Since that brush with near-defeat, the Administration has tried to keep in closer contact with the badly outnumbered House GOP minority. WASHINGTON — The differences among Republicans over proposed higher taxes widened Friday as President Reagan repeated to House Republicans his opposition to new taxes and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete V. Also, the city in January lifted a utility users tax that was to have been in place until September. Administration officials said Reagan's statement, outlining his views on human rights and the role of the United States in the developing world, reflected no new policy approaches, but it was clear that its delivery was timed to coincide with the President's press for $100 million in aid for the Nicaraguan rebels. Rodney Chandler (R-Wash, who helped to negotiate the compromise with the White House, said it brought the President "within a hair's breadth" of winning. WASHINGTON — On the eve of a showdown House vote on the Administration's request for $100 million in military and humanitarian aid for the Nicaraguan rebels, President Reagan won a key bloc of votes on Wednesday by pledging to withhold offensive weapons for 90 days while he seeks a diplomatic settlement with the Sandinista government. "But it is not often you can see a natural disaster coming with this much notice and see it with such certainty" The Great Lakes are bordered by the Canadian province of Ontario and by Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. However, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Tom Houston charged that the initiative, which he helped draft, was the result of Deukmejian's failure to adequately protect the public from toxic chemicals.

Soldiers escorted Desir, who operated a secret police unit in the presidential palace, across the runway in a jeep. The symptoms include fever and one or more of the following: running nose, laryngitis, sore throat, chills, headache, malaise, and loss of appetite. Dangers Called Minute Federal officials have issued public assurances that the nuclear dangers posed by the two shuttle missions would be minute. No arrest figures were available for Thursday's searches, which the U. N. The Roadrunners were led by Keith Davis' 21 points and center David Wolfe, who scored all of his 16 points in the second half Wolfe also pulled down 12 rebounds. Getty and Hitler Getty, who was 79 when he died in London in 1976, greatly admired Adolf Hitler, according to one of the books, "The Great Getty" (Crown; $18. 95) by Boston Globe reporter Robert Lenzner, who quotes extensively from Getty's diaries and FBI documents. He spent 10 more years at the studios, working as a story analyst for David O Selznick and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

If he loses his majority, Vrdolyak-who sponsored an unsuccessful attempt to delay the election-and his Democratic Machine may remember Tuesday as their Waterloo. Since first proposed in 1980, the project has had to clear a series of bureaucratic hurdles and environmental reviews that at times threatened to dash chances it would ever be built. In the suit, union members said the policy gives job opportunities to outsiders that should go to city workers. It is re-liberation of our country from an unwanted ruler, without bloodshed.

Since the conservatives failed in their goal of a resounding majority, the results will give Mitterrand a good deal of leeway in making his choice of a premier. Besides housing the city's Parks and Recreation Department headquarters, the center will be open for use by various community groups. . The dance floor periodically filled with people who knew how to do the Charleston, as well as with people who faked it reasonably well. David Dreier of La Verne said that whether or not the nine congressmen vote for the aid, "we still want to encourage the negotiation process. McDonald testified that, in Florida, he continued to press his concerns about the cold weather.

Bill Lockyer (D-Hayward, has already been passed by the Senate, 22 to 10, and sent to the Assembly. And he acted on the basis of reality, not right-wing assumptions"WASHINGTON — After days of agonizing diplomatic maneuvers by top U. S officials, it was President Reagan's friend, Sen. — After existing for more than three-quarters of a century as an obscure training center for missionary doctors, Loma Linda University Medical Center is suddenly experiencing the exhilaration-and the pressure-associated with being thrust forward as a celebrated center for advanced research. Bill Parker, Kroger's vice president of meat merchandising, said the company decided there was a market for ready-to-eat, precooked meat in supermarkets when it noticed that "30% to 40% of food bought in fast-food restaurants is through carry-out windows" Convenience Packaging "If the beef industry is going to survive, the key word is convenience, " said Gary Bales, director of meat operations for King Soopers, a Kroger-owned supermarket chain in Colorado that has put chefs in its meat departments to prepare ready-to-go items such as a 12-ounce serving of beef Wellington for $5. 50 that can be heated in a microwave oven. 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.

The group's request was prompted by the city government's decision last week to tolerate streetwalkers on the De Ruyterkade, a canal-side thoroughfare in central Amsterdam where the 15 live and where the Danish Consulate is located. In addition to the Red Cross grant, the insurance industries will donate $100,000 to the American Foundation for AIDS Research and $160,000 for a joint study by the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. There are no major cities in South Dakota, no major manufacturers. "We thank the world for sharing in our pride of the Challenger crew, and it is with continued pride that we will cherish the memories of their accomplishments. She added that she had been getting "letters of fright" for months from residents upset about homeless loiterers near the soup kitchen. One officer, a Revolutionary Guard commander named Mohammed Nosit, said that in the first week of the offensive, Iran killed 15,000 Iraqis, captured 2,200 troops and seized 700 Iraqi tanks Iranian casualties were not given.

Southland Problem Acute According to the league, the escalation in lawsuits and insurance premiums has been particularly acute in Southern California. Actually, Durr would probably demur and correct that latter figure to 50 years "You can't be self-righteous about it" Durr said. The station sits almost exactly at the halfway point between the two major east-west runway complexes at Los Angeles International Airport, a spot officially known as the "50-yard line" From this position, the four trucks and 12 men assigned to the station on each of three rotating 24-hour shifts must be able to get anywhere on the airport grounds in three minutes or less, ready to deal with a disaster of worst-possible-case magnitude. "I'm addicted to running" LaMarr admitted, "and I feel badly if I don't. But when the 15-year-old Poly High School sophomore told Scoutmaster Fred Curns that for his Eagle Scout project he would throw a fund-raising dinner for the Long Beach Pool for the Handicapped, his friends were skeptical. The Seoul rally and march by about 1,500 people were led by Lee Min Woo, president of the opposition New Korea Democratic Party, and prominent dissident Kim Young Sam. The 17-year-old son of a slain Filipino-American newspaper executive and the youth's 18-year-old girlfriend have been arrested in the slaying and accused of writing a political death threat to cover up the crime, Glendale police said today.

The court continued its trend in recent years of giving prison officials broad discretion to preserve order and discipline, restricting inmate rights where necessary. Gerber has vainly tried to diminish the importance of the scare, and the Food and Drug Administration, after extensive tests of thousands of Gerber jars and several visits to Gerber plants, has backed up Gerber's claims that there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with its manufacturing or distribution system. The ordinance had been suspended after supporters of the House of Yahweh, a Lawndale soup kitchen, submitted a petition with 953 signatures to force a referendum to overturn the ordinance. Missed Council Meeting Gee had told the council that she wanted to talk to them about the possible conflict. In fact, it is in the midst of its most serious crisis in its history. The despair over loss of the egg is tempered by guarded optimism that the pair will breed again in about a month, Jesse Grantham, a National Audubon Society spokesman at the Condor Research Center in Ventura, said Monday.