| Show - ---NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune M Year After Beating Tape Shocked Nation LA Officers Face Trial THE ASSOCIATED SIM VALLEY : PRESS Calif — A videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King four white police officers will relive in court the night that altered their lives and turned the spotlight on police brutality If a jury has been seated by today as expected opening statements in the officers' trial were scheduled for Wednesday On March 3 1991 King was clubbed kicked beaten and struck with a stun gun in front of a crowd of officers who converged after chasing his car several miles An amateur cameraman peering out his apartment window saw flashing lights and flailing arms and turned on his new camcorder The tape played repeatedly on national television electrified the nation The Los Angeles Police Department was condemned as racist and its chief Daryl interviewed by the civilian Police Commission The other finalists are Deputy Chief Bernard Parks Los Angeles' black officer AsF'stant Chief David Dotson and Deputy Chiefs Glenn Levant Mark Kroeker and Matthew Hunt City Councilman Richard Alatorre said be will try to postpone the selection process until voters decide whether to change a rule giving preference to department officers "For all intents and purposes a Hispanic is out because of a quirk in the law" Alatorre said "I think this is a tremendous injustice for a community that is 40 to 41 percent of the population" The officers on trial have listened for days to prospective jurors condemning their actions as "excessive" "brutal" and "beyond reason" John Barnett lawyer for Theodore Briseno 39 has said Briseno was the only one of the four to try to stop the beating Also charged were Sgt Stacey Koon 41 and officers Timothy Wind 31 and Laurence Powell 29 All are charged with The commission recommended among other things a change in police leadership citing major problems of mismanagement excessive force and bias against women and minorities in the department "We've traveled a substantial distance down the road to reform in the year since the Rodney King incident" Christopher said in a recent interview "I think the next 12 months will be decisive" He said officers have become sensitized to the problem of excessive force but he sees the need for continuing reform Los g Angeles voters will decide June 2 on a package of police reforms including one that the police chief be removed e from protection that provides a virtual lifetime guarantee of tenure Bringing about reform will be the responsibility of a new chief A civilian panel on Friday announced six finalists for the job — two blacks and four whites Only one is from outside the department Willie L Williams Philadelphia's first black police comniissioner was ranked highest by the panel which narrowed finalists from a list of 12 The six next will be V ld la for the better Gates was pressured to resign He said he will leave in June In an interview broadcast Sunday on KTTV-TGates said he underestimated the impact of the beating on the pollee department "I think initially I could have indicated I was a little more shocked at what I'd seen" he said "I was shocked I was very shocked But I did not want to indict the officers until we knew what the facts were I did not want to color it any greater than it already was" The four officers were charged with using excessive force Their trial was moved from Los Angeles to Simi Valley in nearby Ventura County because of the political fallout Warren Christopher chairman of a citizens committee formed to review the police department said there have been changes year after the A3 Monday March 2 1992 g highest-rankin- long-standin- wide-rangin- civil-servic- Peace Corps Gets Down To Business Recruits in E Europe Help Build Economy g LOS ANGELES TIMES TIRANA Albania — The battalions of US Peace Corps recruits invading Eastern Europe these of days are armed with a new kind to combat poverty weaponry backwardness and disease In the place of hoes and shovels aid workers carried by jeans-clain the 1960s today's button-dow- n volunteer deployed to the frontier is more likely calan interest-rat- e with equipped culator or a laptop computer Peace Corps volunteers are helping budding entrepreneurs in Poland set up everything from inns to mutual funds They are training industrial managers in Hungary in the science of waste management and teaching schoolchildren in the ravaged region between the Baltic and Adriatic seas the value of environmental protection Many of the more than 500 volunteers assigned to Central Europe and the Balkans are engaged in traditional Peace Corps activities such as teaching English and giving advice on nutrition But the force long associated with rural development has had to tailor its approach in the newly liberated region where social ills are more often the result of misplaced priorities than lack of development "There is definitely a difference in emphasis in Eastern Europe from our previous direction with the emphasis here being on programs that assist small enterprise development" said Mike Honegger a career Peace Corps official setting up language and business programs for Albania from the US Embassy here Ted Kontek head of business programs in Warsaw said Poland now has 230 volunteers at work making it the largest Peace Corps operation in the world Among the 54 recruits assigned to business development the average age is 43 and most have MBAs and at least five years of experience in the private sector Kontek said "A lot of them are successful midcareer professionals their situations and deciding to give something back want they to the world" Kontek said of the y Wall Street brokers and bankers who make up his staff d ist I IS Caul ht m Jas") s st Ganaster Ira 0 I " 441 i ' THE ASSOCIATED ' 4 ! 