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WASH. POST: 05/04/92
Victims' Varied Paths to Death
Some Had Missions, Others Were Simply in Wrong Place at Worst Time
By Steve Geissinger
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, May 3-Ed-
ward Song Lee charged out to save
his neighborhood. Howard Epstein
Epstein was shot by three men as
friend and co-worker to Los Ange-
flew in to protect his business, and
he was driving from the airport,
les on Wednesday to take care of
Elbert Wilkins stopped to buy a
police said, After his car came to a
personal business, unaware of the
soda. Eduardo Vela was helping a
stop against a parked car, looters
violence sweeping the city.
friend.
ransacked it.
Trapped in an area of unrest, Es-
And that's why they died.
"It's absolutely horrible," Grinel
tevan Ortigoza left the car to call
The ages, backgrounds and life-
said. "You just don't understand
his boss and tell him the two would
styles of the riot victims were as
why."
not make it back for work.
varied as the stories of their deaths.
Epstein was born in Los Angeles
When he returned, the 34-year-
They were, mostly black and His-
and moved north about 10 years
old Vela was dead, the victim of
panic. At least six were white; two,
ago to escape the violence, his
random gunfire.
Asian.
nephew said. Epstein and his wife,
"He was a real nice person, a real
Most died from gunshots but a
Stephanie, have two daughters, Jil-
strong person," said Juan Lopez,
few from fire, stabbing, and stran-
lian, 8 months, and Lauren, 7.
manager of the Edo restaurant in
gulation, miles apart, in violence
"This was a great man who em-
Bakersfield where both men
that began Wednesday after four
ployed a lot of people in that neigh-
worked. "He was real popular here,
white policemen were acquitted in
borhood," Grinel said. "He was do-
everybody's friend-I'm going to
the videotaped beating of black mo-
ing good in that community. What
miss him."
torist Rodney G. King.
they saw was a white man in an
Vela, who came to the United
Some were known to many. Little
area they didn't consider his."
States from Veracruz, Mexico, 10
was known about others. Many still
Elbert Ondra Wilkins, a 33-year-
years ago, left behind a wife and
have not been publicly identified.
old black man who was a self-em-
two children, ages 6 months and 3.
The coroner's spokesman, Bob
ployed auto stereo installer, found
Dambacher, said he doubts inves-
himself in the wrong place at the
tigators will ever know much about
worst time.
some of the victims-those who
Wilkins was blocks away from
lived almost anonymously and died
any looting when he stepped out of
the same way.
a store after buying a soda and was
At least seven were looting and
shot by a gunman passing in a car
committing other crimes when they
Wednesday, police said.
were shot by police, making their
"Maybe this whole thing [the
relatives reluctant to talk, author-
King beating case verdict] put a
ities said. Telephones at several
little more hate in everybody's
homes went unanswered.
The path to death for Lee, 18,
mind. Hell, maybe somebody just
began when he ignored his parents'
decided, 'Now I can shoot anybody I
pleas to stay inside Thursday and
want to shoot,' and they went out
joined friends in protecting his neigh-
and shot my boy," said his father,
borhood, known as Koreatown.
Joseph Wilkins, a retired county
"He told his parents, "The Korean
maintenance worker.
people need my help and the Ko-
One of five children, Elbert
rean community needs my help,'
Wilkins grew up in south-central Los
said his uncle, Don Park, 34. Lee
Angeles in a small, tidy house with
was not a gang member, Park said.
roses out front and chartreuse-col-
Lee, who was unarmed when he
ored security bars on the windows,
left home, was shot in the head
As a teenager, he and his father
when caught in cross-fire between
restored a 1974 Dodge van in their
police and others.
back yard. That fascination with
His uncle said Lee graduated
cars led the younger Wilkins into
from high school with good grades
his own business of installing ste-
and was planning to visit Korea this
reos and car alarms.
summer, then enroll in a Los An-
Wilkins and his girlfriend, To-
geles university next semester to
mika Brown, recently had a child.
become a dentist
Friends said he was never happier
"He was a very good kid," Park
Eduardo Vela, who worked in a
said. "He never got into trouble."
Bakersfield restaurant, drove a
Epstein, a 49-year-old white man
who lived in the northern California
city of Orinda, flew Thursday to Los
Angeles to help protect his metal-
stamping machine shop and its em-
ployees in south Los Angeles.
"We all had a. bad feeling about
his going," said Epstein's nephew,
Jeff Grinel.
1062
TIMES 05/02/92
The Open Wound That Los Angeles Must Now Work to Heal
21/120
Good samaritans are everywhere, even as the toll mounts and the need for the federal probe grows
T
he smoke from thousands of
Youth Gang Services
WIDE IMPACT
fires began to lessen in the Los
Project was a burned-
Even the Los An-
Angeles Basin Friday as the
out strip of stores at
geles area's sprawling,
orgy of violence and looting that
Western Avenue and
largely white suburbs
followed the Rodney King beating
Jefferson Boulevard.
were affected. There
trial verdict seemed to be winding
Like almost every-
was serious trouble in
down. But the community's sense of
thing associated with
Long Beach and scat-
unease-a sad, sick feeling that things
celebrities these days,
tered looting incidents
may never be the same-hovers like
Olmos' act of leader-
in the San Fernando
an acrid smell.
ship was widely noted.
Valley, Pasadena and
Of course, if anything is learned
But, at dozens of other
the Inland Empire.
from these awful days, some things
places throughout Los
And many small cities
will change, perhaps dramatically.
Angeles and other cit-
near Los Angeles im-
They will change, if for no other
ies, similar community
posed curfews to coin-
reason than that no sane person in Los
cleanups were organ-
cide with the dawn-
Angeles or anywhere else would want
ized by ordinary people. It was the
to-dusk rule in effect
to repeat this terrible experience.
most visible example of the good
in their troubled
Precisely what must change, and how,
people, the vast majority. pulling to-
neighbor. Smoke from
will be the topic of debate for
gether. That community spirit must
fires drifted south to
months-or, for such a huge task,
be nurtured and grow in the days to
Orange County, and there were edgy
even years. And the challenge will be
come.
nerves in Ventura County to the
made no easier by the fact that some
We must not forget that everyone
north, where residents were painfully
thugs and criminals-of all colors-
in the Los Angeles area was victim-
aware that this whole ordeal began
remain unrepentant after so brutally
ized by the rioting. No neighborhood
with Wednesday's highly question-
taking advantage of the post-verdict
or ethnic group was unaffected, di-
able decision by a Simi Valley jury to
protests to victimize individuals and
rectly or indirectly. "Can we all get
free four Los Angeles policemen de-
entire neighborhoods.
along?" Rodney King said Friday.
spite the fact that a videotape cap-
THE UNKNOWN SAMARITANS
"Can we stop making it horrible?"
tured them beating King.
But the overwhelming majority of
L.A.'S MANY VICTIMS
In such a fearful time, it is not
Angelenos, average law-abiding peo-
Anyone who ponders what comes
surprising that there were instances
ple who respect their neighbors and
now must realize that the neighbor-
of vigilantism reported. An unknown
care about their community, can take
hoods that will suffer the most in the
sniper, believed to be a business
hope and perhaps even find inspira-
immediate aftermath of the rioting are
owner, took to the roof of a store on
tion in the many actions by good
Wilshire Boulevard and fired shots
the heavily black areas of the South
Samaritans during Los Angeles' dark-
Side.
into an unruly crowd nearby. Some
est hours. Most of these people will
residents of the Hollywood Hills
Many black neighborhoods now
remain forever anonymous because
blocked access to the area and armed
have no stores where residents can
there were no reporters or television
buy food or other vital supplies. Bus
themselves to keep away would-be
cameras around to record their good
service has been curtailed so that
looters. That is scary behavior. It
deeds.
even those who still have jobs to go to
would have been less likely to happen
Indeed, even in one of the most
(most of the work in many burned-
if police had been on hand and able to
widely reported acts of heroism-four
out businesses was done by local
control the situations. We can only
African-Americans saved a white
residents) have a hard time getting
ask that everyone remain as cool and
truck driver, Reginald Denny, as he
there. There wasn't even mail deliv-
calm as possible in this still-stressful
was beaten by an angry mob-the
ery in those areas. Although it has not
time, and remember that things ap-
names of only three of his rescuers are
been widely publicized, black-owned
pear to be getting better.
known. The fourth-known to his
businesses were hurt, too.
THE NEED FOR CALM
compatriots in courage only as a
Also hard-hit were the Asian-
The arrival of National Guard units,
young man dressed in black-simply
American merchants, mainly Kore-
federal troops and law enforcement
disappeared after driving Denny to a
ans, who own many of the small stores
agents, and police from neighboring
hospital emergency room.
that serve residents of South Los
local jurisdictions seemed to have
As in the case of that young man,
Angeles, the Mid-City area and Ko-
brought the rioting under control. The
nobody recorded the names of the
reatown itself. They bring badly
federal troops are racially and ethni-
hundreds of men, women and even
needed services to sections of the
cally diverse, which should contribute
children who helped tired firefighters
inner city where other business peo-
to calming or containing the situation.
with heavy hoses or tried to put out
ple are not willing to take a chance.
Just as important, the U.S. De-
blazes with garden hoses and volun-
There has been occasional tension
partment of Justice has affirmed that
teer bucket brigades.
between them and some black cus-
the not guilty verdicts in the King
tomers, most notably as a result of the
THE HIDDEN PROTECTORS
case did not end the legal process.
Latasha Harlins slaying. (Harlins, a
And who knows how many local
Atty. Gen. William P. Barr and the
black 15-year-old, was shot to death
stores were protected from looting by
U.S. attorney's office have promised
by a Korean grocer, who eventually
groups of neighborhood people who
to take another look at the King case,
was convicted of involuntary man-
came to the aid of the owners? In a
and a federal grand jury has been
slaughter and received what amount-
few instances these good neighbors
impaneled to hear evidence. The ap-
ed to a wrist-slap sentence.) But were
held would-be looters until police
pointment of Wayne Budd, the de-
they deliberately targeted by looters or
arrived, but in most they just chased
partment's third-ranking official and
arsonists? Further investigation may
them away. On a chaotic day when
a respected African-American attor-
be needed to nail this point down with
police resources were at the breaking
ney, to take the lead in any civil rights
sufficient confidence.
point, such help was invaluable.
prosecution in the case is reassuring.
The city's large Latin American
That same type of community spirit
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled
community was not untouched by the
motivated hundreds of
that successive state and federal pros-
violence, either. As in the Watts riots
young people to heed
ecutions can occur in a case in which
of 1965, many of the "white" victims
calls from celebrities
there is no vindication of the public
of mob violence were Mexican-Amer-
interest. That should be done in the
such as actor Edward
icans or other Latinos. Several old
James Olmos to start
King case, and politics should not be
apartment buildings near the down-
cleaning up the city on
allowed to interfere with the legal
town area that were put to the torch
Friday. One of the
process. Some political analysts sug-
by arsonists were home to hundreds of
first places Olmos took
gest President Bush might lose con-
Central American ref-
servative votes in November's elec-
a group of volunteers
ugees who had moved
from the Community
tion if a federal prosecution of the four
to Los Angeles in re-
LAPD officers is attempted. Such
cent years to escape
cynical calculations won't stand in the
political violence in
their homelands.
L.A. TIMES: 05/02/92
way of justice if Bush is true to the
promises he made in his speech Friday
night.
20f2
The social contract in this country
requires not only that justice be done.
but that there be a perception that
justice has been done. That is not the
case in much of Los Angeles today, in
the smoldering aftermath of the King
verdict. Only the federal government
can offer the remedy. Until it does, the
peace in Los Angeles-indeed, the
nation-will remain uneasy.
Three Small-Business Men Signify Key to a City's Future
Wiped Out by Riots, They and Others in Los Angeles Ponder Starting Over
By JOHN R. EMSHWILLER
back for many small-business owners will
Meet Inc., says he also probably will re-
Mr. Lewis, a football player for the Los
And AMY STEVENS
be tough. For those who had little or no
main-despite his own deep misgivings and
Angeles Rams in the 1950s, has been an
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
insurance, it might be impossible. "We
entreaties by family members to "get out
owner of various small businesses in South
LOS ANGELES-The ability of this city
aren't talking about powerful businesses,"
no matter what the cost." Besides his
Central Los Angeles for three decades.
to recover from the worst rioting in the
Mayor Tom Bradley said at a news confer-
financial stake in the business, says the
During the 1965 Watts riots, he stood at the
nation's modern history will rest to a
ence Friday.
35-year-old Korean immigrant, he has a
entrance of the bowling alley he then owned
large degree in the hands of small-business
Mr. Randall, chairman and a 40%-
commitment to the some 160 small re-
and turned back rioters by shouting that
owners such as George Randall, Jay Lee
owner of Yes Clothing Co., says his publicly
tailers who lease space in the sprawling
almost all his 75 employees were also
and Woodley Lewis.
traded clothing-design and manufacturing
former warehouse.
black.
Like thousands of other local small-busi-
company expects insurance to cover its
During the past few days, Mr. Lee and
This time, the 67-year-old entrepreneur
ness owners, these three men - one white,
losses. But, he adds, insurance can't cover
dozens of associates have been barricaded
wasn't so fortunate, though a bar he owns in
one Korean-born and one black - saw their
the fear and anger he still feels about
inside the swap meet using rifles and shot-
the area was spared. He says he doesn't
establishments stormed by mobs in a
having to stand by helplessly while a mob of
guns to hold off mobs. Fortunately, says
yet know how much of the loss from his
rampage that destroyed or severely dam-
about 300, some armed with automatic
other three businesses will be covered by
aged 1,600 businesses. Estimates of total
weapons, looted his factory.
property damage to 5,200 buildings and
Much of the anger is aimed at the
their contents range from about $700 mil-
F
or entrepreneurs with
insurance, partly because his financial rec-
ords went up in flames.
political leadership that he feels failed to
little or no insurance,
In the past, Mr. Lewis says, he has
lion to $1 billion.
take the steps necessary to quell the riot
Mr. Randall, a. 62-year-old white man,
and protect citizens. "We must have the
rebuilding might be
periodically thought about pulling up
watched as his clothing factory was looted
weakest city government in the world,"
impossible. 'We aren't
stakes and moving to a safer neighborhood.
But, he says, the tug of his community was
of $1.5 million in merchandise and equip-
Mr. Randall says.
talking about powerful
too strong.
ment. Mr. Lee and his partner, with the
But poor government or not, Los Ange-
help of dozens of armed compatriots, de-
les will remain home for Yes Clothing.
businesses,' Los Angeles
Now the ties are frayed, and the future is
uncertain. "When you get burnt out, you
fended their retail market from would-be
which employs about 150 people, the major-
Mayor Tom Bradley says.
looters and arsonists. Mr. Lewis, a black
have second thoughts about what you ought
ity Hispanic, says Mr. Randall. The city Is a
man who grew up in South Central Los
world-wide garment-Industry hub, and
to do," he says. "If it's real hard to get
"I've got to be here," says Mr. Randall. "I
Mr. Lee, shots only had to be fired into
Angeles, had a liquor store, an ice-cream
financing, I think most of us will move
store and a fast-food shop burned to the
just don't know how to cope" with the last
the air and no one on either side was
on."
ground. All three endured the trauma of
injured.
few days.
watching mobs attack businesses that took
While things have quieted down in Los
However, Mr. Randall says, he has
Angeles, Mr. Lee doesn't expect his affairs
Rexene Restructuring Bid
years to build.
already made some changes in his business
Now, as the violence has subsided, they,
to be back to normal anytime soon. He
DALLAS - Rexene Corp. said Cam-
operations. Coincidentally, Yes was in the
and other local business owners, face pain-
predicts the swap meet will remain closed
bridge Capital Fund L.P. withdrew its pro-
process of moving its manufacturing
ful decisions about whether it is worth
at least another week, protected round-the-
posal to restructure the company.
operations to a new factory in the same
the effort - and the risk to their physical
clock by armed guards. "Area residents
area. Unlike the old location, which "had
Cambridge Capital, a New York-based
safety and emotional stability - to rebuild.
are telling us that some people are still
investment firm, is the last of the three
Yes Clothing signs all over It," the new
"Why go through all this?" asks Mr.
talking about taking our place down,"
building will have no identifying labels, Mr.
companies that proposed restructurings
Lewis.
says Mr. Lee.
for Rexene to drop its proposal. Rexene,
Randall says. The security force at the new
Ueberroth Heads Drive
site will be increased to three from just one
Hours Curtailed
a chemical products maker, sought pro-
The Los Angeles reconstruction effort,
When the swap meet does reopen, it will
tection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
before. And employees are being issued
start with curtailed hours and more secu-
last fall after reaching a tentative agree-
headed byformer Baseball Commissioner
identification badges that they will need to
Peter Ueberroth, has already begun. Yet
get into work.
rity guards, perhaps 16 instead of 10, says
ment with creditors on a reorganization
civic leaders acknowledge that the road
Mr. Lee, part owner of Slauson Swap
Mr. Lee.
plan.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE: 5/6/92
TO: Carol
FROM: Office of National Service Ellen Olender
Room 100, OEOB, x6266
I hope this is helpful.
I noted on the press
releases what sone of these
L,4. area daily points 8 light
are doing in response to the
riots.
Thank you.
:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 14, 1989
THE DAILY "POINT OF LIGHT"
The President today named Antonio Valle, Jr. of La Habra,
California as his seventeenth daily "Point of Light." Valle, a
special education teacher at Sonora High School in La Habra,
volunteers his time to help the people of his community.
From co-founding a program to deter elementary school students
from getting involved in gangs and drugs, to taking food to
elderly homebound residents, Mr. Valle is always ready to help
those in need. He has shown his dedication to community service
through his 14 year endeavor to keep his community from sliding
into decline.
The President extends his deepest appreciation to Anthonio Valle
for his outstanding work with the young people of his community.
His devotion and commitment to his neighbors are an inspiration
to us all.
# # #
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lucy Carney (202) 456-6266
Currently: Dealing w/ problems in ha Habra only- -
very busy with that - has had some
unrest.
31
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 2, 1990
THE DAILY "POINT OF LIGHT"
The President today named the Senior Health and Peer Counseling
Center, of Santa Monica, California as his thirty-first daily
"Point of Light." This program provides health screening and
counseling services to the elderly of Santa Monica.
The five older Americans who founded this program in 1976 saw a
need to help the elderly in their community. The Senior Health and
Peer Counseling Center provides free or low-cost health screening
to Santa Monica's senior citizens. It also serves as a placement
facility where medical, nursing, and pharmacy students can gain
valuable experience helping the elderly.
In addition, volunteers are trained by the center to provide peer
counseling, in English or Spanish, to seniors who need help - such
as the handicapped and mentally ill, and those who just need a
friend. Special attention is given to seniors who have difficulty
living alone or are in danger of becoming homeless.
The President praises the Senior Health and Peer Counseling Center.
Their work has enhanced the quality of life for hundreds of senior
citizens in Santa Monica.
# # #
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Galletta (202) 456-6266
I
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 30, 1990
The President today named Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women
of Los Angeles, California as the one hundred and fourth "Daily
Point of Light." This center, a program of Catholic Charities of
the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, is dedicated to the support of
homeless women.
The Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women serves women who are
homeless, in need of temporary shelter, and emotionally and
physically battered. The center is composed of two facilities,
the Languille House and the Hawkes Residence.
The Languille House, named after a co-founder, opened in 1984 as
an emergency shelter and drop-in center to meet homeless women's
most urgent needs. The house accommodates 27 women, offering
counseling, job or school placement assistance, and help in
obtaining a permanent residence.
In 1987, the center expanded by opening opened a second facility,
the Hawkes Residence. This facility provides transitional low-
cost housing for women who are employed or attending school and
in need of additional time to stabilize their lives before
returning to the mainstream of society.
The President applauds the volunteers and staff of the Good
Shepherd Center for Homeless Women for their compassion and care
for homeless women. They embody the President's conviction that,
"From now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others."
# # #
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Taylor or Robert Marbut
(202) 456-6266
Currently:
Sent out ateam of volenteers to an antreachteam,
to assist people m the streets who were hent from the
riots either physically or enationally.
helping to Clean-up
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 21, 1990
The President today named the residents of Oakwood, a subdivision
of Venice, California, as the one hundred forty-eighth "Daily
Point of Light." The concerned citizens of the crime-plagued
Oakwood neighborhood have worked diligently to make their
racially diverse neighborhood a safer place in which to live.
The efforts of Oakwood citizens working closely with the members
of the Los Angeles Police Department have resulted in a decrease
in the crime rate by 44 percent.
Residents of Oakwood have worked to combat the drugs and crime
which have oppressed their lives for too long. They have assumed
responsibility for solving problems in their own neighborhood.
The "Town Watch" program has organized a group of Oakwood
citizens to work closely with the Los Angeles Police Department
to report suspicious people. The C.A.R.S. (Community Against
Rock Sales) Program also works closely with the Los Angeles
Police Department, by reporting unfamiliar and suspicious cars
parked or driving through the neighborhood. The Oakwood
Beautification Committee organized a candlelight vigil to elicit
support for efforts to combat drugs and crime. The "Oakwood
Neighborhood Watch" program encourages local youth to continue
their education and stay off drugs. In addition to these groups,
the Venice Action Committee, the Venice Town Council, and the
Venice Homeowners and Tenants Association have helped the Oakwood
community address their social ills.
The President salutes the residents of Oakwood as the one hundred
forty-eighth "Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of Light
recognition is intended to call every individual, group, and
organization in America to claim society's problems as their own
by taking direct and consequential action; to identify, enlarge,
and multiply successful initiatives, like those of the residents
of Oakwood; and to discover, encourage, and develop new leaders
in community service, reflecting the President's conviction that,
"From now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others."
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Taylor or Robert Marbut
(202) 456-6266
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL
June 22, 1990
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1990
The President today named the First African Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Los Angeles, California, as the one hundred seventy-
seventh "Daily Point of Light." The First African Methodist
Episcopal (First AME) Church empowers individuals with the faith
and knowledge needed to better their lives.
Members of First AME move their faith beyond the church, raising
the spirit and quality of the lives of others. of the 5700
members of First AME, more than 75% have joined hands in an
effort to encourage young people to stay away from drugs and
crime. With the help of the 25 community service programs, the
crime rate has dropped significantly in the neighborhood
surrounding the church.
The Substance Abuse Program counsels those with addictions,
refers them to the proper professionals, assists them in seeking
employment after treatment, and offers emotional support. The
"Taking Our Community Back" program places church members on the
streets during the peak hours of drug trafficking, whereby those
in need can learn about church programs and receive words of
encouragement. The homeless program provides meals, health
screening, tutoring, counseling, blankets, and clothing.
The Youth Lock-In Program encourages living a life of positive
values. The youth are literally locked in the church for 24
hours with member volunteers, during which the young people
listen to inspirational speeches, seminars, videos, encounter
groups, and message plays.
The President salutes the First African Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Los Angeles, California, as the one hundred seventy-
seventh "Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of Light recognition
is intended to call every individual, group, and organization in
America to claim society's problems as their own by taking direct
and consequential action; to identify, enlarge, and multiply
successful initiatives, like First AME; and to discover,
encourage, and develop new leaders in community service,
reflecting the President's conviction that, "From now on' in
America, any definition of a successful life must include serving
others."
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Currently: The Church has hested
provide food, Clothing, 3 shilter to those in need.
meetings and is mobilinging
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Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 1990
The President today named William and Ethel Tibbetts, of El
Monte, California, as the two hundred and eighth "Daily Point of
Light." The Tibbetts provide friendship and care for those who
are disabled.
Since 1986, William and Ethel Tibbetts have volunteered for the
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Transportation Network,
providing transportation for disabled veterans to medical
appointments. The Tibbetts go above and beyond their specific
duties, developing lasting relationships with the veterans,
visiting them in their homes or calling them to ensure they
receive the assistance they need. They spend at least 9 hours a
day participating in this effort.
The President salutes William and Ethel Tibbetts as the two
hundred and eighth "Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of Light
recognition is intended to call every individual, group, and
organization in America to claim society's problems as their own
by taking direct and consequential action; to identify, enlarge,
and multiply successful initiatives, like the efforts of the
Tibbetts; and to discover, encourage, and develop new leaders in
community service, reflecting the President's conviction that,
"From now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others."
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 2, 1990
The President today named Orange County Rescue Mission, of Santa
Ana, California, as the two hundred eleventh "Daily Point of
Light." The Orange County Rescue Mission sheds a light at the
end of a dark tunnel for those who are homeless.
Founded in 1963, Orange County Rescue Mission, composed of two
shelters and a transitional home, helps homeless people better
their lives. A variety of programs are offered which provide
those in need with food, shelter, and counseling. More than 25
volunteers help in this effort.
The volunteers encourage homeless individuals to visit the rescue
mission. Those who seek help are placed in a transitional home,
where volunteers assist them in obtaining employment. The rescue
mission also operates two shelters, one for women and their
children and the other for men. Each facility provides food,
clothing, and spiritual counseling.
The President salutes Orange County Rescue Mission as the two
hundred eleventh "Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of Light
recognition is intended to call every individual, group, and
organization in America to claim society's problems as their own
by taking direct and consequential action; to identify, enlarge,
and multiply successful initiatives, like Orange County Rescue
Mission; and to discover, encourage, and develop new leaders in
community service, reflecting the President's conviction that,
"From now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others."
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Office of the Press Secretary
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL
SATURDAY, July 21, 1990
July 20, 1990
The President today named Alternatives to Domestic Violence, of
Riverside, California, as the two hundred and first "Daily Point
of Light." Alternatives to Domestic Violence offers women who
have fear. suffered from domestic violence an escape from lives of
Founded in 1977 by concerned citizens, Alternatives to Domestic
Violence provides support services to victims of domestic
violence. By assisting in the organization's programs and
helping increase public awareness, more than 100 volunteers play
a critical role.
Volunteers who assist with the 24-hour Crisis Line provide
counseling, information, referral, and emotional support to those
who call in need of assistance. Those who work with the Horizon
House Shelter comfort women who have sought refuge from domestic
abuse and their children. The Children's program counsels the
children who temporarily live at Horizon House. The volunteers
work with the children, helping them cope emotionally with the
violence they have experienced. In addition, the volunteers
advice and providing support.
accompany the women throughout the judicial process, offering
The President salutes Alternatives to Domestic Violence as the
two hundred and first "Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of
Light recognition is intended to call every individual, group,
and organization in America to claim society's problems as their
own by taking direct and consequential action; to identify,
enlarge, and multiply successful initiatives, like Alternatives
to Domestic Violence; and to discover, encourage, and develop new
leaders in community service, reflecting the President's
conviction that, "From now on in America, any definition of a
successful life must include serving others.
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Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 1990
The President today named Linda Warsaw, of San Bernardino,
California, as the 250th "Daily Point of Light." Ms. Warsaw, 17,
helps her peers find a way to care for others their own age.
In 1985, when Ms. Warsaw was 12 years old, she founded "Kids
Against Crime." Ms. Warsaw learned of the many crimes committed
against children through her after-school volunteer work with the
Victim Witness Assistance Program of the San Bernardino County
District Attorney's Office. While watching court cases involving
abuse, kidnapping, and molestation, she realized the need to
teach children how to protect themselves.
Kids Against Crime teaches children not only how to prevent a
crime, but also what to do in case crime does occur. Volunteers
of Kids Against Crime operate the "Peers Support and Referral"
hotline. Volunteers must be 12-19 years old and willing to
commit at least 3 hours a week to the program. After completing
a 24 hour training program which includes subjects such as child
abuse, sexual abuse, AIDS, substance abuse, pregnancy, suicide,
and runaways, the volunteers answer calls from their peers who
are in need of advice and support. Adult supervisors serve two
shifts per month, assisting the volunteers with answering calls.
More than 4,000 members, mostly people under the age of 18,
support the efforts of Kids Against Crime.
The President salutes Linda Warsaw as the 250th "Daily Point of
Light." Daily Point of Light recognition is intended to call
every individual, group, and organization in America to claim
society's problems as their own by taking direct and
consequential action; to identify, enlarge, and multiply
successful initiatives, like the efforts of Ms. Warsaw; and to
discover, encourage, and develop new leaders in community
service, reflecting the President's conviction that, "From now on
in America, any definition of a successful life must include
serving others."
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(202) 456-6266
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 28, 1990
The President today named the volunteers of The Eli Home, Inc.,
of Anaheim, California, as the 338th "Daily Point of Light." The
volunteers of The Eli Home are helping end the cycle of child
abuse.
Founded in 1982 in response to the growing number of child abuse
cases reported in Orange County, The Eli Home provides emergency
shelter for abused children and their mothers. The children and
mothers live at The Eli Home for a 45-day period, during which
they attend counseling sessions. The mothers attend workshops
where they learn new parenting skills. In addition to the 45-
day shelter program, three extension homes are maintained. These
facilities are available to mothers and children who have
completed the 45-day program and need housing and additional
counseling.
The volunteers, many of whom are psychologists, social workers,
and counselors, form positive friendships for the children and
their mothers. They lead field trips for the children and
support groups for the mothers. They also operate two thrift
shops, using the proceeds to purchase food, clothing, and other
supplies for the residents of The Eli Home. Other volunteers
provide 24-hour supervision of the home. During 1989, The Eli
Home served over 900 individuals.
The President salutes the volunteers of The Eli Home as the 338th
"Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of Light recognition is
intended to call every individual, group, and organization in
America to claim society's problems as their own by taking direct
and consequential action; to identify, enlarge, and multiply
successful initiatives, like the efforts of the volunteers of The
Eli Home; and to discover, encourage, and develop new leaders in
community service, reflecting the President's conviction that,
"From now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others."
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 26, 1991
The President today named the volunteers of TreePeople, of Beverly
Hills, California, as the 440th "Daily Point of Light" in honor of
National Arbor Day. The volunteers of TreePeople inspire others
to plant trees to fortify the environment, ensuring a green lush
landscape for future generations to enjoy.
Founded in 1973 by Andy and Katie Lipkis, TreePeople has encouraged
community members to play a positive role in the future of the
environment. Based in Coldwater Canyon Park, TreePeople serves as
an outside classroom for community members, where they can obtain
information on forestry issues and tree planting, while personally
visualizing the benefits of trees for their own community.
Through the Environmental Leadership Program, volunteers lead
children through the landscape surrounding TreePeople's center.
Children are encouraged to see and feel their way through the
woods, helping them develop a closer relationship with the
environment. The volunteers also encourage the children to become
leaders in the effort to improve the environment by offering them
fun ideas for recycling at home and instructions on caring for
trees.
Through the Citizen Forester Program, community members learn how
to coordinate tree planting projects in their neighborhood. They
learn how to select a site and species, organize a community,
obtain permits and funding, and encourage community support.
TreePeople distributes trees to those coordinating a tree planting
effort and they offer fruit-producing trees to low-income
communities. With the support of TreePeople, others communities
throughout the nation have initiated tree planting efforts.
The President salutes the volunteers of TreePeople as the 440th
"Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of Light recognition is
intended to call every individual, group, and organization in
America to claim society's problems as their own by taking direct
and consequential action; to identify, enlarge, and multiply
successful initiatives, like the efforts of the volunteers of
TreePeople; and to discover, encourage, and develop new leaders in
community service, reflecting the President's conviction that,
"From now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others."
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Currently: Cleaning up passessing damage
may16th will be atree planting day in
L.A. bluntees come from the community occurs whereplants
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 15, 1991
The President today named John Post, of Hermosa Beach, California,
as the 509th "Daily Point of Light" for the nation. Four years
ago, Mr. Post, 29, founded "Club Calypso," a summer day camp for
the young residents of Harbor Hills, a local housing project.
Mr. Post grew up a 1/2 mile from Harbor Hills and attended a church
near the project. After a friend did some volunteer work at a
housing project, Mr. Post realized the need for supporting
residents of projects in his own community. In the summer of 1987,
he founded "Club Calypso." The program operates from 9:00 a.m.
through 12:00 p.m., Monday through Friday for seven weeks. Almost
60 young people, ages 6 to 14, wait for the volunteers each morning
outside the housing project, sometimes showing up an hour early
because of excitement to start the day. Mr. Post and 25 other
young adults and college students serve as friends and mentors to
the youngsters. The volunteers lead baseball and softball games,
teach arts and crafts, and chaperone campouts and field trips.
Mr. Post has expanded his efforts to include a tutoring program
during the school year, a Big Brother/Big Sister program, and a
food distribution effort. Almost 20 youngsters voluntarily attend
tutoring sessions each Tuesday, where volunteers help them
understand and complete school assignments. Although all the
volunteers become friends to the youngsters, fourteen volunteers
are matched with a young person to offer them an individualized
long-term relationship. Many volunteers have befriended the
parents of the young people, encouraging them to become more
involved in their children's lives.
The President salutes John Post as the 509th "Daily Point of
Light." Daily Point of Light recognition is intended to call every
individual, group, and organization in America to claim society's
problems as their own by taking direct and consequential action;
to identify, enlarge, and multiply successful initiatives, like the
efforts of Mr. Post; and to discover, encourage, and develop new
leaders in community service, reflecting the President's conviction
that, "From now on in America, any definition of a successful life
must include serving others."
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 23, 1991
The President today named Liliana Narvaez, of Los Angeles,
California, as the 569th Daily Point of Light for the Nation.
Ms. Narvaez, 18, encourages other young people to become active
members of their community.
Ms. Narvaez joined the community service club at her high school
during her sophomore year. As her service project, she chose to
establish a similar community service club at a local elementary
school. After consulting her younger brother, who was attending
5th grade at the time, Ms. Narvaez selected his elementary school
as the site. She spoke with the principal of the school to get
permission to start a program and to gather helpful information
and recommendations. She then met with students to determine the
amount of interest in this project. She discussed with them
problems that today's youth face, such as gangs, drug abuse, and
peer pressure, and they offered her solutions to these problems
she had never considered.
Through the community service club at the elementary school, Ms.
Narvaez coordinated graffiti removal efforts, visits to
retirement homes, community cleanups, and scheduled speakers to
talk about the dangers of drug abuse. She encourages the younger
people to play an instrumental role in developing new community
service projects, through which they develop an interest in the
well-being of the community.
Currently, Ms. Narvaez is a freshman at the University of
Redlands, where she plans to continue her commitment to the
betterment of her community.
The President salutes Liliana Narvaez for her community efforts
and for demonstrating his belief that, "From now on in America,
any definition of a successful life must include serving others."
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EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE
January 31, 1992
UNTIL FEBRUARY 1, 1992
The President today recognized the volunteers of the 24 Hour
Crisis Response Team of Irvine, California, as the 683rd Daily
Point of Light for the Nation. The 45 men and women of the
intervention team help to shoulder the emotional burden of crime
victims, survivors, and their families.
Founded in 1981, the 24 Hour Crisis Response Team, a component of
CSP (Community Service Programs, Inc.) Victim/Witness Assistance
Program, mobilizes a core group of highly trained volunteers who
commit at least six months of service to the Law Enforcement
Assistance Program and the Sexual Assault Victim Services/
Prevention Program where they respond to crises due to crimes and
trauma deaths. Team members work a minimum of two 15-hour shifts
per month in the office, answering crisis calls and dispatching
volunteers. All team members remain on call 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, to counsel victims of crime. In some
instances, the volunteer is the first point of contact for these
individuals. Consequently, some bilingual volunteers are
recruited to bridge the language and cultural barriers that can
separate community residents.
