VIEWPOINTS : Firms With No Plans Left Shaken by Quake IAN I. MITROFF and BARBARA J. MURRIN, IAN I. MITROFF is the Harold Quinton distinguished professor of business policy and co-director of the Center for Crisis Management at USC's graduate school of business. BARBARA J. MURRIN is president of the Crisis Management Group consulting firm in Long Beach
THEY ALSO SERVE WHO WATCH AND LISTEN : California Is Home to More U.S. Operational Intelligence Activities Than Any Other State: A Look Behind Those Closed Doors JAMES BAMFORD, James Bamford writes frequently on intelligence issues. His book on the National Security Agency, "The Puzzle Palace," became a best seller and received the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award. In addition, Bamford, who holds a law degree, has served as a consultant on intelligence matters to U.S. and British television networks, has testified on intelligence and secrecy policy before committees of both the Senate and House of Representatives and has served in the U.S. Naval Security Group, a military adjunct of the NSA, during the Vietnam War.
Rights Will Be In Doubt If Politicization Spreads ARCHIBALD COX, Archibald Cox, former Watergate special prosecutor, is a law professor at Harvard. This commentary, written before Judge Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, is adapted from the introduction to the book "Defending the Constitution" (A. Colish).
'Caps' Set the Wrong City Limits Richard Peiser and Lowdon Wingo, Richard Peiser directs the USC Graduate Real Estate Development Program; he and Lowdon Wingo are professors in the USC School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Los Angeles: Redesigned for the Arts Allan Temko, Allan Temko, architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, is writing three articles for Opinion on new Los Angeles cultural complexes.