OAKLAND, Calif. — The city of Oakland, California enlisted police officers from 18 California police departments Tuesday, hoping to rid itself of the Occupy movement that had set up camp in a downtown plaza.

But the police forces’ violent tactics worked only temporarily, and have, for the moment at least, handed the Occupy movement a moral and political victory so big that not even Occupy protestors seem to recognize it.

James Cameron says he is lavishing attention on the 3-D version of his 1997 Oscar-winner, Titanic.

HOLLYWOOD — As he oversees the 3-D conversion of Titanic, famously perfectionist director James Cameron is going to great lengths to avoid an artistic disaster.

“By the time we’re finished we will have spent 60 weeks and about $18 million, working with 300 artists,” he said Friday as he offered the press a glimpse at the first results of the massive, ongoing project.

“It’s an extremely labor-intensive process. I have a team of three technical people who look at all the images several times over, the...