Archive for Sunday, November 02, 1997

• In Kroeker, L.A. Loses a Top-Notch Cop

• Anti-Airport War Veteran Leads El Toro Counterattack By Lorenza Munoz

• Calabasas Drinking Water Declared Safe By Jon Steinman

• Permanent School to Be Mostly Portable By Jeff Kass

• Elected Officials Want Your Opinion

• Passing the Buck in Ballot Probe - House’s Sanchez inquiry should not rely on Jones’ data

• Inventing a University

• ‘70 Mercedes Given to Many Mansions By David Greenberg

• Toastmasters Contest Winners Announced

• Group Hopes to Make Area User Friendly By Coll Metcalfe

• As Heat Scorches, 126 Acres Burn By Solomon Moore and Coll Metcalfe

• Clamor for a Valley Transit Agency May Be Misplaced

• A Tale of Two Wal-Marts By Scott Harris

• Foster Parenthood Is a Selfless Investment of Love in the Future By Mary Ann Matheson

• Police Seek 4 Men After Storage Facility Holdup By Lisa Fernandez

• The Grande Dame of L.A. Newspapers By Cecilia Rasmussen

• Manatee Stuck in Drain Is Rescued

• Spurred by Animal Abuse, Local Officials Reshaping the Big Top By Karyn Hunt

• Voters Face Host of Issues, Candidates in Agoura Hills, Westlake Village By Sylvia L. Oliande

• YMCA to Offer Week of Passes for Guests By Coll Metcalfe

• Hometown Hero - Jaret Wright made O.C. proud with World Series performance

• Serving Country Not a Gender Issue By Nina Shelley

• Hollywood Blaze Leaves 35 Homeless

• Nixon Perfectly Clarified By Dana Parsons

• Casting Two Votes for Learning

• Sharing the Wealth–Fairly

• 2 Other Local Races in Santa Clarita

• Backers of Secession for Valley Schools Launch Petition Drive By Karima A. Haynes

• Tennessee Schools Take a Leaf From Real-Life Farming By Leslie Lloyd

• School District Breakup Backers Start Petition Drive By Karima A. Haynes

• Artist, Owner Stung by ‘Scorpion Car’ Towing By Lisa Fernandez

• Water Race Boils By Dade Hayes

• Illegal Immigrants Remain a Concern Despite Economy By Daryl Kelley

• Buoyed by Valley Effort, Westside Groups Begin Looking at Creating New City By Dan Weikel

• Dirty Dining Earns Respect From Scientists

• A Lack of Knowledge at the Top By Amy Pyle

• Story of Billy Bob Striking Wife With Oscar Called Fiction By Ann W. O'Neill

• California Needs to Compete for Key Military Jet Contract By George Runner

• Bargain Hunting

• Nun’s Contributions to Chicano Heritage Recalled at Festival By Jack Leonard

• Fast-Moving Fire Frightens Residents By Coll Metcalfe

• A Chapter Ends, but the People and Their Stories Will Be Remembered By Mack Reed

• A Navy Success Story Still Unfolding By Douglas P. Shuit

• Santa Anas, Not El Nino, Get the Heat for Toasty Temperature By Lisa Fernandez

• Cast Your Ballot Tuesday–or Suffer the Consequences

• Markets Give Reminder on Perils of Over-Optimism - County should reaffirm prudence in financial policies

• Competing Publications at Saddleback Make News By Randal C. Archibold

• Toddler Hurt in Hit-and-Run Is Upgraded to Fair Condition

• Trick-or-Treater’s Candy Taken at Knifepoint; 2 Teenagers Arrested By Greg Hernandez

• Up Against the Wall - With No Commercial Center and Dwindling Funds, Unincorporated Rossmoor Faces Tough Choices By John Canalis

