- Butler Sweeps Redskins Right Out of Playoffs
- PRO FOOTBALL SPOTLIGHT
- 80 Reportedly Die in Somali Assaults
- Refugees Stream Back to Rwanda From Tanzania
- Lay Leaders Back Rabbis in Stance on Mixed Marriages
- Frenzied Toy Quest Doesn't Tickle This Mom
- Rooks Slowly Regaining Significance
- Headrick Makes the Grade on Mat
- Fullerton Gets Past Georgia State
- Redskins: 7-1 to No Playoffs
- Fiber Optics Change, Speed Up World's Flow of Information
- Tuning Up for a Smoother Drive
- Making a Case That the People Have Spoken
- Lake's Confirmation as CIA Chief Called Uncertain
- Turnover High Among Aides to Gallegly
- No Offense, but Cowboys Still on Top
- Vote of Confidence: A new survey of...
- S. Korea Ex-Chief's Death Sentence Cut, TV Says
- Mixed Marriage Question Left to Rabbis
- Paper This
- Judge Is No Stranger to Controversy
- Girl Scouts Spread Cheer at Shelter
- Down From the Mountains
- Trees, Power Lines Toppled by Winds Gusting to 85 MPH
- Ham Still Getting Static From the FCC
- Turnover Is High Among Top Aides of Rep. Gallegly
- Teen Dies in Snorkeling Accident
- Only 26,519 See Rams Stumble Past Falcons
- BUFFALO (9-5) at MIAMI (6-8)
- Smyth's Acquisition Is Kid's Play
- Garbage, Fiona Apple Are Simply Smashing
- Running Flame Runs to Turf Cap Victory
- A Delectable 'Nut'
- Seattle Area Gratified, Guarded as Its Top Employer Extends Reach
- MCI Hangs Up on PacBell: Long-distance telephone...
- Deal Seeks to Continue U.S. Leadership
- Netanyahu Phones Arafat to Offer a 'Message of Peace'
- Merger Could Stabilize Industry in Southland
- Recall Election Seen as Spinoff of Casino Battle
- Shopping Cart Law Protested by Cities
- Clark Gable's Only Oscar Sells for More Than $600,000
- Boy's Death Ruled Accidental Drowning
- Local Firm Seeking to Sell Radisson Hotel
- For Police, Traffic Stops Are Anything but Routine
- NFL PLAYOFF PICTURE
- Trojans Decide to Press the Issue
- Getting Down to the Details of TV Ratings
- 'Maguire' Cuts Sweet Deal at the Box Office
- 'Whole Wide World' Benefit Premiere Set
- Estefan, Olmos and Police Dramas Win Bravo Awards
- College Aid Available for Foster Care Youth
- A Nearly Complete Handel's 'Messiah'
- 13th Israeli Film Festival Offers Lively, Engaging Fare
- Bonus at Kingston in Line With Founders' Philosophy
- Mexico's Ruling Party Elects New Leader
- There's Nothing Free About This Market : FREE CITY by Eric Darton; W.W. Norton $18, 176 pages
- Keeping the Libraries Afloat
- 'Gawk Screens' Help Drivers, but Upkeep Is Too Risky
- Mexican, American as a Single Identity
- A Dose of Reality for What Ails the MTA
- Chiefs Can't Shake Underdog Colts Again
- Disgruntled Coffey Traded to the Flyers
- Lehman's Road Map Leads to Even More Riches
- After Walking Walk, Carolina Talks Talk
- Kids Need Prime-Time Safe Haven
- Folk, Fun From Neuwirth, Gelb
- Stars Come Out for CAA's New High-Tech Lab
- THE WEEK AHEAD
- Scientists Unlocking Secrets of Marijuana's Effects
- Investigators Seek Cause of Commercial Diver's Death
- Getting the Lowdown on Golota
- Jaguars Take Step Toward Playoffs, 20-13
- The Times to Distribute Parade Magazine
- Nobody's Dreaming of a White Elephant
- Nixon Defiant, Vowing to Fight in Alternate Watergate Speech
- Mad About Martha? Have We Got a Doll for You
- There's an Art to Solving These Cases
- Grandparents Doing Parental Duty
