- White House, GOP Reach Deal to Balance Budget, Cut Taxes
- Rev. Drake Convicted in Zoning Case
- Pastor Convicted of Letting Homeless Camp at Church
- Firm to Seek County's Approval for Recycling Facility
- L.A. Opposition Dominates Hearing on Newhall Ranch
- Tabloids' Obsession With the ABC Exec Rewrites the Script : Tarses Saga Redefines Frenzy
- Parks Tops List of 3 LAPD Chief Finalists
- For the Record - July 29, 1997
- PC Industry May Soon See Shift in Power
- As Talks Stall, No-Win Budget Is Considered
- Finance Hearing to Focus on Contributions From Trie
- Man, 21, Fatally Stabbed at Motel
- Fairer Shake for Homeowners on Quake Insurance Rates
- Indians, Cardinals Showing Interest in a Willing McGwire
- Glendale Lawmaker's Star Rose and Fell
- Returns Are Good for Ford's Latest Bid
- Arab-Bashing for Fun and Profit
- 'Beast Within' Takes Apocalyptic Images Past the Limit
- Turning Donated Rags Into Riches
- Displaced Colombians Fear Effort to Send Them Home
- GOP Congressional Leaders Wrestle With Rebels Spoiling for a Fight
- 'Last Resort' Is Coming First
- Woman Dies in Burning Car; Officers Rescue Three Men
- How To Make a Ceramic Aztec Animal Flute
- Teens Learn the Value of Giving
- Dolan Takes 400 at U.S. Nationals
- Planners to Consider Woodridge Proposal
- MORE BANG FOR THE BUC$
- Radiohead Offers Challenging Messages
- Here Comes the Sun--Oh Wait! It's ABC!
- GOP Senators Increase Their Attacks on Reno
- On New Teachers, Training Problems, Idealism and Money
- Large Crowd Bids Its Fairwell
- A Real Mensch
- The King of the Hills Rules Tour de France
- Ancient Greece
- Pirate Bats Earn a Split
- Nomo OK, May Not Miss a Turn
- Danger! Danger!
- Report: Job-Related Injury, Illness Costly
- 54 Protesters Arrested at Presidio
- Santa Claus Is Leaving This Town
- Grad File: Burnett's Road to Journalism Took a Funny Detour
- El Rio Applies Full-Court Press to Gymnasium Dream
- Mission Parade Seeks a Multicultural Look
- He Was a '10' at the Movies as Well as on the Field
- Maddux Cools Off Reds for 15th Win
- Hingis Has No Trouble With Martinez
- Veterans Give Life to Tap Festival
- Valley Crime Drops Sharply in 1st Half of '97
- China's Thirst for Oil Fuels Competition
- Report: Job-Related Injury, Illness Costly
- Player Keeps On Winning
- Swilling Returns to Raiders
- No Whip Needed to Get First Intent Victory in Crosby
- Yankees' Irabu Will Skip a Start
- Even Penalty Can't Stop Galaxy
- Race Across America Tight
- The Film Musical That Snuck Up on Gen-X
- For Clinton, L.A. Weekend Is About Money
- Van Nuys Airport Installs 24-Hour Weather Center
- Ear-Breaking Stereos Also Break State Law
- Courier Wins Battle of Comeback Kids
- MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
- 'So Sad. It Was Only a Child.'
- It Seems There Is Little Rest for the Weary
- Online Pays
- 3 U.S. Oil Firms Expected to Sign Caspian Pact
- Non-Virtual Reality, Really
- With Inmate's Execution Looming, Some Doubt Guilt
- Punch Lines
- Do Computers Pay Off?
- Media Money: Americans will spend an average...
