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LA121690-0207_4 | SANTA ANA CLINIC SPANS CULTURAL CHASM TO REACH MENTALLY ILL LATINOS; HEALTH: COUNTY-FUNDED CLINICA NUEVA ESPERANZA REACHES OUT TO A GROUP LONG ISOLATED BY THEIR LANGUAGE AND BACKGROUND. | medicine, and a native of El Salvador who was among the clinic's founders, said misdiagnoses of Latino patients were very common. "We noticed in our work that cultural differences were being viewed as pathological behavior by many professionals," he said. "Everyone became concerned. At that time, it was not OK to speak... |
LA121690-0211_3 | HOLLYWOOD SET TO HUNKER DOWN AS TIMES GET HARD; ENTERTAINMENT: SOME ANALYSTS ARE QUESTIONING THE REPUTATION OF THE INDUSTRY FOR ECONOMIC RESILIENCE. THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW THAN IN PAST DOWNTURNS, THEY SAY. | the mixed performance, some experts argue that the industry is recession-proof and that movie quality, not the economy, affects attendance the most. * Record sales fell 3.5%, 2.7%, 7% and 9%, respectively, in each calendar year of the last three recessions, says the Recording Industry Assn. of America. The impact of mu... |
LA121690-0215_1 | VIEWPOINTS; WHAT NOW, FOR WORLD COMMERCE, AFTER GATT? | actually have a contraction in trade as we had back in the 1930s. The world's economies had been heading towards liberalization. If that direction changes, the impact would be different among different economies, with unfortunately the strongest impact on countries potentially in a period of very rapid economic develop... |
LA121690-0218_0 | DOWNEY POLICE UNION CRITICAL OF CHIEF; LAW ENFORCEMENT: POLL OF OFFICERS SHOWS MORALE PROBLEMS. THERE IS TALK OF A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN D. CLAYTON MAYES' ADMINISTRATION. | December 16, 1990, Sunday, Home Edition These are exciting and trying times for rookie Police Chief D. Clayton Mayes. The chief is overseeing the largest police buildup in the history of Downey. But Mayes is also trying to put down a potential mutiny. A recent police union survey indicates officer morale has dropped in... |
LA121690-0222_1 | THE LAST FIGHT OF FATHER OLIVARES; FOR YEARS HE CHALLENGED THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY AND FOUGHT FOR IMMIGRANTS, FARM WORKERS AND THE POOR. NOW HIS OPPONENT IS AIDS | to lessen his burden. Bishops and government leaders write or visit. Hollywood personalities drive up to the religious center in Jaguars and Mercedes-Benzes to take Olivares to lunch at the finest restaurants. Women of humble means from his old downtown church bring him home-cooked meals, and groups of his parishioners... |
LA121690-0231_2 | JUSTICE IN DISTRESS: A SPECIAL REPORT; A TRIP THROUGH THE SYSTEM | evidence from the prosecution and defense, then decides whether there is sufficient reason to believe that the defendant is guilty of a crime. If the judge decides there is insufficient evidence, the defendant is released. More often, judges finds in favor of "the people" or prosecution, and the matter is "set for tria... |
LA121789-0007_3 | THE PLUGGED-IN ARCHBISHOP; ROGER MAHONY MINISTERS WITH COMPUTERS, A HELICOPTER AND FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES | of power do you have in terms of being able to get things done?" By comparison, the archdiocese can act swiftly. "I can cut through red tape very quickly," he says, "and I don't think there is any equivalent position like it. I don't have to deal with the City Council or the county Board of Supervisors. I have the abil... |
LA121789-0007_11 | THE PLUGGED-IN ARCHBISHOP; ROGER MAHONY MINISTERS WITH COMPUTERS, A HELICOPTER AND FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES | to those with a more moderate approach . . . ." Knowledgeable church insiders say it is practically certain that Mahony will be made a cardinal, though it might not happen immediately. American archbishops don't generally become cardinals until about age 60; Mahony is only 53. Unless he were appointed to some position ... |
LA121789-0007_13 | THE PLUGGED-IN ARCHBISHOP; ROGER MAHONY MINISTERS WITH COMPUTERS, A HELICOPTER AND FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES | of anti-Catholic attacks on both himself and the Church. "He has a lot of schooling, but he doesn't know how to treat workers," says Jose Aranda, a pro-union cemetery worker fired by Mahony for alleged misconduct. Taken together, Mahony's stands on all these issues have made some people start to wonder about the archbi... |
LA121789-0008_19 | VEGAS ON A ROLL; WHOEVER THOUGHT SIN CITY WOULD BECOME THE PLACE TO TAKE YOUR KIDS, RETIRE IN LUXURY AND BASK IN THE SUN BELT'S QUALITY OF LIFE? | ads reading: "Before you put it all on the line, put them on the line"), the first such effort in the state. Las Vegas is home to 27 chapters of Gamblers Anonymous, but combined attendance at the weekly meetings averages only 130 people. "We have been floundering," concedes Dian Edwards, executive director of the Nevad... |
LA121789-0035_0 | A HAVEN FOR GAY TEENS | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition I am glad to see that youth troubled with their sexuality are being given help in today's school system. The recent Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide clearly pointed out that gay and lesbian youth are two to three times more likely to commit suicide. The fact ... |
LA121789-0039_2 | PLAN CALLS FOR DRAMATIC SHIFT IN SCHOOL SCHEDULES; EDUCATION: DISTRICT STAFF'S PROPOSALS TO RELIEVE OVERCROWDING CALL FOR 25 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ON THE WESTSIDE TO CHANGE TO YEAR-ROUND SCHEDULES OR DOUBLE SESSIONS BY JULY. RECEPTION TO THE IDEA HAS BEEN LUKEWARM. | days followed by 30 vacation days. Because one group would always be on vacation, this scheduling method increases a school's capacity by 33% to 50%. This year-round, multitrack system may be the most effective relief, but it creates scheduling problems for families. A family with more than one child might find its chi... |
