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