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LA123089-0063_2 | RAP'S RISE PARALLELS HISTORY OF EARLY ROCK | a means of self-identity and expression, urban black teens in the early '80s adopted rap as a grass-roots way to express the aspirations and frustrations that were being ignored in a black music world as stagnant as the pop-rock mainstream. But few rock fans saw this link in the early days of rap. The music -- once def... |
LA123089-0064_0 | RAP MANIFESTO LEADS THE LIST OF '80S SINGLES | December 30, 1989, Saturday, Home Edition Who imagined seven years ago that a New York rap record that failed even to crack the national Top 40 would stand as the most noteworthy single of the decade? Hailed by pop critics but little-known initially outside the emerging East Coast rap scene, "The Message" by Grandmaste... |
LA123089-0065_1 | PUBLIC ENEMY LYRICS REKINDLE CONTROVERSY | is to him -- a development which he finds particularly disturbing in the wake of a visit which he says Chuck D paid to the center's Holocaust museum two weeks ago. "Chuck spent an hour (at the museum) with me and a survivor of the Holocaust," Cooper said. "He went out of his way to say (then and in earlier conversation... |
LA123089-0085_0 | NORTHWEST PLANNED TO DISCLOSE BOMB THREAT AT THE GATE | December 30, 1989, Saturday, Home Edition Northwest Airlines did not plan to notify passengers of a bomb threat against its Paris-to-Detroit flight until they arrived at the boarding gate today, airline officials said Friday. But after the threat was disclosed in a Swedish newspaper, the airline made it public Thursday... |
LA123089-0088_2 | MONEY TALK / CARLA LAZZARESCHI: CONFUSION OVER MEDICARE SURTAX REPEAL | his new employer. We advised him that one of the special tax benefits available to pension plan withdrawals -- five- or 10-year income averaging -- would be available if he put his 401(k) funds into a separate IRA account, segregated from all other retirements savings. This is true, but only if he later rolls those IRA... |
LA123089-0095_0 | ISRAELI POLICE BREAK UP PEACE MARCH IN JERUSALEM | December 30, 1989, Saturday, Home Edition Police fired tear gas, pulled demonstrators by their hair and struck them with night sticks to break up a peace march in Jerusalem on Friday by more than 3,000 Israeli, Palestinian, European and American women. The hourlong procession from Jewish West Jerusalem to Arab East Jer... |
LA123089-0104_1 | MOYNIHAN URGES SOCIAL SECURITY TAX CUT, RETURN TO PAY-AS-YOU-GO BENEFITS SYSTEM | after the end of World War II begin to retire in the early part of the next century. But Moynihan and others said that the huge surpluses have been used instead to mask the size of the federal deficit. Without the surpluses, Congress and the Administration would have to make more drastic spending cuts or generate new r... |
LA123089-0125_7 | HOMELESS ALIENS DRIFT AMID S. COUNTY WEALTH; IMMIGRATION: WITH UNATTAINABLE PROSPERITY IN SIGHT, LATINO MIGRANTS MAKE THEIR HOMES IN BOXES AND BUSHES. THEY HOP FREIGHTS TO ORANGE COUNTY TO SEEK A BETTER LIFE. | the tracks, Solis' eyes are constantly scanning the terrain ahead. "The immigration," he explains. "I have been sent back two times already." INS border patrol spokesman Ted Swofford said agents are aware of the Capistrano Beach bush dwellers. "We make daytime patrols of the day laborers," he said. But "as far as going... |
LA123089-0130_0 | ORANGE COUNTY FOCUS: COSTA MESA; POLICE TO TARGET DRUNK DRIVERS | December 30, 1989, Saturday, Orange County Edition For New Year's Eve, city police plan to do more of what they do often -- arrest drunk drivers. Sixteen officers and the police helicopter will be devoted entirely to pulling over holiday drunks. The city's Driving Under the Influence Task Force will operate from 7:30 p... |
LA123089-0133_0 | ORANGE COUNTY FOCUS: COUNTYWIDE; 18% OF STUDENTS LACK FLUENCY IN ENGLISH | December 30, 1989, Saturday, Orange County Edition More than 18% of Orange County's public school students are not fluent in English, almost double the number six years ago, according to a statewide end-of-the-decade report on language proficiency released Friday by the state Department of Education. The Orange County ... |
LA123089-0139_1 | FADS WE LOVED TO HATE | of "Miami Vice"? Oh sure, they looked fine for a while. All those nice pastels blended so nicely with the palm trees, sort of like Corona del Mar with an MTV soundtrack. Ferraris breaking the sound barrier, sort of like Coast Highway in Newport Beach. Huge amounts of drugs seized in police raids, sort of like a lot of ... |
LA123089-0139_3 | FADS WE LOVED TO HATE | brain by Mattel. In the old days there were gyms. They were smelly and so were the people who used them. You wore a leotard only if you knew a plie from a jete. If you rode a bike, it meant you couldn't afford a car. Or you had picked up one too many DUIs. Now the gym is a health club. The leotards make fashion stateme... |
LA123089-0139_7 | FADS WE LOVED TO HATE | above. And Trivial Pursuit shared something in common with "Rocky": It developed sequels. The next sound you hear will be your arteries clanging shut. All of a sudden everyone knew his cholesterol count: 150 (vegetarian); 200 (lookin' mighty fine, guy); 250 (your wife looks good in black anyway). Then came a book sayin... |
