Demonstrations Los Angeles

Four thousand Army soldiers and Marines sent to quell the recent week's civil disorders were sent home Saturday from riot-scarred Los Angeles, leaving the streets patrolled by National Guard units and a battle-weary police force demoralized by public bickering over their readiness and performance during the unrest.

Hunger strikers at UCLA entered the second week of a protest over the status of Chicano studies Tuesday as a group of their parents unsuccessfully pleaded with campus officials to meet the demonstrators' demands. Parents told Chancellor Charles E. Young in an emotional 90-minute meeting that they were worried about their children's health.

A group of activists for disabled rights steered their wheelchairs into Greyhound's downtown terminal Monday afternoon, disrupting busy Labor Day bus travel in an attempt to pressure the transit giant into improving access for the disabled. The half-hour show of civil disobedience ended with police hoisting three protesters into the back of a police van. Moments earlier, their wheelchairs had been backed against the fenders of departing buses, their voices raised in singing "We Shall Overcome."

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley claimed responsibility Thursday for a controversial crackdown on Skid Row homeless encampments, saying he is pleased with the results. "I've looked at the sidewalks and streets since this got going, and I see that tremendous progress has been made," Bradley said of the operation, which began Tuesday and is aimed at dismantling at least 10 homeless camps in a 50-block area of the central city.

During a noontime campus rally Tuesday, about 300 USC students complained that they have not yet been notified about how much financial aid they may receive for the soon-ending fall semester. The so-called "Mad as Hell" rally on the Los Angeles campus was sponsored by the Student Senate. The protesters told tales of how an understaffed financial aid office is nearly three months late in letting students know the amount of scholarships and loans they might be eligible for.

Friends and relatives of an Iranian bookstore owner who set himself afire Sunday during an anti-Khomeini protest in Westwood said they had no warning of the man's plans and were shocked when it happened. The man, Neusha Farrahi, 31, was reported in critical condition Monday at County-USC Medical Center with second- and third-degree burns over 70% of his body.

About 300 members of Southern California's Serbian community gathered in front of the Federal Building in Westwood on Saturday to warn that the rights and lives of Serbian minorities may be jeopardized in the current struggles for independence in Yugoslavia. The demonstrators had often conflicting views about whether the states of Slovenia and Croatia should be permitted to break free from the nation created from disparate peoples after World War I.

The serenity of the candle glowing from a sidewalk tin can is a stark contrast to the "Live Nude Girls" sign illuminated across the street. The two lights represent the protracted war between morally fervent residents and the new Lincoln Heights strip club that taunts them by offering free admission on evenings when protesters are in force. Despite holding little political leverage, a stream of angry picketers continues to demonstrate regularly in front of Industrial Strip L.A.

More than 100 longshoremen protested outside a Terminal Island scrap-metal export business Tuesday, the sixth day of a bitter labor dispute marked by competing accusations of violence. An officer from the Los Angeles Police Department's labor relations division said police were investigating an incident early Friday in which management officials from Hugo Neu-Proler Co. allegedly turned a water cannon on picketers from the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Lt.

Time Warner executives refused to back down from their support of a controversial record by rapper Ice-T at a five-hour shareholders meeting in Beverly Hills on Thursday, despite pleas from more than 20 people, including two wounded policemen and actor Charlton Heston.