- Telecom Pipsqueaks Jump in Where Titans Fear to Tread
- UAW OKs Deal to End Strike at GM Parts Plant
- Newport Coast Project to Be Discussed
- Neighborhood Alarmed by Plan to Shift Emergency Calls
- 3 Wounded When Gunman Opens Fire Outside Restaurant
- 15,000 Needy Kids Get a Toy 'Just Because'
- Zanardi Wins Survival Run
- Thunder Gives Zodiac a Bitter Setback, 2-1
- Just Browsing? Guides to Get You Through It
- Census 2000: The Census Bureau, with a...
- Albright Lambastes Myanmar at Regional Summit
- Summer Surfing
- Early Exposure to Music Enhances Learning, Experts Say
- Authorities Seek Help in Finding 4 Suspects
- Whyte Scores Game-Winner as Bullfrogs Win in Shootout
- Doctor's Letter May Be Key to Suit Over Boy's Death in Gym Class
- Air Force One's Usual Passenger Enjoys the Ride
- 4 Deaths Blamed on Blistering Heat
- The Man in the White Hat Who Saved the Sierra
- Many Home-Care Firms Unqualified, Study Says
- Polluted Nuclear Plant May Win 2nd Life
- Movie Ranch Heads Off Into Sunset After 85 Years as a Production Site
- Harney Stands Out in 'World' Program
- NextLink Makes a Local Phone Call Here in Southland
- Atlanta Marks Olympic Blast Anniversary
- Finding the PIM and Proper Ways to Get Organized
- Starwood Lodging May Buy Westin This Week
- Managing Obesity, Illness Through Diet
- Developer Defends Jerusalem Project
- 12 Killed, 50 Hurt in Train Collision
- City Marks Olympic Blast Anniversary
- Planning Amid the Splendor
- With No Town Criers, City Councils Do the Honors
- Chipping Away at Historical Amnesia
- Rock Artists Headline 4-Day 'Gospel Fest'
- Provocative Start for 'Feet Speak'
- Mad Dash for Grants Is About to Begin
- 15,000 Evacuate Polish River Town
- All the Right Ingredients for a Fun Read
- A consumer's guide to the best and...
- Encore Performance for Indians' Vizquel
- Dolan Takes 400 at U.S. Nationals
- Vigilantes Get First Road Sweep in Salinas
- $50 Good Deed Well Worth It
- Student Out-Surfs Teacher as Garcia Wins
- 4 Deaths Blamed on Blistering Heat
- Gov. Weld Will Quit to Pursue Mexico Post
- Secession, Charter to Top Lunch Agenda
- Dixon, Sparks May Be Onto Something
- Youth Is Served: Hingis Set to Play at La Costa
- Digital Underground Surfaces
- Fame, Fortune and Goo: It all started...
- Is It What You Sell or How That Matters More?
- Cunanan's Body Sent to Mortuary
- Picture of Health
- LaJoie Wins Battle, Martin Wins War
- Salvation Army Presents Its Youngest 'Junior Soldiers'
- Transition, Not Abandonment
- Dolan Takes 400 at U.S. Nationals
- When Business Talks, Liberalism Goes Out the Door
- 30,000 Rally for Basque Separatism
- Laptops That Won't Weigh You Down
- TV Academy to Discuss Acting for Commercials
- Blurring Line Between Fact, Fiction
- His Online Business Is Built on Places to Be
- A Harlequin Romance With a Dark Side
- Book Shortage Plagues L.A. Unified
- Fire That Destroyed 9 Homes Near Yosemite Is Contained
- It's Legal, So Why Isn't It Accepted?
- Now You Know
- Phillies Won't Trade Schilling
- First for Mariners: Sweep at New York
- Fugees' Jean to Push 'Carnival' at the Circus
- L.A. Unified to Launch Electronic Textbook Experiment at 14 Schools
- Ban on Payments for Welfare Mothers' New Babies Delayed
- Night and Day--Both early birds and night...
