What happened on December 29, 1996

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The Last Barrier Against Chill
Free Buses
Israel and Expanded Settlement Activity
Payment to Hubbell
Parking Placards
Gingrich Seems a Hypocrite, While Clinton Seems a Cynic William Schneider, William Schneider, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a political analyst for CNN
Predictions? OK: Everything You Won't Be Seeing in '97 Bruce McCall, Bruce McCall is a regular contributor to the New Yorker
How to Prevent Death by Fire in Unsafe, Illegal Housing Neal Richman and Danny Krouk, Neal Richman teaches in the Department of Urban Planning in the School of Public Policy and Social Research at UCLA. Danny Krouk consults with the Community Building Institute. Both work on the Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles telecommunications and information system
Killing Minorities Softly With Words Intended to Be Helpful David E. Hayes-Bautista and Gregory Rodriguez
'Living Wage' Proposal
For Science, 1997 Shapes Up as the Year of the Tight Belt
Concealed Weapons Permits
Crash Course in Americanism
We Can't Afford to Lose China Again JOSEPH S. NYE Jr., Joseph S. Nye Jr. is dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs in the Clinton administration
Dennis Ross Richard B. Straus, Richard B. Straus is the editor of the Middle East Policy Review
U.S. Quietly Abandons the Kurds of Northern Iraq Thomas Goltz, Thomas Goltz covers the region bounded by the Adriatic and Caspian seas. His documentary film on Chechnya was a finalist for the Rory Peck Award (London)
Presidents Expect History to Justify Them; Don't Bet on It Robert Dallek, Robert Dallek, who taught at UCLA for 30 years, is currently a professor of history at Boston University. His most recent book is "Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents" (Hyperion)
DreamWorks: To Be a City or a Studio? Joel Kotkin, Joel Kotkin, a contributing editor to Opinion, is the John M. Olin fellow at the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He is also business-trends analyst for Fox TV
U.S. vs. Asia: Culture as Diplomacy Jacob Heilbrun, Jacob Heilbrun is an associate editor of the New Republic
Dispute Over Unionization at New Otani
Carl Sagan

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What happened on December 29, 1996

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County's 33 Slayings in 1996 Take Grim Toll SCOTT HADLY, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Local MADD Chapter Active as DUI Fatalities Rise Nationally RENE LYNCH, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Valley Catholics, Interim Leader Await Naming of Area Bishop JOHN DART, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Tollway Intimidation Not a Solution PAUL J. PITT, Paul J. Pitt is a computer automation engineer who lives in San Juan Capistrano

Officials Plan Pickups for Christmas Trees HILARY E. MacGREGOR

Forecasters See Damp Ending to '96 NICK GREEN

L.A. County's Flu Season Mild So Far, Doctors Say MARTHA L. WILLMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

County Seeks Funds for Ambitious Wish List CARLOS V. LOZANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Barely Half of Americans Say News Media Get Facts Right From Associated Press

Multi-City Crackdown Targets Drunk Drivers SHELBY GRAD, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Truck Driver in Fatal Crash Arrested NICK GREEN

Year In Review TIM RUTTEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

The Moral of the Story? That There's Even Any Question Dana Parsons

Hundreds Mourn 5 Young Fire Victims DEBORAH BELGUM, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Groups Launch Plan to Protect Oaks NICK GREEN

Medical-Waste Mess Leads to Fees for Health Professionals SHELBY GRAD, TIMES STAFF WRITER

College District Offers Free Driver Education BILL BILLITER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Valley Catholics, Interim Leader Await Naming of Area Bishop JOHN DART, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Ventura County College Personnel Panel Member Named REGINA HONG

This Is Only a Test MICHAEL GRANBERRY, Times Staff Writer

Life, Love and Longevity : Nuns Shower Patients With Unconditional Affection, Care at Convalescent Hospital KATE FOLMAR, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

New Camarillo Transit System Set to Begin ANNE LOUISE BANNON

Couples Flying United Spark Cries of 'Not in My Airspace' SCOTT HARRIS

Deans Are Conejo High Schools' Lords of Discipline KATE FOLMAR, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Why Should This Be the Season? NOREEN CASTELLANI, Noreen Castellani is a founding volunteer of Frontline Foundation

New Chapters in Some Tales Told in '96 BOB POOL, TIMES STAFF WRITER

BOOKS

ENDANGERED DREAMS The Great Depression in California By Kevin Starr; Oxford University Press: 402 pp., $35 T. H. WATKINS

STORIES FROM A SIBERIAN VILLAGE By Vasily Shukshin translated by Laura Michael and John Givens; Northern Illinois Univ. Press: 255 pp., $35 cloth, $16 paper MARTIN CRUZ SMITH

THE POET By Michael Connelly; Little, Brown: 436 pp., $22.95 LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV

TALES OF BURNING LOVE By Louise Erdrich; HarperCollins: 452 pp., $25 VERLYN KLINKENBORG

THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS Essays and Other Lumber By Nicholson Baker; Random House: 355 pp., $25 JIM KRUSOE

THREE GOSPELS By Reynolds Price Scribner: 288 pp., $23 CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN

HISTORY WARS The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past Edited by Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt; Metropolitan Books: 291 pp., $30 JOYCE APPLEBY

DANCE REAL SLOW By Michael Grant Jaffe; Farrar Straus & Giroux: 242 pp., $20 AMY BLOOM

