- The Art of Politics and Passion : 'A Dry White Season' is overpowered by a little film, 'Mapantsula,' in depicting the plight of South African blacks
- ART REVIEW : Thiebaud: Changer of the Mundane Into the Surreal
- Robbers in Italy Flee With $3.5 Million
- Hundreds Arrested in Seabrook A-Plant Protest
- 1 City's Passion Is Another's Poison : Traffic Builds in Alhambra; So Does Anger
- Katz Tries Going With L.A. River's Flow : Freeway: He sees a stream of cars where no man has dared to drive before.
- Officials Confer to Prevent Market Crisis : Regulators: Few in the Administration express alarm about Friday's selloff, but some lawmakers call for new curbs on stock volatility.
- IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Deaths, Injuries Told in '54 Urals A-Blast
- Bush, Ortega Will Attend Latin Summit
- Expediency Does What Principle Should : Panama: Our neighbors watch in wonder as Washington debates the coup debacle from every angle but the moral one.
- Gunfire Gives TV Film Crew Live Coverage of L.A. Gangs
- Hot Line Blazes Trail to Fall Colors
- Even for the Motivated, Climbing Out of the Welfare Rut Is Difficult
- COLLEGE NOTES : Dominguez Hills Able to Get Badly Needed Soccer Win
- SOUTHEASTERN ROUNDUP : Alabama Sinks Southwestern Louisiana
- TENNIS ROUNDUP : McEnroe, Connors Win Again to Set Up Their 33rd Meeting
- SOUTHLAND ROUNDUP : Northridge Win Streak Ends, 33-17
- Florida Victory Ends a Week of Adversity
- Guns N' Posers: L.A. Hard Rock Evolves : How Guns N' Roses' success surprised, then shaped the sounds of the Sunset Strip
- Housing as Art: the Modern Way : 'Blueprints' traces two decades of Southern California home design at Temporary Contemporary
- Teens Rate the Pleasures of Playing
- Dylan Can Still Find Something to Say--and a Way to Say It
- REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK : Pope's Trip: Never by the Numbers
- To Our Readers
- Woman Tries to Sell Child for $3,000, W. Virginia Officials Say
- Congress Bobbles the Debt
- If Work Doesn't Define Us, It at Least Sets Restrictions
- State Law, Lax Real Estate Practices Invite Fraudulent Title Transfers
- A look at upcoming events in LOS ANGELES COUNTY
- Commentary : 2 Views on Sales Tax Hike for Roads : YES: Measure M allocates $450 million for street maintenance and road improvements.
- P.V. Girls Win Cross-Country Meet
- Pringle, Fullerton Take Big Lead; Pacific Nearly Takes It Back, 35-26
- Nagelmann Chips In as CLU Romps, 26-14
- Lopez Leads Glendale to 44-41 Win
- Badminton Champ Is Old Hand at Winning
- YESTERDAY AND TODAY
- Backup Torretta Leads No. 2 Miami
- Making Up for Lost Time, Under Glasnost : A worldwide demand for his plays keeps Soviet director Lev Dodin challenged and busy
- SOUTH ROUNDUP : Georgia Tech Stuns No. 14 Clemson, 30-14
- Three Stars Are Still Shining Over Texas
- Signing Up for Language : Books: In 'Seeing Voices,' Oliver Sacks explores what it means to be deaf and to be without language, the software of human thought.
- Colombia Extradites 3 to U.S. : Drugs: Two accused traffickers face trials in American courts. The third was convicted in absentia on cocaine charges and will be sentenced in Detroit.
- MIDEAST : IN BRIEF : 3 Killed in Gaza, West Bank Violence
- Cambodians' Vision Loss Linked to War Trauma
- Forest Arson in Israel Fans Flames of Conflict : Mideast: Attacks on the sparse woodlands, a weapon in the Arab uprising, stir anger--and concern that the revolt is hitting closer to home.
