Tonight on News at Ten, officials uncover a plot to assassinate Solidarity leader Lech
Voenza.
A PCP bust in Compton turns up half a million dollars worth of drugs.
Six bodies are discovered in the burned out remains of yesterday's fire in Philadelphia.
And Los Angeles police chief Darrell Gates reacts to the arrest of his son for stealing
narcotics.
Drugs are killing young people and he's a prime example of just exactly that.
Channel 5 News at Ten, the number one primetime news hour in Los Angeles.
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Good evening, the son of Los Angeles police chief Darrell Gates is in jail tonight charged
with the armed robbery of a Huntington Beach drug store.
29 year old Lowell Gates is reported to be a drug addict who committed the crime to support
his habit.
Sam Chulin has the story.
An anguished Los Angeles police chief Darrell Gates is wondering what more could he have
done for his son to prevent this latest family tragedy.
The 29 year old Lowell Scott Gates, an offspring of chief Gates first marriage, is in custody
on suspicion of armed robbery at the Huntington Beach drug store.
Chief Gates says his son has had bouts with drugs since high school has gone through rehabilitation
now this.
He is responsible.
He's 29 years old and he has been told all his life that he is to be held responsible
for the things he does and so he will get no assistance from me.
According to witnesses, the young Gates came to this drug store, loaded around for a few
minutes and handed one of the pharmacists a note demanding drugs.
He said he was armed.
He was very calm and just stood there waiting for his package.
He never did get rattled or anything that I could see.
One of the drug addicts chased the suspect to this neighborhood about a block away.
The suspect ran to this house where his mother lives.
He entered the home, he had three men pursuing him.
Immediately six police officers came to the scene.
They used a PA system to order him out of the home.
They had their dogs waiting and they were prepared to call the SWAT team but neither
were necessary.
He came out a half hour later and surrendered peacefully.
The young Gates is now in jail.
Next stop, a court appearance for arraignment on armed robbery charges.
In Huntington Beach, Sam Chuland, Channel 5, News at Ten.
In Philadelphia, six people are now reported dead as firemen poke through the ruins of
60 homes burned in last night's battle between a radical group and local police.
The bodies of four adults and two children were taken from the rubble that was headquarters
of the group known as MOVE.
The fire began after police dropped a concussion bomb on the building.
The blaze was apparently fueled by kerosene stored inside the house and flammable liquid
on the roof.
Today over 250 people were left homeless.
Many of the residents were angry saying that firefighters were slow to react.
They have made me an absolute wrecked loose in my own city.
My house is completely burned out through no fault of my own.
I have no place to go.
All I've got is what I've got on here at this time.
Now to change the floor, they can't even take a shave.
I don't even have a razor or nothing.
The house is gone.
If you have never faced hostile fire, I cannot fully describe what was going on there yesterday
and I don't just mean in an urban environment anywhere.
I will not commit my people and I was instructed not to commit my people with the support of
both the mayor and the managing director.
We are firefighters.
We are not infantry men.
The firefighters were being fired upon with weaponry by the MOVE group.
Today Philadelphia Mayor Good promised the homeless the city would rebuild their homes.
Anytime he defended the decision to drop that bomb, despite evidence, children were in the
compound.
They were concerned and received a tremendous amount of information that the group had built
a tunnel and were in fact in possession of explosives with the potential to blow up the
entire block.
Leaders in other cities around the country have been quick to react to Philadelphia's
use of the concussion bomb in the attempt to evict the radical group.
New York Mayor Ed Koch called the act stupid.
He said a similar incident could not happen in his city.
Here in Los Angeles, Police Chief Gates said a device similar to the LAPD's motorized
battering ram might have been a viable alternative to using a bomb.
Two workmen were hospitalized today in critical condition after being seriously burned in
an electrical explosion.
The explosion occurred at the Starkist Tuna plant in San Pedro where the two men were
working in a transformer facility on the factory's ground level.
A spokesman says the workers were injured when the transformer exploded, splashing
the men with hot oil causing critical burns.
The result was that both of them were seriously burned.
One of them we estimate had second and third degree burns over 90 percent of his body.
The second patient, both of them were 50 year old males.
The second one had second and third degree burns that we estimate over 40 percent of
his body.
The victims were treated at the scene by paramedics then transferred to the Torrance Memorial
Hospital by helicopter.
In San Francisco, the police bomb squad today defused a powerful pipe bomb about 20 minutes
before that device would have exploded in a normally busy classroom building at San
Francisco State University.
A janitor found the 8 inch long pipe just before 6 this morning.
The area was cleared.
The bomb defused around 8 o'clock.
That was only 23 minutes before it was set to go off.
