What happened on March 07, 1993

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TRAVELING IN STYLE : DEATH IN THE SEASON OF LIFE : The Funerals Are Something to See in This Little-Known Corner of Indonesia, Where Spring Comes Three Times a Year NIGEL BARLEY, Anthropologist Nigel Barley is assistant keeper at the Museum of Mankind in London and the author of several books, among them "Not a Hazardous Sport" (about Tanah Toraja) and "A Plague of Caterpillars." His most recent work is "The Duke of Puddle Dock: In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles," published by Henry Holt
STYLE: DESIGN : Shifting Into Neutra MICHAEL WEBB
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? William Tuohy, London bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? Teresa Watanabe, Tokyo bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? William D. Montalbano, Rome bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.
Traveling In Style : Up Jumped Spring Colman Andrews
L.a. Speak Jennie Nash
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? Joel Havemann, Brussels bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Garden City Colman Andrews
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? John J. Goldman, New York bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.
ON-RAMP : But Officer, I Do Have a Library Card . . . Sheldon Teitelbaum
Lone Star Echoes
Lone Star Echoes
Lone Star Echoes
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Meet the Press Anna Scotti
The Wine List Dan Berger
RESTAURANTS : SUCH A SWELL PARTY : Eat, Smoke and Be Merry--It's Tatou, Where the Beautiful People Never Leave Ruth Reichl
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? John Balzar, Seattle bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Nothing to Sneeze At Kathleen Doheny
STYLE: STYLEMAKER : Building Bodies LESA SAWAHATA
The Rape Of Bosnia
SCHOOL DAYS : Separating the Trigo From the Chaff Mark Ehrman
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Prime Time in Budapest : On Both Sides of the Danube, the Hungarian Capital Echoes With the Past--and Glows With the Season JOHN LUKACS, John Lukacs, a native of Budapest, is a professor of history and the author of numerous books, including "The End of the 20th Century," published this year by Ticknor & Fields, and "Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and its Culture" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
TRAVELING IN STYLE : Northern California Is a Garden-Lover's Paradise, and the Gates Are Open to One and All : Bloom Country Levick divides her time between Los Angeles, Barcelona and Paris. Her books include "Barcelona: An Open-Air Sculpture Gallery" and "The Missions of California . "
The Rape Of Bosnia
The Rape Of Bosnia
The Rape Of Bosnia
THE BIZ : Tracking Trek Sheldon Teitelbaum
TRAVELING IN STYLE : PASSION CITY : A Beautiful Town in the Guatemala Highlands Celebrates Holy Week With World-Famous Flair and Drama MIKE MCINTYRE, Mike McIntyre is a writer from California now living in Antigua. He is finishing a book on his travels around the world, to be titled "All Over the Map."
The Poet as WITNESS : Molding the Political, the Metaphysical and the Erotic, C.K. Williams Is the Voice of a New Era. Allan M. Jalon, Allan M. Jalon lives in Los Angeles. His work, including fiction and essays, has appeared in such publications as Manoa and the Southwest Review.
TRAVELING IN STYLE : SPRING BREAK! : Sex, Beer, Sun, Stupid Pool Tricks--It's an All-American Tradition KAREN KARBO, Karbo , a former resident of Newport Beach, is the author of two novels, "Trespassers Welcome Here" and "The Diamond Lane," both published by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
SATURDAY'S CHILD : When You're All Grown Up, Weekends Just Aren't What They Used to Be Wanda Coleman
TRAVELING IN STYLE : SEDUCED BY MEMORY : Behind Its Historical Facades and Old World Manners, Charleston in Springtime Is a Sensualist's Delight BARBARA HAGERTY, Hagerty writes a column for the Charleston Post-Courier and has contributed to Travel & Leisure and Ladies' Home Journal, among other publications
ANIMAL CRACKERS : Trips to Vegas, Louis Vuitton Carrying Cases, Even Lingerie Are De Rigueuer for the Indulged Darlings of Pet Parents. How's a Simple Pet Owner to Compete? MARGO KAUFMAN, Margo Kaufman, a contributing editor to the magazine, is the author of "1-800-Am-I-Nuts?," a collection of essays published last month by Random House. credits;
GERMANY'S TROUBLES : The Third Reich Motto 'Germany For Germans' is Once Again the Rallying Cry; Foreigners Are the Target. This Time, Can the Hatred Be Stopped? TAMARA JONES, Tamara Jones is The Times' correspondent in Bonn; her last piece for this magazine was on the dismantling of East Germany's athletic machine.
Mr. Packard and the Deep Blue Sea : Using Cash and Family Ties, the Electronics Tycoon Is Bringing Underwater Mysteries to the Surface. LEE DYE, Lee Dye, a contributing editor of this magazine and a former Times staff writer, specializes in stories about science. He splits his time between homes in Alaska and Arizona.
Lone Star Echoes
TRAVELING IN STYLE : PROVENCE IN DARK AND LIGHT : The Air Is Sweet and Warm in the Alpilles Region of the South of France, but Watch Out for the Monsters JUDY FAYARD, Judy Fayard was senior editor of European Travel & Life until its demise last year. She has covered Europe from Paris for 17 years and was previously Los Angeles correspondent for Life magazine.
STYLE: GARDENS : The Edible Landscape SUSAN HEEGER

