- Justice Dept. Studying Antitrust Issues : Miami News, City's Oldest Daily, Closes
- Selected Evening Cable Fare
- The new year brings with it a...
- Woman Stuck in Elevator Says Prayer Helped
- State High Court Takes Anticipated Turn to the Right
- U.S.-China Strains Surface; Basis of Relationship Shifts
- Gorbachev Retires the Soviet Model for Progress
- California Schools Gear Up to Fight Pervasive Public Ignorance of the Past
- Mixing Signals on Capitol Gridlock
- Sifting Through Year's Opinions
- Sifting Through Year's Opinions
- Hospital Moves Patients After Fire in Kitchenette
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : Commentary : Football Gives Oklahoma Black Eye
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : A Look Ahead, Behind : Many Struggled Through '88, but Near Year Offers Hope : PADRES
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : TALK OF THE TOWN : Prime Time Deion Sanders Says He's Ready, Willing and Able to Show His Stuff in Sugar Bowl
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : Country Road Leads Them to Big Time
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Theater
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Comedy
- Flocking Together and Chickening Out
- 1988 The Year in Review : Milestones : Some of Orange County's major business stories in 1988
- AROUND HOME
- These Things Happen by Marian Thurm (Poseidon...
- Gorbachev Calls for 'Gumption' in Reform Push
- Old Worries, New Issues Face Returning Legislators
- 'Unwanted Child' Bequeaths $200,000 to San Diego Planned Parenthood Unit
- South Gate Closes 6th Well Because of Contamination
- Man Accused in Probe of Casino Cocaine Deals
- CHRISTMAS TREE DISPOSAL
- Some Teachers Take Extra Duties to Boost Salaries
- Zola Budd says she would like to...
- A Cold War Starting to Heat Up for Viking QBs
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : It Has Been Quite a Reign for Duke : Big Ten Commissioner Will Retire When a Replacement Is Chosen
- WHAT THEY SAID IN '88
- Mad Maxines?
- Consumers Pay Toll for Bell Breakup
- THE RACE TO FASHODA European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa <i> by David Levering Lewis (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: $11.95) </i>
- Thomas H. Cook's "Sacrificial Ground" was one...
- The Letters of John Cheever edited by...
- Kudos to Those Who Were Nice to Us in '88
- Investment Firm Opens L.A. Office
- Super Quiz Drops 'Crusoe' After Racism Complaint
- Bomb Blast Kills 4 at U.S. Home of Brazilian Embassy Official
- DAT and Luddites
- The World : Aquino Says No to Marcos
- Eritrean Rebel Campaign Backed by Hidden Factories, Ethiopian POWs
- Takeo Fujisawa; Co-Founder of Honda
- Forgotten Tribes of Lebanon's Wadi Khaled Thrive on Smuggling of Goods to Syria
- They Chose to Remain Despite Amnesty : Many U.S. Draft Evaders Succeeding in Canada
- Sifting Through Year's Opinions
- THE 4 FRESHMEN : Vision of Coalition Comes Unraveled
- Sallinger, Orange Beat El Modena Girls
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : A Look Ahead, Behind : Many Struggled Through '88, but Near Year Offers Hope : USD
- Steroid Report a Revelation to CIF Hierarchy : 'Epidemic' Surprises Administrators, Coaches
- Chino Ends Point Loma's Home Winning Streak at 143 Games
- Cinefile
- Remembering the Revolution : Ten Years After: The Critic's View
- Clean Sheets
- In Search of he Last Starlet : One fan's quest for the mysterious Carol Ohmart
- Costa Rica Plans to Build on a Forgotten Natural Resource--Bamboo
- Gorbachev and Reagan Exchange Holiday Greetings
- At $80 Per Mushroom, Price for Matsutake Is High Even for the Japanese
- Resurgent Nationalism in Outlying Regions Challenges Soviet Leaders : Republic of Georgia Symbolizes Rising Push for Sovereignty
- Benefits Found at Any Age : Giving Up Smoking: It's Never Too Late
- It's Party Time but This One Is a Bit Different
- NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY CLOSINGS
- Campers Ring in the New Year With a Little Wild Life
- Chic Restaurants May Come and Go, but Old-Fashioned Tearooms Are Forever
