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Coo AnflcUfl SUmcfl GThursday, September 21, 1989 9 Digest Si Cm Broadway. Occidental College President John B. Slaughter will give the keynote address. Participants will then meet on Ave successive Wednesday evenings in private homes to discuss such issues as crime, traffic, transportation, housing, education and cultural diversity. The forum is sponsored by the city of Glendale, Glendale Community College and Glendale Partners, a group of Glendale business owners and chief executive officers.

A closing session will be held Nov. 2. Brand (818) 500-8720. Private Talks to Look at Population Changes The challenges arising from Glendale's changing population will be examined by business, education and political leaders in a seven-week series of private talks beginning this week. The forum, titled "Understanding Glendale for the Future," will open with an invitation-only session from 8 to 11 a.m.

Saturday in the City Council Chamber. 613 E. MA Restaurant Dinner 'Cocktails Live Entertainment' j2ql 330 N. Brand Glendale CA 91203 Aerou from Damon'e RICARDO DeARATANHA Lot Angelef Timet Inclined to roll Children from Palisades YMCA tumble down a hill on an outing at Griffith Park. Ample Parking in Rear Local News in Brief Olympic Medalist Gets 4 Years for Burglary Hector Lopez, 1984 Olympic boxing silver medalist, was sentenced Friday to four years in state prison on a charge of residential burglary with the use of a firearm.

Lopez, 22, of Glendale, pleaded guilty in March to the charge and to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Lopez was arrested last year on suspicion of kidnaping after he allegedly forced his ex-girlfriend, Norma A. Gomez, at gunpoint from her Glendale home after beating her father and a guest Police said Lopez released Gomez two days later with a bump on her head and a bruised arm. In a plea bargain negotiated this spring between Lopez's attorney, Ralph Bencangey, and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, the kidnaping charge was dropped. Later, the district attorney's office said it would not seek additional jail time for Lopez on the assault charges.

Lopez won a silver medal for Mexico at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games while still a junior at Hoover High School. He later competed as a professional. Glendale Symphony to Open 66th Season The Glendale Symphony Orchestra will kick off its 66th continuous season Oct 7 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with a classical concert featuring Soviet pianist Vladimir Viardo. Lalo Schifrin will make his debut as the orchestra's permanent conductor and musical director for the six-concert season. On Oct 22, the orchestra will perform a selection of opera love duets from "La Boheme," "La Traviata" and "Madame Butterfly." The Nov.

19 concert will feature music from De Falla and Paganini. Seven-year-old violinist Tamaki Kawakubo will appear at the Dec. 12 Christmas concert and Ray Charles will lead the orchestra at the Feb. 10 pops concert The Glendale Symphony will close the season March 11 with a selection of popular symphonic marches. Season tickets range from $30 to $105, and individual tickets vary from $6 to $40.

Information is available from the Glendale Symphony Orchestra 401 N. KHMTIU! Open Mon-Sat Haiti' 10pm For Reservations Call: (818) 246-6954- Emit An fei M. COMPUTE ntCR ktmMlemnmwi iitlfi mmmm Picketers Force Way Into Station Protest Boils Over at KVEA-TV By SANTIAGO O'DONNELL, Times Staff Writer the picket line after an employee called police. A patrol car arrived minutes later. After a brief meeting with Levin, Glendale Police Officer W.T.

Halversen told the protesters that they had the right to demonstrate outside the building but would be subject to arrest if they entered the station again. In recent weeks the demonstrators, calling themselves the Coalition of Mexican and Chicano Organizations for the Improvement of Mass Media in Los Angeles, have complained of the "Cubanization" of Channel 52, which carries the programming of the Miami-based network Telemundo. The protesters claim that the station has favored Cubans in its hiring and airs mostly Cuban-oriented programs. The station denies any bias, and Levin said steps are being taken to address the protesters' concerns. A community advisory board has held its first meeting, he said, and the station is studying its preliminary recommendations.

KVEA sidewalks while chanting' "Don't watch KVEA," and "Mexicans, res, Cubans no" in English and Spanish. As a reporter watched, one of the picketers said to protest leader Raul Ruiz: "The doors are open, let's go in!" As the demonstrators made their way through the lobby, station employees implored them to leave the building. Ruiz and about 10 others charged into the newsroom shouting "KVEA racists!" as station employees struggled to close the newsroom door, leaving most of the demonstrators in the lobby. For the next minute or so, a group of employees shoved to keep the door closed while the demonstrators tried to force it open. Meanwhile, the protesters inside the newsroom paraded their picket signs around the desks while shouting slogans against the station.

Ruiz demanded to see Steve Levin, the station's general manager, whose door remained closed. The protesters finally returned to The latest in a series of demonstrations against the Spanish-language television station KVEA (Channel 52) turned into a shoving match last week when about 30 Latino picketers forced their way into the station's Glendale headquarters demanding to talk to the general manager. The demonstrators left the building when employees from the television station called Glendale police. No arrests were made, but the protesters were warned by police to stay outside the building or face arrest The protest was the latest of about half a dozen over the last three months in which the station has been accused of "continuing prejudice and racism" in its hiring practices and programming. Demonstrators on Sept 14 accused KVEA of not covering local festivities leading up to Mexican Independence Day.

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