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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: John Martin) Day five of the rioting in Los Angeles featured; scenes shown to illustrate what the people were doing and not doing this Sunday. [First AME Church Reverend Cecil MURRAY - preaches about cleanup.] [On "This Week with David Brinkley", Governor Pete WILSON - talks about the alienation of young males.] Violence, looting and fires shown. [In courtroom, municipal court Judge Juelann CATHEY - berates looter pleading not guilty.]
(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Interview held with former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who has been appointed by the mayor to head the cleanup of Los Angeles. [UEBERROTH - says commitments from the communities come first because the "looting of jobs" has devastated the community.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced. [Note: video problems 5:39:10-5:39:30.]
(Los Angeles: Tom Foreman) The blame for the riots in Los Angeles addressed; scenes shown of cleanup efforts; details given of the point of view that the government from the top down has failed the urban community. [Representative Maxine WATERS - says the systems are not working.] [Black man Bruce JOHNSON - talks about the government's promises.] [On May 1, President BUSH - calls it the brutality of a mob.] [Black WOMAN - says this gets attention.]
(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Ron Claiborne) The issue of the slow police response to the violence examined; Wednesday scenes shown of attack on cars in south central Los Angeles. [Police chief Daryl GATES - calls it an appropriate police response.] [Los Angeles county sheriff Sherman BLOCK - says action should have been taken quicker.] Lessons learned by Miami police in response to racial unrest in 1980 and 1989 noted. [Former Dade Metro police chief Bobby JONES - says Los Angeles police seemed not prepared.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Evacuation of Americans from the west African nation of Sierra Leone after a military coup reported.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report in "Crain's", a New York business newspaper, that Macy's will close 30 stores as part of its bankruptcy moves cited.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(New York: Karen Burnes) Impact of events in Los Angeles on the children examined; scenes shown of the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965 and of last week in south central Los Angeles after the acquittals of white policemen for the beating of Rodney King. [University of Illinois professor Lilian KATZ - says racism and prejudice is learned.] Children's awareness of racial characteristics and prejudice outlined. [Black kids Elom and Sefaka KETOSUGBO - explain what happened in the King case.] [Mother Pat MILLER, psychologist Darlene HOPSON, KATZ - talk about how children learn about race.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Studio: Ray Gandolf) Highlights shown from pro basketball playoff games between New York Knicks-Detroit Pistons and Portland Trail Blazers- Los Angeles Lakers and from tennis finals in Atlanta between Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras. The life of former tennis player Arthur Ashe, who has had AIDS since 1988, featured; scenes shown from the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center in Philadelphia. [ASHE - talks about what tennis can offer kids and the place of minorities in the sport of tennis; describes his creativity since learning he has AIDS.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Washington: Barry Serafin) The nation's reaction to the verdict in the case of the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles policemen examined; King videotape and scenes of rioting in Los Angeles shown. [Black MAN - expresses anger.] [In the 1960s, Martin Luther KING, Junior - says we are moving to two separate and unequal societies.] [White MAN - expresses fear.] [Psychiatrist Dr. Frieda Lewis HALL - explains how people have been brought closer together.] [On Friday, Rodney KING - says "we can get along here."]
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