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Eleven unsolved, sadistic sex murders in Southern California-all top priority on the books of nine police investigative agencies-have been linked to a single killer or toiier-team operating out of Long Beach since
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Killer lurks in shadows of gay bars

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And, despite five months in which there have been no related murders-or, at least, no bodies found-police expect there are more to come. "Maybe he left the area or is in jail for something else. Or maybe," Long Beach Detective J. J. Hurlbirt m charge of the investigation, says, "he's able to control himself because of the intensive search going on. "Of course, maybe he hasn't stopped', and there are murders we haven't connected or bodies thai haven't been found yet." In any event, the sergeant says, police believe the killer will never change. "He'll kill again," Hurlbirt says. The tie to Long Beach comes in a terse statement in a special confidential brochure on the case put out by the California Department of Justice and distributed to all police departments involved: "In each case, there appears to be a connection between the victim and the City of Long Beach."

slat'" Ullilling cach ease' thc dctails back P the All the victims lived in or were frequent visitors to the city; they were picked up in the city or their bodies were brought back to be dumped. The crimes all have a distinctive sadistic trademark which authorities refuse to discuss. There arc other similarities: tM.A1i<7thVlCfims werc you"S' mal(v Caucasians between 7 and 25 years old with physical similarities All were murdered at some unknown location and dumped elsewhere. All murders had homosexual overtones
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".fortd|y Asexual, Moore frequented gay bars in g Beach, San Clemcnte and Oceanside and was

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( '" '' '" h Off the Terminal 71 Island Freeway, were showntohundreds of persons around the city. He had been seen f ey in homosexual hangouts in Long Beach, primarily in tl" S name " Boulevard' bl" no one knew his Two months later, another slill-unidentified victim was found in Huntmgton Beach. The pattern held He had been tied and tortured and suffocated to death iii the process. Before redressing the youth in wha oolkc n e a S 'StyIC C'(hing' lh ki"Cr Cllt off Although no one knew his name, the youth had been seen frequently along thc Long Beach Pike area Torn
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vnn V .T ' ' ' " Of a joung CampT Pendlcton Marine was found, fullyV clothed near he Seventh Street exit of the 605 Freeway Autopsy reports showed the Marine, Edward D. Moore had been strangled during some sort of sado-masochistic sex act m which his wrists and ankles were tied. He had 'been showed 8nd dumped from a car ' thc investigation '^ * W<*k to i Although the time of death had been set by coroner s deputies as Christmas Eve, Moore had been seen filldinfi f!,' , j P arts of a um last walking (he streets of Oceanside at 11:30 p.rn Dec hnrtv body, carefully placed in green plastic bags, strewiv (Turn to Page A-6, Col. 1)

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Downtown renovation stirs fear

Elderly told no moving imminent
By MARY ELLIS CARLTON Urban Affairs Editor Life isn't easy for many of the approximately 3,000 residentsmost of them elderlywho live in Long Beach's rapidly deteriorating downtown area. Take Mae Russell, 77, who lives in a walk-up apartment on Fifth Street above a hearing-aid center, two jewelry stores and a Polish delicatessen. Thai's not her real name. She's embarrassed to let people know things aren't like they once were, back when she used to go dancing at the old Majestic Ballroom. Because of a recent stroke, her life now is almost totally confined to her crackerbox apartment with its kitchen that's scarcely larger than a closet and a closet that holds a foldaway bed when the bed isn't swallowing up most of the front room. The $55-a-month rent she pays for her small, unit, up two flights of stairs in a 50-year-old building, is all her Social Security check will allow, and Mrs. Russell isn't sure what she would do if she had to move. That's why it struck terror in her heart last week when she received a letter implyingvaguely that she might have to do just that. It was from the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency and said, in terse terms: "Dear Property Owner: This is to advise you that the property which you own...is located in the area of the city's proposed Downtown Redevelopment Project." Also: "All real property within this Project Area...is subject to acquisition by the agency by purchase or condemnation." Mrs. Russell doesn't own the building, of course; she isn't sure who does. But, according to the redevelopment agency, the letter was sent to residents and businesses, as well as property owners, to apprise all persons in the area of the first public hearing on the proposed plan. The hearingbefore thc City (Turn to Page A-6, Col. 5)

