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This article presents information regarding the presents of Mike Miller of Mike Miller Toyota, a major advertiser in the "Los Angeles Times", and Bob Zacky of the Zacky Farms chicken dynasty. Zacky of the Zacky Farms chicken dynasty. Many interpreted their presence in the Times's box as a form of corporate apology for the paper's aggressive reporting, which had allegedly upset both men recently. But even today, the Times remains a house of many mansions. Steve Wasserman runs a remarkably literate weekly book review section, for example, whose uncompromising ethos would seem to contradict everything that is said about the paper. It is a paper, in other words, with a lot of decline left in it, even though the Willes/Downing forces appear almost certain to prevail in the end.

Focuses on the contents of papers and letters discovered in the library of the University of California, regarding atomic bomb tests in 1946 on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Name of the person who discovered the papers; Status of the participants in Bikini tests as revealed in the paper; Code name for the nuclear tests; Details of various aspects of the Bikini tests.

The recent news that the University of California (UC) admitted fewer African-American and Latino students into this fall's freshman class than it had in 1997 provoked a wave of alarmist headlines and editorials that mirrored the worst fears of opponents of the victorious Proposition 209, passed two years ago. Prop 209, prohibits public universities from considering race in their admissions decision. National news coverage focused on the precipitate drop of 57 percent and 36 percent in black and Latino admissions at, respectively, University of California, in Los Angeles, California and in Berkeley, California--the two flagship campuses of the system. The top level of California's public higher education system, UC has always been the destination for only a very select group of students. On average, fewer than a quarter of California students in four-year colleges attend the University of California. Despite the outcry, post-209 admissions data don't highlight gross racial inequity at the University of California.

The article discusses the unfulfillment of peace accords made by the government of California. Thousands of people-workers and political activists of California demanded for government compliance with the January 1992 peace accords. The very signing of peace accords reflected one basic reality that the civil war that broke out in 1979-80 had become un-winnable by either side. Even while mounting a strong military challenge during 1980s, the National Liberation Party (Al Salvador) began a difficult, often wrenching process of adapting to new circumstances. In months since the signing of accords, wide gaps have opened between the vision on paper and the enforcement in practice. Clearly, full implementation will require intensive domestic and international pressure.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "The Polish Spy Caper," which discussed the arrest of American and Polish nationals near Los Angeles, California; "Moral Blacklist," which discussed the announcement made by a coalition of rightist, antiabortion and fundamentalist groups of Coalition for Better Television.

Comments on the San Diego Federal Court's decision in a case involving a high school student at Holtville High School who asked the court to decide whether she and a few friends could publish a second school newspaper. Case background; North-South division of California; Differences in attitudes between those who live in the northern and southern part of California; Court opinions regarding high school publications.

Discusses issues pertaining to the decision of the government of California to officially recognize that, under the First Amendment, the principle of the freedom of the press applies to high school student journalists. Events which led to the recognition of the rights of high school student journalists; Details on the law which recognizes the rights of high school student journalists.

The article reprints several articles from previous issues published during 1955-1965. Entries include an October 20, 1956 article by W. E. B. Du Bois on why he won't vote in an election, an April 11, 1959 article by Ralph Nader on automobile safety, and a May 4, 1957 article by Dalton Trumbo on the blacklisting of writers in the U.S. motion-picture industry.

The article looks at shifting attitudes toward taxation at local and state government levels in the United States. Topics include the anti-tax advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform, the passing of Proposition 30 in California in November 2012, which temporarily raises sales tax and income taxes for the wealthy, and how Americans are increasingly voting to allow governments the ability to restore basic services and rebuild infrastructure. The author notes that in many of the November 2012 elections, anti-tax candidates were defeated and measures to increase taxes were passed.

The article describes the New Sanctuary Movement coordinated by Rabbi Laurie Coskey in San Diego, California that is designed to protect the U.S.'s undocumented immigrants who are often arrested and then deported. The movement, which is faith-based, has run into resistance from other progressives who don't like faith-based influences on the political and legal system.

Reports developments related to global political events. Implications of the victory party of Labor Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa for Los Angeles; Performance of former Peruvian president Alan Garcia in the primary round of voting; Presentation of news in the Web site thenation.com.

