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a37f3565b5be5ed27a22ebb542af6c84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-25-fi-1104-story.html | News Analysis : It Was More Than Its Plane That Won Pact for Lockheed | News Analysis : It Was More Than Its Plane That Won Pact for Lockheed
The days when the Air Force would buy a jet fighter only because it was the hottest ride in the sky have gone to the history books.
That was the clear message that the Air Force sent the aerospace industry Tuesday in selecting Lockheed for the $72-bi... |
95d1374555320727ccabcdfd22ccc001 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-29-ca-746-story.html | No News Is Bad News for WGBH : Television: PBS Boston flagship station’s nightly ‘Ten O’Clock News’ has become a victim of ‘current economic conditions’ after 15 years. | No News Is Bad News for WGBH : Television: PBS Boston flagship station’s nightly ‘Ten O’Clock News’ has become a victim of ‘current economic conditions’ after 15 years.
A local public-television program was being pulled from the air. Along the banks of the Charles River, the reactions reached seismic proportions.
“I ca... |
2f9ad7b419682e53b7ef2e1977cc906d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-01-mn-1052-story.html | Ex-Arizona Lawmaker Gets 6-Month Term in Sting | Ex-Arizona Lawmaker Gets 6-Month Term in Sting
Former state legislator Sue Laybe wept Tuesday morning as a judge ordered her to serve six months in the county jail for her part in Arizona’s political corruption sting.
Laybe, 35, who accepted nearly $25,000 from a police informant posing as a gaming consultant, is the t... |
d29b8fb6632ddf016e58df338c2c145d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-05-tv-2223-story.html | CHARLES OSGOOD: His Personal News Slant | CHARLES OSGOOD: His Personal News Slant
Since 1971, Charles Osgood has offered up witty, acute and often poetic observations to radio and television audiences about his life, his family and the world in general. He does so as a news correspondent for CBS.
Osgood, who also sports dapper bow ties, writes and anchors “The... |
806657320ecbc443328a5b258aca9ad7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-06-me-848-story.html | McGraths Everywhere : Founders: In 1876, the first one arrived, setting up a family dynasty on a patchwork of farms. There are now 500 descendants. | McGraths Everywhere : Founders: In 1876, the first one arrived, setting up a family dynasty on a patchwork of farms. There are now 500 descendants.
Although they have a state beach named after them, Ventura County’s McGrath family couldn’t hold a reunion there this year because there wasn’t enough space to accommodate ... |
89db1c796ac217133cd29b216874c81c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-11-me-1423-story.html | Transient Gets Life for ’85 Rape, Murder of Woman | Transient Gets Life for ’85 Rape, Murder of Woman
A transient nicknamed “The Count” because he frequented Los Angeles nightclubs wearing a black cape was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday for the rape and murder of a woman whose remains were found on a Studio City hillside two years after she disappeare... |
87240e55986ae14939cc46171e8ef139 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-12-me-2761-story.html | Police Establish Outpost, and Trust, in Oak View : Law enforcement: A six-officer substation has become a hub of information, referral services and crime prevention in Huntington Beach’s predominantly Latino neighborhood. | Police Establish Outpost, and Trust, in Oak View : Law enforcement: A six-officer substation has become a hub of information, referral services and crime prevention in Huntington Beach’s predominantly Latino neighborhood.
Since the city’s first police substation opened in the crime-ridden Oak View neighborhood a year a... |
10a9f415823420eb73fbc5fe40bc3cb6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-13-mn-1092-story.html | Soviets to Seek a Marshall Plan to Aid Economy | Soviets to Seek a Marshall Plan to Aid Economy
The Kremlin, seeking ever more desperately to save the collapsing national economy, is preparing proposals for a program akin to the Marshall Plan for the Soviet Union, Prime Minister Valentin S. Pavlov said in an interview released Sunday.
Pavlov gave no details on his id... |
4ba3c68b8781129701277e72a2351718 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-18-ca-1821-story.html | Hands Across America, Five Years Later . . . | Hands Across America, Five Years Later . . .
Some sang. Others danced. Most wore T-shirt declarations. A few stood at the edges before joining the line. A few backed away. . . .
And whose hands were you holding that Sunday five years ago?
May 25, 1986, Hands Across America, and the great public relations, social commit... |
c24c5de976951bc7f19d6a1b091a1d01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-28-mn-2568-story.html | Colombia Moves a Step Closer to Peace : Guerrillas: Indigenous rebel leaders agree to disarm and form a political party. It is another sign that decades of violence may be ending. | Colombia Moves a Step Closer to Peace : Guerrillas: Indigenous rebel leaders agree to disarm and form a political party. It is another sign that decades of violence may be ending.
Indigenous guerrilla leaders agreed Monday to disarm and turn their organization into a political party, ending seven years of warfare again... |
bda994f5c46d1d9298fda3e73f4fa4fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-04-mn-195-story.html | Prince William’s Skull Fractured | Prince William’s Skull Fractured
A schoolmate swinging a golf club Monday fractured the skull of Prince William, 8, son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Buckingham Palace said.
The injury was accidental and not life-threatening but required a 70-minute operation to correct a depressed fracture on the boy’s forehea... |
2d1be013f4393f625062d585edb28b7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-05-sp-83-story.html | This Decision Was Beyond Coin Flip | This Decision Was Beyond Coin Flip
Magic Johnson would have returned to Michigan State rather than play for the Chicago Bulls.
“I’d have stayed in school,” he said here Tuesday, standing alone outside Gate 3 1/2 of Chicago Stadium, the house that could have been his. “A coin toss changed the course of my whole life.”
C... |
fafb3c321346f1ab14ff5216922e0e5f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-08-mn-112-story.html | Connecticut Tries to Cancel Bridgeport’s Bankruptcy : Cities: State fears action by its biggest muncipality could harm whole area’s credit. Banks won’t cash public workers’ paychecks. | Connecticut Tries to Cancel Bridgeport’s Bankruptcy : Cities: State fears action by its biggest muncipality could harm whole area’s credit. Banks won’t cash public workers’ paychecks.
