Edward R Roybal

Last year, Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally used campaign funds for trips to South Africa and New York, dinner at swank Washington restaurants and $5,000 in donations to his daughter's Compton school board campaign. Rep. Glenn M. Anderson paid out more than $10,000 for telephone, car phone and automobile expenses. And Rep. Edward R. Roybal contributed $35,000 to a national political effort aimed at helping Democrats prevail in recent reapportionment battles.

Freshman Democratic Assemblyman Xavier Becerra of Monterey Park said Friday that he intends to run for the seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Edward R. Roybal, saying that he will seek endorsements from Roybal and Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina. The decision by Becerra, 34, came several days after Roybal's handpicked candidate, chief of staff Henry Lozano, said he was dropping out of the race because of family considerations. "It's a 99.

In a growing federal dispute over champagne labels, Sens. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and John Seymour (R-Calif.) have teamed up to help E & J Gallo Winery after receiving a total of $112,000 in political contributions from the Gallo family over the last three years, records show. Dole, the Senate Republican leader, and Seymour extensively argued Gallo's case in a letter to a top Treasury Department official several days before representatives from the Modesto-based winery met with the official Wednesday.

It was a scene that befit the man who pioneered modern-day politics for Latinos in Los Angeles. Nearly 100 people--politicians, community leaders and Latino activists--had braved the rain to honor their mentor and friend at an Eastside restaurant, fighting back tears as longtime Democratic Rep. Edward R. Roybal had his last hurrah. The faithful, some of them political heavyweights in their own right, sang "Happy Birthday" and heaped praise on the 76-year-old Roybal. Rep. Esteban E.

Veteran Democratic Rep. Edward R. Roybal, the dean of Los Angeles' Latino elected officials who was the first Mexican-American elected to the Los Angeles City Council, said Monday night that he will not seek reelection to Congress next year. The 75-year-old lawmaker said he decided to retire because of his wife's delicate health and his desire to work full time to establish scholarships for Latinos interested in the field of gerontology, the study of aging.

No lawmaker from California was in a better position this year to protect $1.1 billion in approved federal funding for newly legalized immigrants than Rep. Edward R. Roybal. As one of 13 "cardinals" who head appropriations subcommittees that control the House purse strings, Roybal is a senior Democratic leader with considerable influence.

A New York sculptor and the federal official who ordered two of his nude figures removed from a new federal building issued a joint statement Friday saying they expect to resolve the dispute by making undisclosed alterations to the sculpture site, but not to the sculpture. Clearly seeking to defuse what had become a heated public arts controversy, the two sides said they were exploring "site enhancements" to "minimize the possibility of vandalism" to the two female figures.

Mayor Tom Bradley, calling the removal of nude sculptures from a new Los Angeles federal building an "arbitrary action" that impinges on constitutional rights to freedom of expression, has requested that the two figures be reinstated immediately. In a letter made public Monday, Bradley asked Edwin Thomas, regional administrator of the federal General Services Administration, to restore figures of a woman and a baby immediately and to hold a public hearing on their removal.

Since August we have been watching the people of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union topple sculptures erected by government officials and bureaucrats as powerful symbols of state authority. By stunning contrast, last week in Los Angeles we witnessed American government officials and bureaucrats topple a sculpture erected by the people as a powerful symbol of liberty and triumph over tyranny. Forgive me for being dense, but isn't something a bit out of whack here?

A government official, who this week ordered that two nude figures be removed from a new federal building in downtown Los Angeles, will meet with the artist in the hopes of amicably resolving a dispute that has infuriated art aficionados and civil libertarians.