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Nation IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : Postal Bonuses Given Despite Agency Loss
A Post-Graduate Commentary
Syl Egan has been appointed senior vice...
The 'Dictatorship of Mediocrity'
A Mountain Out of a Molehill : COLD WARRIOR: James Jesus Angleton, The CIA's Master Spy Hunter By Tom Mangold ; (Simon & Schuster: $22.95; 490 pp.)
Creating Natural Scent's Allure Is a Fading Art, Perfumer Says : Tradition: A master of making fragrances finds he can't compete with mass-produced sweet smells.
Officials Can't Link 2nd Deputy, Holdup : Robbery: Investigators dismiss theory that slain officer's accomplice was a lawman after victim identifies a man who has an ironclad alibi.
Officials Ponder How to Dole Out Recycling Profits
Fowl Play : Biology Professor Studies How Females Select Mates
A Remembrance: Giving Voice to Those Haunted by AIDS
Church Welcomes Its Gay Members : Religion: West Hollywood Presbyterian congregation serves as haven for gays amid dispute over their role in the denomination.
County Panel Rejects Unified School District : Education: The committee says the plan for a district high school sought by San Gabriel parents would cause too many problems. It goes next to the State Board of Education.
Victim's Sister Haunted by Slaying a Year After FBI Agent Confessed : Crime: Susan Smith's family, believing her death was motivated by more than an unwanted pregnancy, is pursuing further investigation.
Corsican Rebels Attack
747 Loses a Piece of Wing Over Pacific
A Guide to the Best of Southern California : FASHION : Out Skirts
Building Fee to Benefit Parks OKd
CAMARILLO : Deputies Shoot Man They Say Had Gun
Volleyball Club Wins Silver Medal
CYCLING TOUR DE FRANCE : France's Marie Wins Prologue Again; LeMond Finishes Third
BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Valenzuela Feared Unlimited Stint in Minors, Agent Says
Association's Move-In Fees Discriminatory
Gone With the Windsors : WALLIS: The Novel By Anne Edwards ; (William Morrow: $22; 489 pp.)
NONFICTION : WHY MY FATHER DIED by Annette Kahn (Summit Books: $19.95; 240 pp.).
FICTION : ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART by Lynne Tillman (Serpent's Tail: $12.95; 157 pp. ).
FICTION : UNDER THE LIGHT by Sam Michel (Alfred A. Knopf: $19; 175 pp.).
Farms Weathered Freeze Better Than Feared : Agriculture: Growers suffered crop losses but escaped extensive long-term damage to trees. Laborers face the continued loss of employment.
Perfect Harmony : After a Season of Mainly Sour Notes, Angels' Langston Is in Virtuoso Form
Bobsledding
ELECTRONIC : Music With Computers Packs a Lot of Byte
Hues and Cries : For playwright Velina Hasu Houston, it's neither black nor white but a varied palette that touches her Amerasian sensibilities; she draws on her own remarkable background in her new play, 'Basic Necessities'
New Hampshire during summer is a trip...
THE BOOK OF TEA by Kakuzo Okakura, foreword and afterward by Soshitsu Sen XV (Kodansha: $6.95, illustrated).
The Metaphor of the Monkeys : BRAZZAVILLE BEACH By William Boyd (William Morrow : $21; 316 pp.)
Ahead of Their Class : Fox Rings The Bell Early For 30 New Episodes of Popular 'Beverly Hills, 90210'
A Guide to the Best of Southern California : SHOPTALK : Spilling the Beans
Officials See SRO Hotels as Idea Whose Time Has Come Again : Housing: Rules are being drawn that would permit construction of up to 750 new rooms in certain areas of downtown. But there is strong opposition from homeowners.
5,000 Activists Protest Clinic 'Gag Order' : Abortion: Members of NOW, unions and gay rights groups march in the rally. Opponents stage two counterdemonstrations.