Connecticut state officials moved swiftly Friday to try to cancel a bankruptcy filing by the city of Bridgeport, fearing that the desper... |
7d6ddeebbfa740e3cde8cb379b699ba8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-13-sp-738-story.html | NBA FINALS : LAKERS vs. CHICAGO BULLS : Bulls’ Decree: Jordan Rules : Game 5: Chicago wins first championship by sweeping at Forum, 108-101, but depleted Lakers go down fighting. | NBA FINALS : LAKERS vs. CHICAGO BULLS : Bulls’ Decree: Jordan Rules : Game 5: Chicago wins first championship by sweeping at Forum, 108-101, but depleted Lakers go down fighting.
The Lakers went neither easily nor quietly, but go they did.
Their rookies led them in an inspired last hurrah Wednesday night, but the race ... |
b07af675eb0c48fcc6b4432688d16d37 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-14-fi-677-story.html | U.S. Takes Paris Air Show by Storm : Gulf Veterans Dispatched With Marching Orders: Smile But Don’t Strut | U.S. Takes Paris Air Show by Storm : Gulf Veterans Dispatched With Marching Orders: Smile But Don’t Strut
Outside the American pavilion at Le Bourget Airport here, a pair of U.S. soldiers in desert fatigues stood proudly in front of their Patriot missile battery and answered questions from admiring and curious onlooker... |
18bcdc4721967c18abea3ad400715f3d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-17-fi-657-story.html | Trump Restructures Debt on Another Casino | Trump Restructures Debt on Another Casino
Real estate and casino mogul Donald J. Trump worked out a vital restructuring deal on one of his casinos Sunday, but the agreement forces him to give up more control over his empire, a source close to him said.
Facing a deadline of today, Trump held weekend talks with creditors... |
37bdac06e5c29094c0ccc36d0ba9e58f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-19-sp-898-story.html | Dravecky’s Surgery: Arm Is Amputated : Baseball: Former teammate Hammaker confirms result of operation. Statement expected today. | Dravecky’s Surgery: Arm Is Amputated : Baseball: Former teammate Hammaker confirms result of operation. Statement expected today.
Dave Dravecky’s left arm was amputated Tuesday to stop the possible spread of cancer, according to a former teammate.
Atlee Hammaker, one of the Dravecky’s best friends when the two pitched ... |
7ecd2749add15b83951b976613806ef0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-21-sp-845-story.html | THOROUGHBRED RACING : Mary Bacon: Different to the End | THOROUGHBRED RACING : Mary Bacon: Different to the End
In a few days, Mary Bacon’s ashes are to be spread across Belmont Park, one of the many tracks she had hoped to conquer. The race of Bacon’s that New Yorkers most remember came in 1973, when she went down in an ugly spill, was trampled by a horse and suffered multi... |
ea7399984c516ac543ec89638b23890b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-23-bk-1843-story.html | The Last Colonials : I DREAMED OF AFRICA, <i> By Kuki Gallman (Viking: $22.95; 312 pp.)</i> : STARLINGS LAUGHING, <i> By June Vendall Clark (William Morrow: $23; 304 pp.)</i> | The Last Colonials : I DREAMED OF AFRICA, <i> By Kuki Gallman (Viking: $22.95; 312 pp.)</i> : STARLINGS LAUGHING, <i> By June Vendall Clark (William Morrow: $23; 304 pp.)</i>
There are people--often from aristocratic and cultured backgrounds--who go to Africa to seek, in the wild and primitive country, a release from t... |
a9b2361cf14c7577ca30e2fe07e28ad4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-23-mn-2073-story.html | ‘Star Wars’ Chemical Laser Is Unveiled : Research: Weapon would try to destroy missiles in space. Tour coincides with funding battle in Congress. | ‘Star Wars’ Chemical Laser Is Unveiled : Research: Weapon would try to destroy missiles in space. Tour coincides with funding battle in Congress.
For the first time, the Department of Defense on Saturday allowed news media to view the gigantic Alpha chemical laser that represents the second line of the nation’s “Star W... |
6b68cae087f3b0f417599e2ca130e694 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-23-op-1800-story.html | In the Hall of Mirrors: The Cold War’s Distorted Images : CIA: Counterintelligence chief James Angleton, certain that the Soviets were intent on destroying the West, tried to keep superpower rivalry hot. | In the Hall of Mirrors: The Cold War’s Distorted Images : CIA: Counterintelligence chief James Angleton, certain that the Soviets were intent on destroying the West, tried to keep superpower rivalry hot.
The game of Cold War is pretty much over now, and up and down the Soviet bloc the losers are throwing in what’s left... |
829054b93cadea00cf66e70ddb965c2a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-24-ca-952-story.html | OPERA REVIEW : ‘HMS Pinafore’ Embarks on Sprightly Seas | OPERA REVIEW : ‘HMS Pinafore’ Embarks on Sprightly Seas
San Diego Comic Opera’s spiffy production of “HMS Pinafore” set sail at Balboa Park’s Casa del Prado Friday night. One of Gilbert and Sullivan’s more seaworthy vehicles, the satirical operetta was given a decidedly arch, quick-paced interpretation by director Leon... |
be1d2595ea89a1ebd70a554f77e83be0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-25-mn-1335-story.html | Czechs Keep Chins Up as Soviets Leave : Pullout: Men are shorn of beards they began growing 23 years ago to protest the invasion. | Czechs Keep Chins Up as Soviets Leave : Pullout: Men are shorn of beards they began growing 23 years ago to protest the invasion.
Down at the foot of Wenceslas Square on Monday, about 20 to 30 bearded men elbowed their way to the center of a milling crowd of onlookers to undergo a ritual barbering, thus fulfilling a pr... |
747f0758aa9fedc22d7dbe98b2934612 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-25-vw-1440-story.html | Stranger Than Fiction : Mystery: The case of Ambrose Bierce, the disappearing author, may have been solved by the publisher of a new collection of the writer’s short stories. | Stranger Than Fiction : Mystery: The case of Ambrose Bierce, the disappearing author, may have been solved by the publisher of a new collection of the writer’s short stories.
Ambrose Bierce was a bitter old man in 1913. He drank like a fish and spewed invective like a volcano. Hot-tempered, sarcastic and vain, he had a... |
65abb88ed215092007c6df17b909c4a2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-25-vw-1444-story.html | Tracing the History of Exorcism | Tracing the History of Exorcism
Exorcism’s roots reach back to New Testament accounts of Jesus casting out evil spirits. As centuries passed, exorcism was gradually relegated to Christianity’s back burners. Martin Luther used exorcism, but other Protestants rejected the idea as superstitious. By 1600, the practice had ... |
db698ed1fc0b4f8bbf0dba1de46ab177 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-30-mn-2555-story.html | Many 1989 U.S. Sanctions on China Eased or Ended | Many 1989 U.S. Sanctions on China Eased or Ended
In its current, determined effort to persuade Congress to extend U.S. trade benefits for China, the Bush Administration has argued repeatedly that the United States maintains most of the sanctions that it imposed upon the Chinese regime two years ago.
