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ment programmes could not mention divorce. New York Times B4 (April
27, 1992).
A month after his first acquittal on charges of beating Rodney King,
Stacey C. Koon "wrote" a book about the LAPD, generously seasoned
with racial slurs. He referred to King as "Madingo" and George Holliday
(who shot the incriminating video) as "George of the Jungle". Once when
Koon repeatedly shot a black man his fellow officers joked that the man
would survive because blacks "are too dumb to go into shock." Koon
claimed he had become a "legend" for viciously kicking a Latino drug
suspect in the testicles. The new LAPD chief (an African American from
Philadelphia) quickly denounced the comments. When the book
appeared five months later all this material had been cut. Koon said "that
was part of the editing process. Those were just raw notes." Los Angeles
Times B1 (May 16, 1992), B3 (May 21, 1992), B3 (October 15, 1992).
Daryl F. Gates, the police chief who had just been forced into retirement,
made his debut on KFI's radio call-in show the same day that federal
prosecutors indicted the four LAPD officers for civil rights violations.
Gates exulted: "Just think, I don't have the restraints that I had before,
when I was Chief of Police. Now I can say almost anything I want to say."
He had not been noticeably reticent before. New York Times A8 (August
7, 1992).
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Witness the extraordinary success of Deborah Tannen's books (1986;
1990).
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Paley(1992).
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Hall (1991), reviewed in The Guardian 25 (November 21, 1991).
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Observer 3 (November 17, 1991).
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New York Times s. 1 p.26 (December 8, 1991).
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New York Times A12 (January 29, 1992), A12 (January 30, 1992), A19
(March 26, 1992), A14 (April 1, 1992), A17 (April 2, 1992), s.1 p. 14
(April 5, 1992). Jackson addressed the Jewish World Congress in Brussels
in July, urging the two groups to work together against "scapegoating,
racism, anti-Semitism, polarization and violence." He repudiated Louis
Farrakhan, retracted his earlier statement that Israel was "occupying the
birthplace of Jesus Christ," and apologised for "Hymietown." The WJC
secretary general said: "He condemned anti-Semitism 42 times in his
speech, 42 times. What more do you want?" New York Times A1 (July 8,
1992); Los Angeles Times M (July 8, 1992).
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Los Angeles Times A20 (October 8, 1992).
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Delgado (1982); Volokh (1992).
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New York Times s.1 p.17 (March 8, 1992).
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Los Angeles Times B1 (March 6, 1992).
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New York Times B3 (March 5, 1992).
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New York Times A12 (August 29, 1991); Chronicle of Higher Education
A1 (October 23, 1991); Los Angeles Times B1 (September 21, 1992)
(AIDS march).
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Richard West Jr., a Stanford law graduate and Cheyenne-Arapaho, the
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