European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 8, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7beating victim was on parole jury learns Simi Valley Calif. Up jurors in the Rodney g. King police brutality trial Learned for the first time monday that King was a convicted robber on parole the night he was clubbed and kicked by four policemen who did not know of his criminal record at the time. Meanwhile Kings personal attorney said defense lawyers tried last week to subpoena the 27-year-old former construction worker so they could question him about his criminal past but were unable to find him. Attorneys for three of the defendants a sgt. Stacey c. Koon officer Laurence m. Powell and former officer Timothy e. Wind who was fired after the beating a were seeking King As a a hostile witness so they could ask him about his reputed violent past which includes a 1989 robbery conviction and two arrests for allegedly attempting to injure people with his car. Koon Powell and wind have argued they were justified in beating King on the night of March 3, 1991, because they feared he was a violent Man and they hoped to Back that up with information on his past. Steven Lerman the attorney who filed a multimillion Dollar lawsuit against the City on Kings behalf said he was with King last Friday watching the trial on television but said he was not responsible for supplying the defendants with Kings current address. He said it was unlikely King would be found before the end of the trial now in its sixth week. Prosecutors did not Call King in presenting their Case against the four White defendants who Are accused of assault and the excessive use of Force against King who is Black. Defense attorneys however no longer need to Call King to the stand since Superior court judge Stanley Weisberg ruled the jury May Only be told King was on parole the night he was beaten. The introduction of Kings parole status was done monday ironically by the attorney for the fourth defendant officer Theodore j. Briseno who has sought to distance himself from his fellow officers and portray himself As the a Good copy in the incident. The attorney for Briseno who is charged with a single assault count for putting his foot on Kings  told the jury that King was a convicted robber on parole. The information surfaced while the attorney was Cross examining a police dispatcher who had raised doubts about Briseno a dramatic testimony last week. Briseno a nine year department Veteran said he tried to Stop the beating. He testified last week that he was angry at Koon for allowing Powell and wind to continue to beat King with their steel Batons after the Motorist was stopped for evading pursuing officers. Briseno said he drove to the station after the beating to report it to his watch commander it. Patrick Conmay. When he arrived Conmay was not there but Briseno said he saw a message from Koon on the computer terminal of a dispatcher that led him to believe Koon had already reported the incident. Dispatcher Leslie Wiley was called by Powell to discredit Briseno a account. Wiley who sat at a computer terminal at the foothill station the night of the incident testified she saw Koonts car computer message appear on the screen in front of her. It read a a a unit just had a big time use of Force. Based shot with an electric stun gun and beat suspect of a cup Pursuit big  Wiley also testified she told Conmay about the message and responded via computer to Koon a i bet the Lizard did no to deserve it. A a. Ill let them their Superior officers  the titanic sails on its Maiden voyage in this file photo taken shortly before the liner went Down eight decades ago. April night drama of titanic brings Shivers after 80 years Boston apr Nellie Becker awoke to silence. It was 11 40 p.m., and the comforting hum of the Ocean liners engines had stopped. She left her Cabin to ask a Steward if something was wrong. Nothing he said. Becker went Back to bed waited worried then left again. She found another Steward who told her a go Back to your Cabin get your life belts and your children and get up on  a do we have time to dress a she asked. A no Madam a he said a you have time for  the titanic was going Down. Eighty years ago this month Becker and her children scrambled onto a Lifeboat and watched As the ship Sank. Becker died Long ago but this week her grandchildren will gather with others in Boston to recall that night. Interest in the titanic is still Strong. And As time passes there Are still Young ears wanting to hear the tale told again. A even now i go to schools and talk to children and they re All excited about it a said Louise Pope a survivor who was 4 at the time. A when they see me its quite a  the titanic was the biggest and most