1 r rpflhiTt 4 ' 4 "1 p ' - ' f 4- t'I i A '0 4 t Itt - NI" rl t o- i :-- 4 t 0 i t t) ri 3pi :07 44 '4"---- - ' 1-'- ti A '- f'Jf - '' t"'"- - o yt t 1 : ' yo : '''' 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'4 r ' ' - E - 2 A '4 'l 1 "'t - ?i 0 - 4 1 ' a 't 1 I i '- 1 1 1 - t' A ' - ' I ' vl 01m 1 : - 440fItilog 4 -4 i ' ' 1 - - g nually mostly from extortion and the drug and sex trades Under the new law local public safety commissions may designate any group an organized crime gang if at least 4 percent of its members have records of crimes such as extortion or violence An official of the Osaka state police said 65 people were arrested during the raids on 109 locations connected with the r Yamaguchigumi gang The charges included blackmail infliction of bodily injury Such are banned from drug smuggling and violation of activitiesgangs include that taking laws be said weapons control fees for collecting debts deThe official speaking on con- manding donations or hush dition of anonymity said police money and involvement in seized 1740 pieces of evidence ourt settlements — including a pistol drugs and The maximum penalty for vilists of gang members olations is one year in prison or The tough new law that took $7800 in fines effect Sunday is expected to enIn efforts to evade the new able police to crack down hardlaw some gangs have anon er the country's estimated 87000 gangsters known as "ya- nounced plans to incorporate as ordinary businesses kuza" In Tokyo more than 200 Before the law took effect the yakuza operated openly people protested the new law d from offices and which some say violates human often wore gang insignia and rights carried business cards linked to Tokyo police said it was not their organizations known whether any of the proThey didn't admit to illegal testers were gang members outof-c- i f- wide-rangin- 30000-membe- ! :‘ 14 activities PRESS law took effect anti-gangst- r 11 11 day 4 t-4 4 t '"' ' - ve44441-----"- 1 N È 4 - ' ? 44 111P 2500 police But the National Police Agenraided offices of Japan's largest estimates the 3000 gangs cy underworld syndicate on Sun- earned about $105 billion ana day the tly14t I 4 et 1144 TOKYO — Some y - 4 1 t ' 1 ' a 1 i 4 ! I I N t I du 4 i ' - ii w — i 9 '' well-marke- A i ' Asenasted Press 1 Members of Japan's organized crime syndicates march through Tokyo in protest of a new antigang law that went into effect Sunday Police seized weapons and drugs in the first wave of crackdown Gorbachev's Noble Mission Gets Rough - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW Mikhail Gorbachev's new think tank has a lot going for it: a handsome complex of buildings wealthy would-b- e Western contributors a noble mission and of course its famous boss But the Gorbachev Foundation which officially opens Tuesday also has a host of troubles The government of Russian President Boris Yeltsin apparently views it with some suspicion Russian media have mostly ignored it New tax laws are strangling it And some researchers invited to join its staff are wary Gorbachev says he has no plans to use the organization to challenge Yeltsin — although he said the Russian president had asked him point-blanwhether he was creatan opposition movement ing The foundation "is not a shadow non-prof-it k am not going to become an opposition figure as long as the government is implementing reforms" The stated goals of the foundation — formally named the International Foundation for Socio from public view following his resignation Gorbachev who turns 61 today has lately been are to produce research papers books lectures and conferences that strengthen democracy and civil rights plan market reforms encourage disarmament and foster peace Those aims reflect Gorbachev's achievements as Soviet leader from 1985 to 1991 But his failures also are reflected in the foundation's shaky start Gorbachev who resigned Dec 25 is still far more popular abroad than at home where many blame him for the country's econoraic free fall Grigory Revenko a longtime aide and one of the foundation's two vice presidents notes that dozens of newspapers in the United States and elsewhere began publishing a monthly column by Gorbachev in February But only one Russian newspaper the re- He grabbed headlines in late February by accusing Yeltsin and other commonwealth leaders of "flabbiness and irresponsibility" in the face of the Soviet Union's breakup Yet much of Gorbachev's activity is directed abroad just as it was during his presidency He plans speaking trips to Germany this month Japan in April and the United States in May aides said At the foundation Gorbachev still has some of the trappings of his old power A black Zil limousine identical to those he used as president delivers him each day to the foundation a complex of four buildings — including a hotel swimming pool cafeteria 120-roo- m bar library and conference Pravda expressed interest rooms Escorted by some of the bodyguards still attending him Gorbachev moves quickly through a marble foyer to his spacious second-floor office near a sunlit atri "There's a peculiar silencing of Gorbachev today even a desire that he not actively participate in the internal life of the country" Revenko said in an interview After initially disappearing UM White Votes for Reforms '' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 1I 1 ::: 4 I I 00" 4k 14 Gorbachevs Still Li Ni3 in Luxury --By Soviet Standards THE ASSOCIATED - t Ja: ' I JOHANNESBURG South Africa — President FW de Klerk begins a nationwide tour today to seek the support of whites for a crucial vote on whether to continue his policy of dismantling apartheid De Klerk has promised to resign if he loses the referendum In that case the March 17 whites-onl- y general government says it would hold a whites-onl- y election that probably would be won by the pro apartheid Conservative Party Opinion polls which cannot be published during the referendum because they may influence voters indicated last week that de Klerk would win Many whites are worried about de Klerk's reforms blaming them for political violence and soaring crime A Conservative victory could push South Africa into political chaos end de Klerk's reforms and trigger international sanctions against the country The government backed by funding from large corporations is mounting an extensive referendum e campaign Newspapers were filled Sunday with ads urging whites to back de Klerk The referendum will ask: "Do you support continuation of the reform process which the state president began on F2b2 1990 and which is aimed at a new constitution theough negotiation?" 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