• No Fall in Sight for Unseasonal Temperatures

• Where the Buffalo Roam, Amateur Wranglers Ride Herd, or Try By Sherry Devlin

• Decision to Import Haun Jury a Big Cost-Saver for County By Tracy Wilson

• ‘Motor Voter’ Gets Raves for Registrations but Has No ‘Legs’ at Polls By Jose Cardenas

• Skateboard Skills Take Center Stage By Coll Metcalfe

• Will Law’s Diverse Backing Stay Intact? By H. Eric Schockman

• Hindus Gather for New Year Festival of Lights By K. Connie Kang

• Hatred Smolders in a Divided Land By Suzanne Darweesh

• Small Miracle Arrives in Disguise By Robert A. Jones

• Dietrich Apartment Items Draw $659,023 at Auction By Nicholas Riccardi

• Explorer Plans a Happy Brrrr-thday By Audra Ang

• Being There - Staff, Students, Parents Rally Around Fullerton School Booster By Esther Schrader

• Thrills, Spills at Nation’s Top Rodeo By Ed Bailey

• Licenses and Liberties By Patt Morrison

• Literacy Program’s Tutors Help Open Doors to a New World By Yung Kim

• Homage to the Dead - Faithful Build Altars, Join Mass to Mark Dia de los Muertos and Honor Mexican Traditions By Nick Anderson

• Trick-or-Treaters Robbed at Knifepoint By Greg Hernandez

• Vandenberg Blaze Contained After Being Accidentally Set

• Time for a Truce in Ventura By William Fulton

• Looking Sharp at Mt. Wilson By Joe Mozingo

• Obituaries

• Older Drivers Can Take AARP Course By Lisa Fernandez

• Fall Weather Plays Tricks on Plants By Robert Smaus

• Hope Builders By Wendy J. Madnick

• The Home Stretch

• Good News for Buyers With Small Downs By Kenneth R. Harney

• Flood Hibiscus With Full, Hot Sun, Not Water By Robert Smaus

• House Hunters Can Avoid Wild Goose Chase By Ellen James Martin

• A Rude Awakening for Venice Tenant By Kevin Postema

• Homeless Children Benefit Dinner Set

• No Longer Just Dump and Dry: Check It Out By James Dulley

• Garden Events

• X-cellent Arrival, Princely Departure By Ruth Ryon

• A Chef With Sushi Savvy By S. Irene Virbila

• THE CHAT ROOM By Dave Gardetta

• The Custom Condo By Barbara Thornburg

• An Experiment in Efficiency By Barbara Thornburg

• PICKS & PANS - Pasadena’s haven for gold diggers By Ed Leibowitz

• Material Pleasures - The Warmth of Wood, the Gleam of Metal – the essence of modern