LA121789-0058_1 | MANY EAST GERMANS JUST WANT IN FROM THE COLD; GERMANYS: WHILE THE EAST GERMAN REVOLUTION CONTINUES, WITH DEMANDS FOR REVENGE, CITIZENS ON BOTH SIDES GRAPPLE WITH THE IDEA OF UNIFICATION. | masses are upset about a massive corruption at the top and cover-ups, about feudal privileges among the deposed leadership of the Socialist Unity Party (SED, as the Communist Party is known) and about numbered Swiss bank accounts. The SED, which initially tried to postpone the elections in order to recover its footing,... |
LA121789-0059_1 | OLD EAST BLOC HOSTILITIES SURFACE AS THREATS TO INFANT DEMOCRACIES; EUROPE: POLES FEAR GERMANS. CZECHS ARE DIVIDED. HUNGARIANS HOLD OLD GRUDGES AGAINST ROMANIANS. REBORN EUROPE FACES SEVERE GROWING PAINS. | Germany this year, serious frictions had developed between the two governments despite mutual memberships in the Warsaw Pact and Comecon, the communist common market. Polish and East German warships fired at each other off the Baltic coast over fishing rights; East German organizations kept alive anti-Polish revanchism... |
LA121789-0060_3 | A SHAMEFUL -- AND EXPENSIVE -- LOGJAM AT DEATH'S DOOR; CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: SAN QUENTIN'S GAS CHAMBER HAS BEEN UNUSED SINCE 1967, DESPITE THE PRO-EXECUTIONISTS. THAT HUMAN- RIGHTS VICTORY MUST NOT BE LOST. | selection in a capital case can increase trial cost by $200,000. Indeed, the death penalty is a big fiscal drain on California. The most conservative estimate of the cost of a death-penalty sentence is $1.5 million; others go as high as $5 million. Many lawyers believe that the expense of maintaining San Quentin's deat... |
LA121789-0067_0 | HELPING FAMILIES STAY TOGETHER | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition At a time of year when so much emphasis is placed on family, there are a half-million children in the United States who are separated from their parents, and one in five of them are in California. The number of children living in some sort of foster care -- foster homes, mental h... |
LA121789-0079_0 | CURRENT PAPERBACKS: WAITING FOR AN ARMY TO DIE THE TRAGEDY OF AGENT ORANGE BY FRED A. WILCOX (SEVEN LOCKS PRESS: $10.95) | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition Fred Wilcox's scathing indictment of the reckless use of toxic herbicides during the Vietnam War and their devastating effects on the men who were exposed to them combines elements of Randy Shilts' "And the Band Played On" with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Wilcox discloses th... |
LA121789-0096_0 | GOOD RURAL HEALTH CARE CALLED POSSIBLE; HEALTH: A REPORT RECOMMENDS THAT TOWNS USE CREATIVE APPROACHES SUCH AS NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND MODERN EMERGENCY SERVICES TO MAKE UP FOR SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS. | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition Rural advocates for years have urged more attention for the medical needs of sparsely settled areas, the small towns and farms where a fourth of America's people live. A recent study done for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn. says improved health care insurance wou... |
LA121789-0099_1 | CONGO 'GLASNOST' FLOURISHES AS MARXIST STATE MOVES COMPETITIVELY RIGHT | full-time satellite transmission of Soviet television soon. In the meantime he boasts of Africa's only branch of the Pushkin Institute for Russian-language training and described relations with the Americans as a "friendly rivalry." Times have changed in Congo, a country of two million people that was the administrativ... |
LA121789-0102_8 | MORE EDUCATIONAL BANG FOR THE BUCK IN LA JOLLA?; LEARNING: PARENTS IN THIS AFFLUENT SEASIDE COMMUNITY KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON CITY SCHOOLS. IF DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR CHILDRENS' EDUCATION, THEY CAN AFFORD TO PLACE THEIR OFFSPRING IN A PRIVATE ACADEMY. | In addition, he said, barrio parents tell him that they bus their children to La Jolla schools because they perceive them as akin to private schools. "I don't think that private schools can touch us," Doyle said. La Jolla Elementary Principal Trudy Campbell said that she had stomachaches several years ago over the need... |
LA121789-0107_0 | WAR REFUGEES FORM DEADLY L.A. GANGS; CRIME: CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEES IMMUNE TO VIOLENCE ARE A GROWING PART OF L.A.'S GANG CULTURE. 'THEY LAUGH AT DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS,' ONE EXPERT SAYS. | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Valley Edition Upheaval in Central America is renewing itself in the barrios of Los Angeles, where the influx of refugees into some of the city's most troubled neighborhoods has led to the rise of a new generation of youth gangs, authorities say. Gangs of young men with roots in El Salvador, ... |
LA121789-0107_5 | WAR REFUGEES FORM DEADLY L.A. GANGS; CRIME: CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEES IMMUNE TO VIOLENCE ARE A GROWING PART OF L.A.'S GANG CULTURE. 'THEY LAUGH AT DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS,' ONE EXPERT SAYS. | protection. Mora, who has been in the United States for three years, said he also joined because of racism in traditional gangs against people who are not of Mexican descent. Velasquez said some traditional Latino gangs look down on recent immigrants. Eddie Vega, Valesquez's colleague downtown, said that when the Centr... |
LA121789-0107_6 | WAR REFUGEES FORM DEADLY L.A. GANGS; CRIME: CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEES IMMUNE TO VIOLENCE ARE A GROWING PART OF L.A.'S GANG CULTURE. 'THEY LAUGH AT DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS,' ONE EXPERT SAYS. | in the U. S," Sanchez said. She recalled a boy named Edwin, who saw his father murdered by Salvadoran political extremists when he was 14. He and his mother packed and headed to the United States. But when he settled in Los Angeles, the timid boy from San Salvador encountered a different kind of urban terror -- youth g... |