Before assignment to active duty, volunteers receive 60 hours of
extensive training in matters such as law enforcement and court
procedures, crisis intervention, rape trauma, resource referrals,
child therapy, and numerous other fields. Some team members are
motivated to volunteer because they themselves have been victims
of crimes.
Volunteers accompany victims to the hospital for medical
examinations, provide referrals, and ease the pain and confusion
of traumatic situations. Community groups, schools, and police
departments throughout Orange County have relied on and
benefitted from the skills, talents, and professionalism of these
committed and compassionate individuals.
The President salutes the volunteers of the 24 Hour Crisis
Response Team for exemplifying his belief that, "From now on in
America, any definition of a successful life must include serving
others.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 25, 1992
The President today recognized Alice Harris of Los Angeles as the
703rd Daily Point of Light for the Nation. For more than thirty
years, this mother of nine children has worked to provide a decent,
drug free and safe place to live for her neighbors.
Known as "Sweet Alice" for her remarkable capacity to befriend all
who come her way, Ms. Harris founded Parents of Watts (P.O.W.) more
than 25 years ago to address a variety of unmet needs in the Watts-
Willowbrook area of Los Angeles. Today, as Director of the
organization, she oversees fifteen programs, ranging from job
training to language instruction. P.O.W. employs six paid staff
members along with four full-time and twenty-five part-time
volunteers.
Primarily aimed at young people, Parents of Watts also serves those
who are homeless, unemployed, or addicted to drugs. Convinced that
everyone has a gift to give, Ms. Harris requires drug addicts and
homeless individuals who are sheltered by P.O.W. to help with
laundry, cleaning, gardening, and other tasks. She believes that,
by fulfilling these responsibilities, those who receive her help
will learn to value themselves.
Having been a single teenage mother herself, "Sweet Alice" is
especially concerned for the well being of girls and young women
with children, counseling them and leading them on frequent trips
outside their neighborhood. She often links pregnant teenagers
with community organizations that "adopt" them and pay their
expenses through childbirth. Ms. Harris also works directly with
gang members, mediating their disputes and encouraging them to
return to school. Young people who participate in P.O.W. programs
find in her a lifelong adviser and mentor. Most eventually attend
college.
As founder of the Black and Brown Committee, Ms. Harris has played
a critical role in reducing interracial tensions and violence in
her area. She has fostered greater communication and interaction
between black and Hispanic residents of the neighborhood and, at
P.O.W., serves those in need regardless of their ethnic background.
The President salutes Alice Harris for exemplifying his belief
that, "From now on in America, any definition of a successful life
must include serving others."
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Currently: mobilized young people she works with to cleanup.
P.O. W. S putting special emphasis on meeting the
needs of local mothers w/ msant children.
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Office of the Press Secretary
March 18, 1992
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The President today recognized the volunteers of the R.M. Pyles
Boys Light for the Nation. The camp is committed to children to
Camp of Valencia, California, as the 722nd Daily Point and of
youth developing good character and values, challenging "boys to
become men" by participating in positive outdoors activities.
For 42 years, the Pyles Boys Camp has sponsored over 18,000 low-
income, disadvantaged boys, aged 12 to 16 years, motivating them
to reject drug and gang activities and to become productive
citizens. The program serves youth from southern California,
particularly from Kern, Los Angeles, and Ventura counties. In
addition to three permanent staff members, the camp is run by
over 500 volunteers who donated 15,000 hours of volunteer service
in 1991.
The Pyles Boys Camp is open every summer for six two-week
sessions. In each session, a group of 80 boys learns the
importance of team work, discipline, and self-esteem. The boys
leave the camp with goals to better themselves and a strong sense
of pride and accomplishment.
In the months following the camp, reunions are held for campers,
permitting them to renew friendships and make new acquaintances. and
These gatherings reinforce lessons learned during the summer
enable counselors to keep in contact with the boys.
Communication between counselors and participants continues year-
round through personal home visits and phone calls, especially
with boys who are having trouble.
One of the camp's goals is to promote leadership skills in the
boys. Those who show leadership potential are invited to become
counselors for future camp sessions. Successful counselors are
eligible for scholarships to colleges or trade schools. Last
year, 26 boys received $42,000 in scholarships from Pyles Boys
Camp sponsors.
The President salutes the volunteers of the R.M. Pyles Boys Camp
for exemplifying his belief that, "From now on in America, any
definition of a successful life must include serving others."
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The Campuill host 200 young boys from the
affected areas 8L,A. over memorial Dayweehend.
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Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 1992
The President today recognized Doris Tate of Rancho Palos Verdes,
California, as the 738th Daily Point of Light for the Nation.
Since the brutal murder of her daughter Sharon by the Manson
family, Mrs. Tate, 68, has devoted her life to supporting victims
of violent crime and their loved ones. In 1985, seeing the need
for positive action on behalf of both criminals and victims, she
established the Coalition on Victim's Equal Rights (C.O.V.E.R.),
the first and now the largest group of its kind in California.
Using her own grief as motivation, Mrs. Tate works to change the
lives of the criminals. As an advisor to the California
Department of Corrections she has pioneered the Victim Offender
Reconciliation Group, a pilot project which enables victims to
confront their assailants and to share their pain with the
offenders. As she explains, "If we can prevent even one family
from suffering the trauma of a murder it will be worth it."
Mrs. Tate has been praised widely by her colleagues for
addressing the root causes of crime and for her efforts to reform
the lives of criminals. She is credited with bridging the gap
between victims' services and criminal corrections programs.
The President salutes Doris Tate for exemplifying his belief
that, "From now on in America, any definition of a successful
life must include serving others. II
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Wash. Post 05-03-92
Uneasy Calm Prevails
As L.A. Starts Cleanup
44 Are Dead,
ruins of charred stores and com-
found-stores that had been burned
mercial buildings resembled a war-
out or closed. All bus service has
2,000 Hurt
torn landscape. City firefighters
been halted. Some 24,000 residents
extinguished 4,500 blazes during
remained without electricity, as
the three days of violence, including
crews from the Los Angeles De-
several hundred that were rekin-
In Rioting
partment of Water and Power
dles of earlier fires.
(DWP) accompanied by armed Cal-
The First African Methodist
ifornia Highway Patrol officers
Episcopal Church in the heart of the
worked to restore service.
By Lou Cannon and Paul Taylor
riot area became a cleanup and
Lucia Alvelais, a DWP spokes-
Washington Post Staff Writers
command post for Angelenos of all
woman, said the task of repair
races who poured in from through-
LOS ANGELES, May 2-A jit-
crews was difficult because many
out the region, bringing brooms,
tery calm, enforced by police and
poles, wires and transformers had
rakes, cans of food and cartons of
National Guard patrols, returned to
been destroyed. Nonetheless, she
old clothes. They gathered under
this riot-devastated city today as
thousands of citizens armed with
huge banner that proclaimed,
said, the department hoped to fully
brooms and shovels began cleaning
"Brothers, Come Help Us Stop the
restore power by the end of the
Madness.
weekend.
up the charred ruins of a vast area
of south-central Los Angeles.
"I have been 50 afraid for the past
The campaign headquarters of
Forty-four persons died in the
three days, but I finally decided the
state Sen. Diane Watson (D), near
three days of arson, looting and
only way to combat the fear is to
the heart of the 1965 Watts riots,
shootouts that began Wednesday
get involved," said Katherine Dur-
became a second disaster relief cen-
evening after four white Los Ange-
lak, who is white and lives in a near-
ter for residents. While students
les police officers were virtually
by working-class neighborhood.
gathered outside and called for
exonerated in the beating of black
"The great sore of our society
"peace" and passage of a police
motorist Rodney G. King. It was
erupted this week, and we all have
overhaul measure on the June bal-
the largest death toll of any recent
to look at the pus. I guess the way
lot, Watson's aides distributed
urban riot, one more than the num-
to deal with it is to clean it up."
clothing, 1,500 loaves of bread and
ber who died in the Detroit riots of
Similar sentiments were ex-
cases of canned vegetables and
1967.
pressed by truck driver Christine
tuna-much of it contributed by
Nearly 2,000 persons were in-
Leslie, who is black, who wielded a
local grocery chains.
jured, 120 of them critically, and
shovel as part of the cleanup effort
Across the street stood the ruins
authorities said the death toll was
in a burned-out mini-mall. "I
of Crenshaw Square, a two-story of-
likely to climb as some of those crit-
wouldn't participate in looting," she
fice and retail center where dozens of
ically injured succumb. All fires
said. 7 would never participate in
volunteers wielded shovels, mops and
were reported extinguished today,
burning the community, and I saw
brooms in a determined effort to
but 1,800 firefighters remained on
so many mothers with their chil-
clean up broken glass and debris.
duty along with 5,000 state and lo-
dren giving them permission to
Many residents remained bitter
cal police and 6,000 National
steal and destroy other people's
at the verdict in the King case,
Guardamen. The 4,500 soldiers and
property."
which they said had triggered riots
Marines ordered out Friday by
Leslie had brought one of her
in an area that was ripe for them.
President Bush remained on stand-
three daughters with her from
South-central Los Angeles is pre-
by, but were not ordered out into
nearby Hawthorne "because I want
dominantly black, but with a fast-
the streets.
to always be a positive role model
growing Hispanic population, and it
Mayor Tom Bradley (D) said he
for my girls."
has been hard hit by the recession,
did not believe the federal troops
But not every one shared this
which is worse in Southern Califor-
would be needed and said that more
sentiment. While the cleanup was
nia than in much of the nation.
violence was unlikely. But be con-
proceeding, some residents flocked
"It was definitely inevitable," said
tinued a dusk-to-dawn curfew indef-
to impromptu markets set up by
Howard Barnes, a 27-year-old black
initely, saying it had helped to re-
looters to sell their goods for a frac-
store order in this troubled and ra-
tow truck driver from Inglewood
tion of what they would have cost in
cially divided city, the nation's sec-
who was participating in cleanup
the stores. For example, 20-inch
efforts. He said that the next riots
ond most populous.
color television sets sold for $30.
Bradley and Gov. Pete Wilson (R)
would be even worse unless the
also announced that former baseball
More than 6,300 people were ar-
economic troubles of the commu-
rested by police during the distur-
nity were addressed.
commissioner Peter Ueberroth
would head the city's recovery ef-
bances, most of them on looting
But unemployment is certain to
charges. They waited in courthouse
rise within the area because many
fort. Ueberroth said he intended to
holding cells today as a paperwork
of the stores that provided jobs for
"rebuild and make better" the city's
backup stalled efforts to arraign
local residents are gone. Estimates
sinking job base. Wilson said that
them.
of the economic damage topped
Bush had issued a federal disaster
Despite the end of the violence,
$500 million, eclipsing the losses in
proclamation that would make low-
life remains an ordeal throughout
the Watts riots. Most of the major
interest loans available to busi-
the riot area. Distraught residents
companies and factories in South-
nesses.
who had stayed at home behind
em California, which shut down for
Today, the emphasis was on re-
locked doors for the past three days
a long weekend Thursday, are ex-
building ravaged south-central Los
emerged warily to search for food
pected to reopen on Monday, at
Angeles, a 7-by-15-mile area larger
and diapers for their children. They
least for the daytime shifts.
than the District of Columbia. The
Wash. Post 05-03-92
2 2
Los Angeles County Coroner
Not all the good samaritans came
0
spokesman Bob Dambacher said
to the cleanup effort armed with
that 20 of those who died in the
violence were blacks, 11 were His-
brooms. Ann Poullion, a nurse and
panic whites, seven were non-His-
grandmother of 12, showed up at
panic whites and two were Asians.
the Dockweiler Post Office in the
The racial identity of the other four
south-central neighborhood with a
was victims was unknown.
wheelchair. She spent the morning
Thirty-two of the 44 deaths came
helping elderly and infirm residents
from gunshot wounds, seven of
make their way into the building
these from encounters with police.
where they picked up first-of-the-
Several of those critically injured
month Social Security checks and
other mail.
remained on life-support systems,
Dambacher said.
The post office was guarded by
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
One of the injured whose condi-
agents from San Diego and U.S.
tion was upgraded from critical to
postal inspectors, part of the 1,000
serious today was Reginald Denny,
riot-trained forces that Bush dis-
a 36-year-old white driver who was
patched here and the only federal
pulled from his truck and savagely
forces deployed.
beaten in the one of the first acts of
Federal officials were so confi-
violence Wednesday. The attack
dent that the situation was under
was captured by television cameras
control that they put additional re-
from a helicopter and widely shown.
inforcements on hold. These includ-
A spokesman at Daniel Freeman
ed an elite unit of Border Patrol
Memorial Hospital said there had
agents trained to handled civil dis-
been inquiries worldwide about the
turbances, which remained in San
condition of Denny, who was res-
Diego, and units of U.S. Park po-
cued by four black strangers who
lice, who were kept in San Francis-
braved the crowd to drive Denny
co and New York.
and his 18-wheel cement truck to
Staff writers Ruben Castaneda,
the hospital.
Lynne Duke, Al Kamen, Gary Lee,
The cleanup crews that worked
Carlos Sanchez and Avis
throughout the riot area today
Thomas-Lester and special
seemed oddly out of scale with the
correspondent Leef Smith
task at hand. Volunteers swept lit-
contributed to this report.
tle patches of sidewalk clean in the
midst of miles and miles of rubble.
Many of them recognized that what
they were doing was symbolic-but
said it was important symbolism for
the participants.
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Episcopal Church
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damaged cash registers.
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loss of stock at $200,000 and the
damage to his store at $50,000 and
counted himself lucky because his
store had an automatic sprinkler
system and did not burn down.
Cecil
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the have-nots. Imagine a President say-
ing: Just treat them with benign neglect
Murray
as one treats a recalcitrant puppy, one
that you don't want to be around. And
another saying, "Give it to the haves, and
it'll trickle down to the have-nots"? What
an absurd philosophy. And it could only
be endorsed and condoned in a racist
A Voice of Reason
atmosphere, because racism blinds peo-
ple. It did it in South Africa. It did it in the
in a Time of Troubles
U.S. South. It did in south Los Angeles
Just blindness.
Q: It's hard to comprehend what it means
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to be a 17-year-old living a block from your
church. What are the prospects? What are
the conditions?
A: Isn't that the truth: Where do I go at
n the first night of the riot, a building was burning a half-block away
17. angry, alienated, too little space at
from Pastor Cecil L (Chip) Murray's First AME Church, home of Los
home, little regularity, hypocrisy in the
Angeles' oldest black congregation. The fire, he recalls, "was burning
country, 60% unemployment rate, the
like Dante's inferno" threatening the 5,000 parishioners and community
chief cause of death in my age range is
leaders gathered in response to Murray's call for peace and justice.
homicide, the second-leading cause is
"We felt utterly helpless standing there, those 5,000 people at the
suicide. And so they'll tell you: "Might as
church meeting," the 62-year-old pastor said, his booming baritone
well die, die of something. Gotta die some
reduced to a sad whisper. "Soon the palm branches and the fronds
time-might as well go out young, make a
would catch; it would leap across the street. We would be consumed."
beautiful corpse," All of that-which is
Murray, 62, an ex-combat pilot and Claremont Ph.D., who has led his
just nihilism. It's death. And we can do
congregation for 15 years, does not easily accommodate the sense of feeling
better than that. If we despise our young,
helpless. When told the firemen would only come if guaranteed protection, he
we will not survive.
organized a group of more than 100 men to stand between them and the
bock-throwing rioters for over three hours. There was no blood shed.
Q: The way it's been reported in the
All in a night's work for someone who believes, "The church exists to set the
media it's made to seem that only a few bad
moral climate and moral program" for the community. But those are not the
apples, only G few punks, gang members.
words of some commercialized and ever-safe television preacher. Murray has a
But there seems to be a much wider range
long history in the trenches of his mid-City community, fighting to protect and
of rage out there.
educate a flock that extends far beyond his 7,500 parishionera. Some of them are
famous-like Arsenio Hall, who, during the riots, had Murray close his show
A: And I believe It's universal We saw
with a prayer for tolerance. But many of his followers are poor. These people
it in Beijing. We saw it at the Berlin Wall
are his main concern because, he explains, "It really takes an arrogant black
We saw it in South African apartheid. We
person to fail to see that There, but for the grace of God, go
see it in the United States. Nobody, in the
Murray is no pie-in-the-sky ameliorator of his people's discontents. His
late 1990s, is going to predominate over
capacity for outrage over the death blows of racism are never muted; they have
anybody else on's system of inequity. If
proved to be ever channeled and thoughtful. The night the jury in Simi Valley
the haves do not make room for the
debated their verdict in the Rodney G. King case, Murray, in a terribly prescient
have-nots, then nobody will have. No one
sermon, warned "Be cool Even in anger be cool. And if you're gonna burn
is going to be satisfied being spat upon or
something down, don't burn down the house of the victims, brother! Burn down
despised. However you do it. economical-
the Legislature! Burn down the courtroom. Burn it down by voting, brother!"
ly, emotionally, morally, deprivation of
His words did not still the night following the verdict. And while he
history, deprivation of culture, flaunting
understood the rage boiling up-he did not condone it: "Under no circumstances
yourself above someone else. Nobody's
will we pretend that the looting, the burning, the arson are excusable. They are
taking that any more; that day died.
totally inexcusable. And in the same breath that we say that, we must say this
miscegenation of justice in the court system in Simi Valley was injurious to us
Q: How do you answer those people who
all. It is inexcusable. And the system that condones it is inexcusable. So while
say, "Well, they had the opportunities, why
we're handing out blame, guilt and default, let's make sure we are an
didn't they use them; we just coddle them
equal-opportunity employer. The blame belongs to more than just the people
with welfare?'
burning.' It is sad that, only after nights of death and destruction, men of power
A: Lincoln said, "I feel sorry for the
might finally pay serious attention to Murray's message and to the community
man who can't feel the whip when it's on
that he so obviously loves.
another man's back." And that's white
America's fault and pain-it cannot feel
Q
mestion: Where are we this Sunday So you're saying this was not just rage
the whip on another person's back. Right
after days and nights of rioting?
'Over @ racist verdict?
now the economy's bad, and the plant
Answer: By Sunday, the armed
A: People don't burn down a city over a
layoffs and the $50,000-$60,000-a-year
might of the state will have been demon-
singular unique event. They burn down a
jobs are gone, and white America's in a
strated, and we will be at a different level,
city over 200 years of events.
red-hot rage. Suppose they'd had that for
I tend to think, one of smoldering ashes
two centuries? If the shoe had been on the
and smoldering resentments.
Q: But the mood in poorer urban
other foot, and the situation had been
Q: Do you see the violence and the fires as
communities seems to have become par-
reversed, this city would be smoldering
having an economic base?
ticularly desperate in the last few years.
ashes; white people would have burned it
A: I think everything in history is
A: I quite agree with you. For the vast
to the ground.
pulled by an economic engine: Our train
one-third below the poverty line, things
of thought is pulled by an economic
are worse than ever. You can't sustain
Q: But some things have changed since
engine. To pretend that you can be poor
yourself on $6,000 a year, $15,000 a year,
the Watts riots in terms of the black
and depressed and poor and racially
$18,000 a year. Now someone will say,
community. We have a black mayor, we
discriminated against without an explo-
"Does that give me the right to go out and
have some
sion sooner or later-that is Disneyland.
burn?" Of course not. And we're not
A: We have some 800 black elected
There is no such existence.
talking about right-we're talking about
officials at high-level positions and an-
Then, too, what's happened among our
reality. The people have been fed sour
other 800 at another. But one swallow
poor in this city and in America at large is
grapes and their teeth are set on edge.
does not make a spring. And that's the
we have a rising level of expectations. As
thing-it's a large degree of tokenism; the
long as they weren't exposed to some-
Q: But after the riots of the '60s, there
black bourgeoisie will make it anywhere.
thing better, then you could keep a slave
was the Kerner Commission and programs
They are the best of black and the best of
with a plantation mentality. But then
for change, including the War on Poverty.
white. But it is totally unfair to ask a
when the plantation-mentality slave sees
What went wrong?
person to fight all the odds. If someone
Paree, how you going to keep him down
fights the odds and wins, you proclaim
on the farm? People need a way to live.
A: We had 15 years of hope and then
that person a champion; that's what
Even our middle-income people need a
the reaction set in-Nixon, Reagan, Bush,
medals are for. But you cannot ask the
way. to live. Apparently, our lawmakers
trickle-down and benign neglect. If our
normal run-of-the-mill person to fight
need a way to live, given the way they've
leadership had get before us, courageous-
upstream like a salmon all of his life.
cheated on their check-writing: and our
ly and with vision, a dream, we would
billionaires who pay no taxes.
have been floating by now as a country.
But instead they pitted the haves against
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Q: Are you telling me that since Watts,
We have a unique opportunity in that
despite the riots that came after, and the
we do not have the unhealthiest climate
Kerner Commission and War on Poverty,
of opinion and finances in the world. It's
it has still been that kind of uphill swim?
workable. And the book is still being
A: It has certainly been. Look at what's
written-it's not closed-so that our rac-
happening to affirmative action now.
ist attitudes are not necessarily locked in.
Twenty years of affirmative action and
Out of this burning must obviously come a
it's struck down, just as some gains were
yearning for an agenda for the 21st
being made. The Civil Rights Act under
Century, to unite the 146 nations that
attack. Every gain whittled, step-by-
make up Los Angeles. We cannot afford
step-by-step, as if we're walking in
the smallness of our differences.
reverse, and anybody who's saying any-
thing else just doesn't know the facts.
Q: So what should people of good will,
Economically, what are we allowed to
who say what you're saying makes sense
own? Nothing. You try to produce, you
and they want to get with the program, do?
run across red-lining, you run across
A: Good, let us do something economi-
insurance no-can-get, you run across
cally. Let the white power-which is
bank loans no-can-get. We can own
magnificent once it gets to moving-it
nothing. And you want to know why the
can put a Hubble telescope in space and
rage?
look to the very beginnings of the uni-
verse; it can't find a way to open up
Q: Why can't you own?
5,000-10,000 job openings in Los Angeles?
A: Because of the financial setup of our
After the Nazis tried to kill us, we go
country. It isn't encouraged to advance
and revive Germany-and also Japan. It
can revive Korea, where our sons lie
money to blacks. It's by banks, the
buried beneath the soil? But it can't do
red-lining-and anybody who tells you
there's not redlining is obviously an
anything for the people here? Forty-six
founders of Los Angeles, 42 of them were
ingénue. Anybody knows that red-lining
Native Americans and African-Ameri-
is going on, blacks have no access to
cans. Pico Boulevard is named after the
capital.
late territorial governor of this territo-
Over the past year and half, we've been
ry-he was black. So we are part and
trying to rehab a number of properties
parcel of this community. Then, why
that we still have not been able to get the
aren't we allowed to take our righteous
money necessary to do that Look at the
share?
clips in your own LA. Times files on the
study by the federal government, which
Q: On Sunday, after people read this,
showed that even the same income levels
what should they go and do on Monday?
and credit histories, blacks get fewer
What should they be calling for?
loans than any other ethnic group.
A: White people of good intentions-
use your ingenuity to enable economical-
Q: How do we pick up the pieces?
ly the depressed communities of our city,
A: The problems are complex and our
whether they are black, Latino, Asian or
morals are no prayer books, but we're
white.
going by with scars and what we know,
But if you want to be specific, if you
and the problem is primarily economic.
want to help black people, help us find a
The problem is in the head of a white
way to redeem ourselves economically
person who is an orthodox economic
and dispel yourselves of the notion that
conservative. If only they could begin to
blacks are lazy or have no work ethic. We
see the potential in blacks and to see
have been working longer and harder and
blacks in the truer light.
without compensation than any other
Now we are set back a little bit more.
ethnicity in America. We are willing to
Every picture on television that shows
work, we are willing to walk through the
the people scene shows young black
door. But for goodness' sake, please
people looting-it's a part of the reality of
unlock it.
what's happening. It must be seen. But
there's nothing to offset that, because
that's all they've ever seen of blacks.
The truth of the matter is: I know we
have to be among the most law-abiding
Americana. I know black people do obey
the law because we live among each
other. Our criminal class is hard-core
criminal, but that's 3%, 4%, 5% of us. We
need a new vision in the eyesight of white
people. Then that will loosen up the purse
strings and the means of earning a living.
Q: Where do we go from here?
A: Now, in rebuilding. What we're
asking is an economic power base: using
federal, state, county, city resources to
create job training and jobs. That is
obviously a must. It is a necessity to
develop a Marshall Plan for Los Angeles.
That's not rhetoric; it is a necessity.
Now that L.A. has become a prototype
for the nation, we had better make this
prototype succeed, because every time
there's & flash point in LA, there will be
a flash point in Philadelphia, New York,
Detroit and Miami.
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HEADLINE: CITY RETURNS TO WORK, SCHOOL;
RECOVERY: FREEWAYS AND BUSES ARE ONCE AGAIN CROWDED AS THE DAY APPEARS TO 60
SMOOTHLY. BUSH ANNOUNCES LOANS AND GRANTS FOR REBUILDING.
BYLINE: By STEPHEN BRAUN and SHERYL STOLBERG, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
BODY:
With their street corners still guarded by rifle-toting soldiers and their
nerves less jittery but still frayed, Los Angeles residents went back to work
and school Monday as officials grappled with how to rebuild the city -- both
physically and emotionally -- in the wake of last week's riots.
Freeways, buses and trains were once again crowded. Most classrooms were
full, although school officials reported slightly higher than normal absentee
rates. Suit-clad men and well-dressed women returned to the streets of downtown.
Shoppers went back to the malls.
Despite the trauma that Los Angeles has experienced since the riots began
last Wednesday, the day appeared to go smoothly. But in neighborhoods across the
city, as people attempted to go about their daily routines, they experienced
changes subtle and profound. At every turn, there were constant, sometimes
painful, reminders of the devastation.
As one resident, spotting a snub-nosed Army helicopter flying over the
Federal Building in Westwood, put it: "Every time you think you are getting back
to normal, you see something that reminds you that it isn't quite yet."
In major developments Monday:
* President Bush said the federal government will make available $600 million
in loans and cash grants to help repair damage. At the same time, the White
House blamed "liberal programs of the '60s and '70s" for the upheaval, triggered
by last Wednesday's not guilty verdicts in the Rodney G. King police beating
case. The President's spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said that programs offering
"direct handouts" do not encourage people to improve their lives by owning
property and developing a stake in their community.
* Bush's likely Democratic opponent, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, toured
arson-stricken Koreatown and South Los Angeles and met with a variety of
government, civic and religious leaders. "I am convinced if we can heal the
wounds of racial division in this community, then we can do it anywhere,"
Clinton told a group of Latino activists.
* Mayor Tom Bradley stuck by his decision to lift the dusk-to-dawn curfew,
despite an incident Sunday night in which a National Guardsman shot and killed a
motorist. Long Beach officials extended their curfew for another night and are
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expected to reconvene today to decide whether to remove it.
* In a bid to generate business support for an effort to rebuild the inner
city, Gov. Pete Wilson met privately with 16 California corporate executives --
including representatives of four major financial institutions and three large
supermarket chains. And because of the rioting, Wilson extended the deadline for
Los Angeles County residents to register for the June 2 primary. The new
deadline is 5 p.m. Friday.
* Federal law enforcement experts dispatched to Los Angeles by Bush were sent
home Monday, as were police officers and sheriff's deputies from some Southern
California areas. But the National Guard, Army and Marine troops remained.
Although their status is to be re-evaluated Wednesday, Bradley said: "There is
no plan, no desire to withdraw them."
The coroner's office placed the death toll at 58 although local police
agencies disputed whether three of them are riot-related. Injuries have climbed
to 2,383 -- 228 of them critical The population of Los Angeles County jails
continued to swell as the arrest tally rose to 12,111. Property damage has been
estimated at $717 million.
* Prompted by tips from neighbors and shopkeepers, teams of police officers
searched scores of apartments in Hollywood and other communities and retrieved
truckload after truckload of stolen merchandise -- furniture with protective
cardboard still on it, microwaves with price tags inside and children's shoes
with anti-shoplifting devices still attached. Many residents, seeing the squads
of officers, readily handed over their newly gotten stereos or sofas, or
explained, "I found it in the street."
* Los Angeles city finances, already reeling from the recession, took another
blow in the rioting. Officials estimated that damage to city-owned property
totaled at least $15 million, mostly in burned electrical transformers, power
lines and utility poles. The city must also pay nearly $13 million for police
and firefighting efforts, mostly in overtime pay. Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky,
who heads the council's Budget and Finance Committee, said: "I feel like I'm the
captain of a sinking ship right now."
* There were long lines at state employment offices, as economists estimated
that at least 20,000 people were put out of work when their places of business
were looted or burned down. Said one newly unemployed man, dazed and fighting
tears as he waited in an unemployment line: "Let's put it this way. I'm too rich
to be on welfare and I'm too poor to take care of my family."
* Most schools across Los Angeles reopened for the first time since Thursday
amid stepped-up security. Teams of counselors helped students sort through mixed
emotions as morning classes -- from drama to Spanish -- delved into every
conceivable aspect of the rioting. School officials reported no unusual
discipline problems. "The energy level is low," one teacher explained. "They are
tired."
Back to the Grind
Los Angeles greeted the workweek with a brave face. For the most part,
parents went back to their jobs and sent their children back to class.
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Airport officials said operations resumed as usual. The California Highway
Patrol said traffic was normal and the Southern California Rapid Transit
District said bus service had been completely restored, although there were
occasional delays in South Los Angeles because of military vehicles and gawkers.
But behind this seeming return to calm, there was a sense that the fabric
binding the city together had been slashed and that the tattered edges were
being hastily glued together. Suddenly, the routines that usually start up on a
Monday -- going to work or school -- were no longer routine at all.
In Gardena, 29-year-old Gary Adelstein, whose family owns a company that
manufactures shower curtains, returned to work to find his business intact. But
at least eight of his customers had lost their businesses to arsonists, leaving
Adelstein wondering what he would do with the orders he expected to ship out.
Even more troubling, he said, were the new feelings he was experiencing about
traveling to visit his clients in the inner city.
"I'm so comfortable on those streets, getting out of the car and going
wherever," he said. "It took me a while to get used to that. Now, I wonder: Is
it safe to go out there and go in these stores?"
At Dorsey High School in South Los Angeles, students returned to find the
National Guard roaming the perimeter of their campus. A steady stream of civic
leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, paraded through the school, where the
gymnasium has been converted into a makeshift shelter for victims of the riots.
After an assembly, students dashed to classes, lined up at snack stands and
loitered around campus grounds in small groups, much as usual. But their
conversation was focused on one topic: the dramatic events of last week.
"I live in South-Central and the corner around my house is all burned out,"
said Kendra Trotter, 17, a junior. "I don't think it made a lot of sense. At one
store a man came out and opened the doors and told them they could take
everything but they still burned it down. Now we have to stand in line for three
hours or go out to places like Simi Valley or the Westside just to shop."
In the city's Pico-Union district, sidewalks teemed with morning shoppers and
nearby residents who for the first time were witnessing the extent of the
neighborhood devastation.
Women pushing strollers negotiated around piles of rubble; a crowd of about
50 lined up an hour early for the opening of a Security Pacific Bank. In a
neighborhood that has become a refuge for thousands of Central Americans fleeing
their own war-torn countries, the sight of smoldering shells of buildings jolted
their confidence in their adopted America.
Many stepped off buses confused and nearly speechless to find that the bank,
the market, the check-cashing shop were gone.
"People are trying to go about doing their normal business and act like they
are calm," said Eduardo Vega, 26, who moved to Los Angeles from Mexico City 12
years ago. "But everyone is nervous. The violence can come back at any moment."
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On the Metro Rail Blue Line, which passes through the heart of the riot-torn
area, ridership was heavy on Monday but there was a noticeable reduction in the
number of white and white-collar passengers.
A white woman from North Long Beach who rode the train to downtown Los
Angeles, where she works, said she thought twice before boarding. But she said
she felt the disturbances had sufficiently quieted.
"Sure, I had some second thoughts," said the young woman, who declined to
give her name. "Because of where it goes, you think twice. People I normally
ride with would not get on it today. I think some people saw that videotape of
that guy getting pulled out of his truck and beaten, and I think people had
concerns. But on the train itself, it was safe. I felt very safe."
Similarly, those who arrived in downtown Los Angeles on the 9:01 a.m. Amtrak
commuter train from Orange County said there were fewer passengers than usual.
It was easy to find spaces in the normally jammed parking lot.
Attorney Scott Hoyt,' a Yorba Linda resident, was on the train. Although he
was coming back to work, he said he had no plans to leave his office during the
day.
"Just as well," he explained. "Who knows if this thing might pop up again?"
Plans for Action:
As residents attempted to go about their daily routines, government officials
and business leaders began formulating a plan to rebuild the city's riot-scarred
neighborhoods.
President Bush dispatched a team of officials to the city to assess its needs
and announced $600 million in federal aid -- half in loans from the Small
Business Administration and half in grants from Federal Emergency Management
Agency. Bush is scheduled to visit LOS Angeles Thursday and plans to conduct an
inspection of the riot damage then.
In Sacramento, Gov. Wilson said representatives for four major financial
institutions -- Bank of America, Wells Fargo, First Interstate and Home Savings
-- have agreed to to provide financing for economic development in distressed
areas. Wilson also said three major food retailers -- including the owners of
the Vons, Ralphs and Food 4 Less chains - plan to repair and reopen any
supermarkets damaged during last week's disturbances.
Bank of America separately announced it would invest up to $25 million to
help get small businesses back in operation. The American Savings Bank in Irvine
announced it would donate $1 million to rebuild the worst-hit sections of the
city. And Glendale Federal Bank is committing $50 million in mortgage loans for
homeowners and apartment building owners rebuild.
Meanwhile, Assemblyman Art Torres (D-Los Angeles) proposed a 1/4-cent sales
tax increase to help fund the rebuilding effort and also to generate funds for
earthquake relief. The proposed 12-month statewide sales tax would raise $700
million to $800 million to rebuild Los Angeles and other devastated cities,
Torres said.
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Calling upon the state Legislature to hold a special session to consider a
plan for rebuilding the inner city, Torres said: "The Legislature must set a
standard for others to follow by acting immediately to rebuild and reinvest in
our urban centers."
Some local groups offered incentives for victimized merchants to remain in
South Los Angeles or other areas hard-hit by the rioting. The United Health
Plan, a health maintenance organization affiliated with the Watts Health
Foundation, will notify its 82,000 subscribers this week that premiums on
employees' health insurance will be deferred for six months If their businesses
were disrupted by arson or looting.
In addition, two ministers and the owner of several fast food franchises
announced plans to turn a former technical school across from the Sports Arena
on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard into a temporary, mega-supermarket where
scores of victimized merchants could sell their wares as they rebuild, and where
residents whose local markets were destroyed could shop.
Vending stalls for the merchants would be offered free of charge in the
former National Technical Schools, which has 80,000 square feet of space
available.
Just as those plans for action were announced, however, federal and local
officials continued bickering over who was to blame for last week's mayhem and
how it was handled.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley continued to question the Police
Department's slow response to the violence and why, on the night the riots broke
out, outgoing Police Chief Daryl F. Gates attended a Brentwood fund-raiser to
defeat Proposition F, the June 2 police reform ballot measure.
A spokesman for Bradley said the mayor also thought that Gates' "personal
ego" had stopped him from calling for federal troops sooner. The mayor has asked
the Police Commission to conduct an inquiry into the department's entire
response to the disaster, spokesman Bill Chandler said.
