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Gorbachev Dancer to reduce teaches troops stars. how In Far East to tap . SPORTS/Bl WORLD/A4 FOCU /A6 THE ORANGE COAST 25 CENTS ED E DAY, MAY 17 .. 1989 . ,NB deni.es-try ;·ng to.dera ·il -m·o.norail· 8y IRIS YOKOf A request by Ncwpon that lrvtne " We are qain bean& harassed by pla.ta development and the airpon. Young said he W111 be hcsttant to The orthnance simply provades an Of_o.-y ..... ..- conduct envU'Onmental st1.1dics orr a thccitrofNcwpon Beach ... and Stop .. With these letters from the Cit) of s11n the operating agreement if New incentive for a monorail or any other proposed ordinance allowing density PoUuttn& Our Newport, who have Newport Beach, would )OU go ahead port Beach's chaUcn1c to the ordi type oftransit that rchevesconaestioo Cootrary to charaes lhal Newpon bonuxs to developers linked to the written us threatening letters clluin and •pend S• million on a monorail?" nance is not resolved by then. in the 2,SOO-acrc Irvine Business Beach is trytn1 to tbwart a proooul tran11t system was rouune, Wynn in& a densuy bonus passed by the city McDonnell Douglas has until Ma> The lrvtne City Council lut week Complex, be said. for a monora1l in the John Wayne &aid. onrvine is mcaat and improper ... said 23 to sign an opcl'lllllJ agrcemeni introduced the ordinance, and it is Some individuals are cbarac Afrpon area. Newpon City Mana,tr The letter was not meant as any Roben Youna. president of McDon with the county to prooeed wath the slated for a second reading May 23. tcruint tbe ordinance as somcth1na Roben Wynn said Tuesday that the lctaJ challenge. he said. nell Doualas Realty Co monorail. After that. at wouJd ~ too The ordinance docs not requitt an that WJll create a huac inCrease of city merely was expressing its con llut the developer of the proposed McDonnell Douglas 1s propos1na late for county supervisors to aJtcr the environmental tmpact report bec:au~ people and traffic in the airport are.a. cerns about the project's impact on monorail claims Newport s obJcc to bujJd the half-mile monorail be deS\an of a parktna tructure to no zomna · is chan,ed, sa.id lJ'Vlnc but "the intent as just the revenc of the sunound1ng area. uons could derail the proposal. tween the company's office-and retail accommodate the transit synem. Assistant City Manqer Paul Brady. fPtease Me MONOllAIL/ All Cqwb.oys'·days numbered on Orange Coast 8y EMILY ADAMS Angeles. But the cnurc opcrauon is. OfdwO,....,..._ under the watcbfull blue eyes of the man wath the weatherbeaten-brown Four fiaures on horseback stood face and a chaw of tobacco in his poised on the edge of a dnzzly arar· lower lip. p-een hill in Laauna Canyon. Sur Born on a ranch 1n Colorado 64 rounded by a lake of cattle, some yean ago. Klrkpatnck has worked homed, all cross-breeds, the fiaum in caHle most of bis hfe. He moved to Western bats were statue-still. Cahfomaa 10 1971 to help butld and In a flash, everythu1g moved: ma~ the b~ stables for Irvine CoW1, calves, bones and humans Rancl\. Soon, he II ~ forced to move went streaming down a hlll and away on. from the corral where the cattle had The Quall Hill preserve 1s Just one decided they d.Jd not care to &e. They example.-' of the parcehnJ out of dissappeared, lnv10,an empty land K.irkpatnck's ranae land. Soon. The tcape. Irvine Co. is upectcd to deed over lO finally, a picture that was OllC'C the city of lrvtne 637 acres of vtrgin familiar io Irvine and Laauna Bach ranae land, encompassing Quatl Htll - and is about to be lost forever - near Turtle Rock, so the area can be came into view. Movtn1 as \( they kept as it is now - open space were a single, Ouid body; tattle came K.irkpetndc is not a man wbo poundina over the tun in a w,avc, readily complains. He offers the driven by the yelps and calls of three fiiures that belie h 1s sh.ti nkl ng -crcaac men and one woman on ho~ - the in the same tone of voice another cowboys. mi&ht U$t to dacribe a st.able stock Wes K.irkpetnck 1s the boss of thas mark.ct. But when he talks about · last dwindlin• piece of Irvine Ranch work.in.a cattle, that's another thina land that 1s sttU, truly. a r1nch. Even aJtoactbcr. two yea~ aao. he could graze herds " You know, a l ,400poundcowcan -0vcr l 0,000 acres. Now bis I, I00 Jump a 6-foot fence to act at you, af head of cattle confine themselves to they re mad enouah,·' Kirkpatrick &aid with obvious admarauon for the The land -Kirkpatrick ndcs over power o sue seem1 y c umsy ..., .... ,......