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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.
###
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
three days of rioting in Los Angeles
board before bringing him in.
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
worst riots this century.
attested to the explosion in which
"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-a 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
its role in last year's USAir plane
In a span of just hours, nearly
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-
real test," said Yarnell. "We met the
suming the streets just blocks away.
test and ve passed."
TIMES
05/02/92
Shovels, Brooms Become
for First Interstate Bank. "I
thought that was a darned good
idea. It gets rid of this helpless
Tools of Healing and Hope
feeling."
The volunteers on Degnan
ranged from elementary school-
Community: Black, Anglo and Latino volunteers join
age youngsters to retirees, and
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 J. BOYER
21/120/195
brooms and shovels donated by a
and MARC LACEY
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
neighborhood hardware store.
"I
t infuriates me; it saddens me
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-
Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue,
volunteering to go from site to site
thing good must come out of this. I
clearing the sidewalk of smolder-
and clean up.
pray to God that it does."
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
bia," said Mac, 19, a member of the
the sidewalk with a freshly looted
sidewalks at each end of the block.
Marine Corps stationed in El Toro.
mattress and box spring on their
"We saw folks working here,
"Now you have to turn around and
shoulders.
and we knew they would get
do the same thing in your own back
hungry," he said. "We're doing this
yard. It's sad."
C
ars cruised Vermont and many
for anybody in the neighborhood
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
es of volunteers such as Mac ven-
African Art across the street.
shovels.
tured forth with tangible symbols
They were joined by another
They moved the art objects to
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
hoses, trash containers.
wanted to help the Koreans," said
museum Thursday. stood guard
African-Americans, Anglos and
Dingle, who is black. "I don't want
over them all night and moved
Latinos working together tempo-
them to think so negatively about
them back inside when the build-
rarily put aside their pain and
blacks. The violence last night
ing was spared, she said.
outrage over the wanton destruc-
wasn't real.
In another South Los Angeles
tion and took to the streets to
"This is real."
neighborhood, about half a dozen
reclaim their neighborhoods.
At one point Dingle led Evelyn
ministers who belong to the Minis-
"You gotta get together; you
Binz, 90, a neighborhood resident,
ters' Coalition for Peace encour-
gotta get healed." said Joe Connol-
through the rubble and urged her
aged residents to keep calm.
ly, 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.
lives in the neighborhood, was
ethnic groups of cleanup volun-
Folks are demanding respect,
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' been acting on
people can say not everybody's
and a set designer. And two admin-
their emotions, their anger, their
gone crazy."
istrators at Antioch College in
ràge."
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-he 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
place else no more."
people."
for who owned it. It was the station
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 galleries, 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
SEAL INVOICE STATE
XXXVI
THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
DATE: 5-5-92
TO: carol Blymire
COMPANY:
MESSAGE: CB: Here's an old memoon
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 supposed 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-i brand fax transmittal memo 7671
# of pages
To carol Blymire
From Carolyn Cawlay
Co. WH Speechwriting
Co. CA governor's GC
MEMORANDUM
Dept. Research
Phone 415/703-2218 #
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:
o
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 oustomer 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, countles, cities,
pipelines, 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
Bi
y the time T.J. Murphy. 30.
man-his face awash in blood and
arrived 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-
wheimed 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
Rescuer of Reginald Denny. above. with daughter Ashley
that Denny heard him and saw a
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 I 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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to help L.A.
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
P-C-11
said it will tailor commercial loans
to the needs of affected Bank of
Business section
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 Sonnenmair for The New York Times
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
A Language Of Unrest
"guard."
coming weeks.
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
because many children were afraid to
said.
go outside or parents were afraid to let
Continued on Page A24, Column 1
Plans for Visit May Change
One official also said Mr. Bush now
Searing Revelation for Los Angeles Children: How Hate Can Undo a World
Continued From Page Al
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
faded jeans and a Boston Celtics sweat-
that innocence
CO Reyes, a 14-year-old freshman an-
dozen to a block, feels as menacing as
shirt, lay stiffly on a tiny cot.
nounced to the class: "We're outcasts.
that of a drug dealer. And after the
don't feel so good, he said. "I got a
fever."
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
Only a third of the class even showed
Asked how long he had been ill, he
feel they have no place to turn for
the ashes.
up. "They weren't sure whether it was
said, "When the fire came, the fire that
protection. "I feel I have to protect
safe to come out," Mr. Broughton said.
myself," Mr. Martin said. "The police
came with the war."
During lunch, the 18-year-olds gath-
and the National Guard can get away
Nerves Still on Edge
"All of us live in such a perfect
ered to help distribute free food donat-
with anything. And if anything happens
Elizabeth Dulli, the school's nurse,
community," said a white student, the
ed by a local supermarket. They insist-
to me, they' say it's just another black
daughter of immigrants, identified
ed that they were not scared, not really,
man dead."
spent the day tending such complaints.
"I think the kids are trying to adjust,"
only as Asal. "We have our perfect
because things were never safe where
they grew up anyway.
With emotions still raw, teachers
cars and our perfect clothes. Now it's
she said. "All of this has been hard on
"I've lived in the ghetto all my life,"
tried to use the moment to teach hard
crazy out there, people running red
all of us."
said Calanjus Baker, a senior at Jor-
lessons about life and justice. Miss
lights, setting fires, killing people. My
Nerves are still on edge. Class was
dan High School, whose mother lived
Notkins told her class of 31 children
mother had to go to five stores to get
disrupted 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
and students feared the worst when an
one is supposed to be free and happy.
seen it happen slowly all my life. It's
okay."
early-morning fire broke out in the
It's not supposed to be like this.'
just hurting our community.'
"I think the peole were scared, but
bedroom 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
from the 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
and middle-class Inglewood. The fire
understand why this all happened.
made the neighborhood feel like an
black students in Miss Notkin's pre-
was not linked to the riots, the fire
"This is a message," said a white
occupied territory. "They stand there
dominantly Hispanic class.
male student. "People are so poor, they
in the middle of the street pointing
department said, but it did not have to
their M-16's at anybody," he said. "We
"Everybody," the teacher said,
can't take it anymore. This has been
"wants justice."
be to raise tensions.
going on forever. It's society's fault."
think the fire brought back un-
pléasant memories," said Liza Dan-
Asal stood her ground. "They
dragged this guy out of a truck and
iels, the principal.
beat him. Where do they get the right to
In the last few fiery days, the riots
do that?"
have become one the generation-defin-
"Where do the cops get the right to
One Victim
ing events like the death of John F.
do the same thing?" asked a black
Kennedy or of the Rev. Dr. Martin
student identified as Rachel.
Luther King Jr.. Even at age 9, Javiar
Larrache, a third grader at Bennett-Q.
Another Stalemate
Truck Driver, Beaten,
Elementary School in Inglewood,
The debate, like the nation's struggle
seemed to know this.
with race relations, ended in a stale-
"I have a wound in my head I will
mate and, Dr. Klotz said, it may be a
Talks for the First Time
always remember," he wrote in a
long time before emotions return to
poem for class. "That wound is fatal to
normal even in Beverly Hills. "After
Special to The New York Times
my heart. Because a man named Rod-
what we experienced, it couldn't be
ney King was beaten on March, 1, 1991,
business as usual," he said. "There is a
he took a beating along with all of us.
lot of searching. It isn't finished as far
LOS ANGELES, May 4 - Regi-
a fly buzzing around his room.
"This wound gets bigger as I grow,"
as I'm concerned."
nald Denny, the truck driver who
They said he also wrote a note to
his poem goes on. "The wound that
On the other side of town, in the
was beaten severely in the first
Cecily Kahn, a social worker at
everyone has taken aches my heart
middle of what now looks like Kuwait
moments of the unrest in the
the hospital, saying: "I'm just a
and everyone's heart. This wound we
after the Persian Gulf war, children
city's South-Central area, was
regular guy. I never meant to be
will never forget, thanks to a white jury
walked past the charred remains of
able to talk today for the first
famous."
who now is laughing somewhere safe."
their neighborhood and past National
time since the incident, and doc-
Mr. Denny, who is white, was
Guardsmen in full riot gear just to get
tors upgraded his condition to
dragged from his truck by a
Effects Felt Far Away
to school.
good.
group of black men in South-Cen-
Javier said he was having trouble
Doctors at Daniel Freeman Me-
tral Los Angeles hours after the
sleeping, and that life hasn't been the
Feeling Like Outcasts
morial Hospital in Inglewood,
acquittal of four white police offi-
same. "I can't go back to the park and
where Mr. Denny was taken by a
cers accused in the videotaped
play basketball because my mom said
The swap meet, the jewelry store,
group of onlookers after the beat-
beating of Rodney G. King, a
someone might burn down the park,"
Associated Press
the pawn shop, the shoe store, the liq-
ing on Wednesday night, said his
black motorist. Mr. Denny, 36
Javier said. "Thanks to these people, I
As Los Angeles grappled with returning from the riot-ravaged days of
uor store and gas stations along a
single business stretch of Watts are all
prognosis was improving.
years old, was beaten, kicked, spit
can't go outside and play. I'm referring
last week, children returned to classes in the South-Central epicenter of
on and robbed as television heli-
10 the jury and the looters."
history, burned beyond recognition.
Request for Fly Swatter
Even at some schools far from the
the violence. The National Guard maintains a patrol in the area.
copters circled overhead record-
For the students at Jordan High
They said they still had not de-
ing the scene.
riot's epicenter, the riots were the top
School, all black and Hispanic, that was
termined whether Mr. Denny had
No police officers ever ap-
of the agenda. At Beverly Hills High
their world. Now sitting in a classroom
tory class, the Middle Ages were sud-
will be the same."
suffered permanent brain inju-
School, where students drive B.M.W.'s
whose barred windows are black with
peared to help Mr. Denny, and
denly irrelevant.
ries.
