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LA122489-0017_16 | SLOUCHING TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM; PROGNOSTICATIONS, PROPHECIES AND JUST PLAIN GUESSES ABOUT WHAT THE LAST DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY WILL BRING | time of greater concern about ethics, not only in genetic therapy but also in the area of health care and what is appropriate treatment. It's possible genetic therapy could be useful in the treatment of cancer and AIDS, but it won't start there. It will start with a specific disorder where there is a known single genet... |
LA122489-0017_22 | SLOUCHING TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM; PROGNOSTICATIONS, PROPHECIES AND JUST PLAIN GUESSES ABOUT WHAT THE LAST DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY WILL BRING | will be a problem even if the shrinking defense budget causes fewer scientists to gravitate toward defense research. In terms of science itself, on every front there are simply spectacular developments. What's happening in the neurosciences is absolutely mind-boggling. Information that's being accumulated about the nat... |
LA122489-0031_3 | A SKELETON CREW AT CITY HALL CARRIES ON; BALDWIN PARK: IT IS NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL IN A CITY THAT HAS LOST SO MANY OFFICIALS. IN FACT, SOME HOPED-FOR FUNDS MAY HAVE GONE BY THE WAYSIDE. | fell to Police Chief Carmine Lanza, who just last month was promoted from captain after former Chief Richard Hoskin was fired. "For many months in 1989, there appeared to be conflicts in City Hall," said Lanza, who is doing double duty as both police chief and acting manager. "But I think we've weathered those storms a... |
LA122489-0035_3 | A PLACE WHERE FEAR IS VANQUISHED; AIDS: DESPITE DEATH AND SUFFERING AROUND THEM, TOM RINGLED AND WORKERS AT THE CITY OF ANGELS HOSPICE INSIST THEY'RE NORMAL PEOPLE BLESSED WITH AN UPLIFTING JOB. | had a stomach virus linked to AIDS. The phone rings and is answered elsewhere by the hospice director, Mary Nalick, 45. She is working in her makeshift office in one of four garages in an apartment building behind the hospice. In the other three garages, she collects donations for the regular garage sale that raises ab... |
LA122489-0059_0 | THE SAVVY TRAVELER: IF THE PLANE BUCKS, IT'S BETTER TO BE BUCKLED-UP; AIRLINES: THE REAL DANGER WHEN FLYING IS FROM UNEXPECTED MODERATE TO SEVERE IN-FLIGHT TURBULENCE. | December 24, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition If you're like most airline passengers, you board your airplane, stow your carry-on baggage, take your seat and fasten your seat belt. About two to three minutes into most flights, the captain will turn off the "Fasten Seat Belt" sign. Being an obedient passenger, you unbuckle yo... |
LA122489-0061_1 | A SOVIET VIEW OF USING FORCE AS FOREIGN POLICY; PANAMA: U.S. INTERVENTION SEEMS ANOTHER MANIFESTATION OF AMERICAN PROVINCIALISM -- BELIEF THAT REGIONAL POLICIES CAN BE SEPARATED FROM GLOBAL POLICIES. | military superiority over potential enemies. But nowadays betting on such superiority is extremely dangerous and illusory, politically counterproductive and economically ruinous. If in the past military force was the main instrument of Realpolitik -- and war was its continuation by other means -- now it has become impo... |
LA122489-0063_2 | PANAMA: DIGGING A U.S. HOLE; POLICY: GEN. NORIEGA IS GONE BUT U.S. TROOPS REMAIN. INVOLVEMENT MAY HAVE BEEN THE RIGHT IDEA IMPLEMENTED IN A FAULTY WAY. | broadcasting an appeal for resistance from a clandestine radio station. The PDF did not lay down its arms, nor did the paramilitary "Dignity Battalion." Washington, despite its familiarity with Panama, seems to have ignored the fact that Noriega's top officers and their soldiers had close ties, military and financial, ... |
LA122489-0064_3 | NO HONG KONG HAVEN FOR VIETNAM'S BOAT PEOPLE; REFUGEES: DESPITE ANGRY INTERNATIONAL REACTION, HONG KONG OFFICIALS PLAN TO CONTINUE SHIPPING VIET REFUGEES BACK TO VIETNAM. | refugees in Geneva in June -- to give voluntary repatriation more time to work. There are also grave doubts about Hong Kong's system of determining whether the boat people are genuine refugees or merely migrants seeking a higher standard of living. The colony's immigration officers -- using a controversial procedure in... |
LA122489-0067_1 | GOING TO WAR WITH OURSELVES; DRUGS: LIKE SOME SCI-FI POTBOILER, THE CRUSADE SEEMS TO BE A SEARCH FOR A CONVENIENT ENEMY IN THE WAKE OF A DIMINISHED COMMUNIST THREAT. | the White House for a televised speech, the tone of the campaign is overblown hype. Like some grainy 1950s science-fiction potboiler, the real purpose seems to be the search for an evil. It's them -- outsiders, non-Americans and nonwhite Americans. The drug war is Washington's crusade to find an enemy, an excuse. We ar... |
LA122489-0068_3 | LOOK FOR SOME BAD NEWS IN JANUARY PAYCHECKS; TAXES: THE MOST UNFAIR OF THEM ALL, FICA, RISES AGAIN, NATURALLY HITTING WORKERS THE HARDEST. | myth. The money is being used to finance today's government expenses. Next year's Gramm-Rudman deficit target, for example, is $64 billion. Even if we hit it, the real deficit -- not counting that $75 billion FICA surplus -- will be more than double. There is no way society as a whole can save money for its future reti... |
LA122489-0069_0 | POLITICS OF ABORTION | December 24, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition Recently there has been a rash of abandoned babies in the Southland, who have been left in trash bins or on doorsteps. Instead of being chastised, women who do this should be treated with empathy and compassion, as they are often young girls who are scared, desperate and without ... |
LA122489-0073_0 | WE COULD GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE THIS CHRISTMAS; CHILDREN: THE MEANS EXIST TO STOP NEEDLESS DEATHS FROM HUNGER AND DISEASE IN THE THIRD WORLD. BUT DO WE HAVE THE WILL? | December 24, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition If the planet could look under its own tree Christmas morning to find gifts of human progress, one package -- unimaginable several years ago -- would contain the political achievements that are thawing the Cold War. If the wrapping paper had newspaper headlines printed on it, tho... |
LA122489-0073_1 | WE COULD GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE THIS CHRISTMAS; CHILDREN: THE MEANS EXIST TO STOP NEEDLESS DEATHS FROM HUNGER AND DISEASE IN THE THIRD WORLD. BUT DO WE HAVE THE WILL? | 1990s from illness and malnutrition. These deaths won't come from floods or famine. They won't be covered by television; an outraged public will not demand action. The world will hardly notice as young lives are lost to diseases that were once killers in developed countries. As the report states, "They will die in the ... |
LA122489-0085_7 | LAST NORIEGA TROOPS SURRENDER; PANAMA: BUT SOME VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS CONTINUES. ENDARA BEGINS TO ORGANIZE HIS GOVERNMENT. | they will be required to lay down their arms," he added. He even indicated a sense of mercy for the usually despised Dignity Battalions, members of which nearly beat him to death with iron bars last May. "We don't want repression nor reprisals," Ford said. "But we have to have them turn in their weapons." Times Washing... |
LA122489-0087_6 | POOR EMPLOYEE RELATIONS, RIGID WORK RULES IMPAIR IMPROVEMENT IN MAIL SERVICE | side. Recently, a visitor clocked McFail and two other clerks at the window: 12 transactions in 15 minutes. The pace was slower in the back room, where mail is sorted. One clerk was re-sorting miss-sorted mail. One was hand-counting pieces of stamped business-reply mail for refunds of excess postage to the recipient. A... |
LA122489-0088_2 | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE MIXES TECHNOLOGY WITH ANTIQUITY; MAIL: AUTOMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO IMPROVE SERVICE. BUT EFFORTS TO AUTOMATE HAVE BEEN PLAGUED BY POOR MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING, COSTLY CHANGES OF DIRECTION AND SCANDAL. | New Orleans installed across the country in the last two years, the post office's total work force declined by only 1.1%. In the area most affected by automation, mail processing, the worker pool actually increased by 5,131 people, according to postal figures. Work-force reductions are complicated by union contracts th... |
LA122489-0089_0 | GROUP PROVIDES NATURE'S THERAPY: FRIENDSHIP; COMPEER: THE WORD MEANS "EQUAL, COMPANION, FRIEND, PEER." IT'S ALSO THE NAME OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT MATCHES VOLUNTEERS WITH CLIENTS FOR ONE-ON-ONE GET-TOGETHERS EACH WEEK FOR A YEAR. THE PROGRAM SEEMS TO BE SUCCESSFUL. | December 24, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition In 1976, Trudy Pembroke weighed 325 pounds. She was divorced, unemployable, estranged from her family and confined to a state hospital in Rochester, N.Y. Her grim history included a feeling at age 9 that something was terribly wrong with her. At that age, she did not know that... |
LA122489-0089_5 | GROUP PROVIDES NATURE'S THERAPY: FRIENDSHIP; COMPEER: THE WORD MEANS "EQUAL, COMPANION, FRIEND, PEER." IT'S ALSO THE NAME OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT MATCHES VOLUNTEERS WITH CLIENTS FOR ONE-ON-ONE GET-TOGETHERS EACH WEEK FOR A YEAR. THE PROGRAM SEEMS TO BE SUCCESSFUL. | to talk about a mentally ill person. She then gives her own life story. Compeer has become more sophisticated than it was in the early days and tries to match people with something in common. Wittmershaus and Pembroke really had nothing in common, but one example in Harlem reflects the extent to which Compeer now tries... |
LA122489-0094_2 | COUNTRIES IN MIDDLE EAST ADDING NEW MISSILES TO THEIR ARSENALS; ARMS RACE: THE THIRD WORLD MAKES MANY OF THE WEAPONS. MAJOR POWERS ARE UNABLE TO CURB A BUILDUP. | to strike at installations deep in enemy territory without fear of immediate retaliation. Its 1981 bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor outside Baghdad was a celebrated example. Now, an Israeli preemptive air strike can be countered with the push of a button, although Israel's nuclear capability still poses a telling de... |
LA122489-0100_0 | 7 W. GERMAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN CAR CRASH | December 24, 1989, Sunday, Bulldog Edition Seven young West German army reservists celebrating the end of their military service were killed when the overcrowded car in which they were traveling smashed into a truck, Munich police said Friday. The men, all in their early 20s, died when their car swerved out of control ... |
LA122489-0116_1 | POLICE LOOK FOR MOTORISTS TOO FULL OF HOLIDAY CHEER | And at a sobriety checkpoint from about 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday night, Torrance police stopped 1,066 drivers along Torrance Boulevard, Sgt. Ron Traber said. Of those, 15 were investigated for drunk driving and four were eventually charged, Traber said. "I really don't think (the checkpoint) came as a surprise to any... |
LA122489-0119_2 | A PRESCRIPTION FOR ADOLESCENT MEDICINE MISUSE | the parents did only slightly more good than harm in dosing their sick kids. One would think that prescription drugs would be more carefully administered, but parents are apparently no more likely to read a doctor's directions than they are those on the back of a box of cough drops, and instructions from physicians and... |
LA122489-0119_3 | A PRESCRIPTION FOR ADOLESCENT MEDICINE MISUSE | prevent a recurrence of the attacks. * Not taking enough of a medicine. Doses may be skipped or forgotten. Medicines that must stay in the blood at a specific level in order to be effective -- medications for people with asthma, for instance -- will not work properly if they are not given promptly and precisely around ... |
