The strip : a relatively small stretch of North

The strip, a relatively small stretch of North Palm Canyon Drive, the city's main thoroughfare, has peculiar rituals all its own. PALM SPRINGS — Heather Fox and Liza Gelber are temporarily camped outside of Fuddrucker's restaurant on the main drag wolf-whistling at guys "They love it" says Fox, a 20-year-old sophomore at UCLA. In the depressed economy of that year, few people needed the ratings for cars, refrigerators or other expensive goods that have since become the hallmark of the magazine's product testing reports Lack of Trust CitedMOUNT VERNON, N. Y. The dispute-conducted on friendly terms-has arisen intermittently since 1967 when the park was created by Congress, largely to prevent further logging in the areas surrounding the already existing state parks The park was expanded 10 years later. Since the recent condemnations, the number of calls from property owners seeking state-sponsored mine-subsidence insurance has doubled, authorities say. Rosen, attorney for Los Angles City Employees Union Local 347, which represents most of Compton's non-public safety personnel. He and five men inside knew the details of the government plan, but the kidnapers were completely surprised, Pons said.

Officials said the new IRS order on foreign tax credits would apply to large U. S. Troops in Ramallah also smashed the windows of a free-lance photographer's car with rubber bullets and fired tear gas into the vehicle, witnesses said. . Nixon, Moynihan did his best to secure congressional passage of a family assistance plan that would have guaranteed a minimum income to everyone, whether employed or not. "In the old days, judges occasionally would bar re-enactments" Stanford University law Prof John Kaplan said. On the one hand, Cummins said, it is clear that greater numbers of dire medical emergencies than some experts have previously thought occur on airliners, many of which have great potential for successful medical intervention because the tight quarters in the passenger cabin make it highly likely a victim will be discovered quickly.

"It's refreshing" she wrote, "to find that there is a man in Orange County who considers being single a positive status and (is) one who can be open and honest about it. But then came the drugs, and the pool hustling just to get enough money for drugs. The 3,000 farmers also took their protest to the Bureau of Foreign Trade, where they pelted a senior government official with eggs. 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. SAN LUIS OBISPO — Nine months ago, Republican U. S Sen. Glenn Koppel probably has more reasons to suffer from stage fright than most professionals. Koppel, 38, an attorney and a professor of law at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, also is a professional singer and has appeared in musical comedies and nightclubs in Southern California. Earlier, Calero and the rest of the four-member Contra political directorate issued their own statement supporting a separation of civilian and military authority. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A rift between the top two Contra leaders has shaken the U. S-backed rebel movement and apparently weakened its hand in peace talks with Nicaragua's Sandinista government, U. S and rebel officials say.

However, Congress shows no signs of going along with either request. . The great plastic gun furor began in January, 1986, when columnist Jack Anderson reported that an Austrian-made handgun, the Glock 17, had passed through airport security equipment undetected because it was part plastic. It, like the Chernobyl unit, uses graphite to moderate the neutron flux in its core and is without a reinforced concrete and steel containment vessel. The report is likely to trigger demands for additional restrictions on the sale and marketing of cigarettes in the United States, officials predicted. The biggest difference in the two campaigns is Droz, who was brought aboard to handle the mind-blowing logistics of a 4,135-mile hand-holding. The 40-year-old Droz-a bachelor, divorced 10 years ago-has been gearing up for two decades for this challenge. Documents filed in federal court at Reno showed that the Ormsby House hotel and casino in Carson City lost nearly $1. 8 million in 1972-73 while it was controlled by the family of Sen Paul Laxalt (R-Nev. "In June of '88, I have to renew my vows" explained Markelz, a 26-year-old student at White Friars Hall theology school in Washington.

He would also back city- or school-sponsored on-the-job training for young people. In March, the nonpartisan auditor general disclosed that the victims program is marred by long delays and poor management that is keeping benefits from reaching crime victims in a timely fashion. For his effort here, he recruited high-visibility Latinos for top campaign positions. TAIPEI, Taiwan — Two Chinese gunmen wielding fake grenades hijacked a Chinese airliner on a domestic flight with 118 people aboard today, forcing it to veer toward Taiwan where jet fighters escorted it to a military airport, military sources and news reports said. Byrd (D-W. Va) said that Senate floor debate on the agreement will be postponed at least until next week. Earlier this week, for instance, actor John Forsythe walked in to register one of his Cal-breds.

A large, Tudor-style home at the peak of Oakmont View Drive reportedly is being built as the personal residence of Gregg. Beggs was preparing to begin a leave of absence to defend himself against criminal charges of conspiracy to defraud the government while he was a General Dynamics Corp executive Beggs submitted his resignation after the shuttle disaster. This year, for the party celebrating the 100th birthday of their friend Irving Berlin, the invite is the sheet music for "The Ocarina" from "Call Me Madam" with Ethel Merman. "Not really" answered Porizkova on her 23rd birthday, adding that the cake was so pretty that she'd like to take it home to her boyfriend intact. The committee has recommended curtailing off-campus lunches, but the board delayed its decision until May.