“We continue today ... |
fa6776241ad2c485c8993f438ec098ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-10-me-1876-story.html | TV, Film Star James Franciscus Dies at 57 | TV, Film Star James Franciscus Dies at 57
James Franciscus, the virile actor whose talents enabled him to portray characters ranging from flinty cops to affable teachers, died late Monday night.
Franciscus died of emphysema at Medical Center of North Hollywood, said his friend and publicist Phil Paladino.
Franciscus wa... |
3a306c9f3c9ba38359f88dd5d9e862de | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-13-fi-1899-story.html | Fired-Up Inventors Have a Plan : But the Pros Trying to Cap Oil Well Fires Aren’t Fazed by Flood of Ideas | Fired-Up Inventors Have a Plan : But the Pros Trying to Cap Oil Well Fires Aren’t Fazed by Flood of Ideas
Running from the innovative to the possible to the downright ridiculous, an estimated 1,500 alternative schemes to cap the rest of Kuwait’s blazing oil wells have been proposed so far by companies, entrepreneurs an... |
2d38a7769c54faa9593549e7d5915a92 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-16-mn-2346-story.html | Wife, Marines Clash Over Whose Bones Are in Coffin : Vietnam: Woman accidentally discovered husband was reportedly seen alive. His parents think he’s dead. | Wife, Marines Clash Over Whose Bones Are in Coffin : Vietnam: Woman accidentally discovered husband was reportedly seen alive. His parents think he’s dead.
Today at Arlington National Cemetery, the Marines are planning to bury Maj. Hugh Michael Fanning for the second time. At least, that’s whose body the military says ... |
873990de25a09aedff75391165c4e981 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-16-mn-2352-story.html | THE TIMES POLL : Panel’s Reforms for Police Strongly Backed | THE TIMES POLL : Panel’s Reforms for Police Strongly Backed
Los Angeles residents overwhelmingly support the major conclusions and recommendations of the sweeping Christopher Commission report on bias and brutality in the city’s Police Department, and they believe it will take a new police chief to accomplish the goals... |
5c41af6f8a306cac55d21337c8ddb144 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-19-ca-2606-story.html | Punks to Revisit Beach Blvd : 3 Suburban Groups Will Play in Huntington to Mark Release of Compilation CD | Punks to Revisit Beach Blvd : 3 Suburban Groups Will Play in Huntington to Mark Release of Compilation CD
In the summer of 1979, it became obvious that punk rock had penetrated some of Southern California’s more sedate precincts.
The proof was a record album called “Beach Blvd,” a compilation of 15 raw, speedily played... |
4aa870100711abf25a01c9817fc26e71 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-20-ca-2074-story.html | Betty Lou Gerson’s Phony Accent Was a Natural for Cruella De Vil | Betty Lou Gerson’s Phony Accent Was a Natural for Cruella De Vil
Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Who’s the favorite animated Disney villainess of them all?
Could it be the Wicked Stepmother?
That sea witch Ursula?
Or how about Sleeping Beauty’s nemesis, Malefecent?
Well, this trio have nothing over the infamous puppynaper ... |
9052b9c5b3a9a8a8566febed9a12bab7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-22-ca-66-story.html | Ill Health Forces Sacknoff Off Air : Television: Sacknoff, top sportscaster for Channel 10, quits because of heart problems. He underwent emergency surgery in 1988 after a heart attack. | Ill Health Forces Sacknoff Off Air : Television: Sacknoff, top sportscaster for Channel 10, quits because of heart problems. He underwent emergency surgery in 1988 after a heart attack.
Larry Sacknoff, the lead sports personality of the top-rated KGTV (Channel 10) news team, is leaving the station because of his health... |
98ba0b7329dafb8107b981da91142103 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-23-mn-296-story.html | ‘Cotton Club’ Jury Convicts 4 of Murder | ‘Cotton Club’ Jury Convicts 4 of Murder
Eight years after the bullet-riddled body of New York impresario Roy Radin was found in a dry creek bed near Gorman, a jury Monday found onetime drug dealer and would-be Hollywood deal-maker Karen Greenberger and three bodyguards guilty of murder and kidnaping in what became know... |
161b755db42746e9dde0881c66c476c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-26-ca-274-story.html | ‘Shock Jock’ Stern Makes L.A. Debut on KLSX-FM : Radio: The New York-based loudmouth lights up the switchboard his first day. | ‘Shock Jock’ Stern Makes L.A. Debut on KLSX-FM : Radio: The New York-based loudmouth lights up the switchboard his first day.
Loudmouth “shock jock” Howard Stern careened onto the airwaves Thursday morning with an innocuous-enough sounding goal: “to get people in Los Angeles to stop fighting and shooting and start smil... |
9b5314abee656e160c52b81e21b26340 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-26-fi-276-story.html | Nintendo Wins at Settlement Game | Nintendo Wins at Settlement Game
“ATTENTION NINTENDO CONSOLE OWNERS” say the ads running these past two weeks in newspapers and magazines. It seems Nintendo of America was sued by the attorneys general of all 50 states and the District of Columbia for allegedly fixing the price at which retailers could sell its game ma... |
98c223990a921478d2c5150e8781caf6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-26-mn-229-story.html | Gorbachev Urges Party to Abandon Marxist Ideology : Soviet Union: The president warns that communism’s ‘ossified dogmas’ must go. He wants the body to transform itself into a modern political entity. | Gorbachev Urges Party to Abandon Marxist Ideology : Soviet Union: The president warns that communism’s ‘ossified dogmas’ must go. He wants the body to transform itself into a modern political entity.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev urged the Soviet Communist Party on Thursday to abandon the Marxist ideology under which ... |
087ce73cc96c034d8504a2048b3a543e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-26-sp-111-story.html | Arthur Cox Plays the . . . Good Guy? : Chargers: Once an interviewer’s nightmare, the tight end now saves his meanness for the football field. | Arthur Cox Plays the . . . Good Guy? : Chargers: Once an interviewer’s nightmare, the tight end now saves his meanness for the football field.
