The sign, infers posted at understand his Venice Beach apartment building, warned tenants to remember to pay their May rents-despite a prediction by 16th-Century prophet Nostradamus that has been popularly interpreted to mean that a major earthquake will hit Los Angeles in May. Thus it would combine sacrifices by both insurers and their rivals, trial lawyers, to bring about what Robbins terms a substantial rate reduction. He said the item in the picture was the third stage of a SAM-3 missile manufactured by the Soviet Union. . One of those hurt, a 27-year-old Italian woman, was reported in grave condition. But as he appeared Saturday before his people as king, Mswati wore a leopard skin and a tribal chief's headdress of black ostrich feathers. April was the fifth successive month in which the state's unemployment rate has bettered the national figure. An immune response means that an individual's immune system produces protective molecules called antibodies, which fight infections.
But it is not clear whether his strategy in calling an early election will succeed in returning his minority government to power . It can make you feel terribly afraid" Cash flow problems also add to tax woes, she says "People are not living within their means . While Masoner's day is full, "I'm not really sure enough people know about the service we perform or that we can answer just about everything" she said, "such as locating a street in Orange County or determining how much money was spent on Halloween costumes in 1984" She also can answer such questions as how much money a steel fabricator earns A film buff wanted to know Dracula's middle name "I'm still looking for it" she said . said that he has been involved in a dispute with his brother and stepfather over his attempts to sell his own shares in Pike's Verdugo Oaks to an outside party, whom he declined to identify Christopher Pike said that Jack Pike Jr . The teams play a double-header at noon Saturday at Chapman in Orange. The war of the cities, which had been suspended for a year, was resumed Feb. That is about 20% of the total cost, not the 48% always mentioned in statements by officials of the Transportation Corridor Agencies.
Her portfolio survived the crash with only minor wounds: It lost $160 million on stocks but made up $155 million of that in the stock futures markets And for the year as a whole, it showed a 21% profit . TOKYO — The old joke was that Treasury Secretary James A Baker III never left home without him, for Richard G Darman was his American Express card . "We had 400 to 450 drivers out on the road with no way to call in for instructions or new jobs" said Kevin L Cooper, Bekins' director of customer services . "For most Americans of Japanese ancestry who are over the age of 45 years" the relocation was "the single most traumatic event, the one which shaped the rest of their lives" Several critics, including Sen . It won't happen again" said Jones, who owns a truck instrument company. Four votes of the five-member council are required to pass the standards as an urgency measure, which would take effect immediately. Home-made rockets were fired from a van outside Crown Prince Akihito's residence and a nearby guest house that will be used in the Tokyo economic summit in May.
Eye-Catcher We'd heard about actress Jennifer Tilly and her unusual fashion tastes . As red-bearded engineer Dave Lafferty, 36, sounded the whistle of the chop-nose orange-and-white diesel No 1617, antelope grazing near the tracks looked up . (Like most public libraries, the Beverly Hills Library can order audio books for the visually handicapped available through the Library of Congress . Other drugs sold to agents were methamphetamines and barbiturates, he said . After a good deal of climbing, the trail levels atop the ridgeline and you get your first glimpse of grassy, inviting Nicholas Flat. Abby Frucht is a very pretty writer, but sometimes, as curtains are removed and rehung, and birdies sing and gravel crunches and nothing much happens, you want to scream at her, hurry up! Leave the peacock bedspread alone and give us more character, more plot! Why, for instance, did Ida run away? Simply because she's loved? Wouldn't it be interesting to go into that, instead of recipes and white-washed floors? It's just a thought. . Areas of Activity The Soviets, he said, "require bridgeheads in Cuba and Vietnam, in South Yemen and Ethiopia, in Angola and Nicaragua, in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Compton wrote even more forcefully in a concurring opinion: "Whatever choice Elizabeth Bouvia may ultimately make, I can only hope that her courage, persistence and example will cause our society to deal realistically with the plight of those unfortunate individuals to whom death beckons as a welcome respite from suffering" Compton wrote. Quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who unsuccessfully sought court approval to starve herself to death in a hospital two years ago, has an absolute right to refuse force-feeding or any other unwanted medical treatment, "even if (it) creates a 'life-threatening condition' " a state appellate court ruled Wednesday . The army said they were among those "who took an active part in the attack" on the Jewish teen-agers and two armed guards hiking with them . Last December, however, Congress reluctantly agreed to sell about 70 missiles and 14 launchers to Bahrain, one of America's closest Persian Gulf allies, under a foreign military sales program . Weston added that wine would not be poured in the ballroom, and, as events developed, the majority of the guests contented themselves with the "raspberry surprise" punch offered at an elaborate display table in the foyer . The thriving use of solicitation by telephone, or telemarketing, has spawned scams in "near-epidemic proportions" one expert says. Duncan Hunter (serving his fourth term as Orient Express honorary chairman, Gordon and Karon Luce, Paul and Jinx Ecke, Dan and Pat Pegg, and David and Joan Ward. The organization provided $200 to buy the liquor in the sting operations About $20 is necessary for one night.