- Pasadena's Strict Job Policy Creates Strain for Builders
- CLOUDS OF DISPUTE COVER WORLD WARMING : POLITICAL HEAT VS. SCIENTIFIC LIGHT : Needed: Strong Governor to Solve Growth Gridlock
- Bailiffs--the Good, the Bad and the Indifferent--Make a Big Difference
- El Camino Library Plans Facsimile Linkup
- Hyperion Proposal Awakens Residents' Fury
- CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE
- Sure, and the Faberge Eggs Could Contain Microfilm
- Bishop Amat Storms Past Montgomery, 23-7
- UCLA Can't Look Arizona in the I in 42-7 Loss
- A Consistent Guy : Stewart Continues Impressive Postseason Pitching With Shutout
- Leap Years : What Period Yielded the Most Soaring Advances in History?
- Sur Manzanita Makes Good Ground Cover
- HIGHLIGHTS
- Headache Powder: For What Ails You
- Wandering in Search of Van Gogh
- Debt-for-Nature Swaps Help Foster Conservation in Some Developing Countries
- Duarte Firm Tailors Texts for a Locale and Heritage
- No Stars, No Pizazz, No Press
- Asmara--a Genteel Survivor in a Grim Land : Ethiopia: Lonely outpost of government control fends off drought and rebels to retain a liveliness seen nowhere else in this war-torn country.
- Synthetic Clotting Agent Safer for Hemophiliacs
- Burned and Beaten Girl in Hospital; Father Held
- Mother Teresa to Leave Hospital After a Month
- Harvin, Del'Andrae Help Portland State Over CSUN
- His Spirit Lives On : Colorado Players Draw Inspiration From Memory of Sal Aunese
- Classic Italian, a Menu for the Health-Minded--and Tuxes Galore
- Workers Complete Buddha Billed as World's Biggest
- Students Charge Bias Abounds at Loyola and Say It's Tolerated at Top
- Youth Given 30-Year Term for Shooting Man on Raft
- Official Sets Modest Goals for U.S.-Japan Trade
- BLUESBUSTERS: The greatest of the...
- Low-Budget, High-Concept : Tiny newcomer Mesa/Bluemoon aims its recordings at baby boomers and college students
- Oatman's Truly Land of Free, Home of the Bray
- Hungarian Party Plans to Trim Fat
- Media Advisers Tone It Down in N.Y. Race--Lest They Become an Issue : Campaign: Lack of negative commercials in mayoral drive perhaps says something about the state of politics in the 1990s.
- IN BRIEF : BERKELEY : Apology Sought for Yom Kippur Exam
- Bushes' Camp David: Living Is Easy
- Fuse Blamed in Fatal Blast
- Koll, Ohbayashi Team to Build 28-Story Downtown L.A. Tower
- AROUND HOME : Your Financial Analyst
- IN BRIEF : PANAMA : Cabinet Minister Quits After 6 Weeks
- Sources of Native Plants Around the Southland
- Powder puff football
- COLUMN ONE : The Few, the Proud, the Sober : The day of the two-fisted Leatherneck carouser is fading as the Marine Corps wages a determined assault on its lusty tradition of drinking to excess.
- Pesticide Lab Foes Adamant Despite Gain of Concessions : Toxics: 'I know this is a life-or-death situation,' one councilman said. 'It's something we don't want.'
- Beijing University Reopens 4 Months After Crackdown
- A look at upcoming events in LOS ANGELES COUNTY
- ' . . . It is my opinion that there are from five to 10 times more pleading errors in Hawthorne cases than in Inglewood cases.'--John J. Lynch, Inglewood Municipal Court judge : Hawthorne Chided for Filing Errors in Misdemeanor Cases
- The Price of a 'No-Free-Lunch' Era : Welfare: An overhaul of the county's General Relief program has created a new crop of inequities.
