- U.S., 33 Countries Sign Bribery Pact
- Clinton Strongly Denies Sexual-Harassment Claims
- Footloose Lion Is Recaptured in Florida Tourist Territory
- Top Community College Officials Get 12% Raises
- At a Loss
- FBI Agrees to Briefing on Freeh Fund-Raising Memo
- 12 Days of ... GOOD GIVING
- Some City Employees to Get 2% Raises Under Pact
- Proposal Would Make Waste Water Fit for Drinking
- Lindros Scores Big Contract --on an Assist From Kariya
- Terry Grants Lancers a Title, 43-42
- Multiplication Puts Brooks' 'Sevens' Past 2 Million : Country singer's album sells 528,000 copies last week, outdistancing No. 2 Dion's 'Love.'
- Mallternatives
- On a New Wavelength?
- A Truly Jazzy Album for Children
- BUENA PARK : City Council Seeks to Join County Airport Authority
- Owner Finds 3 Dogs Poisoned in Street
- Boy Hospitalized in Pit Bull Attack
- State Sen. O'Connell to Meet Constituents
- Twin Towers Staff Delivers Gifts to Adopted School
- Council Votes 3-2 to Limit Officeholders to 2 Terms
- Falcon Cable Told to Repay Customers
- No Bite in Assault Gun Rule
- Johnson Still in Reserve
- The Hot Corner offers some safe and...
- STINGRAYS TONIGHT
- More Opinions on Rice's Injury
- Bren Gift Funds New UC Graduate School
- Westlake Shuts Down Its Wrestling Program
- Talk of Hanoi Pact Good News for O.C. Firms
- Musical Offspring
- Imax Version Cuts 'Nutcracker' into Smaller Piece
- Videos Reflect Unsinkable Fascination With Titanic
- Taste of Paradise
- Getting In-Line to Play Hockey
- Teamsters Try to Organize Bloomingdale's
- Will Sega Score With Twisted Commercials?
- TRW and ICO Plan to Form Satellite Venture
- L.A. Grower Helped to Popularize Poinsettia
- Partners Want to Spin Off Andersen Unit
- A Whole New Mall Game
- Use of Property Tax for Schools Illegal in N.H.
- Shopping for a High-Tech Holiday
- Owens Valley Rejects L.A.'s Anti-Dust Plan
- Handpicked Mbeki Replaces Mandela in ANC
- . . . Conservatives Need to Face Facts
- Food Bank Gives Turkeys, Toys to Needy Families
- THE MIDDLE MAN
- Romanowski Fined for Spitting
- United They Fell and It Was Ugly
- A Wild Ride for USC
- Toronto Takes the Initiative
- Get on That Lumpy Gravy Train
- The Power of 'Shoah' : The 9 1/2-hour film is the final offering in the 'Really Long Film Series.'
- KHAY Radio Planning a Tunes for Tots Fund-Raiser
- Opera Pacific Manager Leaves Company
- Theater
- There's Substance Behind Dandy Warhols
- Words of Nostalgia
- Gifted Green
- BOYS' WATER POLO
- Husky Kreutz Lured by NFL
- O. Henry 'Gift,' Alcott's Women and Santa Too
- Fancy Footwork
- Investigation of Charter School Tests Is Inconclusive
- Water Board Told to Keep Sessions Open
- City Seeks to Put Recycling Negotiations on Fast Track
- Church Is at Heart of Holidays
- Stars to Die for
- Air-Conditioning Bids to Be Reexamined
- 'Slammin Sam' Gives Some Tips
- ALL-COUNTY GIRLS' TENNIS
- Electric Hot Tuna
- Family
- At Least 120 Cut From Press-Telegram Staff
- ChromaVision, USC Test Cancer Product
- Russian TV Ads Face a Colorful Challenge
- Spotlight: Hambrecht & Quist Founder to Retire
- Some New Software Is Able to Carry a Tune
- Job Safety in '96 Best Ever, Study Says
- A 'Garden' Party by the Book
- Kidnapped U.S. Citizen Is Released
- A Bitter Victory in Compton
- Teaching Kids That Guns Aren't Toys
- He Hasn't Fared Well in His Goodbyes
- Mourning Returns in Heat Loss
- Viewing Group Dynamics Through a Funhouse Mirror
- Stage Change
- What's Hot
- Cypress Defeats Long Beach in Double Overtime, 108-100
- Freeway Extension Foes Show U.S. Transit Chief Their Outrage
- Iowa State's Floyd Has Surgery
- Words of Nostalgia
- * The Fugees' Wyclef Jean, above, will...
- Firing Is Difficult for Some to Handle
- A Time to Give : Many local organizations offer children an opportunity to help needy during holidays.