LA123090-0024_3 | VILLAGE LIFE IN PHILIPPINES: A STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE; POVERTY: UNEMPLOYMENT IS HIGH, IN PART BECAUSE YOUNG MEN OFTEN QUIT JOBS. 'WHEN YOU WORK, YOU STILL EARN NOTHING,' ONE SAID. | work to improve your condition." One istambay, Ronnie Tejade, 28, says he worked most recently at an appliance factory until he accumulated enough seniority to qualify for severance pay. He then quit, collected his money and used it to pay off his debts because his salary of $36 a month fell short of his expenses. "Whe... |
LA123090-0028_0 | DROUGHT SPURS ANOTHER ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Bulldog Edition Israel has stopped pumping water from the Sea of Galilee and the River Jordan has become a dirty, brown stream. Palestinians often are lucky to get a drip when they turn on the faucet. Israel is suffering a drought, which in the Middle East means much more than not being able ... |
LA123090-0029_0 | GRANDMOTHERS STEP IN TO REAR CHILDREN AS MOTHERS SUCCUMB TO CRACK; DRUGS: 'THE ABSENCE OF A FATHER IS BAD, BUT NOW THE MOTHER IS MISSING,' ONE EXPERT SAYS. OLDER RELATIVES ARE FORCED TO CARE FOR ANOTHER GENERATION. | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Bulldog Edition Shirley Ceasar is 27, and she is expecting her 10th child. But another baby won't be a burden for her. Like the rest of her kids, the child will be taken care of by its grandmother. Shirley, a crack addict for at least four years, lives in Harlem with her boyfriend, the father... |
LA123090-0034_0 | YAKIMA REBEL STANDS GROUND FOR FISHING RIGHTS; INDIANS: DAVID SOHAPPY BELIEVES IN TRADITION AND AN 1855 TREATY GUARANTEEING AN UNLIMITED SALMON AND STEELHEAD HARVEST. | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Bulldog Edition The old fishing platform sags, held up by ropes, a few rotting boards and perhaps the ghosts of fishermen who lived at a time when Indians pulled as many salmon as they wanted from the Columbia River. David Sohappy, a Yakima religious leader and rebel, believes that is a right... |
LA123090-0035_5 | JUDGE SHAKES UP THE SYSTEM IN DRIVE FOR NEW FACILITIES; ACTIVISM: PAM ILES IS NEARING HER GOAL FOR A PROPOSED $190-MILLION CIVIC CENTER. THE AREA OF ORANGE COUNTY HAS EXPERIENCED SKYROCKETING POPULATION GROWTH. | the road from the court, the office is even more claustrophobic. The Sheriff's Department serves four cities in the South County in addition to its unincorporated territory -- the largest such area left in the county. It moved into its modular trailer -- complete with wheels and license plates -- in 1979. The staff, in... |
LA123090-0036_2 | HEAR THEIR LIPS: DEDICATED WHISTLERS STILL GIVE A HOOT; MUSIC: THE CATCHY TUNES OF YESTERYEAR ARE NO LONGER HEARD. TODAY'S RAP AND HEAVY METAL ARE MORE DIFFICULT. | Chamber of Commerce in Carson City, Nev., in 1977. About 30 people showed up for the "Whistle-Off." Some whistled a cappella; others were accompanied by piano, guitar, banjo, washboards, taped music and even live back-up singers. Since then, the association has grown to about 200 members. Hard-core whistlers want to el... |
LA123090-0042_1 | IT WAS A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS FOR STAN HUMPHRIES | Brooke overcame. Soon, though, there was a bout with jaundice. And then came a condition that would terrorize Stan and Connie Humphries not for moments, but for months. It was an allergy to protein. Think about what that means -- a basic nutrient being rejected by the body at a time it needs it the most. "She has to ge... |
LA123090-0053_4 | BEHIND THE WHEEL: IN TUNE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE SILVER GHOST | wobbly around 40 m.p.h. But every shortcoming is constant and absolutely predictable -- and, after all, the car is doing a genuine 40 m.p.h. With a lot left. Brown, resplendent in linen cap, goggles and duster, doesn't flinch at being asked for corporate approval to attempt an acceleration run. Piece of cake, old boy. ... |
LA123090-0066_7 | SPECIAL REPORT; THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA'S VISION; THE DRAGON IN THE DREAM FACTORY -- THE NATIVE BORN | Capulets far behind. The newcomer has always taught California (as America taught the world) that you can re-invent history. Each side must learn the wisdom of the other. California's destiny depends on the melding of tragic and comic sensibilities. The land cannot sustain the unalloyed traditional immigrant optimism. ... |
LA123090-0067_4 | SPECIAL REPORT; THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA'S PRESENT; THE FOOLISH TREND THAT STARTED ON THE EAST COAST; ECONOMY: HAND-WRINGERS AND CRYSTAL-BALLERS HAVE EMBRACED CALIFORNIA DECLINISM. BUT THEIR FAVORITE EVIDENCE IS REALLY A HEALTHY SIGN OF A STATE MOVING TO CUT ITS DEPENDENCY ON WAR. | net manufacturing jobs and as many as 10 times many new jobs in such areas as business services. Equally important -- although some California companies will migrate in search of less expensive labor, cheaper land and fewer environmental restrictions -- the state is unlikely to lose out in sectors like time-sensitive f... |
LA123090-0068_0 | CAN CALIFORNIA PROVIDE ALL THE BILINGUAL EDUCATION NEEDED? | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Home Edition During the 1980's, the numbers of students in California public schools who speak and write little English more than doubled. Three-fourths of these students speak Spanish. The growth of students needing help because of their English skills may slow over the next 10 years, but th... |
