Over the past few weeks, however, officials have begun to concede that the drop in grain output may also be the result of a steady decline in state and local investment for agriculture in China. PEKING — China announced Saturday a series of new policies aimed at increasing grain production, including an increase in state investment for agriculture and the levying of taxes on rural industries to subsidize farming. Welty said things appear to be cooling down but that the violence will end only when "we start solving the murders and put the shooters in jail" The police tactic, he said, is to "arrest every little gang-banger we can. Also, the city in January lifted a utility users tax that was to have been in place until September. He said former Oakland pitcher Mike Norris was a candidate for the second group but that a final disposition will not be made until Norris finishes facing criminal charges for drug possession in California. MESA, Ariz. They had raffles and bake sales plus going from door to door. Lane and Panush said their findings indicate older people should run or take brisk walks unless they have a medical ailment that prevents them from doing so, such as a heart condition or an arthritic disease already developing. . Magnin kicked off the show-which raised $10,000, according to chairman Darleen Manclark-with swimsuits and a miscellany of props including a rottweiler named Bruno and drum majorettes; the women applauded every male model.

and we are bound by her orders" 'Responsibility Not Ours'MANILA — Overriding advice from the military leaders who helped bring her to power, President Corazon Aquino on Friday told Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile to free all political prisoners in the Philippines, including the founder of the nation's Communist Party. There have been involved, sometimes difficult, talks over how to divide the extra money. In repeating a promise not to let alleged human rights violators leave the country, he said that "public clamor" prompted the decision to seek Duvalier's extradition. "It ripped families apart, and these were the small, private tragedies of the Marcos regime" But just after sunrise Wednesday, a new government had come to power after a three-day revolution built on a military revolt and people like Rey Maclang. Aviation Week said that it is theorized that the steam in the picture was evaporating ice that had gathered in the lower section of the joint, which has a U shape and, theoretically, could hold small amounts of water. But White House officials recognize that it is likely to be a losing battle unless Reagan can halt the current erosion in public support for defense spending.

Jeff Williams of Regal Rents said the recent heavy rain had caused plenty of trouble, but it had stopped and through the clear, plastic sides of the tent, twinkle lights glimmered on bushes and trees. Vice President George Bush swept into Los Angeles on Wednesday night. "It's gotten to the point now where people are finally convinced it's going ahead" said Bill Davis, manager of the city's solid-waste program and the man who shepherded the project. And to stress their continued commitment to that cause, they recounted their long months of imprisonment in grim detail at a press conference Friday morning"At times we may have doubted that we would ever be here to face you, to see our families or even the light of day again" said Paul Maseko, a United Democratic Front official, "but what kept us alive was faith, our faith in our cause and your faith in us" The action against CBS follows a series of government measures-almost everything short of direct censorship-to restrict foreign press coverage of the continuing unrest here. The department issued a chart showing which of the 18 companies offered certain discounts or made certain surcharges that were not reflected in the figures provided. "Instead of scrutinizing every paper clip, bolt and bullet, Congress should give more thought to our overall defense needs and strategy" The President particularly praised the commission's recommendation for five-year spending projections and two-year budget cycles for the Pentagon. Just as every spring delivers a sure batch of brides, bridal fairs can be counted on to deliver a dose of tradition And that goes for the wedding dress "Lady Diana is still hot But Madonna, no way.

Habib, who is scheduled to return to Washington today, has resolutely avoided making any substantive comment on his week of talks with Marcos, Aquino and other Philippine political figures. Ramos folded his chute, many of the sugar-cane workers who had gathered around him bowed reverently. "I think we're going to win conclusively, but not overwhelmingly" predicted House Democratic Whip Thomas S Foley (D-Wash, who is leading the opposition. But Romulo said the country's toughest period of "belt-tightening" will be in the next several months, and most of Marcos' known assets, which may total billions of dollars, have become bogged down in litigation in U. S courts.

Ostracism, bruises of all sorts and defamation would be her lot Her reward would be a truly examined life. All I had to do was stick the plants in the ground and, as long as I cut off the runners, I was sure to have a bumper crop of "luscious berries" There was even a coupon from a local nursery offering a dozen plants for a quarter I skipped to the store to cash in my coupon. Councilwoman Gwen Duffy noted that a report prepared by Police Chief Richard Propster showed that since 1983, when the city decided to allow clubs to serve alcohol in their restaurants, the number of alcohol-related calls to police from casinos has not risen significantly. Said Mayor Donald Dear: "I'm not sure this is the big watershed decision, because the decision has already been made in terms of having (liquor) in the restaurants. He said the city's Community Redevelopment Agency will have wasted more than $100,000 on designs for renovating it unless new anchor stores can be found to replace the J C.