In addition, Bradley on Monday disclosed that, because of high tensions
between himself and the chief, he had not spoken directly with Gates in the 13
months preceding the first night of last week's riots. Instead, Bradley said he
communicated with the department through the Police Commission and deputy
chiefs.
The Troops
Federal law enforcement experts sent to Los Angeles by President Bush were
sent home Monday, as were police officers and sheriff's deputies from some
Southern California areas.
But even as they left, active U.S. Army troops hit the streets of Los Angeles
for the first time, moving out from the staging area in E1 Monte where they had
been sent the day before to await instructions.
As the Army units fanned out, they replaced weary National Guard troops in
some areas. The Guard added a mobile patrol to their contingent, and were
preparing to respond to emergencies in areas where the LAPD requested support.
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Those units went on call as sunset approached and the curfew was lifted.
There were few incidents Monday, but tensions remained high as everyday
street crimes jangled the nerves of military and civilian authorities guarding
against new outbreaks of rioting.
The FBI, for instance, was so concerned about rumors that it is dropping its
civil rights probe of the King beating that it issued a press statement. The
investigation, the statement stressed, "has been given the highest priority."
On the streets, there were several unconfirmed reports of sniper attacks on
Monday. In one incident near Koreatown, police barricaded a four-block area at
Normandie Avenue and 3rd Street after an auto theft suspect, armed with a
shotgun, blew out the back window of a car driven by a young Korean woman, who
was uninjured. He then holed up in an underground parking garage, firing one
errant shot at police. The man was arrested.
Police did not link the incident to the riot, although it did cause major
traffic jams throughout the Koreatown area, as anxiety-ridden residents crowded
around police lines.
Tensions were ratcheted up another notch by a shooting from Sunday night, in
which a National Guard contingent shot and killed a man who allegedly ran one of
their barricades and made several attempts to run over the Guard. members with
his Datsun 280Z. The shooting marked the first time a citizen had been struck by
military gunfire since the troops arrived Thursday.
The LAPD and military authorities both launched investigations, but officials
said that the preliminary inquiries indicated that the Guardsmen acted within
their authority. According to military rules of engagement, Guard members have
the right to kill a person who threatens their lives or the lives of others.
Despite that shooting, Bradley lifted the curfew as promised, and said that
military troops would remain in the city to guard against new violence.
"Those troops are here until we ask them to leave," Bradley said at a morning
news conference. "You can be sure we're going to be very careful about when
there's a de-escalation in the troop assignment."
Officials close to the mayor said they expect the troops to remain in the
city at least through Wednesday. Military experts predicted that the Army and
Marine units would probably be the first to leave the city, and that Guard units
would probably stay longer because they have the most training in fighting civil
disturbances.
Anxieties Persist
For many residents, there were lingering fears.
Although the curfew had been lifted, some normally bustling areas of the city
were unusually quiet. Along Hollywood Boulevard, which had been hit hard by
arsonists and looters, movie theaters remained empty and foot traffic was light
signs that people were still nervous.
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On trendy Melrose Avenue, most shops closed early and some were still boarded
up. Restaurants, one of the street's main evening attractions, were having
trouble filling their tables.
Kezia Schulhof, 29, a secretary out eating ice cream with her boyfriend, said
she welcomed the lifting of the curfew. But the lifeless atmosphere on the
street troubled her. "It seems like a spirit has been broken," she said.
"There's a real quietness."
In the daytime, nerves were jangled as well. When police barricaded her
Koreatown neighborhood in search of the shotgun-wielding suspect, Mary Kunitake,
79, took cover near her balcony and trembled from the thunderous sounds of
helicopters overhead. For the Japanese-American woman, the chaotic scenes of
fires, looting, sirens and soldiers, and now a barricade, yanked her memory back
to her life in Japan during World War II.
"Every time I hear the helicopters I think of the B-29s. I am reliving the
war years,' she said. "The world is upside-down. I don't think I will ever feel
safe again."
At the home of Roy and Laverne Walker, who live just blocks from the South
Los Angeles intersection where the rioting started last week, the phones worked
again and electricity had finally been restored. Their gardener showed up, as
did the mailman.
But the black, middle-class couple remained deeply troubled. Roy, a state
police officer, and Laverne said they were seriously thinking of moving to the
suburbs -- to outposts as far away as the Antelope Valley and even Simi Valley,
an area known to be relatively crime-free. It is also where a jury with no black
members returned the not guilty verdicts against the police officers accused of
assaulting Rodney G. King.
"There's a sense of violation," Laverne Walker said of her neighborhood, as
she tended their 21-month-old child, Saida. "All of a sudden the people in the
neighborhood seem like strangers. They people I've never seen before.
At Union Station, Liliana Cabrera of Mission Viejo had just arrived on the
morning train and was waiting for a shuttle bus to take her to work. Constantly
looking around and startled by sirens, Cabrera was clearly edgy.
"Of course, I'm nervous. I didn't know how it would be," said Cabrera, who
has not been in the city since Thursday. "I'm real worried about snipers -- I
read about them in the paper and you never know when one could pop up."
At the same time, in many corners of the city there was a growing sense that
with the large military presence, Los Angeles was for the first time in years
safe from the gangbangers and other criminals.
"I welcome those soldiers," said Jim Weber, a real estate agent in the
hard-hit West Adams area. "Right now, with the Guard all around and the Marines
and the police and the Highway Patrol, they should have this many people in the
city all the time. Why should this crime be considered OK?"
For many, one of the most enduring and frightening images of the riots was
the videotaped assault on Reginald 0. Denny, 36, the white truck driver who
in
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was rescued by four black Good Samaritans. On Monday, his hospital social worker
told him for the first time about the enormity of the rioting and how he has
become a symbol of the racial violence.
Denny suffered severe head injuries in the beating and was unable to talk
until Monday afternoon. Prior to that, he communicated to social worker Cecily
Kahn through notes.
"I'm just a regular guy," Denny wrote in one. "I was just doing my job. I've
gone down that street a thousand times. I work. I go home. I don't want to be
famous."
The Toll
As of 9:30 p.m. Monday, authorities reported the following:
Deaths: 58
Injuries: 2,383, including 228 critical. Among the injured are 10
firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers.
]
Fires: More than 7,000 responses.
* Arrests: 12,111
* Damage estimate: $717 million, excluding Long Beach; 5,273 buildings
damaged or destroyed, including at least 1,600 severely damaged or burned
businesses; 3,100 businesses affected by rioting or looting.
* BLAMING LIBERALS: The White House blamed liberals' programs for riots. A9
* BUSH'S SUPPORT FALLS: The riots reduced support for the President, a poll
found. A9
* RELATED STORIES, PICTURES: A3-A20; B1-B3
GRAPHIC: Photo, COLOR, A businessman passes National Guardsmen on watch at a
Pacific Bell building at 5th and Olive streets. JOE KENNEDY / Los Angeles Times
TYPE: Infobox
SUBJECT: RIOTS -- LOS ANGELES; LOS ANGELES -- SCHOOLS; LOS ANGELES -- FEDERAL
AID; BUSH, GEORGE; GATES, DARYL F; LOS ANGELES -- PUBLIC FACILITIES; CLINTON,
BILL; BRADLEY, TOM; CURFEWS; PROPERTY DAMAGE; STATISTICS; CASUALTIES; FIRES;
ARRESTS; LOS ANGELES -- RECONSTRUCTION; LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT; RACIAL
RELATIONS -- LOS ANGELES
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MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
BOB SIMON
SUBJECT:
L.A. INFO
Military involved: 1,910 regular Army from 7th Infantry
Division at Ft. Ord; 9,727 from 40th Division of the
California National Guard; 1,556 Marines from 1st Marine
Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton. Some of the Marines
served in Kuwait. Most of these troops are not on the
streets at once, but respond to specific requests for
protection from police. Nat'l Guard went on duty Fri. 5/1
p.m. Marines and Army weren't on streets until Sat. 5/2.
NBC Nightly News, Fri. May 1
An unidentified black business owner, about 50 years old,
was shown crying with anguish to a mostly black crowd in
front of his store which had been burned and looted. He
cried to them: "It's not right! It's not right what you're
doing. I came from the ghetto too. Why destroy my store.
I tried to make it. Can't you understand what you've done?"
CBS Evening News, Fri. May 1
A black boy named Rudy Campbell was interviewed. He looked
like he was 7 or 8. His father had been murdered years
before and he lives with his older sister in South Central.
Asked about the violence, he said, "I think it's stupid.
People were pulled out of their cars and beaten like they
didn't know them. It's like beating up your own brother or
sister.' Asked about the looters, he said, "They should
know what's right and wrong, because when I was four, that's
when I learned." His greatest fear through all the fires
and gunshots was that his school would be burned. It
wasn't.
From USDA: The following food has been delivered from
federal stockpiles for infants and young children: 27,000
boxes of rice cereal, 1,500 boxes of dried milk, 58,000 cans
of infant formula. This is to be distributed by local
authorities.
tore through Los Angeles after the Rodney
office.
as the stabbing death of 51-year-
Many ric
W
old Lucie Marionian in Altadena
G. King verdicts were announced?
"So it doesn't necessarily mean they
fully inve
"I don't see that it was," said Lt. Joe
have to be dead in the riot zone," he said.
More conc
really riot-related?
Brown, who investigated the case for the
Some authorities are raising that ques-
"Did other people take advantage of the
lence, det
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
tion about her death and about the deaths
riot situation? Would they have died if the
conduct W
Of the 58 listed as having died in the riot,
riot had not occurred?"
hour inves
of several others listed in the toll from the
most are black and Hispanic men; only
The definition, said Dambacher, is clear-
And in son
Los Angeles rioting, which stood at 58
seven are women. Among the 50 male
cut. "It's not confusing to us, but (it is] to
been oblite
Tuesday.
victims, 20 are black; 18 are Hispanic: nine
police who may not feel it's a riot-related
"A lot
On the day of her death, there was no
white: and two Asian. One male corpse was
death."
riot-relate
riot-related unrest in Altadena. In fact.
burned so badly that ethnic origin could
Several shooting deaths listed as riot-re-
investigati
Marionian's slaying is considered an isolat-
not be determined, and the gender of
lated are in dispute, including:
tland. capt
ed incident.
another corpse could not be determined.
Those of an unidentified black man on
the Los At
At 1:55 p.m. Friday, a group of black
Of the women, five are black; one is
Thursday at 614 S. Locust Ave. in Comp-
bery and
teen-agers chased Marionian's 14-year-old
white and one Hispanic. Marionian is one of
ton: Edward Travens, 15, in the San
tendency Li
Still Reaching Out
LA
TIMES
5/6/92
Aid: A free food
distribution center,
Project Reach, was
burned out in the riots.
The needy ask: Why?
By TAMMERLIN DRUMMOND
TIMES STAFF WRITER
E
very fourth Saturday-like
clockwork, volunteers
the Project Reach food dis-
tribution center on Western Av-
enue would hand out free butter,
cornmeal, canned fruit and other
staples to the hungry.
There was one line for the
elderly and the handicapped. an-
other for women with children-
some of whom began camping
out as early as 5:30 a.m. waiting
for the center to open its doors.
Funded by Hubert Cowart
retired black aerospace worker,
the program provided free food
to more than 1,000 people a
month, many of them Korean-
Americans.
But today, all that remains of
ALSEIB / Los Angeles Times
the warehouse at 51st Street and
Hubert Cowart, left, director of Operation Reach, with son Gardell amid the rubble of their offices.
Western Avenues is a tangled
mess of wrought iron and
same building."
said Rosie Crump. a 69-year-old
month-old foster daughter's
charred metal pipes with a for-
Cowart, who worked as a hy-
volunteer. "He never turned
head from the sun, she sifted
sale sign posted out front. And
draulics specialist in the aero-
anyone away, regardless of race,
through the varieties of bread.
those who came to depend upon
space industry for 34 years, and
color or creed."
"We were just driving down
the free food to tide their families
his wife, LaBlanche, 50, started
Robert Heroux, 41, who tries to
the street trying to find a church
over when cabinets were bare
out small about 20 years ago,
earn a living working a variety of
that was giving out food." said
were left angrily pondering the
giving away food from the ga-
odd jobs, was one. But sometimes
the woman, giving her name as
same question: Why?
rage of their Watts home. About
he just cannot make it. That was
Sandra. "We're all a little short
"I knew women who would
10 years ago, they set up shop in
when he knew he could count on
and we're the only ones in our
have had to send their kids to bed
the rented warehouse on West-
Project Reach.
neighborhood with transporta-
hungry if they didn't come here,"
ern Avenue.
"I would come here when I
tion so we're getting stuff for the
said Connie, 43, a mother of two
Without any outside financial
didn't have no money," said Her-
others, too."
who declined to give her last
assistance, the couple would
oux. "This man used to be here
Viola Silvile, 75. a Project
name. "They filled a real need in
scour the regional food banks and
24-7 trying to help people-giv-
Reach volunteer who had
this community. Now where are
other social service agencies for
ing them food. And look what
stopped by to offer help, won-
people going to go?"
food. Cowart estimates that it
they did."
dered where people will turn if
Cowart, 52, who had tapped his
costs him thousands of dollars a
On Tuesday, Cowart returned
Cowart is unable to reopen.
savings to run the food bank,
year to keep the operation run-
to the gutted shell with a truck-
"There are a lot of people who
struggled to make sense of the
ning.
load of bread, which he distrib-
are really in need and unless
destruction Tuesday as he
"It's not how much you give
utes twice a week. He sat out
they can find someplace else to
plucked charred cans of Carna-
but what you give. You don't
front for most of the day handing
go, I don't know what's going to
tion milk and coffee from the
have to be rich to help people,"
out pumpernickel, hamburger
happen," Silvile said. "I told one
ashes.
Cowart said. "It's just that in-
rolls and bagels to the men,
lady the other day after I found
stead of living in the Bahamas,
women and children who arrived
out it had burned down: 'Oh no,
B
esides Project Reach, the
we're living in Watts."
by the dozens.
it's all over.' But then she said
two-story building housed a
A fixture in the community for
that knowing him, maybe he'll
garment shop, a children's cloth-
the last decade, Project Reach
ome had been driving all day
eventually find some way of
ing store, a beauty shop and a
served people not only in Los
searching for free food at
getting things back."
market. The occupants had been
Angeles, but Compton, Long
churches and other organiza-
But for now, the Cowarts are
African-Americans, Latinos and
Beach and surrounding areas.
tions.
just taking one day at a time.
Korean-Americans. Cowart be-
Every fourth Saturday, they
When they saw the open truck
"Right now we're working out
lieves the target of the burning
came: elderly Korean-American
chock-full of bread, car after car
of our trucks until we can hope-
was the market run by Korean-
women, Latinos, African-Ameri-
abruptly swerved over to the
fully get some money together
Americans.
cans and Anglos.
side of the road to ask if it was
and locate another building." La-
"The way I see it, they didn't
"We'd have flour, cornmeal,
free.
Blanche Cowart said.
burn my business down Thurs-
green vegetables, corn, peas
They included a 38-year-old
"We're going to have to start
day," Cowart said. "They burned
string beans-just stuff for peo-
woman from South-Central Los
from the ground up
but
a friend of mine's place down-a
ple to put on the shelves so they
Angeles who pulled up in a
we're not going to roll over and
Korean who ran a market in the
would have something to eat,"
pickup truck. Shielding her 1-
play dead."
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
'No One Else Made
a Move to Help'
By JOHN MITCHELL
One man stood in the middle of
TIMES STAFF WRITER
the street warning motorists to
turn back. "There's a riot down
From the moment I saw Tam
there!" he yelled. "You don't want
Tran kneeling on the ground
to go down there."
bleeding profusely from a deep
At one point a car stopped next
gash on her check, I knew some-
to mine and the driver mouthed
thing had to be done to help her.
obscenities at Tran. 1 realized that
Someone had thrown a brick
we weren't out of danger and told
through her car window as she
her to duck down.
drove near Normandie and Flor-
Until then I thought that since I
ence avenues Wednesday night.
am a black man we would have no
She had stumbled from her car and
was on her knees as I drove up to
trouble getting out of the area.
cover nearby looting and violence
The hospital emergency room
was filled with other victims. A
in the wake of the not guilty
verdicts in the Rodney G. King
postman, a truck driver, a law
beating trial.
student and a reporter for United
Her car had come to E stop on the
Press International. All had either
sidewalk and several of the win-
been pulled from their cara, hit
dows were broken. Anger was
with thrown objects or kicked.
clearly in the air, an atmosphere 1
Several residents had driven
had seen earlier as I approached
them to safety.
the Intersection. People were
Tran. still stunned. didn't have
shouting and throwing rocks, and I
much to say after she was treated
had seen an attack on the driver
for the gash on her head and cuts
directly in front of me.
on her hands.
As a crowd began to form around
"They threw I brick though my
the stunned Tran, it seemed that
window, took my purse, my wallet
there was a brief opportunity to get
and all my papers," said Tran, who
her to safety.
left Vietnam two years ago by boat
A woman rushed to her side and
with her grandparents. "Can I go
screamed: "You need to get out of
back tonight and get my car?"
here. If you don't get out of here
asked Tran, a manicurist who
they will kill you"
works in South-Central Los An-
No one else in the crowd made a
geles
move to help and there wasn't a
"I don't think you want to get
policeman in sight.
your car tonight," 1 said.
As a reporter, I'm trained to not
"I'm not upset or angry," family
involve myself personally in a
member Duong Nguyen said. "I
story, but it was clear that if
just don't understand why it hap-
someone didn't act, Tran might
pened. She got caught in the mid-
have been more seriously injured.
die of something."
So I helped her to my car and we
By this time, hospital officials
drove to Daniel Freeman Hospital
had figured out that X Was a
in ride. Inglewood. It was 2 frightening
reporter and they asked me to
leave.
Los Angeles Ends Curfew,
But Tensions Remain High
By ROBERT REINHOLD
5/5/92
Special to The New York Times
LOS ANGELES, May 4 - The au-
Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, the Dem-
thorities ended four days of curfew in
ocratic Presidential candidate, and
1.08 Angeles today as the schools, pub-
Kim Dae Jung. the leader of the opposi-
lic libraries and banks reopened. But
tion party in South Korea, both of
tensions remained palpable, and there
whom toured the Koreatown neighbor-
was no move to reduce the presence of
hood, which was badly damaged by
the police and heavily armed National
rioters and arsonists. Gov. Pete Wilson
Guards in the streets.
discussed rebuilding plans with execu-
But despite the appearance of calm,
tives from several major California
the police and troops, cradling auto-
companies, Including the Bank of
matic weapons, maintained a high
America, Wells Fargo, Arca, Pacific
alert for the possibility of more trouble
Enterprises and Ralph's and Vons, two
tonight. "We are remaining on top alert
large supermarket chains. All had out-
because we are not convinced it's
lets burned and looted.
over,' said Stanley K. Sheinbaum,
Normal postal deliveries and bus
president of the Police Commission,
service resumed in the hard-hit South-
which oversees the Police Department.
Central area as clean-up efforts pro-
About 6,000 guard, marine and Army
gressed throughout parts of the city
troops were deployed on the streets,
and adjoining communities hit hardest
with another 3,000 or so standing by in
by the riots. Air service to Los Angeles
armories.
International Airport returned to about
The five-member commission began
normal, with planes again permitted to
to gather facts about why the police
begin their landing approach over In-
responded so slowly when the dis-
glewood, a suburb near the airport
orders first broke out last Wednesday
where there was considerable gunfire
evening. Among the questions to be
and arson during the riots. The courts
reached near the breaking point trying
to arraign arrested people.
Police officers
Tally of Dead Grows to 58
Wilson/ The New York Times
Some in the affluent movie Industry
A man who had worked as a painter's helper stood in a burned-out paint store where he used to get day jobs in South-Central Los Angeles.
and troops
began to organize relief efforts. The
actress Lindsay Wagner spent the day
outside Gelson's, an upscale grocery
pace," sald Marcia Skoinik, a spokes-
mined. Col. Bob Brandt, assistant dis-
can-American, Korean and Armenian
ty," said Stephen Costello, a consultant
remain deployed
store in the exclusive Pacific Palisades
woman for the court. "We may get
trict commander of the 40th Division of
neighborhoods merge. The corner was
who is helping the delegation. "We're
area about. 15 miles from the worst
through It the end of the week. We've
the California National Guard, arrived
bustling with commuters getting on
very interested in maintaining a sensi-
in the streets.
rioting, asking for donations of food
hit overload. The sheer volume is a
to Inspect the scene. "Soldiers are un-
busses and street vendors, as If the
tivity to the Korean-black tensions in
from shoppers.
huge obstacle."
der very strict rules on when they can
shops were not mostly reduced to
town."
The tally of dead grew to 58 today,
Mayor Bradley said the National
fire and when they can even load their
blackened cinders, metal security
Mr. Kim had a private meeting
said the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Guard and Federal troops, which in-
weapons because we, more than any.
gates hanging askew.
scheduled with Mayor Bradley this at-
clude Army and Marine units, would
one else, do not want to have an unnec-
For several blocks around, the com-
ternoon.
examined, Mr. Sheinbaum said, was
Department. Many of the latest deaths
why Chief Daryl F. Gates left police
were the result of injuries suffured
remain until further notice. "There is
essary shooting,' he said.
mercial strips bore the signs of the
School children returned to classes
headquarters for about an hour and a
during the worst of the riots on
no plan, no desire to withdraw them,"
Business owners Call: over the city
scattershot devastation. Jeno's Pizza
in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Inglewood,
half that evening to attend a political
Wednesday and Thursday. In addition,
he said. 'Those troops are here until
were surveying the damage and trying
and an adjoined dry cleaner and beau-
Hawthorne, Compton, Beverly Hills
fund-raising event in Brentwood, about
since 6 P.M. on Wednesday there have
we ask them to leave. We're going to be
to reopen. Javier Rodriquez, an Insur-
ty shop were burned out, but the North-
and in most parochial schools run by
11 miles from where the violence was
been 2,383 injuries, 11,656 arrests, 5,808
very careful about when there's going
ance broker, spent the morning exam-
western Plaza, a strip of a dozen Kore-
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los
erupting. The commission does not
fire calls and an estimated $717 million
to be a de-escalation of troop assign-
ining a drug store in the
an-run business, was untouched.
Angeles. Also reopening today were all
have the power to remove the chief.
in property damage in Los Angeles and
ments."
Watts area. He said the owner, Peter
Les Markley and his son, Rob, own.
major universities In the area.
other nearby cities.
But the Mayor said he felt comfort-
Martinez, a Mexican immigrant, had
ers of Atlas furniture, were working on
While Los Angeles, West Hollywood,
"Things Are Under Control'
The pattern of arrests illustrates the
able about lifting the dusk-to-dawn cur:
chased off looters with a gun as they
their looted shop by candle light. "We
Beverly Hills and most other nearby
After several days during which
changing rhythm of the disorders and
few. "I have no anxiety about it," he
were trying to burn the store:
don't know where to start to clean up,'
cities ended their curfews today, the
many businesses were shut, office
the police response. There were about
said. "I heard enough on Sunday that I
"It's going to be very hard to find a
sald the father, standing amid shat-
City of Long Beach extended its curfew
workers, shop clerks, lawyers and
4,000 arrests in the first frenzied 36
felt that 1 could safely lift that order."
company willing to come back in to
tered cabinets and the couches that
at least one more night. That city,
thousands of other employees filtered
hours after the first outbreak of unrest.
Mr. Bradley said fires were at a nor-
Insure these places," he said.
were not dragged off by looters. The
about 25 miles south of downtown Los
back into the city for the new work-
There were 2,000 more arrests from
mel level and that a "nominal" 41
shop lost all its televisions and elec-
Angeles, experienced continued Incl-
week. In the surest sign of normality in
Friday morning to Saturday morning,
arrests were made overnight in the
Back to Daily Routine
tronic office equipment and every
dents of shooting and looting over the
Southern California, the freeways were
and then 3,139 from Saturday to Sun-
city.
lamp. The Markleys found 20 pairs of
weekend.
There were some positive signs;
again clogged this morning under hazy
day morning as the military presence
But there was one major Incident on
though. Mr. Rodriquez said one woman
shoes Inside, though, apparently left by
With its police system strained to the
smoggy sky.
built, and then the arrests dropped
Sunday night in which National Guard
a looter who found a couch or television
had approached Mr. Martinez, the shop
maximum, Los Angeles was also hav-
"Things are under control," said
back to 2,340 from Sunday morning to
troops shot and killed a motorist that
worth more than the shoes stolen from
owner, and returned some looted mer-
ing to prepare this week for a visit
Mayor Tom Bradley on the fifth day
this morning as calm returned.
they said tried to run them over. Guard
another store.
from President Bush on Thursday. Inl-
chandise.
after the acquittal of four white policed
With the county jalls nearing their
troops posted at the corner of Vermont
After having closed for several days,
Nearby in Koreatown, Mr. Kim, the
tial response from the mostly liberal
officers in the beating of a black motor-
legal capacity of 25,488, the courts were
Avenue and Pice Boulevard said a man
Korean opposition leader, toured the
Democratic leadership of the city was
banks In the Los Angeles area mostly
1st, Rodney G. King. set off waves of
overwhelmed trying to process defend-
driving a Nissan 280z drove the car
area with eight members of the Korean
unfavorable. "If this Is simply another
reopened today.
murder, looting and arson in the na-
ants. The Los Angeles Municipal Court
directly at them about 7:40 P.M. They
Parliament from his Democratic Par-
law-and-order speech without any re-
tion's "As much as
arraigned only 750 felony and misde-
said they avoided him, but he went
Several miles away in Hollywood,
ty to examine the tensions between
sources to deal with the problems,"
possible we number this city to
impects
around the block and came. at than
merchants near the corner of Santa
Korean-Americans and blacks.
said Rita Walters, who represents
normalcy. We
again, at which point three guardsmen
Manica Boulevard and Western Ave
"Mr. Kim is coming to express sym-
much of South-Central Los Angeles on
to feel secure
opened fire, killing the driver.
nue were sweeping up glass and getting
pathy with those in the larger commu-
the City Council, "then he could have
It
was
a
day
of
The Identity of therdead mas or his
estimates to tear down fire-gutted
nity who have suffered in the violence,
stayed In Washington as far as I'm
Los Angeles, which got a visit from
obviously have to pick up the
motive could not be immediately deter-
buildings in this section where Mexi-
particularly In the Korean communi-
concerned.
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night wasn't real," he said:
"This is real."
Teresa Martinez-The
seafood restaurant and taco
stand owner served food to
LOS ANGELES TIMES
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1992
C3
volunteers cleaning the debris
outside her places of
business.
Rev. Cecil (Chip)
Murray-His First AME
Church was the hub of positive
energy and the home of a Red
Cross disaster shelter and food
center.
Yong J. Cha-The reporter
for radio station KCB was one
of many broadcasters who kept
Koreatown residents informed
Edward James Olmos Olden Polynice
Rev. Cecil Murray
about developments during the
riots and helped to organize the
rally at Ardmore Park.
ALLAN MALAMUD
Michele Kaemmerer-She is
the captain of a fire company
Notes ona Scorecard
that encountered automatic
weapons fire and also had
cartridges exploding around it
while trying to douse flames at
an ammunition shop.
T
oday is not business as
usual. Slam dunks, home
Michael Struwberry-The
Bill Smith-The Long Beach
runs and hat tricks are
LAPD officer was attempting
for another column. This one is
to restore order on the streets
Press Telegram employee
of his hometown when he was
helped an elderly woman flee a
about real heroes. Here are
wounded by gunfire. "Michael
burning apartment building in
some of those who have
touched my heart the past few
was my rock," said his brother
downtown Long Beach.
days:
Darryl. the Dodger outfielder,
Jeff Kramer's
about their days growing up in
Kevin Evanahen-The
rescuers-After calling
the Crenshaw district.
24-year-old Ingiewood man
paramedics and waiting 30
was killed trying to save a store
Scott Miller-The firefighter
minutes, a South Central L.A.
was shot in the cheek while
from burning down when the
family covered the free-lance
roof on which he was standing
riding on a fire truck.
reporter, who was bleeding
collapsed.
Olden Polynice-The Clipper
from gunshot wounds, with a
Edward James Olmos-The
center lent his 7-foot,
blanket to conceal his identity
actor. director and activist
250-pound presence to the
and drove him through the
began the cleanup campaign on
cleanup effort near the Sports
neighborhood until they were
Arena, where his team had
Western Avenue Friday and
able to get help from the
worked virtually around the
been scheduled to play the
police
Utah Jazz
clock after spreading his
James Ogino-The manager
Robert Casteel-The
message on numerous
television stations Thursday.
of the Ralph's market at
heavy-equipment operator
Olmos' concerns about civil
Olympic Boulevard and
used a water-sprayer tank
rights were expressed long
Western Avenue kept his store
trunk to wash curbs and
before the Rodney King
open, under the most difficult
sidewalks in front of the
verdict.
circumstances, to serve people
Crenshaw Square shopping
who were "begging us to do
center.
T.J. Murphy and Tee
Barnett-Along with two other
something to help them."
Roy Harvey-He helped to
black people, they rescued
Tom Petty-The rock singer
recorded "Peace In LA"
direct traffic at a busy
white truck driver Reginald
intersection in South Central
Oliver Denny and drove him to
Elmore Dingle-The
L.A. after the traffic lights
safety in his 18-wheeler after
31-year-old black man helped
went down.
Denny was nearly beaten to
to clean up a mini-mall in.
death Wednesday night.
Koreatown. "The violence last
Toetuu Moama-The airline
Dr. Leslie Geiger-The
cargo agent from Inglewood
neurosurgeon performed
and his entire, eight-member
surgery on Denny at Daniel
Tongan-American family
Freeman Hospital to repair a
spent Saturday afternoon
skull fracture and remove a
working with the
broom-and-shovel
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1.1
blood clot.
broom-and-snovel
brigade.
Valerie Newfteld-The nurse
was about to leave Wednesday
Rev. James T.
night when the emergency
Thompson-The associate
room at Daniel Freeman
minister of the Alpha and
became inundated with riot
Omega Baptist Church was one
victims. She stayed and
of about 40 clergymen who
worked until the next morning.
helped avert what had been
Her shift lasted 22½
hours.
shaping up as a confrontation
between an angry crowd of
Hm Brown-The Hall of
youths and police officers on
Fame football player needed no
directions to South Central
West Adams soon after rioting
LA. where he has spent so
began Wednesday night.
much of his time the past few
Lhave lived in Los Angeles
years trying to improve the
all my life. Too much of what
economy.
has happened the past week
has embarrassed me. But much
has made me feel proud, too.
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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1992
Street Drama
Actor Edward James Olmos Plays Leading Role in Cleanup Effort
By TRACY WILKINSON
TIMES STAFF WRITER
ment, Olmos managed to inspire
'Eddie, to me, he's the
numerous people to take a broom
T
he Sikh man in the purple
to the streets. Perhaps it is fitting
turban and gray beard smiled
Pied Piper. He walks his
that in celebrity-worshiping Los
broadly and rushed to shake
talk.'
Angeles, it takes an actor to mobi-
the hand of Edward James Olmos.
Lize people.
"We saw you on TV!" he said.
But it may say more about the
"We were so impressed!" He had
STEVE VALDIVIA
sterile void that out-of-touch poll-
driven from Orange County with
About Edward James Olmos
ticlans have created.
20 other Sikhs to join in sweeping
"He was out there. pushing a
rubble from the streets of Los
broom, and I said: 'Why not?" said
Angeles.
Michael Haysom, who sells Merce-
A Latino youth. his face covered with soot from a
des-Bens parts in Buena Park. "The way his words
burned-out mini-mall that he was helping clean,
were, it didn't seem he was talking from his ego."
sidled up to Olmos. "Man." he whispered into the
"Eddie, to me, he's the Pied Piper," said Olmos'
actor's ear, "I was praying someone would speak to us.
friend Steve Valdivia, who runs a gang-rehabilitation
I looked at the TV, and there you were."
program. "He walks his talk."
Olmos, the raspy-throated, hardly glamorous star of
By. no means was Olmos alone in organizing the
television and movies, emerged at the height of last
cleanup; the First African Methodist Episcopal Church
week's revolt as a voice that many .of the city's
was one entity that took a leading role. But with
residents wanted to hear.
Olmos' keen manipulation of the media, he was one of
Walkie-talkie in hand. Olmos for three days led
the most highly visible.
cleanup brigades through South Los Angeles and
Olmos said he came forward as riots swept Los
downtown and dispatched hundreds of volunteers to
Angeles because he thought youths, especially Lati-
blighted corners.
nos, would listen to him. Born and raised on the
More than many leaders in the political Establish-
Eastside, Olmos' past work with gangs and in other
Please see OLMOS, B4
Continued from B1
Olmos' activities this hot, sunny
community projects seems to give
day were more managerial than
tions can surely spend a little more
him a measure of credibility and
janitorial. In between his frenetic
money on education and drug pro-
moral authority that few public
duties. Olmos signed autographs,
grams. It is no wonder, he says,
figures have.
lots of autographs. And he posed
that the average guy feels com-
In a live television appearance
for photographs. First with two
pletely alienated from the Ameri-
Thursday night as the city burned,
lithe Fountain Valley women in
can system.
he spoke via remote hookup to two
shorts and tight tank tops. Then
"Children killing children, for no
young looters. and challenged
with families, kids and other ad-
reason. is what we have produced."
them to join him with a broom the
mirers.
he told Wilson, jabbing his finger in
next morning in South Los Angel-
"It's the least I can do." he told a
the air toward the governor. "Lis-
es. By 6 a.m., 25 people showed up,
reporter accompanying him.
ten to me well.
That has never
Valdivia said, and by 10 a.m. there
A fellow actor paused with his
been seen in the history of man-
were 200.
broom. thanked Olmos for the ef-
kind. Children killing children-for
From there, it snowballed.
forts and pledged himself to ongo-
no reason. And if you've got. the
On Sunday, Olmos, 45, was on his
ing community service. A Latina
time someday I'll explain it to you."
third day of commanding the
mother gushed and hugged him. A
troops. He was tired and sweaty.
couple from Orange shook his
He wore a white headband across
hand.
his brow, and a blue swatch of
After work was completed at
cloth was tied to his forearm-
Washington and Main, Olmos and
both, he said, to symbolize solidari-
his crews moved to another mini-
ty with the suffering of Korean-
mall where the Thrifty's, an auto
Americans who lost their liveli-
parts store and a shoe store had
hood in the riots.
been ransacked. Five standing
inches of gooey water mixed with
He stood at the corner of Wash-
filthy debris filled the buildings.
ington Boulevard and Main Street,
Setting up an assembly line, the
amid the ruins of a strip mail.
volunteers shoveled out the mess
Dozens of volunteers swarmed
within a couple of hours.
around, sweeping blackened rubble
"I'm here because I want to
with new brooms, filling bright-
clean up the image of Latinos," said
orange trash bags with debris,
Jose Luis Reza, 22, who is presi-
hauling them to a donated trash
dent of the Mecha chapter at
bin.
Compton College. "It is really
"Wear gloves!" he shouted to
shameful to see our youth looting
other neonle's armerties
01-
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2.1
one group, as he ran up and down
other people's properties.
01-
the sidewalk and across the street.
mos, as a figure, is a good example
"Vamos a comer!" he shouted to
to follow. especially for Chicanos."
another. "Let's eat!"
From there, Olmos was off to a
A catering service that usually
meeting with Gov. Pete Wilson and
feeds crews on Olmos' movie sets
about 25 Latino community leaders
brought 500 shaved-turkey sand-
on the 16th floor of the Ronald
wiches and bags of cookies to the
Reagan State Building.
volunteers.
