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Newport patrolman shot

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SCENE OF SHOOTING: An officer looks over the área where Newport patrolman Bob Henry was found Sunday with a gunshot wound in his head.

MOVING STORM'S RESIDUE The Associated Press

A California Conservation Corps crew from Miramonte removes mud and water from around a car buried near a collapsed section of an Interstate 5 bridge near Coalinga. Authorities believed there were victims inside. Four bodies have been found so far. The bridge collapse will disrupt transportation for about six

-weeks. Complete storm coverage on News 16

CRIME: He is in critical condition after the city's first on-duty shooting in 24 years.

By ANDRE MOUCHARD The Orange County Register

NEWPORT BEACH — The si-lence of Newport Beach patrol officer Bob Henry's police radio was the first clue that something was wrong.

Shortly after 4:10 a.m. Sunday, a police dispatcher tried to send Henry to a report 6f shots f ired near Newport Harbor Lutheran Church. But Henry, a Si-year vet-eran, never called back.

About 20 minutes later, his col-

leagues discovered why. Henry was found lying side by

side in a pool of blood with Gar-den Grove resident Carlos Cai-cedo. Both had been shot.

Caicedo, 24, was dead. Henry, 30, was alive but unconscious with a head wound. He was listed in crit ical condition late Sunday at Hoag Memorial Hospital Pres-byterian. Doctors were unable to remove a bullet from his brain during more than six hours of emergency surgery.

O.C. declared disaster area WEATHER: Clinton in-cludes 38 other coun-ties. The death toll rises to at least 12. From Register news services

• SACRAMENTO — President ¡Clinton on Sunday declared 'Orange County and 38 other Cali-^fornia counties disaster areas af-ter the latest series of devastat-ing winter storms.

"California has been badly hit ;by Mother Nature during the last two years — wildfires, the North-ridge earthquake, January's

flood and now this flooding," Clinton said in a statement re-leased by the White House.

The disaster declaration al-lows businesses and residents to apply for financial assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

At least 12 people have died in California over the past several days as a series of powerful storms swept over the state. Gov. Pete Wilson had appealed to Clinton earlier Sunday to de-clare the counties disaster areas after state officials called the storms the worst of the century.

"California continues to expe-

rience a very intense weather pattern," Wilson wrote to Clin-ton. "Long-range predictions suggest that this series of ex-traordinarily damaging storms wil l continue for some t ime."

Wilson's letter said FEMA had denied a request to "reopen the incident period" for disaster dec-larations made when heavy storms pounded the state in Jan-uary. FEMA suggested that the storms occurring after Feb. 12 be considered a new disaster, prompting Wilson's request.

Wilson said in his letter that damage estimates were not available because the storms were continuing.

STORM'S HEAVY TOLL

• AT LEAST 12 PEOPLE HAVE DIED.

• MONTEREY PENINSULA IS CUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE STATE.

• DAMAGE ESTIMATE COULD REACH $2 BILLION.

• FIERCE TRAFFIC JAMS ARE EXPEaED DUE TO MUDSLIDES BLOCKING ROADS.

Second baby washes ashore in as many days

49ers, UCLA

READY ^ CRIME: The body of

the newborn is found by a beachcomber on Sunset Beach.

' By DAN FROOMKIN and DEBORAH BELGUM The Orange County Register

SUNSET BEACH — For the second time in as many days, storm debris washing up on Orange County's shores Sunday carried a gruesome find: the

' body of a newborn girl. A beachcomber searching

through the driftwood and reeds littering Sunset Beach early Sun-day found the tiny corpse, its um-bilical cord sti l l attached.

Less than 24 hours earlier, a jogger made an almost identical

discovery on the Newport Beach shore, about 12 miles south.

Police say they have no reason to believe that the two incidents are anything more than coinci-dence.

"There's no obvious connec-tion, and we're not looking into it in that way right now," Lt. J im Carson of the Newport Beach Po-lice Department said.

The Orange County coroner has yet to determine causes of death, but both babies appeared to have been in the water for at least four days — and in both cases, death came soon after birth.

Both babies were born at ful l term and were too big to be twins, officials said.

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Cal State Long Beach won the Big West Tour-' nament on Sun-day in Lais Ve-gas. The 49ers trailed Nevada 64-58 with 2:22 left, and 49 sec-onds later cen-ter Joe McNauIl drew his f i f th foul. But Terrence O'Kelley tied the score and Eric Brown's three-pointer in overtime drove Long Beach to a 76-69 victory, garnering the team an NCAA Tourna-ment berth. And then there's UCLA — if they didn't come r ight out and splash the NCAA Tournament pairings in blue" and gold, they came close enough. UCLA has the right team peaking at the right time. And i t has Charles OlBan-non, above. The two teams' chances are

I previewed in a special Sports section.