LA122489-0119_4 | A PRESCRIPTION FOR ADOLESCENT MEDICINE MISUSE | inexact. * Refusing to take a medicine. Studies found a variety of reasons for this -- including objection to the taste and bothersome side effects. As another factor, the report cited "a covert expression of parental resistance" that led to refusal of the medicine. * Taking too much of a medicine. The if-a-little-is-g... |
LA122489-0191_2 | THE READERS' PICK FOR ARTIST OF THE '80S: U2; THE IRISH QUARTET'S INFLUENCE ON THE DECADE HAS BEEN SUBSTANTIAL AND INARGUABLE | symbolized that more than U2." Other partisans of the quartet caution that we shouldn't separate the band's activism from its art. "They have combined music that sounds great with music that says something," wrote Cathy Orth of La Mesa. And Matt Proietti of Crestline believes that "kids will listen to songs like 'Bad,'... |
LA122489-0193_2 | NEIL YOUNG'S 'FREEDOM' TOPS 1989'S ALBUMS | that matched -- at times even exceeded the top choices -- in the area of boldness, but were less consistent. The Mary Chain, the London-based rock group, still works wonders with its strikingly arranged tales of romantic obsession, though "Automatic" fails to displace 1985's "Psychocandy" as the band's masterpiece. N.W... |
LA122489-0194_0 | URBAN CONCERNS, DANCE FLOOR VITALITY DOMINATE CRITICS' CHOICES | December 24, 1989, Sunday, Home Edition Urban music and urban concerns dominate the 1989 Times pop music critics poll, in which veteran Neil Young's feisty "Freedom" led the way, with Fine Young Cannibals' neo-English soul "The Raw & the Cooked" and L.A. rap group N.W.A's controversial "Straight Outta Compton" right on... |
LA122489-0198_4 | THE '80S A SPECIAL REPORT; PUTTING THE '80S BEHIND US; WHY HAS A DECADE THAT FOR A FEW MOMENTS WAS SO BUOYANT ENDED IN SUCH SEETHING MEAN-SPIRITEDNESS? | emotional life," what does the industrial screech of heavy metal tell us about psychic structure and range, or the relentless pile-driver rhythm of rap that makes no allowance for melodic possibility? Which may be the point: The rapper's world is not a melodic place. Is the rise of MTV a tacit confession that the bulk ... |
LA122489-0209_1 | REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: OUTSIDERS ANALYZE THE COUNTY | the Almanac of American Politics 1990: The 38th District: "A new America has been created within the Orange County grid in the most rapid metropolitan growth of the post-World War II era. . . . (But) to its critics, Orange County came to be synonymous with the white middle class and its values, among which were assumed... |
LA122489-0211_0 | COUNTY IN BRIEF: NORTH COUNTY; DRUNK-DRIVING CRACKDOWN NETS 39 | December 24, 1989, Sunday, Orange County Edition A first-ever coordinated drunk-driving crackdown in North Orange County resulted in 39 arrests Friday night and early Saturday morning. About 70 police officers in Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra, Brea and Placentia were assigned to search for drunk drivers. The officers... |
LA122489-0217_2 | INDUSTRIES THAT POLLUTE ARE FACING LOTS OF DIRTY WORK | and solvents -- and of the notorious ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). * Establish new rules for the proper handling of medical wastes. * Mandate that much of the regular trash produced by businesses and residences be recycled. The impact of these measures on business is far from uniform, hitting some small m... |
LA122490-0006_2 | JUSTICE DENIED: A SYSTEM UNDER INCREASING STRESS; TIMES SERIES REVEALS THE PROBLEMS -- AND LIMITS -- OF LAW ENFORCEMENT | account for more cases than all other felonies put together -- serious crimes have gone up by half in the last decade. But the ranks of the criminal justice system, from judges to uniformed patrols to prosecutors and police lab technicians, have grown nowhere near that fast. Los Angeles couldn't afford it. In only five... |
LA122490-0010_1 | COLUMN LEFT; LOOK WHO'S CALLING HIM A GOOD GUY; PRAISE FOR SHEVARDNADZE IS MOSTLY FROM THE WEST BECAUSE HE WAS ITS PATSY. | of foreign affairs for four decades. But Gromyko was a knowledgeable person imbued with a certain world view -- he would have called it "revolutionary" -- that emerged in often surprisingly humane and comical ways in his memoirs, as when he recalled how sad he and his colleagues were at the death of Elvis Presley, whom... |
LA122490-0020_4 | PSYCHIATRIC WARD TREATS WOMEN ONLY; HEALTH: ADMINISTRATORS DESCRIBE THE UNIT AS A HAVEN FOR RAPE VICTIMS AND OTHERS WITH GENDER-RELATED PROBLEMS. CRITICS SAY IT'S A MARKETING GIMMICK. | see the need for a women-only unit. "I hope people go to hospitals for better reasons than for being women," he said. Specialized units of this type are often little more than marketing tools, he said. Although Thurston stressed that he was not referring specifically to Charter, he pointed out that public psychiatric c... |
LA122490-0020_5 | PSYCHIATRIC WARD TREATS WOMEN ONLY; HEALTH: ADMINISTRATORS DESCRIBE THE UNIT AS A HAVEN FOR RAPE VICTIMS AND OTHERS WITH GENDER-RELATED PROBLEMS. CRITICS SAY IT'S A MARKETING GIMMICK. | said. Pine Grove Hospital in Canoga Park opened the San Fernando Valley's first women's unit almost two years ago. The 14-bed unit charges about $1,000 a day and offers programs similar to those provided by Charter. Pine Grove patients "get exactly what we're marketing," said Donna Burns, program director and founder o... |
LA122490-0025_0 | NEIGHBORS FEARING RISK OF CANCER OPPOSE 2 DWP EXPANSION PROJECTS; ENVIRONMENT: FOES CITE STUDIES LINKING HIGH-CURRENT POWER LINES TO AN INCREASED THREAT TO CHILDREN. THE UTILITY SAYS BOTH PLANS ARE NEEDED TO MEET DEMAND. | December 24, 1990, Monday, Valley Edition A controversy over potential cancer risks from electromagnetic fields is stirring opposition in the San Fernando Valley to two proposals to expand the city's electrical transmission and distribution systems. In Arleta, angry residents are signing petitions against a plan by the... |
LA122490-0037_0 | COLUMN ONE; TRYING TO SAVE THE BABIES; A WASHINGTON CLINIC SEEKS TO HELP REDUCE THE U.S. INFANT MORTALITY RATE. ACCESS IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL WOMEN AND INFANTS. | December 24, 1990, Monday, Home Edition A 17-year-old girl sits in a child's chair in a house a few miles from the Capitol. A 5-month-old boy lies in her lap. SWEET, reads the confetti-patterned sweat shirt pulled over his chubby chest. A tear rolls down the girl's cheek. She lost her first baby at age 16, she is telli... |
LA122490-0037_5 | COLUMN ONE; TRYING TO SAVE THE BABIES; A WASHINGTON CLINIC SEEKS TO HELP REDUCE THE U.S. INFANT MORTALITY RATE. ACCESS IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL WOMEN AND INFANTS. | about infant mortality in the United States, where some experts believe that up to a third of the 40,000 infant deaths a year could be prevented simply by making sure that all women got care. Look to Western Europe, Scandinavia and Asia, they say. Countries like Japan have cut their infant death rates to as low as half... |
LA122490-0037_8 | COLUMN ONE; TRYING TO SAVE THE BABIES; A WASHINGTON CLINIC SEEKS TO HELP REDUCE THE U.S. INFANT MORTALITY RATE. ACCESS IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL WOMEN AND INFANTS. | of jaundice. The mother was depressed, the father frightened. The family spoke only Spanish and had no car to get to a hospital. Koontz and Haggerty drove them immediately to an emergency room. The hospital was being renovated and just finding the entrance was a challenge. The nurses then served as translators and prov... |
LA122490-0039_5 | VIETNAM SEEKING RETURN OF AMERICANS AS TOURISTS; ASIA: BESIDES THE USUAL LURES OF TEMPLES AND CULTURE, OFFICIALS ARE PUSHING ANOTHER ATTRACTION -- WAR. | of eastern Laos, was used by the North Vietnamese to infiltrate the south. Dung said the idea is to let tourists make part of the trip by van and part by foot, with nightly camps set up in the jungle. For entertainment, officials are hoping to offer war games, with tourists dividing into two camps and competing to cont... |
LA122490-0040_0 | CANCER AND POWER LINES -- AN UNCERTAIN CONNECTION; HEALTH: A 1979 STUDY LINKED MAGNETIC FIELDS WITH CHILDHOOD DISEASE. BUT THE ISSUE IS FAR FROM SETTLED. | December 24, 1990, Monday, Home Edition When a 1979 study indicated that childhood cancer rates were higher in families living near high-current electric power lines, scornful utility officials and many scientists insisted that electromagnetic fields from power lines couldn't possibly affect human health. But a follow-... |
LA122490-0040_2 | CANCER AND POWER LINES -- AN UNCERTAIN CONNECTION; HEALTH: A 1979 STUDY LINKED MAGNETIC FIELDS WITH CHILDHOOD DISEASE. BUT THE ISSUE IS FAR FROM SETTLED. | have been criticized for investing too little in EM health research, much of which is funded by utilities. Citing austerity budgets and other priorities, the EPA dropped its own research program a few years ago. The situation is pathetic, said Dr. David O. Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health at the State Uni... |
LA122490-0040_6 | CANCER AND POWER LINES -- AN UNCERTAIN CONNECTION; HEALTH: A 1979 STUDY LINKED MAGNETIC FIELDS WITH CHILDHOOD DISEASE. BUT THE ISSUE IS FAR FROM SETTLED. | that leukemia mortality in Washington state from 1950 through 1979 was 37% higher than average among workers in electrical occupations. A 1988 study found that utility workers in east Texas were 13 times more likely to develop brain tumors than other workers. A 1989 study in Los Angeles County found rates of astrocytom... |
LA122490-0040_7 | CANCER AND POWER LINES -- AN UNCERTAIN CONNECTION; HEALTH: A 1979 STUDY LINKED MAGNETIC FIELDS WITH CHILDHOOD DISEASE. BUT THE ISSUE IS FAR FROM SETTLED. | form of leukemia. The ubiquitous video display terminal has also stirred concern, because it exposes users to fields that are weak, yet of similar strength to those implicated in the childhood cancer studies. A 1988 study found higher rates of miscarriage and birth defects among Northern California women who used compu... |
LA122490-0051_0 | IN COURT: A SELECTED SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-RELATED BUSINESS LITIGATION DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE PAST WEEK. | December 24, 1990, Monday, Southland Edition Van Halen Sues 2 Live Crew Over Copyright: Heavy metal rock band Van Halen sued members of the rap group 2 Live Crew, contending that they illegally used part of the Van Halen hit "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" on a popular rap tune. In the federal suit, Van Halen Music Inc. sai... |
LA122490-0060_0 | IN BRIEF: DRUG, BLOOD CANCER RISK LINKED | December 24, 1990, Monday, Home Edition Treatment of heart transplant patients with a powerful immune suppressing drug appears to sharply increase their risk of a lethal form of blood cell cancer, a study concludes. Researchers found that 11% of patients at one hospital who were treated this way quickly developed lymph... |
LA122490-0067_0 | WORLD SPORTS SCENE / RANDY HARVEY; 1990: GERMANY REUNITES, AND THE SOUTH RISES; TEN STORIES THAT SHOOK THE WORLD SPORTS SCENE IN 1990: | December 24, 1990, Monday, Home Edition With two Germanys becoming one, speculation was that a sports superpower would be created that would bury the Soviet Union and the United States. Instead, the Germans have been shoveling dirt on themselves with revelations about steroid use on both sides of the wall, particularly... |
LA122490-0086_2 | STREET SMART: SO A DRIVER'S IN THE RIGHT (LANE), SO WHY STOP TRAFFIC? | are all about." There is a way the intersections could be modified to ease the situation, but it would prove costly. As these intersections are typically configured, motorists turning right or left out of the side entrance follow the commands of a typical round-lensed traffic light. But the signal could be changed so t... |
LA122490-0103_0 | LOCAL; LANCASTER MAN DIES IN WRECK | December 24, 1990, Monday, Valley P.M. Final A Lancaster man was killed today when his car skidded out of control on a patch of ice, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported. Thomas Hunsaker, 21, died when his skidding car struck a street light pole on 17th Street West about 2:30 a.m., Deputy D. Giddings sa... |
LA122589-0025_4 | PANAMA: THE ROAD TO RECOVERY; BUSH PLEASED, BUT PLOY MAY FORCE STALEMATE | nuncio, Bishop Jose Sebastian Laboa, met with Endara last week. Ironically, Endara himself took refuge at the nuncio's residence until shortly before the U.S. invasion last week. Even if Noriega settles in for a long stay, some State Department officials consoled themselves with the thought that it might be better than... |
LA122589-0045_5 | SCIENCE / MEDICINE; THE BATTLE OVER BERYLLIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIONS TO THE USE OF BERYLLIUM FUEL COULD DEAL ANOTHER BLOW TO THE EMBATTLED STAR WARS PROGRAM.; MISSILES: THE TOXIC SUBSTANCE IS BEING TESTED AS FUEL FOR ROCKETS IN THE 'STAR WARS' DEFENSE PROGRAM. CRITICS ARE CONCERNED THAT A LAUNCH FAILURE COULD POSE A... | beryllium," said John E. Pike, associate director for space policy of the American Federation of Scientists. "Given the probability of a launch failure," he said, "it's an unacceptable risk." Added Jim Werner, an environmental engineer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group: "The benefits of ... |
LA122589-0046_0 | IN BRIEF: SCIENCE / MEDICINE; EDITORS NAME 'MOLECULE OF YEAR' | December 25, 1989, Monday, Home Edition The editors of Science magazine have for the first time chosen a "Molecule of the Year," representative of the most significant scientific achievement. The first winner is an enzyme called DNA polymerase that can be used in the laboratory for making large quantities of any partic... |
LA122589-0047_1 | SCIENCE / MEDICINE; CHRONIC FATIGUE DEBATE STILL GOING STRONG; RESEARCH: THOUSANDS WHO SUFFER FROM THE SYNDROME, AND THEIR DOCTORS, CLAIM IT'S CAUSED BY A VIRUS. BUT RESEARCHERS SAY THE SYNDROME IS RARE, IF IT EXISTS AT ALL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL. | 2,000 people suffering from CFS. Jones has co-authored the CFS "working case definition," arrived at in March, 1988, after elevated antibodies in response to the Epstein-Barr virus proved to be a false lead in the hunt for a cause and an agreed-upon diagnosis. Some researchers argue that CFS sufferers first become phys... |
LA122589-0047_2 | SCIENCE / MEDICINE; CHRONIC FATIGUE DEBATE STILL GOING STRONG; RESEARCH: THOUSANDS WHO SUFFER FROM THE SYNDROME, AND THEIR DOCTORS, CLAIM IT'S CAUSED BY A VIRUS. BUT RESEARCHERS SAY THE SYNDROME IS RARE, IF IT EXISTS AT ALL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL. | disease, chronic brucellosis and, in England, benign myalgic encephalomyelitis, he says. But here the two sides of the debate part company. Manu says that neurasthenia, still a common diagnosis in other countries, gave way to psychiatric diagnoses in the 20th-Century United States. He thinks it was wrongly revived as C... |
LA122589-0051_0 | REFUSAL TO DESTROY DEFINES US, JUST AS MUCH AS THE WILL TO CREATE; ENVIRONMENT: TOO MANY CALIFORNIA PLANTS AND ANIMALS FACE EXTINCTION. FOR SELFISH REASONS, WE HUMANS SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES. | December 25, 1989, Monday, Home Edition Two hundred years ago, Los Angeles County was teeming with wildlife, a veritable crazy quilt of bio-diversity. The remnants of no fewer than 23 distinct ecosystems (more than any other county in the state) tell the tale. In the Los Angeles basin, grizzly bears ate their fill of r... |
LA122589-0068_10 | PICKING AWAY -- NIGHT IN, NIGHT OUT -- AT THE SKY; ASTRONOMY: TECHNICIANS AT PALOMAR OBSERVATORY SLOWLY CHART THE SKIES, TO DIRECT ASTRONOMERS IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS TO THE UNIVERSE. | lost," said J.B. Oke, who, along with fellow Cal Tech astronomer Marshall Cohen, is in the computer control room of the more famous Hale, studying the evolution of distant galaxies. "It gives us the road map so we know were to look." The Oschin is "the most-used astronomical instrument in the world," Cohen said. Robert... |
LA122589-0102_7 | MEDFLY ATTACK STIRS BARELY A WHIMPER; ENVIRONMENT: WHILE L.A. HAS RALLIED AGAINST SPRAYINGS, ORANGE COUNTY REMAINS NONCHALANT. AN AIDE CALLS THE PASSIVITY 'APPALLING.' | the Medfly, such as the use of sterile flies to invade and kill off the fertile population, fruit-tree stripping, and further ground application and trapping. And, pointing to past studies, these critics say the true health effects of malathion are not known. It may, they assert, cause cancer and genetic defects and da... |
LA122590-0016_0 | MENTAL-HEALTH RIGHTS MOVEMENT | December 25, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition Isaac blames the catastrophe of homelessness among mentally ill people on the counterculture and the New Left of the '60s. She is furious that mentally ill people have some rights, such as the right to due process before being subjected to hospitalization or forced to take very ... |
LA122590-0019_0 | LAST CHANCE U | December 25, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition Re: your story on Last Chance U (Metro, Dec. 13), the plight of these children is a consequence of the interaction of an impoverished emotional status, which is frequently accompanied by an impoverished economic status, subculture mores that accept violence as a way of settling ... |
LA122590-0020_1 | MENTAL-HEALTH RIGHTS MOVEMENT | with the real issues in mental health, which is, of course, money. As someone who was involved in the mental-health rights movement of the early 1970s and who knows many of the far more active and important participants, I can say that Isaac has totally missed all the key points of that movement. Some activists, of cou... |
LA122590-0024_2 | THE FOLKS WHO BRING YOU CHRISTMAS . . . | a little brighter for others this year. Their stories were compiled by Times staff writers. The mounted officer: Patrolling on horseback brings Jim Render a dose of holiday spirit while keeping a tight rein on crime in a crowded mall parking lot. Jim Render feels almost as popular as Santa Claus around the shopping mal... |
LA122590-0033_1 | JAPANESE INTRODUCE LATEST BATCH OF GADGETS; RETAILING: PRODUCTS RANGE FROM CLOTHES THAT CHANGE COLOR WITH THE TEMPERATURE TO FABRIC THAT KILLS TICKS AND A CURE FOR COMPUTER 'VIRUSES.' | in the depth and temperature of bathwater, the lighting level and the scenery -- African jungle, for example, or Alpine snow, displayed on a panoramic wall unit -- that they want to find waiting when they get home. By 1997, Business Tokyo Today magazine predicted last month, three-dimensional television sets and home v... |
LA122590-0045_0 | ART REVIEW; 'GRACE' A BRACING LOOK AT LIVES SHAPED BY SURVIVAL; A PHOTOGRAPHER FINDS BEAUTY AND DIGNITY AMID THE DESPERATE POVERTY OF THIRD WORLD NATIONS. | December 25, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition For all those who have wondered what happens to a famine when it leaves the front page or if children stop dying just because cameras stop recording, photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado provides an answer. Surprisingly, it's not a completely sad revelation, as we see in "An Uncert... |
LA122590-0051_0 | BRIEFLY | December 25, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition Germ Warfare Alert Issued: The federal government wants to know if U.S. companies making viruses or bacteria that could be used in germ warfare get any unusual requests or evasive answers from prospective foreign buyers. These companies "should be alert to . . . approaches by na... |
LA122590-0062_5 | ONE EN-CHANTED CHRISTMAS EVE; AT ST. MICHAEL'S ABBEY, MIDNIGHT MASS IS SUNG IN BOTH LATIN AND GREGORIAN CHANT | of a communal life unique to Orange County. Most priests in the county are of the diocesan, or parish, variety and live in small numbers in rectories near their churches. The Norbertines are priests of the type known as religious, and most of them live together in a specific location dedicated specifically to their com... |
LA122590-0063_0 | PARENTS PUT TO THE TEST BEFORE KIDS START SCHOOL; EDUCATION: PROGRAM HELPS FAMILIES MAKE THE MOST OF ESSENTIAL PRESCHOOL LEARNING YEARS. EARLY RESULTS SHOW THAT IT WORKS. | December 25, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition "I want my kids to be all-around great," says Steve Marsden, whose third son is just over a week old. Marsden and his wife, Elaine, are typical parents. They want their children to do all the right things at the right time and be successful in school. But, unlike most parents, t... |
LA122590-0069_8 | COLUMN ONE; IN AFRICA, A NATION WITHERS; MOZAMBIQUE LIVES IN DESPERATION 15 YEARS AFTER GAINING ITS INDEPENDENCE. A RURAL INSURGENCY HAS DISPLACED MILLIONS. | with a dozen grainy black-and-white photographs each. They show Mozambique's orphans, a term that encompasses not only children whose parents have been killed but also a much larger number who have simply been separated from their families by war. Abubucar Sultan, director of child programs for the Department of Social... |
LA122590-0076_0 | U.N. SANCTIONS LIMIT MEDICINE, DOCTOR SAYS | December 25, 1990, Tuesday, Home Edition The U.N. trade embargo is depriving Iraqi civilians, including children, of critically needed medical supplies, a U.S. doctor who recently toured the region said Monday. "We found that sanctions are working, and working brutally, right now," Dr. Bernard Lown of the Harvard Unive... |
LA122590-0097_1 | 46 AUTO INSURERS GRANTED RATE INCREASES BY GILLESPIE | The actions, which formally lift the freeze on auto insurance price increases Gillespie imposed in October, 1989, come at a time when the commissioner is out of the state, visiting her ailing mother in Greece. Between the time Proposition 103, the landmark insurance reform initiative, was passed in November, 1988, and ... |
LA122590-0118_2 | POP MUSIC REVIEW; IN THE END, FUNK GIVES CROWD A HOT FOOT | dropped his pants. And a young boy wearing a Kid Frost T-shirt jumped on stage and displayed some appreciated moves. The Coach House had been overpowered by funk. Even after lulling back into the ballad, "I'd Rather Be With You," Bootsy's Rubber Band from that point forward was in command, rekindling the fervor repeate... |
LA122689-0009_0 | ON SURVIVING THE MEDICARE CRUNCH | December 26, 1989, Tuesday, Home Edition A recent headline on an Economist article about Medicare in the United States admonished: "Better not be ill." The truth of that will become evident to most Americans, 65 and older, on Jan. 1 when the so-called catastrophic coverage ends. For a significant minority of seniors --... |
LA122689-0015_1 | SILENT ACTIVISTS' MARCH DISRUPTS MAHONY MASS; AIDS: THIS WAS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PROTESTS AGAINST THE CHURCH'S STAND ON CONDOMS. | Edition A group of 10 AIDS activists marched silently to the altar in the midst of Archbishop Roger M. Mahony's sermon during the Midnight Christmas Mass at St. Vibiana's Cathedral early Monday but then left the cathedral without further disruption. About 800 people were attending the religious service, the highlight o... |
LA122689-0027_6 | BUYING AND SELLING U.S. LICENSES TO POLLUTE AIR; ENVIRONMENT: THE PRESIDENT'S CLEAN AIR BILL WOULD MAKE SMOG CONTROL A PROFIT OPPORTUNITY RATHER THAN SIMPLY A REGULATORY BURDEN. | through the back door of government. That year Paul DeFalco, the EPA's top official in California, faced a crisis. Los Angeles was violating nearly every standard for pollution set by the EPA. But companies kept pressing to move into the area to set up new plants and facilities or expand ones that were already there. T... |
LA122689-0049_0 | VALLEY ROUNDUP: GENETIC TESTING GROUPS AGREE TO TENTATIVE MERGER | December 26, 1989, Tuesday, Valley Edition American Cytogenetics in North Hollywood said it reached a tentative agreement to merge its Diagenetics Laboratories Inc. unit with Odyssey Biomedical, a newly formed New York company. Both Diagenetics, based in West Paterson, N.J., and Odyssey Biomedical provide genetic testi... |
