The State Department today withdrew President Reagan's endorsement of a South African call for a meeting between it and Western leaders.
House and Senate negotiators, struggling for months over a compromise plan to extend the Superfund toxic-waste cleanup program, approved legislation to extend it for five years with a budget of $8.5 billion.
The City Council tentatively approved rezoning this week to allow senior housing and commercial development on the Andrews and McCandless school sites.
In preparation for a court challenge on Monday, the City Council gave final approval this week to an ordinance allowing airline flights at Long Beach Airport to increase from 18 to 32 if aircraft noise is lowered and then kept within levels set by state law.
Salvador Dali, the 82-year-old Spanish surrealist painter, was recovering today after undergoing surgery to install a permanent pacemaker, his surgeon, Juan Carlos Garcia Sanmiguel, said.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate says it expects permission soon from the Turkish government to rebuild the delapidated, old center of the world's 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that city officials may proceed with an administrative hearing that could open the way for Occidental Petroleum Co. to drill for oil in the Pacific Palisades.
Fred Croton, the general manager of the city Cultural Affairs Department under fire for his arts-granting procedures, won approval for a round of grant recommendations from a City Council committee Tuesday that voiced "major concerns" over those procedures.
Congressional conferees, breaking a 2 1/2-year deadlock, agreed in principle Thursday to a $9-billion Superfund toxic-waste cleanup program.
A proposed field test in Tulelake, Calif., involving a genetically engineered bacterium designed to protect potato plants from frost damage, is expected to be approved today by the U.S.
Orange County sheriff's deputies Friday overwhelmingly gave their union approval to call for job actions--including a strike--if stalemated contract negotiations do not show some progress by next week.
Ending their two-year battle over housing construction, the city and school district have agreed to a new schedule of developer fees to build schools.
The seven-member ABC Unified School District Board of Education has unanimously approved a 5% salary increase for fiscal year 1986-1987 for teachers, classified personnel and management employees.
San Diego police approved a proposed contract that will give officers a 17% wage boost over the next two years, union officials said.
Frankie Laine, the popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s, was in stable condition Friday after undergoing quadruple arterial heart-lung bypass surgery at Mercy Hospital here, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The national boards of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have voted unanimously to mail their members a strike referendum on a new contract covering radio and TV commercials.
Chase Manhattan Corp., the New York-based parent of the nation's third largest commercial bank, has received Federal Reserve Board approval of its plan to form a limited service bank in California.
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday gave the New York Stock Exchange permission to begin trading in options on individual stocks.
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, in a rejection of a concerted Soviet effort to drive a wedge between Washington and its allies, indicated Tuesday that he supports President Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense plan.
Everyone has endured their share of dreadfully dull parties or social events and combatting the chronic tedium at such affairs is the impetus behind a recently introduced food product.