• It Was 20 Years Ago Today

• PHOTO FINISH

• Life of the Party By Michael Walsh

• Cold Feat By Daniel Nussbaum

• Revenge of the Nerd By Danny Feingold

• The King of Comfort By Stacie Stukin

• Truth in Advertising By Michael Walker

• Troubled Soward Gets Shut Out Too By Helene Elliott

• He’d Give New Meaning to Term ‘Shoving Off’ By Mal Florence

• Penn State and Michigan Win to Set Up Showdown

• Willmer Strengthens UCLA Defense by Several Degrees By Bill Plaschke

• Pointless in Seattle, USC Sinks Lower By Robyn Norwood

• McCarthy Stops Northern Arizona

• 49ers Enjoy 17-Year Run in the West By Bob Oates

• PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

• Sampson Effect in Reverse By Eric Sondheimer

• Seminoles Withstand a Jolt From Holt, 48-35

• Villa Park’s Jackson Back Pedals, Beats Foothill By Paul Mcleod

• Noble’s Goal Is Game Winner

• U.S. Squad Will Have to Look Alive By Grahame L. Jones

• On Sizzling Day, Colbert Is Coolest Customer of All By Thomas Bonk

• PREP LEAGUE By Jimmy Roberson

• Off Target By Fernando Dominguez

• Stumpy, Lucky, Sandy Excel By Lonnie White

• St. Bonaventure Makes a Meal Out of 23-0 Victory By Mike Bresnahan

• Durfee Rescues Moorpark By Vince Kowlick

• Ringing Memories for Sandstrom By Elliott Teaford

• Orange Coast Women Breeze to Cross-Country Championship By Steve Kresal

• NONLEAGUE

• Memories Of Silver Favored in the Yellow Ribbon Stakes By Bob Mieszerski

• Clippers Are Outclassed in Fourth By Jason Reid

• Vrankovic Off to Good Start By Jason Reid

• Bulls’ Victory Has Familiar Ring to It

• JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP By Frank Carulli

• TOP 25 AT A GLANCE

• Rodriguez Leads in People Skills By Peter Yoon

• Party Time for Georgia After 37-17 Win Over Florida

• COMMUNITY COLLEGE ROUNDUP

• It’s a Dunn Deal for Mississippi St.

• PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP By John Bowles

• Matador Notes By Fernando Dominguez

• Bruins Accept Guarantee and Put It in a Sack By Jim Hodges

• Hicks Joins Himself in Record Book By Bill Plaschke and Jim Hodges

• It’s a Rout, Even With Shehee Out By Helene Elliott

• SANTA FE LEAGUE By K L. Martinez

• Lasers Light Up Xplosion to End Six-Game Skid

• Class Is Out in the NBA By Mike Downey

• Instead of Storming, Clippers Were Becalmed By Mark Heisler

• Whitaker Faces Six-Month Ban for Drug Use

• Prep Football Update

• EIGHT-MAN

• Grady’s Bunch in a Rout By David Wharton

• U.S. Star Ramos Reinjures Knee; World Cup in Doubt

• Hefferman Jumps Ship in Ventura By Vince Kowalick

• Tough Setback Follows Big Win By Lonnie White

• Three-Man Crew Passed By Council By Paige A. Leech

• Love Finishing Like a Champion

• DESERT MOUNTAIN LEAGUE

• TIMES’ NFL WRITER T.J. SIMERS POSES–AND ANSWERS–THE BURNING QUESTIONS ON - GAME DAY By T J. Simers

• MISSION LEAGUE By Amy Raisin

• Rooks, Blount Pick Up the Slaq By Scott Howard-Cooper

• Those Laker Kids Must Learn to Play Together Nicely By Mark Heisler

• COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

• Foothill Snaps Wilson’s Streak

• Yankees Say No to Boggs, Gooden

• SANTA FE LEAGUE By Mitch Polin

• Penguins Beat Canucks, 7-6, in Overtime

• ALPHA LEAGUE By Josh Filan

• Ventura Gets Kicks With Locals By Tris Wykes

• Texas El Paso Shuts Down Brigham Young in Victory

• JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP By Steve Galluzzo

• Sun Devils Turn Over a Leaf in Pac-10 By Chris Dufresne

• UCI Women Finish Fourth at Big West Championships

• UCLA Keeps Skipping Past the Opposition

• Late Plays Keep No. 22 Toledo Undefeated, 35-28

• He’s No Secretariat, but He’s Just as Freaky By Jim Murray

• Nebraska Victory Is No. 250 for Osborne

• Victory Puts Cal in Vedder Standing

• Ice Dogs Win Their Fifth in a Row, 6-2

• Woods, Littlerock Stay in Chase By Steve Galluzzo

• Labor Dispute Disables Telecast

• FRONTIER LEAGUE By Richie Wohlers

• Fullerton’s Berg Deserves to Be in Leading Role Now By Steve Kresal

• SLM Big Daddy Wins at Los Alamitos

• For U.S. Athletes, Nagano Is No Longer a Distant Gold By Mike Penner

• MARMONTE LEAGUE By Lance O'Fallon

• STINGRAYS TODAY By Earl Gustkey

• TODAY’S GAMES

• Tattoos By Chris Sheridan

• Iowa Banks on Thein This Time

• Sign of the Times in Big 12: It’s a Missouri Stampede

• Navy Just Shy of a Miracle at South Bend By Alan Goldstein

• Reduced Horsepower, but Still Plenty of Zip By Bill Christine

• Pointless in Seattle, USC Sinks Lower

• RACE AT A GLANCE By Bob Mieszerski

• Servite Battles to Turn Back Saddleback By Dan Arritt

• Chapman Rallies to Beat La Verne

• JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP By Mitch Polin

• Ventura Bullied by Glendale’s Durham, 35-23 By Jim Coleman

• Denson Gives It Old College Try

• Miss the Boat? What If There Is No Boat? By Christopher Reynolds

• Ski Areas Scramble to Satisfy ‘Boomers’

• Don’t Believe the Brochure By Christopher Reynolds

• A Walk With Mussel By John Mckinney

• On the Learning Curve … Together By Eileen Ogintz

• Coronado Gears Up for Classic Car Race

• Salzburg Is Alive With the Sounds of Music By Karin Dominello

• Up for a Spacey Adventure? Try This

• NEW YORK / NEW & IMPROVED By Christopher Reynolds

• Homespun Charm By Maria Horback

• California Corner Festivals, Feasts & Fairs By Amy A. Weber

• All the Conveniences of Home on the Road By Judi Dash

• Venezuela’s ‘Lost World’ By Lucy Mccauley

• Sea Goddesses Looking Lovely These Days By Harry Basch and Shirley Slater

• Capital Attractions

• El Nino Scares Up Some Hotel Deals

• Readers Recommend

• The Whole of Ireland, However You Please By Lucy Izon

• NEW YORK / NEW & IMPROVED By Christopher Reynolds

• The B&B Alternative By Christopher Reynolds

• Downtown for ‘Rent’ By Kelly Scott

• Traveler’s Notes …

• Clinton Says He Failed to Tout Trade to Public By Elizabeth Shogren

• State to Ease Rules for Pregnant Troopers By Dave Howland

• The Jury Is a Minor Issue in Teen Court By Mike Schneider

• PSYCH 101 By Martin Miller

• In Nationwide Alert, Scientists Put a Hex on Mercury as Folk Cure By Arlene Levinson

• Tale of Fallen Mayor Evokes Russian Classics By Vanora Bennett

• Doctors Make ‘House Calls’ to a City’s Homeless By Tom Hays

• Truckers Strike Threatens to Clog French Roads

• Harvest of Corneas at Morgue Questioned By Ralph Frammolino

• So, Do You Have a Strategy for Handling the New Longevity? By Beverly Beyette

• Plain-Faced L.A. Consulate Is No Ordinary Installation By K. Connie Kang and David Rosenzweig

• M. L. King Jr.’s Son Quotes Father in Taking SCLC Post

• Writer to Focus on Suspenseful Life Now By Dennis Mclellan

• Exiles Plan Laser Messages Over Cuba

• GOP Elephant Appears to Forget Its Aversion to Big Government By Janet Hook

• Clinton Plucks $20 Million Out of 2 Spending Bills

• In like Clint; Jessica returns to sleuthing; Frankie goes to 1997; Oprah’s ‘Wings’ on air By Steven Linan

