NATION
Wednesday, February 3, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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More trust Clinton than Congress, but still doubt gridlock will end
NEW YORK—U.S. citizens are twice as inclined to express trust and confidence in President Clinton as in Congress, according to an Associated Press poll.
Clinton was considered trustworthy most or all of the time by 52 percent of those polled, but fewer than one in four said the same about Congress. To deal with the country's problems, 55 percent had more confidence in Clinton, compared with 25 percent who put more faith in Congress.
The poll found relatively little expectation that the gridlock between the executive and legislative branches would go away. Just four in 10 think Clinton will be able to keep his inauguration Day promise to end what he called "an era of deadlock and drift."
Super Bowl XXVII most watched television program in history
NEW YORK — The Dallas Cowboys and Michael Jackson teamed up to make the 1983 Super Bowl the most watched show in television history, and gave NBC its first weekly ratings victory in more than six months.
NBC yesterday estimated that 133.4 million pele watched some part of Sunday's football game.
NBC based its projection on household ratings from the A.C. Nielsen Co.
Of the all-time top 10 most watched shows, only one is not a Super Bowl. That's the final episode of "M*A*S*H" on Feb. 28, 1983, seen by an estimated 121.6 million people, now fourth all time.
Compiled by The Associated Press.
Civil rights trial to start
Officers may have all-white jury for 1991 King beating
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Lawyers say the second trial of four white police officers in the video-taped beating of African-American motorist Rodney King could very well be heard by an all-white jury.
Prospective jurors cannot be excluded because of their race, but factors such as opinions about authority figures and the fact that those selected will have to be sequestered for weeks could favor whites as jurors, experts said.
"You may wind up with an all-white jury," said Harland Braun, attorney for Officer Theodore Briscoen, one of the officers scheduled to go on trial today in federal court.
"Society needs a multracial jury to make them feel that the trial is fair," Braun said. "But I'm somewhat skeptical about that. African-American jurors may feel pressure from the community that will make them unfair."
Officers Briseno, Lawrence Powell and Timothy Wind and Sgt. Stacey Koon are charged with violating King's civil rights in the 1981 beating that was videotaped by a witness and broadcast nationally.
A state jury with an Asian-American and a Hispanic but no African-American members acquitted the officers of most charges in April. The outcome of that trial, held in the mostly-white suburb of Simi Valley, Calif., touched off rioting in Los Angeles that that left more than 50 dead
and caused nearly $1 billion in damage.
Attorneys in the case stress that they are seeking impartial jurors brave enough to disregard the possibility their verdict could trigger new riots.
But legal experts say that does not ensure a racially mixed jury.
The quirk that could skew the racial balance is that prospective jurors are being asked whether they are willing to leave their homes to be sequestered at a hotel for a two-month trial.
"With a sequestered jury, you tend to end up with an older jury, more retired people or unemployed people," Uelmen said. "That may give you an unrepresentative jury as to community attitudes."
U. S. District Judge John Davies has said that out of the some 6,000 initial inquiries about whether prospects were willing to be sequestered, only about 350 answered affirmatively.
Geoffrey Thomas, a lawyer who has written articles on the selection of juries for high-profile trials, agreed that sequestration eliminates many potential jurors.
"You're not going to get a run-of-the-mill panel," Thomas said. "Some of the people may be unemployed and have time on their hands. But those unemployed people may also feel resentment toward institutions that have left them on the fringe of the workaday world."
Although there are minorities in this group, he said, open bias against authority figures such as the police could result in their disqualification. Thomas said retirees tended to be more conservative and might lean toward the officers too much.
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