ENTERTAINMENT

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

OPINION

COLUMN RIGHT / JOSEPH FARAH : Oliver Stone: Far From the Malibu Crowd : The director's Santa Barbara retreat is not San Simeon. Yet. JOSEPH FARAH, Joseph Farah is editor of the cultural watchdog biweekly Dispatches and the political newsletter Inside California
Teens and Driving : Sensible proposals to reduce the highway carnage
Another Setback for Education in California : Schools: Whoever Honig's successor is, he or she will face a new power dynamic, with the office being used to further political ambition, not kids. Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior associate at the Center for Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate School
CAMPUS CORRESPONDENCE : A Maligned Generation Is Offered Its Salvation JOE GOODWIN, Joe Goodwin is a high school freshman at Concord-Carlisle High School
Good Samaritans
Education Priorities
Needed--Shot in the Arm
Taxes No Longer Signal Political Kiss of Death : Politics: Bill Clinton seems to have pulled off something that mortally wounded George Bush. But does this sell the American people short? Susan Estrich, Susan Estrich, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a law professor at USC. She served as campaign manager for Michael S. Dukakis in 1988
Names
Wild Horses
Yelstin's Hold on Power Grows More Tenuous by Day : Russia: The president is increasingly vulnerable on two fronts: the economy and on "abandoning" Serbia. Was life better under Brezhnev? Steven Merritt Miner, Steven Merritt Miner, a professor of history at Ohio University, recently returned from Moscow, where he did research in the Russian archives
Two Compton Officers Slain
Pinochet's Regime
PLATFORM : Education for All ANIKO ANN KLEIN, ANIKO ANN KLEIN, a member of the Special Education Commission, an advisory council to the Los Angeles School District, comments on the LEARN proposal . She told The Times:
PERSPECTIVE ON SHEIK ABDUL RAHMAN : N.Y. Bomb a Skirmish in Holy War : Muslim fundamentalists are willing to sacrifice innocent lives in their unrelenting campaign to overcome the evil West. MARK JUERGENSMEYER, Mark Juergensmeyer is dean of the University of Hawaii School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies and author of "The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State" (UC Press, 1993)
Illegal Immigration: One Issue That Deserves Light, Not Heat
Two Compton Officers Slain
Good Samaritans
Boy's Check
In World Beset by Violence, Who Should Face War-Crimes Charges? : Justice: Assembling an international tribunal would be far harder now than after World War II, but it could deter international criminality. Robert Conot, Robert Conot is the author of "Justice at Nuremberg" (Carroll & Graf), a history of the trial of the major war criminals
Two Compton Officers Slain
Two Compton Officers Slain
Alameda Corridor LINDA DEUTSCH, Associated Press SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : David Wilhelm : Charting a Permanent Campaign for a Changing Democratic Party Jacob Weisberg, Jacob Weisberg is deputy editor of the New Republic
CALIFORNIA PORTFOLIO : The Promised Land Is Not in Our Neighboring States JOEL KOTKIN and DAVID FRIEDMAN, Joel Kotkin, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior fellow at the Center for the New West and an international fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Business and Management. David Friedman, an attorney, is a visiting fellow in the MIT Japan program
Two Compton Officers Slain
The Terrorists Among Us : American society is all too vulnerable to attack. DAVID WISE, David Wise, who writes often about intelligence agencies, is the author, most recently, of "Molehunt" (Random House), a book about the CIA's secret search for Soviet spies in its ranks

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BOOKS

Formed and Deformed by War : SLOW WALK IN A SAD RAIN By John P. McAfee ; (Warner Books: $18.95; 256 pp.) Michael Harris, Harris is a frequent contributor to the Book Review.