LA123090-0078_0 | COLUMN LEFT; NOTHING FROM NOTHING MAKES NOTHING; LOW SELF-ESTEEM LEADS TO NO ESTEEM FOR OTHERS' LIVES; THIS IS WHERE BLACK-ON-BLACK VIOLENCE MUST BE STOPPED. | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Home Edition My family and I went to Cook County Jail on Christmas morning, as we do every year. We went to share the promise of the Messiah's birth. We departed with our hearts heavy at the sight of hundreds of African-Americans sentenced to jail for crimes committed mostly against other Afr... |
LA123090-0091_1 | DIRE PROBLEM / DRASTIC CURES; SCHOOL: A STOP ON THE ROAD TO GRIDLOCK | the number of teen-agers driving to high school. Steering your own four wheels to class -- long a part of the Southern California lifestyle -- has become a nationwide practice, say transportation experts. With congestion slowly engulfing the nation, transportation planners have begun focusing on high school driving and... |
LA123090-0100_0 | DURING 1990, MANY ORANGE COUNTY RESIDENTS WROTE ABOUT THEIR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS IN ARTICLES FOR ORANGE COUNTY OPINION PAGES. AS WE LOOK BACK ON THE YEAR, SOME OF THOSE THOUGHTS ARE RECALLED.; ROBERT F. GENTRY ON OFFSHORE OIL SPILLS | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Orange County Edition Feb.7, 1990 , will be a day that Orange Countians will remember for some time to come. On that day, approximately 400,000 gallons of oil began spewing from the American Trader, an 800-foot tanker operated by British Petroleum. The disaster is the worst oil spill in the h... |
LA123090-0107_0 | OUR READERS WROTE LETTERS THROUGHOUT 1990 EXPRESSING THEIR VIEWPOINTS ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES. HERE ARE CONDENSED VERSIONS OF SOME OF THOSE LETTERS TO HELP US REMEMBER THE EVENTS THAT MATTERED TO ORANGE COUNTY READERS THIS PAST YEAR. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE READERS WHO TOOK THE TIME TO SHARE THEIR VIEWPOINTS AND LOOK... | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Orange County Edition I hope the recent movement by some to import Ron Kovic into our 38th Congressional District to oppose Robert K. Dornan fails. Such a confrontation might sell newspapers but has no other useful purpose. At a time when Dornan can and should be defeated, there are those who... |
LA123090-0136_3 | NEWS ANALYSIS; A SPLIT DECISION ON DEUKMEJIAN'S LEGACY; GOVERNOR: INCREASING PRISON SPACE AND IMPRINT ON JUDICIARY ARE AMONG HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. CRITICS SAY HE LACKED VISION AND WAS STUBBORN. | said. "I try to stick by my position and stick by my principles and I feel that's what a leader is supposed to do. . . . That's being determined, it's being resolute." Deukmejian said his biggest success as governor was "staying the course" he set as a candidate. "Deukmejian is the first governor -- and maybe the last ... |
LA123090-0136_4 | NEWS ANALYSIS; A SPLIT DECISION ON DEUKMEJIAN'S LEGACY; GOVERNOR: INCREASING PRISON SPACE AND IMPRINT ON JUDICIARY ARE AMONG HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. CRITICS SAY HE LACKED VISION AND WAS STUBBORN. | was the reshaping of the state Supreme Court from one of the nation's most liberal to a panel solidly controlled by conservatives. Not only do his appointees hold five of the seven Supreme Court seats, they also fill 55 of the 88 positions on the Court of Appeal. In all, Deukmejian named about 1,000 judges. Nearly half... |
LA123090-0136_11 | NEWS ANALYSIS; A SPLIT DECISION ON DEUKMEJIAN'S LEGACY; GOVERNOR: INCREASING PRISON SPACE AND IMPRINT ON JUDICIARY ARE AMONG HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. CRITICS SAY HE LACKED VISION AND WAS STUBBORN. | Nimitz Freeway collapsed during the Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake, killing 42 people, Deukmejian stepped in and ordered Caltrans to give top priority to a massive retrofitting program. "Deukmejian leaves office with a better record in transportation than Jerry Brown, but that's primarily because he rallied in t... |
LA123090-0136_12 | NEWS ANALYSIS; A SPLIT DECISION ON DEUKMEJIAN'S LEGACY; GOVERNOR: INCREASING PRISON SPACE AND IMPRINT ON JUDICIARY ARE AMONG HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. CRITICS SAY HE LACKED VISION AND WAS STUBBORN. | faced with severe budget problems in the last two years, he cut back state funding for this much-vaunted endeavor. Deukmejian repeatedly slashed state funds for family planning when abortion opponents complained that the money was going to clinics that performed abortions. "I think it was handled poorly," said the gove... |
LA123090-0138_0 | COLORADO DAM IS HISTORY BUT WATER FIGHT GOES ON; ENVIRONMENT: THE RUSH TO BUY LAND RIGHTS STIRS CONCERNS OVER FARMING, RECREATIONAL AND URBAN NEEDS. | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Home Edition The trout fishermen and the bird lovers and the eco-scientists -- they won the battle of Two Forks Dam. Among them, they scotched one of the biggest water projects in the American West, maybe the last from the age of big dams, a plan 50 years in the making. The project would have... |
LA123090-0142_0 | TROLLEY DRIVER'S ALCOHOL LEVEL OVER DRUNK LIMIT, OFFICIALS SAY | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Home Edition A 20-year transit veteran who operated a Boston trolley that crashed into another rail car had an alcohol level above the Massachusetts drunk driving limit, transit officials said Saturday. Investigators worked into the weekend to learn the circumstances of the Boston accident, w... |
LA123090-0143_2 | STATE'S LIBERALIZED ABORTION LAW SETS OFF DEBATE IN MEXICO; LATIN AMERICA: CATHOLICS LEAD BARRAGE OF CRITICISM OVER MEASURE IN CHIAPAS THAT EXPANDS RIGHT TO CHOOSE. | law, feminist groups lauded it as a historic advance for women in Mexico. "This is not an attempt against the life of anyone," said Walda Barrios, of Anzetik, a women's group in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. "It is simply an extreme necessity that women may abort legally and not as delinquents. . . . This doesn'... |
LA123090-0143_3 | STATE'S LIBERALIZED ABORTION LAW SETS OFF DEBATE IN MEXICO; LATIN AMERICA: CATHOLICS LEAD BARRAGE OF CRITICISM OVER MEASURE IN CHIAPAS THAT EXPANDS RIGHT TO CHOOSE. | afford an abortion. How the new abortion law came about in Chiapas is a mystery to most political observers. Gonzalez Garrido told Proceso that he acted at the urging of organizations defending women's rights, but the feminist groups said they had never petitioned him to legalize abortion. Some analysts speculated that... |
LA123090-0143_4 | STATE'S LIBERALIZED ABORTION LAW SETS OFF DEBATE IN MEXICO; LATIN AMERICA: CATHOLICS LEAD BARRAGE OF CRITICISM OVER MEASURE IN CHIAPAS THAT EXPANDS RIGHT TO CHOOSE. | Gonzalez Garrido is a member of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which holds a majority in the legislature that approved the law. The PRI, however, does not stand to make any obvious political gains in a state with a liberal intellectual elite, but also with a large population of Indians and peasan... |
LA123090-0145_0 | PEACE ACTIVISTS FEAR THEY ARE PAWNS OF IRAQ; PROPAGANDA: BAGHDAD PLAYS UP ANTI-WAR SENTIMENT AT HOME AND ABROAD AS PART OF A STRATEGY TO AVERT ATTACK. ONE PROTESTER SAYS IT'S ALL PART OF 'A SHOW.' | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Home Edition It was supposed to be an impartial gesture of peace: Two women, one wearing a T-shirt labeled Iraq, another labeled United States, would pour water on an olive sapling newly planted on Iraq's border with Saudi Arabia. But Iraqi authorities on the site insisted that one of their s... |
LA123090-0154_0 | 2 MOTHERS HELD IN BEATING OF CHILDREN TO DRIVE OUT SATAN; SECTS: THE WHIPPINGS WERE CONDUCTED WITH BELTS AND TELEPHONE CORD, POLICE SAY. OFFICIALS TOOK 10 OUT OF THEIR PARENTS' CARE. | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Home Edition Children as young as 4 were whipped with telephone cords or belts until they screamed "Demon anger, be out of me!" as part of a small religious group's chastisements, said police, who have arrested the mothers of several of the children. Ten children, some bruised and scarred wit... |
LA123090-0172_8 | COVER STORY; BORN-AGAIN COUNTRY: AFTER YEARS OF TRYING TO SOUND LIKE POP, NASHVILLE IS PUTTING FAITH IN ITS HONKY-TONK ROOTS. AND IT'S PAYING OFF.; COUNTRY'S NEW CROP; A NEW WAVE OF YOUNG TRADITION-MINDED SINGERS IS HELPING COUNTRY MUSIC ESCAPE FROM ITS MID-'80S TAILSPIN | don't normally show an interest in country music. "I asked young people about Travis and they said they liked him because he was closer to their age and he was so believable . . . his voice and his songs." In earlier decades, country occasionally attracted a young audience. Certainly that happened in the '50s, when Elv... |
LA123090-0173_5 | COVER STORY; THE SMART MONEY IS ON BROOKS, BLACK | to handling a career." Randy Travis * "I think he has peaked. He'll sell a lot more records, but as far as him being a dominant force in the '90s, I don't think so." * "We all appreciate his sales and what he has done for this town, but there is something that doesn't track for me. If he's got a killer song, he's fine,... |
LA123090-0176_12 | FOURTH ANNUAL TRIVIA QUIZ; ORANGE COUNTY 1990 | 66 d. 75 TRIVIA QUIZ ANSWERS 1. c. La Ware was captain of the American Trader. (Hazelwood piloted the Exxon Valdez, Bucher was in charge of the USS Pueblo, and Grumby was the skipper of the Minnow, the shipwrecked boat on "Gilligan's Island.") 2. c. Lennon was pictured nude, embracing his wife. 3. a. Dornan would have ... |
LA123090-0177_2 | WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS SUSTAINED IN BLAZE; FIRES: THE INCIDENT IN YORBA LINDA PRECEDED ANOTHER ONE IN IRVINE THAT STARTED WHEN A CHRISTMAS TREE BROKE OUT IN FLAMES, INJURING TWO PEOPLE. | when the fire started. One neighbor said he ran to get a garden hose as he watched flames shooting from the windows. "She (O'Connor) was yelling, 'Phil (O'Connor, her husband) is still inside!' but then I heard Phil say, 'I'm all right!' " said Lee Ennis, a neighbor. "You could just see the flames taking off." Moments ... |
LA123090-0191_0 | COLUMBO PRO AND CON | December 30, 1990, Sunday, Orange County Edition "Columbo" has an unquestionably winsome main character, to which Peter Falk still contributes his unquestionably charismatic star. Also unquestionably, the series' plots are so contrived you wonder about Columbo's true sleuthing abilities. Columbo is always aided in his ... |