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTES : NCAA May Give Florida the Death Penalty
- COLLEGE ROUNDUP : Christ College Freshman Overcomes Error to Win
- Bailey of Texas A&I; Breaks Dorsett's NCAA Record
- WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ROUNDUP : Detmer Leads BYU Over Colorado State
- USC's Holt Goes the Distance : Trojans: Fullback sees opening, races 55 yards for longest touchdown run of his career.
- Oklahoma Falls Short Against Texas, 28-24
- BIG EIGHT ROUNDUP : No. 4 Nebraska Takes It to Missouri Early, 50-7
- THE NEXT PICTURE SHOW : Peter Bogdanovich and the cast of his 1971 classic reunite in Texas for a sequel's sake
- Richard Dreyfuss journeys to Yugoslavia next year...
- Guide to Repairs for Do-It-Yourself Owners
- Stability Left to Time and Nature in Exxon Valdez Spill
- 42 Hurt as Tour Bus Flips on Wet Interstate in Las Vegas
- Radio Days (Channel 13 Sunday at 8...
- 'Save the Rain Forest' Rings Out in Belize : Ecology: Vast conservation park takes shape on land donated by Coca-Cola and environmentalists hope it can expand to include portions of Guatemala and Mexico.
- Tropical Storm Forces Evacuations Along Gulf Coast
- IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Cigarette Blamed for Fire That Killed 4
- Hindu Temple Open to the Devout or Curious
- Vermont's Down-Home Barbecue Drives Customers to Hit the Road : Food: Curtis Tuff's chickens and ribs are famous for miles around. Some of his customers come from 30 miles away, just to get a taste of the South in New England.
- Topanga Residents Alarmed by Laborers' Camps : Fire: They worry that the tinder dry hillsides might accidentally be set ablaze.
- Bangladesh Shantytown Fire Kills 8; 1,000 Homeless
- Santa Ana Leaders Take a Walk Along Redevelopment Site
- Yadimichi's 10 Goals Help Harvard to Title
- HORSE RACING ROUNDUP : Bayakoa Wins Spinster by a Record 11 1/2 Lengths
- Holtz Rallies to Win at Ventura Raceway
- NFL NOTES : Rams Gained Varied Offensive Attack After Dickerson Departed
- Italy's Ham What Am Finally Arrives
- Suitable for Framing
- Classics on Parade
- Tourist Beware
- Hulse Wins Award for Hawaiian Story
- 'Murphy Brown' Buys Near Work
- SCIENCE NORTHERN LIGHTS : Scientists in Polar Areas Go With Glow
- IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Suspect in Slaying of Girl, 6, Surrenders
- A Christmas Party Gets an Early Start in San Marino
- Abortion Debate Finds the Appropriate Stage : States: Competing moral claims can best be resolved by political argument. What better place to decide them than the legislatures.
- Housing Trust Fund Is a Worthy Concept
- Reactor Shut Down to Replace Switches From N. Hollywood Firm
- 49ers Have Record Pass Play in Loss to Aztecs
- Harbor College Breaks Scoreless Streak, 49-15
- Pete Rose, already suspended from baseball and...
- TENNIS : Byron Black Making a Name for Himself, and Doing It His Way
- PROFOOTBALL / WEEK 6 : He's Making Beeline to Recognition : Bills: Buffalo wide receiver Don Beebe has caught NFL defensive backs off guard with both his speed and ability.
- Scott Scores 19, Magic Gets 18 to Lead Lakers to Victory Over New Jersey, 117-75
- JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL : Ventura Contains Valley, 24-14
- Little Runs for 259 Yards; Occidental Puts End to USD Streak
- 'sex' and art
- RADIO DAYS: When KLOS-FM morning madmen Mark...
- Artists Turn Landscape Art Into Video
- Whittier Votes to Raze Historic Theater
- HIGHLIGHTS : KNOW YOUR CONGRESSMAN:
- The Rowland High family responds when a little girl needs help.