LA122689-0057_0 | MORNING REPORT: YEAR-END LISTS | December 26, 1989, Tuesday, Home Edition News Ratings: Staff members of all-news station KFWB have ranked the Berlin Wall/crumbling of Communism the No. 1 news story of 1989. In the station's new poll, News 98 staffers ranked the Bay Area earthquake, Chinese democracy movement and Exxon Valdez oil spill the second-thro... |
LA122689-0070_3 | COLUMN ONE; CLEAN AIR QUEST -- AN INSIDE JOB; WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN HEALTH, POLLUTION IN HOMES AND OFFICES MAY BE THE GREATEST THREAT. | on indoor pollution. Wallace, an EPA scientist, has pioneered studies aimed at determining the "total exposure" to pollutants from all sources, both outdoor and indoor. The EPA has estimated that indoor pollution may cost "tens of billions" of dollars annually when medical spending and lost productivity are added up. T... |
LA122689-0070_5 | COLUMN ONE; CLEAN AIR QUEST -- AN INSIDE JOB; WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN HEALTH, POLLUTION IN HOMES AND OFFICES MAY BE THE GREATEST THREAT. | from 3,000 to 20,000 additional deaths. Up to an estimated 30,000 additional deaths annually have been attributed by one scientist, Harriet Burge of the University of Michigan, to legionella bacteria that thrive in poorly maintained hospital systems for hot water, heating, air conditioning and ventilation. But even if ... |
LA122689-0070_7 | COLUMN ONE; CLEAN AIR QUEST -- AN INSIDE JOB; WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN HEALTH, POLLUTION IN HOMES AND OFFICES MAY BE THE GREATEST THREAT. | areas were burdened with as much chemical contaminants in their systems as urban dwellers -- a fact that researchers said could only point to indoor sources of pollution common in every household. The study's findings left questions that must still be resolved: Are higher exposures indoors necessarily dangerous? What a... |
LA122689-0070_18 | COLUMN ONE; CLEAN AIR QUEST -- AN INSIDE JOB; WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN HEALTH, POLLUTION IN HOMES AND OFFICES MAY BE THE GREATEST THREAT. | oils.) POLLUTANTS Formaldehyde (an organic compound) SOURCES Pressed wood products (paneling, particle board, fiber board, plywood) and furniture made with pressed wood products; ureaformaldehyde foam insulation (known as UFFI). Drapes, carpets, other textiles and glues may contribute. Also combustion sources and envir... |
LA122689-0077_1 | ROMANIA: DEATH OF A DICTATOR; POPE PRAYS FOR AN E. EUROPE 'AWAKENED FROM A NIGHTMARE' | reforming East European nations where violence has accompanied change. "In particular, bless at this hour, O Lord, the noble land of Romania, which is celebrating this Christmas in fear and trembling, with sorrow for the many human lives tragically lost, and in the joy of having taken once more the path of freedom," Jo... |
LA122689-0085_0 | NATION IN BRIEF; ALASKA; SATELLITES TO TRACK JUMBO OIL TANKERS | December 26, 1989, Tuesday, Home Edition The Coast Guard will test a new system for tracking oil tankers in Alaska's Prince William Sound, site of the nation's worst oil spill. It will utilize satellite signals and long-range aids to navigation rather than radar, a Coast Guard spokesman said. A satellite is a good tool... |
LA122689-0088_1 | EAST BLOC, THIRD WORLD DEBTS SEEN RISING | help pay the interest on the old loans. Underwood is top economist in the International Economics Department of the World Bank, the largest source of aid to Third World countries. The aid is also in the form of loans, over $21 billion in the year that ended June 30. The bank plans to provide as much as $1.35 billion to... |
LA122689-0089_4 | PANAMA: THE ROAD TO RECOVERY; VATICAN CONFERS WITH U.S. ON FATE OF NORIEGA; DIPLOMACY: THE POPE WILL HAVE TO DECIDE, BUT HE MAKES NO MENTION OF THE DICTATOR IN HIS ADDRESS. | this is good news for Christmas Day," Navarro said in a written statement promising quick contacts "between the concerned parties to examine the personal case of Gen. Noriega in all its aspects." In the United States, Catholic theologians rallied behind the Vatican, saying they believe the church has a strong position ... |
LA122689-0095_1 | DR. JOYCE BROTHERS: HE'S NOT YET READY TO DRIVE | riding lawn mower, I'm concerned. His sister was much more mature at his age and she's an excellent driver. Because she got her permit at 16, he feels that he should too. -- M.O. DEAR M.O.: You're the one in charge, and driving a car is a responsibility, not a privilege that comes automatically at a certain age. Don't ... |
LA122689-0099_0 | JIM MURRAY | December 26, 1989, Tuesday, Home Edition Just for the record: In a recent column when I alluded to Nuremberg as an example of a place where people were oppressed and abused, I didn't -- God forbid! -- mean the defendants there. I was referring to the Nuremberg that was the cradle of Nazism, the site of the obscene Nure... |
LA122689-0141_0 | FAMILY ASKS AUTOPSY NOT BE DONE ON MARTIN | December 26, 1989, Tuesday, P.M. Final An autopsy on former New York Yankee Manager Billy Martin was canceled today at his family's request, and a prosecutor said the decision could make it harder to press charges against the driver of the truck in which Martin died. The Broome County Sheriff's Department reported slow... |
LA122690-0029_4 | DUBIOUS CONTRACTS MAR MINORITY TRANSIT WORK; BUSINESS: AT LEAST $50 MILLION WENT TO FIRMS WITH QUESTIONABLE ELIGIBILITY, RECORDS AND INTERVIEWS SHOW. | 51% owned by a minority or a woman who controls the business. If a company's status as a disadvantaged firm is challenged, the owner may be required to show proof of suffering from chronic racial, ethnic or sexual discrimination. The RTD is responsible for applying such federal regulations while certifying and monitori... |
LA122690-0030_3 | RTD FINDS ITSELF ON ROCKY ROAD WITH CONTRACTOR; INQUIRY: QUESTIONS ARE RAISED OVER MINORITY STATUS. THEY LEAD TO CHARGES OF FAVORITISM AND FORGERY, AND THEN TO FIRINGS. NOW, THE D.A. IS INVESTIGATING. | . . . , " Norwood told The Times. "He didn't direct the activities of anyone. . . ." "I did, too," Eggers said in a phone interview. "I was there . . . working." On April 19, 1989, Norwood overrode Rivera's concerns about Communications International and ordered a secretary to stamp Rivera's signature on a document not... |
LA122690-0036_0 | NATION TAKES BREAK FROM WAR WARINESS AS VOLUNTEERS WARM LIVES OF HOMELESS; HOLIDAY: DEMAND FOR CHARITABLE SERVICES DOUBLES IN SOME PLACES. LOOTERS IN FLORIDA RAID A WELFARE OFFICE AND STEAL TOYS INTENDED FOR THE NEEDY. | December 26, 1990, Wednesday, Home Edition Volunteers warmed the lives of the sick, poor and homeless Tuesday as Christmas gave Americans a merry break from wallet-watching and war wariness. "I cannot change the world, but I know for a fact I can make a difference," said Iqbal Emamudeen of Orange, N. J., a publicist fo... |
LA122690-0064_0 | PAN AM TRYING TO UNDERMINE DEAL, TWA SAYS; AIRLINES: TWA CHAIRMAN CARL C. ICAHN SAYS PAN AM'S RECENT EFFORTS TO SELL OFF CHUNKS OF ITS OPERATION SHOW LACK OF GOOD FAITH IN THE MERGER TALKS BETWEEN THE CARRIERS. | December 26, 1990, Wednesday, Home Edition Hopes dimmed Tuesday for a merger of Trans World Airlines and Pan American World Airways, as TWA Chairman Carl C. Icahn bitterly denounced his counterpart at Pan Am for repeatedly undermining Icahn's quest to combine the nation's premier transatlantic carriers. Revealing that ... |
LA122690-0073_0 | 2 MORE KILLED NEAR FREEWAY CHECKPOINT | December 26, 1990, Wednesday, Orange County Edition Shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve, a 37-year-old Mexican woman and her teen-age companion were struck by vehicles and killed along Interstate 5 north of here as they tried to cross the busy freeway, authorities said. Both were presumed to have been illegal alie... |
LA122690-0079_2 | DANA PARSONS: EX-ADDICT'S HAPPY ABOUT A CHRISTMAS WITHOUT SNOW | toot of their lives. "We had gotten kicked out of our apartment in July and ended up in this motel (in Anaheim). We had been there since August and it was almost as bad as living on the street. . . . That's when drugs became so easily accessible to us. We had them seven days a week, 24 hours a day, whenever we wanted t... |
LA122690-0089_0 | PERSIAN GULF CRISIS REKINDLES DEBATE OVER ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES | December 26, 1990, Wednesday, Orange County Edition It is both a great success and a colossal failure. Rising like a mirage from the barren North Dakota prairie, the Great Plains Synfuels Plant is one of the most noteworthy remnants of the frantic era that followed the Arab oil embargo, when the United States spent mil... |
LA122690-0096_0 | LOCAL; 1 DEAD IN ORANGE COUNTY CRASH | December 26, 1990, Wednesday, Orange County P.M. Final Orange County had one traffic death during the five-day Christmas holiday period that ended at midnight Tuesday, law officials said today. Officers said the Christmas-traffic fatality rate this year is obviously low given that the county has more than 2 million res... |
LA122690-0101_0 | NATION; MORE WOMEN DOCTORATES BY 2001 | December 26, 1990, Wednesday, P.M. Final By the year 2001, women for the first time will earn more doctorates than men, there will be more high school graduates than the 1977 peak and the ranks of classroom teachers will swell, the Education Department projected today. The trends for the next 10 years are included in t... |
LA122690-0107_0 | THE SIDELINES; HEATHER FARR FACES FURTHER TREATMENT AS CANCER RECURS | December 26, 1990, Wednesday, P.M. Final Heather Farr, who made a comeback on the LPGA Tour this year after breast cancer surgery in 1989, has had a recurrence of the disease and will undergo chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. "My breast cancer has returned inside the bone," Farr, 25, said today. "There is a sp... |
LA122690-0119_1 | SPENDING TIME IS THE WAY TO MODEL A ROLE; TEACHING: PEOPLE CLOSE AT HAND NUDGE A CHILD TO DO BETTER. | much as our ability to forget what mattered to us when we were children. Our schools hold career days in the forlorn hope that 15 minutes with a successful lawyer or physician will persuade unambitious youngsters to study. We keep looking for ways to establish links between the people we admire and the children who we ... |
LA122789-0001_0 | JAZZ NOTES: COLLEAGUES LAUD DEEJAY JIM GOSA, DEAD AT 58; FATHER TOM VAUGHN SCHEDULED AT MONTELEONE'S | December 27, 1989, Wednesday, Home Edition The Los Angeles jazz community lost a very good friend when Jim Gosa -- a veteran broadcaster who worked at such stations as KFOX, KBIG and KKGO during his four-decade career -- died Dec. 18 of melanoma at age 58. Though a sometime film, television and stage actor who appeared... |
LA122789-0010_5 | CONFERENCE SHARES THE SECRETS OF INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE; SECURITY: SURVEILLANCE EXPO '89 LET EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS AND INVESTIGATORS SEE THE LATEST IN THE SNOOP AND STYMIE BUSINESS. | read lips; the other is the public library. While Donnelly tracks people and paper for clients, Susan Headley has been one of the people he might have found. A self-described former hacker, she now is a professional poker player in Las Vegas. Headley, who goes by the hacker handle Susie Thunder, described herself as a ... |
LA122789-0034_6 | SPECIAL LAW PUT TO TEST IN CASE OF FETUS DEATH; COURTS: PROSECUTORS SAY ASSAULT ON WOMAN KILLED HER UNBORN BABY. THEY'RE EVOKING A RARELY USED STATUTE TO DEMAND A PUNISHMENT THAT FITS THE CRIME. | meant to kill the fetus. He noted that many women do not appear to be pregnant early in their pregnancy. Whether Velasco knew Morales was pregnant and intended to cause her to lose her baby will be key factors during the trial, Velasco's defense attorney has indicated. Another difficulty in this type of case, attorneys... |
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