His class, a picture of American
only after he managed to crawl
to school and poverty is social-studies
He was deadly serious and grim-
graffiti, the sense of futility hung thick
Hospital officials said Mr. Den-
prosperity, broke into passionate dis-
back into his truck and start to
term, students groped for answers no
faced as he told his students: "As a
as the Los Angeles air in July.
cussion about race and class and vio-
ny began speaking today, and
drive away did four people step
one seemed able to provide, and in
class and as human beings, we need to
In the middle of a class discussion in
lence and the bursting of the affluent
asked for a fly swatter because of
forward to aid him.
Allen Klotz's 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-
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DATE: 5-5-92
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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, the
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"
Specialio The New York Theme
This is crippling, just crippling."
against exploitative businesses. 'Peo
LOS ANGELES. May,2 - Thirty
said Gene Hale, president of the Afric
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
Central 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 it, but it helps to explain it.'
ment where for the poorest of the poor
afford it. Many of them will simply not
and the tenuous middle class the
Much of this anger has been vented
be able to rebuild."
path up has:never looked steeper.
on Korean shop owners, who MASE busi
Officials are trying to tally the dam-
Goner are 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
sands of people, the nearest ull-service
jor rebuilding task, and they must also
as large as entire shopping malls, have
market is now, at least two miles and
address the question of whether to res
been ransacked or burned beyond re-
turn.
two bus rides away,
pair.
"Folks can't run out for a: loaf of
"Our losses must be $100 million
The losses in property and inventory
bread, or for some milk for the baby,"
said Tong Soo Chung, & 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 Koreal
One potential source of support for
town was abandoned by the police and
ration, a nonprofit housing agency.
the rebuilding of South-Cantral Los An-
the National Guard."
"Medical records are gone. The gas
stations are closed. The first thing to
Peter Lee, a Korean-American'
burn was a hardware store that was
whose Highland Liquor Store was deli
here for over 30 years'
stroyed in the rioting, said: "It's mind
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
the aftermath of the acquittal of four
are not sure they
ty. We even built a house nearby." But
even that kind of commitment might
white Los Angeles police officers in the
beating of Rodney G. King, a black
will reopen in the
not be enough,
"No matter how much housing we'll
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 8 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 11 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, official
president of Thrifty Corporation, which
Hills, many of these developers, profes-
cials criticized the warehousing of pool
Extended Page
2.1
president of Thritty Corporation, which
WFC
was
lost 18 drugstores, four to arson.
sionals and entrepreneurs of all stripes
people in forbidding projects in areas
Our faith in the community is
are committed to sending money into
without the wherewithal to inspired
strong said Mr. Bement, whose com-
the South-Central area
commercial development.
Date
pany owns 620 stores nationwide: But
Middle Class to the Rescue?
A centerpiece of Mayor Tom Brad
we looking at losses of at least $6
The growth of the black bourgeoisie
ley's two-decade tenure has been the
million.
has gone virtually unnoticed,' said
Community Redevelopment Authority
Less uncertain was Adrienne Gaines,
John Bryant, a millionaire who made
which grants seed money to small bust-
a vice president with the Food-4-Less
his fortune in financial services and
nesses. Last month that agency. an
chain. which owns 210 stores, 80 in the
has organized many campaigns to
nounced a $25 million surplus. Today
worst hit areas. "We have every inten-
bring dollars into black neighborhoods.
that amount seems sadly negligible.
tion, 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,"
it for 70 years."
port black America."
said Melvin L Oliver, associate direc=
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 ravaged sites.
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 4. 1992
Curfew May End
caravans of black-and-white police
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
Plans Visit
And like a war, the survivors in the
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
National Guardsmen and 321 other
power to thousands of residents,
among them, William Jeter and his
By TERRY
law-enforcement officers who are pa.
neighbors in South Central Los Ange-
Specialt a The New York Thuss
trolling the city, they are under the
les.
LOS ANGELES, May 3 - The
command of Maj. Gen. Marvin L Con-
Today, Mr. Jetter, a machanic, said
streets of weary Angeles were
valt of the Army. Other marines and
he had rigged up a car battery and
calm: for 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
eral troups joined law enforcement pa-
person on his block with light at night.
if needed. Mr. Frio said that the num-
trols, and cleanup efforts accelerated.
But he said there was no power for
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 dawn curfew on
Saturday.
no place nearby to buy groceries.
Monday.
Anger Lingers Like Haze
Across the city, many grocery stores
Now a Tourist Attraction
and gas stations shuttered during the
The sight of so many armed men has
The intersection of Florence and
riots were open but with added and
been both reassuring and disturbing.
Normandie, where much of the trouble
"I think the occupation is complete,"
armed security, and longer/lines. Bast
said Representative Maxine Waters, a
began, was transformed today from a
ketball courts and soccer fields) ware
battlefield to a tourist attraction as
Democrat whose district includes
crowded for the first time in days, and
South Central Los Angeles. "They"
passing motorists got out of their cars
to take pictures.
the Les Angeles Unified School
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 churches in South-
but they are still just as angry. 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.
throughout the country, spoke of the
Churches across South Central Los
Today, with bus service restored
Angeles, the urban patch hardest hit by
need for healing and compassion.
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
to abate, the deeper problems that une
thought about the military presence in
as well as its streets of the debris and
derlay the bloodshed and property
her neighborhood, Mrs. Battle said, "I
despair that hovered like the haze.
"We go from mess-up, to mop-up, to
think it's very sad to see our city torn
damage seemed to rise to the surface
the make-up," said the Rev. Cecil Mur-
up like this."
of the political agenda. Aides to Presi-
"I hate to see them," she said. "But
dent Bush said that he 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 he
scheduled visit and that he would use
turned into a shelter for dozens of riot
She said the neighborhood had been
on its way back, ever so slowly recov-
the opportunity to talk about economic
refugees - people who were burned
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, fail, 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 organi
Robert Lee, a black man who TMIS
bols of the destruction. Walking along a
izations there [Page A10.]
his own small contracting business,
inearby street today was a woman who
Chaos 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
since rioting erupted Wednesday night
tin Luther King Hospital, Baby wore a
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
night, hoping to complete felony ar-
great. I'm going to expand my busi-
through glass," she said, reciting a
ness."
raignments for at least 750 defendants.
long list of riot-related injuries she had
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 I 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
neonle arrested.
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to the Los Angeles County CULVING 9
Office. Some of the more than 2,000
people arrested.
people injured died in hospitals, and
new victims were added to the list
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
death toll reached 49, of whom 21 were
scene investigation because It wasn't
black, 15 Hispanic, 7 white, 2 Asian and
safe," said Ronald Karlson, a detective
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
Office. Some of the more. than 2,000
volving the police.
Mr. Karison said it was unclear when
people injured died in hospitals, and
new victims were added to the list
the investigations could be completed.
when their bodies were recently dis-
"When that happens is not within our
covered in charred and gutted build-
control," he said.
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, 226 of them critically.
After mass at St. Vincent Roman
The curfew, in effect since Thursday
Catholic Church in downtown Los Art-
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.
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MAY
5 92 11:39
FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 001
To: CAROL BLYMIDE
FR: CAROLYN
2 pages
San Jose Mercury News
News
Thursday, April 30, 1992
Caught up
in maelstrom
of hatred
Mercury News photographer
Len 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
Mercury 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
Lahman
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.
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1.1
iy 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
92
11:39
FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE SF
PAGE. 002
APRIL 30, 1992
SACRAMENTO
Cops ©1992 THE 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
CAt 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.
trai 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
"The fires in many cases have
Able Perez, 22, said he was
assisted by a black man on the av-
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-
porter, who were attacked and
know what they think they'll ac-
band, James, decried the lack of
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
to shootings.
Foothill Division police station,
front porch of her home on Flor-
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
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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
dead'on arrival," Schnack said.
First A.M.E. church in South Cen-
Across the street, about 200 peo-
Another victim died of unspecified
ple tore down news racks on the
tral Los Angeles.
traumatic injuries.
sidewalk.
Mayor Bradley told the crowd.
A firefighter 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 his 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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AMERICAN RED CROSS:
ANECDOTE/gee whiz stuff
DAVE GIROUX - MEDIA ASSOCIATE
202-639-3147
Red Cross provided cots, food and volunteer assistance to 25
children [they really were elementary age] in a South Central Los
Angeles school [Windsor High School] when they couldn't get home
-- because of the riot.
LA County Chapter of the American Red Cross responded to the
crisis before Washington even knew what was happening; stayed all
night to set-up command centers, no lag-time to response.
I enjoyed speaking with you, and have assembled the background material you
requested. Enclosed are the following:
Disaster Newsletter (5/5/92) from L.A. Emergency
National Headquarters News Release (4/28/92) on $30 million appeal for the
Red Cross disaster relief fund
Elizabeth Dole opening statement, 4/28/92 News conference, announcing
disaster relief campaign
News Release (5/5/92) from Humboldt Co. Earthquake, Northern California
As we discussed yesterday, the L.A. emergency and Humboldt County earthquake are
only two examples of recent Red Cross disaster relief operations which have attracted
some attention from the media. Examples of other recent operations (4/17-27) which
you may NOT have heard of include:
4/20/92 Mississippi tornadoes: 88 families affected in 7 counties; estimated cost of
Red Cross relief operation: $47,200
4/21/92 North Carolina floods: 25 families affected; 25 mobile homes and
apartments damaged or destroyed; estimated cost of Red Cross relief operation:
$36,900
4/21/92 Virginia floods: 306 homes in Roanoke damaged or destroyed; estimated cost
of Red Cross relief operation: $214,000
4/22/92 Riverside County, California plane crash: 16 deaths; Red Cross provided
mass care and disaster mental health counseling for victims, families, and airport and
rescue personnel.