- CLOUDS OF DISPUTE COVER WORLD WARMING : POLITICAL HEAT VS. SCIENTIFIC LIGHT : Environment: As greenhouse politics become muddled, greenhouse science grows more clear--and ominous.
- R.E.M., the prolific rock band from Athens,...
- Developers Finding Legal 'Window' Shut in Two Areas : Neighborhoods: A building moratorium has not yet taken effect, but developers are finding it impossible to obtain permits before it does.
- Hospitals Add Beauty as Treatment Option : Health: Haircuts, manicures and color evaluations are being tried out to give patients a boost.
- Two Try to Cross Death Valley on Snowshoes
- Big Beat
- PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP
- No. 2 El Camino Routs Southwestern, 52-20
- SDSU Survives Long Beach Scare and 98-Yard Pass
- Donahue Doesn't Overheat in Big Defeat : UCLA: Bruin coach is disappointed, but he controls his temper in loss to Arizona.
- MOTOR RACING / LAGUNA SECA : Sullivan Is Penalized; Unser Jr. Wins Race
- Skeptics and Boosters Await San Diego's Soviet Arts Festival
- Haden and Watts: They Lead 4 Lives
- Jim and Tammy Show
- A Standard Approach to Shelves
- The Changing Face of Santa Monica : Neighborhood: Residents struggle to preserve small-city life style threatened by high-priced homes, commercial development.
- Take Care When Exchanging Cash : Money: Travelers who exchange currency illegally in foreign countries leave themselves open to fines and even jail sentences.
- THE BELLAROSA CONNECTION <i> by Saul Bellow (Penguin: $6.95; 102 pp.) </i>
- Viewpoints : RESHAPING TRADE POLICY : Adding more federal bureaucrats won't help us compete with the Japanese.
- LAX Parking 'Solution'
- OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL <i> by Allan Gurganus (Alfred A. Knopf: $21.95; 718 pp.) </i>
- Picture this: An exceedingly pregnant book columnist,...
- A Choice of Tours for the Holidays
- Museum Exhibit Focuses on Case Study Home Era
- Apartment Building He Wants to Buy Seems to Have High Turnover
- A Ship With Mast Appeal
- Civil Engineers
- Board Spent Half of Reserve on Renovation
- Architecture Awards Fete Designs That Go Beyond Mere Style
- THE NEW MILKEN : The deposed king of junk bonds still practices the art of the deal.
- In Dana Point, Taking On the Ritz-Carlton : Development: Qintex Group is looking at a smaller, though plusher, resort than plans originally called for, but the city has bigger ideas for its prime coastline site.
- Locate the Fruitcake and You Get a Lone Star
- The Ghosts of the 1988 Presidential Campaign : LEAP YEAR <i> by Steve Erickson (Poseidon Press: $18.95; 185 pp.; 0671-67134-0)</i>
- Air travel with a cold is generally...
- Detroit Stalking Jaguar, One of Last of Its Breed : Automobiles: Ford and General Motors are vying for a piece of Britain's venerable Jaguar PLC, and the British seem resigned to relinquishing the keys to their car industry.
- It's Time for Business to Get Back to the Basics : Service: Staff standards and quality seem to be diminishing on airlines, in hotels and on cruise ships as more and more companies merge.
- Beverly Hills Condos
- AROUND HOME : The <i> Au Pair</i> Option
- Good Show, President Reagan : THE ACTING PRESIDENT <i> by Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates (E.P. Dutton: $18.95; 397 pp., 0-525-24752-1)</i>
- The Sins of the Preacher : FORGIVEN The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry <i> by Charles E. Shepard (Atlantic Monthly Press: $22.95; 656 pp.; 0-87113-293-1)</i>
- Using Wood Moldings
- AROUND HOME : Pumpkin Patches
- ASCENT <i> edited by Allen Steck & Steve Roper (Sierra Club: $19.95, illustrated)</i>
- WINE : The Jordan Vineyard : Current Cabernet, Chardonnay Output Will Perpetuate Its Storied Status
- PLANTS: Perennial Allure of Fragrant Natives : The Perennial Allure of Fragrant Native Plants : Planting: Wide availability makes choosing water-saving wildflowers and shrubs easier than ever.