- Highs in Mid-90s Expected This Week
- The Rich Don't Need a Tax Cut
- The Inimitable Web Site
- Making Donated Rags Into Riches
- Keeping Your Cool on Summer's Overheated Highways
- 3 Long Beach Men Slain in Separate Attacks
- Sunday a Workday for Winner Courier
- Love's Dark Side Fuels 'American Holiday'
- Woods Quintet Delivers Its Own Amplification on Style
- Ben Harper Pulls From Past a Modern Voice
- Oracle Completes Purchase of SuperGen Stake
- Netizens to Air Issues in Washington
- American Reporter Says He Saw Pol Pot Last Week
- New Beginnings at Journey's End
- Park Offers Play, Film for Families
- Kiraly and Johnson Return in a Big Way
- ACTIVITIES
- Laid Back but Learning
- Brazil's Past and Present in 'Flying Down to Rio'
- Well, It's No Walton Mountain
- A LOOK AHEAD * By sending home less risky inmates and tracking them with electronic bracelets, the county plans on easing jail crowding and . . . : Keeping the Dangerous Behind Bars
- Candiotti Wins Again, Now Waits
- BASEBALL ROUDUP
- James Becomes the Latest to Bomb in Leading Role
- He's a Shaky Boss, but Selig Is Still Beeston's Buddy
- A Lift for Their Spirits : Volunteer Drivers Offer Cancer Patients Companionship as Well as Transportation
- Report: Messier a Canuck
- 'Ashoka's Dream' Is American
- Endocare Names Chief Financial Officer
- Needy Don't Get Most Thrift Shop Revenue in O.C.
- GOP, White House Near Agreement on Budget
- Firefighters' Skills Honed in High-Rise Drill
- The Payoff: Successful Business, United Family
- AGENDA / ISSUES COMING UP
- Whose Constitution Is It?
- Valley North Wins Area Legion Crown
- Third Rail Loses Some of Its Power
- Jury Duty Shows Judge How Other Half Lives
- Model World Will Make a Whistle-Stop at Shopping Mall
- Standing in Both Ends of the TV Parent Demographic Pool
- 'Maggot Therapy'
- Bustamante on Aid for Immigrants
- Boycotts and Apartheid
- Old Ironsides
- Cigarette Tax
- 'Motorcycle Cheerleading Mamas' will not rate as an Iverson movie ranch classic, but it will mark the . . . END of an ERA
- Discrimination
- Family Values
- Senate Campaign Finance Hearings
- Obituaries - July 28, 1997
- The Digital Scramble
- Forms at Your Fingertips: We've all heard...
- Man Punches Window, Bleeds to Death in Bed
- Lawyers the Big Winners in ADM Price-Fixing Case
- Couple Is Allowed to Give Cash Gift of Less Than $20,000 Without Tax Problems
- Memory Palace
- Cyprus in Ruins
- Taliban Troops Pound Afghan Foes
- N.Y. Museum to Host Versace Exhibition
- Two Quakes Strike San Jacinto Fault; Big One Unlikely
- His Brown-Bag Lunch Was Worth Millions
- Across Canada, Francophones Fade
- Can the IRA Leave its Myths Behind?
- University Plan Needs More Political and Fiscal Support
- Educator's Prospects Elsewhere Offer Little Surprise
- Model Kingdom to Make Whistle-Stop at Mall
- Newport Still Alive in Senior Men's Event
- Hiring Discrimination Can Be a Particularly Gray Area
- No Time Like the Present to Acquire McGwire
- Lopez Is Big Man, Even in Big Sky
- There Is Nothing Like a Dame Who Portrays a Queen
- Birth of Nations
- Players Lose Out to Parents' Egos
- Speeding Targeted in Sidlee Street Area
- Astros Extend Winning Streak to Eight
- Big Stars Lured to World Meet by Wild Cards
- Into the Wood
- Slam Poets, on Spoken Word's Razor Edge
- Old Soldiers Living in a Kind of Exile
- More El Camino Real Success Comes to Pass
- Tradition Really Has Caught On With Hundleys
- Bone Thugs Fires a Fierce Double Volley in 'War'
- ** 1/2 SARAH McLACHLAN, "Surfacing," Arista
- Lots of 'Sunshine,' Little Light
- No Regrets About Having Her Baby at 62
- Tribes Embrace Colleges as Best Hope for Building Self-Reliance, Prosperity
- Bias Complaints Unusually High at McDonnell
- Teenager Finally Escapes Role as Stepfather's Whipping Boy
- Sierra Horse Race Blazes a Trail of Faith
- After Backstabbing, GOP Backs Gingrich, Sort of
- County Shows Steep Decline in Welfare Rolls
- 2 Sought in Robbery at Rapper Ice Cube's Home
- Kiraly Is Feeling Good Again, and That's Bad News for Foes
- If He's Only Acting, What's His Next Role?
