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"I really made a commitment" said Mike Alexander, 18, a Fountain Valley High School senior who has lost 72 pounds, going from 237 to 165 pounds in a year "I was really fed up with it. De Mita has forged common economic ground to attack an alarming government budget deficit with tax reforms and better enforcement programs in a nation where tax evasion is rampant. I just figured I was going to die" Still attached to his surfboard by a leash, Boden was shortly washed ashore and was found, alive but immobile, minutes later on the sand. "I was used to the Viennese waltz" Well, the Vienna waltz is making a comeback. Workweek Declines The number of jobs in the manufacturing sector remained essentially unchanged and the length of the average workweek edged down slightly, suggesting that manufacturing firms were successfully working down excessive inventories accumulated in January. 51 Delegates at Stake The 51 delegates at stake Sunday were expected to go uncommitted to the Democratic National Convention.

"People don't realize what a difficult two minutes it is" said John Sevano, the Angels' director of public relations, who has overseen the selection of singers for the past three seasons. In Bonn, Kohl, commenting on the disco bombing that killed an American soldier and a Turkish woman and injured 230, including 64 Americans, said, "There are a great many indications that the bombing of the discotheque also has a Libyan background" But he quickly added, "I didn't say only, I said also. Ann Reynolds and the university's Board of Trustees, is to allow Cal State to begin offering doctoral degrees-a role now assigned exclusively to UC under the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education. The seeming increase in the number of military operations is misleading, Murphy said. He has been deeply involved in local political and social movements He has a play awaiting production.

When I've invited a woman to dinner, I've told her, 'Anything that will happen is because you want it to happen or we want it to happen' And I never make a move" His main complaint is older women's lack of assertiveness. El Toro High School offers four classes to stimulate students' interest in photography. However, police and fire officials said they did not know the extent of the problem until about an hour after the accident. Nash 16 6. 0 (Voter turnout 53. 0) Irwindale Three vacancies 1 of 1 precincts FINALArcadia Three vacancies 25 of 25 precincts FINAL Vote % Dennis Lojeski (Inc) 3,321 19. 3 Robert C Harbicht 3,292 19. 1 Roger Chandler 3,192 17. 8 Lewis H May 3,058 17. 7 Charles Chivetta Sr 945 5. 5 William T Gahr 915 5. 3 Andrew L Bard 838 4. 9 John D. Struggling against heavy odds to defeat President Francois Mitterrand in the final round of the presidential election Sunday, Chirac sounded a defensive note in an airport welcoming speech. Plitt is the dinner chairman (he also holds the title of brigadier general and national commander of the FIDF.

The United States finally submitted a list of both sides' test ranges, but Soviet negotiators made no comment. Army private stationed in West Germany. Five American victims of terrorism were buried Saturday in emotion-charged services in three cities, and one mourner told their killers, "You will never destroy the heart and soul of America" In a red brick church in Annapolis, Md, services were held for three generations of a Greek immigrant family hurled out of an airliner to their deaths by a terrorist bomb, and in Stratford, Conn, a long cortege followed the body of Alberto Ospina into Gates of Heaven cemetery for burial. Hatch and Reichenberger complained that the meeting was called for political reasons, not because of concern over water quality. He was Glendale High's leading scorer this season, averaging 21. 8 points and five assists a game. Self-described "acting milliner" Mary-Rea McDonald has thoughts on why. Stavnezer, other members of the council and other Venice residents are particularly upset with three proposed changes in the community plan scheduled to be heard by the City Planning Commission on April 17. Brennan Jr, and John Paul Stevens, said the state court ruling should have been upheld.

On the other hand, he may find that this type of work really isn't what the volunteer expected. "He was extremely good at discussing problems and getting to the heart of things" Until the 1950s, neutrons, protons and electrons were thought to be the fundamental particles of nature. That was when he met and married Rosa, herself a survivor, but one of the rare ones in whom the spark of life still flared. Report Targets Amtrak Among the areas recommended for greater private involvement is the Amtrak system, which was created in 1971 to save rail services after the nation's private railroads fell deeper into debt during the 1950s and 1960s. WASHINGTON — A special presidential commission on curbing government growth issued an ambitious package of proposals Friday calling for private business to take over most airport air traffic control operations and for citizens to be given education, housing and medical care vouchers for use in lieu of public schools, public housing or Medicare.

Proposition 73, which Montoya is sponsoring with independent Sen. Mason, from Crescenta Valley, averaged 28. 6 and scored 56 against La Canada. Turned Down by Ex-Judge The attorney general turned to Shepherd after his first choice for the position, former U. S. In Los Angeles, the Catholic Church, which registered 300,000 amnesty-seeking immigrants, ended up processing a tenth of that number. "Last year was critical, and we are forecasting that this year will also be critical" On a more encouraging note, however, Roos said reservoir storage statewide is 90% of average, a level somewhat better than last year at this time.

