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The nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corp, founded in 1955, selects students based on outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements. Directed by an on-board computer, it approached the coast of San Clemente Island, about 60 miles west of San Diego. New resorts are planned, developers such as the Marriott chain are getting involved, and the Disney real estate subsidiary, Arvida, is showing interest. Call it butterflies, the jitters, cotton mouth, flopsweat-it all adds up to grief for anyone performing before an audience. Criteria for the rankings were developed jointly by The Times and MZ representatives. The Times of London reported Wednesday that a five-man military junta may have wrestled away some of Kadafi's control over Libya since the U. S raid.

Hundreds of Buddhists wearing earphones listened to a simultaneous English translation of the Dalai Lama's speech on transistor radios. And for the past two years they have placed first in the annual canoe race generally considered to be the world championship-between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Molokai, beating teams from Australia, Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, Japan, Canada and the continental United States. According to a draft of the legislation, anyone organizing a strike or protest could be sent to prison for a year. But when all the hands were played this week, something had happened here that had never happened before: A small group of people, describing themselves as nothing more than concerned citizens, had challenged the district on an air-quality regulation and won its case before the district's five-member hearing board. German intelligence sources told the Associated Press that the Palestinian was captured in part as the result of a tip from London and that they were investigating the possibility that the man is related to one of the El Al suspects. However, a person who tests positive is presumed to be infectious. WASHINGTON — For Chris, a 38-year-old homosexual who teaches school in Los Angeles, learning that he had tested positive for exposure to the AIDS virus was a mind-numbing shock.

"Had I appreciated how difficult it was to find Truth, I might never have begun my search for the interrelated history of Jews and Yale I have not succeeded in my quest. So it isn't until you touch the outside metal door handle that you suddenly throw off all the static charge that you have built up-and that can be quite uncomfortable Unfortunately, the solution is not very simple. I was able to forgo the bingo although a lot of people traipsed off to seek their fortunes every time a game was announced. Jack Kemp, who has quit the race, and "uncommitted" The margin of Dukakis' victory provided his campaign with the romp it had expected before being shaken by Jackson's stunning victory in Michigan on Saturday. Shields said he became concerned after hearing that the roads, built between 1969 and the early 1970s, consisted of mine and mill waste from the Calaveras Asbestos Mill about a mile away. COPPEROPOLIS, Calif.

Dressed in his trademark Army surplus jacket, faded jeans and work boots, Snyder cradles his newest accessory, a walkie-talkie, which crackles now and then with messages from other members of the Community for Creative Non-Violence. To overcome incumbents' natural advantages, challengers resort to a variety of stratagems. Interest by Sultan Reported Interest in the house led Spelling to deny one report that he offered to sell the unfinished house for $22 million to a representative of the Sultan of Brunei in a meeting arranged by millionaire businessman Marvin Davis. This is a minimal expenditure in terms of the total budget" said Jim Jevens, the Ventura district's public information and personnel officer The district's annual budget is about $20 million. In Van Nuys, acting office manager Diane Ward said, "We're wall-to-wall people They're wrapped around the building.

The problem: As he has gained height, he has also gained weight Too much weight He now weighs 250 pounds. And it was the first community in Georgia to join with its respective county to declare Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a public holiday. All holdings of the library, including career papers, will be brought under one roof. The source said an additional, unpublicized payment of $330 million was made later. Seconds later, the sound of explosions rattled and shattered windows, while the sound of anti-aircraft fire peppered the air. Among the nations represented at the summit, only Britain and Canada have expressed support for the April 15 bombing raid on the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. Sam Nunn (D-Ga, had seemingly been settled after an exchange of letters with the secretary of state But in recent days, White House counsel A B.

Seven of the instances of cracking and corrosion were found in response to the government's 1982 inspection order, FAA spokeswoman Bobbie Mardis said. The federal government ordered the inspection of old Boeing 737s late last year for cracks in the portion of the upper fuselage where a 19-year-old Aloha Airlines jetliner ripped open in the sky southeast of Maui, officials said Friday. Under the federally mandated emission-reduction policy-a system designed to reward companies for removing older, polluting machinery-Phillips was entitled to receive credits that could be used to help it gain approval for future projects. The report is sharply critical of record-keeping in the program. And they say it helps to be a bit adventurous and prepared for surprises that greet those living in a foreign land. Jordan, the officials added, is seeking a number of "clarifications" of the plan from the United States before Shultz returns to the region next month. Because the shape and materials resemble a New England barn, a mood Jones enhanced by planting clusters of trees on the street edging the site, the structure became known as the "barn" The barn will be open to the public from 3 to 6 p. m. "All Rini Climaco has going for him is his father's name and his loyalty to Aquino "You know, we are a bunch of crazy people.

