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- Bilzerian secured more financing to buy Cluett.
- Soviet Sailor Was Asked Immediately if He Wished to Defect, Border Patrol Asserts
- Long Beach
- Spirit Worship Banned at Chinese Cremations
- Bell Motorcycle Patrol Results in Ticket Hike
- Amoco will acquire 72 service stations from Arco.
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- A Hearty Soup That's Economical and Healthful
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- Alumni Return to Say Thanks for the Memories
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- Santa Monica : Officials Seek Drilling Ban
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- West Los Angeles : Bicycle Parking Areas Sought
- Torrance : School Settlement Possible
- EPA Expected to Permit Field Bacteria Tests : Genetically Altered Organism May Prevent Frost on Strawberries
- Malibu : Board Seeks Reimbursements
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- Warnings Apparently Ignored for Years : Early Complaints Drew Inaction
- A Foolish Act
- Bradley Accused of 'Inciting Water Wars' : Coalition Claims Mayor Politicizes State's North-South Rivalry
- U.S. Sewer Project in Egypt Mired in Mismanagement
- Candidates in 3 School Districts Near End of Campaign Trail : Lennox Winners to Face a Variety of Problems
- Enrollment Heartens Candidates
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- Census Bureau Counts on Local Help to Collect Data
- Owners Gear Up for 'Apartment Watch'
- MacLaren Fires 3 After Youngsters Assault Boy, 12
- Rabbi Kahane Blasts 'Guilt-Ridden' U.S. Jews
- . . . a few naked people sitting around eating crackers. : Tales of a Floating Skin Show
- NHL Roundup : Pizza King Finally Sees Red Wings Deliver, 6-3
- CSUN and Chapman Will Play for Title
- Holyfield KOs Meachum for Seventh Win
- FALL SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS : Royal Wins 5th Straight Water Polo League Title
- Sales of New Homes Off 2.6% in September : Analysts Say 2nd Straight Drop to Hurt Economy
- S&L; Seeks U.S. OK for Bond Issue : Western Financial Plans to Restructure Loan Portfolio
- Pan Am Net Increases $15.5 Million in Quarter
- Shareholders sued to block a Pacific Lumber bid.
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- SPORTS SCOPE
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- Zoning Laws Threaten Work of 'Dog Ladies'
- Kasparov Holds Lead in Chess
- Asbestos Found in Navy Housing Stirs Grievance by Union
- Background as Military Politician Is a Plus for New Head of Joint Chiefs
- Grievance Filed Over Asbestos in Navy Housing
- Vampire Is Lucrative : Dracula-- 'Can't Kill a Good Myth'
- Fullerton : Board Ratifies Contract Raising Teachers' Pay
- Walden Says His Remark Was a Compliment to USC Defense
- MUSIC REVIEWS : SOPRANO AMELING AT AMBASSADOR
- REHEATED PONNELLE STAGING : HO HUM, ANOTHER 'TOSCA' BY SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
- Halloween Every Day of the Year : Professor Sees the Magic of Reality/Illusion in Society
- Harvey Milk Film--Pride, Sorrow : UCI Presentation of Honored Picture Triggers Emotions
- Gardena : Petition Drive Is Successful
- Rare Exchange Today : Reagan to Be Interviewed by Soviet Media
- Gen. Dynamics Pact Reached
- Economy, Modernization Quiet Rail Yard
- City Dedicates Housing Complex
- Covina : New Curbs on Fortunetellers
- Covina : Law Requires Fireproof Roofs
- Brentwood : Jewish Fund Names Leaders
- Assemblyman Naylor Labels Rep. Zschau 'Most Liberal' : Friction Warms Up GOP Senate Contest
- Self-Admitted Failures Band Together for Help
- Maritime Unions to Cut Off S. Africa Oil
- PLO Stand Toughened to Mend Italy Coalition
- Outings Help Children Escape the Shadow of Their Parents' Cancer
- 20 Killed in Bus Crash
- School District, Teachers Agree to 5.5% Pay Raise
- UCSD Quake-Safety System Urged : Plan Would Solve Seismic Problems at Medical Center
- Feud Boils Up at Pacoima Post Office : Workers Complain About Postmaster, Seek Union's Help
- Longshot Dear Rick Wins Oak Tree Feature
- Making It Merry Again : Griffith Park Carrousel Being Restored to Original State
- Horse Racing / Bill Christine : Rain Forecast, So Greinton in Turf Race
- BIG DADDY: THERE IS MUSIC AFTER LAOS
- '67 Packers Make Return to Daylight
- Wilson Would Have to Be a Saint Not to Be Angry
- Youth Shot by Goetz Held in Jewelry Theft
- Hawaiian Gardens
- Cage Coach Says Tourney Cheats Women : Pomona Mentor Claims Choice of Site Is 'Tailored' for Men's Champ
- Torrance : Parking Ordinance Passed
- This Dog Has Her Day in Vegas After Stormy Florida
- Candidates in 3 School Districts Near End of Campaign Trail : Incumbents in Hawthorne Have Little Opposition
- Whale Watch Gives Birth to a New Theory
- Limit on Political Gifts in Redondo Defeated
- Southeast Voters to Settle 19 School, 3 Municipal Races
- Candidates in 3 School Districts Near End of Campaign Trail : Wiseburn Board Veterans Focus on Enrollment
- The House : Daylight-Saving Time
- Patterson Won't Try a Dornan Rematch : Former Congressman Appears Primed to Enter Contest for Supervisor
- Countywide
- Smith Reports Quarter Net Loss of $8.2 Million
- Engineers Are Cooking Up Design for Space Kitchen
- Smith International Posts Net Loss in Third Quarter
- Imperial Corp. Plans to Shift Areas of Focus
- Help-wanted advertising showed a slight gain.