The author reports on efforts by corporate lobbyists and some conservative politicians to cut off public funding for labor studies programs at universities across the U.S. In Sacramento cloakrooms, where lobbyists normally whisper blandishments into legislators' ears, the University of California's labor studies program is now being discussed in language once reserved for reds, and worse. The current set of charges are the latest in a long effort to eliminate the Institute for Labor and Employment once and for all. Behind them is a political alliance between the state's Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC, the powerful lobby for nonunion construction companies) and the Pete Wilson wing of the state's Republican Party, which has retaken the governor's mansion. Conservative foundations have been orchestrating a national attack on labor studies. If the opponents of the ILE prevail, activist-oriented programs in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri and other states will be next on the fight-wing hit list. The controversy raises a fundamental question about labor rights--should joining a union be protected and encouraged by law and public policy, or are unions just a narrow private interest? When a labor program assumes that workers should strive to raise wages and improve conditions, it's considered selfish--against the public interest. For more than two decades the country's largest corporations have busted unions as a normal part of business activity, and have lost whatever interest they had in labor-management cooperation. It should be no surprise, then, that the end of union acceptance in the workplace should bring with it an end to the prestige of labor-management cooperation in academia.

The author claims that Republicans plan to play upon widespread opposition to gay marriage among Americans to win votes in the 2004 election. As George Bush's poll numbers began seriously dwindling, Karl Rove and the White House political strategists decided to reach into their bag of tricks and come up with a good old staple of reactionary politics: homophobia. The decision to scapegoat gay and lesbian Americans was poll-driven by an antigay backlash that gathered steam in the wake of the Supreme Court's June 26 decision, in Lawrence v. Texas, striking down laws making gay sex between consenting adults illegal -- the so-called sodomy laws. Just two days after Gallup released its poll showing the backlash, Bush unexpectedly used a Rose Garden press conference to announce that he'd assigned lawyers to come up with a plan to stop gay marriage. Since then, the Republicans have ratcheted up their anti-gay marriage crusade. At the state level, too, Republican antigay initiatives are snowballing. With 2004 shaping up as another close election, Rove & Co. want to energize the Christian-right base to which Bush is already so heavily indebted (it motored his 2000 primary victories against John McCain) and insure a maximum turnout among the AWOL evangelicals and other Christian traditionalists.The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal bench: Jay Bybee, Michael McConnell, Charles Pickering, others. INSET: Judgment Day.

For Edison Schools Inc., April 2001 was the cruelest month. Edison is the largest and easily the most visible of the nation's so-called for-profit Educational Management Organizations operating public schools, and thus the nearest thing to an emblem for the school privatization movement. On March 27, 2001, the San Francisco school board voted to break Edison's five-year contract to manage the city's Edison Charter Academy unless certain conditions were met within 90 days. In places like San Francisco, California where the Edison school has sharply increased student test scores, the company's detractors allege that Edison subtly counseled difficult students out of the school.

This article explores effective strategies for improving people's life through community participation. The Stanford, California, area has the third-highest concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters in the United States, surpassed only by New York City and Chicago, Illinois. During the mid-1960s Stanford's leadership made a conscious decision to reinvent the town as a major commercial center, opening up space for corporate headquarters by eventually razing ninety-nine acres of the downtown and displacing 1,100 predominantly African-American families.

This past decade's high tide of uninterrupted prosperity has washed some fascinating cultural artifacts onto the gilded shores of Los Angeles in California. First stop is Via Rodeo, a Disneyesque re-creation of an Italian walk-street stuffed with jewelry stores and chocolate shops. A short walk away is the templelike structure of BMW of Beverly Hills, still expanding although it already covers two city blocks. Then on to Canon Drive, where a Farmers Market has drawn a pulsating crowd of locals bedecked in the latest tailorings of Jones New York.

Over the past five years, as Washington policy-makers have clamped down on illegal border crossings into California and Texas, the human foot traffic has funneled into Arizona. And that traffic is building to staggering numbers. Border Patrol agents around this town arrest a thousand people a night, twice as many as a year ago and four times the number in 1995. And for every immigrant nabbed, by some estimates another four, five or six cross over undetected. Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green has denounced these patrols and pamphlets as "brutal displays of xenophobia," and her government has contracted a U.S. law firm to look into bringing legal action against those the Mexican press regularly calls "the vigilantes."

This is the story of Gato and Alex, two Salvadorans, who as children became refugees from America's war in their homeland only to become rivals in America's gang war on the streets of Los Angeles, California. When these two homeboys finally turned their lives toward peace, there was no safe place for them. They were among the New Untouchables, the supposedly incorrigible "superpredators," whose specter justified the war on gangs that has become the worst police scandal in Los Angeles history. A better way to look at gang violence is through the mirror, as an underclass mimicry of institutional violence, including state, corporate and entertainment violence. Nation-states, including frequently inflict savage punishment to project power and preserve reputation. Not to do so is thought to invite aggression. People engage in arms races and compete to control resources like oil, while gangs assemble weapons to control the drug underground. They fight over colors. They are entranced by films about Italian, Jewish and Irish gangsters, and the new gangs emulate those movies in the belief that it is the American way.