LA121789-0114_0 | FETAL CELL'S UNIQUENESS AT BASE OF DEBATE | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition The ethical battle over using fetal tissue is the battle over abortions one step removed. On one side are the scientists who feel that fetuses are available and it would be a shame not to put them to some positive use, such as helping victims of degenerative diseases such as P... |
LA121789-0122_0 | CHILDREN AS PASSENGERS IN CAR-POOL LANES | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Orange County Edition In a letter to the editor (Dec. 10), Christine Taxier raised an important point about car-pool lanes, in addition to the one about conserving energy. She righteously pointed out how she obeys the law by driving in a car-pool lane with no other adults in her car, only chi... |
LA121789-0134_0 | PRO BASKETBALL; CAN OREGON AFFORD TO BATTLE NBA'S NINJA LAWYERS? | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition The next crashing sound that will be heard in the Pacific Northwest will be a bunch of lumberjacks being brought to their knees by the NBA Ninja Lawyers. It will not be a pretty sight -- column after column of Ninja Lawyers filing lawsuits that will seek more money than the Or... |
LA121789-0158_0 | PANEL BACKS POLICE IN TEST OF FREE SPEECH | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition Citing the First Amendment, the city's Public Safety Advisory Commission has recommended that Police Chief Lawrence Binkley stop reprimanding officers who express criticism of him or the Police Department. "This suppression of communication undermines morale and commitment to the... |
LA121789-0162_8 | IN PRAISE OF ROCK EXTREMISM; AFTER A DECADE OF PUZZLING MUSICAL SIDESTEPS, NEIL YOUNG REBOUNDS WITH 1989'S MOST ACCLAIMED ALBUM | reporter had assumed when Young picked him up at a restaurant just outside of Woodside that they were headed to Young's ranch, but Young just kept driving. He did stop at a beach just south of Half Moon Bay for the photographer to take some pictures, but then he returned to the mountain roads, stopping only for a sandw... |
LA121789-0163_14 | BEHIND THE SHARING OF A COMMON BOND; THE HELMS AMENDMENT CREATES 'AN UNEASY ALLIANCE' BETWEEN THOSE ON CAPITOL HILL AND THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS | think most congressmen . . . have a sort of generalized warm and cozy feeling about (NEA grant) money coming, for instance, to the Omaha symphony, and they feel some pride in that," said James Fitzpatrick, a prominent Washington arts lawyer and president of the Washington Project for the Arts, a local artist-run galler... |
LA121789-0167_8 | POP EYE: KEEPING A SCORECARD ON WINNERS, LOSERS IN RECORD INDUSTRY WARS | Lita Ford, whose 1988 "Lita" album went platinum, and gothic-popsters Love and Rockets, whose album went Top 15. Virgin Wanna bet on who'll be the hottest industry label of the early '90s? We'll put our money on Virgin, a daring young label run by creative executives with a shrewd eye for artists with strong visual ide... |
LA121789-0174_2 | COLUMN ONE; SHE OFFERS A SPORTING PROPOSAL; ANITA DEFRANTZ LOOKS AT VACANT LOTS AND EMPTY SCHOOLYARDS AND SEES A WAY TO HEAL COMMUNITIES. AS KEEPER OF THE OLYMPIC SURPLUS, SHE HAS THE MONEY TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE. | they score a baseball game, geometry as they race a sailboat. At a time when children in Los Angeles all too frequently fall victim to crack cocaine or rifle blasts, the notion that salvation might somehow be found in dribbling basketballs or running wind sprints is not an easy sell, yet DeFrantz keeps selling. "We kno... |
LA121789-0174_12 | COLUMN ONE; SHE OFFERS A SPORTING PROPOSAL; ANITA DEFRANTZ LOOKS AT VACANT LOTS AND EMPTY SCHOOLYARDS AND SEES A WAY TO HEAL COMMUNITIES. AS KEEPER OF THE OLYMPIC SURPLUS, SHE HAS THE MONEY TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE. | -- where we can put major events, like soccer which can be played on asphalt." Schoolyards locked shut over weekends and after dark trouble her: "We have schools that are locked up and closed as many hours as they're open. The facility is there 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the community needs to feel it owns th... |
LA121789-0178_1 | DEUKMEJIAN HITS POLITICS OF ABORTION | Jersey and Virginia last month, for example, pro-choice Democrats defeated anti-abortion Republicans in gubernatorial races. In San Diego on Dec. 5, a pro-choice Democratic assemblywoman upset an anti-abortion Republican assemblywoman in a state Senate race after a Catholic bishop inadvertently whipped up backlash supp... |
LA121789-0181_0 | 1ST GAY MALE EPISCOPAL PRIEST IS ORDAINED | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition An Episcopal bishop Saturday ordained the church's first openly homosexual male priest in a ceremony marred by only one brief interruption. Bishop John Spong of Newark quickly brushed off two dissenters before formally welcoming J. Robert Williams, leader of the Oasis ministry fo... |
LA121789-0186_1 | ARCHBISHOP SELECTED FOR VATICAN-KREMLIN TALKS; RELIGION: THE POPE GETS 'A CLOSE COLLABORATOR' TO FOLLOW UP ON HIS MEETING WITH GORBACHEV. | being re-established and churches reopened in the Baltic republics and Byelorussia. Gorbachev also invited John Paul to visit the Soviet Union, an invitation the Pope dearly sought. But he stopped short of accepting outright. The two leaders also agreed to restore official links between Moscow and the Holy See, broken ... |
LA121789-0195_0 | NEWSWIRE: ATTORNEY SUES 5 NFL ROOKIES | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition A Los Angeles attorney has filed lawsuits against five NFL rookies in an effort to recover about $115,000 he contends he loaned the players while they were in college. The suits are filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court by attorney Ray Newman, and name among the players Atla... |
