What happened on May 18, 1986

NEWS

TRAVEL

Giant Desert Figures Remain Blythe Mystery MICHELE GRIMM and TOM GRIMM, The Grimms are writers/photographers based in Laguna Beach.
Savoring and Saving India's Frescoes LUCY KOMISAR, Komisar is a New York City free-lance writer.
ENGLAND: Palm Trees Grace Torquay : Palms Trees Grace the Sunny English Southwest ELEANOR MORRIS, Morris is an Austin, Tex., free-lance writer.
Seniors' Discount Fares ERIC FRIEDHEIM, Friedheim is editor/publisher of Travel Agent magazine.
Two Intrepid Americans Venture Off to Europe WILLIAM TUOHY, Times Staff Writer
Picturing Israel's Past and Present ANN PURCELL and CARL PURCELL, The Purcells are professional photographers
Readying for America's Cup Races in Australia BEVERLY BEYER and ED RABEY, Beyer and Rabey are Los Angeles travel writers.
Europe by Van
Senior Travelers
Mexican Taxes
When Not a B&B
Room for Better Service JUDITH MORGAN, Morgan, of La Jolla, is a nationally known magazine and newspaper writer
Breezy Way to See Canada Is Behind Handlebars MARY SPLETTER, Spletter is a Berkeley, Calif., free-lance writer.
Love Kiwiland
The World as a FIRST-CLASS SPECTACLE JERRY HULSE, Times Travel Editor
Air Fares Have a Hitch JACK ADLER
Cultures Fly Side by Side to Tokyo HORACE SUTTON, Sutton is editor of Signature magazine.
Hiking Tours Take Off in Europe, New Zealand BILL HUGHES, Hughes is a 25-year veteran travel writer living in Sherman Oaks.
Read Fine Print on Airline Fares TONI TAYLOR, Taylor, an authority on the travel industry, lives in Los Angeles.
A Little Bit of Hollywood Exists in Hong Kong JENNIFER MERIN, Merin is a New York City free-lance writer.
Good Guide to Maui
Taking an Art Detour to Possagno BERNARD J. GOLBUS, Golbus is a Chicago free-lance writer.
Unaltered WWII Cargo Vessel Is Still at Liberty RAY HEBERT, Times Staff Writer
The Industry Is Shaping Up So it Can Ship Out SHIRLEY SLATER and HARRY BASCH, Slater and Basch are Los Angeles free-lance writers.
An Iberian Pilgrimage STUART NIXON, Nixon, general manager of the Redwood Empire Assn., San Francisco, and a retired Army officer, has studied military history for 30 years.
Comparison Shopping for Tours LUCY IZON, Izon is a Canadian travel journalist covering youth budget routes.
Cruising and Helping
English Town Blows Own Horn for 1,100th Year STEVE LIBBY, Libby is a Sumter, S.C., free-lance writer.
B.V.I. Air Service
Car Rental Turnoffs, Hidden Fees PETER S. GREENBERG, Greenberg is a Los Angeles free-lance writer
Scotland Celebration
A Corner on Amity on the Continent FRANK RILEY, Riley is travel columnist for Los Angeles magazine and a regular contributor to this section
Guides in Rio
Sierra Mule Can Carry Your Pack NANCY YOSHIHARA, Times Staff Writer

SPORTS

REAL ESTATE

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

BOOKS

Love, Medicine and Miracles by Bernie S. Siegel (Harper & Row: $15.95; 256 pp., illustrated) Joan Borysenko, Borysenko is a cancer cell biologist and medical psychologist at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. and
Suing the Press by Rodney A. Smolla (Oxford University: $19.95; 288 pp.) Marshall Goldberg, Goldberg is a former counsel for the Senate judiciary subcommittee on constitutional rights and presently writes for television
Nine-Headed Dragon River : ZEN JOURNALS 1969-1982 by Peter Matthiessen (Shambhala: $16.95; 239 pp.) Victoria Scott, Scott is an MA in Buddhist studies from Yale. and
Nonfiction Andrew J. McKenna
Nonfiction Marvin Seid
Fiction Winston Groom
Celebrating Doggerel
Red-Baiting in Santa Monica
Stockman's Triumphs
Nonfiction John M. Wilson
The Vanished Imam by Fouad Ajami (Cornell University: $17.95; 222 pp.) Donne Raffat, Raffat's most recent book is "The Prison Papers of Bozorg Alavi" (Syracuse University Press). and
Nonfiction Earl Ofari
Winter in Jerusalem by Blanche d'Alpuget (Simon & Schuster: $16.95; 269 pp.) Richard Eder
Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard (Summit: $17.95; 298 pp.) Nora Johnson, Johnson's most recent novel is "Tender Offer" (Simon & Schuster). and
Milwaukee the Beautiful by Dakota James (Donald I. Fine: $16.95; 240 pp.) Jesus Trevino, Trevino recently wrote and co-produced "Neighbors: The U.S. and Mexico," a documentary on immigration for PBS.
Stockman's Triumphs
Fiction William Murray
Good-bye to the Low Profile: The Art of Creative Confrontation by Herb Schmertz with William Novak (Little, Brown: $16.95; 242 pp.) : Fighting Back by William P. Tavoulareas (Simon & Schuster: $15.95; 253 pp.) David Shaw, Shaw writes about the media for The Times. His most recent book is "Press Watch" (Macmillan)
Table Money by Jimmy Breslin (Ticknor & Fields: $17.95; 434 pp.) William Hochswender, Hochswender, the features editor of Harper's Bazaar, grew up in an Irish-German neighborhood to the south of Queens. and
The Woman Who Escaped From Shame by Toby Olson (Random House: $16.95; 325 pp.) Holly Prado, Prado's novel "Gardens" was published last fall by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. and
Herbert von Karajan : A BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT by Roger Vaughan (Norton: $16.95; 226 pp.) Martin Bernheimer, Bernheimer, Times music critic, first encountered Herbert von Karajan at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1958 and has been watching and listening ever since--with mixed feelings.
Making Believe by John Leggett (Houghton Mifflin: $16.95; 295 pp.) Malcolm Boyd, Boyd, writer-priest-in-residence at St. Augustine-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, is author of "Half Laughing/Half Crying." and
Manhunt by Peter Maas (Random House: $17.95; 301 pp.) David Johnston, Johnston is a Times staff writer
On the Meaning of Victory by Edward N. Luttwak (Simon & Schuster: $18.95; 320 pp.) James Turner Johnson, Johnson is the author of "Can Modern War Be Just?" (Yale University Press). and
Never in Doubt : CRITICAL ESSAYS ON AMERICAN BOOKS, 1972-1985 by Peter S. Prescott (Arbor House: $18.95; 352 pp.) Jack Miles
The Ambassador by Andre Brink (Summit: $16.95; 288 pp.) John Sutherland, Sutherland teaches literature at Caltech. and
Mayday : EISENHOWER, KHRUSHCHEV AND THE U-2 AFFAIR by Michael R. Beschloss (Harper & Row: $19.95; 544 pp., illustrated) Robert A. Divine, Divine is the author of "Eisenhower and the Cold War" (Oxford University Press). and

ENTERTAINMENT

MAGAZINE

Partners in Style : An Interior Designer, a Sculptor and an Aeronautical Engineer Combine Forces to Create Piage Furniture BEVIS HILLIER
FYI : Running Wild
Healer of Wounds M\f7 . F. Rengel-Dempsey \f7 DVM
'Did Salamon Have a Son?' Herb Brin, publisher of the weekly Jewish newspaper Heritage, printed an "Open Letter to Rad Artukovic," from which this is excerpted, in February
Nolan Bushnell CARLA LAZZARESCHI, Carla Lazzareschi is a Times business writer
No Humble Pie BETSY BALSLEY, Betsy Balsley is food editor of The Times.
A Good Son : In a Lonely Crusade Against World Opinion, Rad Artukovic Fights for a Father Accused of Directing the Holocaust in Croatia PATT MORRISON, Patt Morrison is a Times staff writer.
Read This and Reap : A Vegetable-Garden Planning Guide BILL SIDNAM, Bill Sidnam raises fruit trees and tends an extensive vegetable plot in an ordinary backyard in Orange County. and Susan Ragsdale is an illustrator and avid gardener, and, being a vegetarian, has a special interest in edible plants
Fit to Be Tied : The Superiority of the Bow KEITH LOVE, Keith Love is a Times staff writer.
Understanding the Paradox : Some Contradictions Make Perfect Sense JACK SMITH
Josh Gruenberg's Decision : The Passion of Crew ELLEN ALPERSTEIN, Ellen Alperstein is an editor and writer in Santa Monica

BUSINESS

OPINION

Gorbachev : In Command and in Crisis Roy Medvedev, Roy Medvedev, a Soviet citizen, writes about Soviet history and current affairs
Yes on Prop. 44
A Reporter's Reporter
A Judge's Helping Hand
Senate Tax Reform Bill
Senate Tax Reform Bill
Senate Tax Reform Bill
Senate Tax Reform Bill
In Manila the Honeymoon Isn't Over, but Bridal Attendants Stir Concern . . . Mark Fineman, Mark Fineman is The Times' correspondent in Manila.
Oil Prices: Always Set by Political Rules Robert Engler, Robert Engler, author of "The Politics of Oil" and "The Brotherhood of Oil" (University of Chicago Press), teaches political science at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
'Meltdown'
. . . and France Now Has Two Heads Stanley Meisler, Stanley Meisler is The Times' correspondent in Paris.
Troubled Flights Ahead for U.S. Space Program Gregg Easterbrook, Gregg Easterbrook is a national correspondent for the Atlantic.
Senate Tax Reform Bill
Border Busybodies
Senate Tax Reform Bill
Bitter Harvest in Apartheid 'Homelands' PETER HONEY, Peter Honey is a South African writer based in Johannesburg.
The Archbishop and Antonovich
Arms and the Saudis: A Hard Sell for Reagan Richard Straus, Richard Straus is editor of the Middle East Policy Survey.
Espionage Case Pits CIA Against News Media David Wise, David Wise writes frequently about intelligence and secrecy. and
What Are We Hiding Under the Bandages of Metaphor? CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, Charles Krauthammer is a columnist in Washington.
A Metro Rail Substitute Is On Line C. KENNETH ORSKI, C. Kenneth Orski is a transportation consultant in Washington and former official in the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.

What happened on May 18, 1986

NEWS

'Riptide' Ratings Sink, TV Series Is Washed Up DEAN MURPHY, Times Staff Writer

Model of Extinct Reptile Did Fine on Film : Pterodactyl Flight: a Pterrible Ptragedy ROBERT SHOGAN, Times Staff Writer

Illinois Governor's Race : Judge Rules Stevenson Can't Run as Independent Associated Press

Wildlife Problems : In Kenya, It's Man Versus Animal in Battle for Space DAVID CRARY, Associated Press

Bush Undergoes Routine Skin Cancer Operation for Growth on Left Cheek Associated Press

Yorba Linda Woman Tells of Hiding Jews From Nazis LYNN SMITH, Times Staff Writer

Britain's Rare Species Threatened by Hikers : Walks on Wild Side a Woe to Wallabies JUDITH MATLOFF, Reuters

A Chronicle of Missteps and Heroism : Desire to Reach Summit Perhaps Misled Climbers DAN MORAIN, Times Staff Writer

Nation's Biggest Prehistoric Site to Get Face Lift : Illinois Seeking to Reclaim Much of Ancient Indian Cahokia Mounds ED SCHAFER, Associated Press

Here's Mud in Your Eye . . . and Everywhere Else, for That Matter BETH ANN KRIER, Times Staff Writer

McNair Buried; Called a Model to Black Youth United Press International

Choice of Consultant to Probe Feud Among Irwindale Police Adds to Unrest MARK ARAX, Times Staff Writer

Judge Fires Commissioner From Santa Anita Court SUE AVERY, Times Staff Writer

Test Pilot Chuck Yeager, 8 Others Win 1986 Horatio Alger Awards United Press International

Israel Mobilized Troops and Tanks, Papers Report United Press International

Showdown Vote Due Monday : Rift Erupts Over Staffing New ABC Magnet School LEE HARRIS, Times Staff Writer

0.6% in April : Prices Show 4th Straight Monthly Drop From Times Wire Services

Dominican Election Remains Too Close to Call WILLIAM R. LONG, Times Staff Writer

Dixon on Course for 5th Term in House BOB WILLIAMS, Times Staff Writer

Mitterrand to Visit Moscow Associated Press

Civil War Legacy: Grave Sites of 206 Prisoners : Ohio Still Honors 'Best of Confederacy' Associated Press

Eastern Grounds 4 Wide-Body Jets at FAA's Behest Associated Press

Family Life Panel Redefines the Ties That Bind KENNETH J. FANUCCHI, Times Staff Writer

Despite Rumors, Israel Minimizes War Threat : Officials Blame 'Media Hype,' Other Factors for Growing Fear of Possible Conflict With Syria MICHAEL ROSS, Times Staff Writer

In GOP Race, Friendly Rivals Have Common Foe in Hayden ALAN CITRON, Times Staff Writer

Won't Be Intimidated by U.S. 'Threats,' Assad Says JIM HOAGLAND and JONATHAN RANDAL, The Washington Post

A Down-to-Earth Travel Adventure Zan Thompson

Lightning Kills 120 Sheep From Reuters

Sen. D'Amato Announces His Bid for Second Term Associated Press

Northern Ireland Police Accused of Sexist Bias United Press International

Most Extinctions Since Dinosaur Age : Up to 1 Million Species Might Die Off by 2000, Survey Warns LINDA WERFELMAN, United Press International

Egyptians Helped in U.S. Raid, Libya Says From Reuters

'Dr. Ruth' Says China Will Relax One-Baby Rule From Reuters

California Elections : THE LT. GOVERNOR'S RACE : One-Time Foes of Deukmejian Now Sing His Virtues DOUGLAS SHUIT, Times Staff Writer