This article focuses on the socio-political developments in the U.S. It hadn't been since 1972 that the California primary played a decisive role in a presidential race. After leapfrogging ahead from its traditional June spot to early March, the California primary vote sent the final torpedo into Republican John McCain's presidential campaign. McCain's message seemed to get lost in this huge state with eleven major media markets. It's been almost a hundred years since American Federation of Labor president Sam Gompers declared that they will stand by friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent or hostile.

Amid Silicon Valley's torrid dot-corn boom, stories abound of peach-fuzzed college graduates pulling down six-figure salaries and, in short order, securing their American dream. The Valley's legions of temps dream of getting full-time jobs and keeping homelessness at bay in a place where the median home price has soared to $365,000 and a standard two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,500 a month. For veteran Silicon Valley temp workers like Julian Cornejo, the stark disparities drive home the point that temps, long underpaid, underemployed and disposable, must band together to improve conditions and restrict the ability of employers to exploit their labor.

The article focuses on how politicians are using the issue of global warming and green revolution for their political aspirations in the United States. These politicians are called 'Greens' or 'Spoilers'. Spoiling, in a word, that's the issue that pervades the debate about inside versus outside strategies for leftists involved in electoral politics today. Green candidates for governor in California and House seats in New Mexico and New Jersey have the potential to attract enough votes to deny Democrats likely victories. Currently, there are fifty seven Greens in local office in thirteen states around the country.

The article reports about the increased paramilitary operation in the California's Central Bay area. There, on the dim side streets, among the little bungalows and dying rail yards, massive paramilitary police operations are under way on almost any night. It also points to the apprehension, of the U.S. behaving more like a police state. All the suspects are African Americans, all the cops are white and every encounter is scored to the furious growling and barking of the violent crime support unit's (VCSU) tightly leashed Alsatians. Throughout the nation, paramilitary, SWAT or tactical policing- that is, law enforcement that uses the equipment, training, rhetoric and group tactics of war- is on the rise.

This article provides information on several meetings and conventions to be held in different cities of the United States. Second National Federal Practice Training will be held on August 17-24. The training is intended for the public interest lawyers. LaborTech' 97, a conference on Communication Tools for the 21st Century, will be held on July 11, 12, and 13 at the Conference Center at San Francisco State University. The Bertha Chapen Reynolds Society is holding its annual conference at Saint Louis University on June 13-15. This Society works to promote social justice and peace.

The article presents information about various events. The 5th annual symposium related to peace law and the militarists will be held from October 26 to 27, 1985 in the University of California, Berkeley, California. National anti-Apartheid protest day was observed on October 11, 1985. A rally against Citibank's links to South Africa was taken out. The San Francisco Mime Troupe presents Steel Town, a musical comedy in various cities and towns in the United States.

Editorial. Focuses on social problems in towns and cities of California. Water, agriculture and educational problem of the town Ripley in Riverside County; Problem of eleven farm-labor families, mostly Mexican American, functioning in an agricultural cooperative near Salinas; Efforts of the state to solve social problems.

The article presents information on the book "Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angles and LAPD," by Lou Cannon. In the conventional version of the story, the beating of Rodney King by a group of white Los Angeles cops in the early hours of March 3, 1991, recorded in all its viciousness on an amateur's fortuitous videotape, was yet another indication of the pervasive brutality and racism of an out-of-control police department. In light of Cannon's revisionist account, if the Rodney King story is not the simple tale of the televised tape, neither is it a unique drama coupling, almost fortuitously, a collection of badly trained cops, bungling judges and politicians guilty of inexcusable neglect and indifference.

Al Checchi, 48-year-old entrepreneur knows very well that only 1 percent or so of Californians have heard of him. But he sees no reason why fifteen months from now, a majority of the state won't elect him governor. According to Checchi's strategist Darry Sragow, the only option left open for Checchi is to substantially outspent every other candidate. After a spectacular business career, Checchi has piled up a half-billion-plus dollar in the bank. And shortly after he formally announces his run in the Democratic primary he will start spending as much as $50 million of that booty in his quest to take over from a term-retired Governor Pete Wilson.

