King witness says LAPD retaliated NATIONAL LOS ANOKl.KS (AP) — A SWAT tarn supervisor < launs ho was relieved of teaching duly at the Police Academy for testifying us a use-of-foru1 export that the Kortnev King floating was justified. "I didn't sav one word on the witness stand that wasn't gospel truth that couldn't bo doc umented. Sgt. Charles I. Duke said Tuesday. "The department is cover ing up " L.t. John M Dunlin, a police spokesman, declined comment because the matter is under review. Duke filed n grievance against the Police Department short ly ufter he was informed in March that he no longer could teach use of-force policy to offic ers He was officer in charge of the Police Academy's physical training unit, and currently supervises a SWA 1 team Superiors told him he was "out of synch" with the use-of force polic y. Duke said Tuesday. The teaching ban followed Ins testimony at the state trial of four officers charged in King's Marc h I. 1991. beating and i ante six days before Duke was to testify at the offic ers' feder al c ivil rights trial At both trials. Duke contradicted testimony from other I.APD witnesses (or the prosecution and said he felt the baton blows and kicks given King met polic e polic \ bee a use King was i limitative The offtc ers were at quilted in the state trial, hut two subse quently were c onvie ted in federal c ourt of violating King s c iv il rights "Our position is that they took retaliatorv at lion against him."said Hank Hernandez, an attorney for the Police Protec live I.eague. wine h filed an unfair labor prat tn e complaint with the city's Employment gelations Hoard An I.APD review of Duke's federal trial testimony found Iasi month that it "contains critical! mispert options of the c in urn stances surrounding the Rodnev King arrest, the department s use-of Ion e policy and general operational police "The degree of force used in the King inc ident was not pis lifted." the review c oncluded Gunman filmed at target practice I.O.N ANGFI.KS (AIM The gunman who shot up o Smi Francisco law firm in a deadly rampage was videotaped target shooting two weeks ago. and the i ameromnn said he was quiet hut mentioned his distaste for attorneys Gian l.uigi Fern also tried to adjust a semiautomatic pistol to make it shoot faster, the man who videotaped him recalled Wednesday The 41-year-old amateur cam eraman. who lives in suburban Woodland Hills, spoke on con dition of anonymity, lie said he didn't want his name assoc oil ed with Inst Thursday's tragedy, in which eight died and sis were wounded before Ferri shot him self to death The i ameraman. a gun enthu siast. said he met Ferri at two gun shows m Fas Vegas and Anaheim. Calif , in May before tlics went target shooting in the Mojave Desert I |iist met him OH a ( ouple of o( i asions and |ttst remember him as a lug. heawset man." he rei ailed He just seemed like a quiet and polite guy He really didn't talk much I couldn't tell that he was unstable On June IH. the cameraman and a friend went with Ferri to the desert north of I .os Angeles and met for breakfast before the bourlong target practice. “I went to the restroom and he (Ferri) was talking to my buddy and he told him he didn't like attorneys." the cameraman said in a telephone interview He said Ferri brought two 9mm semiautomatic pistols called Tech-9s to the practice. He remembers jokingly asking Ferri if hi* was "going to pla> Steven Seagal in ’Under Siege In the action movie. Seagal por trays a one-man artnv fighting terrorists taking over a nuclear warship The cameraman said it appeared that Ferri. 55. had some knowledge of firearms and shot about 100 to 150 rounds at empty food (ans they had set up for practice. "He was trying to adjust the hellfire switch that makes it shoot a little faster." he said. Kerri’s rampage 13 days later in a San Francisco high-rise office building began at the law firm Pettit & Martin, where some of the victims worked. A frus trated businessman. Ferri left a rambling letter blaming food additives, the layv firm and oth ers for his woes. First woman fighter pilot ends training HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE. N M (A(’) — 1st i.i Jennnie Flvnn wrapped up seven weeks of train ing Wednesday to lie tin* first female Air Force fight er pilot the same wav she Imgan — surrounded by the media. "Given my choir e, I would have come in low profile,'' Flynn said Flynn leaves Thursday for vs,iter survival train ing in Florida Indore moving on to Luke Air Forc e Base in Arizona, where she will spend about sev en months learning to fly the 1 -1SK Strike Eagle, the world's most advanced lighter-attar k cure.rail "She's a great officer, a great Amern an and t er tain to be a gn*at fighter pilot," said Brig Gen Lloyd "Fig" Newton, c ommander at Holloman, whir h has two other women pilots beginning fighter training Flynn. 2f>. began training at Holloman in mid May. shortly after Defense Secretary l.es Aspin ordered the military services to drop restrictions on women flying combat missions. Flynn acknowledged that the initial attention she got made it a hit difficult to settle in. “But it was something that was unavoidable." she said She requested an assignment as an F-15 pilot upon graduating lirst in iier pilot training ( lass at Texas' I.aughlin Air Force Base in January. But since Air Fort e po!i< \ at the time did not allow women to fly combat aircraft, she had to opt for another assignment. Aspin's dec ision changed her future, although Flynn, who was promoted from 2nd lieutenant last week, doesn't know where her career will take her "Truthfully." she said, "1 take- this one assign ment at a time." Study shows class differences affect Americans’ health BOS TON (Al’) The poor and ill-odu < ated are losing ground to people who am Belter off oven as the lives of all Amnri i ans gel longer, a slink found. Though dnath rates have de< lined among all social classes sim e the 1‘Wills, those who have finished high si huol and earn al least moderate livings are doing Better, researchers said ( lass appears to lie an int reusinglv important determinant of health for men and women. ImiIIi him k and white The study in Thursday's New hnglaild Journal of Medic me raises questions about whether ( hanging the nation's health tare s\ stem will red in e the dis parities Different es in death rate* between the classes increased between and 14Hf>. a time when Medu aid programs were set up to improve access to cars* for the poor, researchers found. "The data provide an important cri tique for the health < are reform propos al. said Dr C.regorv Pappas, who dins t ed the study. "The implication is that even in a perfectly equitable health care svstem, these problems will persist An editorial published with the study agreed that the I lass differences in death rates i annot lie explained simply In liet ter ( are for the privileged. 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