luxurious liner in the world when it set out on its Maiden voyage from Southampton to new York on april 10,1912. The 882.5-foot ship included everything from turkish Baths and a gymnasium to a French sidewalk cafe and its passenger list read like a who a who of the Day. It could carry 2,500 passengers and a Crew of 900. But shortly before Midnight on april 14, the Majestic liner hit an iceberg Southeast of Newfoundland. The Hull was ripped open and the ship began to list. Women and children were put into lifeboats. But there was not enough room for All and Many refused to believe the titanic would sink and would not leave. At 2 20 a.m., on Calm seas the Stern Rose out of the water and the Bow pointed straight Down. As the ship Sank it split in two carrying some 1,500 people to their grave. Over the years the Story has been kept in the Public Eye through books movies and in 1985, the discovery of the wreck on the Ocean floor. Controversy has trailed some expeditions sent to remove artefacts from the ship and rumours continue to swirl Over How and Why the ship Sank. Just last week British investigators concluded that the Captain of a ship near the titanic should have helped in the Rescue though there was probably Little he could have accomplished. In Boston this week members of the titanic historical society Are scheduled to commemorate the anniversary and to ruminate on such questions. Beckers grandchildren will be there As will Pope 84, who lives in Milwaukee. Explaining the allure of the titanic Story society president Edward Kamuda said a a it a the whole drama of the thing. A ship on its Maiden voyage with High society people aboard hitting an iceberg on a Calm night. Its the impossible tragedy that never should have  Don Lynch an Amateur historian who interviewed Becker and Many other survivors of the sinking tells How Beckers daughter Ruth was separated from her Mother and forced to find another Lifeboat. Still the 12-year-old offered blankets to crewmen bandaged a Many a Finger and helped a woman find her baby after they were picked up by a Rescue ship. Beckers missionary husband was not on the voyage she had left him in India to take one of their children who was ailing Back to the United states. Before she died in 1990 a at age 90 a Ruth told Lynch that the Saddest thing she recalled was the sight of scores of women lining the decks of the Rescue ship carpathia looking out to sea for lifeboats that might bring their husbands. Then the carpathia started its engines to leave. A a that a when they knew they were widows a Ruth told  hiker 11, missing after tumbling from Cliff from wire reports san Francisco an 11-year-old girl was missing after she fell off a Cliff while hiking near the Sutro Bath ruins which Overlook the Pacific Ocean. Kimberly Duffy apparently lost her footing while hiking sunday with four others including her 14-year-old brother. A . Coast guard helicopter and 20-foot rubber raft searched the pounding surf beneath the landmark ruins but 7-foot Waves prevented the boat from getting near the Shore a spokesman said. In March 1990, a 19-year-old woman was presumed dead after she apparently slipped from the foundations of the old ruins. Three months earlier a 14-year-old boy was rescued by helicopter after he slipped off the Cliffs and fell 30 feet to the Waters  kills new owner Andersonville Tenn. A pet Chow attacked and killed its new owner one Day after the woman brought the dog Home police said. Judy Grant 44, died sunday at a Hospital after the dog bit her in the  outside her House Deputy sheriff Jim Jones said. Grants Mother Brenda Satterfield said her daughter got the dog saturday from am an in Asheville n.c., who later said the dog had bitten his mothers Boyfriend and killed a smaller dog. Grant did no to know the dog had a history of attacks Satterfield said. Grants husband Kenneth Grant jr., shot and killed the dog after the  senator honoured Pittsburgh a Carnegie Mellon University remembered sen. John Heinz Iii on monday by renaming its Public policy school after the late senator from Pennsylvania. A the was one of those remarkable persons who envisioned How new ideas and knowledge could translate into Public policy and programs to improve the social condition a said the University a president Robert Mehrabian. Alfred Blumstein Dean of the John Heinz Iii school of Public policy and management said the senator contributed financially to the school. Heinz also taught Industrial administration at Carnegie Mellon before running for Congress. The school also will serve As a Library for the papers of the senator who served from 1971 to 1976 in the . House of representatives and in the . Senate from 1977 until his death in a plane helicopter collision on april 4, 1991