_ ~ beasts. "A cow's hooves arc: just like ...... belonas to The Irvine Co. cattle be cares for belongs to a man 1n Los (l'te.,. Me ltANCH/ AlJ ll•ndl•r W•• ~lctl 1urv•J• tlll he.rd In• con., on ~·Randi...., .. oN La•.,..~°" lload. Revised -Cougar study has more Pierside questions than answers. Village 9y 'AULAltOWUY quesuons they b:\t.rc. we would eonclude that the p<>pu· or.. ._,..,._ On Tunday, IUpcrvlSOt"S received lauon 1s dcchn1n1 toward eiitttnc· uon," be said, " but thai 1s clearly wins OK It wu in the JPnnt of 19 6 when 1 a quarta'ly ttpOrt outhnina w~t the unsupponablt, because it is the result bad mountain hon att.aekcd S-year-old on>JeCt sroup learned dunna !he ohtudyillJ too small a po"ion o~lhc Lawa MICheJJe SmAU in a south prev10~ ~uartC! whale tntckJDJ population for too shon a tJme ()raaee County wildcrDcsl oerk. moun~n hons 1n the Sant.a Ana ~nod.- ICveRlly 11\iun111 her bd<>tt a hiker Mountains. The two-year study should be drove the animal olf. The followina Rctean:ben from the county, UC extenMd. as wtll as the study area, to autumn. a tee0nd coupr at&aekcd 6- · ~and the tite Dtpemnent of team more about the ra,.c and numben of the hoo populat1on, '" rati05, and expected oumbetl Of otrtonn. tn tM fut~ . he •Id. ••We may also be able to rditc chanteS in the population struct~ to cbafteet 10 hon bcblv1or, ulchidi• c...,.. in the numben and types~ buman·lion encounten." Malit\' said. CWTtntly, mearcbm CIJl ooly pe11 •hy an adwt ma.le COUii' SM&cbed Laura Small ofEJ Toro on a ~ Patt tratl that Palm Sunday in I ~16 and Qtn'ied Mr by the he9d . uno the ~ -~~ it would have eltcll Ila'. TM ecreams of usu smau. uura·s motbet. attracted OftlO'Y Y .. OI S.. Juu Capuuaao. ~ --..S illto dw '**9 and ......... to~ ... Hoe o«. Alld din doe't kA0'4if wby a leCood •• 111h1lioll ..... 09Uld•Ud J1lllia ....,. 'olltuatiftlllOe ae.c. ............Oesoblrr • alw: child ............._aiiliily .....tim picnicked GOODM0R - m n'sd th ., A&aX ...'"'Ml au&ioa releued &o ~ \Mt Merritt and ~1nina to post the ~~ u1'COCl\moa ia mwder Merrill - ...... Loi ~ ............. Merria'• bodY"wes found lyi1'1in0.0 flkrsatlocal · 1ehools.uwtUuat lDv~1, but are oAaa beipftal. Ullln ......... beint a loyll Paltway near Fcli~ ROid. lnd the Saddleback Co eae. sbCri~Richard Olloil aid. foUOMr oftbt rock budl U2. S1eety After 2~ month• without anawen. DU and <knait. aa El TCll'O WOmf.D it ~ a victim wuapparently uncmpk>yed at Friends of Merritt uid the ~ ''T'betc'1 ,ot to be eomeooe out SI0,000 reward fbr inf'ormation ad \he time of <bth. eta.led knew rew people at the patty, there who mows more lbaft Ibey arc Erick.Ion aid \he Sl0,000 aum wbich was anended by 1even.I ~~re would come enurely frOm &mily '-to tbe coavictioo of her 21-ycar Since a.bat ti~i..Metritt'• mot~r1 iellina." Olson said . .. Money bu a IOtl'• murderer. exchanle ttudcata &om tbe •trante way of makjna people ~ Alndl. .J olil Ann Ericbon of' r.J !O"?t...has c:alJCO nanior collqe. Mcnitt, an 1985 the County ~n 0epe,n. member what they d.idn'f remember Mcrrin is au.rvived by hu f11C>lhri'. ' Steven Hall Merritt of Million <>ranee Toro Hi&h School lf'&duatc, had V'aejo wat abot to death Feb. 26 meat ooc:ie a Met for an inveatiaatio11 before." bis father, Chuck Mmtu of Newport recently quil hi• job in construction ae.cb~ h11 brothtr. Mlkt; and his taUOwina a part} at a house near update. Over 2'n months, she has to pursue a career in advertisina Olson aaid the small number of s.ddleblck Collqe. Hia body WU learned nothina new, Erickson said. si1ter, Kathy. Several fncndt said photOIJ'lpby, £.rkklOD said. details released is cu~tomary to 1 found at 3:•s a.m. approximately t ~ Now she said abe hopes the money Sberitrs Depattment lnvesti.. nont . Merntt wu virtually iosc.,.rable "There were a Jot of people at that from his brother. miles from the party sa:ne. ~atinfoanatian loost that will party, most of whom he didn't Fotlowins-Menitt'• death, friends the in vcstiption. Aayooe with infonnation abou1 At \be time ofthe murder1 Merritt's know," EricboG Mid." All hit friends said the victifA wu clean·livin&. and family received no more in1ormation lo lddilion, the family is printin& bad left. to ma)'be some oltbc other his mother slid Mtnin bad never t.be crime it en<:0u.rqed to call lht about the incident than the infor- fliers bcarina a recent phototraph of people will recopize hJa picture• •, been in kpl trouble.