It has been more than three years since you have heard a civil word from Charger tight end Arthur Cox, so never, never as long as you have known Arthur Cox, have you heard more ... |
ed4d5e6e81d66231f5cab56d302e9e95 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-27-me-45-story.html | Cubic Wins $179-Million NYC Contract : Business: Victory caps a 13-year campaign to build automated fare-collection system for New York’s subway and bus system. | Cubic Wins $179-Million NYC Contract : Business: Victory caps a 13-year campaign to build automated fare-collection system for New York’s subway and bus system.
Capping a 13-year campaign marked by delays, frustration and intrigue, Cubic Corp. of San Diego on Friday was officially awarded a contract to provide the New ... |
6797d020838fb8cda56a0cca234dd48f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-28-tv-158-story.html | All About Movies | All About Movies
As its name indicates, The Movie Channel is devoted entirely to movies. That means no Madonna concerts, no boxing matches, no comedy specials, no documentaries and no anthology series, all of which permeate the schedules of The Movie Channel rivals HBO and Cinemax and TMC’s sister channel Showtime.
The... |
5a381f061002be2de7b6f4809521e603 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-01-mn-178-story.html | NAACP Vows to Fight Thomas’ Confirmation | NAACP Vows to Fight Thomas’ Confirmation
The NAACP on Wednesday said that it strongly opposes Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, terming the black jurist too “reactionary” to replace retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall and vowing to fight his Senate confirmation.
The board of directors of the National Assn. for the ... |
924f8023927d14fc84831c11285eb201 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-03-me-188-story.html | Singer Rick James, Girlfriend Arrested on Charges of Torturing Woman : Crime: The couple allegedly burned the victim with a crack cocaine pipe and sexually abused her. | Singer Rick James, Girlfriend Arrested on Charges of Torturing Woman : Crime: The couple allegedly burned the victim with a crack cocaine pipe and sexually abused her.
Singer Rick James, the Grammy-winning “King of Funk” of the 1980s, was arrested with his 21-year-old girlfriend Friday for allegedly imprisoning and tor... |
3aab5aa19db5398a9cf59d437a630f8b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-04-ca-364-story.html | ART : Slaughter of the Soul : Sue Coe’s images of horror in the meat industry indict a dark consciousness that she sees at the core of man’s cruelty to man | ART : Slaughter of the Soul : Sue Coe’s images of horror in the meat industry indict a dark consciousness that she sees at the core of man’s cruelty to man
Ask British artist Sue Coe questions about her technique or the critical analysis her work has received from the art world and she dismisses them with a wave of her... |
646b77f338ef745dbe7f7617d1537f22 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-04-vw-25-story.html | Questions of Life and Death : Who Lives? Decision by Committee | Questions of Life and Death : Who Lives? Decision by Committee
The Pacific Northwest is no place for a Henry David Thoreau with bad kidneys.
--UCLA Law Review, 1968
It helped if you went to church and gave to the United Way. And it went without saying that you would have a steady job, small children and a good, loving ... |
43e8795e8b51d932fc7a40fe80b5a52c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-05-ca-253-story.html | Fine Howe-Do-You-Do for Band Yes : Rock: Guitarist is back with group for current U.S. tour, which hits Orange County on Tuesday, but’s he’s more interested in promoting his own record than the band’s latest one. | Fine Howe-Do-You-Do for Band Yes : Rock: Guitarist is back with group for current U.S. tour, which hits Orange County on Tuesday, but’s he’s more interested in promoting his own record than the band’s latest one.
On the surface, the current union of Yes would seem to have as much potential for cohesiveness and harmony ... |
9be7632412e120296ef13629b859a1cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-08-fi-464-story.html | She Holds Torch for Sony Pictures Entertainment | She Holds Torch for Sony Pictures Entertainment
The famous torch lady of Columbia Pictures Entertainment Co. got a new moniker Wednesday as the board unanimously voted to rename the company Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The name change is designed to lessen confusion between the parent company and its two subsidiaries--... |
b8ef87fb25243e03bb4964b9990a97e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-14-me-631-story.html | Change of Venue Formally Ordered in Beating Case | Change of Venue Formally Ordered in Beating Case
Following the wishes of an appeals court, a Superior Court judge on Tuesday formally ordered a change of venue in the case of four Los Angeles Police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney G. King.
The order by Superior Court Judge Gary Klausner clears the wa... |
f92f6131fcbd21fdae8715d2159b3706 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-15-nc-715-story.html | Sorting Help for the Hungry : Food Co-Op Tackles Some New Challenges | Sorting Help for the Hungry : Food Co-Op Tackles Some New Challenges
Beaches, barbecues and vacations are uppermost in the minds of many North County residents at this time of the year. However, for Ilene Bates, it’s business as usual as she hauls boxes of grapefruit and stacks jars of peanut butter in a San Marcos war... |
7ed5c05224dd3ba2332d460005714183 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-18-bk-1453-story.html | Circling the Drain : FORCE MAJEURE, <i> By Bruce Wagner (Random House: $23; 474 pp.)</i> | Circling the Drain : FORCE MAJEURE, <i> By Bruce Wagner (Random House: $23; 474 pp.)</i>
Thousands of people are coming to Los Angeles in a new gold rush.
Legends abound:
Seven-Eleven clerk sells a screenplay for half a million dollars.
Frustrated writer chucks a screenplay out of his car on the freeway, but it’s found... |
3076ba9e353360508827ed8c1fda7971 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-19-me-736-story.html | Singer Billy Preston Arrested in Sex Case | Singer Billy Preston Arrested in Sex Case
Singer Billy Preston, who wrote the hit ballad “You Are So Beautiful” and played keyboards with the Beatles, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at his home in Malibu, authorities said.
Preston, 45, was arrested for investigation of sexual ... |
923293c83092ba16bacd8724af0d44b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-26-ca-995-story.html | EMMY AWARDS : The Other Winners | EMMY AWARDS : The Other Winners
Informational series: “The Civil War,” PBS (producers Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Stephen Ives, Julie Dunfey, Mike Hill, Catherine Eisele).
Animated program (one hour or less): “The Simpsons,” Fox (producers James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, Wallace Wol... |
2aca1b52509796f720c30d75ff073699 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-01-tv-2613-story.html | Super-Heroes From the Sports Pages | Super-Heroes From the Sports Pages
Despite all of Michael Jordan’s basketball success-championships on the NBA and NCAA level, an Olympic gold medal, five consecutive NBA scoring titles and most valuable player awards in two of the past four seasons-the Chicago Bulls guard seems genuinely awestruck by his most recent a... |
c47c7a40c3f65a97a80c46b29077c308 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-03-vw-2103-story.html | THE HUMAN CONDITION / TANTRUMS : Temper, Temper! : Frustration Breeds Fury--Even in Adults, Who Ought to Know Better | THE HUMAN CONDITION / TANTRUMS : Temper, Temper! : Frustration Breeds Fury--Even in Adults, Who Ought to Know Better
The first few innings had been ego-bruisers for Richard Martell’s band of middle-aged softball players.
“We were down by six runs,” recalls Martell, a 39-year-old vice president of a Los Angeles home fur... |
2e31dde924ff3fee3d79a0d03def0811 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-05-me-2336-story.html | 2 Oscars Back in Fold : Director Lewis Milestone’s Awards Vanished in 1978 | 2 Oscars Back in Fold : Director Lewis Milestone’s Awards Vanished in 1978
Thirteen years after they were reported stolen from the home of renowned movie director Lewis Milestone, two historic Oscars--one of them given out during the first-ever Academy Awards ceremony in 1929--are in the hands of the Academy of Motion ... |
0a68e0279f8ffe660a2bdc6fe9e2f1aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-05-sp-2372-story.html | COLLEGE FOOTBALL / GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI : Upon Further Review, Coach Says Referee Blew the Call | COLLEGE FOOTBALL / GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI : Upon Further Review, Coach Says Referee Blew the Call
Memo to those hoping to ask East Carolina Coach Bill Lewis about the NCAA’s flagrant taunting rule: Don’t.
Lewis is still a bit steamed about a 15-yard penalty called on one of his players for allegedly making an obscene gestu... |
da33edcf16d62df6576198771637f277 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-16-mn-1690-story.html | Manila Senate Rejects U.S. Pact : Philippines: The 12-11 vote would bar American use of Subic Bay Naval Base. Washington supports Aquino’s call for a popular referendum to overturn the action. | Manila Senate Rejects U.S. Pact : Philippines: The 12-11 vote would bar American use of Subic Bay Naval Base. Washington supports Aquino’s call for a popular referendum to overturn the action.
The Philippines Senate today formally rejected a new military base treaty with the United States, plunging the Philippines into... |
b01215724a4daa6840c56e15658bf4de | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-21-sp-2212-story.html | Olympic Basketball Team Named Today | Olympic Basketball Team Named Today
The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team. Fresh-faced college kids who came together under a strong-willed but understanding coach who molded them into a championship unit that conquered the world and brought home the gold.
Not any more.
The United States hasn’t won a gold medal in int... |
b73f7f91d02dcd5b37f39305068d4625 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-24-ca-3179-story.html | R.I.P. for ‘A.M. L.A.’ : 20-Year Run on KABC Ends With Cost-Cutting Move | R.I.P. for ‘A.M. L.A.’ : 20-Year Run on KABC Ends With Cost-Cutting Move
“A.M. Los Angeles,” a morning staple at KABC-TV Channel 7 for 20 years, will disappear quietly from the airwaves Friday--a victim of the economic vise that has been squeezing locally produced programming off the air for the last several years.
Aft... |
f8c237bda6f29ced3e629abb57f05e29 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-26-mn-3950-story.html | U.S. to Evacuate Americans in Troubled Zaire | U.S. to Evacuate Americans in Troubled Zaire
Fearing further violence in Zaire, the Bush Administration began efforts Wednesday to evacuate Americans from the troubled Central African nation, where two days of rioting has left the center of the capital in ruins and an estimated 30 people dead.
Earlier in the day, the P... |
ca1b5bfe4f408c89775af2f7d6f32f0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-30-ca-2194-story.html | OPERA REVIEW : Romberg’s ‘Desert Song’ Is Out of Tune With Times | OPERA REVIEW : Romberg’s ‘Desert Song’ Is Out of Tune With Times
After witnessing San Diego Comic Opera’s limp and decidedly unsympathetic romp through Sigmund Romberg’s 1926 operetta “The Desert Song,” it is difficult to understand why they did it. To cash in on 1920s nostalgia? To revive a few grand old tunes from th... |
257f8bef32e16f16356af7a2e811f471 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-03-vw-4333-story.html | The Recycling Generation : Star-studded video exhorts young people to ‘Take It Back!’ | The Recycling Generation : Star-studded video exhorts young people to ‘Take It Back!’
Take out the papers and the trash,
Or you don’t get no spending cash . . .
Get all that garbage out of sight,
Or you don’t go out Friday night.
Yakety Yak--don’t talk back!
“Yakety Yak” lyricists Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller had no i... |
74fe48389000caa46f8807ddfbe34868 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-06-tm-88-story.html | FEUDIN’ | FEUDIN’
You don’t need to fly to Estonia to witness secessionist fever--just take I-5 about 600 miles north to Yreka, Calif. In that small city, hundreds of people want to shake off the political shackles of Los Angeles via Sacramento and combine seven counties in Northern California and southern Oregon to create the s... |
79cf7767780189cfb99f4405c8d6287b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-08-fi-79-story.html | ‘The Grave Dancer’ : Sam Zell Looks for Bargain Buys | ‘The Grave Dancer’ : Sam Zell Looks for Bargain Buys
Sure they’re best known as “bottom-fishing investors,” “vulture capitalists” or any one of a number of bargain-hunting descriptions that usually accompany mentions of Sam Zell and the Zell/Chilmark investment fund that he shares with partner David Schulte.
Even the i... |
c411b0b5b2d5b92391825f0812c2dbf8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-13-mn-745-story.html | Australia Comes to Grips With Slave History : Discrimination: Novelist’s book recalls the traders who plundered South Pacific islands. | Australia Comes to Grips With Slave History : Discrimination: Novelist’s book recalls the traders who plundered South Pacific islands.
Shackled, flogged with kangaroo hide whips and raped at will, Australia’s slaves died by the thousands.