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To:
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Date:
May 6, 1992
FAX: 202-456-6218
From: David Giroux David
Subject:
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American
Red Cross
DISASTER NEWSLETTER #2 - DR# 750 Los Angeles Emergency
Tuesday, May 5, 1992
As calm returns to Southern California, the American Red Cross
continues to provide assistance for families and individuals who
lost their homes and apartments to fire during the civil
disturbances.
While media reports in the initial days focused on the burning of
businesses and commercial property, it has become evident that
many residential properties also were destroyed. Red Cross
damage assessment teams were deployed throughout the area Monday,
and with only about 10 to 20 percent of the assessment completed,
found 344 living units to be affected- mostly destroyed.
Hundreds of families have been left homeless.
The two shelters at Dorsey High School and Belmont High School
are still open, and housed a total of 170 persons Monday night.
since it is anticipated that these shelters may be open for
awhile, attempts are being made to provide entertainment and
activities for the children. Lolly the Clown and pianist Bobby
Pierce have visited Dorsey High. The city library will be
providing storytellers (English and Spanish). And, the Church of
the Brethren is providing child care services.
Disaster Health Services nurses have been providing a wide range
of services in the shelter, and psychologist Dr. Robert Scott and
a group of volunteer crisis counselors have been working with
children and others in the shelters. Dr. Scott also has appeared
several times on television with advice for those who have been
affected emotionally by the disturbances.
The Dorsey High School shelter has been the center of attention
from media throughout the area, the nation and the world. Among
those who have visited the shelter, in addition to all of the
local media, are Time and Newsweek magazines, Japanese radio and
television, Canadian radio, the Sacramento Bee and Chicago
Tribune newspapers, and many others. Calls from media around the
world also have come into the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
Family services caseworkers have begun working individually with
families and individuals to assess their disaster-caused needs,
and help them resume normal living as quickly as possible.
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Residents of three apartment buildings that were among the first
to be burned are being helped in the Los Angeles Chapter's West
District headquarters, Caseworkers also are located in the
shelters, and are providing outreach to victims at a housing unit
in the Pico Union district where there were families affected.
When the federal Disaster Application Centers (DAC) open at 10
a.m. on Friday, caseworkers will be located in each of those
centers.
Red Cross disaster assistance for the fire victims may include
the following: temporary housing and rental assistance; food;
clothing; medical, nursing and hospital care; essential
household items; replacement of personal occupational tools and
supplies; replacement of health items, such as eye glasses or
prosthetic devices; and minor home repairs that permit resident
to move back into the home. Caseworkers also can refer victims
to other agencies for assistance with other needs.
More than 300 Los Angeles Chapter disaster workers have been
working around the clock to aid those affected by the
disturbances.
The Long Beach Chapter conducted an extensive feeding operation
for law enforcement, National Guard, U.S. Marines and public
works crews. More than 5,100 mcals were served, and about 300
snacks from three mobile canteens. About 120 Long Beach
volunteer and paid staff helped with the mass care operation, and
also provided assistance to 15 individuals affected by
disturbances in that city. Support was provided to the chapter
by disaster workers from the Orange County Chapter.
An added responsibility, as a result of the presence of military
troops in the area, is that the Red Cross at the Long Beach Naval
Station is now serving as the Red Cross representative for these
military personnel. Emergency communications, and any other
emergency assistance normally provided by Red Cross for these
members of the military, must now be provided by the Naval
Station Red Cross representative.
The Orange County Chapter also was extremely busy on it own.
Initial response was to provide mass care feeding for the
National Guard and California Highway Patrol. Activity required
the opening of the chapter's headquarters, where they fielded
calls from concerned citizens and those wishing to help. On
Thursday, they received a donation of bottled water from
Arrowhead that was delivered to the Santa Ana National Guard
Armory. Cots were provided for the CHP command post at Los
Alamitos. Comfort items were provided for emergency workers, and
a generous donation of comfort items was made by Sav-On Drug
Stores.
Responding to calls from residents who wished to volunteer,
Orange County conducted training classes on Saturday, issuing 56
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The Central Intake Unit at the Los Angeles Chapter, which
receives all after hour calls for emergency assistance made to
any of the chapters in the Los Angeles Region, is experiencing
greatly increased traffic. Not only are there a great number of
calls coming in related to needs as a result of the disturbances,
but there are many more calls from military families,
particularly those living in the affected areas and families of
National Guardsmen, who need assistance. Many families have not
received their monthly allotment checks because of the disruption
of postal services, and have required financial assistance.
Red Cross blood collection facilities resumed normal operations
on Monday. All centers closed midday on Thursday, and Los
Angeles County facilities were also closed on Friday and
Saturday. Usual shipments from outside the region have helped
keep the community blood supply adequate.
Support from the community has been outstanding. KABC-TV is
conducting an on-air fund raising campaign, with all funds to be
contributed to Red Cross. Vons, and all its affiliate stores,
from Fresno to San Diego, and including Las Vegas (total of 340),
will have cannisters in place to collect funds for the disaster
relief fund, and will promote the activity in advertising and on
the radio. When Red Cross attempted to buy toys for the children
in the shelters at K-Mart, the store would not accept vouchers
for the toys, and instead donated the toys for the children.
Both Miller Brewing Co. and Evian are contributing water that
will be served at Red Cross water stations located at each DAC
when they open this week.
Those who wish to help victims of this and other disasters
through the American Red Cross may send their contributions,
earmarked "Disaster Relief Fund," to any Red Cross chapter or to
the Los Angeles Chapter, American Red Cross, 2700 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90057.
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American Red Cross
National Headquarters
17th and D Streets, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
Telephones: Day (202) 639-3200
NEWS RELEASE
Night (202) 737-8300
Fax: (202) 347-1794
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL
CONTACT: Susan Pyle or
1:00 PM (ET) ON APRIL 28, 1992
David Giroux
(202) 639-3200
RED CROSS SEEKS $30 MILLION FOR DISASTER RELIEF
WASHINGTON, April 28--American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole today launched
a $30 million campaign to help replenish the organization's disaster relief fund that she
described as being "in serious financial trouble." During a news conference here, Dole said
the financial shortfall greatly jeopardizes the Red Cross' 110-year-old disaster relief program,
which provides millions of people with food, shelter, medical items and other kinds of
emergency assistance during disasters.
"Our ability to continue to provide people with the same high level of disaster relief is
seriously threatened," Dole said. "We are coming to a tragic realization: without people's
help now, disasters could leave others helpless later."
Dole cited an unprecedented number of disasters in the last two years--more than 55,000
in fiscal year 1990-91 alone, including 8,000 that required assistance from the
headquarters--and a long, expensive list of disasters this fiscal year that have drained the
relief funds.
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RED CROSS SEEKS $30 MILLION FOR DISASTER RELIEF --ADD ONE
Nine months into this fiscal year, the Red Cross has spent almost $47 million in
national funds alone, nearly twice the $27.3 million that was budgeted this year for disaster
relief. This amount does not include the millions of dollars chapters have spent responding
to local disaster and emergencies.
In fiscal year 1989-90, the organization spent a record $224 million in national and
chapter funds to provide assistance to the victims of thousands of disasters, including
Hurricane Hugo and the Northern California earthquake. In fiscal year 1990-91, more than
$184 million was spent to help disaster victims.
This fiscal year, the list of major disaster operations includes Cyclone Val that has cost
the Red Cross more than $12 million in disaster relief for the residents of American Samoa;
mud slides in Puerto Rico topping more than $6 million in relief costs; and floods throughout
Texas, Louisiana and Southern California where the Red Cross estimates it will spend more
than $5 million to assist disaster victims.
With a depleted disaster budget, Dole says the organization has borrowed heavily against
other assets to provide service to victims.
In a move to fund current services to disaster victims, Dole explained, the Red Cross
eliminated 204 positions three weeks ago at its national headquarters here, imposed a hiring
freeze last October, placed a moratorium on major purchases, cut travel budgets by 40
percent and reached into corporate reserves by $22.6 million.
"Tens of thousands of families will be struck by disasters this year. They will turn to us
for help, as they have for more than 100 years," Dole said. "If we are to provide the warm,
dry shelter; the food, and the assistance they need to get back on their feet, we must get back
on ours."
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FACT SHEET
civil Disturbance in Los Angeles
The following statistics are as of 0547 hours (PDT)
Sunday, May 3, 1992
Mass care
5,388
Meals served
9,100
Snacks served.
Current number Uf mobile feeding vehicles
7
Number OF mobile feeding vehicles to date
8
2
Number of shelters currently open
Current number of shelter residents
110
Shelter locations:
Dorsey High School
3537 Farmdale Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Belmont High School
1575 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA
Number of shelters and evacuation centers open to date
6
Disaster Health Services - (According to County ROC,
Department of Health Services Representative)
Number of persons injured
2,116
198
of those critically injured are
Number of deaths (according to County Coroner
46
Number of deaths occurring in hospital
20
Number of deaths occurring in the field
24
Red Cross staffing
Current number of Red Cross workers
195
Feeding: Continues at this hour for CHP (California Hwy. Patrol)
command post
** Additional Activity:
Supplying cots to LAPD and CHP for their use
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Subject: Background Material--
Red Cross Disaster Relief
I enjoyed speaking with you, and have assembled the background material you
requested. Enclosed are the following:
Disaster Newsletter (5/5/92) from L.A. Emergency
National Headquarters News Release (4/28/92) on $30 million appeal for the
Red Cross disaster relief fund
Elizabeth Dole opening statement, 4/28/92 News conference, announcing
disaster relief campaign
News Release (5/5/92) from Humboldt Co. Earthquake, Northern California
As we discussed yesterday, the L.A. emergency and Humboldt County earthquake are
only two examples of recent Red Cross disaster relief operations which have attracted
some attention from the media, Examples of other recent operations (4/17-27) which
you may NOT have heard of include:
4/20/92 Mississippi tornadoes: 88 families affected in 7 counties; estimated cost of
Red Cross relief operation: $47,200
4/21/92 North Carolina floods: 25 families affected; 25 mobile homes and
$36,900 apartments damaged or destroyed; estimated cost of Red Cross relief operation:
4/21/92 Virginia floods: 306 homes in Roanoke damaged or destroyed; estimated cost
of Red Cross relief operation: $214,000
4/22/92 Riverside County, California plane crash: 16 deaths; Red Cross provided
mass care and disaster mental health counseling for victims, families, and airport and
rescue personnel.
