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“City Council rejects staff-drafted UTA

agreement” [Issue #657]

To the Mayor and City Council:

Re: UTA

Here are a few points to consider:1. I don’t have a dog in this fight

2. “Those who cannot remember the past are

condemned to repeat it” George Santayana

3. El Camino Drive has a sign that says

William Morris Way

4. BMW of Beverly Hills is now located near

La Brea Ave in LOS ANGELES

 Ira M. Friedman

 Beverly Hills

“The L.A. Riots: Twenty Years Later”

[Issue #656]

I write to compliment you on the great

retrospective on a week in recent history that

I certainly will never forget, the L.A. Riots.

To the historical anecdotes, I will add two of 

mine.

During the week of the curfew, I was at

Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance

helping the cardiac surgery residents do an

emergency open heart surgery. The alleged

young man who shot Darryl Strawberry’s

LAPD brother was himself shot by the LAPD

and brought to Harbor UCLA for emergencytreatment. I remember seeing the head X-rays

showing a bullet in the center of his brain.

Having done my surgical training at Bellevue

Hospital in Manhattan, a major urban trauma

center similar to USC L.A. County Hospital in

L.A., I thought he would probably either die

or be in a vegetative state. When we brought

our patient to the recovery room I was amazed

to see this young man alert and looking

around the room and apparently quite angry at

his predicament.

When I was ready to head home later that

evening, I was advised to wear my whit

while driving home to Beverly Hills o

405 Freeway. I had a letter of safe pa

from the hospital administrator. To my am

ment, as I drove north on the 405 surrou

by a city in flames and smoke, I realize

I was the only car on the 405 in both

tions, and this at 10 at night. A Cali

Highway Patrol Mustang cruiser, pro

brought down from Northern California,

up on me from behind going at leas

mph. The officer slowed as he passe

looked at my white coat, and accelerate

continued on his way. When I got off that Wilshire Boulevard I saw many Cali

National Guard “Deuce” heavy trucks m

through Westwood. Later I learned tha

were deploying to protect a working res

nuclear reactor on the UCLA campus

potential for a nuclear contamination of

Los Angeles if the reactor had been ov

by rioters and compromised was never

cized at the time, for good reason. People

plenty anxious as it was.

The next night, at home in Beverly H

was showing my teenage sons how to op

my Remington 870 shotgun and I jam

it while demonstrating loading the

to them. I called the Beverly Hills P

Department and within minutes an o

arrived at my home. He checked the sh

and announced, “You’re in luck. The d

ment armorer is on duty tonight.” He lef

the shotgun and 30 minutes later returned

it unjammed and freshly lubricated. H

to my attestations of gratitude and said

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6 p.m. about the Chamber of Commerce; May 10 at 8:30 p.m. and May 11 at 10 p.m.

about the Rodeo Drive Committee; May 14 at 6 p.m. about Information Technology;

May 14 at 8 p.m., May 15 at 6 p.m. and May 16 at 3:30 p.m. about the City Budget;

May 15 at 10 p.m. and May 16 at 6:30 p.m. about The Maple Counseling Center.

  

   

Cover photo by Marc Saleh

Back row, left to right: Deb Joseph, Dave Hoffman, Christa Gutheinz. Front row:

Karen Novoseller, Laura Revness, Sherry Friedman. Not pictured: Gene Michelman,

Alfonso Gonzalez, the Newman family