European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                M s i is i i i a states opens up his life Story in hot Selling a chief by Bill Boyarsky los Angeles times Daryl Gates autobiography chief my life in the land Bantam books is a brisk anecdotal Story of a hot tempered stubborn intelligent and unbelievably egotistical cop with an irresistible compulsion to jump into hot water. It goes a Long Way toward explaining the behaviour of the mercurial chief and of the department he has headed for 14 years. Chief rocketed to no. 2 in its first week on the new York times Best seller list but that hardly Means this is great literature. The writing is Plain and the chief does no to have much insight into the history of his City or its politics. To Gates los Angeles is a simple matter of scumbag politicians who constantly interfere with the thin Blue line of cops battling untold numbers of Crooks on behalf of a largely unappreciative citizenry. Nor is there a huge amount of news in the Book. Gates adds More details to his Side of the Rodney King beating controversy. The tape made him sick he reports. Sgt. Stacey Koon should have stepped in when the cops were beating King. Too bad Gates did no to say so at the time. Miraculously Gates even admits failures. A i was too combative a he says. A in retrospect i should have been far More diplomatic and i could have been with some of the police commissioners and  and Here it is in writing in a Book where he can to take it Back. Chief Gates is leaving. He is ready to retire. He a bored with the Job. A after 14 years As chief the challenges were gone there Wasny to anything i Hadnot done a he writes. So i guess we can now safely Book the hotel room for his Farewell banquet. Despite All this chief written with Diane Shah for six years a sports columnist at the los Angeles Herald examiners much More than i expected. I anticipated 300 or so pages of vitriolic score settling and name calling by a Man who judges his Success by the number of enemies he has made. Add a few War stories from the Battlefield streets of los Angeles season it with right Wing philosophy and that would be the Book. Gates settles scores none with More vigor than his hit on his most despised enemy mayor Tom Bradley. The mayors relations with the land have been strained since the 1965 Watts riots when Bradley a former land lieutenant accused police chief William h. Parker of running a racist department. Parker derided Bradley a attempt to a pin the riots on the police a just As the 1965 Mccone commission appointed by gov. Pat Brown rejected Calls for a civilian review Board of the police and scoffed at widespread charges of police brutality. In the following two years though charges similar to Bradley a were made by the . Civil rights commission which castigated the land for insensitivity toward african americans and by a team of investigators appointed by president Johnson and headed by Deputy attorney general Ramsey Clark. In words that must have Given him great pleasure Gates concludes that a in creating his own tammany Hall Bradley had brought to los Angeles a rates nest of impropriety not seen since the Days of the Shaw regime of the 1930s.�?� there Are also plenty of War stories told with the cynical weariness of a character in a Joe Wambaugh novel. As assistant chief Gates is called to the scene of one of the skid Row Slasher murders a on the drive Over i tried not to think about what awaited me. Even so i could feel queasiness stirring in the pit of my stomach. 1 stared at the body an extra Daryl Gates confirms he son the Way out. Long time then reluctantly my eyes travelled to his neck and. A Jesus. Clyde Hayes head had been nearly severed from his body the gaping slash extending from one ear to  what is most valuable is Gates personal Story told Here in greater detail than Ever before. Read this and you begin to understand the Man. Take Gates View of the Rich. He sees them with contempt mixed with a nudging envy seeing them from the perspective of a working class populist. Now i understand Why. The depression impoverished his father Paul Gates a plumber and plunged him into a five year period of deep alcoholism. Gates autobiography explains How his present Outlook on life was shaped by the fact that lie was a child of old los Angeles. As a teen Ager Gates cruised around town in his �?T36 Ford. He played football for Franklin High and took his Girlfriend to the Franklin theater. He went off to world War ii in the Navy and when he returned he enrolled at old  favorite University us. The old . Was a mostly White Middle class City run by a conservative business establishment. That Sall gone now replaced by a new . Of Many races and cultures run by Liberal democratic politicians. What a left of the old . Has never come to terms with that and neither has Daryl Gates. A a a the pixilated Peerless by l. Sprague do Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp Del Rey. L. Sprague de Camp May not have invented lighthearted fantasy but he has come As close As anyone to perfecting it As demonstrated in the pixilated Peerless written with wife Catherine Crook de Camp. The title character flees from her Castle to avoid a con Crew who considers her part of the spoils. She leaves on horseback with Little More than the clothes on her Back and a jewelled Crown. The Peerless Abandons the horse and clothing when her pursuers Surprise her As she a bathing in a Mountain Stream. Enter sergeant Thorolf a would be academic who ended up in the military because of political problems any non fictional professor will find All too familiar. This being a proper fantasy you know countess Yvette and the Bourgeois Warrior Are going to quarrel constantly and fall in love. But this also is the de Camps so you a be Wise not to count on anything else except being thoroughly entertained As the countess and the commoner Cope with magicians Cults trolls and sporadic swordplay. A Sharon Miller United press International a a a Nemo Sis by Rosamond Smith Onyx. Quiet music teacher Maggie Blackburn a Solitude is shattered forever when a new student shows up at her door claiming he has been raped. And the perpetrator is an exalted faculty member. Then the faculty member Dies and there is another Savage murder. Maggie finds herself drawn further and further into the dark vortex of sexual exploitation. This is a tightly crafted novel and it stretches the readers nerves tightly until it snaps with a screamer ending. Kathleen Ostrander. 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