An anonymous caller said a second bomb was planted on campus but none was found.
A motive for the incident is still not known.
And sheriff's narcotics detectives in Compton today discovered enough chemicals to make
nearly $500,000 worth of PCP.
The raid uncovered a PCP mixing laboratory as well as gallons of chemicals used in making
the illegal drugs.
Detectives say the resident of the home on West 134th Street was not involved in the
drug operation but his nephew, 25 year old Mark Hibler, was arrested on drug charges.
That raid was conducted after the sheriff's department received reports of strong smells
coming from that house.
Two legal aid groups have filed suit against agencies they say are jailing juveniles in
adult facilities.
Included in the lawsuits are Los Angeles County's Lennox Jail, two city facilities and the Long
Beach City Jail.
Attorneys filing the suit claim that California leads the country in the number of children
held in adult jails.
What we're saying is that two things need to be done.
First, the decision when you pick a kid up as to whether the kid needs to be securely
confined or not has to be made.
We need to have specific detention criteria used.
Right now there's a shoot from the hip reaction of locking a kid in jail.
Those resources need to be spent on civilized and appropriate alternatives which are not
damaging to the children and are not unnecessarily hazardous to their lives as well as their
limbs and their liberty.
At a separate news conference Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block admitted that
some of the charges made in the lawsuit may be true but are not as serious as they are
made out to be.
Ideally it would be nice to keep youngsters out of jail but what is the alternative to
those who constitute a threat to the community.
They must be kept in a secure environment and until there is an alternative to jail
I would suppose that jail is the appropriate place to put them.
Sheriff Block says the California Youth Authority regularly inspects the county's jails and
has not informed the county of any violations in housing juvenile suspects.
Law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty were honored during memorial
ceremonies in La Mirada.
We have more from Mike Potula.
The torch has been carried more than 300 miles by officers honoring their fallen comrades.
The presentation opened the annual ceremony honoring police officers slain in Los Angeles
County in the past year.
The memorial ceremony this year is being held at the La Mirada Civic Theater, the Sheriff's
Academy where it had been held in the past has moved from East LA to Whittier and a new
permanent memorial is being built there.
This year three names are being added to the memorial officer Duane Johnson of the Los
Angeles Police Department, reserve deputy Lloyd Brooks and deputy David Holguin of the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Officer Johnson was shot and killed last December during a hold up at a Chinatown jewelry store.
Deputy Brooks was killed September 1st as he directed traffic at the scene of a rescue
and deputy Holguin was gunned down four days later when he stopped to help a small boy
wandering along Florence Avenue in Belle.
The keynote speaker, associate U.S. Attorney General Lowell Jensen notes that the sacrifices
made by officers like Holguin, Johnson and Brooks are having an impact on crime.
The first time we have had successive years where the crime rate of this country has actually
been reduced.
The families of the officers being honored say it was a job they wanted to do.
We talked about it him and I many times and he told me you know that he would be as careful
as he could but that was the name of the game and when your number is up it's up.
Ceremonial wreaths were laid in front of the monument and then taps was played.
Johnson Brooks and Holguin joined 335 other officers killed in the line of duty in Los
Angeles County.
Mike Botula, Channel 5, News at Ten.
Coming up next on News at Ten, a test pilot is killed when his F-20 Tiger Shark crashes
during a practice flight.
Pilots for United Airlines move closer to a threatened strike and Secretary of State
George Shultz discusses the Star Wars proposal with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
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In Washington the Reagan administration today agreed to resume direct talks with Nicaragua
but only if the Sandinistas show they are serious about a peace settlement.
Earlier peace talks you'll recall broke off last January.
The White House also announced that President Reagan will meet with the Salvadoran President
Jose Napoleon Duarte on Thursday.
Duarte and President Reagan last met one year ago.
Secretary of State George Shultz today met with the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
for arms talks in Vienna, Austria.
The two leaders met at the Soviet embassy.
Their talks lasted for six hours, twice as long as originally scheduled.
But later Mr. Shultz told reporters that the talks focused on arms control, in particular
the Geneva negotiations.
Our discussions were useful and they were comprehensive and they were detailed.
Again, I think it was lengthy, useful and a worthwhile meeting.
Basically Mr. Shultz revealed very little.
In addition, the spokesman for Gromyko said today in order for arms talks to progress
the so-called Star Wars space defense system must also be included.
The pilot of an F-20 Tiger Shark fighter jet was killed today during a practice flight.
The accident happened in eastern Canada while the plane was being put through exercises
in preparation for the Paris Air Show.
That airplane is manufactured by the Northrop Corporation as a less costly alternative to
the United States Air Force's F-18.
An investigation of today's crash is underway.
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With a strike deadline just three days away, United Airlines and the union representing
4,900 pilots reported no progress after today's negotiations.
Those negotiations aimed at settling on a new contract.
At issue in the talks is a proposed two-tiered salary scale that would pay new pilots less
than those already flying for the nation's largest airline.
The strike, threatened for midnight Friday, could affect more than 1,500 daily United
flights.
But airline officials say that 500 pilots have been trained to fly United's planes
in the event of a walkout.
Democrats on the House Budget Committee tonight reached agreement on a spending proposal for
1986.
The Democrats' plan preserved Social Security cost of living increases while freezing military
spending at the current level.
A similar plan by the Republican-led Senate restrained Social Security benefit increases,
a move that House Speaker Tip O'Neill says is wrong.
You're harming the majority of the senior citizens who made America great and they think
it's extremely unfair to again hurt that group who had been hurt before.
The Democrats' plan meets the Republican-controlled Senate's goal of cutting $56 billion from
that federal deficit.
Hal?
A member of the California State Board of Equalization gave Los Angeles area taxpayers
today an opportunity they've never had before, a chance to present their tax problems directly
to him.
As a board member, Conway Collins is one of California's top tax officials.
He opened his office so people could bypass the bureaucratic red tape associated with
paying taxes.
The first thing and the only thing I promised to do is to listen to the problem and to try
to get to the bottom of it.
And I think we've been able to do that.
Now in some situations we've actually been able to get a refund for somebody.
Today's open office meetings were held at the Van Nuys Chamber of Commerce.
Collins will do it all again tomorrow at the Litton Employees Federal Credit Union in Woodland
Hills.
That brings us to tonight's Consumer Trends and Larry McCormick.
The courageous man.
Yes, he's trying to help consumers.
A test of his courage will be to see if he does it again next year.
Okay, hello.
Consumer Trends, of course, brought to you by National Lumber and tonight a look at a
new trend in pet care, home tutoring for the family dog.
Obedient classes for the family pet have long been very popular, but now some instructors
are offering home service as well.
For example, Teton here and his owner are now on their second home lesson.
Their instructor is Sandy Miller, whose company is called Tender Dog Tutor.
She believes in teaching dogs to want to behave.
I firmly believe that really the owner is the biggest problem.
And by coming to the home rather than sending the dog away, it really gets the owner trained
so that they know what they're doing with the dog.
The other thing too is that when a dog has problems, the problems are usually at home.
The chewing, the digging, the jumping on people, the wetting in the house.
And to send the dog away really doesn't accomplish that nearly as well as it does when you go
to the home and work directly with the problems at the home.
Miller also uses a lightweight leash for gentle reprimands.
She says the cost of the home service varies depending on the dog's individual needs.
Ms. Miller adds that to learn the basics of good behavior, most dogs take about a six-week
course of lessons.
After that, owners continue to work with their pets on an individual basis.
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Blood and Guts Week continues with Battle of the Balls, Thursday at 8 on Channel 5, LA's
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In Sri Lanka, Tamil separatists sprayed the streets of Andhra Pura with automatic weapons
fire.
More than 170 people were reported killed and hundreds more wounded.
The 2400 year old town where the attack took place is sacred to Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority.
The massacres believed to be in retaliation for attacks by army units that killed more
than 100 Tamil civilians.
In Poland, the Solidarity Found Elect Vauenza is challenging a government claim that the
government prevented a murder plot against Vauenza from being carried out.
The government says it has arrested a convicted murderer who had agreed to kill Vauenza for
an underground organization.
But Vauenza says the man is a Solidarity supporter who revealed the plot to him.
Vauenza says the man was ordered to kill him at a train station in northern Poland and
then allow himself to be captured.
He then was to blame the United States for supposedly ordering the assassination.
Savage violence accompanied the funeral of a black union leader in South Africa today.
Police were out in force after three separate bomb explosions damaged law enforcement buildings
near the funeral site.
The bombings were accompanied by a work stoppage of about 300,000 black workers who were protesting
the union leader's death.
The coffin of 29-year-old Andris Rytzela was born above an enormous crowd of mourners.
Rytzela died of a brain hemorrhage two days after being taken to custody by police.
His relatives and supporters claim that he was fatally beaten.
In the Netherlands, Pope John Paul II received a warm welcome from some 30,000 people who
lined the streets of the ancient city of Maastricht.
The Pontiff spoke at an open air mass.
He said that the church will continue to oppose promiscuity, homosexuality, birth control,
and abortion.
His speeches today showed a continued rejection of demands made by Dutch liberals who want
a relaxation of the church doctrine on sexuality.
Tomorrow, the 64-year-old Pontiff will fly to Luxembourg for a two-day visit.
And locally, four clergymen from Grace Community Church in Sun Valley are on trial for malpractice
in the case of a church member who committed suicide.
Today, the victim's parents tried to show that other church members have taken their
own lives.
Brian Jenkins reports.
The senior pastor at the Grace Community Church claimed last week that when 24-year-old Kenneth
Nalley shot himself in 1979, it was the first time in at least 10 years a member of the
church had committed suicide.
Edward Barker, the attorney representing Nalley's parents in their suit against the church, said
that just wasn't true, and he called two witnesses to back up his claim.
One, the sister of a young Grace parishioner who also shot himself.
The other, a pastor at another evangelical church who knew a third suicide victim in
the Grace congregation.
Barker also called Nalley's father, Walter, back to the stand to reiterate his claim that
Grace pastors kept him in the dark about his son's suicidal tendencies.
If you had known of his various conversations with various church pastors, where he talked
about trying again or being sorry he'd failed or still wanting to do it, would you have
considered his suicidality to be a meaningful threat?
Yes.
Attorneys for the church say they'll ask the judge on Wednesday to dismiss the suit, arguing
that there is no legal duty for pastoral counselors to make psychiatric referrals and that even
if there were such a duty, Kenneth Nalley's parents have not proved the counselors at
Grace Community Church were negligent.
But if the judge turns down the motion to dismiss, the defense attorneys say, they'll
take at least a week presenting their case.
Brian Schenken, CNN, Glendale, California.
An Episcopal bishop is suing the United States government for $200,000.
Bishop William Falwell says that a knee injury he suffered on a government-owned tennis court
prevents him from genuflecting before the altar.
But attorneys for the United States government are countersuing, saying he had no business
using the government tennis court in the first place.
Now, the news tonight, one of the famous Osmonds files for divorce, a popular low-calorie
diet comes under fire from nutritionists.
And we're going to see how painted murals can be good therapy for hospital patients.
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One specialist told a Senate subcommittee today that the Herbalife low calorie diet
can be unsafe for consumers and it only helps dieters psychologically.
The Herbalife products have come under scrutiny during hearings on the effectiveness of weight
control products.
The panel heard testimony today regarding some ill effects of the nationally sold diet
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Several of my customers suffered from vomiting from taking the products and one woman became
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Take a look at tonight's health and fitness report.
Okay, thank you.
You know most cold remedies contain two ingredients, an adihistamine to dry up secretions and a
decongestant to shrink blood vessels in the lining of the nose.
That combination is okay for most people but it is potentially unsafe for people who have
high blood pressure.
According to the publication American Family Physician, since decongestants shrink swollen
nasal membranes by constricting their blood vessels, they can constrict blood vessels
elsewhere in the body too.
For the hypertensive that raises the possibility of stroke or heart damage from elevated blood
pressure.
As a decongestant, better for hypertensives to use nose drops or a nasal spray where it
acts locally.
People who work out regularly are well aware of the importance of fluid intake to compensate
for sweat loss.
Less obvious but equally critical is the effect of dehydration that results in a reduction
of blood volume due to strenuous exercise.
It's important that there be a large volume of blood circulating through the kidneys during
exercise to wash away breakdown products released from the muscles.
Now if those substances clog the kidneys, you probably pass very little urine and there
may be blood in it.
If allowed to continue, permanent kidney damage could result.
So stay hydrated during strenuous exercise, very important.
On the other hand, for epileptics, too much water could be extremely harmful.
Dr. James White, Stanford University School of Medicine, cites the cases of three epileptic
women whose seizures were under control medically until they went on a fad diet which caused
them drinking 8 to 12 cups, that's about 2 to 3 quarts of water a day.
When they did that, their seizures started again.
There is, says Dr. White, no reason to drink massive amounts of water even if you're not
epileptic, but especially if you want to avoid it if you are.
And that's tonight's report.
Hal?
Okay, now you know, if you've ever been ill, mental attitude is considered an important
factor in getting well.
Well, reporter Nancy Laffey has news about a local artist who is helping to enhance the
optimistic outlook.
Hospitals don't have to be bland and sterile looking, at least that's the feeling at the
Medical Center of North Hollywood.
Officials invited well-known mural artist John Fite to spruce up their plain walls to
cheer up patients.
His brightly colored murals depicting nature decorate hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies,
and even an x-ray room.
For rainbows, animals, trees, and bright blue skies.
John Fite says his murals help heal patients emotionally and mentally while they're healing
physically.
I don't know if you've read Zen and the R-Motorcycle Maintenance or aware of Gauguin and all those
things, but those have to do with quality of life.