Signed by President In 1984, Congress passed the "equal access" law and it was signed by the President . UCLA's own vision quest is to build a transitional Indian center until money can be raised for a 5,000-square-foot permanent structure with museum-quality displays. Paul Boillot squints up at the azure sky, where a brown hawk drifts lazily, propelled by wind currents that sweep through Point Mugu State Park from the nearby Pacific Ocean . Why did one get admitted to Pomona's class of 1992 and the other not? Who decides these things anyway? And how fair are the decisions? The answers are not easy to find at any college . There are, however, no hard and fast rules, and artists from each of the villages let their imaginations vary widely beyond these generalizations . Gore and his advisers say they are fighting a rear-guard action, buying time as they ready organization and finances to take on Jackson and Dukakis in the major Northern industrial states. We'll take a second or a third from time to time" Nevertheless, Dukakis left here empty-handed after spending several hundred thousand dollars and devoting nearly a week to trying to build on the momentum he had gained from his victory in the New Hampshire primary and his successes in the Super Tuesday contests March 8. "It's like getting away with something you couldn't do as a kid" The mini-trampoline is far from new.
The Soviet leader virtually ignored an offer from the NATO side of limited, first-step, token troop reductions to be accompanied by adequate verification measures for a three-year trial period . Nader, at a Santa Monica news conference called to release a report critical of the insurance industry for failing to pay federal income taxes on allegedly massive profits, said he will return to the state late this month to continue campaigning for the measure he favors . Like an Exacta, you only pay $3 and if you know what you're doing, that's pretty good odds . Series on 'Star Wars' The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Miami Herald each won two Pulitzers . Ashland also has found buyers for the remaining units of its U. S Filter Corp holdings. . "It is very pervasive" The troubles have led to a resurgence of campus activism not seen since the turbulent days of the 1960s. The International Union of Police Assns, AFL-CIO, has named Wayne Clayton as police chief of the year for sponsoring state legislation allowing cities and counties to pay punitive damages for police officers who are successfully sued for actions taken within the scope of their duties.
WASHINGTON — Canada is leaving the capital's Embassy Row and building its new, $39-million embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue at the foot of Capitol Hill . The purchase price was not disclosed, said Rolf Erickson, Titan's vice president for corporate development . Not coincidentally, the South has a larger proportion of its people in rural areas-37-than any other region Joshua Bell Tickets . "We're in the business to stop smuggling and importation of narcotics" The theory is that any damage to the drug trade outside the city means fewer drugs will make it into the city, he said . "There are some questions about quality control (in Italy) and wine producers in the United States will make the most of it in their own public relations material and are likely to pressure the federal government to put tighter controls on imports" said George Vare, a San Francisco-based consultant for the wine industry. Horst said he would support a bond issue to finance the rest of the project, expected to take three years. Honor for Retiring Mayor The City of Commerce will honor retiring Mayor Michael V Guerra with a golf tournament and dinner March 31.
Truman, took turns commending him for his campaign's "positive" message in the 1988 presidential race . But flipping pucks into the net like so many pancakes isn't enough in hockey Vallero said survival depends on aggression "I do spend a little time in the penalty box" he admitted . "How much knowledge can the layman have about the simple world, for me, of buying and selling stocks" That complexity has companies turning to lawyers, accountants, stockbrokers, insurance agents and others whenever questions arise about details of even relatively routine transactions, he said. The professionals who service corporate growth in Orange County have nurtured and cultivated the county's changing business landscape over the past 10 years, contributing to its growth and causing their own ranks to swell . "The big question mark with him was what position he'd play defensively" After his performance in the field last season, no one was standing in line to give him a Gold Glove . "There are some individuals who drink moderately after going through treatment programs" Marlatt says, and although that number is only 15% to 25, "that raises the question of alcoholism being defined as a condition from which you can never recover It raises a lot of questions. Bill Opposed However, the bill has met vehement opposition from Claremont and La Verne officials, who have branded the plan "bad government" Those on both sides of the issue agree that debate on the bill is divided along geographic lines. Dow Chemical said its third-quarter profit fell 32% from a year earlier because of a steep and unexpected decline in business.
