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...Iraq with that in Kuwait -- and not conclude that Iraq fared much better," says Marlowe. The gulf war is not the first conflict that Marlowe has covered for TIME. Since 1989 she has lived in Beirut, where she reported the last throes of the Lebanese civil war. Born in Whittier, Calif., and educated at UCLA, the Sorbonne and Oxford, Lara previously worked in the Middle East for American and European newspapers and as an associate producer in Paris for CBS's 60 Minutes...
...soul searching, first into the past for La Pistola y El Corazon, a 1988 album of Mexican folk music that won a Grammy, then, for The Neighborhood, into the world outside their door. Or, more accurately, outside their doughnut shop, a Winchell's just south of Los Angeles in Whittier, where Perez and Hidalgo meet to talk business, do interviews and check out the street action. Their old neighborhood in East Los Angeles is impassable. "We had a strong sense of community," says Perez. "But with all the drugs and gangs, the neighborhood is turning into a battlefield." The Neighborhood...
Californians cannot count on the same lengthy intervals between disasters. , After a moderately powerful quake shook the area around Whittier in 1987, a University of Southern California survey of 235 people in Los Angeles County found that most of those questioned were not interested in leaving. But 30% said they might make plans to go if another quake of the same magnitude shook them...
...than Richard Nixon. He loved to manipulate those he suspected of despising him. He took early notice of George Bush's organizational work in the 1950s, encouraged his Goldwater phase and campaigned for him in 1964. Bush in his early oil travels lived briefly in Nixon's hometown of Whittier, Calif. But the tie with Nixon was deeper than that. The ex-Vice President of the early 1960s, while cultivating Goldwaterites, was also acquiring a covey of "walking gentlemen" to escort him back onto the public scene -- young talents like Robert Finch and William Ruckelshaus. Bush was one of this...
...quake struck at 7:42 a.m., shattering windows, snapping power lines, breaking gas mains and igniting fires. Worst hit was Whittier (pop. 72,000), twelve miles from downtown Los Angeles and the community closest to the epicenter. Eight blocks in Whittier's business district were closed after bricks cascaded on cars, and at least eight buildings were too damaged to be saved...