The World - News from Feb. 12, 1987
- Share via
Andrei D. Sakharov has accepted an invitation to visit West Germany, but he does not know if he will be allowed to leave the Soviet Union, the Greens party announced in Bonn. The dissident Soviet physicist and Nobel peace laureate was allowed to return to Moscow in December after six years of internal exile in Gorky. A spokesman said the Greens want Sakharov to come to Bonn for discussions on a range of issues.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
Senator Allen has put his money on fire mitigation and bringing stakeholders together in communities up and down the state to reduce their risk and stay insured. In this episode, Host Kate Cagle speaks with Allen about his plans.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Modern LA earned its first smoggy nickname 450 years ago, as the “bay of smokes.” At the La Brea tar pits, we take a short walk through a long history with curator Regan Dunn, who explains how and why the first Angelenos would have set fires that filled the broad bowl of LA and foretold the curse of smog.
