However, 40% of those eligible failed to vote, and 7% of the ballots that were cast were either blank or mutilated. 4% Growth Projected Many private forecasters have revised their predictions for growth this year, with some saying the economy is likely to reach the 4% growth rate projected by the Reagan Administration. So far, State Department officials said, they have heard no complaints from the Aquino government about their handling of the issue. An affirmative vote by Congress would lift an existing two-year ban on military aid to the rebels, known as contras. "He's been our guiding light financially" Snowden, 40, was born and reared in Upstate New York.

The highest level of alert, a general emergency, was declared, and all residents within 10 miles of the plant hypothetically were ordered to leave. "The accordion is good because it's portable, but it's also very heavy" Hildegarde-who goes by one name only-confessed breathlessly during a break one recent night Her break didn't last long. "We're at a point" said Dyksterhuis, 43, "where a lot of people are passing laws, making rules and regulations that interfere with our ability to produce food and fiber. It is not the familiar big, dark brown, bulky shingle house that the Greenes scattered over Pasadena The Culbertson house is tan gunite. "Even with all the windows closed it still gets into the house.

"The basic problems we have is that no one has demonstrated a need for it" said Carlos Galindo, executive vice president of Apartment Assn, California Southern Cities, which represents about 4,000 landlords in southern Los Angeles County. Gay sex shops sold gels and creams that promised to "protect" users. With a winding, curvy route, the trolley cars never got up to their maximum speed of 50 m. p. h Thursday. "Charlie will explain things over and over; older people have more patience" Parke said. Rebel commander Mohammad Ishaq, known as Lala Malang, of the Pakistan-based Hezbi-i-Islami guerrilla party was exchanged for a Soviet soldier identified as Andrei Sergeivich Uslov, the sources said. . Warning on Compromise James Glaser, principal planner, also warned commissioners: "There is a time for compromise and a time not for compromise You may lose on both sides.

" Real Reason GivenDipping a hunk of thick bread into a plate of Middle-Eastern vegetables, McCarthy said the real reason for his presence at the Casablanca party was that "I knew Larry when he was writing serious political tracts" That would be a decade ago, when Leamer was struggling to make a living as a free-lance writer in the journalist's jungle of Washington. And if I'm wrong-if the land of the free and the home of the brave really abounds with men who can't make formula or iron a dress-I fear for the Republic. Rinks Vulnerable The insurance hikes have come at a time when ice rink operators are especially vulnerable, said Michael Paikin, managing partner of Van Nuys Iceland and the Pasadena Ice Skating Center. On Tuesday, Marcos critics who in recent weeks had demonstrated outside the consulate wandered in and out of its offices.

Dong, a native of Korea who was living legally in Los Angeles, met four South Koreans as they arrived at the Tijuana airport from Mexico City. Under a program designed to make Los Angeles' many small business districts more accessible to customers, these revenues, as well as funds generated by the city's other 28,800 parking meters, are put aside in trust funds to buy parking lots and install meters. We'll let the voters decide" Watson, who has organized the city's community fair the past two years and serves as a youth counselor at his church, believes that the major challenge facing the city is the need to woo retail business. "Every (ethnic) group in America has brought something important. Why would anyone who has lived in Los Angeles 16 years go from downtown to UCLA on Olympic Boulevard when they have the Santa Monica Freeway? Of course the freeway would be jammed, too, but at least she wouldn't be infuriated by the realization that she had outsmarted herself by taking a surface street. Burning trash to get energy is a way of life in Europe and Japan.

But the clearing of the brush has left the caves, which are just off the housing tract property, exposed to treasure hunters and sightseers, according to Posh Moyle, cultural resources coordinator for the 6,000-member United Southern Chumash Council. The proposed tax, which had been supported by City Manager Gregory Meyer, would have provided about $1. 6 million in revenue for police, fire and paramedic services. "It will come as no surprise" a smiling Cranston told reporters as he sauntered ouT of the Hotel del Coronado into the early-morning sunshine, "but I hereby announce that I am a candidate for reelection" Then, in a series of campaign stops from San Diego to Sacramento, the senator laid out his 1986 campaign themes-from federal aid for toxic cleanups and child care to the need for serious negotiations to ban nuclear weapons. "They must be given the means to fight back" In recent days, the battle over aid to the Nicaraguan contras has been an overwhelming preoccupation in public pronouncements from the White House, with the President taking the lead.

Whiteside, 84-1321, Emmanuel Charles Whiteside, awaiting trial for murder, told his lawyer that he intended to bolster his claim of self-defense by testifying that he saw something "metallic" in the hands of a man he was accused of stabbing to death "If I don't say I saw a gun, I'm dead" Whiteside said Warned to Tell Truth The lawyer, Gary L. But many of the shop and restaurant owners are the church's biggest boosters. -Paul Tavilla, 51, of Arlington, Mass, stretched his jaws and caught a grape after it plummeted 52 stories from a balloon over Tokyo's teeming Shinjuku district. Shultz said Marcos is "welcome to come to the United States" and other U. S. But the Wolfpack figures to have a much more difficult time when it faces Wilson in the quarterfinals at 7:30 p. m Friday at Workman High in Industry. And the overall goal is the same: global nuclear disarmament.