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF MAVIS GALLANT By Mavis Gallant: Random House: 887 pp., $45 MICHAEL DORRIS

REWRITES By Neil Simon; Simon & Schuster: 397 pp., $25 STEVE ALLEN

THE GIANT'S HOUSE A Romance By Elizabeth McCracken; The Dial Press: 259 pp., $19.95 ANTONYA NELSON

THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS By Scott Turow; Farrar Straus & Giroux: 534 pp., $26.95 EDNA BUCHANAN

OUT OF SIGHT By Elmore Leonard; Delacorte Press: 296 pp., $22.95 ED McBAIN

PUSH By Sapphire: Alfred A. Knopf: 179 pp., $20 PAULA L. WOODS

IN SEARCH OF NATURE By E.O. Wilson Island Press: 192 pp., $19.95 EDWARD HOAGLAND

HEAT WAVE By Penelope Lively; HarperCollins: 215 pp., $22 FAY WELDON

IN THE OPEN Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic By Timothy Donohue; University of Chicago: 204 pp., $22.95 ALEC WILKINSON

ALICE MUNRO Selected Stories By Alice Munro: Alfred A. Knopf: 545 pp., $30 KATE PHILLIPS

AN EASY BURDEN The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America By Andrew Young; HarperCollins: 550 pp., $27.50 JULIAN BOND

AN ACCIDENTAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Houghton Mifflin: 396 pp., $24.95 SUSAN ISAACS

JERUSALEM One City, Three Faiths By Karen Armstrong Alfred A. Knopf: 471 pp., $30 : TO RULE JERUSALEM By Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht Cambridge University Press: 554 pp., $39.95 JONATHAN KIRSCH

JESSE The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson By Marshall Frady Random House: 552 pp., $27.50 ROBERT SHERRILL

HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen; Alfred A. Knopf: 640 pp., $30 LOUIS BEGLEY

THE LAST OF DEEDS & LOVE IN HISTORY By Eoin McNamee; Picador USA: 185 pp., $21 FRANK McCOURT

A MAPMAKER'S DREAMS The Meditations of Fra Mauro Cartographer to the Court of Venice By James Cowan; Shambhala: 151 pp., $18 ALAN LIGHTMAN

THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS By Roddy Doyle; Viking: 208 pp., $22.95 FRANCINE PROSE

JAMES THURBER His Life and Times By Harrison Kinney; Henry Holt: 1,238 pp., $40 BILL BARICH

A TALENT FOR TROUBLE The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler By Jan Herman; Putnam: 500 pp., $30 STEVEN BACH

PROSPECT The Journal of an Artist By Anne Truitt; Scribner: 221 pp., $22 ALIX KATES SHULMAN

THE STORIES OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV Edited and translated by Dmitri Nabokov; Alfred A. Knopf: 659 pp., $35 TATYANA TOLSTAYA

GOOD HAIR By Benilde Little Simon & Schuster: 237 pp., $22 KAREN GRIGSBY BATES

RUINED BY READING A Life in Books By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Beacon Press: 119 pp., $18 FREDERICK BUSCH

JACKIE ROBINSON An Intimate Portrait By Rachel Robinson With Lee Daniels Harry N. Abrams: 240 pp., $29.95 : STEALING HOME An Intimate Family Portrait by Sharon Robinson, HarperCollins: 213 pp., $24 ROGER KAHN

LIGHT YEARS: A Memoir By Le Anne Schreiber; Lyons & Burford: 160 pp., $20 SUSAN CHEEVER

Culture Shock : LE DIVORCE, By Diane Johnson; Dutton: 309 pp. , $23.95 RICHARD EDER

DOING BATTLE The Making of a Skeptic By Paul Fussell Little, Brown: 320 pp., $24 RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY

WE WERE THE MULVANEYS By Joyce Carol Oates; Dutton: 432 pp., $24.95 BEVERLY LOWRY

BIRDSONG By Sebastian Faulks; Random House: 402 pp., $25 GEORGE GARRETT

INFINITE JEST By David Foster Wallace; Little, Brown: 1,079 pp., $29.95 DAVID KIPEN

HELLMAN AND HAMMETT The Legendary Passion of Lily and Dash By Joan Mellen HarperCollins: 549 pp., $32 ALLEN BARRA

UNDAUNTED COURAGE Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West By Stephen E. Ambrose; Simon & Schuster: 496 pp., $30 PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK

BLOOD SPORT The President and His Adversaries By James B. Stewart; Simon & Schuster: 479 pp., $25 J. ANTHONY LUKAS

BORDERING ON CHAOS Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians and Mexico's Road to Prosperity By Andres Oppenheimer; Little, Brown: 367 pp., $25.95 ANN LOUISE BARDACH

SPORTS

A Father's Farewell : Former Laker Erickson Copes With the Death of His Nocturnal 'Angel' MIKE DOWNEY

UNPOLISHED GEM : 76ers' Brash Rookie Allen Iverson Does It His Way as He Takes the NBA by Storm MARK HEISLER, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Kersey Finally Feeling Good SCOTT HOWARD-COOPER

Mother of Player Killed in Accident Associated Press

Lakers Tonight SCOTT HOWARD-COOPER

Baumgartner Gets Moved to Defense ROBYN NORWOOD

Marina Defense Shuts Down Ocean View to Reach the Final MARTIN HENDERSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER