European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 21. 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5 . Leaders keep pressure on chief by Seth Mydans the new York times los Angeles a As anger built Here on tuesday Over the police beating of a Black Motorist and the Cavalier comments of some of the officers involved mayor Tom Bradley and a number of leading politicians kept up a carefully measured criticism of the police department. Bradley who left monday for a conference in Hawaii said in a Telephone interview from there that his strategy is to maintain Calm in a City where the memory of the Watts riots in 1%5 remains Strong. Nevertheless he joined in the criticism of what he said was racial bigotry displayed in police transcripts released monday of conversations among officers who had just taken part in the March 3 dating of the Motorist Rodney g. King. A i was shocked and outraged by it a said Bradley a Black and a former police lieutenant on the . Force. A the people of this City have been slapped in the face by the attitude and bigotry of these  that reaction to a recorded comment that appears to compare Blacks to a gorillas in the Mist contributed to the sense among a number of political analysts Here that Bradley is working to., keep pressure on chief Daryl f. Gates. But he has avoided calling for Gates to resign. One source in City Hall who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the mayor was succeeding in focusing criticism on Gates in a situation where the mayor could have become the focus. Other Public figures have also kept their distance from a politically volatile situation that As a democratic consultant Mickey Kantor put it a i growing  some political analysts said the biggest political gains so far have been made by the american civil liberties Union and other groups whose Long running criticisms of the department had been borne out by the images on the Home videotape of the beating. In addition said Joe Cerrell a political consultant the Issue has Given political fuel to Black candidates for three City Council positions up for a vote april 9. As some leading Blacks in the Community condemned the actions of police reaction in the hispanic Community has been More muted. Gloria Molina the newly elected los Angeles county supervisor arid a leading hispanic figure has supported the Law enforcement policies of Gates in the past and has said Little in Public about the beating. The mexican american Legal defense and educational fund a hispanic rights group called tuesday for the resignation of Gates accusing his department of a Lack of respect and maltreatment of latinos Over the  the City Council failed to Muster the votes for a special session this week to Deal with the incident. City councilwoman Joy Picus asked tuesday for a full review of the department focusing on officer training. Los Angeles chief of police Daryl Gates beams As members of the police Force and City workers show their support. Pressure on Gates continued to build on tuesday As the los Angeles times in an editorial called for his resignation a not because of Legal necessity a there is none a but because of moral  in a Telephone poll conducted for Kcal to that was made Public on tuesday 52 percent of respondents said they believed Gates should step Down. Some 48 percent said they feared for their safety if stopped by a los Angeles police officer. The leadership of the los Angeles county federation of labor Al Cio representing 700,000 members passed a Resolution calling on Gates to quit. And the police commission scheduled its second Public hearing on the incident where the focus was to be on accusations of misconduct by the police and on Calls for his removal. The five member commission appointed by the mayor has the Power to review the work of the police department. Gates As a civil service employee can Only be removed for violations of civil service standards the 64-year-old chief a career officer who has headed the department for 13 years asserts almost daily that he has no intention of stepping Down. Last Friday Bradley appointed an influential civil rights lawyer to fill one of two vacancies on the Board. The new member Stanley k. Sheinbaum 70, is the third Liberal appointee to the Board and could help pressure Gates to adopt policies that emphasize Protection of civil liberties on tuesday Bradley said Gates must be the one to decide whether to step Down a when his constituency in the stars and stripes 10 years ago gets the message through to him clearly enough that he is hurting the department and the City by staying  killer s stay of execution upheld March 21,1981 a atop aide to sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., who last month told police he had been the target of a series of death threats said the whole thing was a hoax and has resigned from the senators staff. 20 years ago March 2.1,1971. A army Secretary Stanley r. Resor announced najor policy changes designed to end off base housing discrimination wherever . Soldiers Are stationed. 30 years ago Potosi to. Apr supreme court Justice Harry a. Blackmun denied Missouri a request tuesday night to lift a stay of execution for a two time killer hours before he was scheduled to die. Blackmun a denial came shortly after the full 8th . Circuit court of appeals rejected the state attorney general a request to let the execution of Doyle Williams proceed. The appeals courts 6-3 decision was issued w without comment because of the stay prison spokesman Dale Riley said preparations for the execution were a in a holding  the state made the request to the full appeals court after a three judge panel voted 2-1 earlier tuesday not to lift the stay which was issued monday by . District judge d. Brook Bartlett of Kansas City. Bartlett said some of Williams arguments might be a a substantial enough to Stop the execution. Williams lawyer Charles German argued that Williams received ineffective assistance from his trial attorney and that the jury got illegal instructions from the judge before deliberations. In a Brief order issuing the open ended stay Bartlett wrote that Williams had raised seven claims of constitutional errors in his trial. A Williams was sentenced to die by lethal injection at Potosi correctional Center for the 1980 drowning death of Kerry Brummett 28. Authorities said Williams killed Brummett because he did no to want Brummett to testify against him in another slaying. Williams later was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the fatal shooting of . Domann a 68-year-old physician who was to testify against him in a forged prescription Case. Also on tuesday gov. John Ashcroft who supports capital punishment rejected a clemency petition that opponents of the death penalty filed on Williams behalf. A March 21,1961 a Secretary of state Dean Rusk suggested the creation of a permanent United nations armed Force to be available for speedy use in  such As the Congo. Santa Monica Oil Spiri 40 years ago March 21,1951 a Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower zoned off Western Europe into three strategic defense areas and handed the responsibility for defending them to nine commanders. The top Post went to Britain a Field marshal Viscount Montgomery named Deputy supreme Allied commander Europe. The los Angeles times los Angeles a Oil that spilled into Santa Monica Bay from a pipeline ruptured Over the weekend has been dispersed by Stormy weather making further cleanup unnecessary coast guard officials said tuesday. They added that they did not detect any of the Light diesel like Oil mixture in the water or on beaches during an overflight of Santa Monica Bay. A noxious odor that had permeated the area sunday and monday dissipated and protective booms blocking the in trance to sensitive wetlands were deemed unnecessary and removed. A the storm came through and did a lot of the work for us a said coast guard it. Cmdr. Jim Milbury. About 21,000 Gallons of the fuel spilled into the Bay saturday evening after the Anchor of a Chevron chartered Irio Oring vessel ruptured an undersea Oil pipeline about a mile offshore of Chevron .a.�?Ts Al Segundo refinery. Ribbons of Light Oil washed up onto 3vz Miles of Malibu beaches monday but it was removed by workers and then the storm officials said. Of 23 Birds oiled in the Slick 15 died. A Cormorant Loon four endangered Brown pelicans and two Western grebes were found lightly coated but alive. Curt Taucher spokesman for the California department of fish and game said department officials would continue to Monitor the spill area for any Impact on wildlife. Of particular concern to wildlife officials will be any Impact from the spill on the spawning of Grunion a Small Silvery fish that had been expected to land on the beaches monday to Lay eggs