European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4the stars and stripes tuesday May 12, 1992 King trial aftermath Quayle says . Police deserve support Washington a vice president Dan Quayle praised the los Angeles police department on sunday saying its officers Are overstressed overworked and a deserve our full Quayle also defended president Bush a response to the los Angeles rioting saying it would have been a one bad ideas for the president to have gone immediately to los Angeles after the violence broke out. Texas billionaire h. Ross Perot who is considering running for president As an Independent had suggested Bush should have immediately travelled to los Angeles. A can you imagine Ross Perot As president going out there with All the Security the focus of the police. Would be on his Security rather than trying to get control of the City a Quayle said on cd so face the nation. Quayle said it was up to others to determine whether the los Angeles police reacted too slowly to the City a riots after the acquittal of four White men in the police beating of Rodney g. King. Of the beating itself the vice president reiterated that the government was investigating whether Kings civil rights were violated. Quayle noted that the department has fewer officers per citizen than Many other Large cities including Philadelphia Detroit and Atlanta. A a it a a Large City its a lot of Square Miles. They re overstressed they re overworked under very difficult circumstances. I think they deserve our full sup port a Quayle said. Meanwhile Jack Kemp Secretary of housing and Urban development said Bush planned this week to outline his program to help the nations cities. Kemp appeared on abcs issues and answers. A the president wants to flood the inner cities with capital a said Kemp who acknowledged that his own proposals for helping inner cities had been largely ignored by the White House for years. Asked if they May be ignored again once the crisis atmosphere subsides Kemp replied a Well they May but in a not worried about Kemp rejected suggestions that the government a just massively redirect Federal spending to help resolve Urban problems. Instead he urged democrats to support the presidents proposals aimed at stimulating private investment in City neighbourhoods. In an appearance on no cd a meet the press sen. Bill Bradley d-n.j., maintained that although private Enterprise initiatives will help Federal spending of As much As $15 billion a year Over the next decade also will be needed to address Urban problems. The Money can be found without raising taxes he argued partly by shifting funds from the defense budget a to pressing Domestic needs. I think Thel Urban area is the Clear Choice for a Chung of that a if we can find enough Money to bail out the a amp is if we can find enough Money to Deal with desert storm if this is a crisis which i believe it is. Then we re going to have to find the Money a Bradley takes his Campaign Down to gang level by the los Angeles times los Angeles a democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown met with gang members sunday ostensibly to hear their impressions of the los Angeles riots. He came away with two More passengers for his Campaign plane. The former California governor ended his 40-minute discussion with a dozen hispanic and Black gang members by inviting two of them to accompany him on a Campaign trip sunday night to West Virginia. After hearing about life in the projects frequently related in Blunt language Brown asked the Rev. Greg Boyle of the Dolores Mission to help choose the Young men neither of whom had Ever been on an air plane. One of those chosen was Titi Gomez 20. Like Many of the others Gomez said he had heard Browne a name before but was unaware that he was running for president. Robert Leon 22, was also chosen to accompany Brown largely because he is not in school and does not have a Job he would have to miss. The pair were to leave los Angeles at Midnight sunday and return sometime monday. Leon who prefers to be called by his gang name of Ace was one of the More outspoken of the afternoons speakers. He told of working on a construction Job in Beverly Hills and being regularly stopped by police who told him a a a you done to belong they police treat us like animals and think we Arentt human just because we Are poor. There is no Justice. We Are not later addressing a fund raising rally in Laguna Beach Brown compared president Bush and other members of his family to the looters in los Angeles suggesting that the Bushes and other wealthy business people and politicians had served As a role models Quot for the people who broke into shops during the riots last week. Brown told the crowd gathered on the main Beach that the youths he met in the Boyle Heights Section of los Angeles All said they had turned to pushing drugs and other crimes because they could find no other employment. A what they re asking for is simple Justice. The right to work and support their families Brown said. Quot lets condemn the looters in ., but lets Start right at the top with the president his sons and his brother. Maybe they were inc role models. Maybe Neil presidential candidate Jerry Brown talks with los Angeles gang members at the Dolores Mission on sunday. Bush was a role Model for All those Neil Bush was a director of the defunct Silverado savings and in Denver. The a amp los collapse Cost taxpayers $1 billion. The informal meeting with gang members was arranged through Boyle an Anglo priest who has gained the respect of the local a homeboys a or gang members. Brown sat in the Middle of a semicircle of chairs arranged at the Mission s modest altar. Pointing to about 15 reporters and Campaign aides gathered in the Church to cover a routine Campaign Stop Brown told the youths a when in a Here they bring their Little machines and they listen to me. But maybe they will listen to the Media and Brown got an earful. It s too bad that you people Only come Down Here when they Burn the whole City Down a said a Young Man who would Only identify himself As Bandit. A recurring theme was jobs. Brown asked Why More of the Young men did no to work. As others smirked one gang member explained the economics of the Street to Brown a Why work for $4,25 an hour when you can make $600 a night Selling drugs a Clinton blames . Woes on neglect of needy san Francisco a democratic presidential front runner Bill Clinton said sunday that inner City turmoil showed the country was a in the grip of a selfishness that would kill any nation because of 1980s policies that favored the Rich and ignored the needy. Quot of to be sure it was heartbreaking to see Little children going into the streets of los Angeles and stealing from the neighbors a Clinton told a mothers Day Church service. Quot but they live in a country where the top 1 percent of americans have More than the Bottom 90 the Arkansas governor paid a poignant tribute to his Mother a widowed before he was born a and contrasted his upbringing with that of a 13-year-old Washington d.c., boy who was caught in Street Cross fire and killed As he and his family drove Home from Church. A the tale of those two mothers shows the Gap Between americans Promise and its reality a Clinton told the multiracial congregation of the Glide United methodist Church As he campaigned for the states june 2 presidential primary. Clinton faces former California gov. Jerry Brown in that contest but As is routine now never mentioned him while making two san Francisco Church appearances before he participated in a hispanic festival and headed to Nebraska which holds its primary today. He also never mentioned president Bush by name even As he ridiculed the oops Quot family values theme saying Republican administrations have presided Over the decline of families strength. Clinton said his mothers first three husbands died and Quot through it All she loved me and my brother. She gave us a mothers love a unconditional love and discipline and values and the sense that we were the most important person in the world to somebody. A now her son is in san Francisco looking at americans Rainbow asking for the Chance to bring a mothers love Back to this country a Clinton said. A for All the talk of family values by those who have governed this country for 20 of the last 24 years we done to do anything like we should in the rearing and raising of children a Clinton said. Under republicans Clinton said the country had a Quot laughable system of child support enforcement a did too Little to help poor and working mothers with Day care and gave far too Little prenatal and other health care to poor mothers. A where Are they when the family values can to be found on the streets of this country a Clinton said. Before Clinton a speech a Parade of parishioners told tales and asked for prayers for battered and abused women and the pastor the Rev. Cecil Williams also asked for government help for los Angeles and other impoverished inner cities. The voices of people crying in the wilderness the voice crying in the ghettos of America must be heard a Williams said. A it is my Hope that at the White House these voices will be heard. But i doubt As he introduced Clinton Williams said the country a must have new leadership committed to poor cities and to combating aids. Clinton said too Little attention has been paid to fighting aids a a subject that comes up when a famous person gets it. Every Day people Are dying in silence
