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8 Spectrum Monday, March 12, 1990 Frank Greer 'hottest political consultant '7 rv KM? 'iiMtil'S I i.vjw. Second son surrenders in slayings LOS ANGELES AP) The second of two sons charged with killing their millionaire parents at the family's Beverly Hills mansion last year surrendered to authorities early Sunday, police said. Erik Menendez, 19, surrendered to detectives as he stepped off a plane at Los Angeles International Airport, said Beverly Hills Officer Michael Dillard. Menendez reportedly had been playing in a tennis tournament in Israel. Dillard said he did not know where the plane was from and did not have any details of the arrest, which occurred shortly after 1 a.m.

Family members had said over the weekend that Erik Menendez would turn himself in to authorities upon his return to the Los Angeles area. His brother, Lyle, 22, was arrested Thursday and was being held without bail pending arraignment on Monday. The brothers are charged with murdering their parents, Jose Menendez, 45, and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, 44, who were shot to death Aug. 20 in their $5 million mansion. The sons reported finding the bodies upon returning from a night on the town.

The young men are heirs to the $14 million estate of Jose Menendez, a successful executive of a Hollywood video distribution company, Live Entertainment Inc. of Los Angeles. Police have said two killers committed the crime, then picked up ejected shell casings from the shotguns they used before fleeing the scene. The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday thai, a friend ot Lyle Menendez found a spent casing in one of the young man's jackets. Police who served search warrants at a psychologist's office Thursday also have obtained tape recordings, apparently of counseling sessions, which likely will be the subject of a court hearing for their admissibility.

Party animals DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Students from Ferris effortto curb excessive drinking and irrresponsi- State University in Michigan cheer their swim ble activities during spring break by encourag- teamoninarelayeventatthetnternationallnn Ing more planned events and special pro on Ddytona Beach. City officials are making an grams. (AP) Growth splits Aspen into camps runoff to secure the nomination long an obstacle for blacks in southern states. His other candidates this year include Senate challenger Harvey Sloane in Kentucky, Montana Sen.

Max Baucus and Paul Hubbert, a candidate for governor in Alabama. What Greer has done so far, and his clients hope he will continue, is to find a way to victory for Democrats whom some might conclude were more liberal than the voters electing them. More "progressive," Greer prefers. "That is what we do," he said. "I think we do it fairly well.

It's what I grew up with in Alabama, in terms of the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt and the grassroots populism of southerners." One measure of Greer's success came recently in Kentucky. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell's reelection campaign went on the attack not against Sloane, the challenger, but Greer, the consultant, calling him a master of misleading advertising. Earlier, Sloane had switched positions and now supports abortion rights. Greer says he didn't force or prompt the change.

"I don't have a litmus test," Greer said. "I let them make that decision." In Wilder's campaign, Greer designed ads that presented abortion as an issue of civil liberties a question of who decides, the government or the woman. Greer used lots of waving flags and pictures of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson. Greer says it was his success with Fowler's Georgia campaign, not Wilder's, that prompted Young to hire him. Already, though, there are echoes of Wilder's approach in Young's campaign.

Young, announcing his candidacy, said abortion is a woman's decision. "I would rather trust the women of Georgia," Young said, sounding a lot like Doug Wilder's "I trust the women of Virginia." Framed that way, Greer argues, support for legal abortions is a powerful wedge that Democrats can use to divide Republicans and win back voters who were attracted to the GOP on economic issues. Republicans dismiss that as wishful thinking. But Greer argues it goes even further, too, in symbolism. "It's a very much an age issue," he said.

"That's why Lee Atwater growth. And this election approved a major hotel." Kinsley, who had favored the scaled-back hotel plan, attributed the vote to intensive lobbying and campaign spending by Hadid. The strongest supporters of the hotel came from more recent arrivals to Aspen, from the wealthy, and from people who call themselves moderates or conservatives, according to an Aspen Times Daily exit poll Feb. 13. About 70 percent of the town's 3,700 registered turned out for that election.

