What happened on February 12, 1989

BOOKS

The Reds Are in the Red : THE COMING SOVIET CRASH : Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets \o7 by Judy Shelton (The Free Press: $22.50; 238 pp.) \f7 By Marshall I. Goldman, \f7 and \o7 Goldman is the Class of 1919 Professor of Economics, Wellesley College, and the associate director, Russian Research Center of Harvard University. His most recent book is "Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology" (W.W. Norton).
Watchers in an Unquiet Country : NEBRASKA : Stories \o7 by Ron Hansen (Atlantic Monthly Press: $16.95; 216 pp.)\f7 : THE WATCH : Stories \o7 by Rick Bass (W.W. Norton: $16.95; 191 pp.) \f7 By Christopher Zenowich, \o7 Zenowich's novel, "The Cost of Living," is forthcoming from Harper & Row. and \f7
The Lesser Nixoniana : FROM: THE PRESIDENT : Richard Nixon's Secret Files \o7 edited by Bruce Oudes (Harper & Row: $22.50; 661 pp.) \f7 By Stanley I. Kutler, \o7 Kutler teaches at the University of Wisconsin. His book on Nixon and Watergate will be published by Alfred A. Knopf this year. and \f7
The Last Nip of Vampire de Dip : NATURAL HISTORY \o7 by Joan Perucho; translated from the Catalan by David H. Rosenthal (Alfred A. Knopf: $17.95; 208 pp.) \f7 By Jean Franco, \o7 Franco is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese literature at Columbia University. and \f7
California From England By William Logan, From "Sullen Weedy Lakes" (David R. Godine: $9.95, paper; 76 pp.). This is Logan's third collection of poems. He is a critic as well as a poet and has won this year's reviewing citation from the National Book Critics Circle.
India's Fallen Angels : THE SATANIC VERSES \o7 by Salman Rushdie (Viking: $19.95; 547 pp.) \f7 By Richard Eder
INFORMATION ANXIETY \o7 by Richard Saul Wurman (Doubleday... By Alex Raksin
Dick Francis is now indubitably one of the superstars... By Charles Champlin
Reckoning the Earth : FARM \o7 by Grant Heilman (Abbeville Press: $45; 287 pp.; 0-89659-6) \f7 By Frank Levering, \o7 Levering is a commercial fruit grower in Carroll County, Va., who is co-writing a book for Viking on simplifying your life style. and \f7
Edgar Snow By Orville Schell
Eva Luna By Elena Brunet
Fiction
PERESTROIKA New Thinking for Our Country and the World \o7... By Elena Brunet
Oxford for Company, Cambridge to Guide By Jack Miles

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OPINION

Human Society Carries Trouble to the Bottom of the World By Michael Parfit, \o7 Michael Parfit is the author of "South Light: A Journey to the Last Continent," and "Chasing the Glory: Travels Across America" (Macmillan). He has just returned from his fifth trip to Antarctica\f7
Suddenly, an Audience for Arafat By Tad Szulc, \o7 Veteran foreign correspondent Tad Szulc traveled with Yasser Arafat at the end of January\f7
Latin America's Destiny: Forever Linked to Despots? By Cecilia Rodriguez, \o7 Cecilia Rodriguez is a correspondent for El Tiempo of Bogota\f7
A Glasnost Litmus Test for Filming By George Stein, \o7 George Stein, a Times staff writer, was a fellow at Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union\f7
A Shattered Afghanistan Finds Nothing to Celebrate By Debra Denker, \o7 Debra Denker, who is working on a novel based on her experiences in Afghanistan, has produced a documentary about Afghan refugees and written about them for the National Geographic magazine\f7
Public Office and Public Trust: Where the Law Stops, Ethics Begin By Michael Josephson, \o7 Michael Josephson is the president of the Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute for the Advancement of Ethics\f7
U.S. Learning Wrong Lessons in a New Economic Role By Bruce K. Maclaury, \o7 Bruce K. MacLaury is president of the Brookings Institution\f7
'Conditions of Children': California's Youth at Risk By Julia Koppich and Michael W. Kirst, \o7 Michael W. Kirst is a director of Policy Analysis for California Education and a professor of education at Stanford. Julia Koppich is executive director of PACE. Copies of "The Conditions of Children in California" are available for $15 each from PACE, 3659 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720\f7
Health: a Significant Step
Handcuffing Judges
Gorbachev a Wimp?
Shades of Germany's 'Unmasterable Past' By Amos Perlmutter, \o7 Amos Perlmutter is a professor of political science and sociology at American University and editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies\f7
Revised Tax Law Needed to Put American Capital to Work in the Economy By George Marotta, \o7 George Marotta is a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a certified financial planner in Palo Alto\f7
The President Speaks at Gettysburg
The President Speaks at Gettysburg

REAL ESTATE

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TRAVEL

The Heart's Hideaways By Jerry Hulse, \o7 Times Travel Editor\f7
Dracula Is Being Rediscovered in Romania By Claudia R. Capos, \o7 Capos is a free-lance writer who lives in Ann Arbor, Mich\f7
The nation's capital has a toll-free reservation number... By Jerry Hulse
Vacation Memories : The Accidental Tutor Plays a Big Role in Japan By Norman Sklarewitz, \o7 Sklarewitz is a Los Angeles free-lance writer. \f7
Ski the 'Old Link' Trail Between Huts in Colorado By Robert C. Wurmstedt, \o7 Wurmstedt is a senior reporter for the Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram\f7
Monumental Bronze Sculptures From Shidoni By Jennifer Merin, \o7 Merin is a New York City free-lance writer\f7
Carnival Buys Up Holland America By Shirley Slater and Harry Basch, \o7 Slater and Basch are Los Angeles free-lance writers\f7
Consumer Report : Aid for Those at Home
The Tantalizing Tastes Around San Francisco By Judith Morgan, \o7 Morgan, of La Jolla, is a magazine and newspaper writer\f7
At a Slow Pace in Quaint Cayucos on the Beach By Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm, \o7 The Grimms are free-lance writers/photographers living in Laguna Beach. \f7
Daytona Beach Plans By Lucy Izon, \o7 Izon is a Canadian travel journalist covering youth budget routes. \f7
Basking in Jerez, the Land of Sun and Sherry By Bevery Beyer and Ed Rabey, \o7 Beyer and Rabey are Los Angeles travel writers\f7 .
Coming to Terms With That Crazy Tour Lingo By Peter S. Greenberg, \o7 Greenberg is a Los Angeles free-lance writer\f7
Plenty of Hotels Offering Senior Discounts By Hank Kovell, \o7 Kovell is a veteran journalist in seniors' interests\f7
Excellence is an assumed standard in the "All-Suite Hotel... By Don Wudke, \o7 Wudke is a Los Angeles free-lance writer. \f7
Making a Pilgrimage to Colorful, Remote China By Jean Conley, \o7 Conley, now based in Washington, worked for a year at the China Daily in Beijing. and \f7
Hotel Discount Plans By Jack Adler
The Romance, Mystery of Martinique By Frank Riley, \o7 Riley is travel columnist for Los Angeles magazine and a regular contributor to this section\f7
A literary tour to England in August will be the subject... By Norman Dash

What happened on February 12, 1989

BOOKS

Watchers in an Unquiet Country : NEBRASKA : Stories \o7 by Ron Hansen (Atlantic Monthly Press: $16.95; 216 pp.)\f7 : THE WATCH : Stories \o7 by Rick Bass (W.W. Norton: $16.95; 191 pp.) \f7 By Christopher Zenowich, \o7 Zenowich's novel, "The Cost of Living," is forthcoming from Harper & Row. and \f7

The Lesser Nixoniana : FROM: THE PRESIDENT : Richard Nixon's Secret Files \o7 edited by Bruce Oudes (Harper & Row: $22.50; 661 pp.) \f7 By Stanley I. Kutler, \o7 Kutler teaches at the University of Wisconsin. His book on Nixon and Watergate will be published by Alfred A. Knopf this year. and \f7

The Last Nip of Vampire de Dip : NATURAL HISTORY \o7 by Joan Perucho; translated from the Catalan by David H. Rosenthal (Alfred A. Knopf: $17.95; 208 pp.) \f7 By Jean Franco, \o7 Franco is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese literature at Columbia University. and \f7

California From England By William Logan, From "Sullen Weedy Lakes" (David R. Godine: $9.95, paper; 76 pp.). This is Logan's third collection of poems. He is a critic as well as a poet and has won this year's reviewing citation from the National Book Critics Circle.