Serbian-Americans Demonstrate to Warn of Rights Dangers
COLUMN ONE : Court Path Started in the Ashes : A fire launched Clarence Thomas on a path toward fierce personal drive--but not before the Supreme Court nominee journeyed through anger, self-hatred, confusion and doubt.
Throwing Money at the Soviet Problem Won't Bring Peace or Lasting Change : Communism: Talk of a 'grand bargain'--radical reform in exchange for billions--is premature. A little help--and advice--will do.
Personal Perspective : 'He Is Nothing If Not an Independent Thinker'
2 Remain in Hospital After Pacoima Fire
O.C. Woman Lost in River at Yosemite
GOLF ROUNDUP : Norman, Couples, Cochran Tied for Lead
Rowing
Regarding Annette
His Apartment Exchange Qualifies for Deferral
Riverside CountyTEMECULA: Phase 1, McMillin's Milano at...
JOSEPHINE BAKER by Bryan Hammond & Patrick O'Connor (Little, Brown: $24.95).
FICTION : THE PIRANHAS by Harold Robbins (Simon & Schuster: $21.95; 318 pp.).
The Past Haunts Father's Search
Orange County's 3 Newest Cities Manage to Buck the Fiscal Blues
Heavy Flooding Across Moldova Kills at Least 15
He Looks Like Me : Two Amerasians Seek Their Dads--and Their Missing Heritage
Unhappy New Fiscal Year for O.C.'s Strapped Cities : Recession: Budget-balancing acts get trickier as hard times linger for most of the county's 29 municipalities.
Protected Status Is Sought for River : Environment: The Sespe is one of the last major untamed streams in the state. Some want to save it from a dam; others see it as a valuable water source for a thirsty region.
Marcel Duchamp--the French-born artist who stimulated major...
Lessons in Love Help Class Earn Diplomas in Survival : Education: Violence, poverty and failure roamed the halls of a Brooklyn high school. Now that is changing.
Forests at Risk: Shifting the Fight to the Maine Woods : Environment: California's woods aren't the only ones disappearing. Now the question is how much control can be placed over private land?
Adjust the Guidelines, Feed the Children : High Cost of Living Often Precludes Lunch for Many Students Above Poverty Line
Auto Racing
TONI CHILDS"House of Hope" A&M;**1/2 If ever...
SUMMERTIME BLUES : Maybe It Was the Title. Surely, Not the Wedding. Let's See, Could It Be . . . Satan ?
In Brief
Israel's Economic Future Hinges on Top Resource: People
Your Mortgage : Lenders Likely to Show Grace on Late Mortgage Payments
Orange CountyHUNTINGTON BEACH: Thirty one condominiums and...
1 Dies, 34 Hurt as Blast Levels Buildings
Baltic Seabed May Hold Sweden's Oldest Warship
NEWS ANALYSIS : Can Democracy and Fundamentalism Coexist? : Middle East: Countries such as Jordan and Algeria risk Islamic violence in their turn toward democracy.
Yo-Yo Comes Full Circle--Again : Trends: That on-again, off-again craze is on again, among adults and children alike. The toys range from $2 to $20 apiece.
Soviet Union Exporting Crime to Finland
Playing Games With the Court : With the Thomas Nomination, Bush Has Left the Democrats With Few Moves
Town Activist on Brink of Controversy : Acton: The outspoken slow-growth advocate has taken another unpopular stand by purchasing the local newspaper.
San Diego
Pressure Is On, Bringing Humidity and Sprinkles
Carson Diverted Funds Intended for Sound Wall
Man Sitting on Tracks Killed by Freight Train
BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJOR LEAGUES : Palmeiro Replaces McGwire for AL
Milutinovic Simply Translates to Success : Soccer: Yugoslav coach makes an instant winner of once-beaten U.S. team, which will play Honduras for Gold Cup tonight.
DYLANOMICS: It's no secret that Bob Dylan...
WE'RE SORRY : Trekkies, Thank You
Jeanne Sims has been appointed to the...
Glen I. Kazahaya has been named chief...
