raise his sights from little valued dish towels and "rags to shirts, underwear and pants," says owner Ernie Couch. "Last week we returned a lot of children's clothes to one family he had been hitting pretty regularly," Couch days. "They were glad to get sUiendothes back." "It's interesting, said Couch's 12-year-old son, Jason.

"I sort of like it. If you're gonna have a cat, you might as well have one that does something interesting. His main cycle is eat, sleep, steal." Novelist D.H. Lawrence, dubbed "Dirty Bertie" when his book "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was labeled obscene, has won acceptance 55 years after his death with a place in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in London. -JENNINGS PARROTT "It's been a godsend, this show," Danny Hoover, 37, said as she stood behind a long table covered with stained glass ornaments, windows and lamps.

Her display was one of 75 jammed into a banquet hall at Pittsburgh's Soldiers Sailors Memorial Hall for the weekend. The crafts fair of hobby horses, crocheted dolls, ceramic dishes, quilted animals, pot-holders, Christmas ornaments and countless other items featured the handiwork of the area's unemployed, who received the space at no cost. Danny Hoover and her husband, Richard, 33, a disabled foundry worker, sold about $200 worth of merchandise in less than six hours. The couple figured the money would help cover their glassmaking expenses and possibly September's rent. The two-day fair was the first of its kind in the once-booming steel valley, where unemployment remains high.

Marie Stankowskl put her sales at more than $150. Her husband, Edward, an unemployed steel worker, had made dozens of wooden animals, pencil holders and knickknack shelves. "Some people Made in Japan New York Mayor Edward I. Koch exults under sign of Tokyo street honoring his city. Koch is touring Japan..