VIEWPOINTS : Soaring Consumer Debt Saps Industry's Strength LESTER C. THUROW, Lester C. Thurow is Gordon Y Billard professor of management and economics and the dean-designate at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. and
California: Good Aims, Bad Results Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe is director of the Study of State Legislative Leadership at the Institute of Politics and Government at USC.
L. A. GANGS : Our City, Their Turf Robert Conot, Robert Conot is an author and editor who has written extensively on urban problems and violence.
Oil Imports Fuel New Energy Fears Daniel Yergin, Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, is editor of "Oil and Gas Strategies for the 1990s," to be published by his firm.
Fighting Hunger, a Priest in the Philippines Finds a Military Foe Niall O'Brien, Father Niall O'Brien is the author of "Revolution From the Heart: A Story From the Struggle for Justice in the Sugar Lands of the Philippines," to be published this fall by Oxford University Press.
A Trio of 1987's Memorable Dates With Destiny FRANCES SHEMANSKI, Shemanski, a New York free-lance writer, is the author of "A Guide to Fairs and Festivals in the United States" and "A Guide to World Fairs and Festivals" (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.). She also compiles the monthly world calendar for the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers across the country. and