'Niche' Companies Spreading Into New--and Unknown--Investments
Books, Cooks and Looks : Great Wales! : Picturesque Hay-on-Wye is a book lover's paradise amid scenery worth writing about
Refrigerator Seal Can Be Restored
Glass Blocks Efficient, Offer Privacy
City Council OKs Budget Despite Deficit
Retro : Golden Moments
Camp out with Nick as 'Salute Your Shorts' returns as weekend series
Erosion of Utah's Salt Flats Shakes Up Environmentalists, Hot Rodders : Geology: The plain has shrunk from 96,000 acres to 25,000 acres today and the salt is vanishing at 1% a year; the area could be gone in decades.
One Restaurateur's Answer: A Smokers' Country Club
A Semblance of Order : Border Patrol Chief in San Diego Doesn't Expect to Halt Illegal Immigration--but He Has Tried to Control It
The contradictory, increasingly incredible 1986 The Imagemaker...
Route of System Is Bumpy Issue
Congress Urged to Fully Fund Super Collider
More Change Out of Africa : The land of the infamous Bokassa turns in the direction of democracy
Alcohol, Drug Use by Las Virgenes Juniors Is High : Survey: Eleventh-graders in the affluent district drink and smoke marijuana more than students in the rest of the state.
BASEBALL : Major League Organizations Show Some Smarts With a Class Decision
Clemens a Hit in Red Sox Victory
PADRES UPDATE : NOTEBOOK / BOB NIGHTENGALE : Thanks to His Fans, Whitson Enjoys a Solid-Gold Outing
POP MUSIC : The Midyear Envelope, Please . . .
Charting Pop's Format Orphans
IT'S MINE : All Very Well and Good, but Don't Hassle the T-1000
Agreement May Uncork Dilemma of the Deficit
Ringo Buys 'Family Room'
New Rail Link in Tokyo Speeds Up Bullet Train
THE PIPES ARE CALLING: Our Jaunts Through Ireland by Niall Williams & Christine Breen (Soho Press: $9.95, illustrated).
Impatiens May Not Last Through Winter
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AND THE DROUGHT : Covina May Impose 15% Cut
California IN BRIEF : OAKLAND : Alleged Rape Victim Sues Over Parolee
Thousands Cheer Beginning of Running of Bulls
Women May Be Their Own Worst Enemies at Work
OXNARD : Council to Consider Site for Cal State
Man Held in Shootings of Mother, 3 Children
Gassner Emerges as Wave of Future : Hart Sophomore-to-Be Eager to Plunge Into Festival With Eye on Olympic Trials
WIMBLEDON REPORT : Jarryd, Fitzgerald Are Double Tough to Win Men's Final
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL ROUNDUP : Sturges Blasts 2 Home Runs in Conejo A's Win; Fick Injured
COMMENTARY : Tyson-King Road Show Nearing the End
Whispers Fall Silent in Wake of Hershiser, 7-6 : Baseball: He works six-plus innings for victory over the Braves after suffering cut fingers on his left hand in accident at home.
CANDY DULFER : It's Dutch Treat With Debut LP, 'Saxuality'
REALITY CHECK : A Springsteen Concert Is the Best Evidence
MATHIAS: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2. BBC...
SAINT-SAENS: "Samson et Dalila." Jose Carreras, Agnes...
Quality, Equality in Hiring: How 1 Firm Manages : Workplace: In the debate about pending civil rights legislation, a look at Archive Corp. in Costa Mesa illustrates the problems that a private employer faces day to day.
A Song at Twilight : I'LL THINK ABOUT THAT TOMORROW By Evelyn Keyes ; (E. P. Dutton: $19.95; 339 pp.)
One-Subject Teachers Fear Job Loss, Seek More Credentials : Education: In time of budget constraints and layoffs, those who are bilingual and certified in a variety of fields are most likely to get and keep positions.