I don't think hospitals should be hard, sterile, white, and stress-filled.
The response among patients has been very positive.
I love them, but I just noticed that today, you know, I had to stop and look at it.
I'm really surprised.
What kind of effect do they have on you?
Does it sort of cheer you up?
Oh yes.
They have quality.
AMI officials have liked John Fite's artwork so much they've invited him to paint murals
at two more hospitals, one in Garden Grove and one in South Bay.
And they also hope this idea will catch on nationwide.
In North Hollywood, Nancy Lafay, Channel 5, News at Ten.
A state trooper is shot to death at point blank range.
A mountain man is convicted of kidnapping an Olympic skier and a big observance at the
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In Montana, 20-year-old Dan Nichols has been convicted on charges of kidnapping an Olympic skier last summer.
Nichols and his father were accused of kidnapping the young woman to keep her as a sex mate
for the younger Nichols in a remote mountain area.
We have more in this report.
The jury took 11 hours to decide the three main questions of the case.
Did Danny Nichols kidnap Olympic skier and target shooter Carrie Swenson on a remote mountain trail last July?
Did he deliberately shoot her during the ordeal?
And could he be held accountable for the death of a rescuer,
even though Nichols' father testified it was he, not the boy, who killed Ellen Goldstein?
As the jury labored, some reporters played cards in the courtroom.
Others prepared stories.
The sheriff, who captured the Nichols' after a five-month search, paced.
While one floor above, the jury methodically worked toward a decision.
Finally, it returned the verdict.
Danny Nichols sat dispassionately while the court clerk read the decision.
Crime of kidnapping? Guilty.
Delivered homicide? Not guilty.
Aggravated assault? Not guilty.
Assault? Guilty.
It was not an acquittal, but considering that the murder charge
and the more serious assault charge were not proven,
Nichols' attorney said his client could breathe a sigh of relief.
It is very greatly relieved that he is not found guilty of homicide,
and for the reasons that he set forth in the trial,
he did not feel that he was responsible for it.
Unger said the jury agreed with his contention that the younger Nichols was more of a witness
than an accomplice to the Goldstein shooting.
Nichols' father is scheduled to stand trial on the same charges in June.
Ben Cain, CNN, Virginia City, Montana.
In North Carolina, four men are being questioned in the connection with the death of a state trooper.
It seems that the trooper, a 23-year veteran, was found dead in his patrol car.
The windshield had been shattered by bullets.
When last heard from, the trooper radioed into headquarters.
He was investigating two vans with Maryland license plates.
No motive for the murder has yet been determined.
A lawyer for convicted rapist Gary Dotson today pressed for a new trial for his client
two days after Dotson's prison sentence was commuted.
Dotson says he'd rather not capitalize on his fame,
but as Jill Dougherty reports, Dotson also says he can't afford not to.
After a night of celebrating his freedom,
Gary Dotson said he'll meet with the woman whose testimony sent him to prison six years ago.
Dotson said he plans to talk with Kathy Crowell, Web Wednesday in New York, on national television.
He just didn't know which network yet.
It's hard to be hired on her, especially now.
I mean, she's gone through a lot, and I think she's really embarrassed herself publicly.
And I don't know, I think it took more out of her to do that than it took me to forgive her.
Dotson has received numerous offers to make a movie or write a book about his experience.
When asked if he's trying to exploit the situation, he said,
If I didn't have to, I wouldn't. I really don't like to open myself up like this,
but I believe in order to take care of all the legal fees and stuff that I've developed,
it's the only way I can afford it now.
Dotson's mother Barbara agrees.
I think we should be kind to each other.
Whatever we need to get, you know.
I think it's a good start.
Dotson has no firm plans for a job,
but he does want to start a foundation to provide legal assistance for what he called the next Gary Dotson.
People who have been imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit.
That includes rape and other offenses.
His nightmare, Dotson said, is over to an extent,
but he wants to erase the rape conviction still on his record.
Joe Zorny, CNN, Country Club Hills, Illinois.
Locally, hundreds of celestial star gazers turned out tonight
to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Griffith Park Observatory.
Officials say that over the past five decades,
some 41 million people have visited the center.
The festivities include special programs and exhibits
and a display involving starlight from 50 light years away,
an observatory spokesman says.
Well, it's our 50th anniversary. It's our golden anniversary.
So we look for a star that's 50 light years away.
Since light travels at a constant speed,
at that star we use the speed of light as a measure of distance.
So it's 50 times the distance that light travels in one year away.
So we picked that star because it started out when we opened.
Well, also on hand, a five-foot cake made in the shape of the observatory,
a feast for fans who've supported the center over the years.
