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THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYEt Cetera
NO DEAL
Few dispute the horror of Rodney King's beating by four Los
Angeles police officers last year. But assigning it a
dollars-and-cents value has proved far more contentious. Last
week King rejected the city council's first public offer -- a
guaranteed $1.75 million, including a lump sum of $250,000 and
a lifetime annuity of $75,000 -- to settle his lawsuit. The
council, after a closed-door session, in turn spurned a
settlement bid by King for $5.9 million. Next stop: the U.S.
district court, where King's federal civil rights case will be
tried.
TOO HASTY ON HASTINGS
The Senate improperly convicted former federal Judge Alcee
Hastings for bribery in 1989. So said Judge Stanley Sporkin in
Washington, who ruled that the Senate violated Hastings'
constitutional rights by appointing a 12-member committee to
hear the case, rather than holding a trial by the entire
Senate. Sporkin's ruling does not restore Hastings, the first
black federal judge in Florida's history, to the bench. But it
will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court, while Hastings
continues his run for Congress in Florida.