Between 1842 and 1904 more than 60,000 men and boys from the South Pacific island... |
471a274c8d2850e3f53709f027a712ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-15-fi-638-story.html | Lawry’s Parent to Close Landmark California Center : Restaurants: Another well-known eatery shuts its doors during the recession. The move is part of a companywide consolidation by Thomas J. Lipton Co. | Lawry’s Parent to Close Landmark California Center : Restaurants: Another well-known eatery shuts its doors during the recession. The move is part of a companywide consolidation by Thomas J. Lipton Co.
Lawry’s California Center, a Los Angeles attraction for the past 30 years, will close on Jan. 3, yet another Southland... |
c622655f52b654dc1a54e804c547ae0b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-16-vw-662-story.html | Dystonia’s Miracle Worker : * Medicine: Dr. Daniel Truong of UCI Medical Center’s movement disorder clinic gives his patients freedom by treating them with botulinum toxin. | Dystonia’s Miracle Worker : * Medicine: Dr. Daniel Truong of UCI Medical Center’s movement disorder clinic gives his patients freedom by treating them with botulinum toxin.
Ruth Deadmon, a near mute, waits outside the office of Dr. Daniel Truong, desperately hoping her voice can be restored.
Deadmon is typical of Truon... |
548548124a377a5efb8a09f2cccf65d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-18-mn-455-story.html | Police May Never Learn What Motivated Gunman : Massacre: Hennard was seen as reclusive, belligerent. Officials are looking into possibility he hated women. | Police May Never Learn What Motivated Gunman : Massacre: Hennard was seen as reclusive, belligerent. Officials are looking into possibility he hated women.
After more than a day of combing through every piece of evidence they could find, police Thursday said they may never know what caused an unemployed former Merchant... |
ce8e85cd93a5b741f71572b19f801bee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-18-sp-711-story.html | It’s the Best Europe Can Offer : Basketball: Top Soviet and Yugoslav teams have been broken up by politics and civil war. | It’s the Best Europe Can Offer : Basketball: Top Soviet and Yugoslav teams have been broken up by politics and civil war.
If you’re wondering what the NBA debut in the Olympics might be like, today’s McDonald’s Open offers a clue.
Top American players--the Lakers--are here.
Europe’s best is a memory.
The continent’s fi... |
8ded8811fab5a714e0da78e2e62501b7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-26-ca-315-story.html | For Ray Bradbury, Proud of a Case of Mistaken Identity | For Ray Bradbury, Proud of a Case of Mistaken Identity
Gene Roddenberry asked me to be part of the “Star Trek” family as a writer 25 years ago. He showed me the pilot, and I looked at it and liked it but said at that time that I’ve never been able to adapt other people’s characters--no matter how much I admire them. So... |
01386a358c4e1100bcf90dcd1d37acdf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-27-me-894-story.html | An Oxnard Son Means to Fight for the Gold : Boxing: For years, Robert Garcia has been aiming for the Olympics. With trials looming, supporters want to send him to L.A. for heavy-duty training. | An Oxnard Son Means to Fight for the Gold : Boxing: For years, Robert Garcia has been aiming for the Olympics. With trials looming, supporters want to send him to L.A. for heavy-duty training.
Robert Garcia, 16, was born and raised to be a boxer.
His father, Eduardo Garcia, has trained him since he was 8. His mother, V... |
ffff895d030d9dfa5456baea0d00a674 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-27-mn-1031-story.html | ‘Reagan Country’ Gets Put on Map : Library: Simi Valley, where presidential center will open Nov. 4, is a predominantly Anglo bedroom community of white-collar workers who make up the core of his constituency. | ‘Reagan Country’ Gets Put on Map : Library: Simi Valley, where presidential center will open Nov. 4, is a predominantly Anglo bedroom community of white-collar workers who make up the core of his constituency.
While her husband was still in the White House, Nancy Reagan and her entourage four-wheeled up a bumpy dirt ro... |
3425bdba6f4e48f8e490ca4bacb08228 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-27-tm-1150-story.html | IS BILL LEASURE THE MOST CORRUPT COP IN L.A.? | IS BILL LEASURE THE MOST CORRUPT COP IN L.A.?
ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE LOS ANGELES County Jail sits a special, 90-inmate section commonly called “7,000.” Also known as “High Power,” the section is the jail’s celebrity wing, the protective-custody unit where professional athletes, movie stars and television actors end... |
5c85c01e478dcf2cfef605393077cd10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-27-vw-1049-story.html | ‘Everybody Wants a Piece of Africa Now’ : Culture: Kente, a cloth rich in color and tradition, weaves its way into wardrobes of African-Americans. ‘It makes me feel stronger,’ one wearer says. | ‘Everybody Wants a Piece of Africa Now’ : Culture: Kente, a cloth rich in color and tradition, weaves its way into wardrobes of African-Americans. ‘It makes me feel stronger,’ one wearer says.
You might have seen it as a bright accessory donned by Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, Arsenio Hall or Jesse Jackson. Or you may have se... |
0c3d08e732c87ad001e70dfbbe2eb3f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-30-sp-404-story.html | Chargers Release Veteran End Cox : NFL: Rookie Duane Young moves into starting spot. | Chargers Release Veteran End Cox : NFL: Rookie Duane Young moves into starting spot.
So much for waiting till next year to start the youth movement.
Less than 24 hours after General Manager Bobby Beathard said there would be no major changes made until after the season, the Chargers announced Tuesday they had released ... |
ec1dcf3c3d8dd33b143d97d964369594 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-03-me-1598-story.html?_amp=true | Pop Singer Morrissey Blamed for Melee : Violence: UCLA and a promoter say he should not have urged the crowd to move in closer. The rush injured 48 people. | Pop Singer Morrissey Blamed for Melee : Violence: UCLA and a promoter say he should not have urged the crowd to move in closer. The rush injured 48 people.
On the day after 48 people were hurt in a sudden rush toward the stage at a Pauley Pavilion concert, UCLA officials and a concert promoter blamed English pop singer... |
bf855b6ae419e90ef75109b6a359fdc1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-03-mn-1454-story.html | A Case to Test the Wisdom of Solomon : Parenthood: Two baby boys were switched at birth. Now Melvin, 8, has two mothers, and the courts will have to decide which one will maintain custody of him. | A Case to Test the Wisdom of Solomon : Parenthood: Two baby boys were switched at birth. Now Melvin, 8, has two mothers, and the courts will have to decide which one will maintain custody of him.
Melvin has two mothers. Both want to keep him.
