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Los Angeles Times DAILY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1990 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER CIRCULATION: COPYRIGHT THE TIMES MIRROR COMPANY. CCT 180 PAGES 1.118.649 DAILY 1.433.739 SUNDAY Soviet Party Gives Up Top Role Historic Act Alters Entire Political, Economic System COLUMN ONE Trash Idea Rises From the Heap a Composting is gaining new attention as cities struggle with rising mountains of waste and fewer ways of handling it. By MICHAEL PARRISH TIMES STAFF WRITER ST. CLOUD. Minn.
-The giant yellow drum turned slowly, churning the grimy confetti of society's leftovers. Soon fish heads and candy wrappers, disposable diapers and dish rags would emerge with the look and smell of soil, and with no more harmful bacteria than fresh cow manure. For another month or so, the brown loam would be cured in piles, further killing off bacteria to a level no greater than ordinary dirt. James McNelly was showing off his humble neighborhood compost factory -what he and others consider to be a model system of garbage disposal, as soon as the neighbors get used to the idea. "The truck that takes solid waste away from the house could be the same truck that brings compost back." McNelly cheerfully predicted.
Some day, he said, "compost plants will be as common as gas stations." The once lowly compost process is getting some respect. Environmentalists, municipal garbage engineers and even such giant consumer -goods companies as Procter Gamble are paying new attention to modern, fast -turnover forms of composting -a process developed by a British agronomist in 19thCentury India to turn fecal matter into safe fertilizer. Last year, the number of U.S. trash -composting projects in the works rose to 75 from 42, according to a survey by the trade journal BiCycle. Portland, has begun construction of a plant using European technology marketed by a local company, Riedel Environmental Technologies Inc.
By the end of 1990. Riedel plans to be handling of Portland's trash. Agripost, a Florida company, just fired up a system to compost from to of Miami's garbage. Memphis, is interested in compost systems. Riverside, San Diego and Santa Barbara are studying composting's long -term economics.
"Composting will be a major topic of the '90s," says Jerry Powell, a longtime observer of urbanwaste debates, now editor of Resource Recycling magazine. As many Americans now realize, urban household garbage, known Please see WASTE, A24 MARIKA TUR For The Times Trader uses container Huntington Beach. The ship apparently hit its own The oil tanker American booms to try to control part of a 400-yard slick off anchor while trying to moor, causing the spill. Tanker Spills Crude Oil Off Huntington Beach By STEVEN R. CHURM TIMES STAFF WRITER An estimated 6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the Pacific on Wednesday night after an oil tanker apparently hit its own anchor, opening a hole in its hull while attempting to moor about two miles off Huntington Beach.
"By any measure, it is a large spill," Coast Guard Lt. Vincent Campos said as emergency teams raced rising tides and expected high surf to try to contain the slick and protect miles of Orange County beaches. Edd Fong, a spokesman for the State Lands Commission, which monitors oil exploration in coastal waters, called the spill one of the largest off the coast of California since the Santa Barbara spill in 1969. That spill involved 77,000 barrels of crude oil. By late Wednesday, the slick FUEL ON THE FIRE The spill's political consequences may exceed its environmental impact.
A27 was miles long and 400 yards wide. But there were no reports of any oil washing ashore. However, some oil from the 800-foot tanker American Trader was expected to hit Orange County beaches overnight and officials were prepared to Immigrant Day Laborer Fights for His Paycheck of the offices of a man he says owes By HECTOR TOBAR him $1,006.44 in back and court TIMES STAFF WRITER pay fees. Every day in Southern Califor- Despite his broken English, Chinia, thousands of immigrant day cas, a humble man from a provinlaborers find work on street cor- cial town in eastern El Salvador, ners toiling for builders, gardeners managed to represent himself in and other contractors. Many of the court without an attorney.
He won workers, at one time or another, his case. For his efforts, he has have been cheated by an unscru- accumulated a stack of dogeared pulous employer. legal documents, including a deciAlmost always, the laborers sion in his favor, but not the money keep silent. They are reluctant to awarded to him by a Los Angeles seek justice in a country they feel County Superior Court judge last isn't theirs. Painfully, they write August.
off their losses and return to the Chicas says that his former boss, street corners the next day to try Gary Mamian, a hotelier and deagain. veloper, simply refuses to pay. Fidel Chicas, a 65-year-old "You have to admire Fidel for grandfather and -all -trades, his persistence," said Linda Mitchis an exception. He has decided to ell of the Coalition for Humane show his fellow workers how to Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. fight back.
For two years, he has "He's trying to follow the system; sought justice through the courts he's trying to be an American. But and through a persistent stakeout Please see LABORER, A32 Communist upheaval: Gorbachev is victorious after three days of tumultuous debate. Move is intended to meet the growing popular demand for democracy. By MICHAEL PARKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER MOSCOW -The Soviet Communist ruled the Soviet Union virtually give up its monopoly on power, clearing system here. The party's policy- making Central Committee voted, almost without dissent, to seek a constitutional amendment ending its "leading role" in the government, the economy and all public bodies and encouraging the development of a pluralist democracy.
The historic move, sought by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev as part of his reforms, is intended to meet mounting popular demands here for greater democracy 'at all levels of society and through this, help pull the country out of an ever-deepening political, economic and social crisis. Alexander N. Yakovlev, a member of the party's ruling Politburo, LITHUANIANS CENSURED Soviet Communists see damage in breakaway party move. A4 RELATED STORIES: A4, A5 described the decision as "another major step away from the authoritarian-bureaucratic model of socialism toward a society of democratic choice." With this change, the whole Soviet political and economic system will be altered; no longer will party decisions be, de facto, the law of the land and no longer will party members, by virtue of the constitution, be accorded the automatic authority to run everything from local governments to major industries to -teacher associations.
Since the days of V. I. Lenin, the Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the Soviet state, the party has focused on winning, keeping and using power. Thus, the Please see SOVIET, A5 Party, which for more than 70 years unchallengeable, decided Wednesday to the way for a multi-party political Bruising Battle a Turning Point in Soviet History By MICHAEL PARKS TIMES STAFF WRITER -In the Kremlin batties that shape the future of the Soviet Union and much of the world around it, Mikhail S. Gorbachev has prevailed once again in his unrelenting determination to bring about political and economic reform.
At a time when his domestic popularity had declined sharply and his political grip seemed to have slipped to the point where rumors of his resignation were credible, the Soviet president led the Communist Party on Wednesday into giving up its long monopoly on political power. Confronted with a deepening NEWS ANALYSIS political, economic and social crisis in the country and the belief of many that his reforms are largely responsible, Gorbachev persuaded the party's -making and largely conservative Central Committee that perestroika must be broadened and accelerated, not curtailed or slowed. After three days of debate, the 250-member committee voted to accept Gorbachev's new platform China Treated Differently, U.S. Aide Says close both Newport and Huntington harbors. Reaction to the incident was swift, triggering more outrage at the use of coastal waters to drill and transport crude oil.
State Controller Gray Davis. chairman of the State Lands Commission, and commission member Please see SPILL, A27 Reagan Invokes Executive Privilege to Retain Diaries By NORMAN KEMPSTER TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON -Former President Ronald Reagan set the stage for a new constitutional challenge over presidential privacy Wednesday when he invoked the doctrine of executive privilege to avoid turning over excerpts of his White House diaries to Iran -Contra defendant John M. Poindexter. U.S. District Judge Harold H.
Greene has said he will hold a hearing to consider Reagan's claim, almost guaranteeing that Poindexter's trial will be delayed from its scheduled Feb. 20 start. Greene presides over Poindexter's trial on Please see PRIVILEGE, A25 By JIM MANN TIMES STAFF WRITER -One of the senior Bush Administration officials who took part in two secret missions to Beijing last year said Wednesday that the Administration has decided to treat China differently from any other country in the world. Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, seeking to fend off comparisons between the Bush Administration's conciliatory policy towards China and its tougher stance towards other countries, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China's population, size and history merit special treatment.
"What we are trying to do with regard to China is China- -specific," Eagleburger declared. different than the way you deal with the GDR or Romania or Czechoslovakia, because it's a different country, not least of which is it's substantially over a billion people and is a good bit larger geographically. Furthermore, Eagleburger warned that the Administration might not react the same way it did after China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators if Please see CHINA, A10 INSIDE TODAY'S TIMES COMPOSER VAN HEUSEN DIES Jimmy Van Heusen, an Oscarwinning composer who wrote "Call Me Irresponsible," "Swinging on a Star" and other hits, died at 77. A3 CONTROVERSIAL TAX HALTED A "comedy of errors" has resulted in the State Board of Equalization's voting to stop collecting a controversial tax on overseas purchases. A3 ALIEN DETENTION REVIVED The INS revived its controversial policy of placing illegal aliens seeking political asylum in United Press International in a remote detention center Bayview, Tex.
A20 Felix S. Bloch WEATHER: Mostly sunny today BLOCH SUSPENDED with northwest winds to 20 m.p.h. The State Department susFair and Civic Center pended diplomat Felix S. Bloch tonight Friday. and took initial steps to fire him today: Details: 85 because of suspicions that he TOP OF THE NEWS ON A2 spied for the Soviet Union.
A23 Please see GORBACHEV, A4 Bonn Asks E. German Talks Now on Economy, Currency ter Hans Modrow when he arrives By WILLIAM TUOHY here on an official visit next week. TIMES STAFF WRITER The government also decided to BONN- West German gov- set up working groups to harmoernment declared Wednesday that nize differences in the legal, politiit wants to negotiate "immediate- cal and administrative structures ly" with East Germany on a mone- of East and West Germany, as a tary union and economic reforms. prelude to unification. The Bonn Cabinet managed to East German government enlist the support of West German spokesman Wolfgang Meyer said central bank President Karl Otto the East Berlin regime will considPoehl, an independent official who er the Bonn proposals at its regular has been skeptical that merging Cabinet meeting today.
the currencies of East and West After the Cabinet decision, FiGermany would solve the former's nance Minister Theo Waigel told critical problems. Parliament that the decisions to And the Cabinet, under prodding proceed toward a single currency from Chancellor Helmut Kohl, are necessary to dampen the "esagreed to work out details of a calation of the crisis" in East currency union that would be pres- Germany. ented to East German Prime Minis- Please see GERMANYS, A5 Zumberge, USC President for a Decade, to Step Down By LARRY GORDON TIMES EDUCATION WRITER James H. Zumberge, a former Antarctic explorer who has been president of USC for a decade and is credited with improving the institution's academic stature, announced Wednesday that he will retire as soon as a successor is chosen and takes office. "There is a time to come and a time to go, and I think the time to go is now," Zumberge, 66, said in an interview.
"I'd rather make a decision myself than have my doctor make it or the Board of Trustees make it or the good Lord make it." Zumberge stressed that he has fully recovered from his 1985 surgery for prostate cancer and his decision is not prompted by health concerns. Rather, he said, it is a good time to retire because USC Please see ZUMBERGE, A26 MIKESERGIEFF For The Times James H. Zumberge during interview at his USC campus office..
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