LA121789-0222_0 | THE CURTAIN RISES: EASTERN EUROPE, 1989; CHAPTER 1 AUSTRIA; THE ROAD TO REFORM BEGINS IN VIENNA; TWO YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS BRING THE FIRST CRACKS IN THE WALLS OF THE EAST BLOC. | December 17, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition In the gray and deliberate world of diplomacy, there are moments when decisions are made and agreements are reached whose importance is understood only afterward. It can be a painstaking and finely bargained process, the work of diplomats, and its significance often lies buried i... |
LA121789-0224_10 | THE CURTAIN RISES: EASTERN EUROPE, 1989; CHAPTER 4 POLAND; 'IT'S THE END OF AN AGE' -- AND A NEW START; SOLIDARITY'S OVERWHELMING VICTORY MOVES THE COUNTRY INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY. | end of it, Walesa said he would submit three names to Jaruzelski as candidates for prime minister. The next day, Walesa returned to Gdansk, and Czeslaw Kiszczak resigned. On the night of Aug. 16, the arrangement complete, Solidarity, the United Peasants and the Democrats met in the Sejm in a joint caucus. This time Wal... |
LA121789-0225_4 | THE CURTAIN RISES: EASTERN EUROPE, 1989; CHAPTER 5 HUNGARY; A VACATION SPOT TURNS INTO THE 1ST WAY OUT; BUDAPEST, CAUGHT BETWEEN EAST GERMANY'S HARD-LINE REGIME AND THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES, MAKES ITS CHOICE: 'WE HAD TO LET THEM GO.' | 1969 bilateral agreement we signed with the German Democratic Republic. By the terms of the agreement, Hungary was not to let East German citizens proceed to any third country for which they did not have valid travel papers. Legal experts in the ministry examined the treaty and decided that it could not be canceled bec... |
LA121789-0229_6 | THE CURTAIN RISES: EASTERN EUROPE, 1989; OUTLOOK; REVOLUTION OF EXPECTATIONS BRACES FOR THE PERILOUS '90S; THE EAST BLOC MUST REBUILD ITS ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, LEGAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. AND A HARD-LINE BACKLASH IS STILL A THREAT. | it to catch up," according to Heinrich Machowski, an economist at West Berlin's German Economic Research Institute. Perhaps the biggest challenge, said Radio Free Europe analyst Patrick Moore, is to reorient "a whole complicated system of values" internalized during four decades of Communist rule. He described them as ... |
LA121790-0007_0 | BILINGUAL EDUCATION | December 17, 1990, Monday, Home Edition How many languages does he suggest we teach in? Offhand, we have large populations of Latinos (of several countries), Vietnamese, Chinese, Armenians, Russians, etc. Where do we get the money for these bilingual programs since we are already in a severe budgetary crisis? Finally, ... |
LA121790-0012_0 | BILINGUAL EDUCATION | December 17, 1990, Monday, Home Edition As a bilingual teacher, I applaud you for highlighting the importance of bilingual education. As a third-grade teacher, working with the class of the year 2000, it seems appropriate to me that as we approach the 21st Century we see language not as a political issue, but as an opp... |
LA121790-0028_0 | SWIMMING / THERESA MUNOZ; TIMES GET FASTER AFTER HER HEART SLOWS | December 17, 1990, Monday, Home Edition It would strike at any time -- the middle of the night, the beginning of practice, en route to class on the USC campus. Without warning, Megan Holliday's heart would begin to race, up to 170 beats a minute. The freshman distance freestyle swimmer from London, Ontario, was born wi... |
LA121790-0050_0 | ANTI-SMOG ORDERS MAY DOUBLE FIRMS WITH 4-DAY WORKWEEKS; POLLUTION: COUNTY BUSINESSES HAVING MORE THAN 100 EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN TOLD TO DEVISE PLANS TO REDUCE COMMUTER TRAFFIC. | December 17, 1990, Monday, Ventura County Edition The number of Ventura County businesses that offer employees four-day weeks and other alternative work schedules could double in the next four years as firms struggle to meet new pollution-control standards, experts believe. In an effort to fight smog, the county has or... |
LA121790-0050_4 | ANTI-SMOG ORDERS MAY DOUBLE FIRMS WITH 4-DAY WORKWEEKS; POLLUTION: COUNTY BUSINESSES HAVING MORE THAN 100 EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN TOLD TO DEVISE PLANS TO REDUCE COMMUTER TRAFFIC. | employees to revised schedules years ago. In the county assessor's office, 55% of the 143 employees work a four-day week. The office adopted the schedule in 1973 because assessors were losing valuable work time during the commute to properties in Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks. The longer day allowed them to stay and wo... |
LA121790-0064_1 | ANGRY ROMANIANS MARK AN ANNIVERSARY; EASTERN EUROPE: THOUSANDS BEMOAN THE MEAGER RETURNS SINCE LAST YEAR'S REVOLUTION TOPPLED A DICTATOR. | in the icy remnants of a recent snowfall to pray for the souls of those who died to bring democracy to Romania. Huge crowds commemorating last year's uprising were also reported in several other Romanian cities. In Bucharest, 2,000 protesters marched through the streets Sunday accusing the government of betraying Roman... |
LA121790-0075_3 | PASTORS ON PATROL; VOLUNTEER CHAPLAINS RIDE WITH POLICE TO LEND SPIRITUAL HELP IN CRISES | not to proselytize community members or officers. Only ordained ministers are allowed to participate. Another concern is the safety of chaplains. In a mandatory training course, they are instructed where and how to stand in certain situations and to interject themselves only at the invitation of the officer. But it's n... |
LA121790-0082_0 | IN BRIEF: SCIENCE / MEDICINE; TB RATES CLIMB TO RECORD IN '90 | December 17, 1990, Monday, Home Edition Tuberculosis rates apparently made a record climb in 1990, with the largest nationwide increase since national reporting on the disease began, the American Lung Assn. said last week. "We're seeing large increases in TB in many cities and states," said ALA President Dr. John Allen... |