EPA Fails to Pursue Fraud, Contract Abuse, Panel Says
A Guide to the Best of Southern California : LANDMARKS : Horace Heidt Slept Here
Diversions : Pretty as a Picture : Tours Focus on the More Unusual and Photogenic Sides of the Southland
State Jobless Rate Jumps to 7-Year High : Economy: The spiral to 8.2% was led by construction and durable-goods manufacturing and a poorer than expected showing in summer hiring. Nation's unemployment figure also edges up, to 7%.
Political Forecast : The Impasse on Civil-Rights Legislation in 1991: To Be or Not to Be?
Body Found in Ditch Along Freeway
How Cities Are Saving Water
Wild Days of Yore All But Buried in Now-Sleepy Silverado Canyon
Anne V. Moacanin has been appointed vice...
GOLF IN THE '90S : When It Came to Tee Times, He Was Johnny-on-the-Spot
Boxing
FICTION
Police Brutality Claims Are Rarely Prosecuted : Law: Vast majority of more than 300 cases in L.A. County since 1980 were dismissed, Times study finds.
The Forest on Film : A New Book Shows the Angeles in Its Many Moods
Censorship of School Papers on Rise
Motorcyclist Dies in Crash Into Wall
Dornan Backed by Witnesses to Airline Fracas
End Run on the School Playing Field : Fees Levied Without a Vote by Strapped Districts Are Creative but Hardly Fair
Victim's Pick Is Ruled Out as Accomplice : Robbery: The Sheriff's Department has all but dismissed the possibility that a second deputy was involved in the bizarre incident in which an officer was slain by his friend and colleague.
NAMES AND NUMBERS
Starting Over, Raiders Try to Forget '90 Finish : Pro football: Six months after 51-3 battering by Buffalo, they open training camp at Oxnard.
High Fees, Lack of Courses Handicap Most Golfers
The House Needs a Deeper Setting
How to Figure the Amount to Tap IRA Account
NONFICTION : HELL NO, WE WON'T GO! by Sherry Gershon Gottlieb (Viking: $21.95; 244 pp.).
Ventura CountyPORT HUENEME: Phase 4 of Pacific...
The Blackboard Bungle : SHUT UP AND LET THE LADY TEACH: A Teacher's Year in a Public School By Emily Sachar ; (Poseidon Press: $19.95; 331 pp.)
Interracial Couples Struggle Against Hostility : Race relations: They meet adverse reactions from friends and family. "We know social pressures are out there, but we don't let 'em bother us," said one husband.
California IN BRIEF : FRESNO : 40 Children Hurt by Chlorine Gas
Cockneys, Routed From London's Heart, Are Endangered Species : Lifestyle: Many former residents of inner square mile, including the prime minister and archbishop of Canterbury, have even shed their accents.
Albania Sends More Troops to Its Border
California IN BRIEF : YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK : Woman Missing, Feared Drowned
Nation IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Brutality Probe Is a Priority, FBI Says
Ahead of Their Class : Fox Rings Bell Early for 30 New Episodes of Popular 'Beverly Hills, 90210'
PERSPECTIVE ON NATIONAL SECURITY : Armies Won't Win the Next War : Quality--or inequality--of life is the ticking bomb. Arms spending is a waste when global catastrophes loom.
Woman Charged With Harassment
CITY HALL ROUNDUP : The stormy fight is over: Redondo Beach couple can remodel their home.
First College Department of Gay and Lesbian Studies Thriving
End of the Line : Police Wage War on Hustlers Working at Greyhound Depot
Class Reaches Last Chapter : Immigrants: Students complete a tedious, six-month course they hope will open new doors of opportunity.
LOTTERY RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Streaking Mets Getting Closer to Pirates
Barry Grosser has been named vice president...
Gather Me In
Strut AND Fret : METHOD ACTORS Three Generations of an American Acting Style By Steve Vineberg (Schirmer/Macmillan: $24.95; 349 pp.)
FLASH FROM THE PAST
Well Excuse Me, Mr. Crystal
The "stinking rose." Garlic. How we love...
Focus : Star Sightings : Recalling Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind
How Cities Are Saving Water
WATER WATCH
ROADWORK : Major projects for the week of July 7-13
San Pedro's Future to Be Resolved by Zoning Plan : Land use: Public hearing is set this week on city planners' proposal to limit growth. A citizens advisory panel urges even tighter restrictions.
Effectiveness of New Reading Aid Is Unclear : Learning: Technique uses colored overlays and tinted lenses. Critics say the method developed by Long Beach psychologist Helen Irlen is more snake oil than science.
Lite Light Beats the Rap, Meadow Star by 7 Lengths
Giants Hand Padres' Benes Bitter Setback : Baseball: A 4-1 loss to San Francisco gives the right-hander a 4-9 record. Padres muster only two hits off Don Robinson.
The Lost Chords : To Dodgers' Morgan, All-Star Snub Is Merely Another Source of Rancor
After Phenomenal Start, Redington Gets Down to Business
Sheriff's Audit Sought
The Ocean Pays Price for People's Bad Plastic Habits
The Bottom Line of Fair Credit Reports
New SoCal Gas Policy on Equal Pay Questioned
Green Fairway Facts
The special report "Moyers: After the War"...
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-LEE
Hero's Son Wins Private War After Losing Both Legs in Vietnam : Legacy: Carrying the inheritance of a military family and living with the example of a famous father, Lewis B. Puller Jr. found that the battle he had to win was fought against the enemy within.
More on Fussell
Iraq's Nuclear Power
Spanish Defense
PRIVATES AND THE PUBLIC
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Justice Marshall's Retirement
Charles Woolery a Hero to Blacks
Justice Marshall's Retirement
PRIVATES AND THE PUBLIC
FOR A COWBOY HAS TO SING by Jim Bob Tinsley ; (University of Central Florida Press: $39.95; 314 pp.) .
The Kinkdom and the Power :...
One more example of greed is PBS...
School Camp Project
The Search Stops but the Longing Will Not : 'Devastated' is too mild a word to describe the feelings of Bang Quoc Nguyen, an Amerasian whose American father does not want to see him. Such rejection--a denial that these offspring exist, that they count--can be catastrophic, experts say.
Police Assn. Had Its Way Too Long
New SoCal Gas Policy on Equal Pay Questioned
Complaining because David Letterman was bypassed in...
Licensing of Nuclear Dump
Justice Marshall's Retirement
More U.S. Stories
I'm so sick and tired of parents...
Ex-Mayor's Quote Is Called Bigotry
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-NJERI
Supervisor Assails Reporting on Marina Lease
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-LEE
Border Death
Howard Rosenberg's article (TV Times, June 9)...
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-NJERI
Coming to Grips With Art for the Public's Sake : The Port commissioners could establish a sort of Stuart Collection of sculpture on the waterfront. There is no reason that they can't do something as significant as what the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego has done.
Beach Encroachment Policy Deserves Support
Justice Marshall's Retirement
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-LEE
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-LEE
Some Species Should Not Be Saved
Animal Shelters
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-NJERI
Gulf War
Missing Jerry
The Bottom Line of Fair Credit Reports
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-LEE
New SoCal Gas Policy on Equal Pay Questioned
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Council to Consider Crackdown on Caterers : Ordinance: Tougher rules and higher fines are in response to sanitation and safety fears and complaints from businesses. But ice cream vendors and restaurant-on-wheels owners say only honest operators will be hurt.
Justice Marshall's Retirement
Coming to Grips With Art for the Public's Sake : The time to bring artists into a public project is when the planning starts--not after the mayor, the architect, the builder and the financier have set in motion a master plan based on quantitative information.
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : ANOTHER VIEW
Licensing of Nuclear Dump
GILDING THE LILLIANS
MAUD HART LOVELACE
Justice Marshall's Retirement
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-NJERI
Fire Tax High Enough
Forced Education by Public Schools Alienates Pupils
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-NJERI
Car Rental Problems
Work for All Students
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-LEE
The Debate Over 'Jungle Fever' : PRO-LEE
Tourist Office Move
State of Emergency Covers Algeria
CHARITY ROUNDUP: Say, do we tip these...