SAUNAS LEAVES MEXICO Former Mexi- ; .can President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, his reputation in tatters and his elder brother in;, ja i l on murder charges,, has left Mexico. He was asked to leave by an em-issary of the man he chose to succeed him, President Err nesto Zedillo, and wi l l be in

. v ir tual exile in the United States for an indefinite oeri-od of t ime News 3

Newport Beach police spokes-man Sgt. Andy Gonis said Hen-ry's survival likely wil l be deter-mined over the next 72 hours.

Because of continuing investi-gations into the shooting, Gonis would say only that Henry lives in south Orange County with his wife and three young children. Henry is the first Newport Beach officer shot in the line of duty in 24 years.

Despite finding some evidence, , police aren't sure what happened

leading up to the shootings. Caicedo and Henry were lying

10 feet behind a 1980s model Dai-, hatsu Charade, in front of the chuch parking lot 200 feet from the intersection of East 16th Street and Dover Drive.

But Henry's patrol car was found about 50 feet behind the Daihatsu, a distance that Gonis and other police officials said was too great for a routine traff ic stop.

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Many in O.C. say bad days coming POLL: Respondents say bankruptcy's effects will be widespread. By KIM CHRISTENSEN The Orange County Register

The worst is yet to come. That's the gloomy assessment

that emerges from an Orange County Register Poll on the coun-ty's fiscal crisis, which already has resulted in a $1.7 billion loss, layoffs of public employees and plans to peddle public property to the highest bidder.

While only 11 percent of the re-spondents said they have been greatly affected by the crisis, 51 percent said they expect the bankruptcy to have " a great deal of impact" on the county.

Their major worries: Taxes wi l l go up. Government services wi l l be cut. Education wi l l be harmed. Jobs wi l l be lost.

"Everything in one way or oth-er is going to be affected," said Dianne Mitchell, 48, a HUnting-ton Beach flight attendant.

" I think there wi l l be sort of a snowball effect," she said. " I don't think anybody really knows how much it wi l l affect things five years from now or 10 years from now. I just hope that the children in school are not going to suffer from this."

Like 57 percent of those polled, Mitchell favors a temporary one-fourth-cent-on-the-dollar in-crease in sales taxes to deal with the crisis, which occurred when former Treasurer Robert Cit-ron's bad bets on interest rates crashed the investment fund he managed.

But while 82 percent of poll participants heaped blame on Citron, nearly as many also hold the county's elected officials re-sponsible. And 61 percent said they favor a recall vote for the three supervisors who were in of-

MEASURIMG THE IMPACT Orange County residents say the bankruptcy crisis' effects on schools, public services and the , economy will worsen with time.

How much future impact do you believe : that the banknipt^ will have on county

NONE residents?

Should schools recoup 100 percent of their investments?

Source: The Orange County Register Poll

fice at the time of the collapse. "For them to say, 'Jeez, we're

bankrupt, oh, no!' is like Jeffrey Dahmer saying, ' I didn't know anything about that body in my freezer,' " said Toriy Vergerà, 33, of Laguna Niguel.

• EFFECTS: Some already hurting because of bankruptcy. Page 4

• STAYING PUT: Few plan to leave due to crisis. Page 4

Boy's road to freedom led him into oblivion

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PEOPLE: After 22 years, a mother learns her missing son was killed by Randy Kraft. By TONY SAAVEDRA The Orange County Register

The headlights of a lone police cruiser splashed the darkened roadway as it inched methodical-ly past the overgrown fields.

Someone had reported a body, but Huntington Beach police offi-cer Patrick Clemens figured it was probably a rolled-up carpet on the desolate stretch of Ellis Avenue.

Instead, his high beams hit the remains of a boy dumped by seri-al ki l ler Randy Kraft. It was 1:45 a.m., Apr i l 14, 1973.

It would be 22 years before the sexually mutilated v ic t im was identified as Kevin Clark Bailey — a 17-year-old dr i f ter who spent much of his young life breaking out of mental institutions and hitchhiking along California highways. , On what appeared to be his fi-

nal, attempt to get home, Kevin stepped into a car driven by Kraft and ended up John Doe #7301409, his body buried in an unmarked grave.

Kevin's mother, Barbara Par-ry, had long agonized over,her missing son, at f irst praying that he was safe and alive, then pray-ing for proof that he was dead Without such evidence, thé Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would not conduct the

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