Coming up next, singer Marie Osmond is heading for the divorce court.
KTLA is the focus of attention at a television festival tonight.
And we are going to meet the new Miss USA,
a 21-year-old beauty from El Paso.
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Wednesday at 8, blood and guts week continues with the guns of never-owned.
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Blood and guts week continues with the guns of never-owned.
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In our Wall Street report tonight, the latest government figures indicate that retail sales increased by nine-tenths of a percentage point in April,
the seventh increase in eight months.
A spokesman for the United States Department of Commerce also said the big drop in March sales
turned out to be less than originally reported.
One economist says the new figures show some weaknesses in consumer sales,
but White House spokesman Larry Speaks says the economy as a whole is still strong and healthy.
A new 25-member group has announced its offer to purchase Conrail,
that's the government-owned freight carrier, for $1.2 billion in cash.
Backers of the proposal, led by the Banking House Morgan Stanley Company,
say that unlike Norfolk Southern's similar offer,
the new bid would not cut tax revenues or injure rail competition.
And in Maryland, lines formed at two big savings and loans,
despite the efforts of federal officials to stop a spreading run on the state's institutions.
Governor Harry Hughes issued an order today limiting withdrawals at all of Maryland's savings and loans.
The state's banking crisis began last week when a management upheaval was announced at old court savings and loans,
and the withdrawals are limited to $1,000 a month.
Looking at Wall Street now, the Dow Jones industrials were down 4.20,
volume 97 million, 360,000 shares.
The price of gold was down 60 cents an ounce, silver dropped 3 cents.
Singer Marie Augman today filed for divorce from her husband of three years, Stephen Craig.
A family spokesman says the young couple has tried but failed to reconcile their differences.
They have one child, two-year-old Stephen James, who lives with his mother here in Los Angeles.
The 21-year-old Laura Herring has become this year's Miss USA.
Herring represented the state of Texas in the annual beauty pageant.
She emigrated from Mexico when she was nine years old.
She became an American citizen at the age of 14.
Herring now goes on to represent the United States in the annual Miss Universe beauty pageant.
We are very proud to report tonight that KTLA Channel 5 is being honored this week and next
with an exhibit of this nation's rich heritage at Universal Studios.
Now the exhibition is part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Broadcasting.
A kinescope of early KTLA programs and news coverage was screened tonight,
preceded by a panel discussion that I was involved in along with others from KTLA's past and present.
Three words kept cropping up tonight, tradition, innovation, and credibility.
Long form coverage of news as we saw on this tape here,
and we just kind of built the tradition of going out, getting in the community, becoming involved,
KTLA developing all of its resources.
And over the years it developed into a very powerful public servant in Los Angeles
and everybody felt if something happens, tune to KTLA.
When you think about a television station, very often you think about their news image,
and that kind of colors the entire image that the public has of the television station itself.
And we've been watching KTLA in this community to this very day,
whenever there is a breaking news story.
Whenever something happens, everyone tunes to KTLA to see what's going on.
There were a number of events that I could just recount in history in watching KTLA.
You could really tell the whole story of television news in Los Angeles by looking at old tapes of KTLA
because they were first on the scene, and it's been my privilege in the last four years
to continue that tradition.
The Rose Parade coverage is still done in a way by KTLA that no one else can compete with,
and there are four stations competing at the same time, and we always come out ahead.
Innovation in technology, from the telecopter on, stereo and the ability to simulcast in a foreign language.
The exhibit remains on display at Universal Studios, and a week from tonight,
more than four hours of KTLA archive footage and video achievements will be screened for the public.
Still to come on News at Ten tonight, an earthquake hits near Palm Springs.
Debbie's going to have the weather outlook for us.
Steve Vroa will be here with all the sports action,
and we're going to show you the winner of the West Coast Grocery Bagging Contest.
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The Palm Springs area received a mild rattling from an earthquake this morning.
That quake was centered about 25 miles southwest of the resort city,
and it occurred shortly after 1030 this morning, measured 3.9 on the Richter scale.
Residents of the area said they could feel the building shaking, but there were no reports of any damage.
Well, let's see if we have a shaky weather forecast, or are you going to be specific and tell us what's going to happen?
No, we've changed, Hal. Just last night, it was just last night that I mentioned that the high pressure would stay with us until something came in to move it along.
A little shaky about that.
Yes, we've tied it in. That something has arrived. It's a developing storm over Nevada.
Now that low to the east will result in extensive night and morning low clouds in the coastal valleys and cooler temperatures.
However, by the weekend, we should see things start to warm up a bit with less extensive marine clouds.
Today's west coast satellite picture shows there are still low clouds off the coast of southern California.
They will get the green light to move farther on shore tonight and tomorrow morning, keeping us 5 to 10 degrees cooler tomorrow.
The coast to coast satellite picture shows a bright swirl of clouds over the central plains.
Those, along with the clouds stretching across the lower Mississippi Valley and the western Great Lakes, produce showers and thunderstorms.
Rain also fell over much of Idaho.
It was another warm day today for Miami. Cool weather is moving into the northern plains.
And here at home, Los Angeles hit 82, following last night's low of 59.
Tomorrow will start out a bit cloudier, but the sun should break through in the afternoon.
So highs are expected to hit just 80 at San Gabriel.
It will stay in the 70s for the rest of the valley areas.
Lows tonight will be from 53 to about 56.
Now the beaches may only have partial afternoon clearing in the southern areas tomorrow.
Highs range from 66 at Santa Monica to about 74 at Long Beach and Santa Ana.
The deserts will have some clouds at times, but it will be mostly fair, with gusty winds developing to 25 miles an hour.
Palm Springs was the hottest spot in the country today at 100 degrees.
93 should be their high tomorrow.
And in the mountains, a more pleasant 66 degrees.
Well, for an hour this afternoon, we had first-stage smog alerts in the East San Gabriel Valley and the Walnut-Pamona Valley.
They were called off about 4 o'clock.
Tomorrow should have good air quality in all areas of the basin.
So tomorrow's forecast is our summer litany, night and morning low clouds with sunny afternoons.
Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s, with lows again in the 50s.
Well, tonight's slide is remarkable in its clarity.
Richard Turk, Jr. of La Mirada, took the shot of Mount Shasta reflected in Heart Lake up in northern California.
If you have a slide for us, mark it with your name and address and send it on to KTLA News at 10, P.O. Box 500, Los Angeles 90078.
So we had expected things to gradually get warmer as the week wore on.
Low pressure, a storm developing over Nevada means we're going to have our marine layer back.
That's going to keep us cool, morning clouds, sunny afternoons.
But we should get back into that sunny warming trend again by the weekend.
You are exactly right, because through the marvel of electronic devices, namely the telephone,
I just checked Los Angeles International Airport while you were giving us the forecast, and there is a 300-foot ceiling right now at the airport.
Bases, they said, to the west were 200 feet.
So if you're heading out tonight, you might want to check just to make sure that operations are continuing.
They are continuing right now.
Anyway, the Olympics came to Los Angeles once again today, but as we see in this report,
these games celebrate the fine art of grocery baggage.
It was dubbed the Olympics of grocery packing.
Fourteen of the best supermarket baggers in California went head-to-head, or rather bag-to-bag,
trying to stuff 38 grocery items into bags in record time without crushing the bread.
Some of the baggers even had their own cheering sections.
The baggers were judged on speed, bagging technique, and style.
The competition was fierce.
The 14 contestants were soon whittled down to three finalists.
This was to be the supreme test.
The winner was Troy Spence, a 21-year-old grocery bagger at Bond Supermarket in Orange.
He received what else? A grocery bag trophy and 1,000 big ones.
Even the check itself was big.
Troy, did you really think you were going to win?
Oh, I had hunches. I thought I was being close, but I thought I had a chance.
Now, what is your style?
Style? Symmetry. I guess symmetry and speed.
East Coast champion Troy Spence will have one more month to sharpen his bagging skills.
That's when he'll be taking on East Coast champion Karen Coz-Petino,
and only one will become national bagging champion.
In Chevy at Hills, Nancy Raffy, Channel 5, News at Ten.
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Steve Roe has sports in the bag for you.
He'll be along in just a moment. The Angels are in Toronto.
The Rangers are battling the Cubs, and the Lakers are trying to make a two-straid at the expense of the Nuggets.
Highlights coming up next.
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Well, tonight's big sports after Saturday's 17-point loss to the Lakers, the Nuggets said the only way they could beat the Lakers would be to play a perfect game.
Well, tonight at the Forum, Denver not only played perfectly, but it also snapped LA's 23 home game winning streak.
That was a long one. The Lakers were trying to keep the string intact. Rambas from Careem Lakers by two early in the first.
But the Nuggets knew it was their night. Alex English was hot, so hot he poured in 40 points tonight.
The Lakers took a seven-point lead midway through the first. Magic to Michael Cooper on the cupolu.
But in the second quarter was a different game. Issel on the fast break for two of his 22. Denver by nine.
Now watch the play tonight. Magic made an incredible shot, but to no avail. He traveled.
Mike Evans kept the Lakers wishing for more time. A three-point shot. Lakers still trailed by five.
