Word: koreans
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Regardless of the verdict of the second Rodney King case, a repeat of last year's Los Angeles riots will not occur, a key speaker for L.A. 's Korean community told an audience of about 50 yesterday at the Law School...
Angela E. Oh, president of the Korean Bar Association of Southern California and a featured guest on ABC's "Nightline," said riots will not break out even if the jury acquits the accused officers of the L.A. Police Department...
...lawyers juggles roughly 80,000 cases a year. The work is often thankless, but every so often a case upholds the promise of Gideon. Earlier this month Frank White, 36, a tall, muscular man covered with tattoos, landed in L.A. County court, accused of murdering a tiny Korean woman with his bare fists. White, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, refused to take his medication and grew angry when the deputies would not remove his handcuffs. White glared as he stalked into the courtroom and dropped heavily into the seat beside public defender Mark Windham. Without a word, Windham slid...
...past half-century more than a quarter of the earth's people were controlled by political movements whose pursuit of the millennium was as fanatical as that of their religious counterparts -- and far more destructive. Soviet, Cambodian, Korean, Chinese communists relentlessly drove their people to extremes of privation and repression in order to hasten the arrival of full-fledged "communism," the millennium as foretold by that 19th century prophet Karl Marx...
NORTH KOREA'S DECLARATION OF A STATE OF "SEMI-war" last Monday seemed like one more propaganda rant, triggered by joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises. A few days later, Pyongyang raised the stakes when it announced that it was pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. The decision was a response to growing pressure by the International Atomic Energy Agency to force inspection of two secret sites where Western intelligence officials believe evidence of nuclear weapons materials may be located. By withdrawing from the treaty, the Kim Il Sung regime removed the legal basis for the "special inspection" threatened...