"Everyone can see now that the French colonial army is using practically all weapons except nuclear ones in their efforts to crush the existence of the Kanak people" the communique stated, using the ethnic name the Melanesians call themselves. Such technicians are needed to maintain and service computers, radar and other equipment used by air traffic controllers to provide pilots the information they need to fly their planes and guide them into and out of the nation's airports. "He moved out three times before we got a divorce" said Desley, 50, of Laguna Niguel. SAN FRANCISCO — In a sharp rebuff to a state appeal panel, the California Supreme Court on Thursday refused to allow a Romanian refugee to withdraw her consent to the adoption of a child she bore after fleeing her native land and winning asylum in America. But then came the drugs, and the pool hustling just to get enough money for drugs.

and a defeat for police groups such as the International Assn of Chiefs of Police. We are a macho society that idolizes a man who beats or violates a woman, a macho society that taught Monzon to dress up, to speak a bit better, but didn't teach him to think, a macho society that wasn't horrified when Monzon said he beat all his women except for one" La Nacion, a major Buenos Aires newspaper, wondered in an editorial about those who still shout encouragement to Monzon: "Is there an overdose of machismo which condones violent behavior in a man who strikes a woman. Only Councilwoman Eunice Sato said she wanted to keep the current structure. Stringent Security The hearings were held amid stringent security measures, with a metal detector set up outside the hearing room.

The mass riots of two years ago are so far only a memory: even the arrest numbers are down compared with last year-by Saturday night police had made 120 arrests, the majority for being drunk in public, and issued 544 citations, mostly for alcohol-related violations. Rosemary Clooney emceed, and turned out friends-like Patti Page, Tony Bennett, Jack Jones, even Bob and Dolores Hope-to do justice to the six songwriters honored. "It did not make me feel any better" Peterson writes, "that you also included in that column excerpts from letters others had written expressing somewhat different opinions about pigeons and serving up a few harsh words of their own about people like me. All 14 remained at large, and military spokesman Oscar Florendo said that troops loyal to Aquino are following up dozens of leads in what he described as "a massive manhunt" The president, looking stern on television, took pains to cast the charismatic Honasan, a combat veteran who was one of the leaders in the military-civilian uprising that brought Aquino to office in 1986, as a traitor, a criminal and possibly a thief. 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.

He said he knew the material on military codes was the most sensitive he could get because it was the Soviet's "most highly targeted area" He said the value of the material was often discussed among his Navy peers in "cryptographic circles" Looks for Partner By the early 1970s, Walker testified, he decided he needed a partner in espionage The candidate who emerged, Walker said, was Whitworth. We didn't have the benefit of being trained as FBI agents, we didn't have the benefit of knowing the laws of entrapment, we didn't have the benefit of knowing society's right from wrong, as opposed to our value system" Craig, 43, said Dreaded Phone "I dreaded every time that phone rang. Other teen-agers, after a hot morning working on one of the wooden one-room homes, found themselves clumsily refusing an offer of homemade punch-presumably made with unpurified water-from the family that would soon be living there. With her entire Cabinet seated behind her, including Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and her military chief of staff, Gen Fidel V. It's also a question presented in a masterpiece of self-puffery that he suggests as essential for any self-publisher-a self-published, 21-page "Interview With Dan Poynter" on the advantages of self-publishing. Evenings in Black Lauren's evening wear is mostly black and unpretentious in the extreme.

"Yes, vacancies are a little high" he admitted, "but I don't think they're dangerous, because the ability to absorb space is certainly there" Houston and Denver, beset by oil and energy-related setbacks, are suffering in the current economy. But the convention center is now to be located at Navy Field, 1 1/2 miles from what originally was to be its companion building. Gorbachev to express his "deep disappointment" over the Kremlin's failure to press for a "fair and equitable" solution to the reuniting of separated Armenians. Are you in position" Minutes later in the darkness near Briggs, a voice shouted, "How are the hostages? What do you want" Inside, an inmate screamed above shouts and curses, "We want out" In the darkness outside, commands were whispered. "We feel that the climate and the environment at the top of the city is not receptive or supportive of women in higher management positions" she said The departures of Carolyn S.

The initial press coverage of his book, which offers a one-page thumbnail description of each of the rated districts, mistakenly concentrated on ranking them, he said. Gordon told a news conference later in the day that the Senate was Mecham's "court of last resort" and he can't appeal. MANILA — More than 1,000 communist-led rebels and sympathizers, saying they will "give democracy one more chance" laid down their arms today in the first mass surrender since President Corazon Aquino launched a drive to end the bloody insurgency, officials said. "When I sprinkle the dogs with holy water, some sneeze" he remembered recently. Beginning about 1 p. m. Car-pooling and ride-sharing would help alleviate some of the stress, he said. . The more I enjoy a song, the more the audience enjoys it" As students sang individually, Wilson poured forth a litany of praise, advice and commentary She called out: "That gives me chills. But now that university publishers have adopted sophisticated commercial techniques-glossy dust covers, catchy titles and provocative jacket copy, the impulsive buyer may find himself dutifully plodding through a worthwhile, scholarly, meticulously documented manuscript originally meant only for the author's peers, mentors, colleagues, grantors and examiners.