It's no Mirage; YF16 gets 'deal of century' Belgium picks wmm TOnm IT U.S. fighter
By CARL HARTMAN BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ Belgium decided Saturday to buy the American YF16 jet fighter rather than the French Mirage, paving the way for a multibillion-dollar "deal of the century" the biggest series of sales in the history of aviation. Belgium j o i n s Holland, Denmark and Norway to take 306 planes, nearly $1.9 billion worth, at $6.1 million each. Beginning in 1979 they will replace the F104 Starfighter. Additional orders are expected later both from these four countries and from other West European allies. The U.S. Air Force wants at least 650. With the psychological boost from the European purchase, representatives of General Dynamics Corp. are expected to push even harder for sales around the globe from Japan to Chile. They hope to sell as many as 3,000, which would be more than $18 billion worth. In Paris, General Dynamics Board Chairman David F. Lewis, a t t e n d i n g the international air show, said it was "a great day" not only for the company and the United States but also for the Western alliance. But French Premier Jacques Chirac, in a speech to 4,000 guests at the air show, said, "We were very disappointed by this decision and the government will now take whatever action is necessary to support the momentum of ' the French aeronautics industry." In Ft. Worth, Tex., where the YF16 is built, city leaders, politicians and others called the Belgian decision "great news ... tremendous ... a coup." A General Dynamics spokesman at corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., said the company felt the NATO consortium "couldn't h a v e m a d e a better choice." It was fierce competition in Belgium. Both President Ford and Valery G i s c a r d d ' E s t a i n g of France saw Belgian Premier Leo Tindemans last month and talked about the deal. Earlier there had been repeated charges of bribery and undue political pressure. Belgium has strong ties with France, sentimental as well as economic. Tindemans trjed to use thc prospect of a big order for the Mirage to win Giscard's support for a united European aircraft industry to compete w i t h big American firms like General Dynamics. Tindemans failed. In announc(Turn to Back Pg., Col. 3)

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Ford to suppress part of CIA study

WASHINGTON (UP1) - President Ford will release the Rockefeller commission report on the CIA but will withhold it? findings on alleged assassination plots, White House sources said Saturday. The sources, who declined to be identified for publication, said Ford will formally announce his decision on the controversial report during a televised news conference Monday night. They said Ford was offended when Rockefeller Commission officials promised on their own authority that the report would be released this weekend, feeling that decision was his to make. The White House countermanded the weekend release promise Friday, provoking confusion and controversy. Press secretary Ron Nesscn, obviously irked by suggestions the White House "had a cover-up going," said earlier Saturday he assumed Ford would make the report public after reading it. The sources said it was still unclear exactly when Ford will release the 350-page report on allegations the CIA carried out illegal spy CIA agent quits agency in disgust, says it has been discredited. Story on Page A-9. activities, including surveillance of American citizens within the United States. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, who chaired the presidential commission in its six month investigation, said Friday night the report would disclose "serious defi(Turn to Back Pg., Col. 2)

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2-hour-old baby dumped in street

A two-hour-old baby boy, covered with mud and stuffed nude in a paper grocery bag, was discovered abandoned alongside a residential street in Downey by three teenagers, police reported Saturday. Officials said the seven-pound boy, discovered at a b o u t 10:30 p.m., was the second abandoned child found in the county in a 13hour period Friday. Both babies were later reported in good condition at area hospitals. , "We were just driving by the place where I used to live when we saw a paper bag lying near this palm tree at 10273 Ratliffe St. " said Patrick Howard, 17. "The bag looked kind of funny, so we decided to investigate." Howard said he and his companions, Mike Curtis, 16, and his brother Dave, 15, of Norwalk, got out of the car to take a look in the bag. "Dave reached his h a n d in there and said it felt kind of warm, so we thought maybe it was a cat or something," Howard said. "Then (he bag tipped over and this baby fell out and started crying. "It didn't have any clothes on, and there wasn't even a blanket around it; it was just there in the bag. It looked like it was covered with mud and it may have had some axle grease on it, too." Howard, a junior at Downey High School who lives at 10836 Benfield St., Downey, said he and the Curtis brothers rushed the baby to Kaiser Hospital in Bellflower, where doctors said it appeared to be about two hours old. The infant was later transferred to CountyUSC Medical Center. Investigators said they had no clues as to the identity of the mother. Police in Pasadena, meanwhile, said they still had no information concerning the identity of the mother of a seven-pound baby girl abandoned in that city at about 9:30 a.m. Friday. Investigators said the baby was discovered in a trash can by city refuse collector Archie Edwards. Edwards told police he was about to dump a full trash can into (Turn to Back Pg., Col. 5)

