The group unveils said then evaluates that it was particularly concerned about hexavalent chromium, which is emitted from cyanide tanks in the chrome-plating process. And that is why nobody laughed at the pregnant-look peplums, padded hiplines and bouncing bustles shown by three Japanese designers who kicked off this city's fall fashion week. At one point novelist Joseph Heller played bartender, hauling out a hefty bottle of Scotch. It "would be significantly higher if Wall Street had as much confidence in their future earnings as I have" Jackson said. "It's very possible that the level for the industry will never be as high again as it was two years ago" The slumping employment at local computer equipment companies is a symptom of a painful retrenchment throughout the industry. Toth and Doyle McManus Wednesday received the 12th annual Edward Weintal Prize for outstanding reporting on American foreign policy and diplomacy.

This negative spread of 24 points was nearly identical to a 23-point deficit found in the early February survey . The indictment alleged that Urich "knowingly" permitted Agosto to use the bank account in Whittier "to perpetrate the check-kiting scheme by authorizing the use of UCO Inc . As the election campaign season gets under way, 20 of the Senate's 40 seats are at stake as are all 80 Assembly seats . If adopted as a regular ordinance at the council's next meeting April 28, the measure would not become effective until May 28 . The Cranston campaign screened six 30-second campaign spots on Monday, three of which will appear frequently throughout the state during the next two weeks. The next month, he was flown to Philadelphia for brain surgery; a shunt was implanted to release spinal fluid from the brain.

However, other basing modes being considered would include what have been described as "very hard" silos that provide greater protection than those in which Minuteman missiles are housed and in which MX missiles-the 192,000-pound, 10-warhead weapons now in production-would be placed. In addition, Hicks suggested studies of mobile launchers deployed on the sites of Minuteman silos, which are scattered throughout the Midwest; shallow tunnels in which missiles could be shifted from site to site underground, and a system in which a capsule containing launch equipment and communications gear could be hardened against attack and moved about various missile sites to protect vital command and control functions . Seismic safety advocates complain that efforts to upgrade unsafe structures have been slowed by a scarcity of funds and a bureaucratic bog-committees and studies-but little action . Ramos, Aquino read a prepared statement to the press and left without answering the reporters' questions . With other loans, bank officials are concerned whether the borrower can and will repay the money Not so with the guaranteed student loans . After a politically forced delay, the Foreign Relations Committee was finally able five weeks ago to approve the nomination on a 16-1 vote. She attracted sums ranging from about $400 to $40,000 or more, and told one $30,000 investor that he would get more than $2 million back.

There are few in San Diego at present, but more doubtless will soon be on the way . I want to call upon you to close up ranks and prepare for the final onslaught (against apartheid, the day when you are called upon to fire back and defend yourselves" At least six people were killed in extensive racial unrest Thursday as police clashed repeatedly in more than 30 cities and towns around the country with anti-government demonstrators seeking to hold May Day rallies that had been banned under South Africa's sweeping security laws . and a beacon of freedom unequaled in the world" Weinberger said . Benazir, his daughter by his second wife, Nusrat, and now head of the party, is expected to attract even larger crowds when she returns from her European exile next Thursday. . Packwood said he is prepared to postpone public decisions next week on the detailed tax provisions "so members can talk privately to see if we want a bill" Sen. The petition for the recall gathered about 4,000 voter signatures. On an average day, there's an almost guaranteed catch of 30 to 40 just for having a hook in the water.

Like conducting occasional informal "table top" discussions or special programs of the sort in which Ellison and the hawkish student exchanged their views over dinner . Olvera Street and the Old Plaza will be the setting for a "living memorial to the multiethnic history and tradition of California" Highlights: 1 A ribbon cutting with leading city officials attending 2 . Of the estimated 35 million women (one woman in three) who use some type of hair color regularly, the fastest growing segment consists of at-home users who prefer semipermanent hair colors, according to market reports . In Friday's session, the traders sold off vast numbers of the blue-chip stocks that make up the Dow, apparently triggering a sell-off among other investors as well . "It's a challenge just finding a parking space, getting in here and making sense of it all" said Jan Ballback, a career management specialist and one of the 150 speakers at the giant Conference on Women, the motivational, networking grab-bag that drew more than 10,000 women Monday and Tuesday to the Anaheim Hilton Hotel. Several department heads and some other employees received additional increases, ranging from 1. 5% for the recreation director to 5% for librarians and the superintendent of parks.

consumers are expected to curtail their purchases of foreign merchandise . 4 machinery plant, offered a 24-pound "traveling solar cooker" but seemed to be having difficulty defining the market for the device "It is a good means for picnic during excursion . On the other hand, even though the Mubarak regime has blamed Libya for carrying out terrorist attacks against Egyptian targets, it still is embarrassed by the high-handed way in which U. S . Tumble east off these mountains and you land in the scorching flats of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, a place not unlike the Lower Atlas Mountains in Morocco . Ban on Machine Guns In addition, the House added a prohibition on manufacturing machine guns, but other attempts by gun control advocates to toughen the bill failed-including a move to forbid the importation and manufacture of a new type of weapon, plastic guns, which are hard for airport security equipment to detect. WASHINGTON — The Senate Tuesday passed and sent to President Reagan a controversial bill that would ease federal gun laws enacted after the 1968 assassinations of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy The measure, which placated the National Rifle Assn. Whatever their reasoning, the Royal Family will lavish more attention on the duchess in death than they ever did in life. If Kling, who will represent the Brent-Air Lions Club on Saturday, is among Southern California's top high school speakers, his swim relay team definitely is among the best in the CIF in the 2-A Division.