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DISASTER NEWSLETTER #2 - DR# 750 Los Angeles Emergency
Tuesday, May 5, 1992
As calm returns to Southern California, the American Red Cross
continues to provide assistance for families and individuals who
disturbances. lost their homes and apartments to fire during the civil
While media reports in the initial days focused on the burning of
businesses and commercial property, it has become evident that
many residential properties also were destroyed. Red Cross
damage assessment teams were deployed throughout the area Monday,
and with only about 10 to 20 percent of the assessment completed,
Hundreds of families have been left homeless.
found 344 living units to be affected mostly destroyed.
The two shelters at Dorsey High School and Belmont High School
are still open, and housed a total of 170 persons Monday night.
Since it is anticipated that these shelters may be open for
awhile, attempts are being made to provide entertainment and
activities for the children. Lolly the Clown and pianist Bobby
Pierce have visited Dorsey High. The city library will be
providing storytellers (English and Spanish). And, the Church of
the Brethren is providing child care services.
Disaster Health Services nurses have been providing a wide range
of services in the shelter, and psychologist Dr. Robert Scott and
a group of volunteer crisis counselors have been working with
children and others in the shelters. Dr. Scott also has appeared
several times on television with advice for those who have been
affected emotionally by the disturbances.
The Dorsey High School shelter has been the center of attention
from media throughout the area, the nation and the world. Among
those who have visited the shelter, in addition to all of the
local media, are Time and Newsweek magazines, Japanese radio and
television, Canadian radio, the Sacramento Bee and Chicago
Tribune newspapers, and many others. Calls from media around the
world also have come into the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
Family services caseworkers have begun working individually with
families and individuals to assess their disaster-caused needs,
and help them resume normal living as quickly as possible.
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to be burned are being helped in the Los Angeles Chapter's West
District headquarters, Caseworkers also are located in the
shelters, and are providing outreach to victims at a housing unit
in the Pico Union district where there were families affected.
When the federal Disaster Application Centers (DAC) open at 10
a.m. on Friday, caseworkers will be located in each of those
centers.
Red Cross disaster assistance for the fire victims may include
the following: temporary housing and rental assistance; food;
clothing; medical, nursing and hospital care; essential
household items; replacement of personal occupational tools and
supplies; replacement of health items, such as eye glasses or
prosthetic devices; and minor home repairs that permit resident
to move back into the home. Caseworkers also can refer victims
to other agencies for assistance with other needs.
More than 300 Los Angeles Chapter disaster workers have been
working around the clock to aid those affected by the
disturbances.
The Long Beach Chapter conducted an extensive feeding operation
for law enforcement, National Guard, U.S. Marines and public
works crews. More than 5,100 meals were served, and about 300
snacks from three mobile canteens. About 120 Long Beach
volunteer and paid staff helped with the mass care operation, and
also provided assistance to 15 individuals affected by
disturbances in that city. Support was provided to the chapter
by disaster workers from the Orange County Chapter.
An added responsibility, as a result of the presence of military
troops in the area, is that the Red Cross at the Long Beach Naval
Station is now serving as the Red Cross representative for these
military personnel. Emergency communications, and any other
emergency assistance normally provided by Red Cross for these
members of the military, must now be provided by the Naval
Station Red Cross representative.
The Orange County Chapter also was extremely busy on it own.
Initial response was to provide mass care feeding for the
National Guard and California Highway Patrol. Activity required
the opening of the chapter's headquarters, where they fielded
calls from concerned citizens and those wishing to help. On
Thursday, they received a donation of bottled water from
Arrowhead that was delivered to the Santa Ana National Guard
Armory. Cots were provided for the CHP command post at Los
Alamitos. Comfort items were provided for emergency workers, and
a generous donation of comfort items was made by Sav-On Drug
Stores.
Responding to calls from residents who wished to volunteer,
Orange County conducted training classes on Saturday, issuing 56
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in two courses.
The Central Intake Unit at the Los Angeles Chapter, which
receives all after hour calls for emergency assistance made to
any of the chapters in the Los Angeles Region, is experiencing
greatly increased traffic. Not only are there a great number of
calls coming in related to needs as a result of the disturbances,
but there are many more calls from military families,
particularly those living in the affected areas and families of
National Guardsmen, who need assistance. Many families have not
received their monthly allotment checks because of the disruption
of postal services, and have required financial assistance.
Red Cross blood collection facilities resumed normal operations
on Monday. All centers closed midday on Thursday, and Los
Angeles County facilities were also closed on Friday and
Saturday. Usual shipments from outside the region have helped
keep the community blood supply adequate.
Support from the community has been outstanding. KABC-TV is
conducting an on-air fund raising campaign, with all funds to be
contributed to Red Cross. Vons, and all its affiliate stores,
from Fresno to San Diego, and including Las Vegas (total of 340),
will have cannisters in place to collect funds for the disaster
relief fund, and will promote the activity in advertising and on
the radio. When Red Cross attempted to buy toys for the children
in the shelters at K-Mart, the store would not accept vouchers
for the toys, and instead donated the toys for the children.
Both Miller Brewing Co. and Evian are contributing water that
will be served at Red Cross water stations located at each DAC
when they open this week.
Those who wish to help victims of this and other disasters
through the American Red Cross may send their contributions,
earmarked "Disaster Relief Fund," to any Red Cross chapter or to
the Los Angeles Chapter, American Red Cross, 2700 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90057.
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Telephones: Day (202) 639-3200
Night (202) 737-8300
Fax: (202) 347-1794
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CONTACT: Susan Pyle or
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RED CROSS SEEKS $30 MILLION FOR DISASTER RELIEF
WASHINGTON, April 28--American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole today launched
a $30 million campaign to help replenish the organization's disaster relief fund that she
described as being "in serious financial trouble." During a news conference here, Dole said
the financial shortfall greatly jeopardizes the Red Cross' 110-year-old disaster relief program,
which provides millions of people with food, shelter, medical items and other kinds of
emergency assistance during disasters.
"Our ability to continue to provide people with the same high level of disaster relief is
seriously threatened," Dole said. "We are coming to a tragic realization: without people's
help now, disasters could leave others helpless later."
Dole cited an unprecedented number of disasters in the last two years--more than 55,000
in fiscal year 1990-91 alone, including 8,000 that required assistance from the
headquarters--and a long, expensive list of disasters this fiscal year that have drained the
relief funds.
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KED CROSS SEEKS $30 MILLION FOR DISASTER RELIEF --ADD ONE
Nine months into this fiscal year, the Red Cross has spent almost $47 million in
national funds alone, nearly twice the $27.3 million that was budgeted this year for disaster
relief. This amount does not include the millions of dollars chapters have spent responding
to local disaster and emergencies.
In fiscal year 1989-90, the organization spent a record $224 million in national and
chapter funds to provide assistance to the victims of thousands of disasters, including
Hurricane Hugo and the Northern California earthquake. In fiscal year 1990-91, more than
$184 million was spent to help disaster victims.
This fiscal year, the list of major disaster operations includes Cyclone Val that has cost
the Red Cross more than $12 million in disaster relief for the residents of American Samoa;
mud slides in Puerto Rico topping more than $6 million in relief costs; and floods throughout
Texas, Louisiana and Southern California where the Red Cross estimates it will spend more
than $5 million to assist disaster victims.
With a depleted disaster budget, Dole says the organization has borrowed heavily against
other assets to provide service to victims.
In a move to fund current services to disaster victims, Dole explained, the Red Cross
eliminated 204 positions three weeks ago at its national headquarters here, imposed a hiring
freeze last October, placed a moratorium on major purchases, cut travel budgets by 40
percent and reached into corporate reserves by $22.6 million.
"Tens of thousands of families will be struck by disasters this year. They will turn to us
for help, as they have for more than 100 years," Dole said. "If we are to provide the warm,
dry shelter; the food, and the assistance they need to get back on their feet, we must get back
on ours."
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RED CROSS SEEKS $30 MILLION FOR DISASTER RELIEF --ADD TWO
To raise the funds, Dole said the organization will solicit major gifts from corporations
and foundations; use direct mail, one-on-one requests and public service advertising; and
sponsor a variety of special events.
The American Red Cross is chartered by Congress to provide disaster relief to residents
of the United States, its territories, possessions and commonwealths. But, Dole points out,
the Red Cross does not receive government funding to carry out that mandate.
"We rely almost solely on donations from corporations, foundations and the general
public," she said. "All of our disaster relief is free, a gift from the people in this country.
We're an extension of the good will of the American people and the American ethic of
neighbor helping neighbor."
Joining Dole at the news conference were three families who told what Red Cross
disaster relief meant to them. When a fire last October destroyed Jessie and Maxwell
Strong's Washington, D.C. apartment, the Red Cross helped with temporary housing for
several days, and bought them new beds, bed linens, kitchen utensils, medication and other
emergency items.
When a tornado last spring destroyed the home of Wichita residents Roger and Elizabeth
Spencer, the Red Cross provided them with groceries, new clothes and shoes for their two
children, and financial assistance to help bury Roger's grandparents who died during the
storm.
Valerie Titus of Malibu remembers the flood that washed through her home in February.
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"I was at a total loss, not knowing what I was going to do," said Titus of her disaster
experience. "Thank God for the Red Cross. They have fed me, assisted my move to a new
apartment, provided clothes, a bed, linens, a table and chairs, everything I need."
Anyone wishing to make a financial contribution to the American Red Cross may do so
by sending a donation to their local chapter, or to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, P.O.
Box 37243, Washington, D.C. 20013. The toll-free number for charging a donation to a
credit card is (800) 842-2200.
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OPENING STATEMENT - 4/28/92
AMERICAN RED CROSS DISASTER RELIEF PRESS CONFERENCE
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank all of you for being here today.
I have an important announcement to make, I'll read a statement,
and then I'll be happy to take your questions.
The American Red Cross Disaster Relief program is in serious
financial trouble, and we're turning to the American people for
help.
Our Disaster Relief funds are depleted, and we have borrowed
heavily against our other assets to continue providing service.
But, we've now reached the limit of our ability to borrow without
jeopardizing our other vital services that people depend on.
Over the last months we have looked within our own house to find
other resources, wring out inefficiencies, and save money where
we can. Two weeks ago we announced the elimination of 204
positions at National Headquarters. We've been living under a
hiring freeze since last October, slashed travel budgets and
placed a moratorium on major purchases. We are in the process
now of designing and implementing more stringent cost controls
for the future.
But these steps, as sweeping as they are, won't be enough.
The Red Cross must raise $30 million for disaster relief services
this year. We must raise this money if we are to continue to aid
victims of floods, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados and
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other natural disasters that can suddenly overtake any one of us.
Our ability to continue to provide people with the same high
level of disaster relief is seriously threatened. We are coming
to a tragic realization: without people's help now, disasters
could leave others helpless later.
Back-to-back years of unprecedented disasters have put us in
this tough position. Two years ago, when Hurricane Hugo and the
Lomo Prieta Earthquake struck, disaster relief costs soared to
their highest ever: $224 million. Last year we faced a record
number of smaller but costly disasters and spent $184 million,
the second highest in our history.
And the disasters have not let up this fiscal year. The
Oakland Hills fires, Cyclone Val in American Samoa, mud slides in
Puerto Rico, storms along the New England coast, floods in
Southern California, tornadoes in Kansas, and a series of floods
in Texas and Louisiana are just a few of the many disasters where
people have turned to us for help.
Today as we move into the spring flood and tornado season
and what appears to be an earthquake season as well, we're
turning to the American people for help -- asking for individual,
private financial donations as well as the support of America's
corporations and foundations. We're launching an extraordinary,
national fundraising drive that will be conducted in every state
and reach every town where there is an American Red Cross
chapter.
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Some people may already have begun receiving materials about
the campaign, others will be contacted in the near future. If,
for some reason, we miss some families, we would like them to
contact their local chapter, or call our national 800 number
(HOLD UP SIGN) -1/800/842-2200 -- to make a contribution.
We also have contacted local television news directors and
newspaper editors, asking them to carry our message to the
public, to air or print, public service advertisements for our
campaign. Today we are sending out a personal appeal from me,
which we'll be providing for you. We're turning to you-the
media for help, so that we can help others. We simply must
reach as many people possible.
Tens of thousands of Americans will be struck by disasters
this year. They will turn to us for help, as they have for the
last 100 years. If we are to provide the warm, dry shelter; the
food, and the assistance they need to get back on their feet, we
must get back on ours.
Although we are an American tradition, chartered by Congress
to provide disaster relief, we are no government program. We
rely almost solely on donations from corporations and the general
public. All of our disaster relief is free, a gift from the
people in this country. We're an extension of the good will of
the American people, and the American ethic of neighbor helping
neighbor. It is to this heritage that we appeal today.
None of us has a lot of extra money. These are difficult
times for everyone. Most of us are saving what we have as a
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hedge against the future. But what we, at the Red Cross, are
trying to do today, is not so different from when Americans
before us banded together to raise a barn or sew a quilt for
neighbors who needed help. Our neighbors need us now, and we're
asking those who can, to help provide a little shelter.
But what is this campaign really about? What do all these
facts, statistics and dollar figures mean to people?
For Roger and Elizabeth Spencer of Wichita, Kansas; for
Jessie Strong of Washington, DC; and for Valerie Titus of Malibu,
California; it means a lot.
Let me have them tell you their stories.
(ASK ALL FOUR PEOPLE TO JOIN YOU AT PODIUM. ORDER OF
SPEAKERS: ROGER AND ELIZABETH SPENCER, JESSIE STRONG AND VALERIE
TITUS)
Thank you. We have a few minutes, and I'd be happy to take
your questions.
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American Red Cross
News
Office of Public Affairs
DR740 Humboldt Co. Earthquake
P.O. Box 3402
Release
Eurcka, CA 95502
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information contact:
Elizabeth Quirk
Angie Carrillo
EARTHQUAKE
Beth Heinrich
Suoan Shaw
707/445-1013
707/499-0034 (cellular)
American Red Cross Assistance
Monday, May ,1992
Red Cross Assistance At-A-Glance:
Shelters:
Service Centers Providing Emergency Assistance:
2
Mobile Service Centers Providing Emergency Assistance:
3
Families Assisted To Date:
1
Total number of Pcople:
257
Homes Damaged:
851
Monls Served on 5/4/92:
908
Total Meals Served as of 5/4/92:
1,134
Volunteers Providing Assistance:
29,948
Earthquake Victim Hotline:
269
1-800-834-5400
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT:
American of Red Cross has completed 90% of damage assessment. Reports
Some corridor as far south as Garberville and north to McKinleyville.
additional damaged areas have taken teams along the Highway 101
being refined.
numbers originally reported will change as assessments are
Petrolia:
Homes/apts. destroyed:
Homes/apts. with major damage (unhabitable)
44
Homes/apts. with minor damage (habitable) :
36
38
Ferndale:
Homes/apts. destroyed:
Homes/apts. with major damage (unhabitable) :
39
Homes/apts. with minor damage (habitable):
64
76
Scotia:
Homes/apts. destroyed:
Homes/apts. with major damage (unhabitable) ;
6
Homes/apts. with minor damage (habitable) :
18
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Rio Dell:
Homes/apts. destroyed:
Homes/apts. with major damage (unhabitable) :
64
Homes/apts. with minor damage (habitable)
175
113
Fortuna:
Homes/apts. destroyed:
Homes/apts. with major damage (unhabitable) :
2
Homes/apts. with minor damage (habitable) :
23
44
Shivley, Honeydew, Stafford: Kneeland, Loleta, Pepperwood, Shelter Freshwater, Cove,
Holmes, Carlotta, Eureka, Ettersburg, Fields Landing, Alton,
Blue Damage Lake, in other areas of Humbolt County including: Arcata,
Homes/apts. destroyed:
llomes/apts. with minor damage (habitable)
Homes/apts. with major damage (unhabitable)
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TOTALS ALL AREAS:
TOTAL HOMES/APTS DESTROYED:
TOTAL HOMES/APTS - MAJOR DAMAGE:
159
TOTAL HOMES/APTS - MINOR DAMAGE:
340
TOTAL liomes/Apts-Affected:
381
908
TOTAL BUSINESSES AFFECTED:
TOTAL PUBLIC BUILDINGS AFFECTED:
143
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EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE:
Outreach ARC has assisted 851 people. To date 257 cases have been
describing workers have been canvassing towns opened.
5400. of the service center nearest you, assistance. call For
the location contact a Red Cross service center for victims are
urged to American Red Cross services. All earthquake posting flyers
medical repairs, basic household items, groceries and new or minor
home Assistance may include financial help for: rent 1-800-834-
been Ferndale, Petrolia and Rio Dell. The Scotia service are centers located has
in costs, and job supplies. The service centers clothes,
consolidated Hours: with the Rio Dell service unit.
$ am - 5:30 pm
1 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday - Saturday
Sunday
MOBILE AND TENT SERVICE CENTERS:
A Red Cross service center is operating out of a tent in Petrolia.
Eureka Plaza: 10 am - 3:30 pm Wednesday
Arcata Mobile at service the centers have been activated for this week only:
Chamber of Commerce: 10 am - 3:30 pm Thursday & Friday
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mental counseling referrals will be made by ARC nurses to coffee.
Crisis Emergency Response Vehicles will provide information and
assistance individually with victims and may provide them with meet
health workers. Family assistance caseworkers will county
service clothing centers. and medical supplies. Paralegals will be available new at
such as vouchers for groceries, minor home repairs, emergency
MASS CARE:
To On May 4th, 1,134 meals were served to victims and relief
date 29,948 meals have been served to earthquake victims workers.
Forestry will close down the central kitchen at: Ferndale. ARC will of
emergency workers. On May 6, 1992 the California Department and
meals open a from contral kitchen at Rio Dell Elementary School and
available to those who need them to pack up belongings.
that location to fixed and mobile sites. Boxes will provide be
TRAINING:
Red local Cross Disaster Services will provide a number of
of the volunteers, to enhance the capacity of disaster courses for
local chapter. The cornerstone to all Red Cross preparedness
an Mass Care course, complete with hands-on
courses, ARC Introduction to Disaster, will be taught. Also offered Disaster is
Participants of this class will actually prepare meals training.
kitchen. carthquake victims and emergency workers at the Rio Dell central for
SHELTERS:
Two the of the original four shelters remain open, one in Rio
where families. At the peak of the emergency approximately 3,000 citizens and
other in Petrolia are continuing to house individuals Dell and
sheltered. Currently 33 persons are in the shelters.