One, Edith Moore, wept “large tears” of joy when a judge ruled last month tha... |
8ffa3a4cafc21bb65f14dc9a89ae844c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-03-tm-1716-story.html | The Rage of the Black Middle Class : The Children of the Civil Rights Revolution Grew Up Expecting Entry Into a Colorblind Society. Today They Are Finding That All the Trappings of Success Can’t Shelter Blacks From the Realities of Racism. | The Rage of the Black Middle Class : The Children of the Civil Rights Revolution Grew Up Expecting Entry Into a Colorblind Society. Today They Are Finding That All the Trappings of Success Can’t Shelter Blacks From the Realities of Racism.
RACE AWARENESS DISPLACED MY blissful childhood in 1969.
I was then in the sixth ... |
3bb63fdcce85b7634f8281bf649e1f01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-06-me-1010-story.html | Not Guilty, Mother Says in Daughters’ Slayings : Court: Laguna Niguel homemaker’s use of anti-depressant drug Prozac being investigated. | Not Guilty, Mother Says in Daughters’ Slayings : Court: Laguna Niguel homemaker’s use of anti-depressant drug Prozac being investigated.
A Laguna Niguel homemaker Tuesday pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the shooting of her two young daughters, and a few minutes later, her lawyers announced that they are investi... |
e2881a78c5eb74a99418e6c74b968059 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-07-vl-1228-story.html | STRUCTURES : Houses of History : Heritage Square is one of the more surreal estates in Ventura County. It harks back to Oxnard’s more glorious past. | STRUCTURES : Houses of History : Heritage Square is one of the more surreal estates in Ventura County. It harks back to Oxnard’s more glorious past.
Architectural history is an unruly, travel-intensive field. To get a fix on what was built when and for what reasons, you have to seek out the examples in question. You ha... |
6ffedeb139b8599470142e5670569137 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-10-tm-2185-story.html | The Woman Who Saved Skid Row : ALICE CALLAGHAN HAS FOUGHT CITY HALL AND DOWNTOWN DEVELOPERS TO PRESERVE HOUSING FOR THE POOREST OF THE POOR. | The Woman Who Saved Skid Row : ALICE CALLAGHAN HAS FOUGHT CITY HALL AND DOWNTOWN DEVELOPERS TO PRESERVE HOUSING FOR THE POOREST OF THE POOR.
COMING UPON SKID ROW FOR THE FIRST TIME along 7th Street, a visitor is struck by the trash and blight. Many of the old storefronts and hotels are scarred and crumbling or boarded ... |
4e3eaf7ba62a067297aae99c36268c97 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-13-ca-1188-story.html | MOVIE REVIEW : Scorsese’s Way With a BadFella | MOVIE REVIEW : Scorsese’s Way With a BadFella
“Cape Fear” is a film as sadistic as its star player. What venomous psychopath Max Cady (played as only Robert De Niro can) does to his victims is exactly paralleled by what director Martin Scorsese does to his audience. We squirm, we squeal, we squeak for mercy as Scorsese... |
821ebc072144dbb7df54f0adf8078695 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-13-sp-1326-story.html | Magic Blames Weakness in Numbers : HIV: He says he can’t pinpoint when he was infected because there were many women. He says he had no homosexual experiences. | Magic Blames Weakness in Numbers : HIV: He says he can’t pinpoint when he was infected because there were many women. He says he had no homosexual experiences.
Magic Johnson says he was infected with the AIDS-related virus by a woman, that he has never had a homosexual experience and that when doctors advised him to re... |
7191dfd4d592c620303d9798efcbe88c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-14-we-2018-story.html | ARCHITECTURE : It’s Big, Chic and Famous, but Beverly Center’s Not a Pretty Site | ARCHITECTURE : It’s Big, Chic and Famous, but Beverly Center’s Not a Pretty Site
The Beverly Center is not a pretty building. It’s big, it’s brown, and it’s a blob. Inside, it’s a maze of glittery, tacky material whose smooth finishes defer to the merchandise.
The only way to appreciate this overwhelming building is to... |
dad61663abfb5935f1f2e2dc15166ad4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-16-me-1366-story.html | French Arrest Brando Sister in Drollet Case : Crime: Authorities follow Marlon Brando to daughter’s hiding place. Her half-brother, Christian, was convicted of killing in Los Angeles; she is charged with complicity. | French Arrest Brando Sister in Drollet Case : Crime: Authorities follow Marlon Brando to daughter’s hiding place. Her half-brother, Christian, was convicted of killing in Los Angeles; she is charged with complicity.
After covertly tracking actor Marlon Brando to a secluded, wooded estate outside Orleans, French police ... |
1c4c78e13e733a59c993595d66f5cced | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-16-mn-1448-story.html | Johnson Accepts Bush’s Offer to Join Commission on AIDS | Johnson Accepts Bush’s Offer to Join Commission on AIDS
Former basketball star Earvin (Magic) Johnson on Friday accepted President Bush’s request that he join the National Commission on AIDS, saying he wants to focus attention “on what all of us must do to fight this disease.”
Johnson, who shocked the nation last week ... |
d8612aac8f8d6f057d10cd4db0044df7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-19-fi-271-story.html | Trojan Gets a Condom Ad on Network TV | Trojan Gets a Condom Ad on Network TV
American television history of sorts took place on Fox Broadcasting Co. on Sunday night when the maverick network brushed aside a long-held taboo by nationally broadcasting a condom commercial.
The 15-second spot for Trojan brand condoms aired during the off-beat teen show “Herman’... |
6687cb8f5ee571054f40bfbb963cfc84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-23-fi-197-story.html | Mexico Will Sell 3 Big Steel Firms for $885 Million : * Manufacturing: The sales will mark the end of a costly government effort to compete with private enterprise. | Mexico Will Sell 3 Big Steel Firms for $885 Million : * Manufacturing: The sales will mark the end of a costly government effort to compete with private enterprise.
In what is expected to be Mexico’s last major divestiture, the government Friday agreed to sell for $885 million in cash and debt three companies that prod... |
d54915922f4c1195341a46451b6d3d90 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-23-mn-159-story.html | Theft From Brazil Reserve Imperils Project to Save Rare Golden Lion Tamarins | Theft From Brazil Reserve Imperils Project to Save Rare Golden Lion Tamarins
Thieves have raided an ecological reserve in Brazil and made off with an entire family of one of the world’s most endangered species, the rare golden lion tamarin, a wildlife official said Friday.
