A Good Year for the Atlantic Alliance Lord Carrington, Lord Carrington, former British foreign secretary, is now secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
12 Wild Ideas to Back Up Gramm-Rudman GEORGE MAROTTA, George Marotta, a former bureaucrat, is senior research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Water in the West : Growing Beyond Nature's Limits Wallace Stegner, Among many works, Wallace Stegner is the author of "The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West" (1969); "Angle of Repose," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1972, and "The Spectator Bird," winner of the 1977 National Book Award.
Two Centuries Later, 'Chunnel' May Come True Betty Ann Kevles, Betty Ann Kevles writes a science column for The Times' View section and is an editor for the University of California Press.
Loooking at Orange County's Past Year Sheds Light on '86 : Health Care ROBERT HANLEY and Valencia Bank in Santa Ana and Financial Corp. of America's American Savings & Loan Assn. unit. and Valencia is operating under Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. orders
that require it to meet certain financial standards or face a loss of insurance coverage, which would essentially force the bank to close its doors. The bank has been negotiating with a group of six investors to pump $7.5 million into the bank's capital account, but the talks have stalled and the bank has turned to other potential saviors. For the first nine months of 1985, Valencia lost $2.05 million, compared with a loss of $1,000 a year earlier. and American, the nation's largest S&L with $27.6 billion in assets, lost
$590.5 million in 1984 and its losses continued in 1985. American posted a loss of $43.7 million for the nine months ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $78.4 million a year earlier.