- Akbar, Billboard Live Team Up for 'King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'
- Making His Stand
- Capote for Christmas
- 3 pm: Jazz
- ARV Denies Stock Deal Broke Amex Rules
- Dun & Bradstreet to Split, Take a Charge
- New CEO, New Growth for Stock? Not Necessarily
- L.A. Venture Plans Undersea Cable Lines
- Punch Lines
- Metromedia to Sell Art Film Theaters
- Gunman at Day-Care Center Frees Most of Its Children
- Irvine Co. Owner Gives UCSB $15 Million
- Clinton's Race Panel Asks for Debate, Gets It
- Feeling the Weight of the World? There's Good Reason
- Employee Foils Takeover Robbery of Drugstore
- Council Overrules DWP Board, Extends Worker Protections
- Toronto Takes the Initiative
- Taj Mahal of Tile
- Storr Recalled; Yachmenev Isn't
- Southland Names of Year: Tiger, Venus, Philip and Ed
- Such popular gay spots as Dragstrip 66...
- Warmth and Whimsy 'Completely' for Kids : Paula Poundstone pulls together a group of celebrities for children's album.
- Sexy Olde England
- Immigrant Students Reenact Their Drama
- Lakers Are Victims of Jordan Takeover
- Michigan Can't Keep It Going
- Dancing to No End in South Bay : Night-meister Johny Taylor brings his hip brand of funk to the Redondo Beach Pier.
- James H. Andros; OSS Veteran of World War II
- An Active Past
- BOWL SCHEDULE
- Good Will to All --Well, Mostly--in Avalanche Tie
- Rousseau Sheds Interim Title
- Matadors' Luck on Road Holds and It's All Bad
- Bob Dorough Becomes a Schoolhouse Teacher
- Surveying the Local and Holiday Scene
- The Art of Aging
- * Racing. The 1997-98 Santa Anita winter-spring...
- Timeless Traditions
- Index of Leading Indicators Rises 0.1% in Oct.
- STM Wireless Buys Telecom International
- New Buy for Irvine Apartment Communities
- It Was a Very Good Year
- Dam Destruction in N.C. Shaking Up Northwest
- Ill Children in Kyrgyzstan Used as Pawns
- Presidential Campaign 2000: It's High Time for a Head Start
- A Whole Lot of Bonding Going On
- Young Artists Sought in Poster Design Contest
- Group to Open Clinic for West Valley Indigent in '99
- New Members Named to Planning Commission
- Panel to Hold Hearing on Village Center Westwood
- Community College Board OKs Administrators' Raises
- Bora to Coach Nigeria in France
- The Columbus Quest scored the first 12...
- Birmingham Able to Hang No. 10
- The Dish on 1997
- Yuletide Titles
- ' Annie Warbucks: The Sequel' Entertains Despite Thin Plot
- 7:15 pm: Movies
- U.S. Moves Toward Normal Economic Ties With Vietnam
- Clinton Race Panel Stirs Passions for First Time--on the Sidewalk
- Pepsi Wrapping Up Year With Blue Packaging
- Doctor Wins $12.2 Million in AIDS Lawsuit
- N.J. Settlement OKs Adoptions by Gay Couples
- Planning Panel OKs Huge Development
- Septic Tank Disposal Sites OKd by Council
- A Little Dickens
- Officers Catch Drivers in Acts of Kindness
- Too Much Togetherness May Be a Military Problem
- Also. . .
- General Automation Unit Buys Software Firm
- White Cap to Buy Distribution Firm
- Jamaican Vote Arrives With Eerie Calm
- Clinton Strongly Denies Claims of Sexual Harassment
- Popocatepetl Erupts as More Crater Deformations Are Observed
- Antonovich Wants Annual Cross-Checks of Votors, Jurors
- Robinson's Dismissal May Have a Ripple Effect
- WOMEN
- Holiday Notes
- Out of Town: Washington, D.C.
- An Artist Films Her Take on Horror Genre
- Pork Chops
- Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press.
- Itinerary / Las Posadas
- Police See Through Suspect's Disguise
- USC Fires Robinson--Without Quite Saying So
- Doctors' House Calls Decline; Training Cited
- Media Anoints New Top Dog in Capital
- Guam Reels From Typhoon's Punch
- Pasadena Helps Disabled Enjoy Annual Rose Parade
- Liquor License Law Strengthening Backed
- 12 Arrested at Motel in Prostitution Sting
- Cultural Panel Denies Landmark Status to Hanna-Barbera Studios
- Sharp Sense of Humor Should Sell Some Cheese
- Kaiser Agrees to Pay $5.35 Million as Settlement in Malpractice Case
- NATO Forces Arrest 2 Suspected Balkan War Criminals
- Guess 'Sweatshop-Free' Ads Come Under New Criticism
- Judge Hears 2 Views of Obese Girl's Mother
- It's Never Too Soon to Adopt Healthy Habits
- Pint-Sized Punch Lines
- Time of Year for New Launches, Milestones
- The Belle of St. Luke's
- Preserved in Ice
- PREP ROUNDUP
- An unhelpful current for unwanted fish
- Seniors Organization Marks Anniversary
- IMH Commercial to Change Name to Impac
- Social Security to Review Cutoffs to 45,000 Children
- Cuba Owes $200 Million for Shoot-Downs, Judge Rules
- Another Aleutians Quake
- Agents Raid Home of Writer on Medical Use of Marijuana
- A 'New' River for Los Angeles
- Scholarship Fund Begun in Name of Accident Victim
- Town Council Opposes Escalon School Expansion
- Probe of Charter School Tests Is Inconclusive
- Pharmaceutical Firms May Have Used Relief Effort to Dump Useless Drugs
- NextLevel Gets $4.5 Billion in Set-Top Box Orders
- Pushing the Boundaries
- 2 Thrifts Will be Renamed
- Nicolette Larson; Award-Winning Singer
- A Consumer Guide to the Information Age
- Day In, Day Out
- Intel Gets Hopping on BunnyPeople Sales
- Four Media to Buy Pacific Ocean Post
- What If You Don't Want to Shop Till You Drop?
- $100 Million to Begin Bay-Delta Restoration
- Airport Noise Issue Quiets Down Slightly
- Stalking of Spielberg Alleged in Testimony
- Police Detective Admits to Bigamy, Is Fined $750
- I Didn't Know That
- Council Lightens Leaf-Blower Penalties
- Brief Fire on Oil Pier Touched Off by Torch
- City OKs Grant for Site Near Airport
- Ice Dogs Prevail in a Shootout
- A Focus on Tranquillity
- My Favorite Weekend
- Greek Classics
- City to Iron Out Agreement to Fix Railroad Crossings
- Woman Found in Trunk of Burning Car in Inglewood
- Police to Hand Out Food, Toys to Residents
- Moratorium on Pot Clubs Fails to Fly
- Liberals Want a Racial Monologue . . .
- Nightmare Creatures Is a Dream to Play; Lost World Struggles to Find an Edge
- Overkill in Anaheim
- Mechanical Santa Claus Is Back at Tree Lot
- Killer of Retired Officer Is Sentenced to Death
- Another Selling Job on Bosnia
- Charter Panel Appoints New Administrator
- Suspect's Wife Tells Jury About Deputy's Killing
- Trustees Shun Hughes, Elect Birch President
- Lies and Spies and Media Hype
- Northridge Out of Luck in Ohio
- Payton: Barry Tougher as Off Guard
- Mixed Bag of Gifts
- Getting to the Getty
- Radio Outreach
- O.C. Fans' Choices
- No. 4 Irvine Holds Off Laguna Hills Wrestlers
- Bonding With the Score
- Board Puts Superintendent Back on Monthly Contract
- Too Close for Comfort
- Building Gets a Monthlong Reprieve
- New Vote on School Boundaries Expected
- Scientists Use Mirrors, Lasers to Measure Earth's Distance From Moon
- Parent Reports Mountain Lion Near Preschool
- Get Over It Already, Tennessee
- Yule Countdown
- Art
- MEN
- All-League Girls' Tennis Teams
- City Blocks Use of Bonds for 'Affordable' Housing
- Parent Aide Testifies About Child's Burn
- Mothers of Slain Children Sponsor Toy, Food Drive
- On the Internet
- Gift of Christmas Benefits Thousands
- MEN
- Southland Names of Year: Tiger, Venus, Philip and Ed
- THE NEW GUY
- Don E. Fehrenbacher; Pulitzer-Winning Historian at Stanford
- 'Thing' on a Shoestring
- Bullfrog Owner to Join New Pro League
- Toasting the Holiday
- Man Found Guilty of Threatening Garcetti
- Lace, Love and La Vida Loca
- Man, 18, Is Stabbed in Front of High School
- A House of Hope
- Cause of House Fire Being Investigated
- Women's Basketball
- Selanne Shows Speed Off Ice
- Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press.
- Miami Mayor
- GIRLS' WATER POLO
- Your Turn
- Albright in Africa
- Race Relations
- BOYS' BASKETBALL
- GIRLS' BASKETBALL
- Smog Rules for Sport Utility Vehicles
- Bid to Restrict Assault Weapons
- L.A. Vacation
- Prop. BB School Repairs
- WRESTLING
- Ramirez on Reno
- Obituaries - Dec. 18, 1997
- Boy, 3, Shows Police Father's Marijuana