Whitson Jose da Costa, chief warden at the Poc... |
38a3ecc535b256408b14cfb7b3002191 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-24-tm-417-story.html | SPIN DOCTORS TO THE WORLD : THE SAWYER MILLER GROUP USES THE TRICKS OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, BIG BUSINESS AND ANY CLIENT IN NEED OF AN IMAGE LIFT | SPIN DOCTORS TO THE WORLD : THE SAWYER MILLER GROUP USES THE TRICKS OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, BIG BUSINESS AND ANY CLIENT IN NEED OF AN IMAGE LIFT
HERE IS A STORY JACK LESLIE PLAINLY ENJOYS TELLING: The then-president of Colombia, Virgilio Barco Vargas, is sitting one... |
35f4bebad872d104c464b38f3d1ccc9c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-26-mn-209-story.html | U.S. Military Will Shelter Haitians at Base in Cuba | U.S. Military Will Shelter Haitians at Base in Cuba
The Defense Department began mobilizing hundreds of medical professionals, military police and refugee experts Monday for deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they are to assume a vastly expanded role in the care and feeding of thousands of Haitians fleeing their... |
59e52059d1cc3be69227260d7c23c05d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-26-mn-219-story.html | Foul Smell Forces Recall of Turkeys : Food: Norbest tells grocers to pull fresh birds after complaints about the odor. Frozen ones are not affected. | Foul Smell Forces Recall of Turkeys : Food: Norbest tells grocers to pull fresh birds after complaints about the odor. Frozen ones are not affected.
Three days before America sits down for Thanksgiving dinner, the nation’s second-largest turkey producer Monday recalled fresh birds in California and eight other western ... |
88e3f18c46bb78633436d9adda029782 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-27-ca-64-story.html | MOVIE REVIEW : A Conventional ‘My Girl’ Brings Out the Hankies | MOVIE REVIEW : A Conventional ‘My Girl’ Brings Out the Hankies
The syrupy nostalgic score cues us in right away that “My Girl” (citywide) isn’t going to be a lunkhead kiddie romp a la John Hughes. Macaulay Culkin may be the co-star, but he’s a kinder gentler Culkin; a Hallmark card Culkin. No shrieking, no bug-eyed fac... |
bdfae938984b551f4f99e57c7c2b2147 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-27-mn-220-story.html | King Case to Be Tried in Ventura County : Courts: Proceedings for four LAPD officers charged with brutality will get under way Feb. 3. | King Case to Be Tried in Ventura County : Courts: Proceedings for four LAPD officers charged with brutality will get under way Feb. 3.
After months of uncertainty, a judge decided Tuesday that the trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused in the beating of motorist Rodney G. King will be held in Ventura County ... |
ce49f5579907e970ca1cd7883f641a0e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-28-sp-226-story.html | NHL Suspends Kings’ Webster : Hockey: Stick-throwing incident will cost him 12 games, the longest penalty ever given a coach by the league. | NHL Suspends Kings’ Webster : Hockey: Stick-throwing incident will cost him 12 games, the longest penalty ever given a coach by the league.
For hitting referee Kerry Fraser in the foot with a thrown stick, the Kings’ Tom Webster has been hit with the biggest suspension ever handed an NHL coach.
Webster was suspended fo... |
8ee983e70c814e1f1d0d1c3d0002d278 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-01-mn-872-story.html | Japanese-American GIs Are Focus of Dachau Memories : World War II: Nisei veterans are reunited with some people they rescued from horror of Nazi death camp. | Japanese-American GIs Are Focus of Dachau Memories : World War II: Nisei veterans are reunited with some people they rescued from horror of Nazi death camp.
As Allied bombs were dropping in the snow of Dachau in April, 1945, 16-year-old Janina Cywinska was lined up against a wall and left to wait for a bullet that neve... |
e81ae703a6ece048e999e977fb836baa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-01-tv-709-story.html | Who’s That Girl? : Julie Brown, MTV’s redhead, gets to really express herselfin Madonna parody | Who’s That Girl? : Julie Brown, MTV’s redhead, gets to really express herselfin Madonna parody
For three days in mid-September, Julie Brown had been filming her Showtime parody of Madonna’s “Truth or Dare,” called “Medusa: Dare to be Truthful.”
Brown and company attempted to navigate the Long Beach Convention and Enter... |
42f57d63dc5b4bfe9e2a34f820bb68ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-03-wr-732-story.html | A SUNDAY IN DECEMBER : CHAPTER 1 : An Age of Innocence | A SUNDAY IN DECEMBER : CHAPTER 1 : An Age of Innocence
Lights out, radios silenced, two carriers and their escorts slipped through the night, hiding in squalls and dark clouds. Before dawn, they struck.
Fighters snarled across the decks, then scout/attack aircraft, then dive bombers, then torpedo planes. Flashing blue ... |
52d9bc68871786dbe84bf7971fe5bab7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-06-ca-583-story.html | Gay Rights Activists Protest ‘JFK’ : Movies: One organizaton dubbed the Oliver Stone film ‘as homophobic as films get.’ | Gay Rights Activists Protest ‘JFK’ : Movies: One organizaton dubbed the Oliver Stone film ‘as homophobic as films get.’
Gay rights activists are voicing concerns over the depiction of homosexuals in director Oliver Stone’s upcoming “JFK” movie, which features gay characters involved in an alleged plot surrounding the 1... |
87abb2ccb35d09397349dff16fa9857b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-08-op-205-story.html | THE POLITICAL RORSCHACH TEST : What Americans think about the Kennedy assissination reveals what they think about their government | THE POLITICAL RORSCHACH TEST : What Americans think about the Kennedy assissination reveals what they think about their government
How we make sense of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is directly related to how we make sense of American public life. To explain how the President of the United States came to have hi... |
621d2e4c67ed94ad55774b1b063cff37 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-11-me-280-story.html | Odor in New Classrooms Has Made Students Ill : Health: Two portable units are undergoing new tests after findings of abnormal levels of toxic chemicals in blood of teacher, 11-year-old girl. | Odor in New Classrooms Has Made Students Ill : Health: Two portable units are undergoing new tests after findings of abnormal levels of toxic chemicals in blood of teacher, 11-year-old girl.
Two new portable classrooms installed last summer at an elementary school here have been plagued by an odor that has made student... |
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