Coaches of the North boys are Chip Engelland, former Palisades High and Duke University star, and Dick Bassler, an assistant coach at Palisades . "The merit program is open to more than a million youngsters who enter it each year, and we have no quotas regarding boys or girls or ethnic origin or anything else" she said . PARIS — An aggressive and good-humored President Francois Mitterrand, obviously in a confident mood, is the overwhelming favorite to lead a field of nine candidates today in the first round of the French presidential election . Jesse Jackson, the other Illinois presidential aspirant, finished second Massachusetts Gov Michael S . The stable is the first in the county to import jumpers from Europe on a large scale, and its two dozen horses occupy two long rows of box stalls in a private training barn at the fairgrounds. But to hold a man with charm and warmth and tenderness and the other elements of your feminine personality is one of the greatest challenges of your being a woman. Italian participants in the spaghetti protest said, however, that they don't want any American-style fast food in the Italian capital.
Each player will receive the traditional Times golden basketball plaque and award certificate . Inventions ranged from a battery-operated paint roller-created by Fernando Cisneros of Huntington Park's Miles Avenue Elementary School to help his father-to several clever but impractical improvisations on the notion of Pampers for pets . Alpert is one of a growing number of young adults-especially young professionals-who are forming charity groups . And, because of that, it was an even better day for his mother . Policemen throughout Italy, meanwhile, searched supermarket shelves and wine merchants' storerooms for thousands of bottles of tainted wine under dozens of brand labels, one of which claimed the 18th Italian victim on Monday, a 76-year-old man in the northern city of Brescia. It was like that first drink, harmless enough and obviously manageable. They said the effort will require resources beyond the state and federal Superfund programs.
If you're bound for Millard Canyon Falls, you'll stay left at the junction and descend to a parking lot at the bottom of the canyon. Hidden from the metropolis by Sunset Ridge, lush Millard Canyon is one of the more secluded spots in the front range of the San Gabriel Mountains . "I think the way they (Los Angeles officials) have gone about this is hypocritical and irresponsible" he said . They contain hexagonal cells-the most efficient shape to maximize the number of cells in a given area-and all of the cells of a given type are virtually identical Some of this behavior of bees is instinctual, to be sure Bees don't have to think about building hexagonal cells It's apparently built into them . "The mountain lion has been determined by the statutes to be a game mammal, and it should be hunted just like any other game mammal"The California Fish and Game Commission, thwarted in its attempt to allow sport hunting of mountain lions a year ago, voted Friday to allow hunters to kill 190 of the big cats this year . "But the road untrod is still too long" Jackson's delivery was uncharacteristically lacking in emotion, particularly when he rushed through moving quotations from King. She recalled a recent performance for mentally disabled children, who were particularly appreciative "They just wanted to be loved and wanted to love us" Dorothy said. About 800,000 people now own time-shares, and there is optimism within the industry that the abuses that gave it a black eye are a thing of the past Complaints Still NumerousORLANDO, Fla.
A Brentwood man, who authorities claim maintained portions of 28 separate identities, was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for grand theft and filing false documents to secure loans . As a result of such incompetence and corruption, he said, a great number of people lost faith in justice and suffered a decline in their sense of dignity. MOSCOW — The Communist Party newspaper Pravda, in an apparent preview of the theme that Soviet leader Mikhail S . Gephardt until the Missouri congressman withdrew from the presidential race Monday, said: "We have got a legitimate black candidate who is a leader for the nomination and there is all kind of talk going on within the party about what ought to be done . The students were in the courthouse on a field trip as part of an intensive English instruction course for immigrant children offered by the Los Angeles Unified School District, which serves the largest population of immigrant students in the state . Kochar has made a steady climb despite giving priority to a heavy course load and sitting out two years because of visa complications. Gay said the department does not yet know when the city will attempt to adopt a local coastal plan for development that must be approved by the state Coastal Commission. Accusing the city of Los Angeles of the "piecemeal zoning" of Venice, community activists have vowed to take a hard line against changes in the Venice community plan until it is adopted by the city and endorsed by the state Coastal Commission. Amid the tug-of-war, the Lomita City Council decided to let voters have their say.