Supporters of the larger hotel plan say voters simply recognized the reality that Aspen has become a world-class resort. "This town's 15 years behind the times as far as accommodations," said Don Kopf, 61, a contractor who passes out recall buttons. The four members of the five-member council drew the ire of many when they opposed a large-scale Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the base of Aspen mountain. Residents voted 60 percent to 40 percent in February to let developer Mohamed Hadid build a 292-room, 66-foot-tall, $70 million luxury hotel. Stirling and his supporters on the council wanted to scale back the hotel's size by 25 percent and down to 44 feet high.

The slow-growth advocates who have dominated city and county politics for decades fear they are becoming suddenly unfashionable. Voter approval of the hotel "was a real big departure an aberration," said Michael Kinsley, a Pitkin County commissioner from 1975 to 1985. "For the last several years, nobody has been elected to office who explicitly favored me from the Boulevard and EUREKA! by William welch Associated Press writer WASHINGTON On the wall by Frank Greer's office door is a Doug Wilder campaign poster, signed by the nation's first black elected governor with thanks "for making this possible." The space next to the poster Greer hopes to fill this year with a Eicture of the nation's second lack elected governor: his client and candidate in Georgia, Andrew Young. Greer, a 43-year-old political consultant, says Wilder's election last fall was "probably one of the most rewarding experiences politically and personally in my life." A white southerner, Greer adds, "More than anything else, I was proud of the South. I always thought the South would lead the way in race relations." Born and raised in Alabama, Greer designs campaigns for liberal and moderate Democrats.

His consulting firm has $15 million in billings a year from a Pennsylvania Avenue office overlooking the Potomac River. Greer is widely regarded as the hot consultant this campaign season. In part, that's on the strength of Wilder's 1989 campaign: its groundbreaking use of abortion rights as an issue, and tough, rapid responses that defused his opponent's attacks. "It was brilliant," said Republican consultant Roger Stone. "He sold abortion as a conservative position." Wilder may have won only narrowly, but a win is a win, and others already are copying his methods.

As a result, Greer finds himself at the center of the two most significant political developments of the post-Reagan era: the election of blacks to statewide office and the power of abortion as an issue. Another Republican consultant, Eddie Mahe, also praised Greer's work for Wilder but cautioned that Greer may be following a risky course. "He clearly believes the future is pro-choice," Mahe said. "He's putting all his chips on that." Greer gained the notice of his colleagues in 1986, when three Democratic Senate challengers he was handling each won upsets: Brock Adams in Washington, Kent Conrad in North Dakota and Wyche Fowler in Georgia. He'd worked for some losers: Fred Harris's 1976 presidential campaign; Walter Mondale's in 1984.

In between, he was the Labor Department's spokesman in the Carter administration. His firm, Greer, Margolis, Mitchell and Associates, also helped democrtic forces in a 1988 plebiscite in Chile that defeated Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Greer has another important client: the National Abortion Rights Action League. The work coincided with Wilder's decision to base his campaign in large part on abortion rights.

Before, candidates who supported abortion rights had done their best to avoid public debate, regarding the influence of abortion opponents as too great. Greer's clients this year include Young, the former mayor of Atlanta and veteran of the civil rights struggle who is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Georgia. Young faces longer odds that did Wilder, Greer acknowledges. One big reason is that Georgia law requires a candidate to have 50 percent of the vote in a primary or Obituary Lawrence Benoit PAROWAN Lawrence R. Benoit, 80, died March 10, 1990 in Pa rowan.

He was born May 9, 1909 in Southbridge, Mass. to Pierre Benoit and Edwidge St. Roberts. He married Norma Seacrest, who preceded him in death. He married Thelma Sloan in July of 1947 in New York City, N.Y.

He was a board member of the Kidney Foundation in Garden Grove, Calif, from 1971 to 1978, serving as president in 1978. He was a member of the Garden Grove Building Department's Board of Appeals from 1975 to 1985 and Garden Grove Knights of Columbus since 1964, reaching the level of fourth degree. He sat on the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival Board of Directors and was president in 1977. He was a lifetime member of the Elks Club. He was on the Boys Club Board of Directors and was past president of the Columbus Club in Garden Grove.