Town Making Troublemakers Foot the Bill for Cost of Police Responses United Press International

Ordinary Americans Also Chip In for Chernobyl Aid : Grateful Soviets Wept as Gale Departed HARRY NELSON, Times Medical Writer

Soviet Disaster Fallout: a Hot Debate in the U.S. RONALD L. SOBLE and DANIEL M. WEINTRAUB, Times Staff Writers

Brother Finds Forum for Chinese Artist's Vision STEVEN R. CHURM, Times Staff Writer

Is Martinez Being Lulled by a Sleeper in District 30? MIKE WARD, Times Staff Writer

Beverly Hills Targets $1 Million for Schools JOHN L. MITCHELL, Times Staff Writer

A Legacy of a Labor-of-Love Magazine JANICE MALL

Moore Unopposed in Primary Bid for 5th Term JOHN L. MITCHELL, Times Staff Writer

FBI Agent Accused of Hampering Probe : Teamsters' Presser Indicted on Racketeering Charges Associated Press

Campbell Takes Controller Race to Rural North LEO C. WOLINSKY, Times Staff Writer

Culver City Proposal Would Help Offset Tax Limitations : New Budget Calls for Fee Increases JEFF BURBANK, Times Staff Writer

Plans Announced for U.S. Space Memorial Associated Press

Daylight Time Provokes Israel's Religious Right MICHAEL ROSS, Times Staff Writer

Driver Trapped in Wheelchair in Van Killed in Crash From United Press International

Water Ruins Homes, Crops, Lives : Andes Flooded With Tragedy SARAH GRAHAM, Associated Press

Mexico Caught Up in the Hoopla of World Cup Soccer DAN WILLIAMS, Times Staff Writer

Bill Cosby Has Message for Grads: You Pay the Rent SHIRLEY MARLOW

Landlords Rally to Unlikely Heroine's Plea for Rent Hike STEPHEN BRAUN, Times Staff Writer

County Moves to Scrap Beach Contracts DEAN MURPHY, Times Staff Writer

Lebanon's Schools Flunk as Westerners Flee and Extremists Flourish ED BLANCHE, Associated Press

Teamsters See U.S. Vendetta Against Presser HENRY WEINSTEIN, Times Labor Writer

'Great Tension' Among Soviets Reported From Times Wire Services

'We Work Hard and, if People Work Hard, . . . You Respect Them' : After Turmoil, Old Fishing Port Comes to Terms With 'Moonies' CAROLYN LUMSDEN, Associated Press

Radical Right Link Suggested in Hostage Case BILL CURRY, Times Staff Writer

Southland Air Crashes Kill 11 : Worst Claims 6 Lives Near Van Nuys Airport DAVE PALERMO and MARC IGLER, Times Staff Writers

Oil-Filled Barge Lifted From Bottom of Sound United Press International

Dist. 30 Race: A Yawner--or a Sleeper? MIKE WARD, Times Staff Writer

Colombia's Presidential Race : Candidate Knows 'Witch' Way to Vote PATRICIA WALSH, United Press International

California Elections : THE FINANCES : If Money Greases Politics, California Is Well-Tuned State BOB SECTER, Times Staff Writer

His First Primary Challenger Since '78 Is a LaRouche Democrat : Dixon Deals From Strength in 28th Dist. Race BOB WILLIAMS, Times Staff Writer

First in the West, This Female Had a Mail Job CHARLES HILLINGER, Times Staff Writer

Anti-Takeover Moves : Investors Relinquish Key Rights MICHAEL A. HILTZIK, Times Staff Writer

Cable Television Systems to Change Hands ALAN MALTUN and GEORGE STEIN, Times Staff Writers

Haiti's Villages Still Waiting for the Good Times : Life After Duvalier Remains Hard; Many Lack Food, Electricity, Sanitation DAN SEWELL, Associated Press

Seeks to Shift Share of Financial Burden to Cities : County Canceling Beach, Pier Contracts DEAN MURPHY, Times Staff Writer

Heating Experts in Top Hats : Chimney Sweeps Look to Safety as Well as Soot MARY GABRIEL, United Press International

Stanford Sets Heady Pace in College Fund Raising CHRISTOPHER CONNELL, Associated Press

Law to Cut Deficit May Boomerang : Reagan's Defense Policies Periled by Gramm-Rudman KAREN TUMULTY, Times Staff Writer

Kate Smith Released From Hospital After Surgery United Press International

Blast Kills two Marines United Press International

'Women and Peace' Class Moves Students to Action MARY BARBER, Times Staff Writer

Whittier Professor Invents Game That Teaches Teens Self-Defense Against Rape JESSE KATZ, Times Staff Writer

Court Bans Earrings for German Officers United Press International

State to Sever Indian Centers Care Contracts WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM, Times Staff Writer