- If you intend to drive through Germany,...
- Government Gain
- Police Calls for Domestic Threats
- Police Calls for Domestic Threats
- Stein on Oakland
- GRETZKY'S COUNTDOWN TO 1,851 POINTS
- Radio Buffs Tune to Good Old...
- Westwood Residents Clarify Position
- Nixon Before the Fall : RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The Rise of an American Politician <i> by Roger Morris (Henry Holt: $29.95; 944 pp.; 0-8050-1121-8))</i> : NIXON Volume Two: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 <i> by Stephen B. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster: $24.95; 742 pp.; 0-671-52837-8)</i>
- Traffic Attitudes
- Immunizations
- Key to Airport Solution
- We Should Take Second Look at Credit Card Rates
- A BRIDGE OF CHILDHOOD Truman Capote's Southern Years <i> by Marianne M. Moates (Henry Holt: $19.95; 240 pp.)</i>
- Boy Scout Troop Recycles Papers
- 'Degrading' Quote About the Disabled
- The Need for DNA Unit in Sheriff's Crime Lab
- OLD IN AN OLDSMOBILE
- Right to Work
- Police Calls for Domestic Threats
- Los Angeles County : San...
- Housing Project
- MOHAMMED'S NIGHT JOURNEY
- Hurricane Aid
- Prescott's and Kelly's Presence on City Council
- The Demise of Fountain Valley Trauma Center
- Unless Southern California Universities Get Back on the Fast Track, the Train of High Technology Will Pass Us By
- Bernhardt Victory Sign
- A Lack of Concern
- GLORIFYING LINCOLN
- Police Calls for Domestic Threats
- The Quotable Fonda
- The Quotable Fonda
- Marines' Place in the County's Road Package
- Third World Living Conditions Afflict Many Rural Areas of U.S. : Housing: At least 7 million people in rural areas of the United States live without toilets, sinks or running water. Experts blame inadequate private financing, budget cutbacks, aging buildings, poverty and isolation.
- Clarifying Top Federal Tax Rate
- PLAN Role Clarified
- Dissent on Design Plan
- Organizer Defends Light Rail Forum
- Rights Panel Chief
- Aligning Museums
- What Happened to the Executives at U.S. Steel?
- A Soup Kitchen for the Homeless
- Teen Mothers
- Idea of Family Takes on New Meaning in Fight to Save Life of Girl With Leukemia
- Gay Rights Issue
- Police Calls for Domestic Threats
- Prescott's and Kelly's Presence on City Council
- Names in the News - Oct. 15, 1989
- When Dressing Up Is a Formality
- Bay Series Gets 2 Late Starters--the Mayors
- HIGH SCHOOL CROSS-COUNTRY : Unranked Thousand Oaks Upends Hart
- Viewpoints : RESHAPING TRADE POLICY : We should view competition as a national security issue and build an aggressive economic strike force.
- Bodrum Is Place to Be on Aegean
- You Can Find Plenty of Hot Air in This Valley
- Cruising the Waters of Alaska's Inside Passage
- Exploring Ancient Ruins of Great Zimbabwe
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROUNDUP : Crawford Gallops Past Third-Ranked Lincoln, 13-6
- 41 Injured as L.A. Bus Overturns at Vegas
- How Decades of Soviet 'Reforms' Ruined Polish Farms
- Southlanders Run 'n' Roll for the Poor
- From the archives: Dow Falls 190; Drop Is Worst Since '87 Crash
- EARNINGS
- EARNINGS
- BRIEFLY
- Warner vs. Sony--a Talent Hunt Grows Nastier - Entertainment: Lawsuits fly amid a battle royal for the movie-making skills of Peter Guber and Jon Peters.