SWINGING FOR DOLLARS: The price of golfing...
Utility Tax Imposed to Keep Sheriff's Helicopter Patrol Flying
Not All Are Aboard O.C. Rail Line Proposal : Transit: $1-billion plan links Fullerton to Irvine with elevated 23-mile line. Critics say they're on wrong track.
Pastor Charged in Slaying; Love Triangle Suspected
Lower Prices May Give New Ship a Lift to Alaska
Scrappy College Tabloid Is No Stranger to Controversy
BOOM AND BUST: Some remains of the...
Iran-Contra Probe Focusing on Ex-CIA Central America Chief
ROLE MODELS: Thousands of Amerasians from Vietnam...
Beach Crowds Cap Weekend With a Bang : Holiday: Throngs flock to the Sawdust Festival, and to the Huntington Beach Jamboree and Bodyboard Contest.
Water Use at Governor's Home Triples as Lawn Care Is Resumed
COSTA MESA : Amburgey Sues City for $3.8 Million
LITTLE LOTTO RESULTS
It's Hot, It's July, and for Kids, Time to Go to School : Education: Many campuses begin year-round schedules. Although many report low attendance, officials say that is typical for the first day of classes.
Braude Under Fire for Plan to Pave Road Across Parkland : Tarzana: Protesters at the councilman's office fear that the surfacing of Mulholland Drive will follow.
THE HOUSE
BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : The Wrong Place, Wrong Time--Again
Feud Erupts Over Japan Market Scandal : * Controversy: The finance minister denies that his agency OKd Nomura Securities Co.'s reimbursements to clients for investment losses.
British Airways Prepares for U.S. Rivals on Its Turf : American, United to Offer Nonstop Service From Los Angeles to London
WORLD IN BRIEF : INDIA : Two More Arrested in Gandhi Killing
German Upper House to Stay in Bonn for Now
NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : FAA Orders Check of Engines on 767s
A Disaster in the Beholder's Eye : Governor was right to declare an emergency in Sierra Madre quake
NEWPORT BEACH : Auto Show to Feature the Exotic
HUNTINGTON BEACH : Land Swap Is OKd Without Opposition
Talks May Bring an End to Fake Illegal-Alien 'Hot Line'
Getting Crusade on a Roll : Skateboarders Push for Park to Ply Their Tricks
MOORPARK : Observatory Offers Night-Sky Programs
Battleship Missouri in Final 2 Days of Tours
ANAHEIM : Wrong-Way Driver Causes 5-Car Pileup
NEWPORT BEACH : Panel to Investigate Historical Sites
At This Pace, He Hopes He Can Walk Away With a Gold Medal : Racewalking: Mission Viejo man is among the best in the United States and is among the favorites in the Olympic Festival's 20-kilometer race.
Chamber Violinist Is Fit as a Fiddle and Has the Clips to Show for It
From the Boys' Club in Pasadena to 'T2' Has Been 'Great Fun'
Federal Judge Sues Texas Insurance Firm : * Court: Laughlin E. Waters of Los Angeles alleges that the firm acted in bad faith after his house was damaged by fire.
Augustine Martinez, 38, will assume the duties...
GARDENING : Knowing the Facts of Plant Life Can Produce Results
Irina Nijinska; Restaged Historic Ballets
CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : OAKLAND : Fireworks Blamed in Warehouse Blaze
Arafat Tried to Keep War 'Within Arab Family' : Mideast: PLO leader accuses Baker of trying to solve the crisis by jumping over the Palestinian problem. 'How?' he asks.
Protein Held to Direct Egg Development
Supreme Soviet Acts to Attract Foreign Capital
Concerns Drain Fun From Lake : Water: Liability worries prompt a development firm to decide to empty a reservoir that was partly filled by the March rains.