Government Property

A 21-year-old man who allegedly bombed a Lancaster gay bar has been arrested, along with his father, who authorities accuse of stealing $300,000 worth of tools from Edwards Air Force Base. Geoffrey Barr, 21, and Edward Barr, 49, were arrested after Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arson and explosives deputies, FBI agents and U.S. Air Force investigators searched their residence in the 2300 block of W. Avenue K-10, according to Sgt. Mike Parker, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department.

A San Francisco peace activist was convicted Monday of demolishing a sophisticated Air Force navigational computer that she said was designed to lead the United States into global nuclear war. Deliberating less than two hours, a federal court jury found Susan (Katya) Komisaruk, a business school graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, guilty of one count of destroying government property in connection with the June 2 incident at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

President Bush toured a former drug baron's mountaintop hideaway Tuesday in his first visit to Orange County since the election, delivering $4.39 million in seized drug assets to local police and challenging the nation to help destroy "these chemical weapons of death and destruction." Flying into secluded Rancho del Rio in extreme southern Orange County on a Marine Corps helicopter, Bush joined with Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburg, Customs Commissioner William Von Raab, Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.

The federal government's long and embarrassing role as a major owner of the Bicycle Club Casino, one of California's biggest card clubs, may come to an end with a $25.3-million deal announced Monday to sell the federal share to the American arm of a vast British gambling concern. Federal trustee Frederick S. Wyle said in a brief statement that the U.S.

The city of Los Angeles has failed to effectively manage its vast real estate holdings and spends millions of dollars on private leases even as surplus properties sit empty, according to an audit released Wednesday by the city controller. City officials do not have a central database of all city-owned property, which was last valued in 1995 at $3 billion, and do not plan ahead to avoid costly leases, Controller Laura Chick concluded.

Lax security and poor accounting procedures at Defense Department supply depots are permitting huge losses of drugs and medical equipment intended for use at U.S. military installations, Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) said Friday. Wilson, who has mounted a two-year effort to improve the nation's military inventory system, said some of the missing medications are ending up on drugstore shelves with changed expiration dates and "present a serious problem to public health."

Gov. Pete Wilson's office acknowledged Tuesday that Wilson a year ago improperly gave about a dozen state computers to a Korean community center in Los Angeles that had an Administration official on its board of directors. The computers, it turned out, had not officially been declared surplus. And the group that got them--the Korean Youth and Community Center--was not registered with the state to receive the unused property, which might have gone to schools had normal procedures been followed.

A woman who admitted destroying a sophisticated Air Force navigation computer will not be permitted to argue that she was attempting to prevent the U.S. government from staging an aggressive first-strike attack against the Soviet Union. U.S. District Judge William J.

Iran-Contra figure Albert A. Hakim pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge, admitting that he had provided $13,800 from a secret Panamanian bank account to build a security fence at the home of former White House aide Oliver L. North. U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who presided at North's trial earlier this year, accepted Hakim's plea only after prosecutors modified it to meet Gesell's objections that Hakim was not admitting the specific acts he had committed.