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...collar suburb of Clawson, Michigan. To make ends meet, Les worked 12 to 16 hours a day. Every morning Sue would meet friends for breakfast at the Kresge coffee shop nearby, then set out on her route as an Avon Lady. Since her eyesight prevented her from getting a driver's license, she rode a little Amigo scooter. "We were always telling her, 'God, would you slow that thing down?' " says Mary. Sue's customers made their own change. She hooked rugs and played bingo and, by general consensus, spoiled little Danny. Every Sunday, when he was old enough, they...
Proving that Republican filibusters won't work every time, the Senate broke one to pass the so-called motor voter bill. The law will require states to allow people to register to vote when applying for a driver's license, as well as to register by mail and at welfare offices and military recruiting stations. The new system will presumably add many more Democrats than Republicans to the voter rolls...
...Angeles is not necessarily safe yet. Koon and Powell come up for sentencing Aug. 4, and by then the trial of three blacks for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny will be under way. The policemen could be imprisoned for 10 years. But if they get off with light sentences, and the Denny trial results in convictions and severe punishment for the blacks, the city -- and others -- could blow again. The Koon-Powell verdict has not so much purchased racial peace as averted -- for how long no one can tell -- more bloodshed, violence and animosity. But that...
...RODNEY KING CASE WENT TO the jury last week, Los Angeles residents were keeping a wary eye on another case involving a videotaped beating: the assault on white truck driver Reginald Denny by a group of black men at the outset of last year's riot. Although the parallels between the two incidents are largely superficial, many African Americans tend to equate them. The case against the three men accused in the Denny assault has become a symbol of the disparity between how whites and blacks are treated by the criminal-justice system. Many Angelenos fear that a volatile situation...
Ready or not, the city is being tested again. The outcomes of two cases, the second trial of the police officers who beat Rodney King and the scheduled trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio...