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Smith was indicted in 1983 on charges including murder. “There was an agreement in prin ciple,” Weitzman said. “The details have not been worked out yet. I may have a different viewpoint of how I think the case should be resolved.” He suggested he would not com plete the plea bargain if she had to serve prison time. “I view her as more of a victim than a criminal,” Weitzman said. “She clearly didn’t intend to murder anyone. She was involved in her own drug problems, as was Mr. Belushi. “This case is tragic enough with out putting Cathy Smith in the posi tion she is in.” Weitzman, the attorney who rep resented John De Lorean in his co caine trafficking case, asked for postponement of her arraignment to give him time to study the indict ment. Smith remained in custody while trying to raise the money to post the $50,000 bail set by Superior Court judge Robert K. Devich. The announcement of the plea bargain by Assistant District Attor ney Mike Montagna came just hours after Smith arrived in Los Angeles from Toronto after ending a 22- , month challenge to extradition. Her attorney in Canada, Brian Greenspan, had ref used to comment on whether prosecutors had agreed to reduce charges in return for Miss Smith’s decision to return to Los An geles. Greenspan did say negotiations with the Los Angeles district attor ney’s office “provided an acceptable basis for Miss Smith’s voluntary de parture.” Montagna said Smith had agreed to plead guilty to involuntary man slaughter and three counts of fur nishing heroin and cocaine. Outside court, Montagna said the district attorney’s office was ready to proceed with a trial if the plea bar gain did not work out. Asked why he agreed to the plea, he said, “We’ve never taken the posi tion that this was an intentional kill ing. That’s one of the major consid erations.” Maximum sentence for involun tary manslaughter, and the other counts would be eight years and eight months in prison, he said. World War I pilot gets space tour Associated Press HOUSTON — Smokey Cameron, a former deputy sheriff who rode shotgun on stagecoaches in Arizona when it was still a territory, the great-grandson of the f amous Chira- cahua Apache chief Cochise, the man who demonstrated his mule- skinning skills at 12 to a skeptical Teddy Roosevelt — may have been born in the horse ’n’ buggy days but he’s hooked on new' frontiers in space. Cameron has been talking about space and the space program for so long his friends in Dallas decided to do something about it, like give him a surprise trip to NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston for his birthday. Smokey’s not exactly a spring chicken. He celebrated his 99th birthday recently with friends at the Kensington Manor nursing home in Pleasant Grove. As soon as the cake and ice cream disappeared, he was anxiously heading south on Inter state 45. Confined to a wheelchair during the daylong tour because of phlebitis in his legs, Smokey’s guide in the ex hibits area of the Visitor Center was shuttle astronaut Michael Coats. “Thafs a space-age version of a stagecoach,” Coats said, pointing to a duplicate of the lunar rover. Smokey looked at the lunar rover, the rusted space capsule and the gal lery of old spacesuits. “Wish I could go up with you sometime,” he said. Born in 1886 in the Arizona 1 er- ritory, Smokey (that’s not a nick name) was the son of a full-blooded Chiracahua who married Edith Tra vis, a missionary school teacher. At 12 and with only three years of school, Smokey was driving freight wagons. Later he was a deputy to John Slaughter, the U.S. marshal at Tombstone. As a young man, Smo key, a trick rider and rodeo per former, and his wife, a trick shooter, joined a wild west show-rodeo and traveled throughout Europe and England. The show happened to be in En gland when World War I started. Never one to shirk a fight, Smokey enlisted in the British air corps, then transferred to the American unit when the United States entered the war. One day while Capt. Cameron was flying his Spad biplane over France, he was shot down. “In those days, you knew who you were shooting at,” Smokey told four time space shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen as the two traded tales sit ting at the consoles in Mission Con trol. “I knew it was Ernst Udet who show me down and he knew who I was. ” When World War I was over, Smokey returned to Arizona and the family ranch where his wife and two children were waiting. After a band of Indians stampeded the herd of Hereford-Longhorns, which killed his wife and children, he sold the ranch and went to Alaska where he worked as a lumberjack and forest- fire firefighter. The trip to NASA was a highlight in a life filled with adventures, Smo key said. Blackwell releases his list of worst dressed Associated Press LOS ANGE1.ES — Singer-actress Cher, described as “a plucked cocka too setting femininity back 20 years,” and rock stars Cyndi Lauper and Prince lent a musical touch Tuesday to Mr. Blackwell’s 25th annual “Worst-Dressed Women” list. Cher topped the list, followed by reigning Miss America Sharlene Wells, Patti Davis, Lauper, Diahann Carroll and Joan Collins in a tie for fifth, Victoria Principal, Barbra Streisand, Sally Field, Pamela Bel- Iwood and, in another tie, Prince and the rock band Twisted Sister. Blackwell, dapper in a multico lored bow tie and tuxedo, celebrated the silver anniversary of his list by festooning his ornate Edwardian home with silver helium-filled bal loons. Wells, No. 2, “looks like an arma dillo with cornpads,” he said, while President Reagan’s daughter, Davis, in third place, “packs all the glamour of an old, worn-out sneaker.” Lauper, who sports orange hair and a punk wardrobe, “looks Tike the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake,” Blackwell said. He described "Dynasty stars Joan Collins, who topped last year’s list, and Diahann Carroll at No. 5 as “two movie queens fighting for the tacky taste crown of the 40s.” No. 6 Principal, a star of “Dallas,” was described as “everyone’s ‘Yan kee Doodle Dandy,”’ while Strei sand, who was second on last year’s list, improved to No. 7 with what Blackwell termed “the A1 Capone look with electrocuted hair.” Of Sally Field, he said, “The Fly ing Nun takes a fashion dive,” while Pamela Bellwood, who plays Claudia Carrington in “Dynasty,” was de scribed as “the living end of the en dangered species.” Males who favor flamboyant garb are not new to Blackwell’s list, which in years past has included Boy George, Dustin Hoffman in his “Tootsie” look, Milton Berle and Flip Wilson’s “Geraldine” character. Nancy Reagan was among Mr. Blackwell’s fabulous fashion inde pendents for 1984. 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