- Strategies for Helping in Handling Foreclosure
- More Pitfalls Than Sugar Plums in Holiday Travel : Grandma's house may be over the river and through the woods, but Christmas season journeys are fraught with problems.
- Kuwait Urged to Open Gates to Foreigners
- Issue: What Will It Take to Revitalize Downtown? : Manual Lopez, <i> Fish market worker at Grand Central Market </i>
- Britain's Princess Anne Remarries : Wedding: Scottish ceremony brings a tiny bit of joy to a year that saw more than one royal marriage fail.
- A summary of significant Los Angeles City Hall decisions affecting Central Los Angeles in the last week.
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : THURSDAY'S GAMES
- Comic Book by Teens Gets Out Word on AIDS : Health: Assembled by art students, the colorful book is designed to appeal to youth.
- MIT's Industrial Program: We're Not Selling Science
- Cold Fusion Test Kit Touted as a Gift Idea
- 11 Youngsters Enjoy Free Shopping Spree
- Michigan Neighbors of Dominican Nuns Protest Efforts to Reform Fallen Angels
- Celebrating the Beauty and Purpose of Kwanzaa : MAULANA KARENGA
- Cancer-Stricken St. Louis Archbishop Retires
- A Little Book Learning
- 3 TV Networks Agree to Limiting Use of Violence
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : TUESDAY'S GAMES
- Mother Jailed for Child's Truancy : Courts: The woman had been on probation on a conviction of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Her daughter is 7.
- Miscellany
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- THE BIG Dipper AND THE Shaq : A 'Truthful and Honest' Chamberlain Compares Himself and Rookie O'Neal
- Word Is Out on Secret of Laker Success
- Chargers Thinking Playoffs : NFL: Two victories would guarantee them a wild-card berth.
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Happy Start in Expansion Hockey Is Fantasyland
- Curry Quietly Steps to the Front and Center at Morningside High
- CLUBLAND: Isaac Tigrett, co-creator of the Hard...
- DIVISION 2-A CHAMPIONSHIP : Torrey Pines Crushes Defending Champion
- DIVISION 3-A CHAMPIONSHIP : Morse's Victory Feels a Little Extra Special
- A Close Fight on This Card Would Be an Upset
- 'Stories of the Season' Plays Into Hands of Audience
- Actors Alley Eyes El Portal Theatre
- The Cabo Cure : It's still the soothing end of Baja, but now with sophistication added
- Karaoke: After 'Tiny Bubbles,' It's All Japanese
- Finding Gems in Commercial Property Debris
- Would-Be Johnnys : A Host-by-Host Walk Through the Talk-Show Ruins
- Cook's Magazine Is Back for Seconds
- Gospel Singers Getting a Taste of the Big Time--From Inside Prison
- After a brush with fame, longshoreman reprises his role as a movie reviewer.
- Questions Arise on Charitable Agency, Plan for Homeless Shelter : Arleta: An immigrant couple seeks to raise $50,000 to renovate a building. But mounting debts and close financial ties to their charity are under scrutiny.
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
- COLLEGE BASKETBALL REGIONAL ROUNDUP : St. Mary's Upsets Villanova in Overtime, 65-64
- WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL NCAA TOURNAMENT : UCLA Streaks Past BYU, Advances to Final Four
- Look Out in '93: 11 Locals to Watch
- Look Out in '93: 11 Locals to Watch
- GIFT BOOKS IN BRIEF : ELSIE DE WOLFE: A Decorative Life, <i> By Nina Campbell and Caroline Seebohm (Clarkson Potter: $35; 152 pp.).</i>
- STYLE : URBAN DESIGN : Remaking L.A.
- GIFT BOOKS IN BRIEF : SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN JEWELRY, <i> By Dexter Cirillo (Abbeville: $49.95; 240 pp.)</i>
- REMEMBER THE '60s? : THE PROTEST : IN MY PLACE, <i> By Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $19; 257 pp.)</i>
- Hayden Still Looks Like an Outsider : Politics: The liberal legislator now must contend with the ultimate insiders' club--the state Senate. But his detractors will not soon forget his bruising, big-money campaign.
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : TUESDAY'S GAMES
- Singing the Praises of a Talent Program : Education: Teachers find that special instruction in the arts is unexpectedly improving student grades.
- Guru Claims Sexual Gifts Via Thoughts
- FALCON Program Swoops Down on Crime in El Sereno
- Police Warn Elderly About Utility Scams
- Unshackling Liberty in China : U.S. should use trade to curb torture such as described in new Amnesty report
- Loyola Sinks Ventura, 83-76
- Stauber Saves Kings' Defense Again : Hockey: Goaltender improves his record to 9-0-1 with 44 saves in 6-3 victory over Blues.
- Golf
- Ghosts of Music Past : 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' songwriter Paul Williams undergoes a metamorphosis no less powerful than Scrooge's
- REMEMBER THE '60s? : THE MUSIC : BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS: My Life Inside Rock and Out, <i> By Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield (Doubleday: $24; 568 pp.)</i>
- THE ART OF PEACE by Morihei...
- California Corner
- Cuba in Dudespeak : TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba, <i> By Tom Miller (Atheneum: $24; 335 pp.)</i>
- Advisory Panels Approved
- A Who's Who Christmas
- Late Tax Payments Cost School District Nearly $1 Million : Accounting: Outside auditor blames system rather than individuals for costly errors.
- Debris from L.A. Riots Is Put to Good Use : Environment: Multiethnic coalition overseeing demolition recycles 80% of the rubble, generates jobs.
- Ill Children Get a Better Baby-Sitter--a Hospital : Health: Two Torrance hospitals are among a growing number of Southern California facilities that provide day care for mildly sick children of working parents.
- Girl, 5, Killed When Furniture Falls on Her
- When the Thin Blue Line Faces a Life-and-Death Decision
- Northrop Wins Contract
- Marine Group to Make Crucial Repairs to Somali Airport : Aid: Departure orders for 120 troops come after days of anxious waiting. Although eager to leave, some are fearful of unknown.
- Nice Try, but Loyola Falls again : College basketball: Lions again play a ranked team close but lose, this time to No. 24 Michigan State, 73-70
- CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE FOOTBALL: AT A CROSSROADS : Program Tries Not to Trip on a Shoestring
- SAILING : Bertrand Wins the Hard Way
- Santa Vs. 'Bodyguard'
- Restaurants : IT WAS INEVITABLE: PC FOOD : At Luma, Food Is Prepared Without Milk, Sugar or Eggs. Sometimes They Are Missed.
- Heady Choice of Vistas High Over Napa Valley
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : TUESDAY'S GAMES
- Election on Ouster of City Councilman
- Stone Unanimously Voted School Board President
- As Good as Gold : Magi Bore 3 Types of Incense, Not Precious Metal, Scholars Think
- Reward in Drive-By Slaying
- Program to Target Young Cancer Victims : Counseling: The free support group, to begin in January at the Wellness Community, will serve patients ages 14 to 20. It is the first of its kind on the Westside.
- A California Model for Health Insurance : Garamendi plan might have something to offer the nation
- 2 Supervisors Seek a Quick Vote on Perks : Government: Maria VanderKolk and John Flynn want the salary dispute resolved. But a plan to cut extras and raise officials' base pay has drawn criticism.
- Former Pastor Roberto Quinones Dies
- Rhinos' Twilight Hour Grows Dim : Kenyan Activist, San Diego Zoo Fight to Preserve Endangered Beast
- Asian Imports Clogging Wooden Shoe Market : Trade: The small Dutch industry says China and South Korea are dumping inferior versions in the Netherlands.
- THE MAN TO SEND RAIN CLOUDS: Contemporary...
- L.A. SPEAK
- GALILEO, SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH by...
- GOING FOR THE GRUNGE : Sooner or Later, the Truly Trendy Glom On to Every New Look and Lifestyle
- GIFT BOOKS IN BRIEF : ENGLISH VILLAGE PUBS, <i> By Roger Protz, Photos by Homer Sykes (Abbeville: $27.50; 159 pp.)</i>
- GIFT BOOKS IN BRIEF : THE SONORAN DESERT, <i> Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga, text by Charles Bowden (Abrams: $49.50, 168 pp.)</i>
- Yeltsin May Be Toppled, U.S. Defense Chief Warns : Russia: Cheney says Washington hopes president survives but conflict is a concern.
