European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes Friday May 15, 1992 . Officer faces retrial on charge in King beating books for Czechoslovakia Ladislav Brank of Boston and Terry new director of project boo lift Load books to be sent to Czechoslovakia. The books loaded in Boston wednesday were part of the projects Effort to Send 1,000,000 volumes to libraries and schools whose Access to Reading material was very limited before the collapse of communism. From wire reports los Angeles a prosecutors will seek a retrial of officer Laurence m. Powell the Only one of four current and former los Angeles police officers who failed to win a jury a exoneration in the beating of Motorist Rodney g. King. Declaring that a Justice was not done in the Rodney King Case a los Angeles county District attorney Ira Reiner said wednesday that prosecutors would make the request today before Superior court judge Stanley Weisberg. Weisberg declared a mistrial april 29 after a Ventura county jury deadlocked on one count of assault under color of authority against Powell. It will now be up to Weisberg to decide whether to Grant the second trial. Both in his announcement at a packed news conference and in a subsequent interview Reiner suggested that in making his decision he took into account the riots that were spawned by the not guilty verdicts in the King Case. A there Are Many people that feel that to retry Laurence Powell on this one count would be to reopen some very painful wounds a Reiner said. A i understand that and i appreciate that. But my responsibility As the District attorney is Clear. That is that Healing begins with Justice and Justice simply was not done in the Rodney King  although the jury Hung 8-4 in favor of acquitting Powell Reiner said his prosecutors believe that the evidence against him a primarily the videotape of the beating a is so compelling that he Felt bound to press ahead with the prosecution. Powell a attorney Michael Stone could not be reached for comment. In other developments a about 4,000 National guard troops began pulling out of the City. The troops part of a 10,000-Strong Force were boarding cargo planes at los Alamitos armed forces Reserve Center. Others left on the freeways. A we did a Good Job. I Felt Good about it a said guardsman Ronald de Jesus. A president Bush announced that the government will provide $600 million in Low interest Loans for South Central los Angeles and other areas devastated in the aftermath of the King verdicts. The new loan funds Are in addition to $600 million in emergency funds already designated for the stricken City and a Host of other Urban Aid programs being considered by Congress and the president. The House was poised to vote on that allocation thursday As part of an $822 billion appropriation package to be shared by los Angeles Ana flood damaged Chicago. The new loan Money will be made available at interest rates of Between 4.4 percent and 7.9 percent. A Southern California Edison co. Announced wednesday it will contribute $35 million toward rebuilding riot scarred areas of los Angeles through Job training economic development and forgiveness of Utility Bills. A Southern California Edison and Southern California itself can enjoy health together and we must heal together when we Are Hurt a said John e. Bryson chairman and chief executive officer of the Utility. A leftists in Copenhagen Denmark burned one american Flag and replaced another with a Banner saying a Burn Hollywood Burn a to protest police violence in los Angeles. Twenty two demonstrators were arrested and charged with vandalizing the fashionable Magasin do Nord department store which was flying a huge american Flag above its Entrance to promote . Products. Fifty two people died and 2,383 were Hurt in the . Riots. Damage estimates approached $800 million and thousands of Homes and businesses were burned Down. Poll shows Bush has slim Lead Washington apr president Bush Democrat Bill Clinton and Independent Ross Perot were in a virtual dead heat in a nationwide poll released thursday. A Washington Post poll published in thursdays editions said Bush had 33 percent support to Clinton a 29 percent and Perot a 28 percent. The poll of 858 registered voters had a 3 percentage Point margin of error putting the candidates in a statistical tie. The Survey also questioned 1,144 adults by Telephone about the causes of american inner City problems. Fifty five percent of those said a major cause of cur rent Urban problems was a the failure of president Bush and former president Ronald Reagan to Deal with the problems of the inner  but 42 percent said the failure of social programs of the 1960s was a big cause of Urban distress. Among the registered voters 34 percent picked Clinton the expected democratic nominee As the candidate who would do the Best Job dealing with race relations compared to 28 percent for Bush and 18 percent for Perot. But 37 percent picked Bush As the candidate who would Best Deal with the a breakdown of family values a compared to 24 percent for Clinton and 22 percent for Perot. Perot sought Early Navy release letters show Austin Texas apr Ross Perot a father wrote two Texas senators including then Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson in 1955 asking them for help in getting his son off Active Navy duty according to documents reviewed by the associated press. Perot a Texas billionaire preparing an Independent presidential Campaign said in a written response to a inquiries that the letters came about because the korean War was Over and he wanted to clarify whether he was obligated to serve four years or two years under Navy rules at that time. Johnson a presidential Library in Austin and sen. Price Daniels papers stored in Liberty East of Houston yielded correspondence from Perot a father a cot ton broker from Texarkana. A Cross has now served two years in the Navy and has sent in his resignation asking for release from Active duty and Transfer into the Reserve Quot said a july 11, 1955, letter from Ross Perot or. To Daniel. A a similar letter also appears to have gone to Johnson. The written response said Perot a inquiries stemmed from confusion about How Many years the . Naval Academy graduate was obligated to serve. Perot in february 1956, met with adm. James Holloway jr., chief of naval personnel who persuaded him to reconsider his request. He was honorable discharged in 1957.Cia s Oswald file has few surprises by the Washington Post Washington a the file on Lee Harvey Oswald that the Cia had collected before the assassination of president John f. Kennedy was made Public wednesday but it offered slim pickings for longtime students of the Case. It also served As a reminder that the file would have been thicker if other Cia documents pertaining to Oswald had not been apparently destroyed in what the Agency once called routine housekeeping. Oswald a former Marine who defected to the soviet Union in 1959, was arrested in Dallas shortly after the killing. In a finding that has been disputed Over the years the Warren commission concluded that he killed the president acting alone. The 34 documents released wednesday dealt with Oswald a defection to Moscow and his activities following his return to the United states in 1962. Most of the records came from other agencies and almost All had been made Public before. The Cia opened a personality file a known As a 201 file a on Oswald on dec. 9, 1960. That consisted initially of one Page listed under the name a Lee Henry Oswald a and noted he had a defected to the user in october 1959." the 14-month delay Between Oswald a defection and the opening of the file has never been satisfactorily explained