OFF TARGET? President Clinton’s decision Tuesday to...

OFF TARGET? President Clinton’s decision Tuesday to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam (A1) sent shock waves among Valley veterans. . . . Said Tony Diamond, editor in chief of Veterans’ Outlook newsletter in Calabasas: “Veterans feel betrayed because the President had promised more action on the POW and humanitarian issues. But unfortunately, there are people who are hungry to do business with Vietnam.”

NO LIGHT ISSUE: Prompted by a protest from a Jewish rights figure, Glendale city officials are wondering whether to remove “reverse swastikas” surrounding the bases of about 500 historic lampposts in the city’s downtown area (B1). . . . The posts were made before Hitler’s Third Reich made the symbol infamous.

RAPID RESCUE: Sandra Jolene Venables, above, is no stranger to rescues. For years, she’s saved abused and neglected horses at her rented Chatsworth ranch. But the ranch is about to be auctioned, throwing Venables and her 20 horses onto the street . . . unless she can find a new home (B3). “If it was just me, I would live in a car,” Venables said. “But they need to be taken care of.”

FOR THE BIRDS: Watch out, San Juan Capistrano. The famed swallows that flock there annually have found another place to rest their weary wings: Van Nuys. . . . The Tillman Water Reclamation Plant has become a new, favorite rest stop along their migratory flight south (B1).

LOST VALLEY: Why did the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments--assigned to promote that other Valley’s economic health--hire Sherman Oaks-based Ken Spiker & Associates to do its staff work? Bradbury Mayor Beatrice Lapisto-Kirtley said the council was looking for the best firm, not the best local firm. . . . Added David Smith, a spokesman for the management consultant: “We work for a number of other cities and areas. We can’t be in them all.”