BREAKUP BARRIER: Legislators and parents, many from...

BREAKUP BARRIER: Legislators and parents, many from the San Fernando Valley, are calling for the breakup of the giant Los Angeles Unified School District. But integration concerns could hinder those efforts. . . . Splitting up the district, critics charge, would segregate ethnic groups in a district that, as the graph above shows, already has lost much of its Anglo population in recent years. See Valley Briefing, B5.

ATTITUDE: Viviana Guerra has many fans: Police, prosecutors, the state attorney general. All heaped praise on the North Hollywood apartment manager, mother of seven, for helping imprison five gang members, despite harassment and death threats. . . . Not a fan: her boss. He fired her for bad-mouthing the neighborhood to prospective tenants (B1).

DEATH PHOTOS: Over protests by the defense that they were too gory, prosecutors in the Menendez brothers’ murder trial showed the juries in Van Nuys pictures of the brothers’ slain parents Tuesday (B1). The photos showed the effects of six shotgun blasts into their father and 10 into their mother. . . . The brothers appeared to have tears in their eyes and were unable to look at the photo of their mother’s face.

EVENING THE SCORE: That gold medal in racquetball in the U.S. Olympic Festival must have felt good to Tony Jelso. He won after Chris Cole dropped out with a shoulder injury (C6). . . . Only eight weeks earlier, Jelso--disappointed after losing in the quarterfinals of a national tournament--quit during a match against Cole for seventh place.

URBAN SCRAWL: A county graffiti cleaning team swings into action Saturday . . . in Santa Clarita (B14). Why pick a far-suburban area with perhaps the smallest problem? Well, there has been an increase, from 60 graffiti complaints in June, 1992, to 207 this June. More important, officials say, Santa Clarita is where the volunteers are . . . with up to 100 expected to turn out.

Changing Classrooms

Twenty years ago, Anglos comprised nearly half of L.A. Unified School District students. Today, they make up barely an eighth. 1992-1993: 87% minority, 13% Anglo Source: Los Angeles Unified School District