- Reality Checkers
- Claremont
- Longtime Clinton Friend, Brown to Fill Key Positions : Transition: Thomas McLarty, an Arkansas executive, will become chief of staff. Commerce secretary-designate is the President-elect's first black Cabinet appointment.
- Clinton Health Plan Likely to Stir Controversy : Reform: Proposals are expected to closely follow campaign promises and rule out alternatives advocated by a variety of special interest groups.
- Coping With Unequal Burden of <i> La Crisis</i>
- An Old-Fashioned Taste of Christmas
- Newport-Mesa Theft Raises Fears : Embezzlement: Cutbacks have left districts vulnerable by eliminating checks and balances on finances, experts say.
- California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Man Gets Life in Crossbow Attack
- Loyola Comes Up Short, 7-3
- Fearing Protest, Inouye Cancels University Talk
- A Rebounding Economy Has Put the 'Ho-Ho!' Back in Christmas Sales Nationwide. But Business for Most Local Merchants Is . . . : Ho-Hum
- Israeli Troops Kill Two Arabs in Street Battles
- Christmas Tree Recycling
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : TUESDAY'S GAMES
- Youth Acting Class a Study in Emotion
- Market Wins OK With Neighbors' Aid
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : MONDAY'S GAME
- Altitude Sickness Strikes Young Hikers
- Merchants, Artists Form Citizen Group
- PLATFORM : Prophets of Division
- LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Antonia Hernandez : Working for the Latino Cause With Soft-Spoken Determination
- County Panel Scrutinized for Satanic Claims : Cults: Some members of Ritual Abuse Task Force contend that devil worshipers are poisoning them. Critics say there is no proof and are turning up the heat for answers.
- Woman Died From Bullet, Coroner Says
- Shopping Mall Santa Denies Staging Rescue
- 2 Colorado Jail Escapees Held
- Miscellany
- HIGH SCHOOL CROSS-COUNTRY : Heffernan, White Avenge '91 Runs
- GIRLS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
- CHARLES & EDDIE : From Subway to the Charts
- SPECIAL REPORT : FIGHTING FORECLOSURE : There are legitimate ways homeowners who face losing their homes can slow or even block foreclosure and perhaps protect credit record as well.
- Santa's Visits Start Monday
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : FRIDAY'S GAMES
- Car Thief 's Booty Comes to Rescue
- Shortfall in Pension Funds Rises Sharply to $50 Billion, U.S. Says
- When Business Goes to School, Questions Follow
- Refugees Get Help With English Skills
- Louisiana Shines the Spotlight On Its 'Deadbeat Dads'
- Teetotaler's Reward : Should a club soda cost as much as a scotch? Maybe not if you're a designated driver.
- Slayer's Suicide Letter a Grammar Lesson
- Businessman Is Honored by City
- Boy Hit by Boat's Boom Airlifted to Hospital
- COMMENTARY ON GOP POLITICS : Pete Wilson and Conservatives: How We Can All Get Along : Governor and the party base must focus on areas of agreement or much more than 'just' the '94 election will be lost.
- THE NBA / MARK HEISLER : Stop Him if You've Heard This One: Bulls Bickering
- ORANGE COUNTY WATER POLO ALL-STAR MATCH : South Team Has More Fun This Year
- Hatten, La Verne Overcome PLNC
- Miscellany
- Miscellany
- ROUNDUP : Bishop Montgomery Wins El Segundo Tournament
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
- Keji Ogiwara of Japan led after the...
- HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP : Mustangs Win Third Baron Title
- Howard Stern's Partner Explains Why, Oh, Why : Forget the critics--Robin Quivers says her presence as sidekick is proof that the host's outrageous act isn't meant to be taken so literally
- Rembrandts Pop Band Strives for More Elaborate Works of Art
- A Room That Fits 007 to a T
- Power Pop 'n' Punk From Those Pre-Platinum Days : NIRVANA "Incesticide", <i> DGC</i> * * *
- Opposition to Curriculum Guide Is Exploding in N.Y.
- HBO shows how to succeed at eating by reading past the advertising
- In Hollister, Still Standing by the Sheep
- Germany to Send Cargo Planes to Help Somalia
- Chamber Loses City Funding : Business: Infighting among directors, mass resignations cost Chamber of Commerce about $50,000 annually.
- A Pageant Winner Who Feels 'Responsibility to Look Good'
- She's No. 1 at Tracking Down Stolen Vehicles
- Mortgage Rate Drops
- Maintenance Funds OKd
- Principal Ousted After Parent-Teacher Protest : Education: Critics cite concerns about absences and divisiveness. The district seeks bilingual replacement for Eastman Elementary.
- COLUMN ONE : The Rescue of Roe vs. Wade : How a dramatic change of heart by a Supreme Court justice affirmed the right to abortion--just when the issue seemed headed for certain defeat.
- COLUMN LEFT / ALEXANDER COCKBURN : Lloyd Bentsen, Comforter to the Haves : Clinton has killed any chance of real economic reform.
- Foundation's Contracts Go to Firms With Ties to Officers : Charity: More than $6.2 million was paid last year to companies run by foundation officials working on an Olympic training center, but impropriety is denied.
- Commentary : Times Edition Left Mark on City's Media : Newspapers: When it closes Friday, the San Diego County Edition of The Times ends 15 years of zealously enlarging the news agenda as the city grew to adulthood.
- Fighting for Women While Exploiting Them : Packwood: By ardently championing women's issues, the senator was buying protection from sexual harassment charges.
- Deaths of Large Cats From Virus Stump Experts : Animals: The outbreak of canine distemper at a shelter has only affected exotic felines, adding to the mystery.
- San Juan Bautista Fights Just to Live : Mission town: Faced with a growing stack of bills, council fires the city's 12 employees, leaves City Hall to volunteers.
- Great Expectations : Toro Women's Team Will Try to Build on 1991-92 Season
- KINNEY NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS : Skieresz Finishes 3rd in Surprise
- Olympics
- Drake's Smith Puts on Show, Helping Defeat CS Fullerton
- Look Out in '93: 11 Locals to Watch
- His Acceptance Speech May Be Quite Short
- The Freshman Class Acts of '92 : Rockers and rappers dominate this year's Top 10, but promising newcomers delving in folk and R&B; are also among the field
- COLLEGE BASKETBALL NATIONAL ROUNDUP : Louisville Can't Stay With Kentucky
- * Richard Walker has been elected to...
- The Clash of the Discount Titans : Shoppers On The Prowl For Cheap Brassieres and Cut-Rate Refrigerators Are Helping Wal-Mart and Kmart Remake the Retail Business
- Why Gift Rail Passes Make Sense : Eurail and BritRail will raise their rates Jan. 1., but purchases before then are valid for up to six months.
- California IN BRIEF : MARTINEZ : Victims of Botched Raid to Get $660,000
- At 4-Feet-8, Harvard Economist Reich Sensed He Was on Clinton's Short List
- BOYS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : TUESDAY'S GAMES
- Sudden Cold Spell a Danger to Some : Health: A rapid drop in temperature can bring on painful, itchy rashes. Some sufferers wheeze and faint.
- China Schooling Divorcing Pairs on Amicable Partings
- After Therapy, My Valspeak Is Still, Like, <i> Out There</i>
- Music Hall's 2nd Chance at Glory : Symphony: Magnificent structure didn't have the acoustics to impress. But a new, boxier shape should change that.
- Amtrak Train Kills Man Walking on Tracks
- Calabasas Seeks Deal to Soften the Effects if Ahmanson Plan OKd
- Rams to Face Master Sackers : Pro football: The Saints lead the NFL with 51 sacks but have had trouble scoring lately.
- College Football
- Fame Expected to Prove Lucrative, but Fleeting, for These Three Boxers
- Miscellany
- Roots Reggae Lives On With Veterans, Newcomers
- Medical Guides Can Help on Trips : On the market are books written especially for foreign destinations, with listings of doctors abroad.
- GIFT BOOKS IN BRIEF : SUPERSTITIONS, <i> By Peter Lorie (Simon & Schuster: $22.50; 255 pp.)</i>
- GIFT BOOKS IN BRIEF : LOST LHASA: Heinrich Harrer's Tibet, <i> Text and photographs by Heinrich Harrer (Abrams: $39.95; 224 pp.)</i>
- No Home Prices
- City Sets Hearing on Tianguis Plan
- Pentagon Warns Some Blankets Given to Homeless Contain DDT
- California IN BRIEF : LAKE ELSINORE : Man Convicted in Courthouse Slayings
- Self-Regulation, Not Censorship
- Still Not Enough Room at the Inns : Cities Must Tackle Poor Records on Affordable Housing
- Training Complex Plans Hammered by Economy
- Some Krishna Cheer : Members of the Hindu sect are beginning to exhibit optimism toward legal problems it faces.
- A Blessing on Blythe Street : Religion: In a Mass on the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, residents ask the savior of the poor to bring peace to the troubled neighborhood.
- U.S. Is Growing 'Best Marijuana in the World'
- Getting in the Spirit : Holidays: As the malls overflow, the season gets under way with a party for deaf children, a parade in Camarillo and a fair in Ventura.
- Seconds Add Up to First : Championships: Maryland girl, second last year, beats Fallbrook's Milena Glusac by four seconds.
- A Family Tree : Coaching Bloodlines Run Deep
- BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Free Throws by Maxey Give Moorpark Victory
- Vogt Parties to World Cup Win
- College Football
- Geto Boys Wave Anti-Abortion Flag With 'The Unseen'
- The Spirit of West Rides Tall
- THE HIGH SCHOOLS / STEVE ELLING : Taft Came Crashing Back to Earth When Its Air Mission Failed
- GIRLS' BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
- Look Out in '93: 11 Locals to Watch
- Death of an Edition
- Kudos for Cunas
- Death of an Edition
- Oaths, Scouts and God: When a Pledge of Allegiance Is Painful
- A Nice River
- Death of an Edition
- Boy Scouts
- Arcadia Middle Schools
- MAGIC CURTAIN FALLS
- L.A. Shortfall
- Dispatchers' Gripes
- MAGIC CURTAIN FALLS
- Tom and Roseanne
- Painted 'Stagecoach'
- Boy Scouts
- Closure of Humana Hospital--Symptom of System's Failures
- Michael Eisner
- Oaths, Scouts and God: When a Pledge of Allegiance Is Painful
- MAGIC CURTAIN FALLS
- Michael Eisner
- Portable Toilets on Skid Row
- Police Chases
- Portable Toilets on Skid Row
- MAGIC CURTAIN FALLS
- Dr. Orville Stone
- Sheriff Deputies on Kolts Report
- 'Multilevel Marketer' Objects to Depiction
- Support for Hospice Care
- Jimmy, Meet Gene
- Death of an Edition
- Closure of Humana Hospital--Symptom of System's Failures
- Legal Limits on Who May Serve You
- 'Life' and AIDS
- Bicycle Commute Is the Way to Go
- Death of an Edition
- HYPHENATED AMERICANS
- No Obligation
- INTERNMENT ART
- Tall in the Saddle
- Look to City Council as Problem Cause
- Oaktown Hero
- Lawyer Scandal Reflects Poorly on State Bar, Judges
- Death of an Edition
- Voting Rights for Aliens
- In Praise of Quality
- Who's to Blame? Look in Mirror
- Death of an Edition
- Urban Warfare
- Public Hearing on Playa Vista Development
- Michael Eisner
- MAGIC CURTAIN FALLS
- Death of an Edition
- Dwight's All Right
- Mountain B
- Approval Process for Fox Studios Expansion
- Portable Toilets on Skid Row
- Portable Toilets on Skid Row
- MAGIC CURTAIN FALLS
- Topless Dancing
- Lafcadio Hearn: The Soul of an Outsider
- Vision for Irvine Draws Criticism
- Telephone Device May Send a Message
- Many Benefits to Disney Resort
- On Airports
- Portable Toilets on Skid Row
- In Praise of Quality
- Bowen and the Battle of the Shopping Malls
- Education Is Key to Better Tomorrow
- Mojave Green Snake Needs More Respect
- Lawyer Scandal Reflects Poorly on State Bar, Judges
- Tall in the Saddle
- 'Shared Sacrifice' Could Help Economy
- Latino Label
- Olympic Survival
- EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
- ONE HAPPY HOSTESS
- HYPHENATED AMERICANS
- Mojave Green Snake Needs More Respect
- Lafcadio Hearn: The Soul of an Outsider
- Deposing the Family Dictator : ...
- Voting Rights for Aliens