LA121790-0086_1 | SCIENCE / MEDICINE; GENETIC MAPPING CHARTS NEW WORLD; CELLS: RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT HUMANS ARE NOT AS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SPECIES AS THEY HAVE LONG IMAGINED THEMSELVES TO BE. | of life is extremely similar," said Tom Roderick, senior staff scientist at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me. "We're all humming and moving along together -- our cells are behaving very similarly." Mapping various plant and animal species' genomes is the key to unraveling the chemical blueprint that determines ... |
LA121790-0086_6 | SCIENCE / MEDICINE; GENETIC MAPPING CHARTS NEW WORLD; CELLS: RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT HUMANS ARE NOT AS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SPECIES AS THEY HAVE LONG IMAGINED THEMSELVES TO BE. | 1970s, the worldwide production of rice, which is a primary source of nutrition for 60% of the world's population and is 80% of the caloric intake of 2 billion Asians, accelerated as a result of the Green Revolution that spread the results of classical plant breeding to other countries. "Now we're in a race to keep up ... |
LA121790-0090_0 | BUSINESSES LOSE IN CLEANUPS; LAWYER ADVISES COMPANIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUITS; QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | December 17, 1990, Monday, Orange County Edition Last month, President Bush signed into law the Clean Air Act of 1990, which some experts have touted as the most comprehensive legislation ever enacted to protect the environment. The law requires nearly every major industry to drastically cut its emissions of pollutants... |
LA121790-0099_3 | AMERICAN TO GET KEY TWA ROUTES FOR $515 MILLION; AIRLINES: CARL C. ICAHN'S CARRIER ALSO MAKES ITS SECOND BID IN A MONTH FOR AILING PAN AM -- THIS TIME FOR $375 MILLION. | cash . . . which will enable us to position ourselves for growth, despite these extremely difficult times." Icahn, who owns all but about 10% of TWA stock, said that in addition to the Pan Am offer, he is continuing his talks with bankers and creditors to buy bankrupt Eastern Airlines' Atlanta hub and its Miami mainten... |
LA121790-0116_0 | NATION; ORDINATION OF WOMEN SUPPORTED | December 17, 1990, Monday, P.M. Final A survey indicates Roman Catholic priests are becoming more willing to accept the ordination of women. The magazine U.S. Catholic sent 1,300 readers an article by Gregory F. Augustine Pierce, a syndicated columnist and Catholic author, in which he advocated the ordination of women.... |
LA121790-0117_0 | WORLD; BRAZIL'S COLLOR UNHURT IN CRASH | December 17, 1990, Monday, P.M. Final Brazil's daredevil president, Fernando Collor de Mello, had a slight car accident here Sunday, Brazilian newspapers reported today. O Globo, a pro-Collor newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, published a photo on its front page of a white Kombi that collided with a car driven by the preside... |
LA121889-0008_0 | WHAT PRICE FASHION IF THAT 'BARGAIN' CAME FROM A SWEATSHOP?; LABOR: AS BEFORE, THE GARMENT INDUSTRY EXPLOITS IMMIGRANTS AND CHILDREN. UNLIKE BEFORE, WE HAVE PROTECTIVE LAWS THAT NEED ONLY TO BE ENFORCED. | December 18, 1989, Monday, Home Edition Correction Appended The Times articles describing garment sweatshop operations in Orange County were a shock to those of us who take a "Made in the U.S.A." label as assurance of a law-abiding as well as a quality manufacturer. It is abhorrent that adults work in exploitative cond... |
LA121889-0028_4 | MONTOYA TRIAL BRINGS DISMAY TO DISTRICT; POLITICS: GLOOM DEEPENS IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AS THE TESTIMONY CONTINUES. BUT THE STATE SENATOR IS NOT WITHOUT HIS SUPPORTERS. | said. Montoya also has defenders at the Chalet Basque, a restaurant in downtown La Puente that he used to frequent. "I don't pay attention to what they say up there (in Sacramento)," the Chalet's bartender, who would not give his name, said of the trial. "I don't believe that about the bribery either. I don't believe a... |
LA121889-0030_1 | NOISE IN VERNON CHURCH IS SIGN OF FAITH; RELIGION: HOLY ANGELS MARKS ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY AS A CENTER OF WORSHIP FOR THE DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED. ITS SERVICES ARE NOT THE TRADITIONAL KIND. | are as many as 20,000 deaf and hearing-impaired people in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, which covers Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Although many of the deaf parishioners are able to read lips, they say it is difficult -- and sometimes impossible -- to do so in large churches. "I used to feel like I wa... |
LA121889-0032_0 | IN BRIEF: SCIENCE / MEDICINE; SYNTHETIC BLOOD PROTEIN REPORTED | December 18, 1989, Monday, Home Edition A major Japanese oil refining company says it has developed an artificial, contamination-free method of making the blood protein albumin. Masanori Suzuki, head of genetic engineering for the Tonen Corp., said in an interview Wednesday that the technique is the first to synthesize... |
LA121889-0033_0 | IN BRIEF: SCIENCE / MEDICINE; NO ASPIRIN-BIRTH DEFECT LINK FOUND | December 18, 1989, Monday, Home Edition Taking aspirin early in pregnancy does not appear to increase the chances that a woman will give birth to a baby with a defective heart, researchers report in a finding contrary to previous studies. In the largest study of its kind, Boston University researchers failed to find an... |
LA121889-0043_0 | U.S.-EAST BLOC TALKS TARGET HIGH-TECH EXPORTS TO SOVIETS | December 18, 1989, Monday, Home Edition The United States has started talks with Poland and Hungary on preventing diversion of U.S. high-technology exports to the Soviet Union, Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher said Sunday. Mosbacher's remarks came a day after President Bush signaled that his Administration is rea... |
LA121889-0044_0 | POLICE, DEMONSTRATORS CLASH IN ROMANIA; EAST BLOC: ANGER OVER PLANS TO DEPORT A CLERGYMAN EXPLODES INTO A RARE PROTEST AGAINST THE HARD-LINE REGIME. | December 18, 1989, Monday, Home Edition Romanian security forces with tanks and water cannons battled thousands of anti-government demonstrators after police tried to deport a dissident clergyman, the Hungarian news agency and other sources reported Sunday. It was believed to be one of the largest outbreaks of anti-gov... |