- Pirates Feel at Home in San Francisco
- Unleashing More of the Davis Legacy : MILES DAVIS
- Their Master's Voice
- Help Line for Victims of Clergy Abuse
- Mission College Cutbacks
- Fire Burns Santa Clara River Bottom
- Full of History, but Not Historic
- Juanenos Should Pursue Recognition, Forget Casino
- Homes on the Range Threaten Antelope
- Martinez's Minor Effort Goes Well
- Giants Go to the Minors for Help
- Maggert Leads at Hartford
- Oh, What a Relief for Dodgers
- Shula, Winningest Coach in NFL, Puts on Game Face for Induction
- Molto Andante
- Fine (Print) Lines, Wrinkles in Package Tour Brochures
- Themed Rooms to Fit the Mood--on a Budget
- Hot and Bothered
- Adolescent acne angst is 'Beauty and the Zit' on Showtime; Christmas comes early to Disney
- Low-Tech Policing Was Cunanan's Accomplice
- Fargas Wants the Season to Be a Ringing Success
- Pioneer Days
- CalComp Technology Inc.: The Anaheim supplier of...
- SNAKE.<i> By Kate Jennings</i> .<i> Ecco: 157 pp., $21</i>
- Look Who's Talking
- A Show of Hands
- Adding Dose of Income to Investment Portfolio
- Tripping the Light Fantastic--in Tribute
- 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
- Prayers for a Once Gentle Land
- Dwindling Catches, Growing Rules Press New England Fleet
- Odetics Inc.: The Anaheim supplier of digital-data...
- What's Behind Those Ship Sanitation Scores
- ECHO HOUSE.<i> By Ward Just</i> .<i> Houghton Mifflin: 328 pp., $25</i>
- Moos, Mozart and More
- Sexual Attacks Soar in a S. Africa in Transition
- Crimes That Would Not Fade
- Late State Budgets: Stuff This Genie Back in the Bottle
- Gay Pride Parade Buoyed by Relief
- Cathie Wright : The State Senator Explains Her Vision of Effective Welfare Reform
- Kentucky's Future Rests on Couch's Arm
- Liberty Loses Again at Home
- Japan Offers a Window Into Deflation's Effects
- Rising Demand for Execs Makes Headhunting Business Bountiful
- Gumshoe Got an Exotic Mix of Assignments
- Elvira's Haunt Gets Fresh Paint
- Wienermobile Makes Sausage Out of Animal-Rights Protest
- MALE BAG
- New York Residents File Suit in Effort to Regain the Road Less Traveled
- Typhoon Rosie Lashes Japan; 4 Dead
- PETA Gets Roasted While Hot-Dogging
- BURNED CHILD SEEKS THE FIRE.<i> By Cordelia Edvardson</i> .<i> Translated from the German by Joel Agee</i> .<i> Beacon: 106 pp., $18</i>
- Hycor Biomedical Inc.: The Irvine maker of...
- ALMOST NO MEMORY.<i> By Lydia Davis</i> .<i> Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 194 pp., $21</i>
- Shattered
- Aunt Lillian's Gift
- Faux Faulkner Prize Rewards Persistence