Poltiical Candidates

Continuing his assault on Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti's record, challenger Barry Groveman on Monday accused the top prosecutor of failing to take on thousands of child abuse cases, thus putting children at risk of continued abuse. He demanded that Garcetti stop waiting "until children are killed" before prosecuting abusive parents. A Garcetti spokesman defended the incumbent's record, while declining to respond to Groveman's charges in detail.

In a boisterous new experiment with U.S.-style primaries, a relatively unknown human rights lawyer has emerged as the front-runner to succeed Kim Dae Jung as president of South Korea. Defying all predictions, 56-year-old lawyer Roh Mu Hyun has surged in polls in the last few weeks and is now shown as beating his closest rival by 11 to 26 percentage points. So precipitous has his rise been that the political pundits have nicknamed the phenomenon the Roh poong--the Roh tempest.

The campaign for Los Angeles County district attorney took off with a sonic boom Friday, as incumbent Gil Garcetti and challenger Steve Cooley unleashed months of pent-up hostility in their first one-on-one debate, a phone-in event broadcast live on public radio. Garcetti raised gun control as an issue for the first time in the campaign, demanding to know Cooley's position and implying that, as a registered Republican, Cooley might hold views similar to those of the National Rifle Assn.

The campaign for Los Angeles County district attorney took off with a sonic boom Friday, as incumbent Gil Garcetti and challenger Steve Cooley unleashed months of pent-up hostility in their first one-on-one debate, a phone-in event broadcast live on public radio. Garcetti raised gun control as an issue for the first time in the campaign, demanding to know Cooley's position and implying that, as a registered Republican, Cooley might hold views similar to those of the National Rifle Assn.

In a boisterous new experiment with U.S.-style primaries, a relatively unknown human rights lawyer has emerged as the front-runner to succeed Kim Dae Jung as president of South Korea. Defying all predictions, 56-year-old lawyer Roh Mu Hyun has surged in polls in the last few weeks and is now shown as beating his closest rival by 11 to 26 percentage points. So precipitous has his rise been that the political pundits have nicknamed the phenomenon the Roh poong--the Roh tempest.

Continuing his assault on Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti's record, challenger Barry Groveman on Monday accused the top prosecutor of failing to take on thousands of child abuse cases, thus putting children at risk of continued abuse. He demanded that Garcetti stop waiting "until children are killed" before prosecuting abusive parents. A Garcetti spokesman defended the incumbent's record, while declining to respond to Groveman's charges in detail.