What happened on May 05, 1996

BOOKS

NEWS

ENTERTAINMENT

Sign Here, Puhleese! By Robert Hilburn, Robert Hilburn is The Times' pop music critic
'Dead' Man Talking By Kristine Mckenna, Kristine McKenna is a frequent contributor to Calendar
'Snow White' on Prozac By Peter Green, Peter Green is a freelance writer based in Prague
Call Her Cyclone Helen By Bruce Newman, Bruce Newman is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles
Where Coltrane Meets Cobain By Bill Kohlhaase, Bill Kohlhaase writes about jazz for Calendar
A Story Worth Repeating By Jan Breslauer, Jan Breslauer is a regular contributor to Calendar
A High And Mighty Guy By Charles Champlin, Charles Champlin is an occasional contributor to Calendar
The Best Films of His Life By Jan Herman, Jan Herman is a Times staff writer and the author of a new William Wyler biography, "A Talent for Trouble" (Putnam)
NEA Cutbacks Hit Home By Don Shirley, Don Shirley is a Times staff writer
Doing the Job Time and Again By Jan Breslauer, Jan Breslauer is a regular contributor to Calendar
A Modernist Says 'Yes' to Noh By Judy Coburn, Judy Coburn is a Bay Area freelance writer
Dawn's Brightest Light By Herbert Glass, Herbert Glass is a regular contributor to Calendar
LUTOSLAWSKI: "Fanfare for Los Angeles Philharmonic... By Daniel Cariaga
For Her, It's the Tropic of Celebration By Suzanne Muchnic, Suzanne Muchnic is The Times' art writer
Grunge-Free Work From the Tongue-in-Cheek Pilots By Lorraine Ali, Lorraine Ali writes about pop music for Calendar
Cibo Matto's Food for Thought By Elysa Gardner, Elysa Gardner is a freelance writer based in New York
In Brief By Cheo Hodari Coker
In Brief By Randy Lewis
'Mood Swings' Strengthens Cure's Effect By Sara Scribner
'Fairweather' Frenzy
The Metal Factory Is Stokin' By Steve Hochman
Def Leppard will be one of those headbanging hordes on the... By Richard Cromelin
Who's the original rapper? That's open to debate, but... By Steve Hochman
L.A.'s Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., which recently released a new...
Passing Her Love of Theater to Kids By Lynne Heffley, Lynne Heffley is a Times staff writer
Web Site Puts TV's Best Ads Online By Jaclyn Easton, Jaclyn Easton is the host of "Log On U.S.A.," which airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on KIEV-AM 870
Album Spotlight By Don Heckman

BUSINESS

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

OPINION

The Price of Tougher Border Controls--Coyotes By Wayne A. Cornelius, Wayne A. Cornelius is director of studies in UC-San Diego's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. He is currently conducting comparative research on the utilization of immigrant labor in San Diego and a Japanese industrial city
As Oil Prices Rise, Clinton Reaps a Tactical Windfall By Martin Walker, Martin Walker is U.S. bureau chief for Britain's the Guardian and a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute. He is the author of "The Cold War; A History" (Henry Holt)
Look Back in Anger By Thomas Powers, Thomas Powers, a contributing editor to Opinion, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of a 1970 bombing incident by the terrorist group, the Weatherman. His books include, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA" (Knopf)
How Pure Can Independent Counsel Be? By Suzanne Garment, Suzanne Garment, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of "Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics" (Times)
The Roots of Liberia's Bent Toward Violence By Basil Davidson, Basil Davidson most recent book on African history is "The Search for Africa" (Times Books)
Colby: The Man Who Told the Secrets By David Wise, David Wise is the author of "Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million" (HarperCollins)
Is Japan Ready for a Prime-Time Role as U.S. Defense Partner? By Robert A. Manning, Robert A. Manning, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, was a State Department Asia policy advisor from 1989-93
Los Angeles Times Interview : Kathryn Howe : Fighting to Preserving the Past In Los Angeles' Historic Buildings By Steve Proffitt, Steve Proffitt, a contributing editor to Opinion, is project director at the Hajjar Kaufman New Media Lab
Commission Goes Too Far With Jury System Changes : Proposals could create ominous new court problems
An Eyesore That Won't Go Away : It shouldn't take months to get rid of a Civic Center disgrace
Lessons From the Holocaust : Museum of Tolerance exhibit speaks to the human spirit
A 6-Year-Old Knows Better, Doesn't He? By Patricia Marks Greenfield, Patricia Marks Greenfield, a developmental psychologist, is a professor of psychology at UCLA
You Can't Be Too Rich, Too Thin or Too Litigious : Lawyers: Who else will protect us from idiocy and incompetence? By Ted Rall, Ted Rall is a writer and syndicated cartoonist in New York
Let U.S. Soldiers Be Peacekeeping Protectors, Not Aerobicized Moviegoers : Bosnia: Fearing political damage, the administration is keeping troops on their bases. By Catherine O'Neill, Catherine O'Neill of Los Angeles is cofounder of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
L.A. County's Answer for Racial Tensions: Intermarriage By David E. Hayes-bautista and Gregory Rodriguez, David E. Hayes-Bautista and Gregory Rodriguez, associate editors at Pacific News Service are, respectively, executive director at the Alta California Research Center and research fellow at the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy

REAL ESTATE

SPORTS

MAGAZINE

The AAAAA List By Ed Leibowitz
All the Way From Memphis By Bill Stern
L.A. Speak : PARK RANGERS By Kathleen Moloney
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, Attitude By Darrell Satzman
Life's Just a Bowl of Milk and Cookies By Warren Berger, Warren Berger's last piece for the magazine was on Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks
Is Seattle Going to Hell in a Handbasket? By Kim Murphy
David Mamet Would Like to Share Some Choice Tidbits By David Mamet, David Mamet is the author of "Oleanna" and "Glengarry Glen Ross," among other plays. His screenplays include "The Untouchables" and "The House of Games."
Seaworld in Spandex
Yankee Doodle Dumpling By S. Irene Virbila

TRAVEL

What happened on May 05, 1996

BOOKS

HEAD CASE : THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS: Essays and Other Lumber,\o7 By Nicholson Baker (Random House: $25; 355 pp.)\f7 By Jim Krusoe, \o7 Jim Krusoe teaches at Santa Monica College. His most recent essay appeared in the winter, 1995, issue of Manoa\f7

AND I QUOTE / What Political Books Are Saying : THE POLITICS OF MEANING: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism,\o7 By Michael Lerner (Addison-Wesley; $24; 339 pp.)\f7 By John Balzar

Enough to Keep the Mind Alive : NONFICTION : BLOCKADE DIARY,\o7 By Lidiya Ginzburg\f7 .\o7 Translated from Russian by Alan Myers\f7 .\o7 Introduction by Aleksandr Kushner (HarperCollins: $24; 114 pp.)\f7 By Richard Eder

Down on the Ant Farm : NONFICTION : THE EARTH DWELLERS: Adventures in the Land of Ants,\o7 By Erich Hoyt (Simon & Schuster: $24; 319 pp.)\f7 By Roger Lewin, \o7 Roger Lewin's most recent book, written with Richard Leakey, is "The Sixth Extinction" (Doubleday)\f7

Molly Bloom Said 'Yes,' Paula O'Leary Says 'Maybe' : FICTION : THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS,\o7 By Roddy Doyle (Viking: $22.95; 208 pp.)\f7 By Francine Prose, \o7 Francine Prose's latest novel, "Hunters and Gatherers," has recently been released in paperback (Henry Holt)\f7

Nonfiction By Kristine Mckenna

Fiction By Erika Taylor

Nonfiction By Erika Taylor

Nonfiction By Erika Taylor

Nonfiction By Erika Taylor

In the visually magical volume The Book of Goddesses, Kris... By Kathleen Krull

Fiction By Erika Taylor

Fiction By Erika Taylor

THE HAUNTED LAND: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism... By Charles Solomon

THE GOOD NEGRESS \o7 by A.J. Verdelle (HarperPerennial... By Charles Solomon

THE PRAIRIE KEEPERS \o7 by Marcy Houle (Addison-Wesley... By Charles Solomon

A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER \o7 by John Allen... By Charles Solomon

MY LEAD DOG WAS A LESBIAN: Mushing Across Alaska in the... By Charles Solomon

THE BOOK OF CUPS \o7 by Garth Clark, photographs by Tony... By Charles Solomon

NEWS

A Foot in Two Worlds--and a Language for Both By Robin Abcarian, Robin Abcarian's column appears Wednesdays and Sundays

Hot Shot : A Pulitzer winner at 25. White House photographer at 27. Today, David Kennerly is back snapping the pictures they're all talking about. By Irene Lacher, TIMES STAFF WRITER

A Cure for the Bell-Bottom Blues on the Net By Roy Rivenburg, TIMES STAFF WRITER

It's Still the Same Old Story : Times have changed since men wanted to be the breadwinners and women clung to their femininity. Or have they? By Lynn Bowen Walker, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Some Kids Strike Back by Striking Out By Lynn Smith, TIMES STAFF WRITER

A Place to Awaken From the Nightmare : For Some Children of Battered Women, Life in a Shelter May Be the Only Glimpse of Stability They've Ever Had By Marnell Jameson, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Amnesty International's 70-Year-Old Angel By Colman Mccarthy, THE WASHINGTON POST