- Adultery in the Natural Interest : NO MAN'S LAND <i> by Martin Walser; translated by Leila Vennewitz (Henry Holt: $17.95; 160 pp.) </i>
- AROUND HOME : A Bed in the Wall
- Interim Mortgage Rate Rise Predicted : But Second-Half Slowdown Could Push Percentage Back Down by End of the Year
- Limo Suspect's Escape With Bogus Gun Foiled
- Front Line Now Front Door : China's Coast Luring Visitors From Taiwan
- NHL Notes : Courtnall Turns His Attention to Offense
- Record-Setting Efforts Lead Christian Heritage
- Loyola Gathering In Points Again
- The Beckmesser Awards of 1988
- Picturing Manzanar : MANZANAR <i> by John Armour and Peter Wright photographs by Ansel Adams, commentary by John Hersey (Times Books: $27.50; 167 pp.) </i>
- Utility Sues in Theft of Power
- Beverly Hills Returns to Rose Parade After 31-Year Absence
- And They Don't Even Do the Dishes
- Israel Troops Kill Two Palestinians; Arab Youth Dies
- 'Double Standard' Raises Eyebrows in Shias' Capital
- Tunnel at Istanbul Jail
- Jet Returns to London After Smoke Is Spotted
- Scientists Try to Save Brazil's Exotic Animals : Zoos Given Vital Role as Destruction of Amazon Forests Imperils Wildlife
- U.S. Trade War Looms as Europe's Meat Ban Takes Effect
- A Tighter Bond
- 1988 : THE YEAR IN REVIEW : 1988: a Humbling Year for the Mighty
- Bengals Ground the Seahawks : Cincinnati Stops Stumbling Seattle in a Rush, 21-13
- Brilliance Routine for Mario Lemieux
- THE 1988 YEAR IN REVIEW : ART
- '89 Office Market Journal Predicts Good Year Ahead
- Scotland will be the subject of travel...
- Shelby Coffey Becomes The Times' 8th Editor : Veteran Newsman, Magazine Executive Succeeds Bill Thomas
- Overnight Millionaires : Colombia's Emerald Mines: Green Gold
- AROUND HOME : Notes on Formica and Garden and Animal Events : Fifties Formica
- Sneak Previews of Forthcoming Books : The First Rose Parade
- THE MEZZANINE
- He'll Be Floating on Air Monday
- Minnesota Farm Program Offers Hope for Rural Men on the Rebound
- Japan Yachtswoman Makes Solo Round Trip Across Pacific Ocean
- Where Comebacks Start : Bell Shelter Offers the Homeless More Than Just a Roof
- Soviet Dissident Yuli Daniel; Imprisoned for Publishing Abroad
- Verbal Virus
- Foes of Pierce Fair Site Propose Van Nuys Airport as Alternative
- Editorial : Problems Need '89 Solutions
- Sounding Bullish in Facing Hysteria
- 'I learned later he was known to the Chinese as "the man who kills while smiling."'
- Not Just Fiddling Around in 'Paganini'
- 3 Arrested for Attempting to Block Blood Transfusion
- Moving Debate on Drugs From Rhetoric to Action
- Threat of Drought, Water Conservation Hard to Sell in Lush but Arid San Diego
- Jim Sprenger and John Fritsche each scored...
- Colleges : Aztecs Take Low-Key Road, but Get by Vermont
- 1939 : It was the greatest year in Hollywood history: 365 films were released and moviegoers were buying tickets at the rate of 80 million a week! What did they get for their money? A feast of light and shadow: The movies of 50 years ago.
- The Year the American Movie Came Back : 'Accidental Tourist' tops The Times' critic's 10 Best of 1988
- The Blossoming of L.A. Artists in '88. : Multimillion-dollar prices for 'priceless' pieces were numbing, but out here the outlook is down-to-earth
- Liability for Asbestos Damage Poses Serious Economic Threat
- HITCHCOCK AND SELZNICK The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood <i> by Leonard J. Leff (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: $11.95) </i>
- By Going for Broke, U.S. Fouls Farm Talks
- Agoura Hills Council Rift Splits Lone Man, 4 Women
- Sifting Through Year's Opinions
- THE NFL PLAYOFFS : Bills Hoping Crowd Can Get Behind Them : Noise Should Be One of Key Factors When They Meet Oilers in Buffalo Today
- A Long Search for the Best Perfect Video
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Dance
- Wall Street Votes for Lower Deficit
- Austrian Hotel Plan
- The Generic Ineffability of Southern Sex : VELOCITY <i> by Kristin McCloy (Random House: $16.95; 256 pp.) </i>
- The Sunday evening movie lineup is one...
- Down and Out in Rural America : Homeless Tell Stories of Deprivation, Struggle
- Insightful Commentary : Blind Twin Brothers Give Sightless Radio Listeners a Different View of Rose Parade
- Gone with the Wind (TNT Sunday at...
- Lawmen Strive to Get Drunk Drivers Off Roads
- Deadly Methane Is Viewed as Source of 20-Year Energy Supply
- Lawmen Strive to Get Drunk Drivers Off Roads
- My Mother Ate My Homework and Other Tales
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : A Look Ahead, Behind : Many Struggled Through '88, but Near Year Offers Hope : SOCKERS
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Music
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Pop
- Mardi Gras West Aims to Create Image for Valley
- The Turning Point : Now That the Redress Issue Is Settled, Japanese-Americans Are Confronting Questions on Their Culture's Future
- Our Forces Are at the Ready, but Not for Cutbacks
- COCKLEBURS
- Sifting Through Year's Opinions
- Julie Krone won the next to last...
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : A Look Ahead, Behind : Many Struggled Through '88, but Near Year Offers Hope : CHARGERS
- NHL Roundup : Lemieux's 5 Goals, 3 Assists Lift Penguins to Victory Over Devils
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : A Look Ahead, Behind : Many Struggled Through '88, but Near Year Offers Hope : AMERICA'S CUP
- 1988: It Was Vintage Year for Losers
- A Taste for Trattorias
- Company Plans 20 Projects in Four States
- New Fallout From Chernobyl : THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER <i> by David R. Marples (St. Martin's Press: $35, cloth; $14.95, paper; 316 pp., illustrated; 0-312-02432-0) </i>
- Iran Extends Ban on Women Soloists
- Arab League Sees Egypt Back in Fold
- 7 More S&L; Deals End Bailout Surge : Beverly Hills Savings Bought by Bank in Michigan; U.S. Puts Up $983 Million
- Prison Walls Can't Block China Dissident's Love for His Family
- Bone Fragment of St. Jude Taken From Church
- Keeping Petrodollars at Home : Saudis Making Effort to Boost Regional Tourism
- 2 Agencies Strive to Take Over Pest Abatement in L.B.
- Nicaragua Struggles to Aid Its Children
- Archdiocese Seeks Woman's Eviction : Church Wants to Use Home Where 20-Year Tenant Has lived Rent-Free
- Sifting Through Year's Opinions
- Ull-timatum
- They're Looking for a Few Good (Sensitive) Men
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : Gator Bowl : Georgia Makes a Last Run for Dooley
- THE NFL PLAYOFFS : Favored 49ers Will Try to Reverse a Trend : S.F. Has Been Ousted From Playoffs 3 Straight Times--Vikings Did It Last
- Some Winning Quotations From 1988
- Racing at Santa Anita : Move From Turf to Dirt Track Doesn't Faze Simply Majestic
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : Peach Bowl : N.C. State Wins Game of Mistakes, 28-23
- Basketball Race Shapes Up as Rerun : Defending Champions Ventura, Santa Monica Favored in Realigned WSC
- Run--VCR : Roll Your Own Videos Let Blossoming 'Bosses' Produce Closet Classics
- The Other Reviewers' Choices
- 'Sweethearts of Carlsbad'
- AROUND HOME : Stenciling
- Trains Kill 4, Including Daredevil Playing 'Chicken'
- Little Steven, Too
- 3 Insurance Agent Groups Support Push for Complete Invalidation of Prop. 103
- Limits Sought on New Whittier Apartments
- China Police Move African Students : Some Arrested After Stand-Off at Nanjing Guest House
- Admitting the Cold War Is Ended
- Linguists Delve Many Millenia Into Past to Find Man's Mother Tongue
- Douty's Free Throw Seals Irvine Victory
- Instant Replay: Stories That Stood Out in '88
- Mad Maxines?
- Quibbles & Bits
- Dance in '88: Hope, Achievement
- Business News Quiz : The Year in Orange County Business : Choose the answer that completes the information on news events from 1988.
- VIEWPOINTS : '89 Wish List: Protection, Taxes and Peace : Social Benefits, Deficit Reduction Are Top Priorities for the New Year
- Priest's Ouster Silences Haiti's Voice of the Poor
- ROCK ME
- Ortega Rejects Talks on 2 Rival Contra Truce Plans : Says He's Drafting His Own Peace Proposal to Be Submitted to Washington After Bush Takes Office
- Donald Pitts McCullum
- High Court Spoiled Bid to Solve Bishop's Murder, Salvadorans Say
- Response Time of Pasadena Police Short of 6-Minute Goal
- Trying Time for New Courthouse : County, Builder Battle Over Unfinished Van Nuys Project
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : HYPER ENERGY : Michigan's Messner Is a Tough One
- Long Beach Women Fall to Texas
- THE NFL PLAYOFFS : Bears Beat Eagles in Pea Souper Bowl, 20-12 : Chicago Rolls Past Philadelphia as Fog Blankets Soldier Field
- Alabama Is Winner and Loser, Too
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Pop
- Blue Notes Sound Free to Jazz Pianist Unmoved by Opportunities to Cash In
- MacWestlake : MacArthur Park's Renovation Should Include Restoration of Its Historic Name
- 'Top Gun' of Egyptian Snake-Catchers Carries On Tradition
- Westchester Firms to Work Together on Ride-Sharing Plans
- Oil Slick Fouling Washington Beaches, Killing Birds, Put at 168,000 Gallons
- Floating Toward the Rose Parade
- The Nation : Homeless Families Leave Squalid Hotel
- New Year Getting Off to a Nippy, Rainy Start
- SUCCESS STORIES
- Ruling Stalls Office Project at Santa Monica Airport
- Sifting Through Year's Opinions
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : Huskers' Thomas Star Talker, Too : Nebraska's Leading Character Also Is Leader of the Defense
- THE NFL PLAYOFFS : NFL Saw No Reason to Postpone the Game
- The Cowboy Junkies' Addicting Vision : At its best, the band plays country music with a Velvet Underground twang
- Santa Fe Springs Firms Create Aid Network Under Emergency Plan
- Editor's Legacy : Good Writing, Long Stories and Freedom
- SUCCESS STORIES
- U.S. Population Put at 246.9 Million
- Bus Assailant Attacks Officer, Is Shot, Killed
- Where Was U.S. in Nicaragua's Hour of Need? : Denial of Humanitarian Aid Clashes With Open Hearts Toward Armenia
- 1989 Forecast : The Bush Years: 1 : Paying for the Reagan Revolution
- Police Seek Missing Alzheimer's Patient
- In Search of an Identity : Area Lacks a Sense of Community
- Allergies Driving Researchers Up Trees
- Getting to Know Him : Familiarity With Curtis R. Tucker Jr. May Be in Name Only
- Bone Fragment of St. Jude Stolen From Santa Clara Church
- Anaheim Man Arrested in Attack on 2-Year-Old
- College Basketball Roundup : Louisville Rolls Over Kentucky
- NBA Notes : Last Season's Trade Is Key to This Year's Success for Cavs, Suns
- Golf / Mal Florence : Steve Pate Returning to San Diego Area--One of His Favorites
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Theater
- More Film Favorites of 1988
- An Exhibit Whose Time Has Come
- More Film Favorites of 1988
- WAITING FOR CHILDHOOD <i> by Sumner Locke Elliott (Perennial Library/ Harper & Row: $7.95) </i>
- Memories of a Chinese-American Boyhood : THE CHINAMAN PACIFIC & FRISCO R.R. CO. <i> by Frank Chin (Coffee House Press: $9.95; 184 pp.) </i>
- Gate Is Open for Minority Teachers in San Francisco
- Out of the Gutter
- Oregon Tries to Block Defense Access to Ecclesia Youths
- Prof. T. Blaisdell; Helped Plan Recovery of Postwar Europe
- Shop Owners Are Pioneers in Reviving Old West Style : Monterey Furniture Rides Back Out of Sunset
- Diplomatic Notes Seal U.S.-Canada Trade Agreement
- LBCC Foundation Names 4 Trustees, Officers
- 4 Burmese Land Safely After 40 Days Adrift
- Median Home Prices, Sales Up in November
- And Never Brought to Mind
- The Talk of the Boston Irish : WONDERFUL YEARS, WONDERFUL YEARS <i> by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt: $19.95; 261 pp.) </i>
- May I add yet another hurrah for...
- Actor in Samurai Film Injured by Sword on Set
- Brazil's Fishermen--Jangadeiros--Cling to Tradition as They Reap Sea's Bounty
- Truckers Face Constant Threat of Attack as They Ply Malawi's Economic Lifeline
- Rose Parade's Enduring Legacy : Long Year of Preparation Climaxes in Happy Chaos
- Mothers of AIDS Victims Join Together to Comfort One Another
- Venezuela Will Delay Paying Debt Principal
- Italy Debates a Capital Idea--Down With Rome!
- Failure of Pump Sends Sewage Into Mission Bay
- Inmates at Orange County Women's Jail Call Their New Uniforms 'Yucky'
- Gang Link Probed in Southeast Slaying
- Cypress Defeats Central Florida for Fifth Place
- Commentary : Benirschke Has Mastered His New Job, Down to the Letter
- RESTAURANT REVIEW : Seafood Fare Delightfully Fishy--and Authentically Indian--at Aashiana
- Ten Years After: The Chef's View
- "Two large deals like this are part...
- Saving Israel From Suicide : ISRAEL'S FATEFUL HOUR <i> by Yehoshafat Harkabi (Harper & Row: $22.50; 256 pp.) </i>
- Her World : New Year's Memories
- Sweets From Harlan Ellison : ANGRY CANDY <i> by Harlan Ellison (Houghton Mifflin: $17.95; 324 pp. 0-395-48307-7) </i>
- Sikh Youth Leader Killed in Punjab
- The High Schools / Tim Brown : Contreras Vows Not to Be Lured Back Into Coaching by Bowls' Appeal
- Fast Start Leads Occidental to Win Over Glassboro St.
- Dynamo Riga Proves Too Much for Kings, 'Coach' McNall, 5-3
- Clinkers Among the Pop Notes of '88
- Close Call for Mel
- But the Calendar Consensus: Cowboy Junkies
- Bush Must Act Swiftly to Make '89 a Good Year
- One Enchanted Day When Peter Rabbit Stirred
- William K. Guptill of Claremont has been...
- Western Officials Look to Afghanistan and See a New Problem--Heroin
- Development, Flood Control on Agenda of Legislators
- The Paris-Dakar rally moved into Sebha, the...
- Faces to Watch Next Season:
- College Basketball Notes : Road Life Won't Get Any Better for Iowa
- 1988 THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Evans Wins Fame, Passes Up Fortune : Triple Gold Medalist from Placentia Rates as Orange County's Top Story
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : A Look Ahead, Behind : Many Struggled Through '88, but Near Year Offers Hope : SMALL COLLEGES
- Close Call for Mel
- Joel-Peter Witkin: Peering Over the Abyss : Sexual deviants, cadavers, circus freaks populate photographer's world
- From Cucumbers to Caviar - Department store eateries have gone trendy to attract busy shoppers.
- Organizers Also Urge End to Holiday Gunfire : Vigil Honors 54 Youths Killed in Detroit
- ROSE PARADE BUS SERVICE
- Commentary : PUC Needs Juice to Act for Public in Utility Mergers
- College Catalog : Granada Hills Scout Rates Football Prospects to Provide Shopping Assistance by the Numbers
- Commentary : Sports Cold War Is Beginning to Thaw
- '88 Golden Feather Awards: Wealth of Choices
- Recordings : The Kurt Weill File
- Some Companies Hit Hardest by Crash Picked Up the Pieces, Came Out Ahead
- Interior Design Important to Visually Impaired Persons
- 21 Die in Latin Bus Crash
- Remembrance of an AIDS Victim: Pain and Dignity
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : In San Diego, Visitors Co-Star With Newcomers : If You Want to Know the Story of 1988, Then Read Our Lists
- THE YEAR IN REVIEW : A Look Ahead, Behind : Many Struggled Through '88, but Near Year Offers Hope : RUNNING/TRIATHLON