European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily i Magazine new York times David Strick 2 Riviera country club at Pacific a ritzy bedroom suburb of los by Judith Miller new York times Mort Farberow operates a Delicatessen in Community where Ronald Reagan As the ice an elephant with its trunk slowly melted Over the free liquor helped quench the thirsts and raise the spirits of the 500 Pacific Palisades residents who crowded the elegant Riviera country club recently to bid Farewell to their president elect Ronald one resident of the Community smiled in satisfaction As be gazed around the room crammed with trim fit looking Many of them Clad in designer clothes and several wearing fur de spite the 70degree this sure aint he sipping a courvoisier on the the Palisades is not even like Culver City or any of the other Middle class communities in the sprawling los Angeles the Community where Ronald Reagan lives is among the nations an upper class bedroom suburb of los Angeles with no virtually no no freeways and with real estate prices that begin at 000 for a modest Bungalow and climb to million for the areas most elegant although he has lived there for 27 Reagan has not been actively involved in the neighbors he hardly Ever shops at local they and he has consistently refused to participated in the americanism Parade that the Community holds each july despite pleas from local civic Hes not said David a manage ment consultant who Heads the Palisades preparatory Village almost no one is actively involved in the affairs of this because the suburb is officially a part of los Angeles and not a separate City like Beverly the City oper ates the schools in the its and provides most of its municipal this Community is very said deede a former new yorker who is executive Secretary of the Palisades chamber of there is a perpetual fight Here to remain to preserve the towns peaceful and private As in other local civic leaders Strug Gle to boost consumer loyalty to the Community Small strip of local and developers quarrel with local officials and property groups Over approval of construction of More condominiums and multifamily units in this predominantly single family residents of the Pacific Palisades Are affluent enough to fight what some communities have had to accept or at least consider busing All we did was insist that schools be controlled by the said a father of four who founded the Palisades preparatory Village january 1981 schools three years ago in response to City plans to Institute a comprehensive busing i Felt that busing was an insult to my personal Freedom to raise my children As i he referring to the school desegregation which involved busing Pali Sades children to schools More than an hours drive from their the busing program took effect in a Cali fornia appeals court ruled a few weeks ago that the los Angeles schools could end mandatory busing in and the court upheld an anti using amendment approved by voters in the american civil liberties Union said it would Appeal the Thomsen began the school by placing an advertise ment in a this the elementary and Junior High schools have 500 the tuition of 000 a year for each child covers the schools million year operating thus making the Palisades pre Paratory Village schools the largest private business in the for people used to work to save Money to buy the expensive Homes Here so that their kids could go to Good Public said Ron reagans next door neighbor and a lawyer whose children attend Pri vate its been very frustrating for people the frustration is widely shared among Middle class residents of los As reflected in the proliferation of similar private neighbourhood there Are now six in los and Thomsen said that he was provid ing guidance to several other communities that were considering starting similar there Are a Hal dozen hispanic children and a dozen children of asian ancestry in Thomsene there Are no that reflective of the Community Thomsen in addition to developing its own alternative school the Community has fought tooth and according to Phyllis a 40year resident of the Pacific to prevent construction of an alternative Public school for she said local residents feared the school would be populated with mexican kids with drugs and Spray paint the Community is also involved in efforts to Block construction of roads that would Cut through the Green and Gold Santa Monica mountains in the Palisades to the san Fernando providing Valley residents with Access to the areas Pristine it is easy to see Why artists and upper income professionals have flocked to the the area is one of the most Beautiful in los with its Well manicured Many of like the reagans Are nestled in the rolling with views of the Pacific on smog less the stars and stripes Page 9