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Other top spenders were the California Manufacturers Assn, $1. 57 million; California Medical Assn, $1. 03 million; Western Oil & Gas Assn, $965,000; California Tax Reduction Movement, $928,000; Assn. MIAMI — Nicaraguan rebel leaders, under fire from some exile groups here after negotiating a surprise 60-day cease-fire with the Sandinista government, rejected charges Sunday that the agreement represents a Contra "surrender" "We were realistic, we decided to give it one more try" said Marta Sacasa, spokeswoman for the Contras' umbrella organization, the Nicaraguan Resistance "It is a 60-day truce that has an ending. And the lawyer for parents fighting Ryan's presence at the school said the decision would be appealed. The prize, worth $7,350, was established this year by the generally pro-government Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper Rapport.

"There's definitely some confusion now" said an agent with the Secret Service, frustrated with the new rules that he said have made his job tougher. He took Brown to lunch and tried to persuade him to write a book. Venice was a thriving port and center of commerce, and people wanted to learn to add and subtract so they could keep business accounts straight. Nonetheless, commissioners appeared delighted that NASA witnesses, who have stubbornly resisted any attempts to publicly voice their long-held suspicion that the rocket joint caused the explosion, finally were willing to eliminate a theoretical leak of the shuttle's external fuel tank and several other potential causes. The Italian Wine and Food Institute, which represents Italian wine exporters in New York, was quoted here as saying that all Italian wine shipped to the United States is subjected to strict quality control in order to win the Italian government's seal of approval. Leading the way has been senior reliever Rod Windes, 1-0 and 2. 84 earned-run average He has seven saves, including five in conference play. Guy Doud, a teacher for 11 years at Brainerd Senior High School in Brainerd, Minn, was selected for the honor from among the nation's more than 2. 5 million elementary and secondary public school teachers.

"It could have been worse" said the community activist, of the traffic congestion, as if to signal a truce-at least for now-between the restaurant and residents of a three-block area of West Hollywood. Augustus will look for them, they will burst out, and the evening will lose its chill. "Here I say that what counts is to win" Celebrated Italians The evening, hosted by the ultra-charming Italian Consul General Alberto Boniver and his beautiful wife, Susie, celebrated "everything Italian" and indeed some celebrated Italians were spotlighted. So people react both as mature adults who have suffered a tragic loss and as lost, needy children. RIO DE JANEIRO — Torrential out-of-season rains caused mud slides that killed four people and left thousands homeless, the Brazilian civil defense office said Wednesday. . Alcoholism Work Honored Robert Ward of Long Beach was selected by the state Advisory Board on Alcohol-Related Problems to receive the Robert W. In the interview, the Democratic mayor discussed the two events that, in the view of some supporters and critics, badly damaged his campaign just as it started-his statements on Bird and gun control.

Six people, including four policemen, have died in battles between police and radicals at Narita. One factor pushing the Air Force from inside the Pentagon is the possibility that, if it fails to adopt the new technology quickly enough, other services will encroach on its aerial turf. Under review is an amendment to the Constitution, adopted by voters in 1950, requiring local referendums on city- and county-sponsored low-rent public housing projects. "Oh give me a place with a cow or two where the animals are all my brothers) The variety show was the culmination of a weekend at Cottontail Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains, 2 1/2 days during which students were asked to refrain from speaking English. He allegedly boasted that cocaine was a "Latin American time bomb" ticking away inside the United States-and that the cartel bosses held the fuse Bribery and terrorism made them untouchable. cities that have large concentrations of Korean immigrants, such as New York, Houston and Chicago, and even in smaller cities such as Las Vegas.

"But, by God, somebody has to feel better" But she added: "There's a lot of hostility out there, too" Somewhere along the way, after everyone had saluted the American flag and after the five council members had approved the asphaltic concrete overlay program and heard the city engineer's monthly update on the grease-waste interceptor program, the public business of this suburban city of 60,877 got nasty. He also expressed doubt that the measure's backers were, as they claimed, unaware that he was connected with the case. Even the beverage list, which required the placing of five wine glasses at each setting, was designed to glorify the seven guests of honor. Examining the opposition to the reforms, the party's ruling Politburo concluded that "far from everybody was prepared to view the present situation correctly" Gorbachev said. The monorail is suspended from a cable above the river as it makes its way to the island. There are stained-glass walking horse windows and hundreds of historic and contemporary photos in rooms throughout the hotel, a hub of activity for Tennessee walking horse enthusiasts since World War I.

Burns declined to weigh the importance of the missing photos and refused to draw conclusions based on the voluminous police file, suggesting that any conclusion varying from the official police version will require intensive study. When residents complained of the rising crime rate, police told them, "Go tell the comrades" as the militant youths call themselves. On Sunday, Jackson, campaigning in Connecticut for the state's Tuesday primary, seemed moved by the turn of events. As in every state, there is no provision for a mercy-killing defense. MIAMI — Roswell Gilbert, the 76-year-old self-proclaimed mercy killer of his terminally ill wife, lost an important fight to gain freedom Wednesday when a Florida appeals court upheld his murder conviction. "This letter is to inform you that the owners of the apartment complex in which you reside are going to demolish the building in order to construct a new and modern complex on the site" The words, Stevenson says later, "felt like they jumped off the page" "On or around the 15th of January, 1986, you will receive formal notice to evict your residence.

Practice is as crucial to distance sports as to any athletic feat-a dance routine, a tennis tournament, a softball game. aircraft carriers and 27 other warships steamed near the Gulf of Sidra off Libya, Defense Secretary Caspar W Weinberger said that U. S. Some of the studies done in the past are now obsolete because the drug is so much stronger now. "When I get married" said Milan, a 47-year-old bachelor, "that piano is going to play that song" The tiny piano's paint job has been restored to its original salmon color with colorful designs on it, exactly the way it was in the movie. "The low-income housing market is extremely tight, and low-income housing construction is down.

Jackson was even being asked by reporters now if he were the front-runner. Bidding for the diamond took two minutes and opened at $6 million. HECHT, 65, is a retired business executive who made unsuccessful runs for the City Council in 1972 and 1974. They were studying to be airline pilots or aircraft maintenance workers but have been denied access to aircraft, so their purpose for being in Britain no longer exists Officials said they are expected to leave soon. TV Advertising Doubled In seeking to head off the Jackson onslaught, the Dukakis campaign Monday doubled its television advertising budget for Connecticut, buying more than $20,000 in new commercial time for a primary-eve media blitz. Few farmers feel the impact of hundreds of millions of dollars that foreign donors spend each year on improving food crops Most could use advice, but their problems are more basic. The danger in adding one exception after another to the tax bill, warned Sen.