He Fights So Your Next Breath Won't Make You Sick By Michael Haederle, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

So Long, Farewell, Adieu to the Garden Bistro--Maybe By Mary Lou Loper, TIMES STAFF WRITER

New Wave of Attacks Afflicts Black Churches in the South By Dan Sewell, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cali Crash Questions Safety of Automated Flight By Don Phillips, WASHINGTON POST

Federal Budget Cutbacks Leave Antarctica Researchers Out in the Cold By David E. Kalish, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Once-Powerful Congressman Experiences Surreal Final Days of Freedom By Dale Russakoff, WASHINGTON POST

Booklet on Astronomy for Girls Is Available \o7 Associated Press\f7

Post Office-Olympics Tiff Leads to 'O-Word' \o7 Associated Press\f7

Air Force Takes the Wraps Off Supersecret Spy Plane--10 Years Later By Robert Burns, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Military Declares War on Lax Policy on Movers By Bradley Graham, WASHINGTON POST

Amino Acid May Cause Glaucoma's Blindness \o7 Associated Press\f7

Romping Into an Adventurous Dog's Life in Cyberspace By Ric Leyva, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Memorial Should Display FDR's Disability, Groups Say By Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS

2 Militia Members in Georgia Denied Bail \o7 Associated Press\f7

India Journalists' Acceptance of Gifts Stirs Concern By Naresh Fernandes, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nevada Couple Wed at Funeral of Daughter, 2 \o7 Associated Press\f7

Traffic Chief's Record Gives Boston Pause \o7 Associated Press\f7

Cheating Scandal Rocks Connecticut School \o7 Reuters\f7

Smoking Scenes Butt of Audience's Anger By Aaron J. Lopez, ASSOCIATED PRESS

University Honors Suffragette Despite Racism Charge By Roger Munns, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bobwhite Quail Population Off 60% in Southeast \o7 Associated Press\f7

Today's Army Wants You to Like the Food By Robin Estrin, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Blind Bowler's Ears Keep Him in Game By Melanie Burney, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Study Says Some May Be Addicted to the Net By Matthew Mcallester, NEWSDAY

The Boot Is Featured on Their Menu By Wayne Woolley, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Saturn Moon's Orbit May Be Slowed by Collisions With Ring \o7 Associated Press\f7

Life's Numbers Can Add Up to a Real Memory Snarl By Carolyn Thompson, ASSOCIATED PRESS

In Syria, There's No Such Thing as Car Years By Greg Myre, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Researchers Try to Track 'Sootprints' to Smog Sources By Richard Lorant, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kin of Sitting Bull Ally Seeks Payment By Philip Brasher, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lure Researcher Carps About Target Fish By Roger Munns, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Global Cruise Could Help Farmers, Swimsuit Makers By Karen Testa, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Orange Trustees Add Food to the Conservative Menu By Lesley Wright, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Ed Davis' Influence Still Strong in LAPD By Jim Newton, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Clinton Takes Steps to Keep Teen Moms at Home, in School By Elizabeth Shogren, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Housing Sales Rise, but Prices Keep Dropping By Jesus Sanchez, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Relatives Recoil at Swedish Plan for Sunken Ferry By Dean E. Murphy, TIMES STAFF WRITER

New Study Brews Praise for Green Tea By Teresa Watanabe, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Concerns Raised Over Coliseum Construction By David Willman, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Sarajevo Leaders' Acts Demonstrate Enduring Bigotry By Tracy Wilkinson, TIMES STAFF WRITER

2 Teachers Live in Watts to Learn About Their Students By Greg Krikorian, TIMES STAFF WRITER

DOG TAGS: All dogs may go to heaven, but those without... By Aaron Curtiss

On Being Greener Than Thou By Peter H. King

Wilson and Regents Appeal Ruling Allowing Affirmative Action Suit By Amy Wallace, TIMES EDUCATION WRITER

Rep. Hunter Defends Plan to Erect Triple Fence Along Mexican Border By Tony Perry, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Seeking Refuge : As Encroachment Marches On, South Orange County May Control Its Destiny as a 'Super City' By Rene Lynch, TIMES STAFF WRITER

China Faces New Urban Food Worry: Surplus, Not Shortage By Rone Tempest, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Mongolia Gets Pledges of $400,000 to Help Battle Fires \o7 From Times Wire Services\f7

Palestinian Police Detain Suspect in Stabbing of Rabbi \o7 From Reuters\f7

Aznar Becomes First Conservative in 13 Years Elected Premier in Spain \o7 Associated Press\f7

WWII Savior of Jews Reportedly Spied for U.S. \o7 From Associated Press\f7