Seated at the long mahogany
Barking into his walkie-talkie,
table, Olmos listened to Wilson for
the black-haired former rock sing-
about five minutes before inter-
or instructed volunteers be sent to
rupting.
clean out a nearby Thrifty's store,
He began with the message that
ordered a.medic to tend to a. young
he frequently repeats: A govern-
man who had cut his foot, and
ment that spends billions of dollars
coordinated shipments of rubbish
to bail out savings and loan institu-
to a landfill.
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Post 05-02-92
Bush Orders Troops Into Los Angeles
162
Some Calm
ers brought all but a few under con-
Returns on
Department inquiry that resumed
trol. However, Mayor Tom Bradley
announced that a dusk-to-dawn cur-
today. He hinted that federal pros-
few would remain in place, and vir-
ecution of the officers on criminal
tually all major weekend sporting
civil rights charges is a strong pos-
and civic events were postponed or
Third 21/122 / 60 Day
sibility.
canceled.
He said violence and destruction
"We're getting our legs under-
of property are not answers to in-
neath us now and beginning to
justice but are themselves "an in-
make more arrests," Police Chief
By Paul Taylor and Carlos Sanchez
justice."
Daryl F. Gates said. Preliminary
Washington Post Staff Writers
The president ended his short
damage estimates total $500 mil-
LOS ANGELES, May 1-This.
address with an appeal for tolerance
lion, a figure expected to increase
scarred, smoldering city held its
and for rebuilding in the nation. "We
when authorities are able to make
breath tonight as police and Nation-
must allow our diversity to bring us
more complete surveys.
al Guard troops appeared to have
together and not drive us apart, he
In addition to protecting shops,
restored order, at least temporar-
said. "We must build a future where
National Guard troops were a
ily, and President Bush ordered
strong presence at post offices in
empty rage gives way to hope,
4,000 Army and Marine troops to
south-central Los Angeles that
where poverty and despair give way
join the effort to end two days of
were opened from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
to opportunity."
urban anarchy.
so residents could pick up their
Of more than 35 victims identi-
Authorities said 39 people have
first-of-the-month welfare and So-
been killed and more than 1,340
fied here, authorities said, three are
cial Security checks. Finding places
injured. More than 3,700 fires have
white, three Hispanic and the rest
to cash them proved to be trouble-
been reported, and more than
black. Of that group, all but one is
some, authorities said.
3,000 arrests have been made.
male.
Even in areas not affected by an-
The death toll made this the
Officials said that funerals for the
archy, motorists took advantage of
worst riot in the city's history, sur-
victims have not been scheduled,
the relative calm in daylight hours
passing the carnage from a week-
primarily because of difficulty in
to fill their gas tanks, creating
long disturbance that claimed 34
locating next of kin.
block-long lines reminiscent of the
lives in the Watts neighborhood in
Today, the presence of heavily
oil crises of the 1970s. City officials
the summer of 1965.
armed National Guard troops ring-
had ordered that gasoline be dis-
Bush ordered that the military
ing shopping centers helped to pre-
pensed only directly into vehicles.
troops be moved here from bases in
vent a recurrence of rampant loot-
At food stores that stayed open,
Monterey and Oceanside, Calif.,
and that 1,000 federal officers
ing and arson that characterized the
there were long lines and lots of
trained in urban policing also be
first two days of trouble here. Res-
hoarding, suggesting concern by
sent here. The action came after he
idents began sweeping up and hos-
residents that violence may esca-
met at the White House today with
ing down ransacked neighborhoods.
late this weekend. Those who re-
military and legal advisers and then
The day's most emotional plea
called the Watts disaster were
with civil rights and community
for an end to violence came from
aware that greater trouble flared
leaders.
King, 26, the unemployed black
there after police declared the area
As darkness fell, there was no
construction worker whose beating
under control on the first night of
evidence that the Army and Marine
touched off a chain of events that
disorder.
troops had left their staging areas
culminated in this week's verdicts
Phillip J. Weireter, spokesman
in or near. the city. The 1,000 fed-
and the explosive reaction to them.
for the Los Angeles City Fire De-
eral officers from agencies such as
"People, I just want to say, can
partment, said reports of incidents
the FBI and the Border Patrol were
we all get along?" King said, chok-
dropped dramatically today. "We
on the street with the National
Guard and state and local police.
ing back tears, as he gave reporters
were handling 200 incidents at any
a brief statement outside his law-
one time, including 50 fires," he
At civil rights leaders' urging,
Bush spoke on national television
yer's office in Beverly Hills. "Can
said, referring to Thursday, the
first full day of violence. "Today,
from the Oval Office this evening,
we stop making it horrible for the
there are 30 incidents at any given
appealing to the American people
older people and the kids?
time and maybe 10 to 15 fires."
for racial tolerance and a return to
"We'll get our justice," King said.
"Incidents" include fires and re-
law and order.
"They've won the battle, but they
lated violence, he said.
Bush said the violence in Los An-
haven't won the war. We'll have our
Weireter said 10 firefighters
geles is "not about civil rights" or
day in court, and that's all we
have been injured since violence
"the great issues of equality" but
want."
began Wednesday afternoon. Two
"the brutality of a mob, pure and
The Justice Department opened
were shot, one in the thigh and one
simple." He said he would "use
a grand jury investigation here to-
in the face.
whatever force necessary" to re-
store order.
day into possible civil rights viola-
He also cited a spirit of cooper-
Reiterating the "anger and pain"
tions by the officers. "Subpoenas
ation between residents and fire-
have been served; evidence is being
fighters that was noticeably absent
he felt when he first viewed the
pursued," Attorney General William
during the first 24 hours after the
videotape of four white Los Angeles
P. Barr said in a statement.
verdict, when police were hard
police officers beating black motor-
ist Rodney G. King on March 3,
The federal probe, held in abey-
pressed to protect more than 1,700
1991, Bush said he too was
firefighters battling stubborn
ance while the state tried the offi-
"stunned" at the virtual exoneration
blazes. "I think people are fed up
cers in nearby Ventura County, is
of the officers by a jury Wednesday.
with it," he said.
being expedited, Barr said.
Bush said that he understood
At an ABC grocery market in the
With about 4,500 National Guard
those who cannot reconcile the not-
guilty verdict with the videotape.
troops far more visible today after a
The answer to that frustration, he
slow start at deploying them into
said, is not violence but a Justice
the streets Wednesday, the number
of new fires declined, and firefight-
Wash. Post: 05-02-92
south-central section of the city, an
tral Los Angeles, firefighters con-
utive director of the NAACP, said
area hit hardest by looting and
tinued to fight flare-ups, while
Bush "is beginning to recognize the
burning, dozens of residents gath-
neighbors traded stories about the
fact that unless we deal with this
ered in an impromptu meeting to
tumult Wednesday night.
issue, America is in for a long, hot
help the cleanup. "We feel great
Raul Centeno told of a massive
summer."
about this," said Jeff Birdsong, the
effort by seven men stealing an au-
The Rev. Joseph L. Lowery, ex-
store manager.
tomatic teller machine. "They
ecutive director of the Southern
Neighbors, armed with shovels
worked four or five hours on that
and rakes, filled carts with shat-
Christian Leadership Conference,
thing," he said. "They were sweat-
said Bush must do more than send
tered window glass, broken bottles
ing, and finally they put it away in a
troops. "If he accompanies that with
and soggy remnants of groceries
truck." Several times during the
and deposited the mess into a large
a condemnation of violence on the
protracted looting, he said, over-
trash container under the watchful
part of police and condemnation of
worked police drove by without
eyes of several National Guard
violence on the part of our econom-
stopping.
members.
ic system
Helen Isaac, who owns the only
that sends some
"It's going to be hard, said Joe
hope," he said.
grocery store in a 10-block area,
Williams, a neighbor who patron-
said her husband spent the night
In Little Rock, Ark., Democratic
ized the grocery store and said he
inside it with a gun, fending off loot-
presidential contender Bill Clinton
had no idea where he would get
ers. "Everybody is still scared," she
called for a national day of prayer
groceries now. "This is the wrong
said, pointing to hole in the ceiling
Sunday, saying "it's time for recon-
way to do it," he said of the looting
where looters broke into their
ciliation." In an interview on ABC
and violence, which left the store
store.
News after Bush's address, Clinton
stripped clean and several adjoining
"Anything could happen," she
said, "I think the president did a
businesses burned to the ground.
said, referring to the looters. "I
good job tonight in taking the steps
Colin Senhouse, driving around
don't think they' tired."
he should have taken."
with friends looking for places
Farther north, in the Koreatown
Officials here and in Washington
where they could help clean up, said
area, people could be seen lining up
said California Gov. Pete Wilson (R)
he sensed that most people in the
at the side of the building, waiting
and Bradley had asked Bush to order
south-central area understood the
their turn to enter in groups of 10
the military to help here. The troops
cause of the violence. "I don't see a
to buy groceries.
included 2,500 Army soldiers from
lot of people upset, but get the
Before addressing the nation to-
Fort Ord in Monterey and 1,500 Ma-
feeling that they already saw a lot
night, Bush met with civil rights
rines from Camp Pendleton in Ocean-
of the destruction and now it's time
leaders, including several black Re-
side.
(to clean up," he said.
publicans who have advised him in
While this city was the hardest hit,
At the northern end of south-cen-
the past. Benjamin L. Hooks, exec-
outrage over the King verdict con-
tinued to reverberate around the na-
tion.
In Atlanta, police and demonstra-
tors clashed for a second day. San
Francisco remained under a state of
emergency and nighttime curfew af-
ter widespread vandalism and looting
began Thursday, and Nevada Gov.
Robert J. Miller (D) activated the
National Guard in response to vio-
lence in Las Vegas where at least one
death was reported.
In New York, concern and ru-
mors of potential violence caused
many employers to send workers
home early. About 500 people
marched about a mile from Times
Square to Madison Square Garden,
and small groups of protesters later
broke windows in lower Manhattan.
Police made about 70 arrests.
Contributing to this report were
staff writers Lou Cannon, Ruben
Castaneda, Al Kamen, Gary Lee
and Avis Thomas-Lester and
special correspondent Leef Smith in
Las Angeles; staff writer Ann
Devroy in Washington; staff writer
Maralee Schwartz in Little Rock,
Ark, and staff writer Don Phillips
in Atlanta.
B6
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1992
LA TIMES 5/6/92
WASHINGTON EDITION/LOS ANGELES TIMES
BUSINESS
Oil Firms Plan to Rebuild Gas Stations
Couple Seized in
Energy: Chevron and Arco
Hills that he has already been in contact with
total of looted or burned to 50 stations,
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, as well as
including two each in Las Vegas and Oakland.
Credit-Repair Scam
have made commitments to help
Peter Ueberroth, who is directing rebuilding
is too early to say what specific role
stricken areas.
efforts.
Arco will- play in any upcoming effort to
By DENISE GELLENE
According to law enforcement
Chevron, Derr added, is sending $20,000 in
rebuild the evastated areas, Cook said, "but
TIMES STAFF WRITER
officials, the Ruggeris charge
immediate aid to the Los Angeles Conserva-
assure you that we'll be part of any effort
20,000 people between $45 and $5
By MICHAEL PARRISH
tion Corps, a private. nonprofit cleanup group,
that has broad community support."
T
he owners of a firm peddling
for kits that showed them how t
TIMES STAFF WRITER
and $60,000 to the local Red Cross-the latter:
Arco will definitely rebuild the five burned
a new and potentially dan-
"clean up" their poor credit histo
earmarked for families made homeless in the
stations that it owns directly, but six of the
gerous method for repairing
ries by illegally changing the
C
hevron Corp. Chairman and Chief Ex-
ecutive Kenneth T. Derr said Tuesday
disturbances. Derr said the company has also
burned stations are owned by private op-
poor credit records have been ar-
Social Security numbers. The kit
sent letters to Chevron credit card holders in
rested on charges of criminal vio-
instructed buyers to apply to th
that the oil company intends to reopen
erators-"so we can't speak for them,"
lations of state credit services laws.
Internal Revenue Service for a
seven Chevron stations badly damaged in last
the affected area, offering to negotiate delays
George Babikian, president of Arco Products
John P. Ruggeri, 35, and his wife,
in their payment schedules-a standard offer
employee identification numbe
week's violence and to help in other ways to
Co., clarified after the meeting.
Nancy G. Ruggeri, 33-owners of
and to substitute it for their Social
made by the company in such crises.
rebuild stricken neighborhoods in Los Angel-
A
rco has about 500 service stations in Los
Ft. Bragg-based Credit One-were
Lodwrick M. Cook, chairman and chief
Security number. Both number
es.
executive of Atlantic Richfield Co., told
Angeles and parts of Orange County.
arrested for selling thousands of
have nine digits.
Los Angeles-based Atlantic Richfield Co.,
where it has about 25% of the market.
kits showing desperate consumers
The kits also instructed people
shareholders at Arco's annual stockholders
considered to be the hardest hit of the
Chevron has 250 stations in roughly the same
how to obtain credit by illegally
change their address in order
meeting Monday that 11 Arco stations had
changing their Social Security
trick credit bureaus such as TRV
branded gasoline retailers, made a similar
been burned and 36 looted, at an estimated $5
area.
numbers.
pledge on Monday. The company, which sells
Judy Roberson, legislative coordinator for
which Identify consumers by the
million to $10 million in damage. Though as
The defendants were on their
governmental affairs for the Southern Cali-
Social Security number and ad
one out of four gallons of gas in the Los
many as 132 stations were out of service for
way to Los Angeles County Jail on
dress.
Angeles area, will rebuild five Arco-owned
lack of fuel at the worst point over the
fornia Service Station Assn., estimated Tues-
Tuesday after being arrested in Ft.
The bogus credit-clearing met)
stations that were destroyed.
weekend, Cook added, most are already back
day that a total of 70 gas stations in the Los
Bragg last week on a warrant
od, known as "credit file segreg.
Chevron's Derr told a sparsely attended
in business, including some that were looted
Angeles area were either burned or looted
issued by Los Angeles Municipal
tion," attracted attention about
annual shareholders' meeting in Beverly
or damaged. Tuesday. Arco expanded the
badly enough that they had to be closed.
Judge Leland Harris. They are
month ago when the IRS al
being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
nounced that people who had do
Besides the criminal charges, the
tored their Social Security nur
Ruggeris face civil actions by the
bers on tax forms could fa
Federal Trade Commission, the
TOUR: Bankers
MALLS: Slow
criminal fraud charges and cou
state Department of Community
also lose out on Social Securi
Affairs and the Minnesota attorney
benefits.
general.
Get an Eyeful
Day for Most
The Ruggeris were unavailable
A
ccording to Qwan. the Ru
for comment, and their attorney.
geris solicited people who hi
Lair Franklin, said he could not
recently sought bankruptcy pr
of Destruction
Merchants
comment because he had not seen
tection. They purchased the hs
the charges.
from outside vendors..
Ruggeri, a veteran of the credit-
"What makes this so despicab
Continued from B5
Continued from B5
repair industry. was president of
is that they were taking advanta
the window intact advertising its
Bryman. But there have been only
First Credit Services in 1984 when
of people in dire straits in
"blowout sale." One banker point-
half the usual number of dinner
the FTC took action against it for
extremely bad recession in Califo
ed out the juxtaposition of a
patrons, despite the fact that the
alleged deceptive business practic-
nia," said Jim Conran, director
charred liquor store on one side of
area was spared any direct impact
es. Ruggeri was never charged,
the state Department of Commun
Vermont with tranquil USC tennis
from the riots.
and the action against First Credit
ty Development. The departmo
courts on the other. Hahn noted
At Lawry's Prime Rib at La
Services ended with a consent
is seeking $300,000 in civil pena
that drug dealers his office had
Cienega and Wilshire boulevards, a
decree in which the firm neither
ties from Credit One for alleg
tried to clear out of an area off
bit closer to some of the riot-struck
admitted nor denied wrongdoing.
unlawful business practices a
Olympic Boulevard were still
areas, business was off 40% Mon-
Los Angeles Deputy City Atty.
false and misleading advertising
hanging out in the parking lot of a
day night, according to general
Ruth Owan said Ruggeris
ha
PHIL. INQ 05/04/92
She simply had to help
Samaritan shuns label of 'hero'
LOS ANGELES - She had
dropped by her mom's house after
work to say hello. Her brother was
there and the television was on,
and as they watched, they couldn't
believe what they were seeing.
A white driver, stopped at a traf-
fic light, was pulled out of his
truck and beaten by blacks who
took turns bashing him.
Lei Yuille, a black 37-year-old di-
etitian, recognized the intersec
tion as Florence and Normandie in
South Central L.A. It was only min-
utes away, and not far from her
own home. So she and her brother
Pierre decided to race out there
and try to help the man before he
was beaten to death.
"We were horrified, Yuille says.
And my brother said we had to do
what we could to help.
She understood the anger and
The Philadelphia Inquirer / RICK BOWMER
the sense of abandonment in the
Lei Yullle was horrified as she saw the truck driver being beaten.
black community. In a way it was
Watts all over again. She remem-
bered Watts, and she knew that 27
By STEVELOPEZ
years hadn't brought much prog.
ress.
"But this wasn't right," she says.
"They had no right to try to take a
man's life. I, was angry. And dis-
gusted."
As Lei and Pierre left, their
mother was protesting, afraid
they'd be attacked for trying to
help.
severely smashed up that he couldn't see or
But it was her mother and fa-
think clearly. He struggled with the truck,
ther, Yuille says, who had given
and it barely moved along.
her a sense of right and wrong,
"He was very bloody, and his eye was
and helped make her the kind of
bulging," Yuille says.
person who knew, without think-
She jumped onto the running board of the
ing about it, that she had to go out
passenger side, told him he was going to be
there.
fine, and then tried to talk him through the
in the moments before Lei and
driving serving M his eyes
her brother arrived, Reginald Oli-
"He kept saying he didn't know what
ver Denny, 36, and the father of an
happened," Yuille says. "I told him he was
8-year-old girl named Ashley, had
going to be OK."
crawled back toward his truck,
It was a horrible situation, she knew, but
groveling for his life.
she didn't let herself feel it.
When he was almost there, a
"I was thinking about him, and not my-
self.
man emerged from the mob, stood
She was even oblivious to the taunting
over Denny as if to measure him.
she was getting for helping Denny. All she
and then crashed a rock down on
could think about was getting him away
his skull. As Denny collapsed, the
from that intersection and getting him to a
man raised his fist in celebration.
hospital. As they pulled away, she worried
It was the most savage piece of
film since the police beating of
Rodney King, and like the King
for her brother, fearing he might have been
videotape, it played around the
attacked for trying to help.
A man appeared now, running alongside
world.
Lei and Pierre parked a block
the truck, and said he thought he could
away and ran to the intersection.
drive it. His name was Bobby.
They were split up in the chaos.
Bobby climbed in and pushed Denny
The next thing Lei remembers is
over. Yuille climbed in and tried to comfort
seeing Denny back in his truck,
Denny.
trying to drive away. But he was so
As the three of them made their way,
another man appeared on the running
board where Yuille had been, volunteering
his help. His name was Titus Murphy. He
said his girlfriend, Terry Barnett, was going
to drive ahead of them in a car, clearing the
way with flashing lights.
Murphy and Barnett had also seen the
beating on television, and raced to the in-
tersection to help.
And so the two-vehicle caravan headed
much for giving as for
taking.
to where I knew kids were in need. I
thanked Leon, and then a few weeks
later he sent another check for the
same purpose.
I next heard from him when I wrote
a column about Long Beach bums.
Leon was all over me. "When you
reach my age," he wrote, "the word
bum will be the least-used word in
your vocabulary."
There are no bums, Leon said, only
people down on their luck.
The kind of compassion we all wish
we had shone through in that letter,
so I tracked Leon down to his grocery
store. It was just a day after the riots,
Dogs brought in from Northern California assist search for remains o
and the smoking ruins of other shops
could be seen in the neighborhood.
Leon's store was like an island of
serenity in a sea of chaos, a happy.
busy place stocked with just about
A Grim Sifting
everything I've ever seen in a market.
Leon himself was in a tiny, messy
back room, a balding, pink-faced man
Search for People Feared Burn
with mutton-chop sideburns and the
most infectious laugh I've ever heard.
By SCOTT HARRIS
Conspi
He was clearly embarrassed by the
TIMES STAFF WRITER
dauntin
attention I was giving him and didn't
Just
want to talk about himself. But I
W
here is Angela Powell?
wreck
haven't been in this business 40 years
The last time anybody saw her, the rampage was only
buried
to let questions go unanswered.
a few hours old. Angela Powell had ventured into the
So far,
Pretty soon I'm hearing about a guy
flames and smoke of the New Guys electronics store at
one has
whose philosophy is as simple as rain.
Vermont and Slauson avenues.
He was poor once back in Bismarck,
"It's
Her mother. Elizabeth Blanding, told police her 22-year-old
North Dakota, so he helps others
could 1
daughter and a friend didn't go in there to pick up a free TV or
when he can. The world was made as
unfort
stereo, but to warn people of the danger.
much for giving as for taking.
But
Her friend got out. Powell, it seems, didn't.
Leon was a hell-raiser when he was
certain
young. This is no faint-heart here, but
So as Blanding, other relatives and friends watched,
charre
a tough, ex-street kid with a sense of
coroner's investigators escalated efforts Tuesday to find Powell
which ]
reality as strong as hunger, which
as well as other possible riot victims, enlisting search dogs and
The
makes his compassion all the more
extra personnel in the grim hunt.
have b
genuine.
No one is sure how many more victims may be discovered,
after th
He spotted a man in his store once
said Detective Steve Spear, a member of the LAPD Criminal
he knew was a shoplifter. But he also.
knew he was hungry. After the guy
had wandered around for a while,
Leon got tired of watching him and
said, "For God's sake, man, steal
something and leave." He did.
Leon has been mugged and robbed
Police Wary of Gang I
a few times, but that hasn't changed
his attitude a damned bit as far as I
can tell. He still gives things away.
Alliance: Clergy and youth
County Probation Department.
"We received intelligence
This began when he saw people
counselors see their cooperation
vance of the (Rodney G. King]
taking produce from trash bins behind
the store. The next day he put up a
as essential to rebuilding
there would be certain info
among gangs," said Los Ang
sign that said, "If you're broke and
riot-torn areas. But police fear
Cmdr. Ronald Banks. "There is
hungry, come in and ask for Leon."
They were lined up for three blocks
organized retaliation against law
perception now that
they a
their efforts towards police."
the next day, Leon says, and he knew
enforcement.
Banks and other police officia
he couldn't keep that up.
intelligence gathering had glea
He tried leaving canned food on a
rack outside with a sign that said
By LOUIS SAHAGUN
indications that gangs were 1
"Take some, leave some," but one
and LESLIE BERGER
gether to harm police, inclt
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
graffiti throughout the city stat
person would take it all so he quit that
too and began giving food to places
"187" being a refer
S
ome longtime rival gang members in
like convalescent homes instead.
state penal code for homicide.
the Bloods and the Crips have reached
Why was his store spared during
But gang members maintain
a purported truce that church and
the riots? "This is a violence-free
they were negotiating truces b
community activists hope will redeem
zone," Leon says with a laugh, then
recognized the need to set aside
disaffected youths but that police fear
adds simply, "They're my friends."
and protect each other from I
signals a possible organized retaliation
Three hundred years ago John
whom they feared would unf
effort against law enforcement.
Donne wrote, "No man is an island,
them for criminal prosecution i
entire of itself; every man is a piece of
As optimistic clergy and youth counsel-
math of last week's looting an
the continent."
ors spoke of the chance to involve gang
far the truce effort has invol
Here's a guy who lives that credo
members in rebuilding riot-torn Los An-
handful of the estimated 90,000
every day of his life, and it works. If
geles on Tuesday, warnings of planned
members in the county, commi
only we all did that. If only we were
guerrilla-attacks against officers were be-
ists said.
all like Leon Lasken.
ing circulated among Los Angeles police
"Instead of shooting each
and sheriff's deputies and-the Los Angeles
decided to fight together for bla
WASHINGTON EDITIO
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B
WEDNESDAY
CALIFOF
MAY 6, 1992
Comment
RIOT A.
ON CALIFORNIA
An Island
Riots Renew Debate 01
in the
Assistance: Liberals say the unrest shows
mentality" that encourage
push toward crime.
the need for new government programs.
But a closer look at the
Calamity
Conservatives say the policies waste money
recent years shows a deci-
few surprises on both side:
and foster dependence.
While total federal
substantially in the mid-1
By AL MARTINEZ
By ART PINE
past few years-partly bec
TIMES STAFF WRITER
effects of the recession, bu
and congressional action t
eon Lasken is the kind of guy I'd
WASHINGTON-The questions blaze anew in the wake
have written about with or
covered by these programs
of last week's rioting in Los Angeles: Has the federal
Despite all the rhetoric
without the Los Angeles riots.
government done enough to combat poverty in the nation's
His small grocery store stood un-
programs of the '60s, the n
inner cities? Have its efforts helped-or hurt, as some
years have involved a har
touched amid chaos, and almost-ev-
critics say?
eryone who came in when things
agreed were not working
The debate already has been drawn: Liberals contend
quieted down thanked God Leon was
1970s, revenue-sharing a
that the Los Angeles riots show that programs have fallen
all right.
grants.
behind, and they demand that the government launch a.
He's a small Jewish man of 81 with
The narrowing of inner
new "domestic Marshall Plan," patterned after the post-
years has had more to do
a smile like sunlight through dark
World War II recovery program, to help inner-city
clouds and a soul as wide as heaven.
American economy-to ser
residents overcome their economic plight.
No one goes hungry when Leon is
with the recent recession
Conservatives argue that the programs are a waste of
around, and it didn't take riots to tell
government's efforts to com
money and worsen the situation by forcing people to stay
him there was pain in the ghetto. He's
Although some policie
on the dole and by imbuing them with a "welfare
been in it for 43 years.
welfare payments, clearly
The grocery store, a cluttered little
place piled high with boxes, is called
the Palace, which in a way I suppose it
is. Leon really doesn't own it any-
more, but he's there every Saturday
and no one in the area ever thinks of it
as anything but Leon's place.
He opened it on Prairie Avenue in
South-Central shortly after the Sec-
ond World War and sold it to his
manager a couple of years ago after
suffering a mild stroke.
I first heard from Leon when a $100
check arrived in the mail with a note
that said I should give it to a minority
student trying to better himself.
It was in response to a column that I
can't even remember, but I sent it on
'The world was made as
much for giving as for
taking.'
to where I knew kids were in need.
thanked I
and
or investigation at the scene of a death.
years
seen
d in some cases, death scene clues have
several Miami riots.
en obliterated by the raging fires.
"Much of it becomes dependent on the
A lot of things we are saying are
working relations between medical exam-
t-related without the benefit of a good
iners and police. If there's a problem. it's a
'estigation," said Capt. William Gar-
matter of communication.
And
you
nd. captain and commanding officer of
have to look at the motives [of] people who
: Los Angeles Police Department's rob-
want it to be riot-connected or don't want
y and homicide division. "There's a
it to be. I don't like to use the word
dency to paint the bleakest picture."
politics."
LA TIMES 5/6/92
Troops Caught Up
in Everyday Woes of
Life in Los Angeles
By JIM NEWTON
like Lebanon than Long Beach. But
and BOB POOL
after days of raging anger and fear,
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
most said they felt safe again-saf-
er, in fact, than they did before the
T
housands of National Guard
riots erupted.
and U.S. military troops sta-
After all, many residents said,
tioned in Los Angeles arrived
shooting and other violent crimes
as strangers charged with quelling
were part of daily life in Watts and
the worst rioting in the city's
South Los Angeles long before last
history.
week's rioting broke out. Since the
But after a string of long days
military arrived, many residents
and nights on the job, the troops
have gotten a measure of relief-
find themselves swept up in the
not only from the rioting, but from
everyday life and violence of the
those daily crimes as well. Even
communities they guard.
gang members, the residents say,
They've been fed food and can-
think twice about shooting off a
dy, and even had hymns sung to
gun in front of 500 heavily armed
them. But they've also been thrust
soldiers from the 7th Infantry Di-
into the darker side of Los Angel-
vision.
es-from ducking drive-bys to
"All of the neighborhood is safe
breaking up arguments between
now. We feel likeit's a safe place to
angry motorists.
live," said Orlando Montufar, who
In one small encounter after the
was a cook at a Carl's Jr. in South
next, residents have expressed
Los Angeles until his workplace
imes
their gratitude to the military and
was ransacked last week. "But
es.
offered gestures of thanks. Resi-
after they leave, I got to stay inside
dents pass out coffee and cookies to
Every six months, they should
the troops. The family that lives
er's
come back and clean the place
next door to the Marine headquar-
out."
ited
ters in Compton delivers fried
chicken to them every day. People
'wn
stand and applaud as the armored
H
erman Noel, a soft-spoken 81-
year-old in a gray fedora,
sch
personnel carriers rumble by.
agreed.
raid
At the ABC Market in South Los
"I like-the Army. I like them a
as
Angeles, a choir Sunday serenaded
lot," said Noel, who has spent most
ort
troops with its rendition of "The
of his life in Watts. "There's so
our
Battle Hymn of the Republic."
much crime here. If the Army can
ita-
But then there is the implacable
stop it for a while, I say:- 'Let 'em
the
street violence that has drawn
stop it.' The troops have even
them in.
become a stopping post on the
ect
Marines in Compton were swept
campaign trail: Presidential candi-
had
up in a domestic dispute Sunday
date Patrick J. Buchanan paid
on-
and returned fire from the man
National Guard units a visit in
if
involved. Another group of Ma-
South Los Angeles On Tuesday.
rines saw a man shoot at a security
sweeping in under the escort of
:ho
guard early Tuesday. and when
Secret Service agents. Some of the
ess
they yelled. he fired on them and
troops, bivouacked under camou-
to
fled. They caught up with him
flage netting in the parking lot of
to
hiding in a bush, and held him until
the Los Angeles Memorial Colise-
one
police arrived.
um, gathered to hear Buchanan.
ind
Guard troops in South Los An-
Most skipped Buchanan's appear-
no.
geles backed up police as they
ance. preferring to catch some
aid
cornered a suspected car thief, and
sleep.
e'll
Army soldiers in Watts peered out
And yet, even as residents and
of
over the rooftops of a shopping
politicians pay homage to the sol-
center Tuesday as distant gunshots
diers, there were signs that the
re
echoed through the muggy after-
troops could wear out their wel-
noon and evening.
come.
out
In Hollywood, for instance,
e-
er
"T
his is about the last place I
Sheldon Wolfe, a 16-year-old
thought I'd ever be." con-
homeless boy with a neon green
a-
ceded Army Lt. Curtis Grass, as he
Mohawk, said the troops "make me
watched store owners in Watts
sick." As two Guard members pa-
art
dragging rotting food from the
trolled Hollywood Boulevard.
ut
supermarket and replacing scores
Wolfe shook his head in disgust
nd
of broken windows. "It's a long
and said he was tired of "living in a
way from Fort Ord."
police state."
Some residents grumble about
Flashes of that anger have
having 11,000 troops in and around
cropped up, and troops said that
their neighborhoods, complaining
while most of the residents have
that their communities seem more
Please see TROOPS, B4
ys
sed on
ASHES: Grim Search
SO re-
e first
Continued from B1
the coroner's office, employed her
f the
expert eye for human remains.
attacks
against
po-
opment in impoverished Sou:
ns to them and threats to
lice once federal troops and Na-
Angeles to avoid riots such as
e officers. So it's very real."
tional Guardsmen left the city,
that shook the city last
police spokesman said the
Probation Director Barry Nidorf
Many also agree that any
partment was concerned about
said.
effort must give residents mo:
the flier but did not feel unduly
One probation supervisor who
BLOODS
stake in any new businesses.
threatened. especially with a
But they disagree over he
heavy military presence in the
read the document said it alleged
ERIPS
accomplish this goal.
city.
that gang members had looted
"We won't ignore it and we'll
TOGETH
Some favor huge infusio:
pawn shops and gun stores during
public and private cash to fir
accept it for what it is. Somebody.
the riots to stock up on weapons
new ventures and rebuild ex
the
has put it out," said Lt. John
and ammunition, including "ar-
ones. Others argue that n
dont-
Dunkin. He added, "There's really
mor-piercing bullets."
alone is inadequate to addres
black
not too awfully much you can do.
Nidorf said he advised his staff to
cial problems that must be $
and
You can't just go out and indiscrim-
take the warnings seriously and to
before meaningful economic
ye for
inately round people up."
arrange for increased police patrol.
velopment can take place.
APD
At the county Probation Depart-
Nidorf said he was unsure of the
Some favor creation of
Pow.
ment Tuesday, supervisors were
initial source of the information,
KIRK MeCOY / Los Angeles Times
enterprise zones in the comm
shown copies of a memo written by
and sheriff's officials with knowl-
to give fledgling firms some
usly,"
the sheriff's emergency operation
edge of the memo could not be
Gangs' message on a burned-
advantages. But others argue
Police
center, which warned of possible
reached.
out building on Westem Avenue.
such zones merely rob the con
nity of tax money while doing
to encourage new business.
TROOPS: Taste of L.A. Life
And leaders differ on who
manufacturing or services-
as new shopping centers-are
Continued from B3
from the rooftops, relaying details to an officer
most appropriate types of bus
been welcoming. there are those who see the
in the parking lot.
to create jobs and wealth for L
soldiers as an occupying force want only for
"We're just keeping an eye on him," the
entrepreneurs. The argument
them to leave. Some carloads of people honked
officer said. "We don't want any mistakes."
ters on whether it is enoug.
and made obscene gestures Tuesday at the
For a time, some officials worried that a fatal
have another strip mall or V
Army troops in Watts. The soldiers stood
shooting by a National Guard contingent Sun-
store, black-owned or not
impassively.
whether true wealth can
day night could turn communities against the
"They treat us like dogs," Ronald C. Mathis, a
troops. Until then, no soldier or Marine had shot
come from making things.
South Los Angeles resident, said Saturday as he
a person during the riots.
In any case, they all agree
waited in arlong line for his Social. Security
too little has been done since
check. "They didn't have to call out the National
Watts riots rocked some of
Guard. They're just trying to scare us with those
I
the the wake of that shooting, Guard units
patrolling the city were drilled on the rules of
same neighborhoods 27 years a
guns, with the big guns."
engagement, which state that Guard members
"People are asking for what 1
Across Los Angeles, there were other scat-
think is their share of the Am
can shoot to kill, but only if their lives or the
tered signs of discontent. On Sunset Boulevard,
can dream," said Marva Sr
lives of others are threatened. Two investiga-
for instance, a resident hung a banner out the
tions into the Sunday night shooting-one by
Battle-Bey, executive directo
window demanding: "U.S. Out of Echo Park!"
the Vermont Slauson Econc
LAPD and another by the military-are under
In fact, the troops themselves say they have
way, but officials indicated that they believe the
Development Corp. "They H
no desire to be here any longer than they have
shooting was justified.
business opportunities; they и
to. Many members of the Guard have jobs to
to have self-reliance. And 1
Eager not to inflame the situation, the Guard
return to, and rare is the Army soldier or Marine
don't want to be dependent
took down its barricade at Pico Boulevard, near
who joined up to patrol a Los Angeles city
other communities
Vermont Avenue, where the shooting occurred.
to pro
street.
that."