LA123189-0025_2 | ON AGING: A NEW FREEDOM AT FIFTYSOMETHING | a key symptom of the disease: mild aching or soreness of affected joints. Although osteoarthritis can occur in any joint, weight-bearing joints, such as the knees, hips and spine, are most commonly affected. According to the Arthritis Foundation, exercise for osteoarthritis sufferers can help maintain flexibility in th... |
LA123189-0025_3 | ON AGING: A NEW FREEDOM AT FIFTYSOMETHING | most commonly affected. According to the Arthritis Foundation, exercise for osteoarthritis sufferers can help maintain flexibility in the affected joints, restore and preserve the strength of surrounding muscles, and protect diseased joints from further damage. Appropriate exercises usually involve gentle movements tha... |
LA123189-0033_3 | REAL ESTATE Q & A: DIVORCE AND TAXES: HOW TO DEFER PROFITS FROM SALE OF YOUR HOME | stay was removed, unless the sale was incorrectly handled, it appears you have no further rights in your home. Please consult a real estate attorney for further details. Promising Cure for 'Buyer's Remorse' Q: My husband and I signed a contract to buy a home. The realty agent arranged what, I admit, is a terrific fixed... |
LA123189-0033_5 | REAL ESTATE Q & A: DIVORCE AND TAXES: HOW TO DEFER PROFITS FROM SALE OF YOUR HOME | My wife and I have two children who get along great with their grandparents. We found a huge two-family duplex house where my in-laws would live in the two-bedroom unit and our family will live in the four-bedroom unit. They will be making the down payment, and we have agreed to split the monthly payment on a one-third... |
LA123189-0034_0 | IN A FOREST OF TANGLED TREES ON A LONG PENINSULA BY THE SEA, A VISIONARY NAMED SIR CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS SPENT NEARLY HALF A CENTURY BUILDING HIS OWN CAMELOT OF BRICK, STONE AND ECCENTRIC DREAMS; WELSH FANTASY | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition While the upper reaches of Wales' highest peak are frequently lost in mists, stone farmhouses far below stand out against the hillsides -- their slate roofs glistening in a driving rain that turns the sod a shocking green. Swollen streams cascade over rocks, and waterfalls tumble... |
LA123189-0044_3 | CHANGES, CUTBACKS ALLOW SAN PEDRO HOSPITAL TO CUT ITS DEFICIT; MEDICINE: 'TURNAROUND HAS COME,' PRESIDENT ASSERTS. CRITICS SAY THE WORST OF THE FISCAL CRISIS MAY BE OVER. | and demanding less hospitalization and more outpatient care, "a smaller, mobile force is the way you have to do it," Schoenwetter said. In addition to calling for cuts, Ernst & Whinney also said that San Pedro had to strengthen itself as a community hospital by upgrading key services and moving toward specialties such ... |
LA123189-0051_3 | ZAP! INTO THE NINETIES; STATE OF THE ART FOR FILMS; THE LASER VIDEO DISC WILL DO TO HOME ENTERTAINMENT IN THE NEXT DECADE WHAT THE VCR DID IN THE EIGHTIES | the movies? In the few instances where the tape-to-film process has already been used -- in the Kathleen Turner film "Julia and Julia," for instance -- audiences thought they were watching a TV soap opera in a theater. Most front-rank film directors wouldn't touch tape with a 10-foot boom pole. "The Sony people are del... |
LA123189-0078_0 | RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLICE GUARDS, FEDERAL INFORMANT INVESTIGATED | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition A mob informant and his Rhode Island police guards developed such a loose relationship over 3 1/2 years that they frolicked in Florida together and sold vehicles to each other, even though the protected witness was serving a prison term. And security was so lax that anybody lo... |
LA123189-0087_0 | ST. LOUIS ACTIVISTS STRUGGLE TO END VIOLENCE'S TOLL ON YOUNG BLACK MEN | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition Baqi Cherry has felt the cold, hard barrel of a gun at his head and has seen bloody, violent death up close. "The easiest way out is to sell drugs in my community. I did it to survive. I sold drugs to feed myself," said Cherry, 19, who has survived life on the streets of Ameri... |
LA123189-0090_3 | GUNS IN THE BOOK BAG: PUPILS FIND NO SAFE HAVEN -- IN OR OUT OF CLASS | day of school. "There's no safety in Prospect Heights," even though there are spot checks with metal detectors, said Bob (Brother) Abu, 15. "If (guards) don't come on Monday, they put the weapons in their lockers. So when the weapon detectors come on Wednesday, they have their weapons in the school already." "There ain... |
LA123189-0092_2 | HUMANS POSE LATEST THREAT TO FISH THAT HAS SURVIVED 380 MILLION YEARS | did not pose an immediate threat to the coelacanths or to the food chain. "But if it increased two or three times, it would be a major concern," he said. Recent research in California on other fish species suggests that "reproduction is very strongly affected by the body burden of PCBs and DDT. . . . When you start get... |
LA123189-0093_0 | EARNING CEILING TO RISE FOR RECIPIENTS OF DISABILITY BENEFITS | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition On the first day of the new year, new rules will raise the amount of money recipients of government disability benefits can earn, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday. HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan said the increases "will serve as an additional incen... |
LA123189-0111_1 | NEW YEAR RINGS IN STIFFER DRUNK LAW | noted, nearly every CHP officer in the state will be on duty and looking for drunk drivers. But beyond New Year's Eve, state officials hope the stricter standard will help persuade drinkers to change their habits permanently and avoid driving while intoxicated. Helmick urged groups of drinkers to pick a designated driv... |
LA123189-0112_4 | LEGISLATORS' CHALLENGE: KEEP COMPROMISES COMING | fixed in trying to be pragmatic, in trying to come up with what will reduce automobile rates," Roberti said. "I still clearly lean against no-fault. But, in an attempt to bring about compromise, I think we have to abandon fixed ideological positions." Some other issues that will be getting attention in the second year ... |
LA123189-0115_2 | WON'T HELP NORIEGA EVADE JUSTICE, VATICAN SAYS; DIPLOMACY: IT IS THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT FROM THE CHURCH SECRETARIAT. COMMUNIQUE IS SEEN AS A WAY TO SOFT-PEDAL ITS DIFFERENCES WITH THE U.S. | one week ago today in flight from U.S. troops seeking to arrest him to face drug trafficking charges in Florida. "The apostolic nuncio had no intention of obstructing the course of justice regarding a person who is accused of grave crimes," the secretariat's statement said. Admitted to the embassy in what the Vatican c... |
LA123189-0117_0 | ISRAELI POLICE ATTACK PEACE MARCH; MIDDLE EAST: CROWD WAS TRYING TO FORM HUMAN CHAIN FOR PEACE AROUND WALL OF OLD CITY. AT LEAST 50 WERE INJURED AND ANOTHER 50 ARRESTED. | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition Unprovoked police attacks marred an otherwise peaceful rally of Palestinians, Israelis and Europeans who joined hands Saturday in the biggest demonstration of the two-year-old Arab uprising. Police used rubber bullets, tear gas and truncheons to break up crowds that had gathered ... |
LA123189-0132_0 | BRIEFING / EVENTS IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK. | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Orange County Edition The revelry of New Year's Eve is expected tonight as Orange Countians usher in the new decade. Along with the annual fun and festivities invariably comes those who try to drive home drunk. To that end the California Highway Patrol has stepped up its enforcement efforts. ... |
LA123189-0143_0 | 'HAZARDOUS LOTTERY' AT SUPERIOR COURT | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Orange County Edition Our readers wrote letters throughout 1989 expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters. We appreciate their taking the time to share their viewpoints and look forward to hearing from more of them in 1990. Allow ... |
LA123189-0177_0 | BREAKING INTO THE '90S. A NEW WORLD IN TIME. WALLS FALL, DEBTS RISE, POLITICIANS THRIVE, ENVIRONMENTS SUFFER-A LOOK OVER THE SHOULDER AND OVER THE HORIZON.; EUROPE TAKES CENTER STAGE AS SOVIET EMPIRE COLLAPSES | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition Easily said, still hard to believe: The Soviet empire came to an end in 1989. History never came wrapped in a neater package. In 1980, the will of the people found voice in the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland. Outlawed and driven underground, the movement only gathered strength. Last... |
LA123189-0181_0 | WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY KEEPS ITS CHILDREN IN POVERTY? | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition We are seeing an extraordinary celebration of freedom in Europe. With breathtaking swiftness, we are witnessing the emergence of a new world. As my heart thrills to this burst of new life, I am called to assess the state of freedom -- and the state of children -- in my own countr... |
LA123189-0181_1 | WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY KEEPS ITS CHILDREN IN POVERTY? | a deficient education. Most shocking of all is the way the burden of this poverty makes captives of our children. In California, the richest state in the nation, the poor go to bed hungry, if they are lucky enough to have a bed. After the staggering amounts we spend to defend ourselves externally, there isn't enough le... |
LA123189-0183_1 | WORLD FINANCIAL FORECAST: CLOUDY, CLEAR | good old 1960s. This was when Americans thought average, single-income families could -- and should -- own their own homes while watching their standards of living rise every year. That would be nice, but the world economy is as likely to belly-up as boom. International cooperation can help deter trouble but the outloo... |
LA123189-0186_0 | TERM LIMITS FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition You say (without explaining the connection) that term limits "would upset the balance of power between elected officials, who often require years of service to command the details of policy questions." But such limits would, on the contrary, allow more fairness in elections. Any ... |
LA123189-0189_0 | THE WORD THEY USE IS SCARY | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition We have been visiting doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators in the wards and clinics that serve people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, asking them to assess the situation. The word they used most often was scary. Demand for service... |
LA123189-0189_2 | THE WORD THEY USE IS SCARY | nursing facilities for AIDS patients in Los Angeles County, and most of those beds are not state- licensed and therefore not useable for Medi-Cal or other publicly funded patients. Throughout the state there is a serious shortage of skilled AIDS health-care workers. The new West Hollywood Clinic, intended to be a model... |
LA123189-0191_1 | UNCLE SAM NEEDS YOU . . . AND YOU . . . IN 1990 CENSUS | in federal tax dollars that trickle down for a variety of services, from freeway construction to school lunch programs. The county should also gain a new perspective of itself. Demographers predict the 1990 census will finally topple the long-held stereotype of Orange County as a homogeneous stronghold of well-heeled w... |
LA123189-0191_11 | UNCLE SAM NEEDS YOU . . . AND YOU . . . IN 1990 CENSUS | census statistics on "blended" households that result when couples divorce and then form anew in subsequent marriages. But it will likely be the ethnic and racial shifts that garner the most attention, experts say. The Vietnamese community, barely a notch on the charts in 1980 with about 20,000 inhabitants in Orange Co... |
LA123189-0192_1 | SWEATSHOP VICTIMS CITE HARASSMENT BY BOSSES; EMPLOYMENT: WORKERS SAY THEIR COOPERATION WITH A SEWING SHOP CRACKDOWN HAS GOTTEN THEM BLACKLISTED. THE ALLEGATIONS HAVE RESULTED IN ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. | bank lobby, and then sign a receipt saying they got the money," Otero said. "They (the employers) just told them it was a formality that had to be done and took advantage of the ignorance" of the employees, who were all recent immigrants from Mexico, she said. Otero said four workers surrendered to their bosses settlem... |
LA123189-0193_0 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE CENSUS | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Orange County Edition Maybe you haven't filled out a census form before, or the past decade has turned memories of the last one a bit foggy. Here are some common questions about the 1990 U.S. Census, and some answers: Q. When will I get the census form? How do I get one? A. Most people will g... |
LA123189-0196_0 | REVELERS OFFERED FREE, SAFE WAY HOME; HOLIDAY: NEW YEAR'S EVE DRINKERS HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE TO GETTING BEHIND THE WHEEL. | December 31, 1989, Sunday, Orange County Edition While New Year's Eve celebrators have been bombarded with messages urging them not to drink and drive, a quieter effort has been made to offer those who have been drinking a safe alternative to trying to swerve their way home. Two taxi companies, Mothers Against Drunk Dr... |
LA123189-0196_2 | REVELERS OFFERED FREE, SAFE WAY HOME; HOLIDAY: NEW YEAR'S EVE DRINKERS HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE TO GETTING BEHIND THE WHEEL. | (714) 535-2211 or (714) 546-1311 must be placed by an employee of a bar or restaurant. The Laguna Beach Police Department is also operating a taxi service, called Tipsy Taxi, which is not free and is available only to city residents by calling (714) 494-1121. Slagle said that representatives from Straub distributed inf... |
LA123190-0007_0 | STATE INSURANCE CLAIMS, REFORM | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition It is very hard to understand why The Times would give so much space to the insurance industry's biased reports on auto accident injury claims ("State Leads Nation in Filing Injury Claims for Auto Accidents," Dec. 19). The reports were commissioned by major insurance carriers wit... |
LA123190-0010_0 | MORNING REPORT: POP/ROCK | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition Clash in Chicago: Police and anti-war protesters clashed outside a Public Enemy rap concert in Chicago early Sunday, resulting in 18 arrests. Police reported that people ran across the street once the concert had ended, set up an anti-war banner and began yelling and throwing obj... |
LA123190-0039_3 | SHERIDAN TAKES A HARD LOOK AT IRISH 'TROUBLES'; DIRECTOR: HIS NEW FILM RECALLS THE POTATO FAMINE AND LOOKS AT NORTHERN IRELAND, IRISH-AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. | so upset about an external thing.' "People in Ireland want the conflict to end," he said, landing on the last word with all the force he can muster. "They just want it to be over." Sheridan anticipated the wrath of Irish-Americans, who in the film are dismissed as weak for having fled the famines and resented for retur... |
LA123190-0041_0 | LONG-TERM STATE CITRUS DAMAGE SEEN; AGRICULTURE: YOUNG TREES ARE DYING FROM FREEZING WEATHER. SOME FARMERS GIVE UP ON THIS YEAR'S FRUIT PRODUCTION. | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition The cold snap that already has devastated this year's citrus crop could also dramatically curtail the number of lemons, oranges and avocados produced next year, farmers and agricultural officials said Sunday. Some farmers expect their citrus production to be half of normal next y... |
LA123190-0042_0 | CALIFORNIA LAWS '91 | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition Correction Appended There's good news for Californians who are concerned about increased air pollution from smoky cars, trucks and buses or those griping about the aerial spraying of malathion. There's bad news for convicted highway litterbugs and companies that sell telephone fa... |
LA123190-0042_5 | CALIFORNIA LAWS '91 | before the purchase of handguns is extended to the purchase of rifles and shotguns. (AB 497 by Assemblyman Lloyd G. Connelly, D-Sacramento.) Semiautomatic Weapons -- The manufacture, sale or possession of devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire several bullets with one pull of the trigger is prohibited. (AB 37... |
LA123190-0042_18 | CALIFORNIA LAWS '91 | Assemblyman Curtis Tucker Jr., D-Inglewood.) MISCELLANEOUS Drunken Boating -- In conformity with laws for motor vehicle operators, adult boaters whose blood shows an alcohol level of 0.08% or minors who test at 0.05% are presumbed to be under the influence of alcohol. Previously the adult level was 0.10% for drunken bo... |
LA123190-0043_0 | RIOT FEAR CANCELS CONCERT BY 'BAD RELIGION' BAND | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition One day after a crowd of violent concert-goers trashed a North Hollywood theater and damaged neighboring storefronts, promoters of the popular punk rock band Bad Religion canceled a Sunday performance in West Hollywood. Organizers of the canceled concert at the Whisky said they f... |
LA123190-0047_0 | IN BRIEF: SCIENCE / MEDICINE; CLOTTING SUBSTANCE COPIED | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition Doctors report that a new drug designed to help make blood clot in people with hemophilia is safe and effective. The drug is supposed to be an exact copy of the natural clotting substance known as factor VIII. It was developed through genetic engineering techniques by Cutter Biol... |
LA123190-0048_0 | IN BRIEF: SCIENCE / MEDICINE; TOOTHPASTE LINKED TO ASTHMA | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition Asthma sufferers who find themselves wheezing and coughing might look to their toothpaste as a possible cause of their problems, two doctors said last week. An artificial mint flavoring found in a brand of toothpaste made from an opaque paste instead of a gel apparently triggered... |
LA123190-0057_4 | COUNTING OUT MOST OF THE YEAR'S TOP RECORDS; POP MUSIC: NO MORE THAN FOUR OF 1990'S NO. 1 SONGS WILL BE CONSIDERED SIGNIFICANT A DECADE FROM NOW. HERE ARE SOME THAT MIGHT. | make a record quite as ear-catching as this. * Ice Cube's "Who's the Mack" (Priority) -- M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice may have brought rap to the mainstream during 1990, but the artistic pulse of the music remains in the hard-core artists, including Los Angeles' Ice Cube. The language is still too blunt for radio, but t... |
LA123190-0059_4 | BRITAIN'S 'GONG SHOW' IS BOTH PRAISED, DAMNED; AWARDS: THE ESTABLISHMENT LOVES THE HONORS SYSTEM. CRITICS ARGUE THEY ARE RANK POLITICAL PATRONAGE. | "I didn't think there was a BE any longer." The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George is generally reserved for foreign service officers. The degrees are referred to around the Foreign Office, in ascending order, as CMG (Call Me God); KCMG (Kindly Call Me God); GCMG (God Calls Me God). The top order of... |
LA123190-0065_0 | OFFICERS VIEW GANG THREATS AS PART OF JOB; CRIME: POLICE IN VAN NUYS REACT WITH CONCERN AND COOL INDIFFERENCE AFTER RECEIVING WARNINGS OF DEADLY RETALIATION OVER A CRACKDOWN ON DRUGS. | December 31, 1990, Monday, Valley Edition While three alleged members of a Van Nuys gang remained in custody Sunday, arrested in a plot to kill police on New Year's Eve, officers at the community's police station said such threats are just part of what it means to wear a badge. "It's a concern, but it comes with the jo... |
LA123190-0072_1 | MORNING BRIEFING: PERHAPS SOME BOXING TIPS ARE IN ORDER | A.F. (Bud) Dudley said: "That is an area we might put emphasis on in the next two months. It seems to be the thing of the future." The Fun Bowl: The Seattle Times has been publishing "Husky Diary." Each day, a Washington player shares something that impressed him during the previous 24 hours of his Rose Bowl experience... |
LA123190-0075_0 | BOWL UPDATE; CITRUS; HE HAS FELT PERSIAN GULF STRIFE UP CLOSE | December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition Darryl Jenkins, a second team all-Atlantic Coast Conference tackle from Georgia Tech, has been especially interested in the situation in the Persian Gulf. His summer job moving boxes for a freight company found him working outside the fences that surround Ft. McPherson, Ga., wher... |
LA123190-0091_0 | VAN TOUCHES OFF WILD CHASE AT CHECKPOINT | December 31, 1990, Monday, Orange County Edition A van apparently smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico bolted the Border Patrol checkpoint near San Clemente Sunday and led lawmen on a 40-minute chase through Orange County, sometimes against oncoming freeway traffic. The fleeing driver, identified only as a Mexican ... |
LA123190-0100_0 | ORANGE COUNTY FOCUS: COUNTYWIDE; GROUPS GET $70,000 FROM UNITED WAY | December 31, 1990, Monday, Orange County Edition United Way of Orange County has made a grant of more than $70,000 to 10 social service agencies. Programs benefiting from the onetime grant include: * Assessment Treatment and Service Center, which received $5,785 to provide counseling for grandparents who are raising th... |
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