- Transworld's holders OKd the sale of Century 21.
- El Camino Bancorp Posts $353,000 Profit
- Imperial Corp. Reports $4.9-Million Net Loss
- U.S. Market for Fish: One That Got Away? : Fishermen's Cooperative Assn. Sends a Distress Signal for San Pedro-Based Fleet
- Soup's Flavor Depends on Mushrooms
- Dissident, Spy Swap Rumored : German Paper Says Sakharov Is Part of Four-Nation Deal
- Room Additions Lead in Remodeling Projects
- Palisades, University, Venice Finding a Home in the Win Column
- Santa Monica : Airport Panel Bans Older Jets
- UCLA's Soccer Women Have Something to Kick About
- Corporation to Promote Hollywood Expo : Roberti, Woo to Lead Museum Group
- Prince Charles' Dignity at Stake : Nude Posing in '70s Reported, Charity Ball Leader Resigns
- Serviceman Rescues 2 Children Under Attack by Dog
- South County School Elections Key on 'Traditional Values'
- List of Campus Dangers Disputed
- Monthlong Cobra Corps Investigation : Police Hold 4 in Auto-Theft 'Sting'
- Bradley Accused of 'Inciting Water Wars' : Wieder Charges Mayor Is Politicizing State's Old North-South Rivalry
- UCLA Comes Back to Defeat UC Irvine, 4-1
- Motor Racing / Shav Glick : Only Pitch Holley Likes Is That of His Engine
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- USC Should Come Out in Force Against Irish
- TV HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES NAMED
- An investor group is buying Whiting Ranch.
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- Du Pont Profits Decline 10% in Third Quarter
- Whiting Ranch Near El Toro Being Sold : New JC/RG Corp. Buys 2,700 Acres from Carma
- RABBIT RENAISSANCE
- S. African Vote Shows Some White Backlash : Extreme Segregationists Win 1 Seat but Botha's Ruling Party Retains 4 in Crucial By-Elections
- Taiwan Has AIDS Case
- Exploring the L.A. River : Small Tales From Along Lario Trail
- Monrovia : Huntington Drive Project Set
- It's Junk Mail Today; Tomorrow . . .
- Bruin Soccer Women Kick Up Fuss Over Club-Sport Status
- Italian Heiress Freed
- Barrington Plaza Case: Tenants Win $100,000 Rebate, Rent Rollback
- Sea Farmers : Partners Lease Lagoon Acreage to Turn Little Shellfish Into Big
- Reagan Has New Proposal, Asks Arms Talks Extension : Soviet Offer 'Short' in Some Areas
- British Agree to Join 'Star Wars' Research
- Placentia : Schoolteacher Chosen City Council Member
- Anaheim Hills
- San Diego
- Kings Seek First Win at Boston Since '81
- Los Alamitos to Show, Take Bets on Breeders' Cup
- Brea's Walker Commits to UCLA
- 'INDAY' PACKAGE SHRINKS AT KTLA
- A Tycoon's Wife Blows Into Town : Anna Murdoch in L.A. on Tour to Promote First Novel
- Santa Ana
- Rights Suspension in Nicaragua
- Reduced Costs Questioned in Medi-Cal Pilot HMO Project
- Anaheim : Senior Citizens Home Slated for 3-Acre Site
- Bakraoui's Goal Gives USIU 1-0 Victory
- Some Collectors Fancy Paper Money
- Pasadenans Run a Shop of Little Horrors
- Council Backs Request to Keep Tax Deductions
- Storm Still Pounding Louisiana; Damage Estimated at $1 Billion
- Funds, Drop in Enrollment Are Key Issues in School Race
- Appointed City Clerk Proposed
- Some Riunite Wines Tainted
- Torrance : Lions Donate 'Books-on-Tape'
- Duarte Defends Negotiations With Kidnapers
- South Pasadena : Councilman's Firm to Be Paid
- Santa Monica Council May Call for Audit of City Attorney's Office
- Judge Backs Use of Tax Revenue for Carson Renewal
- TORRANCE : Medical Center Awarded $51,615
- Courtliness on the Court Has Served Pasadena Tennis Pro Well for 70 Years
- Crown Cruise Decides to Shove Off From San Diego
- 8-Story Leap Kills Cal State Student : Apparent Suicide at Humanities Building is 5th
- San Diego
- The Heat Is on Lucas : Laker Is No Longer a Favorite Sun in Phoenix as He Returns With New Team
- He's a Frustrated Trojan : Matt Johnson Says Team and Quarterback Are Better Than Record Shows
- STAGE WATCH : CHILDREN'S THEATER GETS A BIG BOOST
- HALLOWEEN IN ORANGE COUNTY : 'SOOPER' SHOW EXORCISES A HAUNT WITH HUMOR
- Home Taping Industry Hits 'Royalty' Plan
- Apple Will Push for Compatible Systems
- Japan Wants to Boost Value of Yen : Stronger Currency Would Help Cut Huge Trade Surplus
- Infrasonics Executives Optimistic
- Gish Expects New Laser to Hurt Quarter Earnings
- Lottery Leader Advises Against Enticing Poor
- Pumpkin Roll Wins Blue Ribbon
- El Segundo Candidates Disagree on Answers to Financial Difficulties
- Norwalk
- Parties Join Forces for Fund-Raiser
- Inglewood : Terminal Ground Breaking
- Things That Go Bump Day, Night : Connecticut Town Is Known for Its Mysterious Noises
- Temple City : Council Seat Filled
- Fiery Issues Lacking in Camino School Race
- Storm Leaves Louisiana, Pounds Coast of Alabama
- Reagan Scheduled for Cancer Checkup
- Major Crime in West Hollywood Reduced by 18%
- Alleged Adoption Fraud in Sale of Baby to Two Couples Probed
- MASQUERADE IS OVER; IT'S NO LONGER A TREAT
- Prep Football Games to Watch : Unbeaten Dorsey to Play at Banning Friday Night
- Citing AIDS Fear, SAG Takes Stand on Film Kissing
- Cerritos : Lawsuit Seeks to Reinstate Lottery Sales at College
- Woman Dressed in Army Fatigues Opens Fire at Shopping Center; Two Killed, Eight Wounded
- San Diego Symphony SYMPHONY HALL : Decorating Firm Returns to Give Symphony Hall a Dignified Note
- Long Beach
- Fresno Libel Suit : Explosive Story of Crime --Was It Also Accurate?
- Egypt Troops Quell Creeping Invasion
- Woo, Constituents Say Apartment Plan Would Hurt Schools
- Alhambra : Tao-Confucianism Center OKd
- The World : China Introduces Draft
- Sweet Memories : Class of '35 Comes Home to Vast Change--and Surprise
- Huntington Sheraton's 87-Year-Old Pro : Tennis Master Keeps Courtliness in His Game
- Plain Speaking on the Deficit
- Nixon Historic Home Proposal Is Welcomed by Foundation Official
- Irvine Will Try to Avoid Another Dana Hills Upset
- Seahawks Looked Like a Thriller but Are TD-Dancing in the Dark : Seattle Rocks but Can't Roll
- MUSIC REVIEWS : BEAUX ARTS TRIO AT WADSWORTH THEATER
- ART REVIEW : DEAD OF SOUTHEAST ASIA GONE--NOT FORGOTTEN
- Culver City OKs Senior Housing, Office Project Despite Neighbors' Objections
- Bid for a Coup Fails, Argentine Leader Says
- Kansas Curator Chosen for Smithsonian Position
- In Thailand, Military Still Has the Final Word : Soldiers Have No Moral or Political Difficulties About Ousting Governments
- Yaroslavsky in Another Kind of Race in New York
- Peso Falls; San Ysidro Loses Tijuana Shoppers
- Wendell Willkie II Picked for Education Dept. Post
- The House : Daylight Savings Time
- Nudist Colony Wins Delay of Shutdown
- Gas Co. to Set Up Phone Service in Asian Languages
- Mission Viejo : Forced Landing of Copter Investigated
- Judge Agrees to Switch of Lawyers in Penn Trial
- 9th U.S. Circuit Court to Experiment With Hearing Cases in S.D.
- Herzog: Umpire Should Be Suspended, Same as Andujar
- One Last Chance : After Being Released by the Dodgers and Twins, Steve Howe's Fight to Overcome Cocaine Continues
- Pomona : Alcoholism Facility Going Up
- U.S. Grand Jury Accuses Nine Men of Racketeering
- Craxi's Coalition Government in Italy Revived, Vote of Confidence Ordered
- Reagan Entertains 'Never-Say-Die' Kansas City Royals
- Pasadena Teachers Win Pay Boosts
- Farm Credit System Asks Huge Bailout
- Lebanon Collaborator Hanged
- Bradley Picks Saugus Site for Prison
- Kirby Grant, Star of TV's 'Sky King,' Dies in Crash on Way to Shuttle Launch
- Graduating back into the real world, he rates at least a gentleman's C
- Funny Business in Liberia
- Costa Mesa Man Dies After Wreck
- Boy Pleads Not Guilty in Mother's Strangling
- Countywide : 3 Are Honored for Humanitarian Work
- A fund-raising pro-am for injured golfer Jim...
- Wayne, Jeff Lukas Will Be a Breeders' Cup Bloodline
- Who Knows? Dickerson May Be Hurting, but He Isn't Talking
- FALL SPORTS NOTEBOOK : Westlake Ties It All Together
- West Hollywood : Director of Surgery Cited
- Nicaragua Assembly Restores Some Suspended Legal Rights
- Claims Black Politicians Are Unfairly Targeted : College Trustee Confident of Reelection
- Hmongs and Jews: 2 Far-Flung Cultures Celebrate Similarities
- BIG GAMES : Muir vs. Hoover
- Big Games : Palisades at Hamilton
- Judge Bars Jurors From Testifying at Tampering Hearing
- Gas Co. to Speak in Toll-Free Tongues : Representatives Will Respond in Korean, Chinese or Vietnamese
- SCHOOL ELECTIONS : In South Pasadena : Solid Academics Are Race Focus
- Repairs at Shifting Golf Course Being Considered
- Trade Deficit Soars 57% in September to Record Mark of $15.5 Billion
- Poly, Wilson Meet Again Friday : Record Gives Jackrabbits Edge
- Some Like It Hot
- Bell Gardens
- Officials Split Over Spy Case : Navy, Justice Dept. Clash on Walkers' Punishment
- Jurors Will Not Testify at Hearing on Hedgecock Bid for New Trial, Judge Rules
- Copter Crash Kills Three
- Three Soviet Aides Freed in Beirut : Condition Good, Embassy Says; No News of Americans
- Elusive Fluid Leak May Be Design Flaw
- Bomb Blows Up in Jet Baggage; No One Injured
- Museum to Tell Story of Chaparral, Fires
- Getting a Seal of Approval in the Bag
- Gandhi Leads Memorial Rally for Indira; Sikhs Riot
- Husband Kills Stroke-Crippled Wife, Then Commits Suicide
- Racing Board Members Ask INS Aid on Aliens
- 3 Congressmen Ask Superfund Money for Bay Cleanup
- Hagler Breaks Nose; Title Fight With Mugabi Is Off
- Former Syracuse basketball star Tony (Red) Bruin...
- CSUN Nips Cal Poly in Volleyball
- NBA Roundup : Richardson Makes Up for a Struggling Start
- Ed Burke Helped Them Out . . . And Finally to Freedom : He Threw His Weight About to Aid Three Czech Friends
- INSPIRATION FROM A SHIP THAT SOARED
- Tours of Mansion
- Dole, O'Neill Trade Barbs Over Budget Bill Impasse
- Torrance : Employee Preference Stands
- Gilding Those Lily-White Slippers
- House Kills MX Funding, Then Decides to Restore It
- THINKING ON HIS FEET : For Cal State L. A.'s Alberto Bru, Soccer Is a Head Game That Started in Mexico City, Developed in Chatsworth
- Santa Monica : Club Cites Tourney Organizer
- D.A. Notifies Pasadena of Prop. F Cost
- West Hollywood : Lobbyist to Seek AIDS Funds
- 175 'Devil's Night' Fires Flare in Detroit
- Greek Workers Strike
- Developers Score Double Victory
- Graveyard in His Front Yard : Prop Builder Hopes to Give Kids Halloween They'll Never Forget
- School Reunion Seen as Way to Renew Community Spirit : Alumni Hope the Past Will Enliven the Present