The failure of a campaign reform initiative to qualify for the November ballot has prompted its promoters and Common Cause of California to challenge the state's procedures for verifying signatures on initiative petitions, alleging that "hundreds of thousands" of qualified voters' signatures are being routinely rejected.
Iraq said Thursday that its warplanes attacked an Iranian oil terminal, a tanker in the Persian Gulf and military bases in western Iran.
substations, port facilities and other targets in Nicaragua this spring, the New York Times said Thursday.
Vatican crackdowns on U.S.
Chingali Saaji rolled up his trousers and walked barefoot across a bed of glowing embers to prove his lack of faith.
At midday on a recent Friday, Ursula Richter, a 52-year-old government secretary described as attractive and reserved, invited a few colleagues into her office for a glass of sparkling wine.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte said Thursday that after 25 years in politics, he was "mentally but not emotionally prepared" for the kidnaping of his daughter.
Four angels from on high strummed guitars and sang of a miracle, then offered their musical services for baptisms, weddings and other parties.
Malcolm, a 15-year-old at a city high school, was asked by his mother last week if he knew where to get contraceptives.
Turning away from the tailored career look and returning to its niche of specializing in casual styles for fashion-minded young women, ClothesTime of Anaheim racked up third quarter net income of $3.4 million, more than quadrupling the $829,000 it earned for the same quarter a year ago.
Judging by what has appeared in the state-run press, Soviet leaders believe that the outcome of the new round of arms control talks in Geneva will depend on whether the United States abandons President Reagan's "Star Wars" research on space weapons.
The family of a Mexican farm worker who died after working on a farm in Jamul that had been sprayed with pesticides filed a $10-million lawsuit Wednesday against the farmer and the firms that produced, distributed and sprayed the pesticides.
There's a built-in schizophrenia about pictures like "Head Office" (citywide) that can leave you holding your head.
The Palestinian guerrilla group headed by the elusive Abu Nidal says it will continue to attack Israeli and American interests with suicide commando raids, following what it termed a course of "martyrdom as a goal and a means."
President Reagan, running against Jimmy Carter as well as Mikhail Gorbachev in the GOP drive to hold onto the Senate, charged today that potential for progress at the Iceland summit would have been thwarted if "the liberals in Congress" had undercut his arms policies.
For some time, officials in this industrial, working-class community have felt that the city was being cheated out of its fair share of taxes from motel-room rentals.
A bomb blasted through the ground floor of Paris' City Hall on Monday night, only a hundred yards from an office of Premier Jacques Chirac, and killed one woman and wounded 15 other people.
Pacific Southwest Airlines, which built its reputation as a people mover, has joined competitors who have bolstered revenues by filling cargo holds of regularly scheduled flights with freight, parcels, produce and letters.
Just as Democrats finished adopting rules for their 1988 presidential nominating campaign Saturday with an uncharacteristic lack of acrimony, their attention began to shift to a possible new cause of controversy--a plan to strengthen the voice of the South in the nominating process.
Thousands of horse owners who stable their mounts in Los Angeles but fail to pay annual license fees are about to be targeted in a "bounty hunt" to raise revenues for repairing equestrian trails, city officials said.