• The Stuff By Beverly Beyette

• Collage Town By Jeannine Stein

• Sic Transit By Paul Dean

• Community Softens Line on Taiwan, China By Henry Chu

• Prime-Time Flicks By Kevin Thomas

• Grave Robber Creates an Etruscan Theme Park By Frances D'Emilio

• Iraq Reiterates Its Ban on U.S. Arms Inspectors

• Italy and Unions Reach Accord on Pension Reform

• Death of Pet Drives Crusader Against Animal Traps By Mary Esch

• Clean Bill of Health for Calabasas Water

• A Florida Crow Goes for the Gold

• Sleuth Suspects J. Edgar Hoover’s Murder By Peter Finn

• Idaho Opposition May Declaw Plan to Bring Back Grizzly Bears By Tom Kenworthy

• Life of Tears and Hope for Beaten Baby’s Family By Mary Curtius

• SMART ALECK

• Facts of O.C. Prehistory May Be Buried Forever By Deborah Schoch

• Culture Watch By Janet Kinosian

• Spiritual Journeys By Mary Rourke

• Illicit Voting Rife, Gingrich Claims

• Movie to Tape By Kevin Thomas

• Senator: Democrats Perjured Themselves

• Lott Assails Clinton’s Plan for School Tests

• Teary Homecoming for a Vietnam MIA

• The Girl Who Wouldn’t Act Like One By Michael J. Ybarra

• Editor’s Remains Are Identified in Colombia

• ‘Land and Freedom’ By Kenneth Turan

• Smart Aleck

• Tech Head By Chris Rubin

• Manatee Is Rescued From Storm Drain Pipe

• Minority Rolls Drop at Medical Schools

• Southpaws Are Not Left Out in a Mostly Right-Handed World By David Colker

• Jordanians Lose Sense of Security By Marjorie Miller

• Splinter Leader Predicts Doom for Perot Party

• Dog’s Appetite for Coins, $5.50 to Be Exact, Proves Costly By Brenda Loree

• The Rainbow Reincarnation By Susan King

• Montana Town’s Innocence Is Replaced by Media Glare By Mark Gladstone

• Hmong Seek Exemption From Food Stamp Cuts By Virginia Ellis

• Lancaster Slaying Victim Had Feared a Racial Attack By Evelyn Larrubia

• Today’s School Routine: Readin’, ‘Ritin’ and Ritalin By Victoria Brett

• CIA Right and Wrong, Documents Show By John Diamond

• Cossacks Gallop From Mists of Oblivion Into Russia’s Present By Maura Reynolds

• Pinky’s Excellent Adventure Begins When She Spreads Wings By Helen O'Neill

• Leaders of Japan, Russia Meet to Thaw Relations By Carol J. Williams and Sonni Efron

• ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’ By Kevin Thomas

• Nighttime Terror Wakes Algerians to Bloody Fates By John Daniszewski

• Perot Returns in Triumph to Convention

• They Were All Smiles for a ‘Melancholy’ Day By Irene Lacher

• Fed ‘Reissued’ Nazi Gold in the ’50s, Report Says

• Au Pair Trial Juror Denies Scheck Influenced Outcome

• Vandenberg Blaze Contained After Being Accidentally Set

• Laugh Lines

• ‘Blue’ By Kenneth Turan

• The Stuff By Michael Quintanilla

• Neither U.S. Nor China Is Willing to Concede Much By Jim Mann

• For Mafia, It’s So Hard to Get Good Help These Days By Larry Mcshane

• Jiang, in Reply to Tiananmen Query, Cites ‘Mistakes’ By Norman Kempster

• ‘Rebecca’ By Michael Wilmington

• In Frozen North, Ancient Culture Trades In Its Sleighs for Suzukis By Doug Mellgren

• City Council Tries to End Its Existence By David Reed

• U.S. Supreme Court Comes to Life for Virtual Visitors By Laurie Asseo

• Manicuring Industry Needs Polishing, Officials Say By Thao Hua

• In Novel Move, Judge Opts to Import Jury By Tracy Wilson

• Barney’s back and the Ninja Turtles mutate; Allen Strange beams down; sure to visit Pappyland By Lee Harris