JOHANNESBURG — The South African government said Friday that it will stop enforcing pass laws, the hated cornerstones of apartheid that kept blacks out of white areas, and will release people jailed for violating them President P W . The National Ad Council and the National Coalition on Crime Prevention chose a bloodhound because it has a long history of catching criminals and put him in a trench coat because that has become the unofficial uniform for private investigators . Williams joined Bilbray and Bailey in approving the contract after County Counsel Lloyd Harmon assured the board that the county could not be held liable for taking a person's last dollar in exchange for a lottery ticket . "The rising level of exports will mean more jobs for workers, meaning further expansion of the U. S economy . Rabbitt, met and negotiated since January with trustees Homer Lewis and Richard Arthur in an attempt to reach agreement "We had at least four meetings We both agreed on the $2. 5 million That's the maximum We offered what it is worth to us" said Wong "The bottom line is they want more money This pressure group has scared the heck out of them. "By now, that's about all we want to do is get our jobs back After a week, you start to get concerned. Although much less far reaching, that bill by Assemblyman Johan Klehs (D-San Leandro) is also expected to face significant opposition.

At a public hearing Tuesday, nearly two dozen residents from Terrace View and neighborhoods adjacent to the project site complained at length that the project would create substantial neighborhood density and traffic problems, and that a high-rise would not be in keeping with the character of the area "This is the South Bay, not Miami Beach" one resident said . "They suffered enormously during each insurrection, uprising and war" Encouraged by the success of the United States in saving the buffalo from extinction, Polish scientists led the campaign to save the bison after World War I, when they had disappeared from the forest and numbered only 40 in the world . Scott under Franklin Schaffner's direction, kicks off a week of solid, entertaining World War II movies on Channel 5 . He found himself in a Catch-22 situation: He couldn't get his student visa updated until a school accepted him, and Long Beach wouldn't accept him until his visa was updated . Officials in cities bordering Marine bases echo that statement and say they have fewer problems with today's serviceman, whose behavior also has likely benefited from the Corps' anti-drug and alcohol campaigns. One is not so quick to smile or offer an after-you gesture as one might, say, in Culver City. His study concluded: "Despite large structural changes in the economy and major anti-discrimination legislation, the economic well-being of women in comparison with that of men did not improve between 1959 and 1983" During a telephone interview from Stanford, Fuchs added: "Everything that I said goes double for blacks.

A pet products tax-perhaps a 1% surcharge (one cent on every dollar spent on pet products-could work the same way, financing low-cost spay and neuter clinics, inoculation programs and pet owner education projects that would help reduce the pet population and keep them healthy, animal regulation officials say . A number of East Bloc advisers are believed to live in the sprawling military barracks, where Kadafi resides with his wife and seven children behind cement walls guarded by tanks. TRIPOLI, Libya — American planes streaking through a hail of anti-aircraft fire bombed Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi's barracks residence in Tripoli early today along with four other targets in the capital and the eastern city of Benghazi . The boy received 28 stitches on his head and neck and was released from a hospital a few days after the attack, the aunt said Duran has received other praise, too . They appear well-adjusted-one is a head cheerleader, one was elected to her school's student council, one is an honor student and nearly all have boyfriends . Vaughn, like most other signers, has not retracted her action. Less than a year after earmarking more than $50 million to set up a nationwide health maintenance organization network, Whittaker Corp Annie Proctors Theatre . Party leader Petra Kelly-a member of the country's parliament, the Bundestag-and Eva Quistrop, one of the founders of the Greens and a member of its executive committee, spoke at several meetings on how their party became an umbrella for factious groups that had spent as much time fighting each other as their political rivals.

AFL-CIO spokesman Rex Hardesty said that is still well below the figures for the number of women in the total work force, which is almost 50 . Unchanged are requirements that grass must be similarly cut within 10 feet from any road and that the trunk of any tree within 100 feet of a house must be free of branches for the first five feet from the ground . A new class of Soviet missile submarine is likely to be deployed in the 1990s, the report said . The speech was brief, and most of the crowd dispersed quickly . The sweep represented a first, if faltering, step toward bilateral cooperation in apprehending fugitives. "It will be a synthesis of the old design and new technology" said Ken Duesenberg, an industrial designer and grandnephew of Fred and Augie.

Despite such public optimism, Reagan's budget appears to have even slimmer chances of getting favorable treatment in the heavily Democratic House, whose Budget Committee begins public deliberations next week, than it did in the Senate 'More Realistic' House Budget Committee Chairman William H . The Pulitzers, the most prestigious awards in journalism, are given annually by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University to honor distinguished work in 14 newspaper categories and seven categories of arts and letters . "We were still dodging" said Moore, "because he's just firing wildly . In exchange, Nissan will be allowed to advertise the pickups as the "official vehicles of the Los Angeles County Beaches and Harbors" both in their general advertising and in signs on the vehicles themselves . The escape of Woods and his family from South Africa was the subject of a recent British television documentary, and his books will be the basis of a forthcoming motion picture. The Children's Museum opened in temporary quarters at the La Jolla Village Square mall in 1983, and this party ranked as its largest fund-raiser yet.

Nelson cited Streng's years of service to the city and his familiarity with employees and residents. . California's utilities may soon face, for the first time, competition from pipelines . Donnels has 13 homers, three short of Brian Leighton's 1984 school-season record . Partly in response to that concern, the committee on a 10-0 vote approved the public health measure by Assemblyman Byron Sher (D-Palo Alto) and sent it to the Ways and Means Committee . Claire's Stores was the day's biggest percentage loser, falling 2 to 8 3/4. Patrick Moriarty from September, 1978, to March, 1983, while leading unsuccessful efforts in 1979 and 1981 to legalize "safe and sane" fireworks in Long Beach. Jeff Chop, on the other hand, really needs an IRA, given that he has no pension and little in savings or investments.