Inmate who escaped in copter recaptured

JACKSON, Mich. (UPI) - A prison escapee who-was .whisked out of the world's largest walled prison in a hijacked helicopter was arrested in a bar Saturday just 15 miles from Southern Michigan Prison. State police said Dale 0. Remling put down his packages of groceries and smiled when police grabbed him. "He offered no resistance at all," a spokesman for state police said. "He just smiled and walked away peacefully." Earlier, police arrested three women in connection with the movie-style escape Fridaya bold plan apparently copied from the current Charles Bronson f i l m "Breakout," shown only a few days previously at the prison. Two other suspects were being soughtanother woman and the man who allegedly forced the helicopter pilot at knifepoint to make a pinpoint landing on a grassy area inside the prison. Police received an anonymous tip the 47-year-old criminal would be at Huffie's Bar in the Ingham County community of Leslie. (Turn to Back Pg., Col. 2)

Stricken ship in tow sinks

The disabled Greek freighter which was being towed to Long Beach sank in water more than a mile deep Saturday, a towing company official said. John Boyd, of Pacific Towboat and Salvage Co., said the Polynesian Diakan and her multimilliondollar cargo of canned tuna slipped under the waves about 115 miles southwest of San Diego . The 427-foot vessel began listing to starboard during the night and at 9:24 a.m. she rolled over and sank. , Crewmen from Ihc abandoned ship werc picked out of life rafts by Coast Guard helicopters Tuesday after thc vessel began shipping water in 10-foot seas churned up by Hurricane Agatha. No-serious injuries werc reported. The cargo of tuna, reportedly .owned by Star-Klst Foods, Inc., was en route from Pago Pago, Samoa, io Terminal Island.

$2,000 reward offered in killing

James Hamilton MacGcnn, 50-year-old employe at King's Imperial Restaurant at 10(M Atlantic Ave. in Lynwoori, left for home at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 1. M i n u t e s l a t e r , other employes leaving the restaurant found him slumped alongside his car in the restaurant parking lot, stabbed near thc heart. He died en route to St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood without regaining consciousness. Lynwood detectives said (hey had no clues in thc slaying. MacGenn, an employe of thc restaurant for 24 >t-ars, had no known enemies and he had not been robbed. Secret Witness will pay $2,000 for information leading
to thc arrest and murder conviction of MacGcnn's killer. If you have such information, call Secret Witness at 4362!i2G between 8 a.m. and midnight on weekdays, or between 3 p.m. and 1! p.m. on Satur-

'Patient protection' eyed

By BRIAN SULLIVAN AP Science Writer

In all the tumult and shouting about the malpractice insurance crisis, one approach to thc basic problem might be emerging: the creation of medical injury-prevention programs. Under this concept, every hospital and health-care institution in thc country would develop programs to prevent patient injury. A national clearing house would be set up to monitor the information that is gathered and use it to reduce malpractice. "Medical injury prevention is primary and has to be considered first," before thc problem of medi-

cal malpractice insurance can be solved and its cost brought under control, says Eli P. Bcrnzweig, executive director of a major federal study of thc problem. In an attempt to involve thc patient, a related approach would be to establish some form of

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ombudsman in every hospital to deal with patient grievances. Steps such as these arc being increasingly urged by a number of specialists and observers to deal with thc fact that most malpractice claims perhaps 80 per cent, according to Bernzweig arise from

events that occur in a hospital. "There is no coordinated medical injury-prevention effort in this country," Bcrnzweig says. The report of the Health, Education and Welfare Secretary's Commission on Medical Malpractice, published in February 1073, made just such'recommendations, but there has been no federal nioney to follow through, and thc ide, were largely ignored. Until now. A major step is to be taken at a meeting in Seattle this week of thc American Hospital Association (AHA) and thc National Association of Insurance Commis(Turn to Back Pg., Col. 2)

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(Selected summaries and specified rewards of other Secret Witness cases will be found on Page A-13.)