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...products. Trucks and cars changed that, and by 1970 the rails had shrunk and were stalled, often indifferent to customers and shifting markets. About 22% of the lines were in bankruptcy, and the whole industry was under threat of nationalization. Trucks grabbed all the new business and, as any motorist knows, a great deal of the highway space...
...READY TO GET THIS STARTED," PRONOUNCED Laurence M. Powell, one of four . Los Angeles police officers accused of violating the civil rights of black motorist Rodney G. King. "We have to get it started to get it over with." Seven months after they were indicted by a federal grand jury and two years after King's infamous videotaped beating, Powell and his co-defendants finally began their day in federal court...
...this century, Los Angeles is bracing for trouble again. Already some youths are dusting off the NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! placards that protesters waved last April when L.A. burst into flames after the acquittal of four white police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King...
...LAST TRIAL OF FOUR LOS ANGELES POLICEMEN unleashed the worst riots in modern American history. The jury's acquittal of all but one for the beating of black motorist Rodney King seemed so at odds with a highly publicized home video that the city exploded in protest. This time, as pretrial maneuvering ended for the long-awaited civil rights version of the same case, scheduled to begin this week, federal attorneys have tightened their arguments. The prosecution will call civilian eyewitnesses, who have told a grand jury that King did not attack his tormentors, as well as an L.A.P.D...
This delicate balance always threatens to tip, and when it does, cities can | spiral into an anarchy that defies all attempts at reversal. From Belfast, where religious hatred spawns terror, to Los Angeles, where the acquittal of four white policemen accused of beating a black motorist triggered last April's rampage of looting and arson, city dwellers have paid a horrible price when ethnic and political tensions boiled to the surface. When fighting began in Beirut in 1974, merchants spoke confidently of a return to normality within months. Few Lebanese expected that strife would still rule their lives 18 years...