There have been no flare-ups in the wake of
The job is far different than standing guard in
Battle-Bey's group develo;
that shooting, however, and by the end of the
the deserts of Kuwait, soldiers said. The task is
the Vermont Slauson Shopp
day Tuesday. some officials breathed a sigh of
complicated by needing to show strength but
Center, which survived the unr
relief.
knowing that the use of it could trigger a
Her group is also seeking :
As for the residents of Los Angeles, some
resurgence of violence.
million of start-up capital to buil
admitted that they were a little uncomfortable
plastics manufacturing plant 1
about soldiers patrolling their streets, but most
A
S a result, the troops try to keep their
would employ 65 people.
were willing to put up with that feeling if they
distance. Army soldiers in Watts nervously
The corporation also found
get some peace in return.
spied on a young man in Los Angeles Raiders
nancing in 1986 for an "incubat.
Los Angeles Times
kind of scary," said Maria Poole, a Long
clothes Tuesday as he passed back and forth
for five light-manufacturing CO
Pheng stands
Beach resident who was out walking Monday
panies. Under the incubator C
outside a shopping center perimeter. The man
in and Second
with her 2-year-old son, Derrick. "Lunever-
cept, the firms share a comm
appeared to be counting the number of soldiers,
thought I'd see anything like this on our streets.
on Tuesday.
and the troops watched his every movement
low-rent building and rely
It's strange, weird: But I'm glad they' here."
pooled accounting, marketing a
AMS: Aid to Poor Up Greatly Since 'Great Sc
receive welfare and other aid. But much of
families afloat.
education
gaps in programs. The regulations govern-
it also reflects actions by Congress and the
"Public assistance succeeds in making
ing the AFDC program, limit federal
ri
courts, which have extended benefits to
families who would otherwise be destitute
nown-and
welfare payments largely to female heads
SL
more people.
a little less destitute," Burtless said. "Food
ory called
of household, and other programs such as
ex
Figures published Tuesday by the Office
Children,
stamps raise the food intake of people
Medicaid are partly linked to AFDC.
th
of Management and Budget show that
living in poor households. Medicaid im-
primarily
As a result, Robert Moffitt, a Brown
al:
overall assistance for low-income families
omes who
proves poor families' accèss to decent
will have soared by 82% between fiscal
University poverty specialist, points out
health care."
that only a few two-parent families receive
st:
1989 and 1993-with Medicaid spending up
e are the
There also is disagreement over the
any federal benefits at all, and only a
he
144%, welfare payments up 82% and
h provides
impact of such programs in helping the
relative few qualify for AFDC. food stamps
to
outlays for food stamps up 64%.
or Medicaid.
or families
The growth rate for other programs is
sp
ntal Secu-
At the same time, most analysts agree
almost as spectacular: Outlays for Supple-
elds addi-
mental Security Income will be up 71%
'Most of the things that have
that existing federal programs designed to
me
help prepare poor people for the job market
dis
disabled.
from fiscal 1989; welfare, up 37%; earned
been tried or proposed make a
have had a mixed effect, providing some
for
S provides
income tax credits, up 37%; housing assist-
purchase
modest difference at best in
marginal help in the case of single women,
gr
ance, up 55%, and other income-security
but-inexplicably-litle for inner-city
the
od stamps
programs, up 26%. The Head Start budget
the lives of the disadvantaged.
men.
id to pay
is up 127%.
Just how well these programs have
The fact is, we don't know how
Precisely how to respond to the prob-
1 housing
po'
lems highlighted by the Los Angeles riots
worked is a matter of perspective. Conser-
to change the life course of
An
e welfare
is a matter of serious debate between
tha
vatives contend that welfare eligibility
impoverished individuals—
liberals and conservatives. The U.S. Con-
"m
a dozen
rules encourage the breakup of families
ation and
and the birth of children out of wedlock,
although that isn't to say that
ference of Mayors has proposed a $35-bil-
por
lion aid program for cities, to be financed
les-from
SOC
and also discourage poor people from
preschool
taking jobs.
we shouldn't try.'
by federal funds.
At the same time, conservatives are
aid for
inn
"Insofar as they make people dependent
DOUGLAS J. BESHAROV
dren and
promoting plans that they say are designed
it f.
and have given them expectations that the
American Enterprise Institute
to create new job opportunities in the
said
federal government has been their perma-
nding for
private sector and give poor people a
nent nanny, they have done more harm
stion that
bigger economic stake in their communi-
than good," said Carl Horowitz, a policy
or !
poor improve their income levels over the
ties to encourage them to reduce their
best
from the
Demo-
Foundation. analyst at the conservative Heritage
long term. Census Bureau figures show
dependency on government grants.
saic
that despite the federal effort, 20.6% of
Included in this category is a plan by
ted either
"They've given them the welfare men-
cha:
Americans were below the poverty line in
Jack Kemp, secretary of the Housing and
indi
tality. That, in turn, leads to the crime
1990, compared to 22.9% in 1983 and 14%
Urban Development Department, to create
now that
we
mentality-1 you're not getting enough,
in 1969. (A family of four with income of
special urban enterprise zones, under
и
programs
why not just take it?' Horowitz argues
$13,400 or less is considered impover-
which governments would reduce taxes
as soared
that the same problems result from the
exp.
ished.)
and regulatory obstacles in inner-city
the gunfire that killed his compan-
or loot
ion became the first person
charged with a murder stemming
from the riots. Levelle Frederick
sponse,"
Williams-who is also accused of
told Bloc
firing at a police officer during the
all. I und
May 1 incident-was charged un-
at the lac
der the California law that holds a
Superv
criminal responsible for any death
ty grand
that occurs during the commission
police ag
of the crime. Williams has pleaded
the outse
not guilty and is being held without.
mously
bail.
establish
Reginald O. Denny, the trucker
$10,000 re
who was savagely beaten by riot-
informati
ers during initial outbursts of vio-
and convi
lence, remained in good condition.
"If we
Three of his rescuers-Lei Yuille,
democrat
Terri Barnett and Titus Murphy-
countenar
were honored by the Los Angeles
form of ex
City Council, while another good
Edelman.
Samaritan, Gregory Alan Williams,
that we r
35, was saluted for helping a Japa-
unthinking
nese-American man who was
good peor
yanked from his car and beaten at
testify to t
Florence and Normandie avenues.
open court
A short
Pointing the Finger
Hall, Los A
Richard Al
In his sharpest criticism yet of
against "p
the LAPD, Sheriff Block described
said hinder
how he was watching television as
to respond :
violence broke out at that intersec-
After the
tion. As he kept his eyes fixed on
sideration
the scene, he said, he expected that
$20 million
at "any second" he would see
velopment
police arrive.
related rep
Block said that had he realized
"It's tragic
officers would not take action, he
issue, when
would have sent sheriff's deputies.
their lives I
from his department's Firestone
hold up mo
station to intervene.
in help fami
secute in
Cases
GLASJEHL
Officers Kept Out of Key
NALDJ OSTROW,
FF WRITERS
HINGTON-Presi-
City Honors Heroes LA TIMES 5/6/92
LAPD
:sh said Tuesday
at the sc
federal govern-
allow of
tends to seek out
ecute the murder-
to troub
nists and looters
Normar
in the Los Angel-
and is already re-
didn't will
videotapes of the
he says.
to identify sus-
Iministration later
By TED Re
d the formation of
and RICH
TIMES STAFF
oint federal-state
cement task force
In the f
ould be dispatched
bloody un
Angeles to assist
for help b
orities in bringing
poured int
ponsible for death
the field (
uction to justice.
flash point
ase see BUSH, A8
the area, 0
command
reened out
A record
Clinton
lice Depar
sions obtai
with inter
Three
fire officia
chaos and
command
ry Races
matched a
with a crist
ed would e
the Rodne
HOGAN
In his
L WRITER
incident, I
77th Stree
GTON-President
charge of t
prospective Demo-
ROBERT GABRIEL / Los Angeles Times
and Norm
nger, Bill Clinton,
Titus Murphy, left, and Gregory Alan Williams
helping victims of mob violence last Wednesday.
defended h
ntial primaries Tues-
were among four heroes honored at City Hall. for
Also honored were Lei Yuille and Terri Barnett.
while ban
ndiana, North Caroli-
assaulted
trict of Columbia.
stores.
had nailed down the
"I didn't
eded to assure his
said of the
before Tuesday's
THE TIMES POLL
in defeated his sole
Sheriff Blasts
mand. "It's
I didn't wa
inservative columnist
hanan.
L.A. Strongly Condemns
late. And
LAPD Over Its
that area
no began the night
es."
hree-fourths of the
Moulin s
S required for a first-
y, turned back his
King Verdicts, Riots
Riot Response
police res
"absolutely
g active challenger,
we had in
nia Gov. Edmund G.
n Jr. He also outdis-
By FRANK CLIFFORD
shared by the majority of residents.
miracle. T
Massachusetts Sen.
and DAVID FERRELL
And blacks were more optimistic
By KENNETH REICH
miracle."
gas, who suspended
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
than other groups that something
and STEPHANIE CHAVEZ
The pol
good will come of the experiences
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
and intervi
last March but whose
By wide majorities. white, black
of last week.
Moulin's de
on the ballot
and Latino residents of the city of
The street fighting was all but
"Everything that usually turns
the riot h
it polling, television
Los Angeles condemn last week's
over, but in post-riot Los Angeles
real, real bad flip-flops over and
principal a
dicted that Clinton
buld win, and early
verdicts in the Rodney G. King
Tuesday, new battles intensified as
starts turning good," said Lonnie
questions :
beating case and the rioting that
city leaders and law enforcement
ed to bear that out.
Carter. a 66-year-old retired auto
why it too
followed, according to a Los An-
officials debated how the rioting
enter the f
he vote tabulated in
mechanic who is black and was
geles Times Poll.
was handled and how to repair its
raise new
f Columbia, Clinton
among those surveyed. "I think
The poll found that 71% of Los
damage.
own's 7% and Tson-
whole lots of good will come out of
lice Depa
Angeles residents disagreed
Speaking to the Los Angeles
during the
ndiana, with 64% of
it. I think everybody will start
strongly with the verdicts ren-
County Board of Supervisors.
U.S. history
ted, Clinton had 64%
living more closer together and
Sheriff Sherman Block lambasted
dered by the Simi Valley jury in
The T
1%, while Tsongas
stop having disagreements."
the Los Angeles Police Depart-
the trial of four Los Angeles police
thirds of th
Results of The Times Poll show
officers. And it found that 75%
ment, saying its initial response to
rolina, with 69% of
that members of the city's three
captains W
the riots "didn't make any sense."
unted, Clinton had
believed that the violence sparked
seminar in
largest ethnic groups held similar
He also accused police officers of
S 10% and Tsongas'
by the verdicts was "totally unjus-
the verdict
views on a number of issues relat-
lending "an aura of legitimacy" to
litted actually was
tified."
The de
ing to the King verdicts and the
1, with 15%.
The poll. supervised by Times
a full-scale
riots.
publican side, Bush
Poll director John Brennan, inter-
RELATED STORIES, PICTURES:
cers until
For instance, almost 80% said
A6-A8, A12, B1-B6
? vote in the District
viewed 888 city residents Sunday
hours into
they sympathized with the anger
O Buchanan's 18%.
and Monday. It has a margin of
said. By th
of the black community over the
e vote recorded. The
error of plus or minus 4 percentage
verdicts, and there was a widely
the looting by their failure to take
indicate.
-80% in Indiana, to
points.
quick action.
throughout
shared view that the local criminal
%. with 59% of the
A majority of African-Ameri-
justice system is biased against
Amid angry rhetoric, mean-
buildings V
And, in North Caro-
cans-58%-joined in the condem-
blacks and Latinos. But the poll
while,"a bitterly divided Los An-
less stores
1% to the challeng-
nation of the rioting. But nearly
also revealed marked differences,
geles-City Council postponed con-
Angry
71% counted.
one-third-32%-considered the
particularly in the attitudes of
sideration of a proposal to spend
ed Gates' c
an the night with
violence partially justified, even
$20 million to repair small busi-
response to
blacks and whites toward the caus-
'S pledged to him,
though virtually all blacks in the
nesses and housing destroyed in
ing the riot
2 for Brown and 538
es of the unrest and about who
survey-97%-said their neigh-
last week's rioting.
because po
The three primaries
bears responsibility for the vio-
borhoods suffered some damage.
lence.
In other major developments
fighters. F
vide 178 delegates
At the same time, almost half the
Tuesday:
fact. they 8
City leaders got low marks for
blacks surveyed did not think that
One day after promising $600
tion during
lease see RACES, A5
their handling of the crisis last
the violence was inevitable. a view
million in loans and cash grants to
disturbance
Please see POLL. A6
Please UNREST. A7
fally
the agency, fueled by data showing
Much as epidemiologists descend
community leaders," Roper said
more prone to violence
the enormous toll that violence
on an outbreak of measles to try to
Tuesday in a telephone interview
er?"
during
POLL: 71% in L.A. Disagree Strongly
THE TIMES POLL
Verdicts in I
and
With Verdict in Rodney King Case
and Violenc
ected
Continued from A1
A broad consensus of
eopie
week. Nearly three-fourths of all
How the Poll Was Conducted
resulting violence was
oney
residents said the leaders reacted
and
too slowly. Also, Police Chief Daryl
The Times Poll interviewed 888 Los Angeles city adults. by
ck.
F. Gates came in for stronger
Do you agree or disag:
telephone. May 3 and 4. Telephone numbers were chosen from a list
criticism than Mayor Tom Bradley.
Rodney King beating
of all exchanges in the city. Random-digit dialing techniques were
class
Nearly 50% of the people ques-
used to ensure that both listed and non-listed numbers had an
tioned said that Gates hurt rather
ing
opportunity to be contacted. Interviewing was conducted in English
Agree strongly
than helped the situation after the
ke
verdicts. and 13% cited Gates
and Spanish. Results were weighted slightly to conform with census
Agree somewhat
figures for sex, race, age and household size. The margin of sampling
'You
among the causes of the rioting.
Disagree somewhat
Regarding Bradley. 50% be-
error for percentages based on the total sample is plus or minus 4
ve'll
lieved that the mayor had no effect
percentage points. For certain subgroups. the error margin is
Disagree strongly
on what happened after the ver-
somewhat higher.
Don't know
dicts. Only 5% said he was one of
the causes of the riots.
"One thing that must happen is
Do you think the viole
that Gates must go," said Henry
gation that could lead to prosecu-
no social or political statement.
after the King beating
tion of the four officers for
"Most of those people who joined
is
Richardson. 50. a retired equip-
totally unjustified?
ment inspector for the Los Angeles
violating King's federal civil rights.
did it for fun." said Richard-
e guys
Unified School District. "He has no
And 58%. including a majority of
son, a Wilshire district resident.
to
sympathy for minorities. He is one
blacks surveyed. said they are
"They saw things out there to be
Totally justified
don't
confident that justice will be done
taken and they took things out of
Partly justified
of the problems. No one is going to
ed
respond positively to him. He's still
if the four policemen are tried on
the stores. It didn't have anything
Totally unjustified
making idiotic statements. He
such charges.
to do with that Rodney King
The poll found that among all
incident."
Don't know
needs to get on out of there."
on
Richardson, who is black, added:
residents. 21% considered last
When people were asked by the
"I don't think Bradley has an effect
week's rioting "partially justified."
poll who or what was responsible
Robert Knowles. 48. a white
for the violence, 27% blamed it on
How angry would you
is
on the city one way or another
resident of Silver Lake. was among
thugs, gangs and agitators: 19%
occurred in recent day
here
right now.
A majority of residents-53%-
those who described the rioting as
cited anger over the King verdicts
n
disapproved of the way the Police
partially justified, except for the
as well as a generalized sense of
Very angry
make
murders and beatings of people in
rage and frustration, and 16%
Moderately angry
der
the streets.
pointed to poverty, bad economic
THE TIMES
"But running through the streets
conditions and lack of jobs. Only
Not too angry
esman
POLL
and setting things on fire, I can
8% singled out racism as a cause of
Not angry at all
understand that." Knowles said. "I
the violence.
Don't know
can understand how the rage got
Blacks and Anglos were not in
Department handled themselves in
out of hand."
accord on the subject of responsi-
the days after the verdicts, while
As a press coordinator for Los
bility, with 37% of whites and only
Would you say the LA
43% expressed their support of
Angeles County Supervisorial can-
10% of blacks blaming the violence
broke out in the hours
that effort.
didate Diane Watson, Knowles said
on thugs and gangs. Conversely,
announced. or too slov
way
An overwhelming number of
he has come to know the black
13% of whites cited rage over the
residents-80%-thought that the
community. In discussing blame
King verdicts. compared to 22% of
police reacted too slowly when
for the disturbances. he said: "You
blacks and 24% of Latinos.
Too quickly
violence broke out last Wednesday
can blame [the rioters] in a legal
The three ethnic groups also
Too slowly
evening. Asked why they thought
sense, in a criminal sense, but I
tended to see things somewhat
the police response was slow, a
differently when asked if responsi-
As they should
think a lot of people didn't intend to
the
plurality of blacks said they be-
commit violent acts and got caught
bility for the rioting lay more with
Don't know
lieved that the delay was deliber-
up (in it]. I didn't think it was (a
society or with the residents of
must
ate, while a plurality of whites and
The Times Poll interviewed 88
response] so much to the King
South-Central Los Angeles, where
try to
four percentage points in eith
Latinos said the police were not
verdicts, but to the economic, the
much of the violence occurred.
race
prepared for the massive outbreak.
lack of jobs
not knowing what
Overall. more than 60% blamed
Looking to the future of law
else to do."
society, but 35% of whites and 30%
enforcement in Los Angeles, 66%
Anslom Beamon, 43, a black
of Latinos pointed to South-Cen-
aged.
applauded the choice of Philadel-
woman who lives on 103rd Street
tral residents, as opposed to 9% of
Yet, 37% of whites-a
phia Police Chief Willie L. Wil-
in Watts, decried the violence, but
the blacks.
than any other group-
raged
liams as Gates' successor.
said she understood the anger and
felt physically threaten
Along with the 71% who disa-
Almost 70% of those surveyed
frustration that prompted the ran-
the violence last week
hical
greed strongly with the King ver-
expressed optimism that the city
sacking of stores.
both blacks and Latinos.
dict, an additional 10% said they
could heal itself. Blacks were the
"It's wrong to take from any-
they felt threatened.
es of
disagreed somewhat. And nearly
most hopeful and whites the least.
body," she said. "But what do you
Asked what the healin
stice
three-fourths said that the jury in
do when you don't have?"
Kate Templeton, a black resident
will require, 28% of
ty in
the King case should have included
Although she did not take part in
of the Crenshaw District, said of
surveyed said it will in
blacks. Just over 70% felt that the
the looting, Beamon said she can-
the healing process, "I think it's
newed efforts among 1
ic
videotape of the police beating was
not blame those who did, especially
starting now. A lot of people are
communicate. get togethe
evidence enough to convict the
the young people who grow up in
just upset and really appalled at
derstand one another.
four police officers accused in the
such underprivileged surround-
what's happened. They don't want
20% stressed the need to
case.
ings.
this. They want to get along with
the economy; 12% said
ights
Two-thirds of city residents said
"We were just getting back what
everyone. They don't want this
must be improved; 11% C.
four
that the local criminal justice sys-
was rightfully ours," she said. "We
devastation in their neighborhoods.
tem needs some measure of im-
don't get half the opportunity that
And they're going forward to help
provement, and 37% said it ought
they give anybody else."
in their communities and other
to be overhauled. Also, 61% said
Richardson, the retired school
communities with the cleanup."
use
they viewed the legal system as
equipment inspector, was among
Although virtually all of the
1e
unfair to blacks; 54% said it is
the majority who could find no
blacks surveyed said their neigh-
till
unfair to Latinos.
excuse for the rioting. The verdicts
borhoods suffered damage during
Los Ange
Nearly 90% of those surveyed
triggered anger stemming from
the rioting, 67% of Latinos and
Recycling for an
applauded the U.S. Justice Depart-
many past injustices, he said, but
48% of whites said their neighbor-
ment's decision to begin an investi-
for many of the rioters, there was
hoods were at least slightly dam-
and racum are dry
UC Berkeley and the Universi-
for social bot scien-
dad de Chile in Santiago, focused
data", to pinpolat
on 161 healthy. pregnant women
Dr. Carvell By
living in high violence areas of
Los Angeles County's chief
Santiago during 1986.
vaccine or
to the CDC effort
The study is believed by its
that doctors
How do violent incidents oc
authors to be the first measuring
gainst
an
Evans asked, enumerating
the consequences of a violent envi-
experts
will
to
questions the investigators are
ronment on-pregnancy outcomes-
blueprint for violence
likely to address. "How do they
evidence of how new this area of
cluster? Is one violent incident
epidemiological inquiry still is.
want to come up with
likely to lead to another? Under
"Frankly, not enough is known
that we can offer to
what conditions? Is one age group
about violence." Evans said. "In
ty leaders," Roper said
more prone to violence than anoth-
order to prevent it, we have to
in a telephone interview
er?"
understand it much better."
trongly
THE TIMES POLL
Case
Verdicts in Rodney King Case
and Violence in the Streets
A broad consensus of Angelenos opposed the verdicts but felt that the
resulting violence was unjustified.
THE VERDICT
adults. by
chosen from a list
Do you agree or disagree with the jury's verdict of not guilty in the
Rodney King beating trial?
techniques were
inbers had an
ALL
WHITE
BLACK
LATING
inducted in English
Agree strongly
8%
12%
4%
5%
onform with census
Agree somewhat
5
8
--
2
margin of sampling
plus or minus 4
Disagree somewhat
10
12
3
12
error margin is
Disagree strongly
71
58
93
77
Don't know
6
10
4
THE VIOLENCE
Do you think the violence that has occurred on the streets of L.A.
political statement.
those people who joined
after the King beating trial verdict is totally or partly justified. or
totally unjustified?
for fun." said Richard-
ilshire district resident.
ALL
WHITE
BLACK
LATING
things out there to be
Totally justified
3%
3%
5%
3%
they took things out of
Partly justified
21
15
32
21
It didn't have anything
Totally unjustified
75
th that Rodney King
81
58
76
Don't know
1
1
5
eople were asked by the
THE ANGER
)r what was responsible
lence. 27% blamed it on
How angry would you say you are about the violence that has
ags and agitators: 19%
occurred in recent days on the streets of Los Angeles?
r over the King verdicts
ALL
WHITE
BLACK
LATINO
a generalized sense of
Very angry
63%
68%
50%
frustration. and 16%
63%
poverty. bad economic
Moderately angry
22
19
30
22
and lack of jobs. Only
Not too angry
7
5
6
7
out racism as a cause of
Not angry at all
6
7
10
6
Don't know
nd Anglos were not in
2
I
4
2
he subject of responsi-
THE RESPONSE
37% of whites and only
ks blaming the violence
Would you say the LAPD reacted too quickly to the violence that
And gangs. Conversely.
broke out in the hours after the King beating verdict was
ites cited rage over the
announced, or too slowly. or just about as they should have?
its. compared to 22% of
ALL
WHITE
BLACK
LATINO
24% of Latinos.
Too quickly
1%
1%
2%
1%
ee ethnic groups also
Too slowly
80
75
see things somewhat
82
84
when asked if responsi-
As they should
16
21
14
13
e rioting lay more with
Don't know
3
3
2
2
with the residents of
ral Los Angeles, where
The Times Poll interviewed 888 residents of the city of Los Angeles, with a margin of error of
violence occurred.
four percentage points in either direction.
nore than 60% blamed
35% of whites and 30%
pointed to South-Cen-
aged.
harder crackdown on gangs. drugs
is. as opposed to 9% of
Yet, 37% of whites-a bit more
and lawlessness. and an equal
than any other group-said they
number spoke of the need for more
3% of those surveyed
felt physically threatened during
government financial aid.
ptimism that the city
the violence last week. Among
Ben Baca, 46, a Latino who
tself. Blacks were the
both blacks and Latinos, 33% said
works as an auto painter for the
I and whites the least.
they felt threatened.
city of Los Angeles. expressed
Asked what the healing process
pleton, a black resident
long-range optimism about the
will require, 28% of all those
shaw District, said of
city's prospects, saying: "After
surveyed said it will involve re-
process, "I think it's
World War II in Europe, every-
newed efforts among groups to
A lot of people are
thing was so devastated, and peo-
communicate, get together and un-
and really appalled at
ple managed to put their lives
derstand one another. Just over
ened. They don't want
together. It takes time. This is
20% stressed the need to improve
ant to get along with
nothing compared to that. [But] it
the economy; 12% said education
hey don't want this
will leave a scar, let's put it that
must be improved; 11% called for a
n their neighborhoods.
way."
going forward to help
mmunities and other
with the cleanup."
virtually all of the
yed said their neigh-
ffered damage "during
Los Angeles Times
67% of Latinos and
Recycling for an abundant future.
es said their neighbor-
at least slightly dam-
Corp., a venture capital fund in the
Most
riot-induced sales slump to
the thousands who lost their
'The main thrust is to get
were not prospective new car buyers in the
capital into business in
"We're talking small, small numbers here.
Pitcoff, a sales analyst at Ford Motor Co. "Where there
ways that, if successful,
may be some impact on business is in truck sales. If and
would make entrepreneurial
when the reconstruction effort is launched, that should
rebuilding a model for cities
JORGE MUJICA / La Opinion
Please see AUTOS, B7
Bankers and other civic leaders touring devastated area stand outside destroyed South-Central L.A. building.
everywhere.'
Bankers Taken on Tour of Riot-Torn L.A.
Watts area, became fully subscribed
at $25 million after the trouble start-
New Kidney Cancer
ed. The fund will invest $100,000 to
Recovery: The organizers hope to prod
Bryant. Jenkins in particular has been outspoken in trying
$300,000 in individual businesses.
to prod banks into lending to rebuild
The USC graduate business school
banks into lending to rebuild devastated
Talking through a microphone, he was part tour guide,
was organizing a pool of credit for
neighborhoods.
part community activist as he pleaded for banks to help and
Drug OKd by FDA
small businesses, which would have
chided them for having so little presence in southern Los
the benefit of counseling from the
Angeles over the years.
school's MBA students.
By JAMES BATES
TIMES STAFF WRITER
"These were thriving mini-malls that disappeared
Medicine: Approval is good news for
Bank of America announced a $25-
within a matter of two days," Jenkins said as the buses rode
patients in which the disease has spread. and
million program of three-year loans
C
all it a Gray Line-like tour of an inner-city
down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. One relatively
that amount to equity backing. The
meltdown.
intact supermarket, he said, was spared thanks to either
for troubled Chiron Corp.
bank will collect only nominal interest
Inside was hot coffee, doughnuts and a television set
"the fire department or a short match."
for three years in hopes that the
broadcasting the "Sally Jessy Raphael" talk show. Men in
No firm commitments came out of the tour, but that
By MARTHA GROVES
small-company borrower can then
suits sat in plush, burgundy-colored seats, some of them
wasn't expected. Some banks have disclosed some charita-
TIMES STAFF WRITER
qualify for normal credit.
talking on portable telephones as an air conditioner
ble donations and immediate relief programs to help
Larger programs could be possible.
rebuilding. How big a long-term program there will be is
S
AN FRANCISCO-The U.S. Food and Drug Adminis-
hummed. Traveling alongside. in front and behind were
From Washington, Secretary of
tration on Tuesday approved the nation's first drug to
five Los Angeles Police Department cars, escorting about
still unclear.
Housing and Urban Development
treat kidney cancer that has spread beyond that
40 sightseers in the two luxury buses. Two Los Angeles
Jack Kemp was resurrecting his pro-
police officers were also aboard each bus.
enkins acknowledged that the route of the three-hour
organ, a disease that typically claims its victims within a
posal for enterprise zones, in which
This was the VIP tour of the riot devastation that Los
tour was to some extent designed for its shock value,
year of diagnosis.
investors in small business in needy
Angeles-area bankers got Tuesday morning.
something to show people exposed to the rioting only
The approval of Proleukin-a genetically engineered
areas would get tax deferrals or tax
through CNN or local news stations. Moving nonstop
"orphan drug" developed by biotechnology pioneer Cetus
Aboard were vice presidents and senior vice presidents
forgiveness.
from such large institutions as City National Bank and
through every traffic light, even red ones, the buses moved
Corp., now part of Chiron Corp.-should buoy the hopes of
the nearly 10,000 patients diagnosed each year with kidney
Kemp's enterprise zones ideas,
Wells Fargo Bank, one of whom flew down from San
across Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, into the
cancer. To date, there has been no treatment once the
which have failed to become law in
Francisco just for the tour. Presidents of smaller institu-
Crenshaw District, up Vermont Avenue with a brief drive
cancer has spread.
previous sessions of Congress, are
tions rode along. Los Angeles City Atty. James K. Hahn
by Koreatown. Block after block, youths in baseball caps
It is also a boon for Chiron, which has suffered steep
now getting a boost from concern
was there, as was sportscaster and actress Jayne Kennedy.
and mothers with children stared curiously at the passing
losses since buying Cetus last year in a stock swap valued
about Los Angeles.
The organizers were Carlton Jenkins, managing partner
motorcade.
at $660 million.
The promised incentives are im-
of Founders National Bank, the only black-owned com-
The bus passed the shell of a furniture store, but with
"This is the first approval for Chiron that we'll sell on
pressive to business people-income
mercial bank in Los Angeles, and businessman John
Please see TOUR, B6
our own." said Larry Kurtz, a spokesman for the company.
ax deductions of up to $50,000 a year
which is based in the East Bay industrial city of
on investments in zone businesses;
Emeryville. The company's other products are licensed or
ero capital gains taxes on property
investments; income tax credits to
A Slow Day for Movies, Eateries and Malls
sold through joint ventures.
Kurtz said the product. which has been available in
employers on wages paid in zone
Europe for two years, is expected to generate first-year
businesses.
By CARLA LAZZARESCHI
it's just back to business as usual."
U.S. revenue of $15 million and ultimately could reel in
To be sure, state-run enterprise
zones exist in 37 states and have no
TIMES STAFF WRITER
Kyser said that while he is confident that residents will
$100 million annually if other uses are approved. A full
nagic formula for success. As in all
soon return to their normal habits, he fears that tourism,
course of treatment is expected to cost $6,000 to $8,000, not
hrive, many more fail to do so.
R
estaurants, theaters and shopping centers through-
which contributes about $7 billion to the local economy,
including the approximately $30,000 cost of the required
business, some- small companies
out Los Angeles reported lighter-than-usual busi-
will be irreparably harmed for the remainder of the year.
hospitalization.
But then the record these days, say
ness Monday and Tuesday, sparking concerns that it
"Let's face it." said Michael Collins of the Los Angeles
Industry analysts and medical experts said the approval
may be weeks or months before business returns to
Visitors and Convention Bureau with a bit of hyperbole.
bodes well for Chiron, the biotech industry and kidney
venture capitalists, is that two start-
ip companies succeed out of every 15.
normal-even in areas not primarily affected by last
"it's difficult to sustain enthusiasm to visit a destination
cancer patients. despite the drug's potentially deadly side
Of the rest, perhaps eight companies
week's rioting.
that is still principally populated by soldiers."
effects.
get acquired and five fail outright.
Merchants said residents remain nervous and uncertain
Collins said that although current tourist traffic is lower
"It's very positive given the FDA's problems with other
So if the question is: Can entre-
about leaving their homes, even to engage in their favorite
than usual-the cause of a significant vacancy rate in many
biotech companies." said John McCamant. publisher of the
Please see FLANIGAN, B7
pastimes of dining out, watching movies or shopping-de-
of the city's hotels-no major conventions have as yet
Medical Technology Stock Letter. a Berkeley newsletter
spite Mayor Tom Bradley's decision Monday to lift the
canceled reservations for
that follows such stocks.
Oil Firms Plan to Rebuild Gas Stations
Energy: Chevron and Arco
Hills that he has already been in contact with
total of looted or burned to 50 stat:
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, as well as
including two each in Las Vegas and Oak!
have made commitments to help
Peter Ueberroth, who is directing rebuilding
"It is too early to say what specific
stricken areas.
efforts.
Arco will play in any upcoming effor
Chevron, Derr added, is sending $20,000 in
rebuild the devastated areas," Cook said.
immediate aid to the Los Angeles Conserva-
I assure you that we'll be part of any et
By MICHAEL PARRISH
tion Corps, a private, nonprofit cleanup group,
that has broad community support."
TIMES STAFF WRITER
and $60,000 to the local Red Cross-the latter
Arco will definitely rebuild the five bur
C
hevron Corp. Chairman and Chief Ex-
earmarked for families made homeless in the
stations that it owns directly, but six of
ecutive Kenneth T. Derr said Tuesday
disturbances. Derr said the company has also
burned stations are owned by private
sent letters to Chevron credit card holders in
that the oil company intends to reopen
erators-"so we can't speak for the
seven Chevron stations badly damaged in last
the affected area, offering to negotiate delays
George Babikian, president of Arco Proj.
week's violence and to help in other ways to
in their payment schedules-a standard offer
Co., clarified after the meeting.
made by the company in such crises.
rebuild stricken neighborhoods in Los Angel-
Lodwrick M. Cook, chairman and chief
A
rco has about 500 service stations in
es.
executive of Atlantic Richfield Co., told
Angeles and parts of Orange Cou:
Los Angeles-based Atlantic Richfield Co.,
shareholders at Arco's annual stockholders
where it has about 25% of the mar
considered to be the hardest hit of the
meeting Monday that 11 Arco stations had
Chevron has 250 stations in roughly the sa
branded gasoline retailers, made a similar
been burned and 36 looted, at an estimated $5
area.
pledge on Monday. The company, which sells
million to $10 million in damage. Though as
Judy Roberson, legislative coordinator
one out of four gallons of gas in the Los
many as 132 stations were out of service for
governmental affairs for the Southern C:
Angeles area, will rebuild five Arco-owned
lack of fuel at the worst point over the
fornia Service Station Assn., estimated Tu.
stations that were destroyed.
weekend, Cook added, most are already back
day that a total of 70 gas stations in the
Chevron's Derr told a sparsely attended
in business, including some that were looted
Angeles area were either burned or look
annual shareholders' meeting in Beverly
or damaged. Tuesday, Arco expanded the
badly enough that they had to be closed.
TOUR: Bankers
MALLS: Slo
Get an Eyeful
Day for Most
of Destruction
Merchants
Continued from B5
Continued from B5
the window intact advertising its
Bryman. But there have be
"blowout sale." One banker point-
half the usual number of
ed out the juxtaposition of a
patrons, despite the fact tt
charred liquor store on one side of
area was spared any direct
Vermont with tranquil USC tennis
from the riots.
courts on the other. Hahn noted
At Lawry's Prime Rib
that drug dealers his office had
Cienega and Wilshire boule:
tried to clear out of an area off
bit closer to some of the riot
Olympic Boulevard were still
areas, business was off 40%
hanging out in the parking lot of a
day night, according to DE
charred shopping center.
manager Brian Monfort. "V
expected that it would take
tops were made at shopping
get back to normal," he san
centers and burned-out blocks
even feared that all of May
so the bankers could step between
be hurt."
the twisted metal and some still-
However, Monfort and
smoldering buildings that one
restaurant managers said
week ago were thriving stores.
reservations for Mothers' Da
"You have to touch it, and feel it
upcoming high school and o
and smell it," said David C. Lizar-
raga. chief executive of the parent
company of Community Thrift &
'We had expected th
Loan in East Los Angeles.
