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Bush declares Los Angeles city a disaster area
LOS ANGELES. May 3: President Bush formally declared America’s second-largest city and Its environs a disaster area after three days of rioting that deeply scarred Los Angeles and shook the Nation, reports AI*.
As residents of burned and looted neighborhoods swept up under the eyes- of armed soldiers, the chief organizer of the 1984 Olympics — Peter Ueberroth - was named Saturday to oversee reconstruction and said he would ask for Japanese help.
Troops cohtinued to patrol the streets and guard stores, but calm largely prevailed after a citywide curfew chased people off the streets Saturday night. An estimated 15,000 homes and businesses re-
mained without power, leaving a large section of the hard-hit area blacked out.
The death toll from the rl-ots remained at 41 Sunday but the number of Injured Jumped to 2.116. 211 of them hurt
critically.
In 1965, 34 people died in the Watts riots that devastated some of the same neighbour hoods. Of riots in recent US history, only the Detroit riots In 1967 had a higher death toll — 43.
Ueberroth said government would have to work with businesses, private foundations, religious leaders and South Central residents to rebuild and to create a local economic base that generates jobs.
Til even ask the private sector abroad," Ueberroth said.
"If there’s major groups that arc here is Southern California — as an example Japan.... we’ll open our facility to try and Include them and let them participate in this rebuilding."
Korean-Americans and other demonstrators marched through Los Angeles and staged a rally Saturday, singing the Korean and American national anthems and hearing prayers of forgiveness for the rioters, many of whom targeted Korean-owned businesses. Organizers and helicopter pilots estimated the crowd at 100.000. but police said there were 25,000.
This is our country," Helen Kime, a medical student and member of the Korean American Society, told the crowd. "It is not a Caucasian or latino
or Afro-American or Korean-American country. It Is a patchwork of many people and we need to keep It together."
About 1.3dO Marines relieved National Guard troops patrolling the city, which exploded into violence following Wednesday s acquittal of four white policemen who beat a black motorist, Rodney King.
Although things were much calmer Saturday, a 65-year old woman was fatally shot by a sniper as she walked down a riot-ravaged street In South Central Los Angeles, sheriff’s deputies said. And a fire engulfed a commercial building northeast of downtown Saturday night.
It was unclear If the killing and fire were related to the rioting or was part of the every-
day violence that plagues the
But there were clear signs of normality returning. The number of fires dropped dramatically. Traffic picked up on the freeways. And officials said there was good chance Los Angeles schools would reopen Monday after two days of closures.
"We made great progress," Mayor Tom Bradley said. Tm encouraged by that. But I'm not prepared to say it’s over.
Bradley extended the city-wide nighttime curfew though the weekend.
Two courts scheduled ape clal Saturday sessions to begin processing some of the more than 6,300 people arrested In the rampage.
Many parts of the South Central area, the hardest hit by arson and looting, were with out markets as well as electricity. The sopping carts outside one footed grocery on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard were filled only with I rash
"We don't have no food," complained 8-year-old Frederick Brewer. "We have to go way out somewhere else to get food.”
The rioting struck hardest at economically fragile low-and middle-income areas, many of which had still to rebound from the Watts riots.
Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Economic Development Corp of Los Angeles, estimated that up to 10,000 businesses may have been burned, footed or destroyed.