India's Fallen Angels : THE SATANIC VERSES \o7 by Salman Rushdie (Viking: $19.95; 547 pp.) \f7 By Richard Eder

INFORMATION ANXIETY \o7 by Richard Saul Wurman (Doubleday... By Alex Raksin

Dick Francis is now indubitably one of the superstars... By Charles Champlin

Reckoning the Earth : FARM \o7 by Grant Heilman (Abbeville Press: $45; 287 pp.; 0-89659-6) \f7 By Frank Levering, \o7 Levering is a commercial fruit grower in Carroll County, Va., who is co-writing a book for Viking on simplifying your life style. and \f7

Edgar Snow By Orville Schell

Eva Luna By Elena Brunet

PERESTROIKA New Thinking for Our Country and the World \o7... By Elena Brunet

Oxford for Company, Cambridge to Guide By Jack Miles

NEWS

Monterey Park's Search for a Chief Causes Stir By Berkley Hudson, Times Staff Writer

San Gabriel's Police Chief Cleared After Lengthy Probe By Edmund Newton, Times Staff Writer

A Better Way? He'll Find It : Sierra Madre Mountaineer Rethinks His Rescue Gear By Edmund Newton, \o7 Times Staff Writer\f7

Santa Teresita Threatens to Close Emergency Room March 1 By Siok-hian Tay Kelley, Times Staff Writer

Model Facility to Be in Monterey Park if City, County Supervisors Approve : A Children's Court Fit for Children By Jeffrey Miller, Times Staff Writer

Foothill Transit Asks County for Funds to Purchase 30 Buses By Craig Quintana, Times Staff Writer

Monrovia to Make Owners Pay Tenants if Mobile Parks Close By Siok-hian Tay Kelley, Times Staff Writer

Whittier Teachers Angry; Strike Vote Next : Morale Drops as Longest-Ever Talks Stalemate By Mary Lou Fulton, Times Staff Writer

May Co. Intends to Join a Rebuilt, Enclosed Stonewood Mall By Rochelle Wilkerson, Times Staff Writer

Two Downey Water Wells OKd for Use By Rick Holguin, Times Staff Writer

Bellflower Anti-Redevelopment Petition Drive Falls Short By James M. Gomez, Times Staff Writer

Epple Also a Winner at Raising a War Chest By Mark Gladstone, Times Staff Writer

Playground or Battleground? : Gangs, Gunshots, Graffiti Frighten People Living Near MacArthur Park By Chris Woodyard, \o7 Times Staff Writer\f7

Nobody's Fault, but Experts Call Old Notions of Quake Safety Shaky By Mary Lou Fulton, Times Staff Writer

Chemical Distributor Shelves Plan to Move From Commerce By Craig Quintana, Times Staff Writer

Bellflower Latino Gala Honoring Ezell Angers Other LULAC Chapters By Bob Schwartz, Times Staff Writer

A Proposed Children's Court Fit for Children By Jeffrey Miller, Times Staff Writer

Armenian Group Distributes Curriculum Guide on 'Forgotten Genocide' By Esther Schrader, Times Staff Writer

School Cafeteria Program Earns A+ From Eaters, Government Graders By Patricia Ward Biederman, Times Staff Writer

For Word-Herder Larry McMurtry, Novel Is Like a Trail Drive By Edmund Newton, Times Staff Writer

Harris Consecrated in Episcopal Rites : Cheers, Protests Greet 1st Woman Bishop From Times Wire Services

Czech Party Power Struggle Hinted : Hesitation, Indecision Seen in Crackdown on Dissidents By Charles T. Powers, Times Staff Writer

More Byelorussia Land Affected by Radiation From '86 Disaster From United Press International

Hungary Backs Multi-Party System; No Ruling Yet on '56 Revolt From Associated Press

