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Tensions rise as jury deliberates verdict in Denny beating case
If a jury convicts two African-American men of trying to murder white truck driver Reginald Denny during the opening moment of last year's Los Angeles riots, violence was sure to follow, some community activists said.
The Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray, pastor of the city's biggest African-American church, calls it "thinking the unthinkable, speaking the unspeakable." He also worries that the unthinkable might be the inevitable.
None condone it, but many said there was smoldering resentment about what some see as a racist double-standard in the criminal-justice system. And this week's surprise decision by a federal judge in the Rodney King beating case only worsened it.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge John Davies allowed Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell to remain free for two more weeks while the Supreme Court decides whether to let them stay out on bail during their appeals.
"The potential for violence is there, especially because the cops haven't done their time yet," said Nat Williams, representative for a leftist activist group called Refuse & Resist."People are upset about that."
In the Denny case, the defendants are being held on $580,000 apiece, and it is unlikely that they will be allowed out on bail if they are convicted. The officers got 2% years in prison; the Denny defendants could get life.
Senators voted 57-42 to beat back the attempt to kill the huge Texas atom smasher, leaving intact all $640 million that President Clinton wants for next year.
The Senate voted today to rescue the multibillion-dollar superconducting super collider from budget cutters who wanted to kill it, rejecting arguments that the research project was merely "a piece of pork."
The Police Department is concerned, too. Jury deliberations were expected to begin this afternoon, and the department was expected to go on alert, under which officers are kept on overtime duty, vacations are canceled and police maintain a heavy presence on the street.
"This nation is on the verge, if we follow through with this project, of finding out about the origins of mass, about why things have weight, about how it all fits together," said Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La, whose state is where giant magnets for the project are being made. "We dare not turn our backs on this."
WASHINGTON
Senate OKs money for super collider
The roll call was crucial because a deficit-reduction hungry House had voted to terminate the program in June. The two chambers will now have to strike a compromise.
Opponents, led by Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark, noted that the project's estimated cost has practically tripled since it was first proposed in 1987 with an estimated $4.4 billion
price tag. They said the super collider would chiefly be a spending boon for Texas, where it is under construction, and other states involved in the project.
"There's never been a piece of pork come through here like this." Bumpers said, "And for what?"
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New mutual fund catersto women
Linda Pei said that she designed the fund to help women achieve equality in the workplace and to support their efforts to gain financial independence.
A new mutual fund investing only in "women-friendly" companies has joined the growing number of funds seeking to combine social activism with plain old capitalism.
The Women's Equity Mutual Fund, unveiled Wednesday, expects to have assets of $1 million by late next week. But so far it has found only 10 companies that meet its standards on issues like family benefits and the promotion of women executives.
"Historically, companies have had few real incentives to create women-friendly workplaces unless a woman was at the helm," she said.
WASHINGTON
Diet programs will change ads
Three of the nation's most popular diet programs agreed today to stop using ads that the government said gave consumers unrealistic expectations about weight loss.
The settlement was reached by the Federal Trade Commission and Diet Center Inc., Nutri-System Inc. and Physicians Weight Loss Centers.
But Jenny Craig Inc. and Weight Watchers International, the two others among the five largest diet plans in the country, said they would fight the charges.
"For us, it's a matter of principle," said Ted Smyth, representative for Weight Watchers.
Weight Watchers has never promised more than it could deliver, he said.
Details of the settlements were being announced at a news conference. They are not admissions of guilt but agreements to avoid certain claims in advertising.
In a 2-1 ruling Tuesday, the Court of Appeals upheld a judge's ruling on custody of Donna Fox's children.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.
Children taken away from lesbian
A state appeals court denied a lesbian custody of her two daughters because they might suffer from the disapproval of others.
Appeals Judge Robert L. Bailley quoted an expert witness cited in a 1982 Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling who said that a lesbian's child "might encounter future prejudice by a disproving society" because of the mother.
The case is one of a growing number of highly publicized battles over the rights of homosexual couples to raise children.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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