LA121889-0054_0 | OPPOSING SIDES ON ABORTION RALLY AT CARL'S JR. | December 18, 1989, Monday, Valley Edition Anti-abortion and pro-choice factions clashed Sunday outside a North Hollywood Carl's Jr. over financial support the founder of the fast-food chain has given to anti-abortion efforts. About a dozen pro-choice demonstrators held up signs urging motorists to boycott the restauran... |
LA121889-0085_0 | LOCAL; TEEN ON WAY TO PARTY DIES IN COLLISION ON GLENDALE FREEWAY | December 18, 1989, Monday, Valley P.M. Final A 16-year-old boy was killed on the Glendale Freeway in a traffic accident Sunday night between two cars headed to a party, the California Highway Patrol reported today. The victim was identified as Michael Gold of Los Angeles, a coroner's spokesman said. Gold was riding in ... |
LA121889-0086_0 | KILLINGS REPORTED IN ROMANIA AS FORCES FIRE ON DEMONSTRATORS | December 18, 1989, Monday, Orange County P.M. Final Dozens of anti-government demonstrators may have been killed by security forces in Romania, the first deaths in the wave of uprisings against Communist rule in Eastern Europe. A Yugoslav witness said today that security forces -- some firing rifles and from helicopter... |
LA121889-0099_2 | O.C.-BASED GROUP'S HOME DRUG TESTS SPARK DEBATE | Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr and Denver Broncos head coach Dan Reeves. Besides a penlight, the kit contains a scale for measuring pupil size, an instructional videotape and a 32-page manual to teach parents how to recognize and prevent drug use. It also contains tips on how to maintain a child's self-esteem. The ... |
LA121889-0099_9 | O.C.-BASED GROUP'S HOME DRUG TESTS SPARK DEBATE | one part of the test instead of at least two portions as required. Court testimony indicated otherwise. The University of Colorado lawsuit is under appeal. Besides questions about accuracy, family counselors and others in the drug abuse field contend that home testing can undermine the trust between parent and child du... |
LA121889-0103_0 | STREET SMART: SEAT-BELT OFFENSE NOT THE SAME AS A MOVING VIOLATION | December 18, 1989, Monday, Orange County Edition Dear Street Smart: I was very shocked recently when I received a traffic ticket. I was stopped by a patrolman, and he said, "You're going a little bit fast," and I said, "I didn't think that I was." And he said, "Well, you're not wearing your seat belt," which I wasn't. ... |
LA121890-0008_0 | DRUNK-DRIVING ARRESTS INCREASE | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition I've never been more motivated to respond to an article as I was after reading your front-page report on drunk driving arrests in Los Angeles over the past year (Dec. 3). Enough is enough. I suppose prohibition is next, but personally, I hope I'm not around to see it. Instead of... |
LA121890-0038_4 | NEED FOR VIGILANCE SEEN TO ENFORCE ETHICS LAW | something in return that everybody has to give in order to be involved. Q: Who are the culprits in the system? Is it the politicians, is it business, is it apathetic voters, is it the news media? A: Probably the apathetic voter is No. 1. You have a turnout in the city of Los Angeles that is 23% in this last mayoral ele... |
LA121890-0041_0 | L.A. SCHOOLS MOVE TO REMEDY HEALTH SERVICES | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition The Los Angeles Unified School District took the first step Monday toward revamping its school health-care program after hearing a report that criticized the district's 50 doctors and 500 nurses for being busier with paper work than medical services. School board members adopted... |
LA121890-0041_1 | L.A. SCHOOLS MOVE TO REMEDY HEALTH SERVICES | health-care specialist and a pediatrician, the report presented a number of proposed changes that could be implemented starting immediately. If only "relatively few dollars (were) spent in school-based preventive and primary care, (it) would save the county enormous sums in inappropriate emergency care," the report sai... |
LA121890-0052_0 | VENTURA COUNTY NEWS ROUNDUP: FOSTER PARK; ROADSIDE TREE TURNS FESTIVE EACH YEAR | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Ventura County Edition A December ritual continues along a stretch of California 33 between Ventura and Casitas Springs. Motorists stop their cars on the freeway shoulder, walk to a lone pine tree near the Canada Larga off-ramp and hang a length of tinsel or a handwritten message in its bran... |
LA121890-0059_1 | YOUNG GUITARIST IS STILL IN AWE OF RAPID RISE TO TOP | head, but Whitfield takes it in stride, keeping his reverence for the legends who came before him. To him, they are like gods. "It's taken so much studying and appreciation of the founding fathers of jazz to get where I am that, along the way, I've fallen in love with all of their music, personalities, contributions," ... |
LA121890-0081_3 | POPULIST PRIEST WINS IN HAITI, IS BACKED BY U.S. | senior member of the 202-person observer team from the Organization of American States said data collected by OAS and U.N. experts gave Aristide 60% to 70% of the total vote. His nearest competitor in the 11-man race was Marc Bazin, 58, a former World Bank official, who polled less than 20%, the OAS source said. The si... |
LA121890-0104_0 | YEAR-END TAX-SAVING PLOYS ARE HARDER TO FIND, LESS LUCRATIVE | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition The government has taken the fun out of the year-end tax dodge. Years ago, avoiding taxes could be exciting. It caused people to invest in wind farms, cattle ranches and oil wells. Some would hire their 3-year-olds and pay them exorbitant salaries. Others might claim their dogs ... |
LA121890-0117_0 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; 3. PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ETHNICITY: CAN THE NATION-STATE SURVIVE?; NOW THAT THE LID OF THE COLD WAR IS OFF, MANY ARTIFICIAL 'MELTING POTS' ARE BOILING OVER. | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition Correction Appended It was a peaceable revolt. On a sultry Balkan summer day last July, 114 members of the provincial Parliament of Kosovo, enough to constitute a quorum, assembled in front of their offices in this shabby capital. Discovering they had been locked out of the buil... |