- Kingston Employees Take Bonus in Stride
- De Anza Park Holding School Break Camp
- Tom Cruise : "Jerry Maguire"
- U.S., Japan Seal Insurance Pact
- Punch Lines
- Boeing to Acquire Douglas, Creating Aerospace Behemoth
- Ex-Cultist Said to Lead Police to Cyanide Cache
- 2 Hurt as 3 Garden Grove Fires Break Out
- Parks Offer Family Holiday Activities
- Man, 37, Killed After Car Hits Pole
- NONCONFERENCE
- Rockets Keep Rolling Even Minus Barkley
- 'Good News' Proves True for Kathy Mattea and Fans
- Workers' Steam Helps Drive Free Speech Debate
- Court Ruling Favors Serb Opposition
- Painting the Town
- The Big Show Before the Big Show
- Electoral College to Make It Official for Clinton Today
- How the Study Was Conducted
- Mom, Daughter Share Bat Mitzvah
- Tax Seminar for Employers Scheduled
- 49ers Crash Party at the Steeler Home
- Panthers Stop Streak With Return to Form
- Raiders' Flagging Hopes Flutter Away
- The Final Frontier : New Chinese League Provides U.S. Exports With a Fresh Perspective While Giving Home-Grown Players and Fans Chance to Learn the Game NBA-Style
- Talks Fail to Resolve S.F. Symphony Strike
- 'Acoustic' Boys' Night Is Surely No Silent Night
- Uh, So, Like, Do They Still Rule?
- Detroit Engineers Formula to Realize the Empowerment Zone's Potential
- Now Available . . . Well, Maybe Not
- Europeans See Deal as Competitive Peril to Airbus Industrie
- Prop. 209 Fight Could Go to Supreme Court
- An Infamy Not Unlike the Grinch's
- Legendary Cuban Hot Spot Is Newly Hot
- Superstores No Bargain for Burbank, Officials Say
- Police Stop Nets 7 DUI Arrests
- Opportunities for Volunteering
- Holiday Burnout
- Wetteland, Rangers Reportedly Near Deal
- Disaster Averted After Recent Victory
- Digital Brush Gives 'Fantasia' New Life
- Clinton Unhurt in Fall While Jogging
- A SPECIAL REPORT: VALLEY BOWL
- Refugees Stream Back to Rwanda From Tanzania
- Zero Tolerance for Child Molesters
- St. John's Avoids Dubious Mark in 77-39 Setback to Minnesota
- For Baseball, Action Is Truer Than Words
- Tuning In to Some Lessons in Letting the Viewer Beware
- For Folks Who Think Cats Are Too Tame
- Zaire's Hopes Ride on Dictator's Return
- Take Our PCs--Please
- Crashed Plane's Black Boxes Found at Sea
- Pierce Class Trains Aspiring Lifeguards
- For County's Bank Robbers, It's Business as Usual
- Long-Term VA Patients Fear Transfers
- Howard Strikes Pose as Packers Run Away
- San Gabriel Valley Wins in Water Polo
- Triple Crown Gauntlet
- Tyson Can Have Eye of the Tiger, But Not Cat Itself
- It's a Giant Step Back for Reeves as Saints Win
- Ship Crew's Actions Before Crash Hailed
- Patients Not Told of Tests, Paper Says
- New Giant Is Double-Edged Sword for Pentagon
- Agenda
- Assemblyman to Host Open House
- A Predator in Brazil's Forest
- Firefighters Go to Public in Case to Save Vans
- Barry Still Gives Clippers Nice Shot at Respectability
- Wacky 'Il Distratto' Sets the Tone
- Good Movies Go Beyond Race
- 2 Dead in Santa Ana Shootout
- Man Killed After Sideswiping Truck by Bolsa Chica; 2 Hurt
- Informant to Testify as Court Considers New Trial for Pratt
- Council to Consider Refinancing Bonds
- FREEWAY FORECAST
- CLIPPERS TONIGHT
- Nearly Complete Handel's 'Messiah' Achieves Balance, Nuance
- Techniclone Posts $1.5-Million Net Loss
- Paving the Way for Development?
- Space Program
- Sen. Trent Lott
- Replacing Old Federal Computers
- Price Index
- Auditing the D.A.
- Campaign Money
- NATO Entry for Baltic Countries
- U.S. Guns in Mexico
- Car Insurance Law
- L.A. City Council's Living-Wage Bill
- PairGain OKs 2-for-1 Stock Split
- Obituaries - Dec. 16, 1996
- Half of O.C. Killings Are Going Unsolved
- A Bleak Future Forced McDonnell Douglas to React
- Office Holiday Parties Can Lead to Legal Hangovers
- Winds Blamed in 2 Deaths; Power Lines, Trees Fall
- Now, a Better Round Through Technology
- Homicide Suspects Often Take Refuge South of Border
- In Fiscal Space Race, the Field Narrows
- Riordan, Others Decry Handling of Homicides
- High Winds Kill 2, Snap Power Lines
- MTA Must Play a High-Stakes Funding Game in Washington
- STRIP ATTK
- Pioneering Women and Native American Chiefs
- A Night on the Strip
- Where the Wild Things Lived
- Clinton Decries Taste for Political 'Meanness' in U.S.
- Gang Life May Be Dying Away : Violent Culture Losing Luster for Next Generation
- Weakened Ties Blamed in Train Derailment
- Many Retailers Finding Good Cheer in Holiday Sales
- Barns Are Quickly Becoming One of Vermont's Newest Export Items
- Denny McLain Is a First-Ballot Choice for Hall of Shame
- Eagles Step It Up, Stomp the Sailors
- Jones' Fitness Faces True Test
- Burroughs Makes Its Point With 1-0 Victory
- The Cast Joins the Crowd
- Yes, You Need to Agree With Your Estranged Spouse When It Comes to Tax Filing
- Samuels Is Named to Newly Created Position at Quiksilver
- PairGain OKs 2-for-1 Stock Split
- Laid-Off Employee Allowed to Inspect Personnel File
- Making Cents: Serious Savers Face Taxing Dilemma
- Collecting a Globe-Full of Destinations
- FICTION
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- FICTION
- Murder, He Wrote
- Top Refi Lenders
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- Her Truth Is Scheherazade's : ALIAS GRACE By Margaret Atwood; <i> Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 468 pp., $24.95</i>
- China Made for Mao Sells for $1 Million
- For Latchkey Kids, a Friend Is Just a Phone Call Away
- The MTA Is Not Political Enough
- Officer Wins Suit for Resident Complaint
- FBI Seeks Suspect in Baldwin Park Slayings
- Supervisors Hear the Pleas to Protect Property Buyers
- Lawyer Throws Wrench Into Governments' Fiscal Juggling
- Diver Rescued After Air Hose Gets Disconnected
- Tired Irvine Valley Defeats Citrus for Third Place
- Nike Protest Charges Abuses of Employees
- TODAY'S GAMES
- Robinson Not Feeling Merry About Home Stand
- Bulldogs Breeze to Title
- When the Chips Are Down, Put Them in a Bowl
- Moon Shots Lead Orange Over Dana Hills
- Mason Hired at Minnesota
- Erratic, but Exciting : Alan Iverson Is the NBA's Flashiest Rookie
- For This Director, Hollywood Can Wait
- Smoking's Big Guns
- Techniclone Posts $1.5-Million Net Loss
- Festivals, Feasts & Fairs
- Today's Trade Figures Don't Tell Story of Future
- Tumor-Related Protein May Fight Cancer
- High-Tech Keys Could Stall Chronic Drunken Drivers
- Ruling Party to Name New Chief in Mexico
- Czech Town Has No Faith in Mining 'Heaven' for Gold
- With Albright, Will Principle Return to Policy?
- To All Appearances, He Just Seems to Fit the Pull-Over Profile
- Restaurant Owner, Wife Arrested in Drug Bust
- The Fir Traders' Homecoming : Family Who Left Valley for Oregon Returns Each Year to Sell Trees
- George D. Buckley; Mechanic, Ojai Resident
- He Could Be a Stumbling Block
- Lloyd Daniels Is Still Seeking NBA Success
- Bowe Can't Stomach Golota Again
- CPI Report's Importance Can't Be Overstated
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory : THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE : Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (W.W. Norton & Co.: $39.95, 2,665 pp.)
- Uh-oh : AIRFRAME, by Michael Crichton (Alfred A. Knopf: 352 pp., $26)
- A Genius of Concealment : HERMAN MELVILLE: A Biography, Volume I, 1819-1851, By Hershel Parker (Johns Hopkins University Press: 941 pp., $39.95) : MELVILLE, By Laurie Robertson-Lorant (Clarkson Potter: 710 pp., $40)
- The Weakness of Being : DAMNED TO FAME: The Life of Samuel Beckett By James Knowlson; <i> Simon & Schuster: 800 pp., $35</i>
- Strong Winds Sink 1 Parade and Mar Another
- LONG & WINDING RHODES : USC's Leading Scorer Has Found Happiness After Leaving Kentucky and the Hype Behind
- We Guys Would Rather Drop Than Shop
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
- Save the Date
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
- Clinton Urges Foster Child Adoptions
- E. Coli Outbreak Claims 12th Victim
- With Genocide in Past, Reconciliation in Doubt
- Families to Press TWA for Compensation
- Freighter Plows Into New Orleans Mall; 60 Injured
- Reinhardt and the Supreme Court: This Time, It's Personal
- LAPD Officer Seriously Wounded in Shooting
- Woman Hit By Truck on Freeway Dies
- HOW TO READ THE SCORES : Students' Performance on Basic Skills Exam
- Golf's Best '96 Moment: Faldo's 67 in the Masters
- Brooks' Rams Have Been Too Naughty
- Narrow Escape Pleases Bruins
- A Quiet, Winning Night for Jordan and Rodman
- Title Belongs to Mater Dei
- Whose 'Life' Was It, Anyway?
- A Cultural Revolutionary
- John Kasich
- Using John Wayne as a Weapon
- A Celebration of Life for Holocaust Survivor
- Cuts Will Strike Close to Home
- Duke Uses History to Beat Villanova
- Track and Field's Eulace Peacock, Rival of Jesse Owens, Dies at 82
- Lions Falter Down the Stretch, 93-81
- PREP ROUNDUP
- Waking the Ghosts
- Greenspan's Words Go to Work, but His Question Lingers
- Looking for Mr. Goodbook : OMENS OF MILLENNIUM: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection By Harold Bloom (Riverhead Books: 272 pps., $24.95)
- FICTION
- Countdown : TEN INDIANS, By Madison Smartt Bell (Pantheon Books: 272 pp., $23)
- What can you say about the very...
- College Search Often Begins at Home Page
- 1 Killed, 18 Hurt in Ski-Lift Crash
- SHOWS FOR YOUNGSTERS AND THEIR PARENTS TOO : Casper, Garfield and the wubbulous Dr. Seuss mark the holidays; Disney throws a 25th anniversary show
- At This School, Homeless Isn't Hopeless
- Abuses Riddle Federal Program to House the Homeless, Records Show
- Farewell to Welfare? Europe Offers U.S. a Lesson on Caring
- College Teaches Jurists How to Wear Black Robes
- Perry Has No Equals This Season
- Hahn's Endorsing of Williams Draws Fire
- DIVISION IX
- Sharp Cat, City Band Give Lukas 1-2 Finish
- Freshman Class '96: From Angst to Uplift
- Disregarding Trends, Lee Konitz Carries On
- Stuff the Stocking With Something Useful
- Pot's Deep Roots in Unlikely Ground
- A Sculptor Who Likes to Go Against the Grain
- U.S. Pushes Harder, Pushes On
- Airline Complaints