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In California's chief oil patch, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, it doesn't feel so good. allies-most of whom retain diplomatic and trade ties with Iran-for their cooperation in protecting gulf shipping and said that such cooperative efforts offer the best means of "deterring Iran and enhancing gulf security" Although a Pentagon spokesman said last week that 13 ships ordered to the area would be merely relieving some of the 29 vessels currently on duty, other officials said privately that some of the relief armada will overlap the fleet now on duty and provide a greater show of strength In a daylong encounter last Monday with U. S. TWA officials in New York said 124 people were aboard, including seven crew members No one claimed responsibility for the blast. Ruth Westheimer has it, too" The younger Allen said he spent a good amount of his childhood trying to crack up his father, and finally got good enough to do it most of the time. But they often find themselves subject to legal restrictions, harassment, extortion and social discrimination.

In the last year, whole rows of once-patrician houses have been knocked down by the shells, leaving uneven piles of bricks, iron rods and cables. In the past year, the USO has beefed up its hospitality lounge in the American Airlines Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, and plans to open outreach centers soon near military installations in Long Beach and Barstow. Last summer, more than 38,000 people visited the village, which has 22 buildings scattered over 200 acres. "If the White House runs off the field, even a House led by (Speaker) Jim Wright can score after a couple of plays" said Gordon Jones, a Heritage vice president. That attitude is the main reason why the American bombing raids on Libya have created such an enormous and tense conflict between the United States and most of its European allies. Kirk predicted that attempts to label Dukakis a liberal "will wash off because he's a pragmatist and a problem solver and those things will ring true in the South" Fahrenkopf and Kirk, co-chairmen of the Commission on Presidential Debates, did agree on one thing: the merit of the commission's proposal that the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees meet in three presidential debates and that the vice presidential nominees meet in a single debate.

"The consequences of such an attitude to kolkhozes, to cooperatives as a whole, are well-known" Gorbachev said. Gephardt, who had once been regarded as Dukakis' most formidable opponent. Including seats apportioned to each of the parties, the new lineup gave Kim Dae Jung's party a total of 73 seats, or 24; Kim Yong Sam's followers 58 seats, or 19, and Kim Jong Pil's party 35 seats, or 12. -The already critical problem of drunken driving is exacerbated by marijuana smoking. In the 1950s, marijuana was known as the killer weed Reefer madness The steppingstone to heroin. Times staff writers Mary Lou Fulton, Roxana Kopetman, Lee Harris, Richard Holguin and Terry Spencer contributed to this report. .

"We do a fairly resounding business Fridays and Saturdays" Shaw said "It's the upper-middle classes here. Wilson spoke frequently to organizations and neighborhood groups. I just wish my voting record were as thoroughly scrutinized as were my wife's personal finances" Acknowledges Mistakes Dole, whose reputation for nastiness was reinforced by his frequent attacks on Bush during the campaign, acknowledged that he made some mistakes while seeking the nomination. Five accused plotters, including the military chief of Panama's police force, were arrested, according to a military statement Not long after gunfire echoed through Gen.

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Kaufman, general counsel for the Libel Defense Resource Center in New York. "It was like having three parties every weekday and five on Saturday" recalled Call, now 72, who had begun teaching ballroom dancing at the historic Pacific Coast Club during World War II Then came rock 'n' roll Hula-Hoops evolved into the twist Touch-dancing became obsolete. Nor did the statement mention the summit between Soviet leader Mikhail S. In interviews, several council members said they would probably decide the issue by mid-May. Others say religious cults meet in the woods surrounding the settlement. Q: I have Van Meter ancestors whose records have been traced back to New Amsterdam (New York) in the 1660s. Rothman will hear the case on Monday, just two days before the deadline for filing election materials.

Softball seemed a lonely path to Mihkelson, although, purging the game from one's system, he said, is difficult. "We've said all along there's no place for drugs in police work, but we are not going to give up our Fourth Amendment right" Guiney said "We'll fight it all the way If we have to go to the Supreme Court, we'll go". Flooding the Market For years, other OPEC countries have asked wealthy Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, to tighten its belt so that they could obtain a larger share of the global market. support for Israel, President Reagan is expected to sign an order today spelling out the already close military and economic ties between the two countries, a step intended to make it more difficult for any future President to erode any part of the relationship.

If the Cascadia subduction zone did, in fact, rupture in a giant earthquake about 300 years ago, as Atwater's evidence suggests, then similar evidence should exist along the entire Oregon-Washington coastline Other scientists, including Curt D. When taken as a group, stylist/colorist Geri Cusenza of Sebastian hair-care products says: "I call them transparent colors" Her term has caught on. An estimated 6,000 labor, student and political activists have joined the hunger strike since it began April 25. When a city building official told him his building needed to be reinforced, "I was upset" Kimura said. Among the popular tax breaks that it would curtail or kill are those for individual retirement accounts, two-earner families, medical costs, capital gains and a host of tax shelters. His jailhouse conversion was the seed of a ministry that eventually led to the founding in Los Angeles of the Oriental Mission Church, which started with 30 members, half of them children. PERFECT, TOO: La Coterie members (The Friends of French Art) listened to Gillian Wilson's talk at the Westwood Marquis and then welcomed Fortune magazine Editor Marilyn Wellemeyer at a country picnic at Elin Vanderlip's Villa Narcissa in Portuguese Bend to celebrate the editor's new book, "On Your Own Time" about executives and their leisure habits The Americana Ball VII in Palm Springs feted Mary Martin.

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke on the feminist agenda for the next decade. That is the same demand made by Iranian-backed Shia Muslims holding foreign hostages in Lebanon. "I feel double-crossed" said LoVerdi, who with other residents hired an attorney for possible court action to block the city's plan. Or the time you pretended to be a reporter so you could get into the Forum to see the Lakers in the playoffs. At half time, Whittier was ahead, 13-3, which had been expected, considering the weak opponent. . Soviet authorities have provided more information in recent days about the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but they also have intensified their charges that the American media and government were creating a "propaganda cloud" of exaggeration around the accident. The Van Nuys courts have enjoyed 20 years of relative peace, but that has changed.