At each stop. 10 or more police
would take time to 8
officers, some with weapons ready.
back to normal.'
stood guard. Some on the tour were
uncomfortable with the level of
BRIAN MONFORT
police-required security, as if it
Lawry's Prime Rib
further highlighted the gulf be-
tween the bankers and the people
on the street.
graduation celebrations an
"This gives the wrong impres-
couraging. and have led so
sion. It's overkill," said Wells Far-
JORGE MUJICA / Opinion
believe that the worst may
go Senior Vice President Harold D.
Lee. Added Julia M. Williams,
Resident with his two daughters makes point to tour members.
passed for businesses outsio
directly affected areas.
director of business and finance for
Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy: "The mes-
There were burned out shells of
working with city officials.
W
hile restaurateurs lool
sage it sends is that you can't go
branches that did operate in the
At one point. an angry man with
ward to Mothers' Da
into the area without this kind of
area, one that had been operated
two young daughters interrupted a
graduations. theater operato
police escort."
by Bank of America and another
stop on Vermont Avenue. He
pinning their hopes on the up
There also were constant re-
by Home Savings.
wasn't part of the planned pro-
ing release of "Lethal Weapo
minders of the ongoing conflict
Throughout the tour. Jenkins
gram. but wanted to make a few
on May 15 and "Aliens III" o
between southern Los Angeles and
criticized banks for having an in-
points in no particular order.
22 to get moviegoers back
the banking industry, which has
adequate "delivery system"
There were black-owned busi-
their usual habits.
long been accused of having too
few offices and branches-to get
nesses in the area, he said. but
At the Century City Mall.
little presence in the area. There
credit to people in southern Los
"gangs stuck guns in their faces"
area spared direct impact o
was a block-long line at a check-
Angeles who need it. Steven C,
and they left. The conflict in Los
riots, foot traffic was down 30
cashing store, one of the many that
Hall, a senior vice president for
Angeles isn't "a black-Korean"
Monday and Tuesday from n
have flourished because so few
Wells Fargo. acknowledged that
thing. he said. And social scientists
levels, according to-manager
banks provide the service. A Home
the system is inadequate. but said
should have seen it all coming. but
Sumell. who nevertheless
Savings branch had a line half a
the major banks are trying to
didn't. Having been heard. he led
pressed confidence that bus
block long at its automated teller.
improve it through a coalition
his daughters away.
will soon resume its routine pa
SACRAMENTO BRADLEY INMAN
DRUG: New
Politicians of All Stripes Jump
Kidney Cance
genume.
He spotted a man in his store once
he knew was a shoplifter. But he also
knew he was hungry. After the guy
assistance are made. But leaders
had wandered around for a while,
Leon got tired of watching him and
in the black community disagree
said, "For God's sake, man, steal
Police Wary of Gang Members' Truce
over how to accomplish the
something and leave." He did.
Leon has been mugged and robbed
rebuilding.
a few times, but that hasn't changed
his attitude a damned bit as far as I
Alliance: Clergy and youth
County Probation Department.
said a 29-year-old 74 Hoover Crip called
By PATRICK LEE
can tell. He still gives things away.
"We received intelligence well in ad-
"Oz Dog." who openly wore both red and
TIMES STAFF WRITER
This began when he saw people
counselors see their cooperation
vance of the (Rodney G. King) verdict that
blue clothes in a symbolic marriage of the
taking produce from trash bins behind
as essential to rebuilding
there would be certain informal truces
colors that traditionally have been enough
While community leaders argued over
the store. The next day he put up a
among gangs," said Los Angeles Police
to invite fatal. fire if worn on the wrong
the new direction economic development
sign that said, "If you're broke and
riot-torn areas. But police fear
Cmdr. Ronald Banks. "There is a belief and
turf.
should take in areas devastated by last
hungry, come in and ask for Leon."
organized retaliation against law
perception now that
they are directing
"You're going to see a lot of red and blue
week's riots, more help rolled in Tuesday
They were lined up for three blocks
their efforts towards police."
together. You see it on me now, don't you?"
from philanthropic groups, the South Coast
the next day, Leon says, and he knew
enforcement.
Banks and other police officials said their
said Oz Dog, standing on a busy street
Air Quality Management District and oth-
he couldn't keep that up.
intelligence gathering had gleaned several
corner in South Los Angeles.
ers in industry.
He tried leaving canned food on a
By LOUIS SAHAGUN
indications that gangs were banding to-
Clergy and community activists say such
At the same time, the Rebuild L.A. task
rack outside with a sign that said
and LESLIE BERGER
gether to harm police, including fresh
a truce could be the perfect opportunity to
force headed by Peter V. Ueberroth held its
"Take some, leave some," but one
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
graffiti throughout the city stating, "LAPD
reach out to gangbangers, steer them away
first meeting in what promises to be a
person would take it all so he quit that
with "187" being a reference to the
from crime and include them in jobs and
long-and contentious-effort
too and began giving food to places
S
ome longtime rival gang members
state penal code for homicide.
training programs. One minister, the Rev.
Among the new aid efforts Tuesday:
like convalescent homes instead.
the Bloods and the Crips have reached
But gang members maintained Tuesday
Edgar E Boyd of the Bethel African
Two dozen corporate foundations and
Why was his store spared during
a purported truce that church and
they were negotiating truces because they
Methodist Episcopal Church on South
philanthropic groups met to discuss ways
the riots? "This is a violence-free
community activists hope will redeem
recognized the need to set aside differences
Western Avenue, said his congregation
to coordinate financial and other help.
zone," Leon says with a laugh, then
disaffected youths but that police fear
and protect each other from the police-
plans to meet with gang members Friday to
They agreed to provide food, shelter and
adds simply, "They're my friends."
signals a possible organized retaliation
whom they feared would unfairly target
discuss including them in the rebuilding of
free legal assistance to afflicted communi-
Three hundred years ago John
effort against law enforcement.
them for criminal prosecution in the after-
riot-torn neighborhoods.
ties, and to study longer-term aid, said
Donne wrote, "No man is an island,
As optimistic clergy and youth counsel-
math of last week's looting and arson. So
They have tremendous influence and
Terri Jones, vice president for programs at
entire of itself; every man is a piece of
ors spoke of the chance to involve gang
far the truce effort has involved only a
extraordinary constituencies," Boyd said.
the private California Community Founda-
the continent."
members in rebuilding riot-torn Los An-
handful of the estimated 90,000 active gang
"They demand being involved, and I sup
tion.
Here's a guy who lives that credo
geles on Tuesday, warnings of planned
members in the county, community activ-
port their demand.'
The AQMD said that it would waive
every day of his life, and it works. If
guerrilla attacks against officers were be-
ists said.
Immam Aziz, a Muslim leader who
pollution-control fees for businesses that
only we all did that. If only we were
ing circulated among Los Angeles police
"Instead of shooting each other we
hosted 30 Bloods and Crips in his storefront
want to rebuild in the same location with
all like Leon Lasken.
and sheriff's deputies and the Los Angeles
decided to fight together for black power."
Please see ALLIANCE, B4
Please see HELP, B4
Two
edged
sword
of
truce
LA
TIMES
5/6/92
Anecdotes for President's speech writer:
1. Public support has been tremendous. As military convoys
converged on the Los Angeles area, they were greeted by honking
horns and shouts of encouragement. On the scene, many Los
Angeles businesses supplied the Marines, California National
Guard and soldiers, with free food and drinks.
2. About 20 Marines from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st
Marine Regiment were ambushed at approximately 3 a.m. by an
automatic sprinkler system. They were unaware of the in-ground
system, when the unrolled their sleeping bags to bivouac in the
area. The Marines got a rude and wet awakening when it turned on
in the early morning hours.
3. Marines assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine
Regiment, driven by compassion for a homeless mother of twins,
took up a collection amongst themselves and bought milk and
diapers for the family.
4. The owner of a KMART, preparing to lock up for the night,
discovered a National Guard unit setting up their command post in
the parking lot. Rather than lock up, and knowing it was safe in
their hands, he left the doors open should the troops want a
place to sleep.
5. About 26 soldiers from the 670th Military Police Detachment
left Eureka, Calif., in the wake of the recent earthquake and
assumed duties on the streets of Los Angeles.
6. Everyone but the operations section was on the street cooks
and mechanics became light infantry.
7. "I didn't think about it until we formed in the parking lot,
a car pulled up and dropped a body behind us, shot in the back.
Fires were burning around us, shots were being fired and we were
in the open. The seriousness of the moment became clear, said
Private First Class Damon Goforth, a member of the 670th Military
Police Company.
8. A soldier had just returned from the law enforcement academy.
His unit didn't know he was back, SO they didn't call him for the
mobilization. When he discovered his unit had mobilized, he got
his equipment, drove from Yuma, Ariz. to San Diego, and on his
own motivation jumped from unit to unit until he found his own in
Los Angeles. He said he, "just wanted to be with (his) unit."
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Wash. Post 05-03-92
Uneasy Celebrity-
For 'Gentle' Giant
Beating Victim Called a Private Person
122/170/21
By Avis Thomas-Lester
tion worker and ex-convict as a
Washington Post Staff Writer
soft-spoken, 6-foot-4 gentle gi-
He was first married at 18. In 1989, he was
ant who can sit for hours in
convicted of robbing a grocery store owner who
ALTADENA, Calif., May
front of the television, watching
later told the Los Angeles Times he felt King did
Rodney G. King was on the
Discovery Channel cable shows
not want to hurt him.
verge of tears as he stepped Zo
about animals. And a man
"He just wanted the money," the store owner
the microphone Friday to plead
whose life has been turned up-
said. 1 hit him first. If I didn't hit him, he
with Angelenos to "stop making
side down, not only by the beat-
wouldn't have hit me."
it horrible for the older people
ing, but by the intervening year
Last year, he was arrested for allegedly solic-
and the kids" by rioting in the
of celebrity and the post-verdict
iting a prostitute who turned out to be a trans-
wake of the acquittal of four
vestite.
riots that have swept Los An-
police officers accused of beat-
geles.
But many who know him insist he is, as one
ing him.
Acquaintances said King has
described him, "a wonderful boy."
"Do you see how he is right
"You just have to know this man to know how
been forced by his unwelcome
there? Do you see him? Well
celebrity into seclusion with his
ridiculous this whole thing is," said Al Barnes, his
uncle by marriage.
second wife, Crystal, at a loca-
"He's gentle. That's the best word to describe
tion kept secret even from some
him. I watched the speech at work and my co-
Well that's
of his friends.
workers were saying they were surprised he was
When he leaves his home OR
8 handsome guy. They were feeling like 'He's
Rodney King-
outings, he is often accompa-
not a monster at all. He's not a gorilla."
nied by body guards.
that's the whole
His mother has had her tele-
Cousin Towanda Thompson, 19, who lives
phone number changed several
next door to King's old house, said the "whole
man right there.
times, and his children have
family" has been affected by the turn of events.
been teased in school.
"We've got a lot of people who come and both-
I've known
"This has been real hard on
er us," she said. "There are a lot of reporters and
him because he is a private per-
him since he was
news people. And, like yesterday, a lady came by
son," said Sean Thompson, 24,
and said she just wanted to pray for him. She
who lived with King before
didn't even know him."
a boy and I can
Thompson was married.
His relatives, and his lawyer, have been vir-
"Now, because of this situa-
tell you, he's not
tually King's only contacts since the beating, and
tion, they have had to keep on
provide most of his income, acquaintances said.
like the police
moving. His lawyers got him
His days are spent watching television. During
body guards. He got tired of it.
the trial of the four officers, which he did not
and media have
He said he couldn't stand to
attend, King read every newspaper article and
have people hovering over him.
watched every news broadcast, Sean Thompson
portrayed him.
"Sometimes he would elude
said.
the security and ask me to, go
"He knows that he has got to get used to being
-store owner Glenn Ford
with him when he had to go
out in public again," he said. "It will be hard be-
out."
cause people recognize him."
that's Rodney King-that's the
According to relatives, King
In an interview yesterday with the Los Ange-
whole man right there. That's
was born in Sacramento, but his
les Times, King said he now has trouble eleeping
him," 36-year-old store owner
family moved to Altadena when
Glenn Ford told people watch-
he was young. Now, more than
and had "headaches all the time" as a result of
ing the televised news confer-
25 of his relatives live within
the injuries he suffered during the beating, in-
ence.
two miles of his old house on
cluding numerous broken facial bones. Relatives
"I've known him since he was
Lincoln Avenue and get togeth-
said he has suffered permanent brain damage
a boy and I can tell you, he's not
er often.
and has trouble with his eye and walks with a
like the police and media have
"permanent limp."
As a child, he played Little
portrayed him."
League baseball and often
"You can be talking to him and he will just zone
In this working-to-middle-
avoided schoolwork, which he
out," his aunt, Kandyce Barnes, said. "Then you
class suburb nestled in the foot-
have to snap your fingers like"-she snapped her
sometimes found so difficult
hills of the Sierra Madre Moun-
fingers three times-"are you with me here?
that in high school he was
And then he'll pay attention again."
tains where King, 26, has lived
placed in special education
King's fondest memory since the beating, the
for 20 years, his beating by Los
classes before dropping out in
Los Angeles Times said, was of an incident that
Angeles Police Department of-
the 11th grade.
occurred two months ago at a local gas station.
ficers on March 3, 1991, cap-
As a teenager, he worked
He unexpectedly noticed George Holliday, the
tured on an amateur videotape,
construction and odd jobs with
man whose amateur videotape of the beating
is his only claim to fame.
his father and grandfather and
shocked the country. King said he went up and
Friends and relatives here
at a McDonald's restaurant.
shook Holliday's hand.
describe the former construc-
"The guy's a hero," King said. "He's a real he-
Γo. He Treal man. It took a lot of courage to do
what he did. And I told him no one would have
believed me otherwise."
Story of a victim
WASH. POST: 05/04/92
A Murder Marked by Irony
Mechanic Going to Aid Black Friend Had Decried Verdicts
122/21
By Roxana Kopetman and Greg Krikorian
Los Angeles Times
who didn't think the King verdict/
LONG BEACH, Calif., May 3-If his killers
was wrong."
had known of his anger at the system or that he
they lay on the ground, Haines and
This weekend, friends said, Hai-
shared their outrage at the Rodney G. King ver-
Coleman had no chance to escape.
nes, a slight man with a mustache
dict, Matt Haines of Long Beach might not have
"A guy put his gun up [Haines's]
and long, dark hair, had planned to
been murdered when rioting in that city turned
helmet and shot him," said Jeff Bald-
go to Las Vegas for a convention of
its streets into battlefields.
win, Haines's brother-in-law.
"Star Trek" fans. He was supposed to
But Haines, 32, a white mechanic, never had a
The gunman shot Coleman three
be in charge of security, they said.
chance to talk with his murderers or to tell them
times in the arm, then held the gun
Born in Philadelphia and raised in
that he was headed to the home of a black friend
to Coleman's face and pulled the
Houston, Haines moved to the Los
who could not start her van.
trigger. But the gun did not fire.
Angeles area about five years ago.
Of all of the murders that marked last week's
As the crowd scattered, Coleman
He retained a slight Texas twang,
unrest, none may have been as ironic as that of
later told family and friends, he
and was described as a "free spirit"
Haines, gunned down after he was stopped by a
dragged himself over to his dying
and a skilled mechanic who always
mob of black men and teenagers as he and his
uncle but could not make out his fi-
made time to help others with their
nephew, Scott Coleman, 26, rode Haines's mo-
nal words.
cars, even strangers on the highway.
torcycle to a friend's apartment here.
On Saturday, Haines's friends
"He spent all of his spare time
Haines and Coleman were inseparable, best
and family could not make sense of
helping people," his sister said.
friends and roommates, according to family and
what happened.
Late Saturday, Long Beach de-
friends. So when Haines's friend, a black woman
"We believe that these guys were
tective Tim Cable said police had
named Skeeter, called for help, the two set out
acting out their rage against the in-
arrested five people, including two
about 6 p.m. Thursday from their apartment,
justice of the [King verdict] and my
teenagers, in connection with the
uncle and cousin just happened to
killing of Haines and the attempted
After they left, rioting grew fierce in Long
be there," Katrina Haines said. "It's
murder of his nephew. Charges
Beach, and Skeeter tried desperately to reach
not rational. It's very senseless."
were pending.
them by phone, to tell them not to come. But the
Haines and Coleman had decried
"I'm surprised and pleased," Hai-
outcome was a brutal and tragic example of how
the verdicts in the hours before
nes's sister said late Saturday.
violence flared uncontrolled.
their attack, Katrina said.
Since the shooting, she said, her
Coleman declined to be interviewed, but his
"If this would have been a war,"
son "Scott is very lost. He is very
family and friends said he told them Saturday
Katrina said, "they would have
alone. He can't believe this has hap-
that he and Haines were en route to the woman's
signed up on the side of the guys who
pened."
apartment when about 15 men and teenagers
killed them. They were very disillu-
Neither could friends who remem-
surrounded them.
sioned with the system as well."
bered what Matt Haines was like.
"Matt told them: 'Hey, we're on your side,'
Haines's sister, Cris Baldwin,
"He helped people out," Sheesley
said Katrina Haines, 21, the dead man's niece.
said: "Had they bothered to even
said to Doug Griffin, another long-
"But the situation got out of hand. They didn't
speak with him, they would have
time friend of Haines.
found out they didn't need to kill
"Till the last minute," Griffin re-
try to escape."
Troy Sheesley, who worked with Haines, said
him. There's no one in our family
plied.
Coleman told him that Haines pushed his nephew
off the bike so he could escape. "Matt told Scott
to get off and run, and he would meet him at
home," Sheesley said.
But in an instant, he added, several in the crowd
grabbed the cycle's front wheel and tipped it back-
ward, knocking both men to the street. Beaten as
Ueberroth appointed head of rebuilding LA
WASH. POST: 05/04/92
Los Angeles's Cleanup Hitter
Riot-Area Rebuilder Ueberroth Ran Summer Olympics, Baseball
Reuter 21/122
his offer to buy now-defunct Eastern
roth later started R charter airline
NEW YORK-Businessman and
Airlines in April 1989, The bid failed
service that failed.
civic activist Peter Ueberroth, a for-
when the company that then owned
In 1963, with one employee and
mer major league baseball commis-
Eastern, controlled by Frank Lo-
$5,000, he formed a centralized res-
sioner and head of the committee
renzo, and Ueberroth could not
ervation service for airlines, hotels
that organized the 1984 Summer
agree on who would control the air-
and passenger ships, Over the next
Olympic Games in Los Angeles, may
line until the sale was completed.
be facing his most daunting task.
Peter Victor Ueberroth was born
10 years, he bought a majority inter-
On Saturday, Los Angeles Mayor
in Evanston, III., on Sept. 2, 1937
est in Ask Mr. Foster and other trav-
the son of a traveling aluminum sid-
el agencies and founded Colony Ho-
Tom Bradley selected Ueberroth,
ing salesman, or "tin man." His moth-
tels, a manager of resort properties.
54, to take charge of rebuilding parts
er died when he was 4. His father
By 1980, his firm, First Travel
of Los Angeles devastated by the
Corp,, was one of the largest travel
deadliest riots in recent memory,
remarried and eventually settled in
California,
companies in the United States, with
Ueberroth is known as 8 smart,
Ueberroth simultaneously worked
annual revenue of $300 million
tough negotiator and a good organ-
and played a variety of sports in high
Ueberroth's business skills, cou-
izer who is skilled at keeping the
school and college, and in 1956 was
pled with his sports background, led
peace but mobilising powerful people
named an alternate for the U.S.
an executive search firm to recom-
to his cause.
Olympic water polo team. In 1959 he
mend him over 200 others to man-
His committee ran the 1984 Los
married Virginia Nicolaus, his col-
age the 1984 Summer Olympics,
Angeles Summer Games at a sur-
lege sweetheart.
After the Olympics he was picked
plus, unusual in modern Olympic his-
They moved to Hawaii, where he
to be baseball commissioner, but
tory.
was soon hired by financier Kirk
owners, with whom he often clashed,
Perhaps the most visible setback
Kerkorian to help get a non-sched-
did not rehire him after his five-year
in a successful business career was
uled airline off the ground. Ueber-
term ended.
Los Angeles Curfew
Is Lifted; Death Toll
From Riot Rises to 58
Continued From Page A3
those destroyed were company-owned.
Robert Wycoff. Arco's president, said
that over the weekend about 25% of Arco's
approximately 500 stations in Los Angeles
County were out of service. but most have
reopened.
Travellers Express Co., a unit of Dial
Corp.. warned that lost or stolen money
orders it had issued may be in circulation
following the riots. Travellers Express.
based in Minneapolis, sells money orders
through convenience. grocery and liquor
stores. as well as check-cashing businesses
and financial institutions. Such establish-
ments were heavily looted and some
burned in parts of Los Angeles. A spokes-
woman estimated that it might have about
100 outlets in riot-affected areas.
Businesses. and other Institutions an-
nounced efforts to rebuild the city. The
Bank of America said it will lend as much
as 525 million to damaged small businesses
under special programs The bank said
that, among other things, it will offer unse-
cured "interim" loans for as many as
three monthsat fixed rates to businesses in
need. II said it also will offer loans to repair
houses and other personal property.
State legislators, meanwhile, proposed
a temporary quarter-of-a-point increase in
California's 8%-plus sales taxes. A similar
temporary levy was invoked at the time of
the 1989 San Francisco-area earthquake.
However, a spokesman for Gov. Pete Wil-
son said such a step-must await more
accurate estimate of the monetary dam-
ages.
Heinz Is Withdrawing Jars
Of Baby Food in Australia
By a WALL STREET JOURNAL-Staff Reporter
PITTSBURGH - H.J. Heinz Co. said It
is withdrawing jars of its baby food from
store shelves in Western Australia after a
cyanide scare.
Police in Western Australla Monday
received a cyanide-laced jar of Heinz's
Rosehip Gel baby food with a note pro-
testing last week's not-guilty verdicts on
Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney
King case. Police in the Australian state
called It the first reported act of protest in
Australia stemming from the California
trial.
The note accompanying the jar said
five other jars of baby food had been
poisoned "for the cops." The note
read, in part: "We are protesting against
We
M
the Los Angeles rigged trial.
aborigines are sick of mistreatment and
racism." Aboriginal groups make up
10
27 of Western Australia's population of
more than one million.
Chief Inspector Bob Taylor said police
had received no reports of poisonings or
cases of tampered jars. He said parents in
Western Australia were advised not to
feed babies "any product bought in a
glass container" after the verdict.
without in the race. Independent-challengencer andependent schallengence
possible
Bush Sends Officials
Ross Perot because voters have crisis than
this is of this they
To Survey Aftermath
in Mr. a presidency,andeal because
Of Los Angeles Riots
problems more succestully
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Continued From Page A3
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near tears, asked him for help in getting
IT'S MORE THAN A CANOE
baby
formula. someone to help you," with he an
BUT WEIGHS ONLY 28 LBS!
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For a brochure
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and information
stable, durable
call Phoenix
and easy to
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less than
1-606-986-2336
cording Mirror Co., which owns survey
Times Times. The nationwide April 30
$800:
Angeles respondents, conducted dead-
of 1,301 May 3, shows the president with and
through locked with Mr. Clinton, both
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PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT
AS a between April 29, 1992 and May 3, 1992, three (3) public Jordan
result of the civil disobedience occurring in the city of Los
Angeles housing developments located in Watts; Hacienda village, These
Downs and Nickerson Gardens, were left with no electricity.
developments are comprised of 2,480 apartments which house the
distruction of the commercial districts in the area there was
approximately 7,000 residents. Because of the power outage and a
great need for food and other essential life sustaining items.
A private sector company, the Camino Real Food, Inc., of Vernon, and
California, through their Manager of Corporate Planning
Control, Mr. Thomas Gaulden, delivered to the residents of those
developments 18,000 sandwiches.
Here's an anecdote about decent
people doing good work. Perhaps a
Speech insert ?
Please
give to
carol in the
research
office before
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RTD ACTIVITIES DURING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
APRIL 29, 1992 TO MAY 5, 1992
April 29, 1992: Wednesday
1. starting approximately 6:00 P.M., the RTD began to experience
service disruption due to civil disturbances. Several
District employees were assaulted, fortunately none seriously.
2. Close communications were established between the RTD, the LA
Police Department, and the Los Angeles Fire Department. This
remained in effect throughout the state of emergency.
3. District service was withdrawn from the area immediately
impacted by violence.
4.
The Los Angeles Police Department occupied the District bus
facility at 54th and Arlington in southwest Los Angeles at
Operations Center at that location. RTD personnel remained at
approximately 9:00 P.M. and established the Emergency
this location to assist the police, sheriff, and fire
departments. site of Approx. 4500 police, troops, national guard etc. occupied the
5.
the peck of operation
Transit Police units were assigned to protect District
facilities and to assist the Los Angeles Police Department.
6. At approximately 10:00 P.M., all District service
suspended due to a rapid spread of violence throughout the was
service area.
7.
Due to the loss of the facility at 54th and Arlington, 190
Angeles, and West Hollywood.
pull-in to three other locations in Carson, downtown Los
SCRTD buses and employees were immediately re-assigned to
8.
The RTD provided five buses to transport police, sheriff, and
fire department personnel.
April 30, 1992: Thursday
1. At 3:00 A.M., RTD supervisors began to survey streets in the
riot area to assess the feasibility of resuming service.
2. At 4:00 A.M., the RTD service was restored outside of
in immediate area of civil disturbance. A total of 28 bus lines the
the immediate area of the disturbance were operated.
3.
Gardena Transit, Montebello, Long Beach, Torrance, from
Riverside Before 6:00 A.M., the RTD received telephone inquires
Angeles available City Business District. Based upon the information Los
regarding the feasibility of operating to the and
operations maintained service into Los Angeles.
from police authorities and RTD surveys, these
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4.
At approximately 8:00 A.M., the RTD added service to the E1
Monte busway to carry passengers stranded due to the
discontinuance of service by another carrier.
5.
At Approximately 1:00 P.M., violence, again, began to spread
rapidly and service was discontinued on major RTD lines such
as Wilshire and Beverly. Many additional line cancellations
occurred during the afternoon.
6. Due to major rioting and fires along Washington Blvd., service
on the RTD Metro Blue Line was suspended north of Washington
Station. To maintain passenger service, a bus bridge was
immediately established between Washington Station and the
northern Blue Line terminal at 7th and Figueroa.
7. Due to continued rapid spread of violence and the city curfew,
all RTD service was suspended at 6:00 P.M.
8.
The RTD provided fuel and some maintenance support to police
emergency. and fire equipment. This continued throughout the state of
9.
A total of 88 buses were provided to transport police,
sheriff, and fire personnel.
May 1, 1992: Friday
1.
At 4:00 A.M., RTD Supervisors began to survey streets in the
riot areas to assess feasibility of resuming service and to
determine necessary detours and temporary terminals. Plans
were initiated to restore all services except 28 lines in the
immediate area of the disturbance.
2.
At 6:00 A.M., RTD buses and trains, again, resumed service.
3. The RTD again added service to the El Monte Busway to
service discontinuance by another carrier.
transport passengers unable to reach Los Angeles due to
4.
Approximately seven lines were suspended during the day due to
specific incidents of violence.
5.
Service District. was maintained until 6:00 P.M. in all areas of the
6.
A total of 106 buses were provided to transport police,
victims, and to move prisoners.
sheriff, National Guard personnel, Red Cross buses for fire
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May 2, 1992: saturday
1. At 6:00 A.M., RTD service was restored on all lines outside of
the immediate area of civil disturbance.
2. At about noon, RTD service was restored on four lines within
the area of civil disturbance for patrons in need of obtaining
food and other necessities.
3. The RTD, again, added service to the El Monte Busway.
4. At about 5:00 P.M., the RTD suspended service on lines within
the P.M. civil disturbance area and all service concluded at 6:00
&
5.
The RTD provided 82 buses to transport the U.S. Marines and
other authorities.
May 3, 1992: Sunday
1. At 6:00 A.M., RTD resumed service on all lines.
2. The RTD, again, added service on the El Monte Busway without
service incident.
3. At 6:00 P.M., service was concluded due to the various curfews
in effect.
4. The RTD provided 62 buses to transport various military and
civil personnel.
May 4, 1992: Monday
1. At 6:00 A.M., the RTD resumed service on all lines without
serious incident.
*
2.
The RTD provided 115 buses to transport various military and
civil personnel.
*
3, The incident. RTD operated all night and OWI service without serious
May 5, 1992: Tuesday
1.
The District operated all regular scheduled service and
provided 33 buses to transport military and civil personnel.
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L.A VIOLENCE
The latest totals in Los Angeles af-
SF Examiner
ter a jury Wednesday acquitted
May A 5, A-12 1992
four officers accused of beating
motorist Rodney King :
FATALITIES: 58
P
INJURIES: 2,328
ARRESTS: More than 12,000
OFFICE
PROPERTY BURNED: More
'92 12:25 FROM GOVERNORS SF
than 5,200 buildings heavily dam-
aged or destroyed by fire through-
out Los Angeles County
DAMAGE: At least $717 million
in Southern California
MAY 5
L.A. Curfew Lifted; Troops Stay on Patrol
THE SITUATION IN LOS ANGELES
Hollywood
Sites of some of
Death Toll Reaches 58 as Attention Turns to Rebuilding Economy in Riot-Torn Areas
Beverfy
the fatal Injuries
101
Hills
Lesf
Smith
culture of old Los Angeles" and will
010
reopen each store. Four Thrifty
Downtown
stores were burned to the ground,
Los Angeles
ALOS ANGELES, May
so
Tom Bradley lifted the nightt
and 19 others were looted, many
curiew today and schools reopened,
automaively.
Sports Arena
TROOPS:
but this riot-torn city kept its guard
Food 4 Less, a corporation that
Nearly 2,000 police
operates 44 grocery stores in the
About 7,500 National
up throughout the night, with
affected area, suffered major losses,
South
Central
Los
Guard, 4,000-4,300
troops and police patrolling in
deployed
looted and burned neighborhoods.
with damage estimated between $30
About 1,400 Marines
"All of the signs of normalcy have.
million and $50 million Looters and
available, 600-800 deployed
3,000 Army available,
returned," said Bradley, who new-
vandals struck each of its stores, and
two were burned down.
none deployed
ertheless said troops would remain
Watts
1,000 prison guards,
The corporation took a full-page
Inglawood
here indefinitely. "We hope that the
border agents and others
people also will feel that sense of
ad in the Los Angeles Times. pro-
LA.
available, about 550
claiming that its stores, many of
International
deployed
encouragement that they know
we're on the streets of this city to
them known Boys Markets, would
Airport
ensure security for them,
reopen, Because of this tragedy, it
0
5
doesn't mean we're leaving." said
Compton
The death toll from riots that
have rocked the nation's second
Adrienne Gaines, vice president of
VIID
MILES
Gardena
most populous city rose to 58, with
the firm: "We're the nourishment to
the heart of the city."
01
19
the deaths of seven people hospi-
BY
FRED
POST
talized in critical condition and the
But on dark streets, where several
Television show host Arsenio Hall, left, and Jesse L Jackson pray at bedside of
thousand homes remained without
Deaths
Injuries
Damage
Arrests
shooting of a Hispanic man who
Reggie Whitney, who was hospitalized within stab wound sustained during riots.
tried to ram a National Guard bar-
power, concerns remained.
Lee
58
About
At least $700
More than
ricade Sunday night.
Sgt. Wes McBride of the Los An-
300
million
11,900
As of late today, coroners had
"The real looting was of jobs,"
commitment to work together,
geles County Sheriff's office said po-
Miami (Liberty City)
18
400+
190 businesses
1,267
identified 32 victims by name and 53
said Joel Saperstein, a business as-
maybe we can' turn this situation
lice were concerned "about the
May. 18-20, 1980
destroyed
by race and sex, Associated Press
sociate and spokesman for Peter V.
around to create jobs, ha unid,)
amount of new firepower on the
Detroit
43
2,000+
Fires destroy
7,207
reported. Forty-nine are men, 23 are
Ueberroth. Ueberroth was named
West said it was important that
street" because gun stores were
July 23-28-1967
477 buildings
black, 19 Hispanic, nine white and
by Bradley to head the reconstruc-
manufacturing jobs, on at steady
looted. David Boyd, a gun dealer
Newark, NJ
26
1,500
More than
1,397
two Asian. Two fatalities are listed
tion effort, known as "Rebuild L.A."
downward spiral. in Southern Cal-
near the heart of the riot, said all of
July 12-17, 1967
300 fires
as men who are of unknown race and
Ueberroth, former baseball com-
ifornia, be entired back to the area.
his store's 1,000 weapons were ta-
$1
1,032
200 buildings
3,952
were fire victims.
missioner and head of the commit-
While Bradley and Wilson have
ken.
destroyed,
City officials said damages from
tee that organized the 1984 sum-
expressed great confidence in
Kevin Heard, a gang member
800+ damaged
riots that erupted Wednesday after
mer Olympic Games here, toured
Ueberroth's ability to funnel cor-
from Hawthorne, said people on the
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, KRT Graphics, Associated Press, news reports
four white Los Angeles police of-
the devastated areas Sunday and
porate funds into a rebuilding ef-
streets are well aware of this lethal
BY DAVE COOK-THE MASHINGTON POST
ficers were virtually exonerated in
said it would be several days before
fort, other politicians have said
booty. "There's going to be a lot
the beating of black motorist Rod-
he would know how much money is
more than economic redevelopment
more drive-bys [shootings] because
area said they had filled a parking
regular guy. I work. I go home. I
ney G. King topped $700 million.
needed to accomplish rebuilding.
is needed.
they all got new stuff and want to
lot with goods recovered from loot-
never wanted to be famous."
But representatives of major cor-
State Sen. Art Torres (D), who
"It isn't just physical rebuilding
flaunt it," he said.
ers identified by neighbors.
In New York today, Bryant Allen,
porations, who met here late today
represents some of the burned-out
that we need," said Los Angeles
Firearms have taken a heavy toll.
At Daniel Freeman Memorial Hos-
a passenger in King's car when
with Gov. Pete Wilson (R), said it
area, proposed a quarter-cent sales-
County Supervisor Gloria Molina,
Scott Carrier, a spokesman for the
pital in south-central Los Angeles,
King was stopped and beaten
was too early to give a comprehen-
tax increase that he said would
the first Hispanic and first woman
county coroner, said that, of 58
where many of the first casualties
sive list of the damages or to say how
raise $700 million to $800 million.
March 3, 1991, said that police beat
to serve on the county board. "It
deaths recorded thus far, 37 re-
were taken last week, the condition
many burned-out businesses would
This was the remedy used to re-
him too but that he was forbidden to
isn't just a matter of getting busi-
sulted from gunshot wounds, includ-
of Reginald Denny was upgraded to
reopen. At least 10,000 stores are
build after the disastrous Loma
testify about it at the officers' trial.
nesses back into the community.
ing seven in encounters with police.
good, and Denny learned for the first
believed to have been burned com-
Prieta earthquake caused about $6
We need social rebuilding, a spirit
The latest gunshot death oc-
time about the rioting.