The author of this article tells a story in which six Mexican emigrants have been charged for murder in Orange County, California. Altogether five out of the six young Mexican men charged in the case face possible lifetimes in prison for Steve Woods's death. Their case has become a dark mirror of class and ethnic polarization in the conservative suburbs of Orange County. Of the nine Mexican youths arrested at their homes or workplaces on October 16, six were ultimately indicted. If sentenced as adults, as anticipated by their families, they face terms in state prison ranging from a statutory minimum of fifteen years to a maximum of life.

The article focuses on the United Farm Workers (UFW). The UFW is no longer the only group trying to organize in the fields of California. Teamster Local 890 in Salinas, with more than 7,000 field workers under contract, recently has been taken over by reformers with long experience in the Chicano and Mexican cannery worker movement. They would like to begin a new organizing drive in the Salinas Valley. In Stockton, Luis Magana and the Oganizacion Laboral Agricola de California have established close contacts with the newest migrant stream in California agriculture, the Mixtec and Zapotec Indians from Oaxaca.

The article comments on the novel "Generation X." The novel Generation X, stocked with young slacken stuck in various McJobs in Palm Springs, California, has become the unofficial guide to this twentysomething Schadenfreude. The name for this syndrome, usefully provided by the author Douglas Coupland, sniglet-master of the new Zeilgeist, is successophobia. Some monitors of the Zeilgeist look upon this and detect fertile ground for generational warfare. What begins as a call to generational arms turns out to be some intergenerational advice, as, behind the rhetoric, the sturdy symmetries of class reassert themselves from one era to the next.

In California Bill Honig was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction for three terms by wide majorities, and there was talk of his becoming a contender for the Democratic nomination for governor to contest Republican incumbent political candidate Pete Wilson. To many people, Honig's educational ideas smacked of white middle-class universalism-the view that education that is good for white middle-class children is necessarily good for all children if only people could deliver it to them. He personally appointed four principals at salaries exceeding $75,000 a year, covered by state funds, to a parent-involvement project run by his wife.

Focuses on issues pertaining to the existence of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Valley, as of June 1982. Reason why the structure is guarded by one of the largest police forces in northern California; Role of the weapons laboratory in the nuclear weapons brain trust of the U.S.; Types of nuclear weapons that are being developed in the laboratory.

Focuses on the primary elections to be held in California in 1982. Candidates for the position of governor in the primary election; Challenges faced by Democrats in the forthcoming primary elections; Prospects of the victory of Democratic candidate Tom Bradley for the position of governor in the state.

Focuses on controversies related to the Peripheral Canal , a canal to be constructed in California. Issues related to the supply of water in the state; Appraisal of funds for the construction of the canal; Information on a water bill passed in the state; Support of the Metropolitan Water District of California to the construction of the canal in the state.

Focuses on the murder of cab driver George Aird in Los Angeles, California as of December 24, 1977. Criminal background of suspects Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk; Possibility of a connection between the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and American Indian Movement Camp 13, a camp organized by suspects; Reason for the slow proceeding of the case.

Focuses on the failure of San Diego, California-based United States National Bank (USNB) as of October 1973. Losses incurred by USNB; Implications of the bank's failure; Response of George Hill, chief liquidator of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) to the bank's failure; Impact of the bank's failures on operations of FDIC.

Reports on loggers' protest against California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.'s former activists in government positions. Reasons behind Brown's appointment of former Sierra Club members; Positions held by movement graduates.

The article focuses on riots that took place in Los Angeles, California. The author states that the week before the riot was unseasonably hot. At night the people lingered outside on stoops and sidewalks of their tenements, talking about their new burden of trouble. In a neighborhood far more crowded than mid-Manhattan and more dangerous than downtown Detroit, Michigan, with more crack addicts and gang-bangers than registered voters, la gente know how to laugh away every disaster except the final one. Yet there was a new melancholy in the air. In two years of recession, unemployment has tripled in Los Angeles' immigrant neighborhoods.

The article discusses social and economic conditions for older homeless women over the age of 50 in San Francisco, California. Topics include the cost of living in major cities in the U.S. as of 2013; budget cuts to services for older homeless people; and information on organizations and advocates working to end homelessness in the San Francisco area. Information is presented on homeless shelters and housing costs; services for homeless women at the Oshun Drop-In Center, a public facility operated by the San Francisco Department of Public Health; and statistics on the economic conditions for the senior population in San Francisco.

The article looks at prejudice against Muslims in the U.S. It notes that the coinage "Islamophobia" has been criticized by some commentators who argue that what the term labels as a form of bigotry is actually just reasoned criticism of Islamic beliefs and practices. The author counters this view by recounting acts of bigotry she has experienced as a Muslim American. She discusses campaigns against the building of mosques, including the Park51 mosque and community center in New York City and planned mosques in Temecula, California and Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Also discussed is the fact that the official in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) Counterterrorism Center is a Muslim.

The article discusses the Occupy protest movement and its symbiotic relationship with labor unions in 2012. The author states that the Occupy Oakland group in California has rallied to support the workers from the Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, California who were displaced by management over a healthcare benefits dispute. He argues that the Occupy movement receives up to six calls per week from labor unions seeking the assistance of Occupy protesters. In return, he states that the labor unions provide the Occupy movement with manpower and training in civil disobedience. The actions of several labor unions are examined, including the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

This article focuses on the utility deregulation disaster in California. The roots of this unnatural disaster lie in the corporate board-rooms of the utility companies now on the brink of bankruptcy. It was their mismanagement and greed that led directly to some of the greatest miscalculations in U.S. business history. California's deregulation disaster began in 1996, when the state's three dominant utilities banded together to force on their rate-payers the largest corporate ripoff in the U.S. business history.

The girls of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California were then called "D" girls, for development, and their jobs were to read scripts, write notes, be charming. If invited to attend the meeting, it was to amiably dispense fancy water and occasionally make witty liberal-arts-type observations that would endear them to the "lesser talent" in the room, usually male writers. These jumpy guys, pitching their guts out, cleaved to the consoling presence of a nurturing "D" girl, and like Hansel and Gretel, together they faced the studio demons.

The article examines the expanding labor market in the U.S. solar industry and more specifically in California. Information is provided on Homeboy Industries and GRID Alternatives that operate a program to train solar panel installers and provide the energy sources to poor neighborhoods in California.

In 1985, California implemented Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), making California one of the first states to develop education and training programs for people receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (A.F.D.C.). For poor mothers who relied on A.F.D.C., the F.S.A. offered the chance to become self-sufficient-but only in theory. Since the F.S.A. became law, not one state has invested enough money in its Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program to meet the need. In California, the shift to rapid job placement followed a three-year study of Riverside County GAIN, where record earnings gains among A.F.D.C. recipients and subsequent welfare savings became the Cinderella story of welfare reform.

The article presents information on recent events in the United States. The Orenthal J. Simpson trial verdict has re-exposed the deep vein of racism and white supremacy in the Los Angeles Police Department. This verdict proves again that money can buy acquittals, and that wealthy defendants of any race can pay for lawyers skilled enough to evoke liberating doubt. W.H. "Ping" Ferry, who died recently at 84, was a friend of "The Nation." He was also a friend of peace and the dispossessed. Despite the public opposition to atomic testing in the Pacific, the Bill Clinton Administration has allowed French military DC-8s en route to Polynesia to stop over at Los Angeles International Airport.

According to the author, several leading apparel manufacturers which promote themselves as socially responsible, also farm out some of their sewing and cutting to sweatshops that break labor laws. In their drive for low-cost labor their behavior goes beyond irresponsibility and in some cases it means garment workers do not get paid. The Department of Labor raided a San Francisco, California garment shop that works on contract for an apparel manufacturer, Espirit and owed its workers $127,000 in back wages. Department of Labor and Industries has threatened to enforce the hot goods provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This allows the government to halt the shipment of goods out of state if a contractor violates child labor, minimum wage or overtime laws.

The article presents information on people in California. Today in California 350,000 people improved their inner selves. Three million improved their outer ones. The Karuk Tribe health center got a Pacific Bell Centrex system and a promise to maintain it, at no extra cost. Call it an emerging statewide consciousness. So what if it comes in the form of slick commercials-these days Californians take their comfort where they can get it. Surely that's a big reason for the U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to this state last month was such a smashing success. White House image wizards can claim all the credit they want for brilliant stage-managing.

Focuses on the impact of Mediterranean fruit-fly infestation on the agricultural industry of California. Disagreement between the officials of California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the issue; Response of CDFA on the detection of flies in Santa Clara Valley, California in June 1980; Insecticides used by CDFA to control the infestation.

Focuses on the arrest of three activists of Iron Workers Local 627 for conspiracy to blow up power transformers leading to the shipyard of National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. in San Diego, California. Impact of the arrest on Communist Workers party; Evidences produced by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation against three accused; Death of welder Michael Bebbe and Kenneth King due to leakage of argon gas from storage tanks at National Steel.