LA121890-0117_2 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; 3. PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ETHNICITY: CAN THE NATION-STATE SURVIVE?; NOW THAT THE LID OF THE COLD WAR IS OFF, MANY ARTIFICIAL 'MELTING POTS' ARE BOILING OVER. | and nationalisms and all the other primordial loyalties would disappear as a result of modernization was premature," said Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociologist at the American University of Cairo, in assessing the post-Cold War era. "That was probably one of the big lessons of the 20th Century: Ideology is no substitute fo... |
LA121890-0117_12 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; 3. PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ETHNICITY: CAN THE NATION-STATE SURVIVE?; NOW THAT THE LID OF THE COLD WAR IS OFF, MANY ARTIFICIAL 'MELTING POTS' ARE BOILING OVER. | is what many national and ethnic groups expect. "The next stage, they are liberated, they feel free. They will be able to make their choice," said Helmut Wagner, a political scientist at the Free University of Berlin. "They will long for, they will pray for becoming part of a bigger union which they can accept freely a... |
LA121890-0117_18 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; 3. PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ETHNICITY: CAN THE NATION-STATE SURVIVE?; NOW THAT THE LID OF THE COLD WAR IS OFF, MANY ARTIFICIAL 'MELTING POTS' ARE BOILING OVER. | those traditions. Even apartheid, justified by South Africa's white Calvinist leaders with Old Testament quotations, is secular. And for substantial numbers of people, in varying degrees, each has failed. "The promises of modernity in its various forms -- whether an industrial consumer society or a classless society --... |
LA121890-0117_19 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; 3. PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ETHNICITY: CAN THE NATION-STATE SURVIVE?; NOW THAT THE LID OF THE COLD WAR IS OFF, MANY ARTIFICIAL 'MELTING POTS' ARE BOILING OVER. | Nobel Peace Prize. Buddhist monks have spearheaded opposition to Chinese Communist control of Tibet; the Dalai Lama won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. In East Berlin, the Lutheran Gethsemane Church was the command center for public vigils and the pro-democracy movement before the fall of the Berlin Wall. "The (opposition)... |
LA121890-0118_0 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; CASE STUDY / URBANIZATION; THE RUSH TO THE CITIES IS STRAINING THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF NATIONS | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition Ninety years ago, when Mohandas K. Gandhi established Phoenix Settlement on this fertile knoll, it was a rural commune sheltering a dozen families. Dedicated "to serve mankind," it grew its own crops, operated a clinic and published a newspaper preaching nonviolent resistance to... |
LA121890-0118_1 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; CASE STUDY / URBANIZATION; THE RUSH TO THE CITIES IS STRAINING THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF NATIONS | -- for the first time in history -- at least half the people of the world will be urbanized. The impact of that transformation, which is occurring at its most uncontrolled in Third World countries least able to handle it, is staggering -- on the people pouring into cities, on the cities themselves and on the nations of... |
LA121890-0118_2 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; CASE STUDY / URBANIZATION; THE RUSH TO THE CITIES IS STRAINING THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF NATIONS | with everything from jobs and housing to commerce and social services -- de facto states-within-states, all outside the control of government. * The rise of impoverished megacities, urban centers besieged by rings of teeming slums, sets the stage for explosive urban strife as the burgeoning fringe vies for limited reso... |
LA121890-0119_0 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; THE AIDS TOLL IS GROWING TOO LARGE TO IGNORE | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition It was the epidemic an entire country tried to ignore. Earlier this year, Zimbabwe's minister of health appeared before Parliament to announce that infection with the human immunodeficiency virus did not necessarily lead to AIDS. He already had declared that the strain of AIDS p... |
LA121890-0119_2 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; THE AIDS TOLL IS GROWING TOO LARGE TO IGNORE | of many nations far more than traditional social and political events will. In some hard-hit nations, AIDS could become the central issue of the next decade. "Today, AIDS is an issue of living or dying, of individual survival. Tomorrow, it may be an issue of nations surviving," said a European envoy in Harare. Since th... |
LA121890-0120_0 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; CASE STUDY / EMIGRATION; THIRD WORLD WOES FORCING A NEW EXODUS; AROUND THE GLOBE, LEAVING HOME IS THE ONLY RESPONSE TO PROBLEMS SEEMINGLY TOO NUMEROUS TO OVERCOME. | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition Ahmed Fakhr, a career military officer who risked his life for Egypt in three wars, sat back in his chair and paused. The words were clearly difficult. "Fifteen years ago, I used to tell my two boys, if you leave this country and go work abroad, you are betraying your national c... |
LA121890-0120_1 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; CASE STUDY / EMIGRATION; THIRD WORLD WOES FORCING A NEW EXODUS; AROUND THE GLOBE, LEAVING HOME IS THE ONLY RESPONSE TO PROBLEMS SEEMINGLY TOO NUMEROUS TO OVERCOME. | Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "All corners of the globe will be affected, directly and because of the rippling-down effect." The list seems endless: Soviet Jews to Israel. Vietnamese to Hong Kong and Hong Kong Chinese to Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Belize or Singapor... |