These diversions, which are strong enough to reverse the flow of rivers and streams, hamper the dilution of toxins dumped into the bay, Geological Survey researchers concluded. He has been on the Human Services Commission and now serves as a planning commissioner "I am running because we are due for a change" he said. Hatch, one of Meese's staunchest defenders, does not believe that the attorney general should resign. Another woman insisted that she didn't have the expensive art books charged to her library card.

From restaurant owners to construction companies, from carwashes to microchip makers, the new immigration law has not brought about the labor shortage that Orange County business feared. "April 29th (was) a year and it hasn't gotten any easier for me" she said "When I see kids playing, I get very emotional Everything brings back memories. forces during the Vietnam War and fled when communists took over the country. dollar, the smaller than expected $240-million increase in the monthly trade deficit means that the gap between the volume of imports and exports continued to narrow substantially at the start of this year, analysts said. Holding raffles on campus violates state law and campus policy, Salisbury said The raffle was to be held on campus May 1. We're dragging them in, separating them from their mothers" Hundreds of miles of interstate highways throughout eastern Wyoming, northeast Colorado, the Dakotas and the Nebraska Panhandle were closed and towns were cut off. Note: The Reader-to-Reader Help Line is only for products no longer available in stores.

Normally, the chief negotiator is the person most likely to become prime minister However, Jakobsen, 53, has said he does not want the post. Larry is a six-foot-long, lizard-like mammal who has recently escaped from the local marine biological institute "Mrs Caliban" is Rachel Ingalls' third work of fiction. The Trojans are 30-2 overall and 15-0 in the conference and are trailed by second-place Hawaii (19-3, 11-2) and third-place UC Santa Barbara (20-9, 9-4. "They are a product of failure by many participants in managing the department over a period of perhaps a decade" The report said the department had allowed its office that was then responsible for the safety of its facilities "to atrophy"The safety and management of government-owned nuclear plants across the United States has repeatedly been challenged in internal reports of the Department of Energy, the agency entrusted with the safe operation of the facilities. The researchers found that the response to mental stress could be just as severe as the response to physical exercise. A huge crowd had turned out, in spite of the miserable weather They wanted to hear their leader, not his alter ego.

And all three mention the homeless problem in their stump speeches and promise to make it a top priority of their administrations. New guidelines for district offices will be sent out sometime after mid-May. Vladimir Chernavin, reported by the official Tass press agency, expanded on a three-point plan announced by Soviet leader Mikhail S. At dozens of lantern-lit tables, each equipped with a set of scales, hundreds of peasant farmers were selling softball-sized wads of cocaine paste. Philip Neri Catholic Church, whose Troop 831 has produced more Eagle Scouts than any other troop in Compton. They cost $11 originally, so it's clear that you'd take a loss.

Selected by Colleagues The mayor, who is a council member elected only by voters of one district, is now selected every two years by council colleagues. Because of the growth of state museums, Assemblyman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) has proposed a bill to establish a division of museums within the state Department of Parks and Recreation to administer them. . Older tanning booths, beds and other devices emitted ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation to provide a quick tan, but they fell out of favor with reports of increased skin cancer risks and other problems. Montgomery-Massingberd gravely reminds us of that messy abdication, the King who irresponsibly gave away an empire for the woman he loved, and his wife: "In 1985, the Duchess is still hanging on to a life that has long since lost all meaning, in a pathetic state where even the petty denial of her right to the style, 'Her Royal Highness' has become an irrelevance"Her Majesty the Queen by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd (Salem House: $22. 95) "Apart from her parents' strong-minded views on the subject, there was soon something intrinsically serious, modest and tidy about the child herself" What child was that? The one who started off as a baby with "large, dark-lashed blue eyes" and "tiny ears set close to a well-shaped head" The one who grew up in Britain to exercise "a much more important and effective influence over affairs of state than is generally understood" We're talking about Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, of whom a Beatle sang so movingly, "Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say. The justices, hearing arguments in a far-reaching Berkeley case, were told by an attorney for a group of taxpayers that under the state Constitution, city and county officials must put the cost, type and location of a proposed project on the ballot. "I'm just not going to sentence under the guidelines until the matter is resolved" The guidelines have sparked irritation from some judges who see them as an affront to the broad discretion they have traditionally exercised in fixing sentences, and criticism from many defense lawyers unhappy with the elimination of parole, the virtual elimination of probation for many offenses and stiffer sentences for white-collar crimes. People get off the plane at LAX and come here with their suitcases to enroll even before they've found a place to live" A huge mural in the lobby of the new building shows young people in the native dress of every nation dancing arm in arm "It was painted by Wei Li Wang" Barbanell said "He turned out to be the Norman Rockwell of China.