Mike McGee tried to spark the Lakers with his version of a three-point shot from midcourt.
But Denver just poured it on in the final minutes. English got the right bounce, and so did the Nuggets.
Denver evened the series at one game apiece. Game three Friday in Denver. By the way, Careem was held to a mirror.
13 points this evening. The other conference final series resumed on the parquet floor.
Andrew Toney gave the Sixers a 12-point lead with the jumper right here.
But the Celtics cut that margin before the half. Danny Ainge to Kevin McHale. Off the break. The best six man in the league.
In the third quarter, the Sixers increased their lead to seven. Maurice Cheeks rolled to the hoop.
But the fourth period was colored green. Larry Bird with a beautiful scoop for two of his 24.
When the Sixers overplayed Bird, he found the open man. In this case, it was Danny Ainge.
The green wave made it two straight over Philly. Julia Serving had 22 for the Sixers and a losing cause.
Well, the Angels' rough road trip through the Eastern Division continued in Toronto this evening.
The two division leaders went at it. The Halos got out fast, but just couldn't hold it.
The Blue Jays leading by a run, Bobby Gritch went to work on Doyle Alexander, a true run shot to left.
Number three for Gritch on the year. In the third, Rod Drew wristed one to the opposite field.
It carried out and became Rod's first homer in almost one year. It was 3-1 Angels.
But the Angels just couldn't stand prosperity. In the fifth, four players converged on the Maso Garcia pop-up.
Gritch couldn't come up with it. That sent the Blue Jays.
A couple of batters later, Lloyd Mosby touched up Jim Slayton for a three-bagger up the gap.
That brought home Garcia and Rance Mullenix. The game was knotted at three.
The Jays won it in the sixth. With the bases loaded, Garcia grounded a single left.
Ernie Witt and Jesse Barfield came in. That was that. Bill Crottle finished up for his seventh save.
Same two teams tomorrow will have all the highlights. Elsewhere, the Mariners and Royals pick up wins,
as did the same for the Tigers and Yankees. And rounding out wins, you see there, 6-3 Oakland over Milwaukee and Chicago,
down Cleveland 2-1. So, here's how it looks. The Angels lead Chicago by one game. The Twins by two and a half.
In the ravine tonight, the Cubs drew first blood on the Dodgers. Fernando Valenzuela wild-pitched home.
Gary Matthews. It was one-nothing Chicago. The Dodgers tied the game on a sacrifice fly.
Then Mike Marshall dull-homed Ken Landrow. The Dodgers led Rick Sutcliffe and the Cubs 2-1.
In the second, the Cubs went to work on Fernando again. When Matthews ground a roll of Mario-Elano Duncan's arm,
the Cubs led it 4-2. Fernando was on his own worst enemy. In this game, he issued a bases-loaded walk to Keith Moorland.
That made it 5-2. The Dodgers reached Sutcliffe for a run in the fourth. Pinch hitter Terry Whitfield delivered a single.
Mike Socia scored. It was 6-3, Cubs. The Cubs broke the Dodgers back when light-hitting Larry Bowe delivered a single off reliever Steve Howe.
That brought in two more runs and the Cubs were on their way. They beat the Dodgers 8-3. Same two teams tomorrow night.
Now, before the game, we caught up with former Dodger Davey Lopes. It seems Lopes is on a collision course with a Major League record.
His own. He's stolen 33 straight bases without being caught. Five more and he breaks his own mark at 38.
I'd be lying to myself and to everyone else if I said I'm not thinking about it, but it probably doesn't have as much importance now as it did when I was younger
and the fact that it did happen and accumulate all in one year and now it's accumulation of three years, but it's still gratifying to know that my percentage is still high and I'm still capable of stealing a base here and there.
Indeed he can. Rounding out the National League scoreboard, the Padres won again. The Mets and Giants also won by the same score.
And the Phillies and the Astros are out so it stands now. The Padres lead the Astros by a game and a half. The Dodgers are two and a half off the pace.
Now in Edmonton this evening, a wild NHL semifinal game with Yari Curry ripping in the go-ahead goal against Chicago.
But the Blackhawks netted three power play scores in the first. Steve Larmer puts Chicago ahead.
The Oilers shook loose in the second with four straight goals marking eighth year to Mark Messier.
Then two outstanding shots from the great one Wayne Gretzky. Number one came on a quick retreat.
Then the next Gretzky like a dueling gunslinger turning and firing Edmonton took a three game two lead over the Hawks.
Philly also went up three to two in its series with Quebec. And that's it for a very busy night in SportsHow.
Yes indeed it was and that's also it for News at Ten for tonight. Thanks for joining us. See you tomorrow night. Good night.
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