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Attorneys close King trial;
jury will now deliberate
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A pros
ecutor portrayed four policemen
Thursday as pitiless brutes who in
flicted street justice on Rodney King.
A defense lawyer called them “sacri
ficial lambs”and suggested King was
to blame for last year’s riots.
During closing arguments in the
officers’ federal trial, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Steven Clymer said the four
went “far beyond” the force neces
sary to arrest King. “These defen
dants taught Rodney King a lesson,”
Clymer said. He added that they con
cocted elaborate lies to cover up their
misdeeds.
King was clubbed, kicked and
shocked with an electric stun gun
after police chased and slopped his
speeding car on March 3, 1991. A
neighbor’s videotape of the beating
was broadcast worldwide. When the
officers were acquitted of most
charges in a state trial last year, three
days of deadly rioting ensued.
Clymer replayed the videotape,
urging jurors to watch it repeatedly
during their deliberations and to con
victall fourofficcrsof violating King’s
civil rights.
Clinton unveils
federal budget
to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Clinton unveiled his $1.52 tril
lion budget on thursday, a blueprint
for 1994 that boosts taxes on the rich
and slashes military spending to break
the government’s deficit-spending
habit.
The budget fleshes out the skel
eton plan that the new president re
leased inFebruary. Thcbiggcstchangc
* ip that the amount, of deficit reduction
$447 Nttion in five years — is
slightly lower than what Clinton ini
tially announced.
Clinton’s budget projects spend
ing $1.52 trillion for the fiscal year
that begins Oct. 1. That increase —
3.2 percent over current spending -
essentially keeps pace with inflation.
The economic bailie plan hews
closely to the philosophy he cam
paigned on last year: more money for
low-income students and other initia
tives to bolster the economy and cre
ate jobs, and an attack on federal red
ink led by higher taxes on the rich,
energy users and higher income So
cial Security recipients. These changes
would still have to be enacted in leg
islation.
Majority Democrats have already
whipped a deficit-reduction outline
through Congress. It closely tracks
Clinton’s thinking. Over five years, it
would cut deficit spending by $67
billion more than the president pro
posed.
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These defendants taught Rodney King a lesson.
-Clymer
prosecutor
Defense lawyer Ira Salzman told
jurors that the officers were denied a
tool to subdue suspects when the po
lice department restricted use of the
controversial chokchold but never
replaced it with another technique.
“These sacri ficial lambs are foisted
on the public altar of justice to pay for
negligence” by police management,
Salzman said.
Salzman said King was headed for
Hansen Dam, a place he had visited in
childhood, when he was stopped for
speeding.
“Because of that, people died.
People lost their homes because some
one wanted to go to Hansen Dam
without interruption,” Salzman said.
He said King accused the officers
of racial epithets to inflame jurors.
‘This case has never been about race,”
Salzman insisted.
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King, who is black, testified dur
ing the federal trial that the officers,
who arc while, uttered racial slurs
when they beat him. Under cross
examination, King said hewasn’tsurc
they used racial epithets.
Clymcr accused Officer Laurence
Powell of pummcling King exces
sively, bashing in his face, then filing
a false report. He denounced Officer
Timothy Wind for kicking the help
less King as he lay beaten on the
ground, then lying about it. He de
picted Sgl. Stacey Koon as abandon
ing his duty to stop the beating.
“The defendants tried Rodney King
at Foothill and Osborne (boulevards)
with Stacey Koon as judge and Powell,
Briseno and Wind as the execution
ers,” Clymcr said. ‘‘And they found
him guilty.”
-WORLD WIRE-—|
Court orders Serbs to stop genocide
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP)
— Bosnian’s embattled Muslim
government won a moral victory
Thursday when the World Court
ordered Yugoslavia to stop acts of
genocide.
While the emergency measures
can sway world opinion, the court
has no enforcement powers. Its rul
ings can be enforced by the U.N.
Security Council, although none
ever have.
Bosnia’s chief counsel, Francis
Boyle, said the Muslim-led gov
ernment would use the ruling to
exert pressure on the Security Coun
cil to lighten sanctions against
Serbia.
FBI hangs up on cult leader Koresh
W ACQ, Texas (AP) — FBI ne
gotiators hungup on ihc leader of a
heavily armed cult when he began
rambling about religious doctrine,
dimming hopes of ending a 40-day
standoff with government agents,
the government said Thursday.
Talks with cult leader David
Koresh resumed late Wednesday
for the first lime in six day s, but FBI
special agent Bob Ricks said the
negotiators hung up after Koresh
talked nonsensically about tjjp
Bible’s Book of Revelation. '
Attorneys who entered the com
pound last week said the 33-year
old Koresh assured them he would
end the standoff when the Passover
ends next week.
Ricks said discussions Thurs
day with Koresh’s lop deputy Steve
Schneider indicated cult members
were in no hurry to come out.
Russians try to limit radiation damage
MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds
of disaster workers cleared snow
and built dams in the Siberian wil
derness Thursday in an effort to
clean up the radiation from Russia’s
worst nuclear accident since
Chernobyl.
Commonwealth Television
showed heavy damage at the
nuclear weapons complex in the
secret city of Tomsk-7, where an
underground tank containing a poi
sonous mix of liquid nuclear waste
exploded and burned on Tuesday.
The roof and several wallsof the
complex’s plutonium processing
facility were destroyed in the blast,
which spewed a radioactive cloud
into the atmosphere.
Wright wins RH A presidency
From Start Reoortt___
p '
I Wright, a freshman psy
najor, was elected Residence
Hall Association
president in elec
tions held Tues
day. Her running
mate on the
PROGRESS
ticket, Kris
J Larson, a junior
biology major,
over as RHA vice president.
The pair won S6 percent of the
vote, beating out Brad (Sail and Stacey
Beedlc of the SOURCE party, who
received 39 percent of votes cast.
Voter turnout was 21 percent of those
eligible.
In other races, Kurt Bond was
elected president of Cather-Pound and
Larry Osborne won president of
Harper. The new president of
Schramm will be Corey Russman,
Cris Skinner was elected Smith presi
demand Keith Halsey was made presi
dent of Ncihardt.
Sellcck and Abel hall races still arc
undecided. Burr, Fcddc, Love and
Sandoz hall elections are not held at
the same time as the other elections.
Tech
Continued from Page 1
Highlands property.
An 18-hole municipal golf course,
anolhcrpartof the Highlands’ plan,is
scheduled to open this summer, and
the city has incorporated a number of
infrastructure projects into its one-to
six-ycar capital improvement budget
. that will support development in the
Highlands.
On Monday, Johanns and UNL
Chancellor Graham Spanicr an
nounced the formation of an 11-mem
ber committee charged with develop
ing, within the next 12 to 18 months,
a detailed plan for implementing the
technology park.
The committee, expected to meet
within the next four to six weeks, is
comprised of local and national busi
ness leaders, as well as university,
government and community repre
sentatives.
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