Allen's allegations were aired on
pletely or badly damaged.
billion damage, much of it to pub-
of trust."
curred Sunday night when three
In the first minutes of the riot,
the Montel Williams syndicated
Wilson gave an optimistic assess-
licly owned facilities, in northern
Annie Reutinger of ARCO, lead-
National Guard soldiers fired 14
Denny, who is white, was pulled
television show along with a stop-
ment after the meeting with repre-
California in October 1989.
ing operator of gasoline stations in
shots with M-16 rifles at the driver
from the cab of his cement truck
motion videotape that Allen said
sentatives of banks, food stores and
Kirk West, president of the Cal-
the devastated area, gave an exam-
of a sports car who apparently tried
and seriously beaten, an event cap-
showed him being hit.
fuel companies. "I was enormously
ifornia Chamber of Commerce and a
ple of the problem. Ten ARCO sta-
to run over them. The victim, a His-
tured on television by hovering hel-
But Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman
cheered by what I heard," be said.
former deputy state finance direc-
tions were burned down in the Los
panic man, died from head wounds,
icopters from local news stations
for Los Angeles District Attorney
These are good corporate citizens.
tor, said he hoped that the tragedy
Angeles area, and 32 were, dam-
but his identity was not released,
and seen worldwide. Four blacks
Ira Reiner, said Allen told investi-
You could say they have every rea-
here would "galvanize action" by
aged and looted so severely that
pending notification of next of kin,
rescued Denny and helped him to
gators then that he had not been hit
on to turn their back and walk away,
corporations in the area.
they had to be closed, she said.
authorities said.
the hospital.
and had changed his story only after
but they are going to stay."
West called for emergency pre-
Seven are company-owned sta-
According to officials at the Emer-
"He was shocked when I told him
hiring a lawyer. She also said Allen
Meanwhile, Los Angeles City
approval to allow businesses to re-
tions that will be rebuilt and
gency Operations Center here, there
what happened to him," Cicily Kahn,
Council member Mike Hernandez
was not asked about his allegations
build with a minimum of govern-
opened, she said, but independent
have been more than 2,280 injuries
a social worker at the hospital, told
aid national AFL-CIO officials had
ment red tape. He noted that this
during the trial because they in-
owners lease most of the others and
and more than 11,900 arrests, chief-
Associated Press. He didn't know
romised to commit between $50
was not done after devastating
volved officers other than those
will need large suma of money to
ly for looting. Arraignments contin-
there was a war on the streets, and
million and $70 million for recon-
fires, which caused more than $1
accused of assaulting King.
reopen.
ued at a slow pace today.
truction.
he just happened to be one of the
billion in damage in Oakland
Chris
vice
Meanwhile, police said alleged
first victims."
Staff writers Ruben Castaneda, Al
As high as they are, damage fig-
year, and said many
looters were being turned in by
res are likely to pale in comparison
Kahn said Denny, 36, who cannot
Kamen, Carlos Sanchez, Paul
have not been rebuilt.
manages the area's largest drug
neighbors who disapproved of their
ith the city's job losses.
speak because of massive facial in-
Taylor and Avis Thomas-Lester
"If there is a public and private
chain, said the chain is "part of the
activities. Police in the riot-torn
juries, wrote in a note: "I'm just a
contributed to this report.
Wash. Post 05-03-92
For Hospital,
A Torrent
Freeman was so overwhelmed
that within hours of the verdict in
the Rodney G. King beating trial,
Of Violence
the hospital had declared internal
disaster alerts, meaning paramedics
should take patients elsewhere.
What officials did not know, how-
Riot's Early Victims
ever, was that the violence in south-
central Los Angeles was so ex-
Inundated Freeman
treme that paramedics stopped go-
102/1/172
ing into the area, and most of the
patients were being brought in by
By Carlos Sanchez
civilians.
Washington Post Staff Writer
"It looked like a scene from [the
INGLEWOOD, Calif., May 2-
television series] M*A*S*H," said
The military cots scattered about
Pete Bastone, the hospital admin-
the waiting room were the only re-
istrator. "They were coming in on
minders inside Daniel Freeman Me-
flat-bed trucks and private vehicles.
morial Hospital today of the storm
We were triaging patients outside
of violence that swept through this
in the waiting room."
In one case, a 13-year-old boy
area.
had been struck by a car, and his
Six Los Angeles area hospitals
handled the bulk of nearly 2,000
mother, concerned about spinal in-
injuries and 44 fatalities during
jury, strapped him to an ironing
board before bringing him in.
three days of rioting in Los Angeles
Colonnelli remembered seeing a
this week.
But it was Freeman, the smallest
man walk in looking dazed and hold-
of them, that saw the terrible open-
ing up his hand, where the bloody
ing round of one of the nation's
stumps that were once his fingers
attested to the explosion in which
worst riots this century.
We didn't see anything new in
he had been involved.
terms of types of injuries, but it was
A nude woman was brought in
like they took six months of trauma
after she had been raped. Her as-
sailant told her that since she had
and compressed it into 12 hours,"
said Bayliss B. Yarnell, medical di-
seen him, he would have to kill her,
and then shot her in the eye.
rector of the 15-bed emergency
department in this private, Catholic
And there was Reginald Denny,
the white truck driver whose se-
hospital, run by the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet.
vere beating and shooting was wit-
Just a few blocks south of where
nessed by millions of television
viewers around the world.
three days of looting, burning, in-
"He had severe facial and head
jury and death began, this hospital
was where the first injured from the
trauma," Yarnell said. "By the time
he came in, he had already stopped
riots were brought.
And it is here where the riot's
breathing. I'll never forget that
most famous victim 36-year-old
scene."
white truck driver who was pulled
All these victims survived. Only
from his vehicle severely beaten
two brought to Freeman did not.
and shot in front of a television
No one was spared the violence.
camera-lies unconscious and flirt-
The harbinger of what to expect at
Freeman that first night came with
ing with death.
Several staff members at Free-
the hospital's first patient after the
man today offered a glimpse of what
verdict: One of the hospital's nuns
it was like treating a torrent of
on her way home had been struck
dazed and injured people during
by bricks and shattered glass, lac-
nearly 36 hours of nonstop violence.
erating and fracturing her arm.
"This was nothing like anything
The emergency traffic has since
I've ever seen before," said Kim
abated, but the hospital must now
Colonnelli, the emergency services
contend with the interests of a
nursing director and a 15-year vet-
world.
eran of Les Angeles emergency
! Media and private citizens from
as far away as London and Australia
rooms.
"I felt like I was spiraling around
have been calling this hospital
and not making any headway."
whose previous claim to fame was
In a span of just hours, nearly
its role in last year's USAir plane
200 patients-most with trauma
crash at nearby Los Angeles Inter-
injuries-brought through the
national Airport.
emergency room glimpses of the
$ "I feel like we went through a
terrifying violence that was con-
deal test," said Yarnell. "We met the
suming the streets just blocks away.
test and 4 passed."
1062
05/02/92
Shovels, Brooms Become
for First Interstate Bank. "I
thought that was. darned good
idea. gets rid of this helpless
Tools of Healing and Hope
feeling."
The volunteers on Degnan
ranged from elementary school-
age youngsters to retirees, and
Community: Black, Anglo and Latino volunteers join
they moved from shop to shop,
to sweep up debris to reclaim their neighborhoods.
shoveling smoldering debris off
sidewalks before hosing them
They worked with a van full of
down.
By EDWARD BOYER
21/120/195
brooms and shovels donated by a
and MARC LACEY
neighborhood hardware store.
t infuriates me; it saddens me
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
The scene along Vermont was an
to see us do this to our own
Chad Mac leaned into a shovel
incredible reversal from Thursday
people." said Cathy Bell. who came
full of debris outside a row of
night. What had been caravans of
with friends to help clean. "There
burned-out shops Friday at Pico
looters became caravans of people
must be peace in a storm. Some-
volunteering to go from site to site
thing good must come out of this. I
Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
pray to God that it does."
clearing the sidewalk of smolder-
and clean up.
Across the street, Alden Kim-
ing embers that were once an
A blonde woman pedaled a bicy-
cle up Vermont carrying a broom
brough sat outside his Congo
appliance store.
Just a year ago I was in the
and a dustpan on her handlebars.
Square Gallery providing lunch for
cleanup in Kuwait and Saudi Ara-
Near her, two men walked down
volunteers who were cleaning
the sidewalk with a freshly looted
sidewalks at each end of the block.
bia," said Mac, 19, a member of the
mattress and box spring on their
"We saw folks working here,
Marine Corps stationed in El Toro.
"Now you have to turn around and
and we knew they would get
shoulders.
do the same thing in your own back
hungry." he said. "We're doing this
for anybody in the neighborhood
yard. It's sad."
C
ars cruised Vermont and many
Mac said his mother lives in the
occupants waved, honked
who wants something to eat.
neighborhood. and "I decided to
horns and gave the peace sign to
There's a lot of good energy on this
come out and give a hand."
those cleaning up. At a mini-mall
block."
On block after burned-out block
complex where several shops had
Sitting outside the gallery, Jack-
from the Fairfax district to Cren-
been gutted, a truck pulled in
ie Ryan said "people came out of no
shaw Boulevard, from Leimert
carrying about 15 UCLA students
where" to save 2,000 masks, drums
Park to Western Avenue, phalanx-
who went to work with brooms and
and other pieces in the Museum of
African Art across the street.
es of volunteers such as Mac ven-
shovels
They were joined by another
They moved the art objects to
tured forth with tangible symbols
of their commitment to their com-
volunteer group that included El-
the middle of the street to protect
munities-shovels, brooms, water
more Dingle, 31. "I especially
them from a fire threatening the
wanted to help the Koreans," said
museum Thursday. stood guard
hoses, trash containers.
African-Americans, Anglos and
Dingle, who is black. "I don't want
over them all night and moved
them to think so negatively about
them back inside when the build-
Latinos working together tempo-
rarily put aside their pain and
blacks. The violence last night
ing was spared, she said.
In another South Los Angeles
outrage over the wanton destruc-
wasn't real.
tion and took to the streets to
"This is real."
neighborhood, about half a dozen
At one point Dingle led Evelyn
ministers who belong to the Minis-
reclaim their neighborhoods.
Binz, 90, a neighborhood resident,
ters Coalition for Peace encour-
"You gotta get together; you
gotta get healed, said Joe Connol-
through the rubble and urged her
aged residents to keep calm.
dy. 37. as he worked side by side
to be careful.
"The healing is going to take a
with Mac on Pico. "The King
"I haven't been out in two days."
long time," said the Rev. Carl
verdict is not right. Looting is not
she said. "I had to get out. This
Washington of St. Mark's Baptist
right."
[destruction] is really sad to see.
Church. "It starts with sweeping
Therrian Zeigler, 34, who also
This was one of several multi-
up the mess. But it just starts there.
ethnic groups of cleanup volun-
Folks are demanding respect,
lives in the neighborhood, was
driving by when he decided to
teers. There was also a group of
equality, justice. Those things take
return home and "grab my shovel.
motion picture industry profes-
time. We're trying to get to their
It has to start somewhere. At least
sionals, including a film publicist
hearts. They've been acting on
and a set designer. And two admin-
their emotions, their anger, their
people can say not everybody's
gone crazy."
istrators at Antioch College in
rage."
When the shops on Pico went up
Venice were sweeping broken
At a Lucky supermarket on
in flames Thursday night, Roberto
glass from the sidewalks across the
Figueroa Street and Vernon Ave-
Martinez, 8, and his family were
street from burned-out mini-malls
nue, Jimmy Giles Jr., 28, was
evacuated from their nearby on
Vermont.
volunteering to do what he does for
apartment on Fairfax.
"We've been going from area to
a living- owns a company
"Today I decided to come help." area, cleaning up, said Mitch
called Faith General Services that
Roberto said as he pushed a broom Krindel, a film publicist. "This
cleans up businesses for pay.
across the hosed-down sidewalk.
brings people into some sense of
He moved across the street to
"I don't want to have to go some-
community. It shows we're all one
the Unocal station with no concern
for who owned it. It was the station
place else no more."
people."
But for the Rev. Fred Stoez, who
Laurien Alexandre, a dean of
where he bought gas for his truck
led a group a volunteers cleaning
academic affairs at Antioch, said
before the vandals hit.
up Vermont Avenue, the thought
she and her friends "had a desire to
"This is the community I live in,"
of moving at first seemed an idea
help in some way. "We decried the
he said. "Some folks are at home
whose time had come.
verdict, but we wanted to do
watching their new 25-inch TV set
"My wife and I were thinking of
something that in a small way
on their new couch. drinking a cold
leaving town," he said. "We
might build a more equitable soci-
beer they didn't buy. At least, I'm
couldn't stand seeing the violence
ety. If it means getting out with
doing my part. It may not look good
or even watching it on TV. This is
brooms and shovels to show that
out here. but believe me, my man,
one way we can do our part by
it's not just us versus them, we'll do
it looks better than when I start-
cleaning up and putting this behind
it."
ed."
us."
In View Park, Baldwin Hills and
At a mini-mall on Western Ave-
Stoez, pastor of Celebration
Leimert Park. residents donned
nue and 20th Street that had been
Church on Vermont, started out
dungarees, sweatbands and head
ravaged by looters on Thursday, a
Friday morning in the 2800 block
scarves to tackle the cleanup job
dozen neighborhood residents-
of South Vermont with half a dozen
along a block of Degnan Boulevard
African-American, Latino and An-
volunteers and a few brooms.
best known as a center for black
glo-trickled in during the day and
cleaning sidewalks and turning off
art gaiieries, a jazz performance
volunteered to help sweep up bro-
running water on the busy street.
space and Marla Gibbs' Crossroads
ken glass and load debris into a
By midafternoon, his work crew
Theater complex.
dumpster.
had swollen to 50, boosted by
"I was watching TV and feeling
By late afternoon they had
neighbors who wanted to pitch in.
helpless when I saw Edward James
cleaned much of the mess.
Olmos leading a cleanup on West-
"You can't do anything [about
ern Avenue," said Jack Roberts. a
the looting] so you come out and
retired human resources manager
clean up. That's all you can do,"
said James Johnson Jr., 21. a USC
student who lives a few blocks
L. A. TIMES 05/02/92
away. "You can't communicate
with them [looters] because
20f2
they're in a different zone. That's
why you feel so helpless."
Robert Martinez of Sylmar drove
downtown from the San Fernando
Valley and sought out Western
Avenue because "I heard on the
news people were helping out." He
brought his two sons along with
him.
Another resident, Billie Green,
saw the cleanup and joined in. "I'm
hurt and angry and upset about my
community, so instead of continu-
ing to cry, I'm cleaning," Green
said.
Teresa Martinez, who owns a
seafood restaurant in the mini-mall
and a 24-hour taco stand across the
street, served hamburgers and soft
drinks to the volunteers. The own-
ers of a pest control company, Art
and Georgia Washington, slept in
their store Thursday night, still
afraid that looters would return.
Looters were attracted to the
mini-mall primarily by an athletic
shoe store, which was stripped of
virtually all its merchandise during
an hour of looting by 50 people on
Thursday.
"Too many innocent people,"
Sharon Cameron, an. unemployed
security guard, said as she pitched
in. "Innocent people should not
have to pay."
MAY 5 '92 10:44 FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 001
STATE
SEAL
XXXVI
THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
DATE: 5-5-92
TO: carol Blymire
COMPANY:
MESSAGE: CB: Here's an old memo on
Trimble Navigation - FYI. They are going
to be entering into a public private
partnership w/ the city & county of LA to use
their gps units in clean up & assessment. It'sa
tiny company in the Silicon Valley that's
had phenomenal success. POTUS was supposea to
tour Trimble m Friday but now its postpined.
For more info on their LA efforts, call ann
ciganer at 408/481-2096.
FROM: Carolyn
PHONE: 415 / 703 - 2218
5
PAGES INCLUDING COVER SHEET:
GOVERNOR PETE WILSON
455 GOLDEN GATE AVENUE, SUITE 3200, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94102 (415) 703-2218
MAY 5 '92 10:45 FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 002
Post-It™ brand fax transmittal memo 7671
# of pages
To carol Blymire
From Carolyn Cawlay
Co. WH Speechwriting
Co. CA governor's EC
Dept. Research
Phone 415/703-2218 #
MEMORANDUM
Fax 202/456-6218
Fax # 415/703-2803
TO:
GOVERNOR WILSON
FROM:
CAROLYN CAWLEYO
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE
SUBJECT: TAB B -- BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON TRIMBLE NAVIGATION
I.
The Product: Global Positioning System (GPS)
-- GPS is a sophisticated navigation system based
on a constellation of 24 satellites which was developed
by the U.S. government for military/space use. The
technology is accurate enough to give pinpoint positions
anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, with measurement
accuracies better than the width of an average street
and sometimes down to a centimeter.
II. Applications of GPS
-- The applications of GPS are almost limitless and
Trimble Navigation has been enormously successful in
bringing the technology to private use. GPS units are
smaller and much more affordable than ever before --
most of the units are the size of pocket calculators,
versus the older suitcase size versions, with an average
pricetag of $4,000.
-- Trimble has several divisions, each dealing with a
different application of GPS. These include:
Tracking
GPS Tracking offers the most potential,
from private business to state and local
government. City maps are digitized for
video screen display, along with such markers
as house numbers, fire hydrants, telephone
lines and manhole covers; a GPS unit is
installed on fire trucks, for example, and
dispatchers can track their locations to more
effectively fight fires.
MAY
5 '92 10:46
FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 003
--
East Bay Firestorm
Trimble employee Chuck Gilbert watched
the fire rage within 30 miles of his own
home and realized that fire fighters
could benefit from precise information on
the progress of the fire, data that could
be quickly and efficiently generated
through a GPS Pathfinder.
He picked up his unit and raced to the
scene; Captain Ron Carter quickly
recognized the utility of the system and
arranged for a CHP helicopter. A GPS
antenna was mounted on the aircraft with
duct tape and accurate maps of new fires
were developed within minutes.
The following day, accurate records of
damage assessment were needed in order to
receive federal disaster aid. Houses
and street signs, however, were charred
and indistinguishable. Trimble employees
volunteered to team up with fire fighters
and assessments were made with
unprecedented speed. 2,000 buildings
were counted in the first few hours --
fire officials say this operation would
normally have taken days.
The advantages of the GPS system were
its simplicity and speed. The technology
can maximize efficient management of
public safety operations, particularly
during a large scale disaster with
communications breakdowns.
Aviation
GPS is thought to be the best (and
cheapest) way to design a fool-proof
collision avoidance system, both in the air
and on the runway. Trimble is currently
designing highly accurate systems for
aircraft landing in zero-visibility
conditions.
Military
The system was used successfully in Operation
Desert Storm, particularly in tracking
allied tanks. 10,000 GPS units were used --
with a 1.4% failure rate (well below the 9%
allowed by contract).
MAY 5 '92 10:46 FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 004
o
Marine Navigation
GPS is used in commercial ports to efficiently
manage the off-loading and arrivals/departures
of cargo ships. The American President Lines
have equipped container ships with GPS
receivers -- allowing its vessels to hold to
truer course, save fuel and stay on
schedule. The U.S. Navy has long used
the system in navigating the worlds waterways
and Trimble maintains that the Exxon Valdez
accident could not have happened if GPS had
been used.
OTHER USES OF GPS
GPS is being used by the U.S. Department
of Transportation, state and local
governments, AT&T, CalTrans and the California
Highway Patrol, to name a few. It's breadth
is further illustrated by its integration with
measures to comply with the Americans With
Disabilities Act and its use in the Texas
Supercollider Project.
III. Trimble Navigation: The Company
-- 75% of Trimble's R&D is based in California, with
small FAA facilities in Texas and New Zealand.
---
The company provides over 750 jobs here -- a
threefold increase in 3 years and they are committed
to staying and expanding in the Golden State.
--
They return an astounding 20% of revenue to R&D,
whereas the industry average is 8-10%. This 20%
equals the total revenue of their next largest
competitor. Charlie Trimble is committed to long
term growth and recognizes that persistent R&D is
the key to staying power. Trimble's top priority
right now is wise and effective growth management.
-- Trimble has over 70% of the GPS market share --
the world leader. In fact, their product was chosen
for the Japanese Earthquake Monitoring System.
-- Their concept-to-market time is 12-15 months, versus
the decade or more faced by other industries.
MAY 5 '92 10:47 FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 005
FROM:TRIMBLE NAVIGATION
TO:415 557 9238
OCT 30, 1991 5:45PM #948 P.07
Page Two
Surface Transportation: Fleet operators in long-haul trucking are providing
improved customer service by optimizing the scheduling of their fleets.
Several U.S. cities are already planning to incorporate GPS In the optimum
scheduling of their mass transport systems, as well as monitoring of safety
alarms required by the United Metropolitan Transit Authority (UMTA).
Individual car navigation systems are being considered as possible
components of the intelligent vehicle highway system.
Smart Cities: Mapping, cataloguing, and monitoring of all city utilities to
Identify their operational status is especially important in urban crisis
management. Efficient emergency dispatch of police, fire, and ambulance
resources.
Surveying: The cost of geodetic survey operations has been reduced by a
factor of four. Every field surveyor can now access high precision and
reliability to perform private surveys of highways, counties, cities,
pipellnes, transmission lines and other large soale projects that now cost a
few hundred dollars per point.
OII Exploration: Affordable, high return exploration can be conducted further
out on the continental shelf to find potential drilling sites.
Wilderness Tracking: Efficient Use of search and resoue resources, safer
recreational snow-mobiling, and wilderness back-packing
LOS ANGELES TIMES / WASHINGTON EDITION
Beaten Driver
a Searing Image
of Mob Cruelty
By LAURIE BECKLUND
and STEPHANIE CHAVEZ
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
At every watershed through
time. it seems a face emerges to
transfix a moment in history. In
Vietnam. a naked girl fled napalm.
In Tian An Men Square. a single
student stared down a line of
Chinese tanks. In Los Angeles last
year. Rodney G. King lay prone
and beaten.
Now. a white cement truck driv-
er beaten nearly into oblivion in
South-Central Los Angeles has
become the face on the flip side of
the Rodney King coin. the unoffi-
cial black-on-white response to
the official white-on-black beat-
ing.
His name is Reginald Oliver
Denny. He is 36. He IS alive
because four strangers-four black
strangers from the very crowd that
had beaten him nearly to death-
emerged to drive his unwieldy
18-wheeler out of pandemonium to
safety.
The rescuers were two women
and two men: a young nutrition
consultant. a laid-off data control
worker. an unemployed aerospace
worker and a still-unidentified
young man in black whose fellow
rescuers first feared was a gang-
Please see DRIVER, A8
Continued from A1
pulled two loaded bins. He took the
banger coming to finish Denny off.
usual route, San Bernardino Free-
"Those people didn't even know
way west, south on the Harbor. off
him and risked their lives to aid
at Florence.
him." said Don Kelley, 28. Denny's
About 6:30 p.m. the rig trundled
roommate. "If no one had helped
to the intersection where the first
him, he would be dead."
violence had erupted-bottle and
The rescue came almost too
rock throwing, overturned trash
late-as long as 20 to 30 minutes
cans. As Denny slowed in the midst
after the beating. At least two of
of the melee. the rig was surround-
the rescuers found themselves
ed by about five black men.
lured to the scene by the power of
As thousands watched at home
television pictures, broadcast live
on their television sets, one rioter
from near the intersection of Nor-
yanked open the truck door and
mandie and Florence avenues.
pulled Denny from his cab. At least
"We were watching TV at
two others beat his head and
home." said T.J. Murphy. 30, the
kicked him. knocking him to the
aerospace engineer. 'Somebody's
asphalt. After kicking him. one
got to get that guy out of there.' we
man raised up his hands and waved
said to each other."
to the watching crowd. Denny
tried to move. turning on his side.
T
hey assumed police would help
Another man then bashed Denny's
the man, but got in their car to
skull with a fire extinguisher from
drive over for a look at the brewing
the truck.
neighborhood confrontation.
As he lay on the ground. another
When they arrived. the police
man walked up and for about eight
were nowhere to be seen at the
seconds rifled through his pockets.
site, where a television camera-
sprinting away with Denny's wal-
man. shooting from a helicopter.
let.
had captured that image of Denny
being beaten by angry thugs.
Instead. the gravely injured
man-his face awash in blood and
Barrived time T.J. Murphy. 30,
with his friend Tee
his eyes swollen shut-had some-
Barnett. 28. the pair saw no choice
how managed to get back behind
but to intervene. "It was just like
the wheel and was now trying to
Rodney King," Murphy said.
make his getaway an inch at a
"They beat. beat and beat him."
time.
A young nutrition consultant on
Braving hostile onlookers,
her way home from work had
stalled cars and general chaos,
already jumped into the fray. As
Murphy and his friend joined two
the injured Denny tried desperate-
others who eventually helped de-
ly to drive his rig out of the war
liver Denny to the door of the
zone, she hoisted herself onto the
Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital
side of the truck and was shouting
emergency room. Just as the big
steering instructions to Denny,
rig drove up to the door. Denny
whose eyes were swollen shut. To
went into convulsions and started
the right. she would yell, now to
spitting up blood.
the left.
"One more minute. just one more
As the truck inched forward. a
minute, and he would have been
black clad young man-who Mur-
dead," one of his rescuers said a
phy initially thought was a gang
paramedic told him at the door.
member-jumped in the driver's
The incident started a couple of
seat of the truck. The consultant
hours after a white jury acquitted
climbed inside the cab to console
four Los Angeles police officers of
the injured man, and Murphy took
beating King. Denny, a $16.70-an-
over the job of guiding the new
hour driver, had been dispatched
driver, who was unable to see
from an Azusa quarry at 5:39 p.m.
through the shattered windshield.
just as news of the acquittal was
"You're going make it." the con-
getting out.
sultant kept telling Denny. even as
His job was routine: to deliver 27
she had to hold him upright.
tons of sand to an Inglewood ce-
"You're going to be OK."
ment mixing plant. His red cab
As the black-clad driver tried
him.
Shelly Montez. 29. Denny's for-
mer wife, found out about the
incident from her mother. who also
had recognized Denny on TV. At
one point she heard a news report
of a death at Daniel Freeman
hospital.
"I can't tell you what I felt like to
have to make that call to the
hospital." said Montez. of Santa
Clarita. "I never felt so over-
whelmed with emotion.'
Montez kept their daughter Ash-
ley from the television. telling her
only that "daddy happened to be in
the middle of big fight and people
took their anger out on him.'
D
enny underwent three hours
of emergency brain surgery
about midnight to remove two
blood clots. By daybreak he had
stabilized. Montez said. He was in
critical but stable condition Thurs-
day afternoon.
"We got the most wonderful
news this morning," she said
Thursday. "He can squeeze his
hands and wiggle his feet. He
nodded 'no' when a nurse asked
him if he was in pain.
When Denny's neighbor and
roommate reached the hospital.
they could barely recognize their
friend. Cole said Denny's head was
swollen like a "big round ball of
water." His fingers and arms were
crusted with blood. His eyes were
'It was just like Rodney King. They beat, beat and beat
swollen shut. a respirator tube
jammed down his throat.
him.'
"I told him everything was going
to be OK. We care about him, we
T.J. MURPHY
love him." Kelley said. He believed
that Denny heard him and saw a
Rescuer of Reginald Denny, above. with daughter Ashley
tear that rolled from his right eye.
In the end. Denny's friends and
rescuers reached out to find each
other-his rescuers in hopes of
desperately to speed up the awk-
the television. watching the may-
finding out how Denny had fared,
ward. heavy rig. Barnett drove in
hem in Los Angeles streets. And
and his family in hopes of thanking
front of the truck. putting on her
then he noticed the long blond hair.
them.
hazard lights to try to clear the
the red cab and a pair of familiar
"We found out that both Denny
way.
black boots.
and 1 had 8-year-old daughters.
Eventually. the truck sped up to
"My heart sank to my stomach.
said Barnett on Thursday.
40 m.p.h and inched toward 50.
It was Reggie.' Cole said.
"Black boys playing with white
After a trip that seemed to take
Denny's roommate was horrified
boys-that's what Dr. King talked
hours. the rig screeched into the
by the same televised scene.
about. Working together. Playing
driveway at Daniel Freeman hos-
"I couldn't believe what I was
together. But his dream doesn't
pital.
seeing." said roommate Don Kel-
stand a chance. does it? Not until
Twenty miles away in Covina.
ley. 28. "He was just lying there.
people learn to get along. Evident-
Jerry Cole. Denny's next-door
No one was helping. We got two
ly. we're not living the same
neighbor and friend. was riveted to
baseball bats and said 'Let's go get
dream."
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BankAmerica Corp. said Mon-
day that it will invest up to $25
million to help get small businesses
back in operation in the devastated
sections of Los Angeles and other
areas damaged by the recent civil
disorders in California. Bank-
America said that the small busi-
ness investment program is de-
signed to help neighborhood busi-
nesses in the inner city begin to
provide needed goods, services and
jobs again as rapidly as possible.
To achieve this, the bank said it is
ready to become an equity partner
with interested businesses in the
area and will make investment dol-
lars available to help fund the re-
start, restocking and cash flow
needs of owners whose businesses
were affected by the riots and who
SF Examiner, May 5'92
want to get back in operation. The
bank is prepared to invest up to
$100,000 per business. The bank
said it will tailor commercial loans
P-C-1 Business section
to the needs of affected Bank of
America and Security Pacific cus-
tomers in areas affected by the dis-
turbances. In addition to the in-
vestment program, the bank an-
nounced a series of actions to help
its customers, which include per-
sonal and home equity loans and
emergency credit lines for credit
card customers. B of A also an-
nounced an initial commitment of
$100,000 in emergency grants to
community organizations provid-
ing services to families and individ-
uals affected by the rioting and
special loan.
New York Times
NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1992
Jan Somennmair for The New York These
The images of last week's rioting in Los Angeles formed the lessons yesterday for third-grade pupils at
Queen Anne Place School, just west of the ravaged Koreatown district. Kevin Faulkner drew his memories.
Searing Lesson for Children:
WHITE HOUSE LINKS
How Hate Can Undo a World
RIOTS TO WELFARE
By ISABEL WILKERSON
Special to The New York Times
LOS ANGELES, May 4 — Grammar
them. Some children were already call-
Fitzwater Asserts Programs
and logarithms were put aside in
ing the events of the last four days The
schools across Los Angeles today as
War
Led to Los Angeles Unrest
the children of this careworn city re-
It seemed as if innocence had died
turned to classes and struggled to
with the riots' last embers.
make sense of the chaos that had en-
In Bebe Notkin's third-grade class at:
By MICHAEL WINES
gulfed them.
Queen Anne Place Elementary School,
Special to The New York Times
Principals gathered children for
an integrated school on the outskirts of
WASHINGTON, May 4 - The White
makeshift assemblies and teachers
ravaged Koreatown, the language of:
House said today that the riots last
tried anything from essays to word
civil unrest became the day's vocabu-
week in Los Angeles were a result of
association to coax out the hurt and
lary words.
social welfare programs that Congress
anger, mining a torrent of emotion at
Miss Notkin taped to the blackboard
enacted in the 1960's and 70's, but it
the first mention of the beating of Rod-
an oversize piece of paper. On it were
refused to say publicly whether Presi-
ney G. King by four white police offi-
14 new words like "loot," "curfew,"
dent Bush would offer any detailed
cers and their acquittal Wednesday.
"arson," "justice," "national" and
alternative to those "failed" policies in
"guard."
coming weeks.
A Language Of Unrest
She offered them them the unortho-
Other senior officials said that Mr.
Blacks and whites argued over
dox definitions that come from real-life
Bush favors an extensive lobbying
which was worse - the beating or the
experience. To define one word, she
campaign to enact and expand conser-
riots that followed the verdict. Children
said, "Wednesday night when people
vative social legislation that Congress.
of poverty seethed over a system they
has not enacted.
were angry when the four police were
say ignores them, while children of
found not guilty they did wild things."
While the White House may also pro-
privilege expressed sorrow that the
She added, "They were out of -
pose some additional programs, they
safe world they knew had been shat-
"Control!" the children shouted
are likely to be small, and the Adminis-
tered.
back.
tration does not contemplate "dra-
In the most devastated neighbor-
Down at the nurse's office, Christo-
matic" new Federal expenses should
hoods, classes were sparsely attended
pher Romero, a third grader dressed in
they be put into effect, the officials
many children were afraid to
said.
Continued on Page A24 Column I
Plans for Visit May Change
One
official
also
said
Mr.
Bush
Hate Can Undo a World
Teachers fear
struction and the treatment of black
can't even sit on our own porch."
and Hispanic people by the police, Mar-
Their presence, he said sometimes a
and Boston Celtics sweat-
that innocence
CO Reyes, a 14-year-old freshman an-
dozen to a block, feels as menacing as
stiffly on a tiny cot.
nounced to the class: "We're outcasts.
that of a drug dealer. And after the
feel so good, he said. "I got a
may be dead in
They don't treat us equal to white peo-
acquittal of the officers who beat Mr.
ple."
King, these young black men say they
how long he had been III, he
Only a third of the class even showed
the ashes.
feel they have no place to turn for
the fire came, the fire that
up. "They weren't sure whether It was
protection. "I feel have to protect
the
war."
safe to come out," Mr. Broughton said.
myself," Mr. Martin said. "The police
During lunch, the 18-year-olds gath-
and the National Guard can get away
Nerves Sull on Edge
"All of us live in such a perfect
ered to help distribute free food donat-
with anything. And if anything happens
Dulli, the school's nurse,
community," said a white student, the
ed by a local supermarket. They Insist-
to me, they'll say it's just another black
day tending such complaints.
daughter of immigrants, Identified
ed that they were not scared, not really,
man dead."
the kids are trying to adjust,"
only as Asal. "We have our perfect
because things were never safe where
"All of this has been hard on
cars and our perfect clothes. Now It's
they grew up anyway.
With emotions still raw, teachers
I've lived in the ghetto all my life,"
tried to use the moment to teach hard
crazy out there, people running red
lights, setting fires, killing people. My
said Calanjus Baker, a senior at Jor-
lessons about life and justice. Miss
are still on edge. Class was
mother had to go to five stores to get
dan High School, whose mother lived
Notkins told her class of 31 children
at Morningside High School
bread. This is America, where every.
through the Watts riots of 1965. "I've
that anger is okay, but a "riot is not
feared the worst when an
seen it happen slowly all my life. It's
okay."
one is supposed to be free and happy.
fire broke out in the
It's not supposed to be like this."
just hurting our community."
"I think the peole were scared, but
of a house across the street
She said it was unfair that business-
His friend, Miguel Martin, also a
all they want Is justice," said Jordan
school in predominantly black
es were burned, and that she could not
senior, said the National Guardsmen
Boyd-Pierson, one of the of the few
ile-class Inglewood The fire
understand why this all happened.
made the neighborhood feel like an
black students in Miss Notkin's pre-
linked to the riots, the fire
"This is a message," said a white
occupied territory. "They stand there
dominantly Hispanic class.
said, but It did not have to
male student. "People are so poor, they
in the middle of the street pointing
their M-16's at anybody," he said. "We
"Everybody," the teacher said,
tensions.
can't take it anymore. This has been
"wants justice."
the fire brought back un-
going on forever. It's society's fault."
memories," said Liza Dan-
Asal stood her ground. "They
principal.
dragged this guy out of a truck and
few flery days, the riots
beat him. Where do they get the right to
do that?"
one the generation-defin-
"Where do the cops get the right to
One Victim
like the death of John F.
or of the Rev. Dr. Martin
do the same thing?" asked a black
student identified as Rachel.