COMFORT & CLEAN-UP KITS:
To items, date more than 1,104 comfort kits, containing personal
Corporation has donated 3,000 Clean-up Kits.
have been distributed to earthquake victims. hygiene Clorox
DONATIONS:
Red Cross has received a $5,000 donation from the Levi
radio Foundation and over $1,600 combined contribution from a Strauss of
stations located in Fresno. A donation has also group
from received Chevron. from Mad Rivor Hospital as well as a significant pledge been
People can send wishing to help victims of the Humboldt County Earthquake
Credit Humboldt County Chapter, P.O. Box 3402, Eureka, CA 95502. Fund,
c/o a contribution to American Red Cross Disaster Relief
card donations will be accepted at 1-800-842-2200.
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RED CROSS WORKERS:
A total of 269 Red Cross workers provided assistance in the
volunteer. affected areas. Of this number, approximately 100 are local
RED CROSS 1-800 NUMBER:
Earthquake victims only, should call: 1-800-834-5400 for
information on locations of Red Cross services and the types of
services available.
HEALTH SERVICES;
Red Cross nurses confirm 356 injuries treated at local hospitals
and Red Cross shelters (cuts & bruises). 18 people admitted to
local hospitals. All have been released. ARC nurses have referred
114 people to Humboldt County Mental Health Services.
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES:
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VOLUNTARY AGENCIES:
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from all over
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who "don't understand
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are scared
Aprill 30,1992
aRe afraid for " their
futures
Dear President Bush,
I'm a young Mexican -
american boy. l don't like seeing
this kind of stuff. I'm kind of
scared because what if this happends
to me I'm realy enraged.
your friend,
Adrian Ruiz
If you decide
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that he Re Receiving is
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So many
3063
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Dear Pres. George Bush,
I'm writing in the concern of the
butal beating of Rodney Ring -d am 11 years
old and din concerned of the world, because when
el graw up who knows d might get heat up
because Phillopino? d thought for sure those
cops would be convicted.
since dey,
Ryan Pangamiston
May 1, 1992
Dear President Bush,
My feelings to
you are very sad
because of the man
that got beaten up.
I feel very sorry for
him. most students
here at Gardendale
Elementry are Hispanics.
Rodney King did wrong
and police officers
who hit him did
wrong too. now
L.a. is under siege.
The blacks are destroy-
ing everything People
should respect laws
and have justice. We
need to see that justice
is done. Police officers
"
should protect us not
beat on people. now
L.a. needs more people
to stop the the fires
and the looting The
army also needs
to send troops to
save familes and
children. We also
need to stay calm
Where will it end?
Love,
abigail Silva
Dear President Bush,
In our class we just compared
our school newspaper and the
headliness from the San antonio Light
which read L.a. Under Siege."
How can Rodney King get justice?
Why don't higher courts get
into this problem ? Now L.a.
is under siege and people
aren't staying calm and not
respecting laws or obeying
the police. Why is this hoppening?
Why did this get out of control?
People don't want to see this happening.
Hids can't understand this
sort of thing This is supposed to
be the best country in the
world and no one wants to
see it go down in flames.
Mostly everyone is forgetting
what Martin Luther King said,
and what he fought for and
died for. So please take letter
action Let people not forget about
Martin Luther King's dream and
what our country was built
on.
Sincerely,
lesse Samudio
Dear President Bush,
I am aware of the situation that
5/1/92
is going on in Los Angelus, California and
other places I am disqusted by it and
very upset. I would be very happy if
faster and if it reaches D.C. it's going to
I $ have a feeling that It will start spreading
you tried to talk about it or do something
come to VA and I am very scared
You also have to realize that they
are using the Rodney King case as an
themselves because of the economy and
excuse for violence. People are also expressing
job loses.
At our school
there was supposed to
be a walk out and a food fight. There
is also racial discrimination going on,
little, That's all, I am a worried
All I ask of you is to help a
Please, citizen and I am seeking help Help
Sasha Desdunes
15766 Edgewood Drive
Dumfries, VA 22026
Mr President,
I am a student of Graham
Park middle School and I would like
to inform you of what has been going
on in our school
many students at our school have
been wanting to protest by "walking-out",
and have been experiencing a lot of
tensions, disagreements and violences, after
hearing about the decision made by the
junj of Rodney King I feel that you
need to speak out to all the citizens of
america, and try to die - down all the
protestors and all the violences that has
been going on Because of the different. opinions
that everybody has many of the innocent
people are getting hurt, and I don't think
it's fair you, as the leader of this
country. should the to make things better,
before more people get hurt, and before more
lives are lost If this situation isn't
stopped soon, prejudicy is going to control
this whole country and ruin evenithing
that has been established to make each
and everyone equal no matter what race
the person is
as a president. please stop all the
protestors and the prejudicisms that has
been going around in this country Even
if this letter is from an 8th grader,
please know that even the younger generation
has different opinions and are greathy
influenced by evenything that's going on
sincerely,
Student of Graham Park middle
School.
From Dr. Mark Rosenburg at the Centers for Disease Control:
Homicide is the leading cause of death for young blacks age 15 -
324.
(This includes both males and females.)
The probability that a young baby will be murdered in their
lifetime is as follows:
WFB 1 out of 496
data
1989
WMB 1 out of 205
BFB 1 out of 117
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March 30, 1992, Monday, Home Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 5; Column 2; Op-Ed Desk
LENGTH: 905 words
HEADLINE: PERSPECTIVE ON VIOLENCE;
IT'S IN THE NUMBERS, NOT THE STARS;
WILL WRIGHT DID EVERYTHING TO BEAT THE ODDS ON BLACK MALE MORTALITY, BUT IN THE
END, THE GUN CULTURE WON.
BYLINE: By KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, Karen Grigsby Bates is a Los Angeles writer and
frequent contributor to The Times.
BODY:
Sometimes, it's like a jungle out there
It makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
-- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
According to Sylvester Monroe, author of the essay "Vital Signs: the Black
Male" in the book, "Songs of My People,' the numbers are grim: If you're a
black male between the age of 15 and 25, you are 10 times more likely to be
murdered than your white counterpart. In California, you're three times more
likely to be murdered than to enter the University of California. Your cause
of death, the numbers say, will more than likely be another young black man. You
will also, the numbers opine, be more likely to enter prison than college. Of
the twentysomething African-American male population, nearly one in four is or
has been incarcerated. Numbers.
Wilfred Wright III was on his way to defying the numbers. Handsome, bright
and friendly, Will was also a good athlete. An honors student, he was
college-bound, to the University of LaVerne. Voted most talented, most athletic
and best buddies by his classmates at Dorsey High, Will had everything to live
for. So his friends, family and classmates were stunned when he became a
statistic.
Last Tuesday, Wilfred Wright III became another number: death by gunfire. A
devastatingly common occurrence, according to the numbers. Death again, at the
hand of a young black man. Except the hand of the young black man who shot Will
belonged to his own body, a distinct statistical twist. Police have ruled Will's
death "accidental," the result of a fatal flirtation with Russian roulette. "A
misadventure," a police spokesman mourned.
But maybe it wasn't. Will was a bright kid, everyone said so. And, given the
numbers, which are published with relentless frequency in the media, he had to
have been aware of the odds.
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Fortunately, he had help. Unlike a lot of the young men who become
statistical fatalities, Will had two parents who were actively involved in his
life, providing guidance, protection and companionship. His relationship with
them was good enough that his parents accompanied him to the baseball games at
which he excelled.
But those advantages might also have functioned to his detriment. Wilfred
Wright was carrying a gun because, he told Dorsey classmates, he had been
harassed by gang members and he needed to protect himself. Dorsey students
interviewed by The Times concede that a gun isn't 50 outlandish an idea. "If I
could get my hands on a gun, I'd have one, too," a senior told reporters Sandy
Banks and Charisse Jones. In his neighborhood, the boy explained, "every time I
go home, people chase me and beat me up. You need it to be safe.
He's not alone. According to statistics released by the Los Angeles Unified
School District, guns are not a rarity in our schools: 134 were confiscated
between 1987 and 1991 - and that was in our elementary schools! Numbers for
high schools are almost 10 times as great. And those are only the ones that were
seized.
Those numbers say that students are going to school afraid for their physical
well-being. Guns, when some kids can get them, are perhaps seen as a way to
negotiate what have become academic killing fields. As they proliferate, one
wonders how parents are going to handle schools bristling with guns and other
armaments. Can you see Mommy now, checking off the daily necessities as her
child heads out the door for school?
"OK, you've got your lunch, milk money, your book bag - and oh, Sweetie,
don't forget to check the chamber of your .38. I had to show up at school last
week because you forgot your bullets!"
I hope it won't get to that it had better not. But Gail Wyatt, a professor
of medical psychology in UCLA's Department of Psychiatry, is not surprised that
African-American kids, especially males, worry about their physical futures.
Identification is really important at that age, Wyatt says, and for urban
male adolescents, the choices are slim. "You're a gang member, or what?
Often, it's really not very safe to be a non-gang member." Kids who are
determined to succeed, Wyatt says, are often treated with hostility by those who
feel they have been relegated to society's scrap heap. "The good students are
often hassled," Wyatt explains, "they're accused of 'acting white. # Sadly, the
taunters have bought into the notion that excellence comes only in one color.
Beneath the taunts, though, may lie an anxiety that most of us can't, or
don't want to, see. "We really expect a lot of young black males," Wyatt says.
Most of us "have no idea the pressure they're under." The normal adolescent
hormonal stew, mixed with anxiety about social acceptance and, yes, survival,
can depress a person. And depression, Wyatt says, "manifests itself in many
different ways." Some mope, some clown, some are unusually aggressive. And some
play games where the odds of survival are, at best, not good.
That Will Wright killed himself has never been in dispute. Why he killed
himself will puzzle the people who loved him for a long, painful time. It's
entirely possible that, given the hubris of adolescent malehood, he was just
playing around and, tragically, got caught. Or, hunted by a gang member and
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knowing what the numbers say, he might have shrugged and said, "What the hell."
