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HAIL TO THE CHIEF

The beating of Rodney King by four white police officers forced Los Angeles' top cop, Daryl Gates, to say he would resign -- sometime. With the trial of the four cops winding up, a new police chief was named, perhaps to nudge Gates out the door: Philadelphia police commissioner Willie Williams, 48, the first black to head the department.

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