European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sidelights freeing of Williams Watson stopped the excess Clarence Page producer for a network television new program called me right after jurors in the Reginald Denny beating Case acquitted the two defendants of most charges to see what i thought. Maybe angry Whites will riot in Beverly Hills deadpanned. This was a joke. I stole it from a skit i saw on the Fox to comedy series in living color earlier this season. Everyone knows that regardless of the Denny Tri Al s outcome affluent Whites would not hot. People who have Power do not riot when they see what the perceive to be a miscarriage of Justice. Instead they change the system of Justice. It is people who Don thave any other Power or at least perceive that they Don to who riot. Besides i thought the skit was far fetched be cause it predicted the jurors would let the two defendants Damian Williams 20, and Henry Watson,29, go free. Noway i thought. Surely the stunning grisly videotape of Black men pulling the White truck Driver Denny from his truck and brutally beating him would whip the jury up into a lust for judicial blood. Wrong. When verdicts were announced the racially mixed jury convicted the two men of Only lesser offences prompting defense attorneys to declare Victory. Former police chief Daryl Gates who donned another two ouro shwe from Penny trial body Armor and flamboyantly arrested Williams amid the Glare of television lights cursed the verdict As a miscarriage of Justice. Was it or was it Anoble Well reasoned attempt to Stop the upward spiralling excesses of race related passion and resentment that were making National scapegoats or heroes take your pick out of the two defendants looking Back in the Cool Light of Calm and Relief that followed the Long awaited verdicts the Saga that began with Rodney King s videotaped beating by los Angeles police officers unfolds like one Epi Sode of overreaction and wretched excess after an  King unlike his two passengers overreacted by resisting at least at first when police pulled him Over after a 100-Mph Chase. Then the police officers overreacted by beating King mercilessly even after he was on the ground. Then the Simi Valley jurors too sympathetic per haps to the police versions of anything even when their eyes Tell them something else overreacted by letting the officers go free. Then the los Angeles police officers shamelessly abandoned their posts to rampant Street violence. Then the rioters and looters who targeted Denny and other Whites hispanics and asians overreacted by committing racist violence to express their rag Over racism. Then Gates overreacted by turning the arrests into a Media circus. The Denny trial jury tried to react not  s about time. The Middle Road draws fire from both extremes but it is the Only Road to return us to a sense of sanity. Tha Chicago Tribuna. A sad tale Between horses and their owners and Rooney beginning with Spike my Brindle bulldog i be known five dogs Well. I be never known a horse. You Don t get to know horse the Way you get to know a dog any Way. Everyone says horses Are dumb. I Hope so be cause if they re smart they d be heartbroken Over the Way they re passed from one owner to Ano therall their lives until they re finally sold for $100 to someone who deals in horses for pet food Compa Nies. That s what happens to 90 percent of old horses. Years ago i was talking to a Man on a farm in Colorado. One of his horses had been out in these vere cold and had Frozen some of its parts. I asked what he did with the horse. We had to sell him he said. On a farm sell him is a euphemism for sending a horse to the slaughterhouse. The owner of a Kentucky Derby Winner often says of his horse he s really  he understandably has an affectionate feeling for a horse that has won him a few million dollars but the average Racehorse is sold dozens of times and the average owner does t give the horse so much As a Friendly Pat on the nose goodbye. A Trainer was arrested recently for killing or maiming show horses for a Price so their owners could collect the insurance. In one Case he broke horse s leg with a crowbar so it would look As if the horse hit a jump. That Trainer is not typical. But there Are a lot of hard hearted people in the horse business. My Mother used to Tell about one of the Saddest things in her Young life. A circus came to her town Ballston spa n.y., and a wonderfully talented trick Pony broke its leg in an Accident. The circus had to move on and my Grandfather bought the Pony for$25. He had a veterinarian set the horse s leg put it Ina cast and fix up a Sling in their barn to support its weight while the leg healed. The Pony died five Days later. The closest i Ever came to knowing a horse was just a few Days ago. Early sunday morning i saw a huge Brown horse on our front Lawn. Actually it in t so much a Lawn As a collection of grass and Green weeds that we keep mowed i approached the animal and it stared at me wide eyed and innocent. Mean dogs bite but i did t know what a mean horse would do. Here boy i said a sexist salutation because Ihan t checked to see whether it was a boy or a girl. I would t have known what to do if it had com Over to me either. By now several cars had stopped out front. I had gone to the garage to get a rope but All i could find was an electrical Cord. I had the foolish idea that could throw it Over the horse s neck. Finally two men i knew stopped in a pickup truck. They did t know the horse but one had a hemp rope. He walked directly up to the  horse stood obediently still while the Man made a few Quick motions and had the horse neatly Hal tired with the rope Over his nose and behind his ears. Someone located the woman who owned the horse and she came to get him. How old is he i asked. About 12.1 think she said. He belonged to someone with two kids. The kids left Home so they sold him to a Riding stable but the stable decided Roget rid of him so i got him cheap. He s a Nice horse he was a Nice horse but he does t have much to look Forward to. Of Bun Madia Sov fam Andy Rooney i Tom sur and ship reporter november 7,1993 sunday Page 9