2-Foot, 5-Inch Man, 46, Dies in Portugal From Times Wire Services

Baker Seeks Better Ties With Allies Before Arms Talks By Doyle Mcmanus, Times Staff Writer

U.S. Said to Agree to Delay Decision on NATO Missiles From Reuters

Marcos Suffers Relapse but Is Listed as Stable From Associated Press

Cleaning Crew Uncovers Egyptian Artifacts From Associated Press

Students in Soviet Georgia Take New Course--Religion By Dan Fisher, Times Staff Writer

S. Africa Disputes Vatican Study on Apartheid From Associated Press

Paraguay's El Tigre: Rodriguez Proves Wily in the Ways of Power By James F. Smith, Times Staff Writer

Kuwait Frees 2 of 17 Terrorists Held in '83 Bombings From Times Wire Services

Guerrilla Attacks Threaten Dialogue, Baker Tells PLO By Doyle Mcmanus, Times Staff Writer

As Soviets Leave, Afghan Chief Sees Pakistan Plot From Times Wire Services

U.S. Will Press for Ouster of Najibullah Government By Jim Mann, Times Staff Writer

Bhutto Calls for Coalition Government in Afghanistan From Reuters

Submarine Joins U.S. Fleet From Associated Press

Woman in Coma Has Abortion; Legal Fight Ends From Associated Press

Kennebunkport Is Abuzz as President Takes 2 1/2-Mile Stroll : The Bush Day Has a 'Pied Piper' Look By David Lauter, Times Staff Writer,

Safety Checks Clear British Concorde Jets From Associated Press

Italy Mayor's Son Freed Shortly After Abduction From Reuters

Mexico Diplomat Accuses U.S. of Rights Violations From Associated Press

Plane Attempting to Land Strikes Car; One Killed From United Press International

357 Tijuana Prostitutes Tested for AIDS Not Infected, Navy Says By Patrick Mcdonnell, Times Staff Writer

Tunisian President to Run in Election From Reuters

Soldiers Join Exodus : Salvadoran Loyalties Clash in L.A. By Hector Tobar, Times Staff Writer

Jerry Brown Elected to Lead State Democrats By John Balzar and Keith Love, Times Political Writers

Scoffs vs. Outrage at Health Risks : Two Towns Share Flawed Nuclear Plants, Little Else By Douglas Jehl, Times Staff Writer

PLO's Peace Moves Erode Support in Lebanon Camps By Daniel Williams, Times Staff Writer

New Legal Moves Peril North's Trial : Thornburgh May Bar Some Evidence if High Court Denies Delay Request By Oswald Johnston, Times Staff Writer

50% Cut Set in Federal Water Supplies in State : Action Required by Drought May Cause Some Farmers to Fail and Drive Up Food Prices By Richard C. Paddock, Times Staff Writer

A Death Threat : Afghan Women Fear for Rights in the Future By Mark Fineman, Times Staff Writer

Rising Costs Put Medicare, Elderly on Collision Course By Lee May, Times Staff Writer

Thornburgh Is Misled, Walsh Forces Contend By Ronald J. Ostrow, Times Staff Writer

Hospital Workers' Risks From Drug Spark Debate By Robert Steinbrook, Times Medical Writer

U.S. Courts Brace for Deluge of Appeals of State Death Sentences By Philip Hager, Times Staff Writer

State's Fight Over Assault Guns May Set Trend in U.S. By Carl Ingram, Times Staff Writer

Banks Raise Prime to 11%; Highest Rate Since 1984 From Associated Press

U.S. Will Curb Acid Rain, Bush Promises Canadians From Associated Press

Gridlock in Sky Feared as Airlines Become Mass Transit By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press

'So Many Pedestrians, So Little Time' : Genteel Bostonians Park Their Manners When Behind the Wheel By Ken Franckling, United Press International

Capitalists, Kremlin Will Put Eggnost in One Basket By Dave Johnson

Transplant Recipients Banding Together to Help Others By Jeanie Stokes, United Press International

Doctor Seeks to Develop Robot to Perform Surgery By Woody Baird, Associated Press