• The Last Guffaw? By Peter H. King

• Pressure on Liquidity May Prompt Changes By Thomas S. Mulligan

• Odetics Completes ATL Spinoff

• Taking Stock of a Wild Week - Big Numbers, Yes–but a Big Deal? By Tom Petruno

• Three D Loses $1.7 Million

• Sometimes It’s Personal–but It Still Costs the Company Money By Sherwood Ross

• Pacific Gulf to Offer Shares

• Worker May Have Case for Marital Status Bias Suit

• Taking Stock of a Wild Week By James Flanigan

• How Funds Fared in the Market Pullback By Tom Petruno

• Ingram Micro Appoints a New VP

• Acting as Receptionist Is Question of Fairness

• Early-Withdrawal Penalties Don’t Apply on 401(k) Money in Divorce By Carla Lazzareschi

• Environmental Equity Makes Business Sense By Manuel Pastor Jr

• CoCensys Loss Widens but Revenue Rises

• Good Old-Fashioned Capitalism to the Rescue in Indianapolis’ Inner City By Jon Jeter

• Mean Streets By Sissela Bok

• READING L.A.

• Plan R???? By James G. Blight

• Lullaby, by Adam Zagajewski

• RICHARD EDER By Richard Eder

• Inside Looking Out By Peter Marin

• BESTSELLERS

• The Idea of France By Eugen Weber

• The Art of War By Geoffrey Best

• City of Night By George Armstrong

• IMPRESSIONISM: Reflections and Perceptions.\o7 By Meyer Schapiro\f7 .\o7 George Braziller: 360 pp., $50\f7 By Richard Sennett

• MEMOIRS.\o7 By Sir Georg Solti\f7 .\o7 Alfred A. Knopf: 262 pp., $25.95\f7 By Peter G. Davis

• Schism By Bruce Cumings

• Camera Ready By Christopher Knight

• In Brief By Ernesto Lechner

• Hearing It Like It Was By Ken Smith

• MIXED MEDIA By Natalie Nichols

• LILITH REDUX By Steve Hochman

• Pundits With Your Pancakes By Ronald Brownstein

• She’s Ready to Fly Cross-Country By Lynne Heffley

• PHIL TIPPETT / VISUAL EFFECTS ARTIST By Steve Hochman

• Mingus at His Creative Best By Don Heckman

• Trapped in the Theater By William Harris

• L.A.’s Cultural Giving Gap: Chasing a Hollywood Dream By Elaine Dutka

• DIRTY HARRY SINGS By Steve Hochman

• No Russian-Language Version? By Steve Hochman

• RECORD RACK By Robert Hilburn

• RECORD RACK By Marc Weingarten

• In Brief By Steve Hochman

• Women Writers on Women Rockers By Natalie Nichols

• The Lady of the Castle Caroompas By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

• Throwing Nashville a Curve By Elysa Gardner

• ALBUM REVIEW By Randy Lewis

• In Brief By Cheo Hodari Coker

• SMALL FACES

• From ‘Hackers’ to Highbrow By David Gritten

• Frankie’s Director Goes to Hollywood By Jon Burlingame

• Girls Lacking Spice, Sass in New ‘World’ By Natalie Nichols

• NATO - Why Russia May Become Stubborn By Marco A. Mangelsdorf

• Home Health Care: Fine Idea That’s Poorly Implemented

• We Ask, ‘Can One Eat Liberty?’ By Ying Ma

• STOCKS - Asian Markets Are Only an Excuse By Charles R. Morris

• TRADE - Focusing on Workers in the Fast-Track Talk By Robert E. Scott

• CAMPAIGN FINANCE - The Greed of Both Parties Undermines the Election Law By Philip Heymann

• Dodger Football Back in Play By Frank Del Olmo

• Put Stars’ Earnings to Good Use By Moshe Adler

• The Potent Culture of Scandal By Alan Brinkley

• Public’s Raging Need for Nature

• Bill Bradley By Mark Z. Barabak

• L.A.’s Long Platonic Affair With Neighborhood Councils By James W. Ingram III

• Room for Give in Port Dispute

• Labor - A Shortage of Skilled Workers By Joel Kotkin

• Blair’s Brave New Britain–the One-Party State By Adrian Wooldridge