Survivors include his wife of Parowan; two daughters and one son, Mrs. Virgil (Frances) Black-son of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Joan Benoit, Fresno, and Herbert Kincaid, Parowan; 11 grandchildren; eight greatgrandchildren; one brother, Paul Benoit, Holyoak, and one sister, Germaine Benoit, Peter-shame, Mass. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Southern Utah Mortuary Chapel, where friends may call for one hour prior to services.

Interment will be in the Parowan City Cemetery. ASPEN, Colo (AP) A recall election on Tuesday, the second time in a month residents will cast ballots, is shaping up as a battle between old-timers who favor slow growth and newcomers who say development is vital to the economy. Voters must decide whether to recall four-term Mayor Bill Stirling and three other city council-men Steve Crockett, Frank Peters and Michael Gassman. Their critics say the four run a confrontational and unprofessional government and have done little to solve pressing housing and traffic problems. Also, they have been accused of being rude to constituents and promoting favorite causes as in Stirling's widely publicized campaign to ban fur sales, which failed in an election Feb.

13. Pro-choicers get allies in Washington WASHINGTON (AP) -Abortion-rights advocates can expect to have at least three new allies in Congress next year, according to a survey of candidates running in 79 key House and Senate races. The survey by Congressional Quarterly magazine also found the abortion issue is causing internal conflicts among party members in both Democratic and Republican primaries. The magazine found many candidates are trying to stake out positions somewhere between "pro-choice" and "pro-life." In at least three cases, the magazine reported, anti-abortion incumbents are retiring and all the candidates running to succeed them favor abortion rights. The races are for the Senate seat from Colorado being vacated by Republican Sen.

William Armstrong, the House seat held by retiring Rep. Wes Watkins, and the New York seat vacated by Republican Rep. Guy Molinan, who resigned to become borough president for Staten Island. The survey focused on open seats and close contests for 16 Senate and 63 House seats. It found 23 races in which abortion-rights Democrats face anti-abortion Republicans.

But it also found the issue is not purely partisan: In 15 contests, the leading candidates of both parties support abortion rights; in 14 races, both oppose abortion. Democratic candidates disagreed on abortion in 10 of the primary races surveyed, while Republicans disagreed among themselves in 12 primary contests. In at least one competitive House race, an anti-abortion Democrat faces a pro-choice Republican. The Democrat is Rep. George Sangmeister of Illinois.

His opponent is insurance broker Manny Hoffman. Congressional Quarterly said its survey found many candidates are trying to find a middle position that will appeal to voters not allied with either side in the abortion debate. In nine of the 14 races that involve only abortion opponents, the magazine said, at least one candidate supports federal funding of abortions for poor women in cases of rape or incest. When you can't be there yourselt. Cameo florist 5 least Tahrrnnrk 628-2632 Specializing in sympathylouvrs VTbtcrs Buy ANY Eureka Vacuum Cleaner and you'll receive 2 FULL YEARS of Buyer Protection! Your extra year of protection is regularly a $30.00 value, but it's yours FREE if you act now! Choose from the excellent values shown here, or select any model from the powerful Eureka They ALL feature special jtvrxr nrlrps for a limited Eureka UprightModel 1432 -Carpet height adjustment Dual Edge Kleener -Power driven beater-bar brush roll -Top loading large capacity dust bag -Powerful motor Steel motor hood Mighty Mite Canister Model 3110 -Powerful, yet compact, lightweight and portable 7-plece deluxe above the-floor cleaning Triple air filtration system the Boulevard's nrnfp5ilnnal sales staff for all the details! 9U ft (the Republican national chairman) is scrambling." "I think the Democratic Party is perfectly positioned to raise the issue and use it to win back younger voters," he said.

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The exhibit opened Sunday. The etching, "Six's Bridge," is part of the first maior exhibit devoted to Rembrandt's landscape prints and drawings. The etching shows a canal, two boats, two bushes, a church, a bridge and two men standing on it all on a plate 5 inches by 10 inches. Rembrandt is better known for his oil paintings, but only eight of his surviving oils are landscapes. Largely scattered among European museums, they are not among the 99 works in this exhibit, though one of them can be seen in another part of the gallery.

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