But "There are many things we'd be interested in more (than sexual preference" Green said, "like issues of career choice versus homemaking. In the westernmost block of the two, bounded by Brand Boulevard on the west, the agency has proposed that a structure be built to serve as a retail arcade and pedestrian passageway between the planned parking garage on Maryland Avenue and Brand Boulevard. Delaplane, who spent about half the year overseas to create his six-day-a-week columns, joined the Chronicle in 1936 as a reporter. Only Baker stayed with him through the entire trip, which ended triumphantly in Detroit three years later. "It is inescapable for survival" Yet he acknowledged there were obstacles. Someone would escort him to the window since he wasn't coming on his own. If it was indeed at the Savoy that some inspired bartender first mixed chilled gin with a whisper of vermouth and a twist of lemon peel, it's a credit to both institutions.

"One of the things we are considering asking for is permit-parking from the city" Another proposal, he said, would require the restaurant to maintain a lot off the street for limousines. TWA officials in New York said 124 people were aboard, including seven crew members No one claimed responsibility for the blast. Other forms of Vitamin A have been shown to do this, and there is some preliminary evidence that Retin-A may as well, at least hypothetically. When neighbors in the affluent hillside neighborhood complained, the church tried to obtain permission for the travel-trailer, which it owns, last fall. In addition, the county Department of Health Services is expected to consider initiating a mobile syphilis-screening unit, speed the transfer of health records among county health offices and tighten surveillance of laboratories and hospitals to ensure reporting of all syphilis cases. Stressing his themes of compassion and economic justice for working people and the poor, and his own humble origins, Jackson has concentrated in both states on communities of farmers and union members who offer the greatest potential for expanding his base of white support. Nowadays people learn to read to themselves as young children and seem to accomplish it without much trouble.

I keep wondering if I was a man if something like this would happen to me". "I had been divorced two years and had two boys, ages 5 and 2, when I met John, a man I had worked with 10 years previously" she says. Budget analysts said passage of the measure would mean other state programs would be cut $200 million next year. Other newspapers have chosen to edit the cartoon's text, deleting those names that they could not independently verify or were convinced were inaccurately depicted.

in political science from Harvard University, opened his remarks by telling of two hikers who were approached by a grizzly bear. But officials say nowhere else is the problem more serious than in California, where new, tougher laws, crackdowns on crimes such as drunk driving, stricter bail rules and longer sentences have sent inmate populations soaring well beyond the design or lawful capacities of existing correctional facilities. She doesn't want to fritter it away" Farnell said of the settlement. Women bicyclists, sweeping around the broad, French-style avenues like great schools of fish, often don elbow-length dress gloves. Since then, although juries have often voted big judgments against the media, federal appeals courts have intervened to either throw out the verdicts or greatly reduce the damage awards.

Some said he was crazy, but Aryanto saw a 23-acre wedge of land between the urban squalor and the Java Sea as an ideal location for Southeast Asia's first high-tech theme park "This is not Disneyland. Los Angeles Backs Plants Backers, including the City of Los Angeles and the county sanitation districts, have touted trash-to-energy plants as a logical alternative to rapidly filling landfills. Donsbach's Huntington Beach company charges $15 for a 16-ounce bottle of 35% "food grade" hydrogen peroxide in the mail order scheme, according to Assistant U. S Atty Brian Kipnis. Rules Seen as Too Rigid Defense lawyers in about 50 federal district courts have challenged the new rules as unconstitutional because the seven-member commission that wrote them included three judges as well as four private-sector experts.

"A year ago only one county had more than one club; now there are multiple clubs in San Diego, Santa Barbara and Riverside counties. The situation was doubly hard to clarify because government offices were closed in observance of the Jewish feast of Passover. "I see no solution to my problem" Only Garcia's husband is eligible for amnesty under the 1986 immigration law. And based on all the calls we've been getting lately, the demand is going to go up even higher in the future" Not that Gonzalez minds. In her office, "I would sit and work and I had a marvelous view" she said. Under the new system, tens of thousands of elderly people nationwide have received letters in recent weeks informing them that they received services found to have been "medically unnecessary" and that they may be entitled to be reimbursed by their doctors.

Du Pont rose to be a vice president and executive committee member of the giant chemical company founded by his great-great-grandfather, E I du Pont, before leaving the company in 1965. Burns, 57, an affable, round-faced man who gestures dramatically when he speaks, often has stepped in for Meese when the attorney general has recused himself from handling matters to which he had personal ties, including legal issues involving court-appointed independent counsels and concerns about the conduct of the Teamsters Union. Ronald Reagan's own book, "Where's the Rest of Me" includes references to Chambers. This time, Korean and foreign analysts both say that Roh's party could win as much as 40% of the popular vote The Rev. Generally, petition circulators try to get more signatures than required to offset the many that are usually ruled invalid-for example, signatures found not to be of registered voters. Two days later, McBride was found-confused and disoriented but safe-after straying into a doughnut shop in Culver City with the little black-and-white mongrel in tow "Oh my God, it's wonderful" a relieved Lamont exclaimed. Van Eekelen, whose country currently holds the presidency of the union, expressed "grave concern" over the renewed hostilities and reported that Dutch minesweepers had destroyed two mines Sunday and two more Monday in the gulf.