Thone does not picture Los Angeles as Sodom itself, as so many of these writers do; she merely finds it too fast, too frantic, too crowded, too bewildering; and she is happy, she says, to be back on the Nebraskan plain, where life is slower, people take a lifetime getting to know one another, and time is marked by the coming and going of the seasons. In the beginning, I'd call them and ask if they wouldn't want to contribute a band, even a banner or balloon. She recalled one woman, in printing lot numbers on vitamin packages, who began by completing 1,000 packages a day and worked her way up to 2,000 a day within the workweek. Providing further evidence of that trend, a recent private GOP survey showed an overwhelming majority of respondents, 66% to 22, think the United States is now stronger than the Soviet Union. Marcos' warning, in a written statement issued from his Malacanang Palace, appeared aimed at blunting the still-uncertain momentum of Aquino's protest campaign. The government, which had been unwilling to discuss any changes in the constitution that would lead to more democratization, is at least talking about such a possibility-but not until 1989 The opposition has responded with vigor.

Baker III, attending the largely ceremonial kickoff session, praised Packwood's initial proposal, which will be used as a starting point for the committee's work, including its controversial provision that would raise excise taxes indirectly on such popular consumer goods as alcoholic beverages, tobacco and motor vehicle fuels. said in an interview Wednesday that a recent survey of members showed most reporting sales losses averaging 7% since the lottery began. "I wasn't really happy with the way I was playing" said Greenberg, who was snubbed by the All-CIF selection committee and lost out to Michelle Richard of Hacienda Heights Wilson in the league most valuable player voting "I didn't feel I was good when I was on the court. The water is higher than we've ever seen before in the American River" National Weather Service forecasters predicted some rain in the north for the next several days, but they did not expect anything like the storms that dumped upward of 18 inches of rain on parts of Napa and Sonoma counties last weekend. Levi finds the principle of life at work in a death-camp trustee who does little more than draw upon his juggler's trade for a moment of artistic bravura while shifting construction materials. Seven business firms, including the former grocery store, Vermillion's drug store, an ATA appliance store, a dog grooming store and a shoe repair shop were destroyed, he said. .

Walker, his son and his brother, both of whom also have been convicted for their roles in the spy ring, as well as possibly other members of the Walker family privy to Whitworth's alleged involvement, are at the heart of the government's case against the 46-year-old Whitworth. of Machinists confirmed that the potential buyer is Texas Air. And some in this town, which Aquino carried by 67% in the election, saw merit in Marcos' 20 years of rule Even Pimbol, the die-hard Aquino supporter "I don't think Mr Marcos is as bad as the others say" she said. The zoo said Tuesday that it plans to mate the female rhinoceros, named Gomati, with a red Indian bull named Charly. "This is our gift from God" said one peasant farmer in the devout Roman Catholic town of New Sagay "First he rids us of Marcos.

Dozens of soldiers were sent to patrol the heart of downtown Port-au-Prince, where they turned away crowds before any stores were broken into Gourgue seemed to make an allusion to the turbulence. Early Stumbling Blocks Packwood's proposal to dramatically boost excise taxes, along with a plan to eliminate some state and local tax deductions and to provide an early $32-billion rebate to corporations for unused investment tax credits, emerged as major early stumbling blocks in the Senate proposal Treasury Secretary James A. "Moving is traumatic" That episode and similar tales of woe from the disabled and elderly have prompted a push for a city law that would prohibit landlords from booting such tenants without a justified cause. Four theories about what might have caused the joint to rupture were advanced by NASA witnesses, including the possibility that it was damaged during assembly or was equipped with a defective O-ring.

Don Alpert cannot answer mail personally but will respond to numismatic questions of general interest in this column Do not telephone. I died and went to heaven" sighed silent-screen sweetheart Viola Dana, looking every bit a casting director's idea of an angel. "I've heard of them trying to steal votes after elections, but I've never heard of them stealing ballots before elections" the bemused governor said He voted later in the day. Winning It Over Once Dave Steele, a firefighter from Pinole, north of Berkeley, had captured his own red-tailed hawk and named it Roja (Spanish for red) he began the humbling process of winning it over. Among his other suggestions were "remove the stress" and "teach new coping strategies" Psychotherapy also "is great stuff" he said, but "mighty slow stuff" Then there are the "psychopharmacological strategies" which raise "very subtle and complicated questions" Mills said. They were just embarrassed to tell us what pleasure it gave them. Today's marathon was put together by an old friend of mine, a man named Bill Burke.

"Reason and compassion have prevailed in ways that best serve the Filipino nation and people" he said. Again and again, demonstrators and loyalists dived for cover when the gunfire began, only to re-emerge moments later with bottles, rocks and knives. "There are too many students and not enough classes" A dark-haired young woman from Eau Claire, Wis, Runkel is working on a doctorate in molecular biology, which she studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "We're hoping maybe he got to the side and got up, but the longer we don't find anything the worse it looks" The inner tube was found a mile downstream but there was no sign of the boy, who was not immediately identified. Witnesses said more than 1,000 riot police and plainclothesmen stormed the campus at the state-run Seoul National University, firing tear gas to break up a crowd listening to speeches by anti-government student leaders. The bomb, similar in size to the one found earlier, apparently had been attached underneath the car and was rigged to explode when the engine was switched on, Anderson said. But some editors worry that the changes could distort newspapers' priorities (and damage their credibility) even as they improve their visual appeal.

When the large gate finally did come crashing down, Brix, who survived the final street battles, was near tears. It also emphasized a campaign to end corruption and free up bureaucratic interference in Haiti's economy. But Curt Siverts said he wishes the arm had been ready a few months ago, when Snooper stumbled upon a tantalizing discovery on a local reef"We spotted some really old vases on the bottom" he said. And wouldn't you know it? Both deal with a similar subject: teen-age sex.

The Rockwell representatives feared that ice on the launching pad might damage the spacecraft's vital system of thermal protection tiles. (Although the FBI has said it suspects the Jewish Defense League in the bombing, no arrests have been made) The commission's report said many anti-Arab attacks seem based on crude ethnic stereotypes. In an apparent backlash against international Arab terrorist attacks, incidents of violence and vandalism against members of the Muslim faith have become Los Angeles County's most serious new trend in racial or religious turmoil, the county's Human Relations Commission said Friday. Watts said each insurer has its own claim history and its own way of computing risks. The normally staid downtown types got right into the courtly feeling, as Queen Bess and her cohorts swirled through the lavishly outfitted public rooms of the Biltmore (which, as we all know, was built in 1921 with a vision of the elaborate architecture of the Renaissance. Fiedler, the three-term congresswoman from Northridge, also liked that idea, as did Assemblyman Robert W.

RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian cargo vessel sank during a heavy rainstorm Wednesday about 300 miles off the port of Paranagua, in southern Parana state, killing 10 of its 18 crewmen, officials said Thursday. . That unique approach helped put the city in a good position when it applied to get a share of the first money the state has appropriated specifically for latchkey programs. He heads a 17-member organization called the "Ad Hoc Committee to Save Tuum Est" 'Throwing in the Towel'A drug abuse center that has been a fixture on Venice's Ocean Front Walk for more than a decade may be forced out of business. Our report has not been written yet because it (the issue) is still open" said Leven Gray, one of the nuclear safety panel's three chairmen. Union negotiators and management at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner reached a tentative three-year contract agreement, which employees were expected to ratify at a meeting Thursday night.

In an outspoken 35-page dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens, joined by Justices William J Brennan Jr. Mini-facilities are sports played on smaller fields with fewer players $100,000 to the Long Beach Rowing Assn. In Huntington Beach, the surf was "stormy" but didn't hinder surfers, Claude Panis, a lifeguard spokesman said. Then he asked, "Where is it" At the scene, seven miles southeast of town, Trooper Rule was baffled "I'm programmed to work traffic accidents" he says.

"But that does not mean the city is precluded from taking some positive steps to seek out resources that could result in solutions. "I have a difficult time understanding how you can at the same time both take credit for programs and cut them" The object of Panetta's wrath, John W. Weinberger sounded an unusually conciliatory note when pressed by members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on whether the Administration would support the suspension of U. S aid. One of the attaches was hospitalized in critical condition while the other two Israelis were said to be in serious condition but out of danger. "That's one of those 747s that United got from Pan Am" he observed before returning his attention to a newspaper. Twenty years" Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, 68, had been president of the Philippines for 20 years, nine of those as head of a martial-law regime Now he was gone.

"These are the people the council needs to reach out to more. The City Council of Culver City on Monday approved the first reading of a law prohibiting owners of new gasoline station mini-marts from selling alcoholic beverages. state and national political campaigns and into intelligence and "security" projects Dr. "There's a tremendous message there, to say that in an area like Los Angeles" said Edward J.