Roth Contemplates His Pipik : OPERATION SHYLOCK: A Confession By Philip Roth ; (Simon & Schuster: $23; 398 pp.) RICHARD EDER

Nonfiction KAREN STABINER

Call It Slop David Kipen

Lower Than Low Life : WONDERS OF THE WEST By Kate Braverman ; (Fawcett Columbine: $20; 283 pp.) Paul Gervais, Gervais is the author of "Extraordinary People," a finalist for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Fiction KAREN STABINER

Formed and Deformed by War : US By Wayne Karlin ; (Henry Holt: $22.50; 215 pp.) Robert Roper, Roper is the author, most recently, of the novel "Trespassers" (Ticknor & Fields).

Formed and Deformed by War : PARADISE OF THE BLIND By Duong Thu Huong ; (William Morrow: $20; 256 pp.) Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Fromberg Schaeffer is the author of "Buffalo Afternoon"; her next novel, "First Nights," will be published in April by Alfred A. Knopf.

Nonfiction KAREN STABINER

Fiction KAREN STABINER

Frontier Spirit JACK MILES

Fiction KAREN STABINER

Fiction KAREN STABINER

I, TOO, SING AMERICA: The African-American Book of Days by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell (Workman Publishing: $22.95; 256 pp.) E. W. Alexander

The Anomie Within : EMPATHY By Sarah Schulman ; (Dutton: $18; 182 pp.) John Weir, Weir is the author of "The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket" (HarperCollins).

Show Me the Girl : WRITING DANGEROUSLY: Mary McCarthy and Her World By Carol Brightman ; (Clarkson Potter / Crown: $30; 636 pp.) Shirley Ann Grau, Grau is a novelist and short story writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for "Keepers of the House."

MAGAZINE

STYLE: DESIGN : Shifting Into Neutra MICHAEL WEBB

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? William Tuohy, London bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? Teresa Watanabe, Tokyo bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? William D. Montalbano, Rome bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.

Traveling In Style : Up Jumped Spring Colman Andrews

L.a. Speak Jennie Nash

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? Joel Havemann, Brussels bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Garden City Colman Andrews

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? John J. Goldman, New York bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.

ON-RAMP : But Officer, I Do Have a Library Card . . . Sheldon Teitelbaum

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Meet the Press Anna Scotti

The Wine List Dan Berger

RESTAURANTS : SUCH A SWELL PARTY : Eat, Smoke and Be Merry--It's Tatou, Where the Beautiful People Never Leave Ruth Reichl

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING? John Balzar, Seattle bureau, Six Times correspondents from around the world identify the harbingers of the season in cities they have covered.

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Nothing to Sneeze At Kathleen Doheny

STYLE: STYLEMAKER : Building Bodies LESA SAWAHATA

SCHOOL DAYS : Separating the Trigo From the Chaff Mark Ehrman

TRAVELING IN STYLE : Northern California Is a Garden-Lover's Paradise, and the Gates Are Open to One and All : Bloom Country Levick divides her time between Los Angeles, Barcelona and Paris. Her books include "Barcelona: An Open-Air Sculpture Gallery" and "The Missions of California . "

THE BIZ : Tracking Trek Sheldon Teitelbaum

The Poet as WITNESS : Molding the Political, the Metaphysical and the Erotic, C.K. Williams Is the Voice of a New Era. Allan M. Jalon, Allan M. Jalon lives in Los Angeles. His work, including fiction and essays, has appeared in such publications as Manoa and the Southwest Review.

TRAVELING IN STYLE : SPRING BREAK! : Sex, Beer, Sun, Stupid Pool Tricks--It's an All-American Tradition KAREN KARBO, Karbo , a former resident of Newport Beach, is the author of two novels, "Trespassers Welcome Here" and "The Diamond Lane," both published by G.P. Putnam's Sons.

SATURDAY'S CHILD : When You're All Grown Up, Weekends Just Aren't What They Used to Be Wanda Coleman

STYLE: GARDENS : The Edible Landscape SUSAN HEEGER

ENTERTAINMENT

POP MUSIC : Back Before Punk Wore Flannel : Sixteen years ago Johnny Rotten howled 'no future,' but punk rock refuses to die. Embraced by grunge and mainstream rockers alike, it's at the center of a nihilistic nostalgia kick JONATHAN GOLD, Jonathan Gold is a frequent contributor to Calendar.

