TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004
Volume 4, Issue 15
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Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Katz’s first order of business: Deal with the homeless
DAILY LOTTERY SUPER LOTTO 2 21 23 36 45 Meganumber: 9 Jackpot: $26 Million
FANTASY 5 2 10 24 26 29
DAILY 3 Daytime: Evening:
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Councilman identifies top priorities in next term
DAILY DERBY 1st: 2nd: 3rd:
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPARD
In September, according to a report in Tehran’s daily Mardomsalari newspaper, a local court ordered a husband to stop beating his wife. However, the Iranian woman, identified only as Maryam J, said she would have accepted an order that just limited the beatings to once a week. “Beating is part of his nature,” she said, “and he cannot stop it.” The disconsolate husband said, “If I do not beat her, she will not be scared enough to obey me."
TODAY IN HISTORY In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados became independent. In 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe. In 1993, President Clinton signed into law the Brady bill, which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers. Five years ago: The opening of a 135nation trade gathering in Seattle was disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
INDEX Horoscopes Be free as bird, Libra
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Surf Report Water Temperature: 58°
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Opinion City needs to bleed, lead
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Congress looking for intelligence 15
Comics 16
Classifieds 17-19
People in the News Mandela taps AIDS code
BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON Daily Press Staff Writer
Charges have been dropped against a Santa Monica man accused of delivering 160,000 ecstasy pills to an undercover officer in an area parking lot in September. The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently dismissed charges against Bohumel Chudoba, a Czech
Republic immigrant who lives on California Avenue. He was arrested Sept. 13 for allegedly delivering the drugs in a car, which was left in a parking space in downtown Santa Monica. Inside the trunk were two large trash bags full of ecstasy, authorities allege. Chudoba was one of 13 people arrested in September who were allegedly involved in an See ECSTASY, page 6
BY JOHN ROGERS
National
Mother looking for home
Local man freed from ecstasy ring charges
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Associated Press Writer
‘Super Mom’ needs a rescue
John Wood/Daily Press Natalie Flores, 19, left, and April Jubela, 20, watch early Monday as surfer Nick Nevarez, 31, comes ashore near lifeguard No. 27 in Ocean Park. Nevarez braved cold water and little swell to surf as part of a promotional event for ‘Winterlit,’ a downtown holiday campaign that kicks off Friday.
Patti Davis writes a father-daughter love story
Mommy page
Tickle your funny bone
less people on the streets will require more shelters, both in Santa Monica and elsewhere, Katz said. “The first step would be to get (Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series that appears with the other cities,” said Katz, each Tuesday, outlining priorities 73, an architect who lives with his for those who were elected Nov. 2 wife, Brenda, in Sunset Park. “It’s in progress. Make sure that they to serve on the City Council.) take their share of the homelessness problem and provide shelter. BY JOHN WOOD At the same time, I believe we Daily Press Staff Writer need to provide some shelters CITY HALL — Homelessness is where we can … “And we have to move in a the No. 1 problem facing Santa Monica, and ending it will require direction, in my opinion, to make homeless people in more shelters and betour community ter help from neighsomewhat responsiboring cities, City ble for living here. Councilman Herb And to qualify it, I Katz said Monday. think it’s imperative Residents on Nov. that ... our citizens 2 elected Katz to feel safe on the serve four more years streets and safe in on the council. He their own homes,” said reducing homeKatz added. lessness would be his While campaigntop priority in office, ing, Katz suggested a followed by mapping HERB KATZ city parking lot be set out the long-term guideaside for transients. He lines that govern local developments and improving the said Monday he had backed away way City Hall interacts with resi- from that idea because community members didn’t support it. Katz dents. Also elected to the four-year has previously recommended terms on the seven-member Santa homeless residents be required to Monica City Council were incum- pick up trash or clean graffiti to bents Richard Bloom and Ken stay in Santa Monica. Most important to any plan is Genser, and challenger Bobby Shriver. They will be sworn in that surrounding communities also Dec. 7, joining council incum- help out, Katz said. He applauded bents Bob Holbrook, Kevin work being done by Bloom with a McKeown and Pam O’Connor, group called Bring LA Home, which aims to end homelessness whose terms expire in 2006. Reducing the number of homeSee KATZ, page 6
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State Schwarzenegger’s biggest donor
Surf’s up
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SANTA MONICA — If she’d been just another wild child of a baby boom generation that produced so many, Patti Davis muses, none of it would have mattered so much. Sure, she did her share of recreational drugs, but in the 1960s and 1970s, what young person didn’t? There was more, of course: posing
naked in Playboy magazine, a string of bad love affairs, speeches at anti-war rallies. There was a difference, though. While Davis the protester denounced war at those rallies in the 1980s, other demonstrators denounced her father, President Reagan. “I regret all of it,” says Davis, who has just published “The Long Goodbye,” a poignant, heartfelt
memoir about watching the father she adored fight a 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s. Well, she regrets almost all of it. The Playboy shoot was pretty cool, she says with a twinkle in her eye. “If you stripped it right down, I didn’t do things that much differently than many, many other people did,” Davis reflects over a tall glass of iced tea at a Santa Monica
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hotel. “I mean I was never arrested or something.” And then, with a giggle: “I wasn’t THAT BAD!” She was both Patti Davis, angry young liberal, and Patricia Ann Davis Reagan, Daddy’s little girl. She is older now and less angry, but still just as liberal and still Daddy’s little girl — so much so that everything she said or did to See DAVIS, page 7
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