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...would somehow justify his crude law-and-order faith. The Rev. Cecil Murray, an influential black pastor, calls Gates "a proud man, almost a vain man." Murray theorizes, "What better vindication upon those who find him anathema than to let them write for him ((Gates)) a blank check to destroy?" There is, however, no evidence to support any conspiracy theory, and Gates instead blames critics of the L.A.P.D.'S tough tactics for the chaotic police response in the early phases of the rioting. "Police officers on the street are scared to death to use any kind of force," he argues...
...critics say, leaving creditors with even fewer assets than if the firms had been liquidated in the first place. Says Sam Zell, a Chicago financier: "It isn't good for the economy to prop up cripples and hand them unfair advantages that allow them to bleed income and help destroy the healthy competition...
...many stores to be cleaned out by looters. Dozens of black and Hispanic men, women and children emerged from the jagged front windows laden with groceries as an L.A.P.D. cruiser moved past the area, its occupants, vastly outnumbered, making no attempt to intervene. "They should go and destroy Beverly Hills," said one rioter. "Hey, the police don't even bother to stop." A minute later, someone lit a match, and what was left of the store went up in flames. Watching the carnage, neighborhood resident Verdis Barnes expressed rage over the King verdict: "The video tells it all. They didn...
HELICOPTERS FANNED OUT OVER MORE THAN 30,000 acres of the state of Washington last week in an emergency campaign to repel an airborne assault launched from across the Bering Sea. No, the ex-Soviet Union had not reconstituted itself and invaded. Instead the object of the search-and-destroy spraying mission was the Asian gypsy moth, which in its caterpillar stage is notorious for devouring the leaves of perhaps 600 varieties of trees and shrubs...
...point he notes that we are all ethnics of one sort or another. The goal, then, is to destroy all forms of "ethnic chauvinism." The right must recognize, he says late in the book, that multiculturalism resulted from the fragmentation of American society, not vice versa...