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...head coach of Westwood (Mass.) High School, Delaney Smith's squads accumulated an incredible 204-31 record, and she was named National High School Coach of the Year in 1981. Her teams played six undefeated seasons, including a five-year span when Westwood won 96 consecutive games...
...that committee selected Westwood's Delaney Smith, who became Harvard's third women's basketball coach. Nobody on that committee can regret the decision...
...glittering enclave of restaurants, shops and theaters in Westwood Village, on Los Angeles' affluent West Side, seems a world away from the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles, where gang warfare took more than 100 innocent lives last year. But the ghetto violence occasionally spills beyond its borders. Last month Karen Toshima, a 27-year-old graphic artist, was caught in * the cross fire of rival drug gangs and died on the sidewalk outside a fancy restaurant. The Los Angeles establishment reacted with horror. Newspapers and television headlined the story for days. Police patrols in Westwood tripled...
...bullet that struck her in the right eye. Yet her slaying got scant attention. Footage of the grieving family was not the top story on the evening news. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner buried her death in a small note. The Los Angeles Times, which had been splashing the Westwood shoot-out across the top of its metro section, treated the Washington killing as a short follow-on. Two officers were assigned to the case...
...That's empty, inflammatory rhetoric," responds L.A.P.D. Spokesman William Booth. Westwood got its beefed-up patrols, authorities say, because of the many well-heeled shoppers and tourists drawn there. But South Central residents have watched in recent years as the predominantly white precincts of the city defeated two proposed property-tax increases to add to Los Angeles' understaffed police force. Los Angeles, with 3.3 million people, has an authorized police force of just 7,350 officers; Chicago, with a population of 3 million, has 12,500. In the wake of Karen Toshima's killing, the Los Angeles city council voted...