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...terror spread among California commuters, officials were desperately casting about for a way to restore peace. California Assemblyman Paul Zeltner announced he would introduce legislation requiring a minimum three-year prison sentence and permanent revocation of the driver's license of any person caught shooting from a car. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of roadway gunmen. Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn vowed to jail all gun-toting motorists. Said Hahn: "People are going to start learning that this isn't the wild West anymore...
...waste. So California is spending $735,000 over the next three years to promote residents' self-esteem and help them to avoid becoming criminals, drug abusers, teen mothers or welfare dependents. The 25-member task force on Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility is a pet project of Assemblyman John Vasconcellos. To counter criticism of the blue-sky nature of the project, the San Jose Democrat argues that prevention is cheaper than cure. "We spend billions on the symptoms of social ills after the fact," he says, "rather than searching out and addressing the underlying roots...
...well-dressed crowd of 700, representing much of California's Democratic establishment, waited expectantly after a sellout dinner in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. At the front tables were such glitterati as Actress Jane Fonda and her husband Assemblyman Tom Hayden, former California Governor Pat Brown and Film Producer Irwin Winkler. But as New York Governor Mario Cuomo prepared to deliver his speech, an oyster shucker working nearby was puzzled by all the hoopla. "What's the deal?" he asked. "Is he running for something...
Aquino's stunning action capped a fortnight of public protest and violence unmatched since the former housewife took office nine months ago. Only days after the leftist trade-union leader Rolando Olalia and his driver were brutally murdered, a right-wing former National Assemblyman, David Puzon, was ambushed and shot to death in a hail of automatic-weapons fire. A leading Japanese businessman was kidnaped while returning home from a round of golf. A bomb exploded in a Manila department store, injuring 13 people. Finally, at week's end Ulbert Ulama Tugung, a prominent Muslim ally of the President...
With the festive atmosphere of the Asian Games two weeks behind, South Korea's ruling party last week resumed its own game of hardball by ordering the arrest of Opposition Assemblyman Yoo Sung Hwan. The incident began when Yoo, 53, distributed advance copies of a speech he intended to make before the National Assembly. When the legislative session adjourned abruptly, Yoo was forced to wait until the next day to deliver his fiercely antigovernment remarks...