Album Review CHRIS WILLMAN

'Kentucky' Grips Broadway Neophyte DON SHIRLEY

Intimate Treasures of Yesterday and Today HERBERT GLASS, Herbert Glass is a regular contributor to Calendar

A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : NO 'END' IN SIGHT : Is Sony's Campaign Too Laid-Back? David J. Fox

'Grizly Cargo': A Band and Its Messages ROBERT KOEHLER, Robert Koehler is a frequent contributor to Calendar

311 Gets Its Energy From the Heartland STEVE APPLEFORD, Steve Appleford writes regularly about music for The Times

Giving Fame a Face : A photography exhibit at the Getty Museum addresses basic questions about being in a state of renown, such as 'How do you create it?' PATRICIA WARD BIEDERMAN, Patricia Ward Biederman is a Times staff writer

Has 'Lollapalooza' Already Sold Out? Steve Hochman

NEW DIRECTIONS : Adventures in the Experimental Electronic Sphere DON SNOWDEN, Don Snowden is a frequent contributor to Calendar.

A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : REWRITE CITY : A Real Cliffhanger: Will Stallone Get a Screenplay Credit? JANE GALBRAITH

MOVIES : It Doesn't Hurt to Be a Hunk Too HILARY DE VRIES

Theater : L.A., Land of Andrew : As prolific composer Lloyd Webber receives his star on the Walk of Fame, his shows are popping up all over town BARBARA ISENBERG, Barbara Isenberg is a Times staff writer

The Tales of Three Chefs, With Apologies to Chaucer KATHIE JENKINS

New Names, New Hopes LAURIE OCHOA

A look inside Hollywood and the movies : DISNEY'S WORLD : Dollars for Dialing Robert W. Welkos

POP MUSIC : The Long, Strange Trip of Sting : The ever-surprising singer-songwriter follows his most somber album of all with the upbeat 'Ten Summoner's Tales.' Now on the eve of a tour with, yes, the Grateful Dead, he talks about life, humor, obsession and that band he used to be in ROBERT HILBURN

Art : Leave Them to Heaven : Komar and Melamid's angel-themed mural in the lobby of an L.A. skyscraper puts a new spin on a familiar metaphor CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT, Christopher Knight is a Times art critic.

A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : HOPE AND 'GLORY' : Funny How a Groundhog Can Generate Buzz Jane Galbraith

Brecht's 1940 Folk Play Has Sobering Relevance Today TOM JACOBS, Tom Jacobs writes regularly for The Times

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

Gang Ban Solves Problems for One Neighborhood : Crime: Officials hope a Blythe Street court order will have same success as one for Burbank's Elmwood Street. JIM HERRON ZAMORA, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Volunteer Prison Teacher Bids Teary Goodby to Her 'Puppies' : Ventura School: To some, they're hardened criminals or gangbangers. But to Pat Taylor, they're kids who have a choice. MAIA DAVIS, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Political-War Stories of a Truly Combative Supervisor DANA PARSONS

COUNTYWIDE : Temperatures Rise Well Into the 80s GARY GORMAN

Kamikaze Irish Mice Halt Town, Burn Out Reuters

When to Stop? : AARP Offers Dozens of Classes to Help Older Drivers Improve Skills and Determine When It's Time to Quit KATHRYN MARTIN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

An Ugly Job, but New Mayor Will Have to Cut Services BILL BOYARSKY

77 Feared Dead in Macedonia Jet Crash Associated Press

JFK Terminal Evacuated Over Suspicious Package Reuters

He Learns How Easy It Is to Become Another Labor Statistic JOHN M. GLIONNA, John M. Glionna is a Times staff writer.

Feeling Warm All Over : Weather: As temperatures break 80, people enjoy the hottest weekend of the year by pursuing activities that take them outdoors, including picnics in the park, kite-flying and fishing. OTTO STRONG, TIMES STAFF WRITER

ELECTIONS / L.A. CITY COUNCIL : Picus Opponents Say City Business Climate Is Ailing : Politics: Challengers for 3rd District seat say incumbent has an anti-business attitude. She says her relations with industry groups are friendly. JOHN SCHWADA, TIMES STAFF WRITER

COUNTYWIDE : Driver Critically Injured in Crash TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

A Cache of Trash : Illegal Dumping Plagues Remote Balcom Canyon KAY SAILLANT, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

O.C. Ready for Verdict, Officials Say : Trial: Law enforcers expect calm to prevail after the King beating case decision but say they're prepared if violence flares. ERIC YOUNG, TIMES STAFF WRITER

School Officials Say Train-Track Deaths Prove Need for Barrier TRACEY KAPLAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER