"Ridership has gone up over the years, and there's a definite need, but we've never been able to figure an equitable way to service the area without disenfranchising people already served by those routes" said Steve Perry, RTD manager of bus planning. If the communities of La Crescenta, Montrose, Sunland-Tujunga and the city of La Canada Flintridge have their way, Southern California Rapid Transit District buses on Foothill Boulevard will soon travel expanded routes. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. In her most detailed speech, made to a coalition of Manila business leaders last month, she pledged to dismantle the coconut and sugar monopolies, end special privileges for businessmen and in general reduce government involvement in the private sector. Much of that decline stems from the fact that most new workers are in the service sector and only a small fraction of those are union jobs, according to Audrey Freedman, a labor economist with the New York-based Conference Board, a business research organization. The Irish whiskey that flavored the after-dinner coffee only added to the cheerfulness. By Dole's reckoning, Reagan was in high gear, having already reached 40 senators and "a pile of House members" Just before Dole and Sen Richard G. Aquino, a 53-year-old political novice and the widow of slain opposition leader Benigno S.

Times has used color first (and most often) in feature sections printed in advance-food and travel, for example-and in sports, where the action best lends itself to exciting color photography. — In the darkest days of World War II they were America's heroes, braving torpedoes from German U-boats and attacks from Japanese planes to transport the cargoes that helped assure the Allied victory. The signers, organized by Witness for Peace, an interfaith, anti-war group, issued a statement called "In the Name of God-Stop the Killing, Stop the Lies" as part of a campaign against Administration requests for more aid to Nicaraguan rebels, known as contras. "We feel this chemical would not have any adverse impact on the environment" he said. territory in the Pacific that was the first stop for the former president, his wife, Imelda, their children, and an entourage of about 60. Too Complicated for Voters Finkel said the capital improvement program, which is designed to give landlords an incentive to upgrade the city's deteriorating apartment buildings, is too complicated to be expressed in a ballot measure and asked that the council refrain from putting any kind of plan before the voters. Embassy in Beirut, but has produced no evidence that it did so.

Reagan made a rare visit to Capitol Hill to meet with the House GOP members to discuss his entire legislative agenda, the center of which is his fiscal 1987 budget. Gourgue's statement came during a week of growing unrest provoked in part by the continued presence and influence of Duvalier officials in and out of government. Goldberger, a 63-year-old physicist who has headed the university since 1978, has announced that he will retire by June, 1988. During a televised interview at Buckingham Palace, Andrew and Ferguson kissed for photographers and giggled frequently. But, pleads Miller, a veteran of 21 years in the Bureau of Sanitation, this is not like those sooty backyard incinerators that belched ashes on the patio and soiled the hanging laundry This is high-tech.

and the Southern California chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society: Lomita Railroad Museum, Lomita Junction, Woodward Avenue and 250th Street, Lomita, (213) 326-6255 Open 10 a. m to 5 p. m, Wednesday through Sunday Cost: 50 cents per person. In forcing large companies to abandon their shotgun approach to selling, consumers are raising the stakes in a marketing contest that has grown increasingly complex and expensive in recent years. Although a timetable has not yet been developed, the CRA, which is eager to have the land developed, is expected to give the port more time to submit preliminary design plans for the office building, CRA Commission Chairman Jim Wood said. In fact, according to the November-December '85 issue of Black Collegian magazine, the Peace Corps is the single largest "employer" of recent college graduates in the country. "The issue of county services is dead in Pomona" Councilman Mark Nymeyer said Tuesday of the idea first raised by the Citizens' Advisory Committee in December. "What are the hooks, the enticements, the invitations you issue to readers" Most editors say these changes in the heretofore gray, often drab and disorganized newspaper format are long overdue. concern about "inappropriate activities" in the past and said the Soviet missions "unfortunately have continued to engage in activities unrelated to U. N.

"I feel very proud that I'm becoming an American with all the rights It's the finest hour of my life". New Measures Considered New measures are currently being considered in two San Francisco suburbs: Pleasant Hill and Moraga. Columbia St, is being held to get public response to a proposal hammered out by a 19-member task force Two hearings were held last week. The 13 commission members and their staff now will divide into teams and begin pursuing technical leads-although mounting photographic evidence points directly at a ruptured booster rocket seal as the accident's most likely cause At the conclusion of the hearings, Chairman William P. For the second time in two weeks, Assembly Republicans blocked passage of a $495-million bond issue for county jails that was to have been placed on the June 3 primary ballot. "Some people have talked about mini-Marshall plans for the Philippines" one diplomat said.

7, a statement issued by the White House said the Administration shared the concerns of rebellious military leaders who have seized control of the nation's military headquarters and pledged their support to opposition leader Corazon Aquino. "My entire last year with the alliance, I made $2,222" he said"Have you heard about PRO-Peace? Five thousand people are going to march across the country" With two American flags flapping on the lapel of his preppy sports coat and armed only with leaflets and exuberance, Tim Carpenter, 26, looked more like a choirboy than a young general as he approached a flock of Huntington Beach churchgoers on a recent Sunday morning. Mirrors National Trend Stephen Menick, an official of the Washington-based Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, said the Los Angeles findings mirror a national trend. But, in three years, only 66 companies have asked for limited regulatory relief through the federal program, and only 19 have been granted it. Prattley said he did not make his proposal to Garang in person but spoke to members of the Sudan People's Liberation Army command, who brought back to him Garang's negative response to the relief caravan idea. As the story said, a pit bull's jaw can exert about 1,500 pounds of pressure per square inch-nearly twice the amount of a German shepherd's. When a fire removes the leafy brush canopy that slows the hard-hitting rain along with the stubborn brush roots that keep the soil in place, erosion increases 20 to 100 times the normal rate.

An edited version of the remarks, deleting Yevtushenko's references to what he called the "merciless extermination" of army officers, Communist Party dissidents and intellectuals under Stalin, was also published in a Soviet literary newspaper. Yevgeny Yevtushenko performed a miracle of sorts in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. For what it may be worth to beleaguered pit bull owners, my family owned a pit bull when I was a small boy, and he was by far the best family dog I have ever known. 7 presidential elections were "credible" Those elections were marred by violence and fraud. Oklahoma raised its sales tax rate by a quarter cent, to 3. 25, but Oregon voters defeated a sales tax proposed by the Legislature. Botha's recently announced political reforms and called instead for full and open negotiations on the country's future with the African National Congress, its legalization and the release of Nelson Mandela and its other imprisoned leaders.

This city is going places" Chandler, who said he expects to spend no more than $5,000 on the race, said he decided to run again to build on the experience gained during his first term on the council. " The Fed's action followed by hours a similar 0. 5-percentage-point cut in the Bank of Japan's discount rate to 4. "If you look at the areas with large numbers of undocumented workers you'll see low unemployment rates, rapid growth and prosperous economies" said Laffer, who gave as his example the seven Southern California counties Get Them Together Immigration policy should get U. S. Here, according to Congressional Quarterly magazine, is the lineup: -School prayer.

Rogers. WASHINGTON — With announcement of a new chief of the troubled National Aeronautics and Space Administration expected this week, the leading candidate is still James C. Continuing Problems Winogrond said the agency, which is partly funded with public monies, has suffered from continuing financial problems. "I went there and thought, 'Oh my God, this is depressing' " Duke said, "but then I saw that every kid was participating and that excited me to see children caught up in their own education. Some newspapers-the Orange County Register perhaps foremost among them-have made special efforts to buy and master the latest and best color equipment, figuring that good color (and an attractive design) would be the best way to distinguish itself from its major competitor (in the Register's case, the Los Angeles Times Despite recent improvements, large newspapers like the L. A.