LA121890-0120_4 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; CASE STUDY / EMIGRATION; THIRD WORLD WOES FORCING A NEW EXODUS; AROUND THE GLOBE, LEAVING HOME IS THE ONLY RESPONSE TO PROBLEMS SEEMINGLY TOO NUMEROUS TO OVERCOME. | want to escape the economic mess that was inherited -- and remains unsolved -- by Managua's new democracy. But no country is eager to take them. "For all the free flow of information, the tremendous flow of capital, the great mobility because of transportation, borders are more impenetrable than they've ever been for p... |
LA121890-0120_6 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; CASE STUDY / EMIGRATION; THIRD WORLD WOES FORCING A NEW EXODUS; AROUND THE GLOBE, LEAVING HOME IS THE ONLY RESPONSE TO PROBLEMS SEEMINGLY TOO NUMEROUS TO OVERCOME. | government's policy of offering asylum to Vietnamese "boat people" -- despite their restriction to detention camps. And North Africans in France went on the rampage in a housing project in Lyon to protest police harassment of immigrants. In addition to the North-South fault line, tension over immigration is playing out... |
LA121890-0121_5 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; EPILOGUE; ON ENTERING AN AGE OF PARADOX | who's capable of thinking big and broad.' " Unable to delegate the task, the secretary of state, an economist and former university professor, did it himself -- "in my spare time," as he explained later. "My thesis was (that) the world is in a different age and it's an information age, and in order to flourish in such ... |
LA121890-0146_3 | JOSEPH N. BELL: A TALE OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS OFFERS A LESSON TO MIDDLE CLASS | environments so easily that we never stop to examine the validity of it. And we get ourselves tied up with work and life stresses so inextricably that we don't allow ourselves time to smell roses. Or fix scooters. I could have fixed that scooter. I wouldn't have done it easily -- I don't do such things easily -- but I ... |
LA121890-0149_0 | SOME DRUG-EXPOSED INFANTS GO UNDETECTED | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Orange County Edition Because not every baby is tested for drugs at birth and some do not initially show signs of drug exposure, it is impossible to say how many drug babies are actually born in Orange County each year. One study -- based on a survey returned by 19 of 28 Orange County hospit... |
LA121890-0149_1 | SOME DRUG-EXPOSED INFANTS GO UNDETECTED | a month in previous months. To get a better idea of how many drug-addicted babies are being born in Orange County, blind drug testing in 26 county hospitals was conducted during an unannounced seven-day period this fall. Results of the confidential study, co-sponsored by the March of Dimes, public health agencies and U... |
LA121890-0149_2 | SOME DRUG-EXPOSED INFANTS GO UNDETECTED | look OK," she said. "The hospital and the (mother's) doctor make the decision whether or not to test and what to do once they have tested." The test, she noted, only detects drugs that the mother has ingested in the last few days, "so there's a lot of room for variation in how things are handled. The mother may have ex... |
LA121890-0150_0 | SPECIAL REPORT: SEEKING A NEW WORLD; AN AGE OF CHALLENGE AND MYSTERY | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition The ending of the Cold War has plunged the globe into a period of rapid and pervasive change. As old tyrannies and antagonisms dissolve, new freedoms and opportunities blossom. Yet there is a paradox. New tensions are rising, seemingly rushing to fill a vacuum. Last week's speci... |
LA121890-0152_0 | WORLD; TESTS AFFIRM CAUSE OF 12 DEATHS | December 18, 1990, Tuesday, P.M. Final Blood tests confirmed that 12 people who died during a religious ceremony led by a self-styled spiritualist suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, Baja California police officials said. Blood samples from three of the victims revealed lethal levels of carboxyhemoglobin, which carried... |
LA121989-0028_0 | A WHOLE COMMUNITY FACES A LIFE SENTENCE OF NEGLECT; WAR ON DRUGS: DRACONIAN PUNISHMENT ONLY INCREASES THE SUFFERING OF AFRICAN AMERICANS WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE CAUSES. | December 19, 1989, Tuesday, Home Edition A 22-year-old African American man was sentenced early this month in Los Angeles to life in prison without the possibility of parole for distributing crack cocaine. It was California's first implementation of President Bush's war-on-drugs policy. The sentencing illustrates misgu... |
LA121989-0030_0 | BOOK REVIEWS; VISION FROM INSIDE THE PRISON OF SOCIETY'S TESTS | December 19, 1989, Tuesday, Home Edition Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information by Dorothy Nelkin and Laurence Tancredi (Basic Books: $18.95; 207 pages) One of the most compelling and unnerving depictions of contemporary life was written by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who describe... |
LA121989-0030_1 | BOOK REVIEWS; VISION FROM INSIDE THE PRISON OF SOCIETY'S TESTS | pits the needs of society against the rights of individuals. In the name of efficiency -- always in the name of efficiency -- we are blithely accepting the arguments of insurance companies, employers, health-care providers and courts, and unthinkingly allowing ourselves to be tested and controlled. In "Dangerous Diagno... |
LA121989-0032_1 | DR. JOYCE BROTHERS: FANTASY CURBS, DISPLACES RAGE | I don't think so. It's not a bad idea to fantasize about what you would do if you could, and then let it go. Some people have told me that when someone cuts them off in traffic or is otherwise rude and unfriendly, they fantasize whipping out their make-believe revolver and shooting out the person's tires. This harmless... |
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