That's the ultimate irony: In seeking to avoid becoming one kind of statistic,
Wilfred Wright III became another.
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Homicide is a Growing Public Health Problem
In 1989 there were 22,909 Homicides
Homicide is the leading cause of death among black males
and black females 15-34 years of age
Over 2.2 million Nonfatal Injuries are due to violence
51% of all Homicides were killed by people they knew
Preliminary 1989 mortality data, Division of
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809 Homicide Among Young Black Males -
United States 1978-1987
873 Imported Malarie Associated with
MMWR
Malarlotherapy of Lyme Disease - New
Jersey
875 Trands in Lung Cancer Incidence and
Mortality - United States, 1980-1587
ass Availability of "Chronic Disease Reports"
Compliation
884 Report on National HIV Seroprevalence
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MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT
888 Fourth Supplement to NIOSH Manual of
Analytical Methods, Third Edition
Topics in Minority Health
Homicide Among Young Black Males -
United States, 1978-1987
in 1987, homicide was the 12th leading cause of death in the United States and a
leading cause of premature mortality (i.e., years of potential life lost before age 65).
Homicide affects all age, race, and sex groups and is the leading cause of death for
young black males (15-24 years of age) (1). Both the 1990 and Year 2000 Health
Objectives for the Nation target a reduction in the homicide rate among this
population (2,3). This report uses mortality statistics from CDC's National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS) to characterize homicides* among young black males for
1978-1987.
From 1978 though 1987, 20,315 young black males died as a result of homicide, for
an average annual rate of 73.1 per 100,000. In 1987, homicides accounted for 42% of
deaths among young black males, and the homicide rate for this group was 84.6 per
100,000-the highest rate of the decade and 40% higher than in 1984. From 1978
through 1987, firearms+ accounted for 15,781 (78%) homicides among young black
males. Yearly fluctuations in total homicides corresponded closely with the pattern
for homicides committed with firearms (Figure 1), From 1984 through 1987, the
nonfirearm homicide rate for young black males Increased 7% (from 14.4 to 15.4 per
100,000), and the firearm homicide rate increased by 50% (from 46.2 to 69.3 per
100,000). Overall, firearm-related homicides accounted for 96% of the Increase in the
homicide rate for young black males from 1984 through 1987.
The percent increase In homicide rates from 1984 through 1987 was greater for
adolescent black males aged 15-19 years (55% [from 38.5 to 59.6 per 100,000]) than
for those aged 20-24 years (33% [from 83.3 to 111.1 per 100,000]). For adolescent
black males, both the homicide rate and the proportion of homicides committed with
firearms were highest in 1987 (59.6 per 100,000 and 83%, respectively). In 1987, 34%
of deaths among adolescent black males were homicides committed with a firearm.
* International Classification of Diseases, eighth (ICD-8) and ninth (ICD-9) revisions, rubrics
E960-E969.
Firearm-related homicides are defined as ICD-8 and ICD-9 rubric E965. Although this rubric
Includes deaths from explosives, such deaths account for <0.1% of total homicides from
firearms and explosives.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES / PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
870
MMWR
December 7, 1990
Homicide - Continued
From 1978 through 1987, annual homicide rates for young black males were four
to five times higher than for young black females, five to eight times higher than for
young white males, and 16-22 times higher than for young white females (Figure 2).
Since 1984, the disparity between homicide rates for young black males and other
racial/sex groups Increased substantially; for example, a comparison of 1984 with
1987 indicates that the ratio of homicide rates for black males to those for white males
increased 38%, from 5.8 to 7.7 (Table 1).
In 1987, of the 23 states with a population of young black males sufficient to enable
stable estimates for homicide rates (4), 14 had a homicide rate for this group that
exceeded the 1990 health objective of <60 per 100,000 (Figure 3). Rates exceeded 100
per 100,000 in California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New York, and the District of
Columbia,⁵ In addition, from 1984 to 1987, the homicide rate for young black males
increased 22% in Missouri, 40% in the District of Columbia, 64% in New York, 68% in
Florida, 71% in California, and 76% in Michigan.
Reported by: Intentional Injuries Section, Epidemiology Br, Div of Injury Control, Center for
Environmental Health and Injury Control, CDC.
Editorial Note: The disproportionate impact of homicide among young black males
was recognized in the 1990 health objective that targeted a reduction in the homicide
rate for this group to <60 per 100,000 (2). Although homicides declined among
young black males during the early 1980s, from 1984 through 1987, the homicide rate
for this group increased sharply. Based on data from the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation's Uniform Crime Reporting System through June 1990, homicide rates have
continued to increase since 1987 (5).
Florida, 119.7; Missouri, 130.5; New York, 135.3; the District of Columbia, 135.8; California,
153.9; and Michigan, 231.6.
Recently released mortality statistics from NCHS Indicate that the homicide rate for young black
males increased 19% from 1987 to 1988.
FIGURE 1. Firearm- and nonfirearm-associated homicide rates" for black males 15-24
years of age - United States, 1978-1987
100
Total
80
60
Rate
Firearm-associated
40
1990 Objective
Nontirearm-associated
20
0
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
Year
*Per 100,000 population.
Vol. 39 / No. 48
MMWR
871
Homicide - Continued
This report identified four disturbing features in the epidemiology of homicide in
young black malss. First, firsarm-asseelated hemisides asssunted for > 80% of deaths
and >95% of the recent large increase. Second, the increase since 1984 was especially
marked among adolescent black males. Third, the already large disparity in homicide
rates between black males and other racial/sex groups has widened. Fourth, certain
areas had the highest rates, accounted for most cases, and had considerable recent
increases in homicide rates. For example, the six areas with homicide rates > 100 per
100,000 persons contained 29% of the young black male population but accounted for
51% of all homicide-attributable deaths in this group in 1987. If these six areas had
attained the 1880 health objective for homicide rates for young black males, the
homicide rate for this population in 1987 would have decreased 31%.
Homicide among young black males and other groups can result from behaviors
such as domestic violence, child abuse, rape, and physical fighting among acquain-
tances. Despite a common perception that victims of homicide are usually killed by
FIGURE 2. Homicide rates* for persons 15-24 years of age, by race and sex - United
States, 1987
100
80
60
Rate
40
20
0
Black Males
Black Females
White Males
White Females
Race and Sex
*Per 100,000 population.
TABLE 1. Homicide rates* and rate ratios+ for persons 15-24 years of age, by race and
sex - United States, 1984 and 1987
1984
1987
% Increase
Race/Sex
Rate
Ratio
Rate
Ratio
in ratio
Black male
60.6
1.0
84.7
1.0
-
Black female
14.8
4.1
17.7
4.8
16.8
White male
10.9
5.6
11.0
7.7
37.7
White female
4.3
14.1
3.9
21.9
55.3
Per 100,000 population.
Ratios compare rates for black males to rates for other racial/sex groups.
872
MMWR
December 7, 1990
Homicide - Continued
unknown assailants during robberies or drug-related crimes, more than half of all
homicide victims are killed by persons known to them. Factors identified as poten-
tially Important contributors to homicide include immediate access to firearms,
alcohol and substance abuse, drug trafficking, poverty, racial discrimination, and
cultural acceptance of violent behavior (6-8).
Because research and evaluation efforts have not yet demonstrated effective
programmatic approaches to prevent homicide, priority areas for research and
Intervention should target 1) the causes for the recent rise in homicide among young
black males; 2) prevention of firearm-related morbidity and mortality; 3) improved
understanding of the role of alcohol, drugs, and drug trafficking in homicide; 4) pre-
vention of violent, aggressive behavior; and 5) identification of modifiable risk factors
for homicide among urban youths of lower socioeconomic status.
Compared with other injury-control priorities, public health efforts to prevent
homicide among young black males and other persons in high-risk groups have only
recently been Implemented. in 1987, only two (0.6%) of 325 Injury-prevention
programs based in state health departments focused on homicide (9). Since 1986,
only one (0.2%) of 552 award-winning community-based health promotion projects
specifically has included homicide (CDC, unpublished data). Proposed interventions
to reduce homicides include drug- and alcohol-abuse prevention, firearm control,
interventions directed at the effects of television violence, school-based interven-
tions, and public education (6). Such projects should be carefully designed and
rigorously evaluated so that successful programs can be replicated.
FIGURE 3. Homicide rates* for black males 15-24 years of age, by state - United
States, 1987
DC
Insufficient Population
34-69
60-100
> 100
*Par 100,000 population.
Population of black males aged 16-24 years was too small to enable stable rate estimates (4).
Vol. 39 / No. 48
MMWR
873
Homicide . Continued
At the national level, 30 of the year 2000 health objectives target a reduction in the
incidence of homicide and violent behaviors among young black males and persons
in other high-risk groups (3). At the local level, communities with high homicide rates
can develop and Implement projects using established principles of health promotion
(10). These include the formation of coalitions of community leaders and organiza-
tions and reviews of local data concerning homicides and violent behaviors. Local
health agencies should consider developing homicide-prevention programs and
collaborate with social services, the criminal justice system, and other community
services in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of community projects.
Coordinated efforts among multiple agencies are likely to be important components
of national efforts to reduce homicide rates for young black males and other persons.
The identification of promising approaches to homicide and violence prevention
will be the focus of a conference on minority violence cosponsored by Morehouse
University and CDC on December 10-12, 1990, in Atlanta.
References
1. CDC. Homicide surveillance, high-risk racial and ethnic groups-blacks and Hispanics,
1970-1983. Washington DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health
Service, 1983.
2. Public Health Service. Promoting health/preventing disease: objectives for the nation.
Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service,
1980.
