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Yup, those are all the hot spots: Frank Redmon, of Twentynine Palms, sent along a brochure from a coming U.S. Naval Institute conference, which lists this seminar:

“The Perils of Peacekeeping: Bosnia, Los Angeles, Rwanda, Somalia. . .”

The Jan. 18-20 conference, by the way, will be held in San Diego, which has been at peace as long as anyone can remember.

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Don’t know much about geography: Speaking of San Diego, Josiah Boggs of Van Nuys sent along a State Bar newsletter that speaks of that city as being a comfortably long distance from L.A.

It reads: “San Diego, long recognized as one of the East Coast’s most popular sailing centers. . . .”

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Material Girl material: Tom LaBonge noticed that the “Points of Interest” plate on a telescope on Mulholland Drive includes all the really famous scenic sights of the area (see photo).

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Would you prefer sitting by a window or being sequestered?Two of the five booths in Mark Lifland’s Westwood sandwich joint, Philly West,are labeled thusly:

“No O.J. Section--Conversations in this section are limited to any topic but O.J. Simpson.”

Explains Lifland: “I put it in about six weeks ago. I just kept hearing the same thing over and over again. There was never any news. Just one of two theories--he did it or he didn’t do it. . . . “

Lifland says the booths are often full of customers--talking, we presume, about such topics as the origin of the universe.

In the meantime, his idea may be spreading. “The other day,” he said, “someone stole one of the signs.”

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101 Disasters: We hope you weren’t caught in the traffic jam on the Ventura Freeway that was caused by Paramount Pictures trucks flashing messages such as “Drive-By Gang War Riot” during the making of a movie.

If you’re a connoisseur of such Hollywood debacles, you may recall May 10, 1988, the day disc jockey Rick Dees stationed himself on a Ventura Freeway overpass. Dees offered $100 to drivers who heard their cars described on the air and then drove to his mobile unit.

The result: Multiple-lane-changing vehicles and a 15-mile backup.

Curiously, that was the day that some followers of Nostradamus predicted the world would come to an end.

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Talkin’ minor league baseball: Sure, we’re looking forward to the 1995 season in Long Beach. The city’s new Western Baseball League franchise, which held a contest to choose a nickname, announced Thursday that it has settled on Barracuda.

We preferred another submission, Beach Bums. But that description would have raised a question. Would the club have been the Long Beach Beach Bums or just the Long Beach Bums?

By the way, wonder what the Dodgers are up to, those Bums.

miscelLAny You say you’ve had Sylvester Stallone autograph a photo on five different occasions but the signature always smears? No problem. Rembrandt Photo Services of L.A. is now marketing Ultra Pro, the “autograph and marking pen . . . specially designed for permanent marking on cards card pages, bats, balls and photos.”