European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes wednesday april 3,1991, . Mayor names los Angeles a mayor Tom Bradley appointed a commission monday to conduct a wide ranging investigation of the police department in response to the videotaped police beating of a Black Motorist. A the time has come for a reasoned objective thorough and constructive examination of the Structure and operation of the police department a Bradley told a news conference the seven member commission led by former Deputy Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher will examine everything from police recruitment to citizen complaints. Bradley said the commission will have subpoena Power anti a $1 million budget raised from private and academic sources. Its report is due within 90 Days a we intend to make a thorough and comprehensive study of the operation and Structure of the police department a Christopher said. A it will be objective Independent and  Christopher was a Deputy . Attorney general and member of the panel that investigated the Walts riots. The Christopher commission was mod cled after the Knapp commission which looked into new York City police corruption 20 years ago. It is the third panel to look into the March 3 beating of Rodney King. Christopher did no to expect any conflicts Between his panel a committee named by police chief Daryl f Gates and the mayors handpicked police commission. Gates commission was announced last week As part of a plan designed to prevent a recurrence of the beating. The beating was videotaped by a bystander and broadcast nationally prompting local investigations a Justice department probe of police brutality and _ demands that Gates resign. 1 four White officers were indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. The videotape of King being kicked clubbed and shocked with a 50,000-Volt stun gun has been seen by millions of television viewers nationwide. Stung by Public outrage Over the beating Law enforcement groups took out a full Page advertisement in mondays los Angeles times urging residents to re member officers to lied in the line of duty. Although Bradley a Democrat and others denied that his commission was formed As a Way to pressure Gates to resign the panel clearly is ideologically stacked against the conservative Republican police chief. R joining Christopher who has democratic ties is Leo Estrada a hispanic educator and demographer critical of the formerly conservative led county govern. Ment. A a a a a a also on the commission arc Bradley a , who also is a democratic party activist and a longtime associate of the state s former democratic attorney general. Other members include the Lockheed corp. Chairman emeritus the head of the University of Southern California medical school and Occidental College president John Slaughter who also is the commissions Only Black member. Absent from the panel were Community leaders especially prominent Black activists who have Long complained about the same alleged problems the commission Likely will  Hope cardboard cops make shoplifters think twice St. Louis up the newest Security innovation for store owners uses life size photographs of police officers print cd on cardboard to deter potential shop lifters. A a a Cut out cops Are being tested in several locations around the St. Louis area said John Bell one of the owners of a company that makes the photo police. Bell and a Friend James Dowd Are partners in store Security systems inc. Of St. Louis Hope to begin manufacturing and marketing the anti theft items later this month. The entrepreneurs products consist of life size photographs of two actual police officers from the St. Louis area be l said. The images of the officers Are printed on cardboard and laminated. The result is a stand up display that occasionally shocks the unwary. Store owners Hope it will unnerve prospective shoplifters enough to prevent them from carrying off goods. \ a a a a a a a a a a a a of officer Michael Yanuzzi holds Howard Sims As he is kneed in the Groin Friday by patrolman Jilius Jeng in Charleston . The other officer is not identified. Police officer suspended for kneeling Man in Groin Charleston . A a police officer who was photographed kneeling a Man in the Groin during a scuffle has been suspended the chief said monday. Chief Reuben Greenberg portrayed fridays incident As unimportant. He suggested the photograph was published in Charleston a news amp Cou Rier Post because of the nationwide controversy Over a police beating in los Angeles that was recorded by an Amateur with a video camera. A this is just one of the Many flaps you re going to have Over the country Over the next four or five months because of the . Thing a Greenberg said. A this is the latest  patrolman Jilius Jeng a 25, was suspended for five Days without pay for improper conduct rather than because of any allegation he used excessive Force the chief said.  the officer who has been on the Force three years should have waited for his ser Geant to arrive before moving to arrest Howard Sims 31, of North Charleston. Jeng stopped Sims because he be lived he had seen Sims a week earlier while investigating a drug Deal Greenberg said. It turned out Sims Wasny to the same Man the chief said. The chief said that Sims pushed Jeng away when the officer started patting Down his clothes to Check for weapons and that the two then began wrestling. A a a a. A a a. A. Sims was kneed in the Groin and shoved against a House before he was placed in a police Cruiser by Jeng and other officers and taken to Headquarters although he was , the newspaper reported. No complaints have been filed against the police department Greenberg said. A. A a. In suspending Jujj log saturday Greenberg said Joe followed the recommendation of a seven member police trial  dance s Martha Graham Dies new York apr Martha Graham the dancer and choreographer whose fierce and erotic ballets marked a revolutionary departure from classical forms and defined modern dance has died at age.96, Graham who died at Home monday of congestive heart failure first danced at age 21 and performed until she was 76, then choreographed ballets Long after that in a career that embraced nearly the entire 20th Century. A a  a a a a a a a the nost recent of the i so works she choreographed was Quot Maple Leaf rag a which had its debut oct. 2 in new York. A. Her Early work was likened to Picasso s paintings and Stravinsky s music. A grahams technique w As a on a Par with Ballet dancing which took 400 years to develop a said Ballet choreographer Agnes do Mille a you  go Back to people like Michelangelo to get this kind of  her students and dancers became stars among them. Pearl Lang Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor. But none surpassed Graham a in. The extent of her contribution to the uniquely american Art form that broke trom 19th-Century classicism.  a a. A Graham a a thin frag Ile looking woman whose arched eyebrows vividly painted Mouth and tightly wound Chignone gave her an appearance As dramatic As her stage heroines a a created gripping depictions of lust greed jealousy Joy . Sex and violence inter Graham mingled in her dances which Drew on such divergent sources As greek mythology the american Frontier and a rebellion against her own puritanical heritage that was years ahead of the �?T60s sexual revolution. Grahams virgins goddesses and Madwoman Dis Airbed and. Mesmerized audiences with raw emotion As. They whirled across Bare stages in Bare feet to relentlessly dissonant scores. A a every dance is a kind of fever Chart a graph of the heart a Graham once said a the instrument through which the dance Speaks is also the instrument through which  lived  human  Quot Graham was bom in Pittsburgh a direct descendant on her mothers Side of Miles Standish a Massachusetts colonist. Her father a doctor moved the family to Santa Barbara Calif. As a child she saw Ruth St. Denis dance and was enraptured. When her father a staunch presbyterian died in 1916, she entered the Den Shawn school it tos. Angeles.  a a. It a. V in 1948, Graham married Erick Hawkins a dancer in her troupe. The couple separated in the 1950s arid later divorced. She leaves no immediate survivors