- 2nd Time Around, Traders Just as Dazed - Wall Street: Inside and outside the New York Stock Exchange, grim memories of October, 1987, resurface.
- 253 Red Brigade Guerrillas Cleared in Insurrection Case
- Norway's Premier Resigns; Coalition to Take Over
- CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF - SAN JOSE - Man Who Beat Deer Gets 1 Year in Jail
- U.S. Fund Gives $433,000 to Opponents of Costa Rica Leader's Policies
- At Long Last, Some Clues to Wallenberg's Fate - Soviet Union: A former camp inmate believes he saw the man who saved thousands of Jews at least two years after his reported death in prison.
- U.S. Refugees--A Forgotten People
- Kitty Dukakis Advises Doctors Against Drugs
- E. Germany Frees Protesters but Balks at Reform Talks - Europe: Party leader Erich Honecker offers little hope to opposition forces even as his hard-line regime makes a few concessions.
- HELP FOR ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS, FAMILIES
- Forest Officials Seek Manager for Gun Range
- PLAYING LOTTO 6/49
- CITY SECTION ROUNDUP - Monroe Shocks Sylmar, 18-17, in Final Minute
- Senior Baseball League to Put Retiring Sorts Back to Work
- Next Time, Boxer Will Have to Do It Himself
- Pazula Leads Sunny Hills Over Troy
- SOUTHERN SECTION ROUNDUP - NONLEAGUE
- Thunders Tries to Erase Drug-Clouded Memories : Rock: The former New York Doll has put his addictions and his erratic performances behind him and looks for a higher profile with the Oddballs.
- STAGE REVIEW - Jonson's 'Alchemist' Updated by a 'Scoundrel'
- Virus Fizzles as Major Menace to Data Banks
- Hitting the Desert Trail : Recreation: Desert outings allow would-be cowboys and cowgirls to experience the wilderness, and give trail-riding clubs a chance to raise funds.
- WORLD IN BRIEF - INDONESIA - Proclaim Christian Values, Pope Urges
- Baker Vows Full Talks Before FBI Uses Foreign Arrest Powers - Law: President Bush says he is 'embarrassed' to learn that he was not aware of the issue.
- Scaling the Ghostly Ruins of Echo Mountain Resort
- Richard Zacharias; Made the Dove Bar Into Household Name
- 2 Try to Cross Death Valley on Snowshoes - Adventure: They will dare to tread across the 8 miles of quicksand-like salt bogs en route to a 14,000-foot peak.
- Controversial Housing Project Gets Permits
- COUNTYWIDE : Potential Tollway Users to Be Surveyed
- 4 Named Finalists for Disneyland's Ambassador of the World in 1990
- SAN DIEGO SPORTS ET CETERA - UCSD Women Win With 11th Shutout
- POP MUSIC REVIEW - Somber Overtones With Bemis and DeJarnett
- U.S. to Investigate Toxic Dumping in Placerita Canyon
- Cause of Fire at Rockwell Plant Eludes Investigators
- Los Alamitos Shoots Down Katella
- Hubbard Runs, Passes Cypress to 13-0 Victory Over El Dorado
- SOUTHERN SECTION ROUNDUP - Frontier League
- CITY SECTION ROUNDUP - Northwest Valley Conference
- SOUTHERN SECTION ROUNDUP - Cruz's Return Sparks Thousand Oaks, 21-0
- ROUNDUP : Fullerton Men, Rancho Santiago Women Run to Victory
- Banks Says He's Recovered, Asks Chargers to Take Him Back
- NEWSWIRE
- Decisions by Lewis Help Grant Rout Reseda
- Defense Helps Valencia Pummel Anaheim, 35-2
- 'Mikado' Choreographer Believes In Thinking Man's Approach to Dance
- 8 Cable Stations Carrying Gays' 'Spectrum News'