3. Public Health Service. Healthy people 2000: national health promotion and disease preven-
tion objectives. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public
Health Service, 1990,
4. Fingerhut LA, Kleinman JC. International and Interstate comparisons of homicide among
young males. JAMA 1990;263:3292-5.
5. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Press release. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 21, 1990.
6. National Committee for Injury Prevention and Control. Injury prevention: meating the
challenge-a report of the National Committee for injury Prevention and Control. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1989.
7. University of California at Los Angeles/CDC. The epidemlology of homicide in the city of Los
Angeles, 1970-79. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health
Service, CDC, 1885.
8. Goldstein PJ, Brownstein HH, Ryan PJ, Bellucci PA. Crack and homicide in New York City,
1988: & conceptually based event analysis. Contemporary Drug Problems 1989;(Winter):
651-86.
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departments, a national survey. Boston: Harvard School of Public Health, 1988.
10. Green LW, Kreuter MW. Health promotion planning: an educational and environmental
approach. Palo Alto, California: Mayfield Publishing (in press).
Epidemiologic Notes and Reports
Imported Malaria Associated with Malariotherapy
of Lyme Disease - New Jersey
In November 1990, a physician in New Jersey reported two cases of Imported
vivax malaria to the New Jersey State Department of Health. Both of these patients
were among five patients who had been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease and
referred by the physician to sources in Mexico for intramuscular injections of blood
containing Plasmodium vivax parasites. The malaria donors reportedly had been
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Who are the victims of homicide?
What are the characteristics
Homicide is one of the 15 most frequent causes of death
of homicide victims?
Porcent of deaths by age at death
15-24
25-34
Homicide victims are more often men
1-14
All ages
than women.
45.2%
53.5%
Accidents
34.2%
Accidente
Persons aged 25-34 are the most
39,1%
Heart disonse
Accidents
21,4
Malignant
13.6
Homicide
14.5
Homicide
likely to be homicide victims.
Matignant
11.0
neoplasms
nooplasms
Blacks are five times more likely than
8.4
10.7
Suicide
11.8
Suicide
8.7
Carebrovescular
Congenital
whites to be homicide victims.
disease
anomalios
3.9
Homicide
5.5
Malignant
10.1
Malignant
5.4
Accidents
neoplasms
neoplasms
Number
Homicidos
per 100,000
2.9
Bronchitis,
3.5
2.5
Head disease
6.1
Heart disease
Heart disease
Victim
characteristics
in 1985
inhabitants
asthma. and
emphysema
2.4
Pnaumonia and
1.2
Congenital
2.5
Liver disease
2.8
Pneumonia and
influenza
anomalies
and cirrhosis
17,545
7
influenza
Total
1.5
9
Cerebrovascular
1.9
Cerebrovascular
including unknown
1.8
Diabotes
Moningitis
discase
disease
charactoristics
Cerebrovascular
7
Pneumonia and
1.1
Diabotes
1.6
Liver disease
8
and cirrhosis
discuss
influenza
3
Bronchills.
1.1
Pneumonia and
Sex
1.5
Atherosclerosis
8
Meningococcal
Male
13.015
11
infection
asthma. and
influenza
4
emphyseme
Female
4,511
1.4
8
Suicide
3
Anomias
1.0
Congenital
Suicide
anomalies
Age
.8
3
Benign
5
Nophritis and
190
1.2
Homicide
Anomias
5
nooplasms
and nephrosis
Under 1 year
1
3
Diabotos
4
Bronchitis,
1-14
690
9
Nephritis
8
Bonign
4,081
10
asthma. and
15-24
and naphrosis
neoplasms
emphysoma
25-34
5,370
13
3,087
10
.5
Septicomia
7
2
Liver disonse
4
Bronchitis.
Benign
35-44
and circhosis
nooplasms
45-54
1,576
7
esthma. and
55-64
1,120
5
emphysema
.6
2
Complications
3
Complications
4
Hypertension
Sopticemie
65 and older
1,048
4
of pregnancy
of pregnancy
Nephritis and
3
Anomios
Unknown ago
383
3
Benign
5
Parinatal
2
neoplesms
conditions
nephrosis
Race
9,789
5
Total
White
18,876
49.027
50.240
24
deaths
1,943,747
Black
7,294
369
45-54
55-64
65 and over
Other
5
35-44
Sources FBI Crime in the United States 1985 Estimates of
30.8%
Heart disosse
36.7%
Heart disease
44,4%
Heart discose
21.3%
Malignant
the population of the United States by age, sox, and raco.
neoplasms
1980-85. U.S. Bureau of the Consus
32.4
Malignant
19.3
19.6
Heart disease
Malignant
Malignant
30.8
nooplasms
neoplasms
neoplasms
16.4
Accidents
6.7
Accidents
4.8
Cerebrovancular
10.9
Cerebrovancular
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discase
discase
of being a homicide victim?
5.3
Liver disouse
3.2
Bronchitis,
3.4
Pnoumonia and
6.7
Suicide
and currhosis
asthma, and
influenza
emphysema
old
Lifetime risk of homicide
Homicide
4.3
Cerebrovascular
3.2
Accidents
3.2
Bronchitis
6.6
asthma, and
disease
emphysome
1 out of:
2.7
3.1
Liver discuse
2.1
Atherosclorosis
6.0
Liver disease
Suicide
and cirrhosis
and cirrhosis
1985
2.0
Diabotes
1.9
Diabotes
179
White males
3.7
Cerebrovascular
1.9
Homicide
disease
30
15
Pnoumonia and
1.7
Bronchitis
1.4
Pneumonia and
1.9
Accidents
Black males
influenza
asthma. and
influenza
495
White females
emphysema
132
Black females
16
Diabotes
1,2
Suicide
1.0
Nophritis and
15
Disbeted
nephrosis
Source Updated data based on similar material from The
1.3
7
Nophritis and
7
Liver disease
7
Bronchitis,
Pneumonia and
risk of violon! crime. BJS Special Ruport, May 1985
asthma. and
influenza
nophrosis
and currhosis
emphysems
5
Homicide
5
Septicomia
6
Nephritis
6
Nophritis and
and nophrosis
nophrosis
4
Septicemie
5
Hypertension
6
Congenital
4
Benign
anomalies
neoplasms
4
4
Benign
3
Stomach
5
Benign
Septicemia
neoplasma
vicers
neoplasma
3
Hypertension
4
Atherosclerosis
3
Suicide
4
Septicemia
3
.3
Hyperiension
3
Hernias
3
Hypertension
Congenital
anomalies
Total
292.181
1,341,548
58,41B
133,157
deaths
Source: Filtoon leading causes of death, by age group. 1983.
Center for Disease Control. Homicide surveillance. U.S.
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Mayor Bradley and every
to see me last January. I have repeated often what he said to me mayor other
that
that day He said, The most important problem facing our cities
you
disolution
is the deterioration of the family.
1970: 10.7%
Some quick facts: in 1960 the percentage of births to unwed
1980:18.4%
mothers
was
5.3
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Gilbert
it (1989) is 27.1 r greater The chances than 5 that times a that black of 1960.
see
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attached
245
out of
in 1960. Now it is one out of
.
In 1960 the high
school graduation rate was
in Los Angeles. Now it is
.
183
last year
In Chicago, more guns were confiscated in the Chicago school
We Fook 183 guns) we only gave 25 National Merit Scholarships.
system than in
And the chances of alcohol or drug abuse
by pre-teens now are one in
.
Many of these and other sobering statistics are clearly
influenced by the absence of values that come from strong
generation
families. And these kind of statistics are most severe in our
nations urban areas. The summary fact is that time is running
out on the cities of America.
I'm not a social scientist. Never pretended to be. I look
at things from a more uncomplicated point of view. As a father
with kids -- now with grandkids. As a volunteer -- a little
league coach or a doorknocker for the United Negro College Fund.
giving
As someone who spent half his life in a business trying to build
a future for his family. As someone who spent the other half of
70% of 8th graders have used alcohol
10% of " " have use marijuana
Deferrume fact'
The chances that an 8th grader has
ever used alcohol is 20%, there is a
not level of child fed and has a father
/ in 10 chance that he or she has used marijuana. not whether
a
mother whis
home....
essential as it is -- stops short of providing the people it
serves a way out of a dehumanizing and inefficient cycle of
poverty.
Your own Mayor Bradley was among a group of mayors who came
to see me last
.
I have repeated often what he said to me
that day. He said, "The most important problem facing our cities
is the deterioration of the family. "
Some quick facts: in 1960 the percentage of births to unwed
mothers was
Now it is
.
The chances that a black
male will die a violent death by the time he reaches 25 was one
out of
in 1960. Now it is one out of
.
In 1960 the high
school graduation rate was
in Los Angeles. Now it is
.
183
last year
In Chicago, more guns were confiscated in the Chicago school
but there were only 25 National Merit scholars.
system than in
.
And the chances of alcohol or drug abuse
by pre-teens now are one in
.
Many of these and other sobering statistics are clearly
influenced by the absence of values that come from strong
families. And these kind of statistics are most severe in our
nations urban areas. The summary fact is that time is running
out on the cities of America.
I'm not a social scientist. Never pretended to be. I look
at things from a more uncomplicated point of view. As a father
with kids -- now with grandkids. As a volunteer -- a little
league coach or a doorknocker for the United Negro College Fund.
As someone who spent half his life in a business trying to build
a future for his family. As someone who spent the other half of
Determines fact
not not whether level of a child fed and has mother a father whis
home."
The chances that an 8th grader
has ever use alcohol is 70%
they is a / in 10 chance that
her or she has use maujuana
1991
70% of 8th graders had used sometimes
Nate
HS Senior
10% had used marijuana
Survey
Monitoring the Future
Natl Institute on Doug Abuse
Jim Hesling
Alcohol of Drug Abuse And Mertal Healthtdinin
Dep Director of Commmun