Jr.. Even at age 9, Javiar
a third grader at Bennett
Another Statemate
Truck Driver, Beaten,
School in Inglewood,
The debate, like the nation's struggle
know
this.
with race relations, ended in a state-
a wound in my head 1 will
mate and, Dr. Klotz said, It may be a
Talks for the First Time
emember," he wrote in a
long time before emotions return to
"That wound la fatal to
normal even In Beverly Hills. "After
Because a man named Rod-
what we experienced, It couldn't be
Special a The New York Times
was beaten on March, 1; 1981,
business as usual," he said. "There is a
beating along with all of DS.
lot of searching. It Isn't finished as far
LOS ANGELES, May 4 Regi-
fly buzzing around his room.
wound gets bigger as 1 grow,"
as I'm concerned."
naid Denny, the truck driver who
They said he also wrote a note to
goes on. The wound that's
On the other side of town, in the
was beaten severely in the first
Ceclly Kahn, a social worker at
has taken aches my, heart
middle of what now looks like Kuwalt
moments of the unrest in the
the hospital, saying: "I'm just a
heart: This wound we
after the Persian Gulf war, children
city's South-Central area; was
regular guy. I never meant to be
forget, thanks to a white jury
walked past the charred remains of
able to talk today for the first
famous.
laughing somewhere safe.
their neighborhood and past National
time since the Incident, and doc-
Mr. Denny, who is white, was
Falt Par Away
Guardsmen in full riot gear just to get
tors upgraded his condition to
dragged from his truck by a
to school.
good.
group of black men in South-Cen-
said he was having trouble
Doctors at Daniel Freeman Me-
tral Los Angeles hours after the
and that life hasn't been the
Feeling Like Outcasts
morial Hospital in Inglewood,
acquittal of four white police offi-
go back to the park and
etball because my mom said
The swap meet, the jewelry store,
where Mr. Denny was taken by a
cers. accused in the videotaped
might burn down the park,"
the pawn shop, the shoe store, the liq-
group of onlookers after the beat-
beating of Rodney G. King, a
Associated Press
black motorist. Mr. Denny, 36
"Thanks to these people, I
As Los Angeles grappled with returning from the riot-ravaged days of
uor store and gas stations along a
ing on Wednesday night, said his
single business stretch of Watts are all
prognosis was Improving
years old, was beaten, kicked, spit
and play. I'm referring
last week, children returned to classes in the South-Central epicenter of
and the locters."
the violence. The National Guard maintains a patrol in the area.
history, burned beyond recognition.
on and robbed as television hell-
Request for Fly Swatter
copters circled overhead record-
some schools far from the
For the students at Jordan High
They said they still had not de-
ing the scene.
the riots were the top
School, all black and Hispanic, that was
termined whether Mr. Denny had
At Beverly Hills High
their world. Now sitting in a classroom
No police officers ever ap
tory class, the Middle Ages were sud,
will be the same."
suffered permanent brain inju-
whose barred windows are black with
peared to help Mr. Denny, and
students drive B.M.W.'s
denly Irrelevant.
His class, a picture of American
ties:
He was deadly serious and grim-
graffiti, the sense of futility hung thick
only after he managed to crawl
and poverty is social-studies
prosperity, broke into passionate dis-
Hospital officials said Mr. Den-
faced as he told his students: "As a
as the Los Angeles air in July.
back into his truck and start to
groped for answers no
cussion about race and class and vio-
ny began speaking today, and
able to provide, and in
In the middle of a class discussion in
drive away did four people step
class and as human beings, we need to
lence and the bursting of the affluent
asked for a fly swatter because of
forward to aid him
ninth-grade medieval-his-
talk. I personally don't think anything
bubble they live in.
Paul Broughton's ninth-grade social-
studies class about the riots and de-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, May 5, 1992
12:30 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
CALIFORNIA ECONOMY/L.A. (Sacramento/AP) -- Lost taxes and jobs,
skittish tourists and investors and increased need for social
services mean the Los Angeles riots could hurt the state's fragile
economy long after the wreckage is cleared. One state senator on
Monday proposed increasing the sales tax by one-quarter cent for
a year to raise $750 million to help victims of rioting and recent
earthquakes. California, which already faces a $9 billion budget
shortfall, will lose tax revenues and see more demand for social
services in ravaged neighborhoods, said Cynthia Katz, spokeswoman
for the state Department of Finance.
L.A. POLICE (Los Angeles/Reuter) -- Police came under mounting
criticism for not having moved quickly enough to snuff out fighting
in the streets that grew into the worst rioting of the century in
the U.S. As thousands of troops in full battle dress kept a close
watch on the city's streets, Los Angeles remained calm. But as the
calm settled, the Los Angeles police department drew fire from
critics who contended the rioting could have been averted if
officers had done a better job at the start. The violence caused
an estimated $717 million in damage.
LOOTING (Los Angeles/Reuter) -- In a wave of post-riot remorse,
hundreds of people who feel guilty about joining in the looting
frenzy that accompanied three days of racial violence are now
voluntarily returning the goods they snatched. Luxury sofas and
expensive television sets are miraculously appearing on the
sidewalks in some neighborhoods where police have put out the word
of a virtual amnesty for returned merchandise
INTERSTATE TRUCKING (Christopher Connell, AP) -- The White House
said it was moving to restrict state regulation of interstate
trucking and taking other steps to ease regulatory burdens on
truck, rail and ocean shipping. The moves were announced as part
of President Bush's election-year initiative to spur economic
growth through deregulation. The White House said transportation
costs account for 20 percent of the delivered cost of manufacturer
products, and regulation "acts as a 'hidden tax' that makes almost
all consumer goods more expensive."
GLOBAL WARMING/U.S./E.C. (Brussels/Reuter) -- The E.C.'s
environment chief rejected a U.S.-tailored global warming treaty
being readied for next months's Rio summit and said it could spark
a bitter clash between rich and poor countries. Environment
Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana said a new compromise text under
discussion in treaty negotiations in New York contained no
obligation for industrialized countries to cut their emissions of
"greenhouse effect" gases.
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92
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THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1992
17
The Cost
No One Sees Rebuilding as Easy Job!
In Area That Was Bleak Before Riots
Asian men from the ages of 18 to 35, thei
Mr. Bryant was one of many who
By TOM MASHBERG
hope for jobs is bleaker than ever.
saw the looting as a form of outrage
Special to The New York There
This is crippling, just crippling.
against exploitative businesses. "Pec.
LOS ANGELES, May2 Thirty
said Gene Hale, president of the Afri-
ple are angry at the outsiders who
hours. of flashing rage: in the South-
can-American Chamber of Commerce,
come; in, take our money. and then
Centr section of Los Angeles have
a local business group. "The insurance
leave the area." he said. This doesn't
upset 25 years of hard-won develop-
rates are so high that people can't
justify IL but # helps to explain it.'
ment: where for the poorest of the poor
afford it. Many of them will simply not
and forther tenuous middle class the
Much of this anger has been vented
be able to rebuild"
on Korean shop owners, who last busi
path up never looked steeper.
Officials are trying to tally the dam-
Gone REC. the local jobs, the hustle
nesses in areas where many black
age. and the early statistics are mind-
and bustle, the convenience of the cor-
owned stores were spared.
numbing. At least 3,500 businesses, as
The Koreans themselves face a
ner merchant For hundreds of thou-
small as storefront sewing shops and
sanda of people, the nearest full-service
jor rebuiking task, and they must also
as large as entire shopping malls, have
market is now atcleast two miles and
address the question of whether to res
been ransacked or burned beyond re-
turn.
two bus rides away,
pair.
"Our losses must be $100 million,
"Folks can't run out for a loaf of
The losses in property and inventory
bread, or for some milk for the baby"
said Tong Soo Chung: is founder of the
in this part of Los Angeles are expected
Korean-American Chamber of Com
said Jackie Dupont Walker head of the
to exceed $1 billion
Ward Economic Development Corpo-
merce. "Many of us feel that Korea
One potential source of support for
town was abandoned by the police and
ration, a nonprofit housing agency.
the rebuilding of South-Central Los An-
the National Guard."
"Medical records are gone. The gas
Peter Lee, 2 Korean-Americalt
stations are closed. The first thing to
burn was a hardware store that was
whose Highland Liquor Store was delia
stroyed in the rioting, said: "It's mind
here for over 30 years.
Some businesses
beggling. We were here 20 years. We
Will Businesses Return?
thought we were part of the communi-
Before the spasm of lawlessness in
are not sure they
ty. We even built a house nearby." But
the aftermath of the acquitted of four
even that kind of commitment might
white Los Angeles police officers in the
will reopen in the
not be enough,
beating of Rodney G. King, a black
"No matter how much housing we
motorist, there were perhaps 40 major
build," said Ms. Walker of the housing
retailers and 20 bank branches in this
riot area.
agency, "without opportunity there is
35-square-mile area of a million people.
no community. In this area there is a
Some companies had eagerly
lot of tension between the consumer
stepped in while others had to be
and the provider. Imagine how a moth
coaxed. All agreed on the need to build
geles is the powerful black middle
er feels sending her child to a liquor
up a community in distress. Now, lur-
class, which has blossomed in the city
store to buy a loaf of bread."
ing them back will be a struggle.
in the last 20 years.
That criticism echoes the findings of
We can't say whether we'll go back
Concentrated in well-to-do neighbor-
the McCone Commission Report on the
in, said Chris Bement, executive vice
hoods like Leimert Park and Baldwin
Watts riots of 1965. At. that time, office
president of Thrifty Corporation, which
Hills, many of these developers, profes-
cials criticized the warehousing of poor
Extended Page
2.1
president of Thruty corporation, which
use
years
lost 18 drugstores, four to arson.
sionals and entrepreneurs of all stripes
people in forbidding projects in
Our faith in the community is
are committed to sending money into
without the wherewithal to inspired
strong, skid Mr. Bement whose com-
the South-Central area
commercial development.
Das
pany owns 620 stores nationwide: But
Middle Class to the Rescue?
A centerplece of Mayor Tom Brad?
we re looking at losses of at least $
"The growth of the black bours eoiste
ley's two-decade tenure has been this
million.
has gone virtually unnoticed,' said
Community Redevelopment Authority
John Bryant, a millionaire who made
which grants need money to small bust
fill
Less uncertain was Adrienne Gaines,
a vice president with the Food-4-Less
his fortune in financial learvices and
nesses. Last month that agency an
chain which owns 210 stores, so in the
nounced a $25 million surplus. Today
has organized many campaigns to
worst-hit areas. "We have every inten-
bring dollars into black neighborhoods.
that amount seems sadly negligible.
375
time of returning to the community,
"We have the skills to work with white
"The city can't solve this, and the
she said, We have been committed to
America and the determination to sup-
black middle class can't pay for this,"
for 70 years.
port black America."
said Melvin L Oliver, associate direct
Looters broke into 42 Food-4-Less
Mr. Bryant met today with several
tor of the Center for the Study of Urban
stores, two of which were also burned.
prominent black business leaders and
Poverty at the University of California
Many of the stores'. employees live in
bankers to discuss specific ways to
at Los Angeles. "Our whole society
the South Central area, and hundreds
rebuild ravagedisites.
needs to address this issue:
of them have lost many days' pay.
"It was a very nuts-and-bolts ses-
"Right now this looks like the worst
While these people will eventually
sion," be said "Blacks are a very
thing in the world," he said. "But It
return to work, many others have lost
impassioned people, and right now we
could be an opportunity to address
their livelihoods and life savings. In a
need someone thinking rationally and
these long-simmering questions. It cer-
city where unemployment is close to 50
methodically about how to pull our-
tainly. has gotten our attention. What
percent among black, Hispanic and
selves out of this."
WE do is important."
MAY
5
92
11:31
FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 003
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL MONDAY, MAY 1992
Curfew May End
caravans of black-and-white pulice
events of the last few days.
cars and armored military vehicles,
He said when he came to the United
carrying soliders armed with rifles and
States, he "thought it would be calmer
Today; Bush
shotguns.
here, that I wasn't going to see things
The first of 556 marines stationed in
like this. It was like a war."
the city arrived on Saturday, said Bill
And like a war, the survivors in the
Plans Visit
Frio, a spokesman for the Los Angeles
hardest hit areas found novel ways to
Police Department at the emergency
cope. The riots knocked out electrical
command center. Together with 4,385
power to thousands of residents,
National Guardsmen and 321 other
among them, William Jeter and his
By DON TERRY
law-enforcement officers who are pa
neighbors in South Central Los Ange-
Speciale The New Tark Trans
trolling the city, they are under the
les.
LOS ANGELES May 3 - The
command of Maj. Gen. Marvin L Cop-
Today, Mr. Jetter, a machanic, said
streets of not weary OF Angeles were
valt of the Army. Other marines and
he had rigged up a car battery and
calm: force second day today, as Fed-
Army troops under his command are
headlight in his home and was the only
nearby and prepared to take positions
person OR his block with light at night.
eral troups joined enforcement pa-
If needed. Mr. Frio said that the num-
But he said there was no power for
trols, and cleanup efforts accelerated.
ber of guardsmen stationed in the city
his refrigerator. causing special prob-
Mayor Tom Bradley said be hoped to
was about 10 percent higher than on
lems for people like him who now have
lift the city's dusk-to-dawn curfew on
Saturday.
no place nearby to buy groceries.
Monday.
Anger Lingers Like Haze
Now a Tourist Attraction
Across the city, many grocery stores
and gas stations shuttered during the
The sight of so many armed men has
The Intersection of Florence and
been both reassuring and disturbing.
riots were open but with added and
Normandie, where much of the trouble
"I think the occupation is complete,"
armed security, and lines. Bas
began, was transformed today from a
said Representative Maxine Waters, a
battlefield to a tourist attraction as
ketball courts and
Democrat whose district includes
passing motorists got out of their cars
crowded for the Drar time in days, and
South Central Los Angeles. "They"v
to take pictures.
the Los Angeles Unified
got the National Guard and God knows
The calm on the streets belies the
announced that classes would resume
who stationed all over the place. People
powerful emotional aftershocks still
Monday at the district's nearly 700
are being contained with this security,
being felt by people like Lorey Battle, a
schools. Pastors at charches in South-
but they are still just as rangry. The
53-year-old school clerk who has lived
Central Los Angeles, and Indeed
problems won't just go away.'
in South-Central all of her life.
Churches across South Central Los
throughout the country, spoke of the
Today, with bus service restored
Angeles, the urban patch hardest hit by
need for healing and compession.
through South-Central, she waited for
the murderous riots, were full today as
But as the immediate crisis seemed
transportation. Asked what she
this wounded city tried to clean its soul
thought about the military presence in
to abate, the deeper problems that une
as well as its streets of the debris and
her neighborhood, Mrs. Battle said, "I
derlay. the bloodshed and property
despair that hovered like the haze.
think it's very sad to see our city torn
damage seemed to rise to the surface
"We go from mess-up, to mop-up, to
up like this."
of the political agenda. Aides to Presi-
the make-up," said the Rev. Cecil Mur-
"I hate to see them," she said. "But
dent Bush said that would travel to
ray, the pastor of the First African
it's the only way we can be safe now."
Los Angeles on: Thursday for a long*
Methodist Episcopal Church, which be
She said the neighborhood had been
scheduled visit and that he would use
turned into a shelter for dozens of riot
00 its way back, ever so slowly recov-
refugees - people who were burned
the opportunity to talk about economic
ering from the fires of the 1960's. "It
out of their houses or have been afraid
and social justice in American cities.
to return to them.
was growing," she said. "People had
His likely challenger this fall, Gov.
Property damage is still being as-
businesses. There was a black business
Bill Clinton of Arkansas, also was head-
sessed, but the Mayor estimated it at
over there and a Korean business over
ed to Los Angeles today, with plans to
$500 million.
there."
meet: Monday with leaders of black,
Today there were ashes.
Rising From the Ashes
There are other, more human sym-
Hispanic and Korean-American organ-
Robert Lee, a black man who runs
bols of the destruction. Walking along a
izations there. [Page A10.]
his own. small contracting business,
nearby street today was a woman who
Chacs in the Courts
said that he sees opportunity in the
would only give her nickname, "Baby."
ashes.
An operating room technician at Mar-
With almost 9,500 people arrested
"I see a lot of hope, he said today, as
tin Luther King Hospital, Baby wore a
since rioting erupted Wednesday night
he sat on his stoop in South-Central,
pair of overalls over a blue operating
the Los Angeles County Municipal
sipping a root beer. "I'm a contractor,
room scrub shirt. She was exhausted
Courthouse was one of the buslest
and there's going to be a lot of jobs for
She had been at the hospital since the
places in town today. Judges, prosecu-
me. A lot of small businesses have been
riots began Wednesday afternoon.
tors, defense lawyers and other court
burned down and they want people to
personnel planned to work through the
reconstruct them. It's going to be
"People have put their hands
great. I'm going to expand my busi-
through glass," she said, reciting a
night, hoping to complete felony ar-
ness."
long list of riot-related injuries she had
raignments for at least 750 defendants.
Five of those killed during the riots
seen.
"It's pretty chaotic" said Marcia
were shot by Los Angeles police offi-
Skolnik, a spokeswoman for the court-
cers. The department is trying to inves:
house. "From what Understand, the
tigate the shootings, but progress has
district attorney's office has never
faced a caseload like this"
Officials at the coroner's office also
stayed on constant duty today, as the
Courts are in
death toll reached 49, of whom 21 were
black, 15-Hispanic, 7 white, 2 Asian and
chaos with 9,500
4 of unknown ethnic group, according
to the Los Angeles County Coroner's
people arrested.
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3.1
to the Los Angeles County CULTING .
Office. Some of the more than 2,000
people arrested.
new victims were added to the list
people injured died in hospitals, and
when their bodies were recently dis-
been slow, as it is every time a civilian
covered in charred and gutted build-
is killed by the police.
"On several of these incidents, we
stayed ings. on constant duty Today, as the
have not been able to do an adequate
scene investigation because It wasn't
death toll reached 48, of whom 21 were
safe," said Ronald Karlson, a detective
black, 15 Hispanic, 7 white, 2 Asian and
and the assistant officer in charge of
2 of unknown ethnic group, according
the unit that investigates shootings in-
to the Los Angeles County Coroner's
volving the police.
Office. Some of the more. than 2,000
Mr. Karison said it was unclear when
people injured died in hospitals, and
the investigations could be completed.
new victims were added to the list
"When that happens is not within our
when their bodies were recently dis-
control," be said.
covered in charred and gutted build-
New Ways to Cope
ings. In addition, the Los Angeles County
The city was a checkerboard of relief
Sheriff's Department said 2,116 people
and worry today.
had been injured, 228 of them critically.
After mass at St. Vincent Roman
The curfew, in effect since Thursday
Catholic Church in downtown Los An-
night, had turned this city into a near
geles, Everardo 3. Garcia, a 20-year-
ghost town as soon as the sun slipped
old, unemployed immigrant from El
behind the mountains. Almost the only
Salvador. sounded shell-shocked by the
movements through the streets were.
** TOTAL PAGE. 003 **
MAY 5 '92 11:39
FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 001
To: CAROL BLYMIRE
FR: CAROLYN
2 pages
San Jose Mercury News News Thursday, April 30, 1992
Caught up
in maelstrom
of hatred
Mercury News photographer
Lon Lahman was caught in some
of the early violence that gripped
South-Central Los Angeles follow-
ing the Rodney King verdict. This
is his eyewitness account:
BY LEN LAHMAN
Mereury News Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - As I drove
down Normandie Avenue, more
people were on the streets at each
intersection.
At the corner of Normandie
and 73rd Street, an old man
waved violently. I waved back
and locked my doors. At 71st
Street, I could go no farther and
began to use my
camera from the
car.
The hatred
came first -
extreme hatred,
loud hatred,
frenzied and fu-
rious. A man
ran at the car
Lahmen
with a bat. Then
came the first
brick. The car windows exploded.
A hand swatted at my face.
Blood began to flow. I drove up
onto the sidewalk with one door
open; the windshield was gone.
There was no police line, noth-
ing to call "safe" or "home" -
nothing but street and hate.
Some folks were laughing. Oth-
ers mocked. The driver behind me
pushed the bumper of his car
against mine, keeping me moving.
I slowed to wipe my face, and
the motorist bumped me again. I
stopped the car and saw it was an
old man with three friends. The
old man got out and walked slow-
lv toward me.
Extended Page
1.1
ly toward me.
"Son, the freeway is to the
right. Take it. Don't stop at the
lights. There ain't no cops. People
won't give you no trouble on the
freeway."
Then he added:
"I'm sorry about my neighbors,
but you understand.
"Just go."
MAY
5
S2
11:39
FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE 002
APRIL 30, 1992
Cops 1992 THE SACRAMENTO acquitted;
way to a tidal wave of destruction.
L.A. erupts
At a post-midnight press brief-
ing, Wilson said up to 750 Califor-
nia Highway Patrol officers would
be made available to seal off the
area of the worst violence, and
2,000 National Guardsmen would
be on standby, ready to-move into
the city.
At least 2 die, 72 hurt;
"In short, we have moved to pro-
vide the local authorities with the
materials necessary to curtail the
Wilson calls in Guard
violence," Wilson said.
Officials said it was the worst
violence to wrack Los Angeles'
By-Andy Furillo
black neighborhoods since the
and Steve Wiegand
At police headquarters in down-
1965 Watts riots, in which 34 peo-
Bee Staff Writers
town Los Angeles, several hun-
ple were killed.
dred people rushed the doors but
This time, reports from the riot
LOS ANGELES Gov. Wilson
backed off when confronted with
scenes described a multiethnic re-
called out the National Guard late
helmeted police in riot gear. The
action to the trial verdict, and it
Wednesday in response to the vio-
protest persisted, with demon-
was spreading throughout the city
lent firesterm that greeted the ac-
strators burning American flags
and county.
quittal of four white police officers
and a parking lot kiosk.
The violence erupted soon after
accused of beating black motorist
Downtown demonstrators also
word spread that a jury of 10
Rodney King.
broke windows at the New Otani
whites, one Asian-American and
TAt least two people were report-
Hotel in Little Tokyo and set a po-
one Hispanic had acquitted the
ed killed and 72 injured as people
lice car afire across the street
four police officers of charges they
angered by the mostly white jury's
from City Hall.
illegally beat King, a paroled
decision burned and looted stores
Flights into Los Angeles Inter-
armed robber, after stopping his
and businesses throughout cen-
national Airport changed landing
car on the night of March 3, 1991.
tral and south Los Angeles,
patterns to stay out of the line of
The verdict was met with out-
dragged drivers from their vehi-
potential gunshots.
rage and disbelief - and calls for
cles and beat them, and charged
By late evening, rioting spread
calm. "We must not bury the gains
police headquarters.
to Westwood Village, near UCLA,
we have made in the rubble creat-
More than 50 fires were burn-
where crowds began breaking
ed by:destructive behavior," said
ing in the predominantly black
windows and looting stores.
Bradley
area of South Central Los Angeles
An AM/PM Market at the cor-
In Washington, President Bush
by midnight. Many of them were
ner of Century and Western in
also asked for "calm and reason in
not being fought, because fire.
South Central Los Angeles was
the community."
fighters refused to enter the area
empty, with giant holes through
But the pleas went unheeded.
without police protection.
its windows, glass lining much of
On Florence Avenue, dozens of
In some areas, firefighters were
the driveway and garbage strewn
young men hurled full bottles of
forced to abandon their equip-
throughout. Much of the merchan-
soda and beer at passing cars. A
ment because of the rioting.
dise has been looted.
Hispanic, his face bloodied, was
Able Perez, 22, said he was
assisted by a black man on the av-
The fires in many cases have
been very difficult for us to get to
working in the store when trouble
enue about two blocks from Nor-
because of the hostility in the
began. "I was inside the office and
mandie. Residents warned non-
area," said Fire Chief Donald
I heard them start breaking the
blacks to stay away.
Manning. "We're maxed out now.
windows with rocks," Perez said.
About 7:45 p.m., at least five
It's a very, very tense situation."
"I ran away as fast as I could.
shots rang out, and about 10 min-
Nearly four score people were
Scared? Yeah, I was scared."
utes later, a car being driven by a:
reported injured, including a New
Across the street, Willie Tolbert
man at high speed rammed a
York Times photographer and
closed his McDonald's restaurant
truck slowing down on Florence.
United Press International re-
early to head off problems. "I don't
Barbara Henry and her hus-
band, James, decried the lack of
porter, who were attacked and
know what they think they'll ac-
beaten. A spokesperson at Daniel
complish," he said. "Why would
police in the area. "We're only de-
Freeman Hospital in Inglewood
you tear up your own neighbor-
stroying our own property, so they
said 25 patients were treated for
hood? It doesn't make any sense."
don't care," Barbara Henry said as
everything from beatings to cuts
At the San Fernando Valley's
she watched nervously from the
front porch of her home on Flor-
to shootings.
Foothill Division police station,
One man suffering from a gun-
where the accused officers had
here?" ence Avenue. "Why aren't they
shot wound and other traumatic
been stationed, officers in riot
injuries died late Wednesday at
gear formed a protective ring
The violence surged as black
community leaders addressed a
Extended Page
2.1
the hospital, said spokeswoman
around the building and arrested
community leaders addressed a
Mary Schnack "He was basically
one man in a confrontation.
crowd of about 3,000 people at the
First A.M.E. church in South Cen-
dead on arrival," Schnack said.
Across the street, about 200 peo-
tral Los Angeles.
Another victim died of unspecified
ple tore down news racks on the
raumatic injuries.
sidewalk.
Mayor Bradley told the crowd
A flrefighter was taken to Ce-
Other police, meanwhile,
he had been assured by the U.S.
dars-Sinai Medical Center at
cruised violent areas in four-
attorney's office that civil rights
10:05 p.m. with a gunshot wound
wheel-drive vehicles, brandishing
violation charges would be
in this cheek, said spokeswoman
automatic weapons and shotguns.
pressed against the officers and
Paula Correia. The firefighter,
"We're going to respond to the
the department. "This thing is not
who was not identified by hospital
highest priority things first," said
over," he said.
officials, was reported in stable
police Capt. Sandy Wassin as ar-
Other speakers were less re-
condition.
mored rescue vehicles rumbled by.
strained in their anger. "The sys-
A total of 30 people were admit-
"The situation is changing so rap-
tem has been manipulated into
ted, including three to four in crit-
idly. I would say if you didn't have
not believing what their eyes tell
ical condition, with injuries rang-
a fear in a situation like this you'd
them," said Danny Bakewell, head
ing from cuts to head trauma, she
be foolish."
of the Brotherhood Crusade. "We
said. Up to 30 more were waiting
Wilson mobilized the National.
have tried to be law-abiding, we
to be treated.
Guard after receiving a telephone
have tried to be peaceful, but it is
request from Los Angeles Mayor
not being responsible to accept a
Tom Bradley, who requested
decision like this."
1,000 to 2,000 troops after sporad-
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115TH YEAR
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1992
Metropolitan Washington (See Box on A2)
25c
No. 152
lieu me CIVIL wars in their
didn't
Aviles --a young
homelands to search for
absent
adoran who emerged last
unskilled jobs, decent housing
aged a
as a key player in D.C.
and new lives.
verdict
Aviles was unemployed and
four L
intil violence erupted on
cooking a shrimp dinner on the
who S
int Pleasant Street NW a
night when angry Hispanic
times C
ago tonight, the Hispanic
youths began heaving rocks and
Hunc
munity spoke to politicians
torching police cars, prompting
took to
ugh longtime activists
city officials to scramble for
to feder
fly of Caribbean and South
channels to this new community.
rican origin. Many of them
The next morning he was
Depart
from 1
been U.S. residents for
summoned to a meeting with the
down P
and voice middle-class
mayor, who was "looking for
near th
some Salvadorans," he recalls
BY CAROL GUIY-THE WASHINGTON POST
(rns such as better access
Outside the Justice Department in Washington, Ray Davis registers his feelings about the Rodney G. King verdict.
chanted
ly jobs and business
being told by a friend.
new the
tance.
He had ties within el pueblo
Roots Were East Side's Riot Shield
"I ca
Latino-the Hispanic
have a
community. But like most in his
community, he lacked
never 1
when M
connections to the city's political
establishment, including
government officials, churches,
Established Hispanic Neighborhoods Mobilized to Avert L.A. Violence
But I'm
old grail
what ha
political clubs, unions, business
associations and other interest
By Ruben Castaneda and Al Kamen
panic gang members organized,
The key difference, numerous
happene
Washington Post Staff Writers
ready to protect neighborhood busi-
Okudze1
groups.
church and civic leaders from both
nesses if the mobs reached their
east Wa
Yet it was Aviles, rather than
sides of downtown agree, is that the
one of the older generation of
LOS ANGELES, May 4-On
streets. Nervous merchants handed
the Just
east side is home to numerous long-
Hispanic activists, who emerged
Thursday afternoon, as a terrible
Near
out leaflets urging motorists and
established residents. The east side
fury was being unleashed from
the Dist
as a spokesman for the
pedestrians not to burn and loot the
has recognized leaders and estab-
community, because he is
south-central Los Angeles north to
the 14th
stores in their neighborhoods.
lished organizations. It has neigh-
persuasive, charismatic and able
the mid-city and Hollywood areas
the Tre
It worked.
borhoods where generations of fam-
to bridge the concerns of the
and it seemed as if the entire city
held up
At least 40 percent of the city's
ilies-primarily Mexican Ameri-
older and younger immigrants,
Mayo,
was on the brink of descending into
3.7 million residents are Latino. And
cans and Mexicans-feel they have.
who together have launched a
lice Chie
anarchy, Hispanic neighborhoods
while dozens of racially mixed sec-
a stake in their largely working-
renewed push for more jobs,
to the I
east of downtown mobilized against
tions west and south of downtown
class and poor communities.
more services and more
largely c)
the mayhem.
attention.
were ravaged by roving mobs, some
In contrast, the Latino neighbor-
sity stud
Community leaders frantically
including Hispanics who live in those
hoods and businesses that bore the
Despite the new blood and
left, a fe
called parents throughout the area,
effort, Aviles and his younger
areas, the east side of Los Angeles-
brunt of the devastation were large-
window I
appealing to them to keep their
constituency have discovered
the heart of the city's large Hispanic
ly communities of recent immi-
Acros
young people inside. Armed His-
PEDRO AVILES
that, as far as fighting city hall is
population-was largely spared.
See HISPANICS, A11, Col. 6
See
ar was a learning process
See POLITICS. A16. Col. 1
In
Los
Last Side L.A.
Mobilized
AVINGS
Against Mobs
HISPANICS, From A1
grants living in the south-central
Los Angeles area, Koreatown and
Savings Off Reg., Orig. & Value Prices
Hollywood, where Hispanics occa-
PLUS BEST BUYS
sionally outnumber blacks.
Gloria Molina, the only Hispanic
Los Angeles County supervisor,
said that while the news media tend
to lump Latinos together, "Latinos
are very diverse." On the east side,
"we didn't have the kind of unrest
that you had in south-central," she
said. "Latinos were very visible"
looting in the less stable neighbor-
hoods of recent Immigrants. "But
they weren't people who were pro-
testing the King verdict."
Most of the people in those im-
poverished areas are newly arrived
Central Americans, largely Salva-
doran refugees as well as Ni-
SALE $799
caraguans, Hondurans and Guate-
malans, who do not have the deep
BEST BUY
roots and cohesiveness of the east
Reg. $1800. 2 CT. T.W. 2-ROW
side population. Also, most of them
DIAMOND TENNIS BRACELET
have been living here illegally and
have not acquired any political
clout.
Carlos Ardon, head of a Salvador-
an organization trying to extend an
immigration amnesty for Salvador-
ans here, said the Central American
$599
BUY
VAL SAPPHIRE
Nervous merchants
BRACELET
handed out leaflets
urging motorists
and pedestrians not
to burn and loot the
SALE $159
BEST BUY
stores in their
Orig.* $350. 1/4 CT. T.W.
DIAMOND RING
neighborhoods.
immigrants do not have the organ-
ization and political leadership of
the Mexican-American establish-
ment. "We are being ignored,"
Ardon said, "The city doesn't care
about the problems of the Central
American community."
Scores, if not hundreds, of Cen-
tral American-owned businesses
were gutted in the rioting. "This is
not a black or white or Korean-only
problem," said Carlos Vaquerano,
an official with the Central Amer-
ican Refugee Center. "We are in the
middle of it and more affected than
ne
said.
BUY
BEST BUY
"It became an opportunity for
JLTURED PEARL
Orig.* $330. OVAL MULTI-STONE
people to be irresponsible and to-
tally opportunistic," said Los Ange-
CHOKER
LINK BRACELET
les City Councilman Richard Ala-
torre, who represents the east side
neighborhoods that were largely
unscathed. "People were taking the
25%
OFF
necessities of life-diapers, food,
shoes for their kids." Many of the
All Citizen, Seiko, Pulsar
Central American looters were
poor people who simply saw a
& Bulova watches+
chance to take things they needed,
he said.
Orig.* 59.50-$495
Those who made off with televi-
SALE 44.62-371.25
sion sets, stereos and other high-
priced items were primarily young
men, many of them gang members,
from Central America, he said.
On the other side of town, most
of the youths and young men, in-
20%
OFF
cluding gang members, in the east
side neighborhoods of Boyle
Antique & estate jewelry
Heights, Highland Park, El Sereno
and unincorporated East Los An-
Orig.* $500-$5000
geles refrained from violence.
SALE $400-$4000
In one instance, youths who
looted a small grocery store in a
housing project were brought back
the next day by their mothers to
return what they had stolen, Ala-
torre said.
10% OFF
Jose "Sinner" Quintanar and Ar-
nold "Bandit" Torres, two members
All Special Value precious
of the gang TMC (The Mob Crew) in
and diamond jewelry
a Boyle Heights housing project, said
they disagreed with the verdicts in
Reg. $179-$599
the Rodney King beating trial, but
said that they thought it was stupid
SALE 161.10-$539
for people to rampage through their
own neighborhoods in protest.
"It would be better to break in
somewhere far from here-Beverly
Hills, someplace where it's nice and
$119
Diamond stud earrings,
people have money," Quintanar
BUY
pendants and jackets
said. "That's where you're going to
get attention.
SITE WATCHES IN
Reg. $199-$2399
"We see them burning up all their
SILVER
stores over there," Quintanar con-
SALE 179.10-2159.10
tinued. "Over here, we've got to
eat. We've got to live over here."
Quintanar and Torres said they
and many of their fellow gang mem-
bers were prepared to defend
neighborhood businesses. "If they
came over here, we were gonna
shoot," Quintanar said.
A few blocks away, other east
telephones. side residents took up not guns but
Daniel Hernandez, executive di-
rector of the Hollenbeck Youth
daysale
Center, was one of a number of civ-
ic and business leaders who gath-
ered Thursday afternoon and
started calling residents to urge
them to keep themselves and their
young people inside and to call oth-
ers with the same message.
Hernandez was scheduled to fly
to Washington Thursday to partic-
ipate in a ceremony connected to
ary by store. tDoes not include Value Priced items, Mikimoto or South Seas Collections.
the Great American Workout with
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Instead of
making his first visit to the White
House, Hernandez stayed in Boyle
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Dear Carol:
Thank you for your thoughtfulness. I received your letter and
copies of the President's speech.
The President did a great job. Working with the advanced party
was a good experience. They truly were easy to coordinate the
visit of the President.
Thank you for your invitation to stop by and say hello. You
can be assured when I get to DC I'll certainly call to say
hello. Might have a visit in late June so if you hear that a
smoke eater from Los Angeles is on the phone it's only me.
Once again keep up the good work.
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