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Mayor's Truce With Gates
Seen as Effort to Cut Losses
• Police: Bradley and his deputy initiated talks beca~
the campaign to oust chief was m trouble, sources say.
By GLENN F. BUNTING
TIMES STAFF WRITER
Faced with criticism from business
leaders and a decline in his
public approval ratings, Mayor
Tom Bradley is attempting to extricate
himself from the volatile
political struggle generated by the
police beating of Rodney G. King.
The mayor's desire to pull back
from what had been shaping up as
a titanic-and highly publicstruggle
with the City Council and
Police Chief Daryl F. Gates
prompt.ed a summit meeting Tuesday
afternoon between Bradley,
Gates and council President John
Ferraro.
At a news conference after the
hourlong meeting, Ferraro was
hailed by Gates for his role as a
"peacemaker" in arranging th~
session, which produced a promise
from the three to quiet the batt.le .
· over whether Gates should be
replaced. ·
But City Hall sources, some of
whom spoke on the condition of
anonymity, said Bradley and his
chief of staff, Deputy Mayor Mark
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Fabiani, actually ipitiated the session
after it became clear that
Fabiani's behind-the-scenes canipaign
to orchestrate Gate's removal
was in serious trouble. -
While the mayor said at ~~
news conference that he still b~.-
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; llieves Gates should be removed,
· laldes said he has no plans to pursue
lthe chief's ouster, at least publicly.
!Bradley has denied that there was
laP underground a~tE~mpt to oust
. !Gates, although mayoral sources
lcbnsistently have said otherwise. It
P.~ not known if the private antijGates
campaign will continue, but
~pme sources doubt it. , .
1 , "Everyone in the mayor s offtce
~s running for cover" said one
JSourc~ familiar with the Bradley
jAdministration's strategy.
' ' Another source said the mayor
!has been left little choice but to
lalter his strategy regarding Gates,
arid added that Bradley's willingpess
to allow Ferraro to don the
mantle of meditator ~as telling:
~'That Bradley would have agreed
to let Ferraro bring the~ together
!when he knew that Ferraro was a
Gates loyalist was an incredible
admission on his part." ·
: Bradley spokesman Bill Chandler
denied that Tuesday's joint
statement with Gates signaled a .
retreat by the mayor: "The maypr's
position regarding the chief
end the Police Commission remains
ifirm and unchanged.:' ·
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orne sources close to the mayor
LOS ANGELES TIMES
.. Editi~n: THURS APRIL 11 , 19 91
Front Section, Page 1
Title: MAYOR'S TRUCE WITH
GATES SEEN AS EFFORT
CUT LOSSES
Character:CIVIL RIGHTS
or 80-33B
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hind Bradlels withdrawal was· a
.pending two-week tour of Taiwan,
!Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. The
~rip begins Friday and before then,
~· source said, Bradley needed "to
clear the air."
I :"I! everybody is still screaming,
bow does [Bradley) get out of town
~pd not ·look like h~'s walking
away from a disaster? asked one
)3'radley Administration official.
[ ::~Tuesday's meeting was only the
latest .in a series of developments
tJ;t~t drastically altered what had
seemed a smooth-running attempt
~~ force Gat~s to resign as head of
the 8,300-officer department.
:· ~First, Bradley last week publicly
j:Iemanded Gates' ·resignation. Two
liays later, Bradley's appointees on
the Police Commission placed the
chief-on a 60-day leave of abs~nce.
'On Friday, the council surprised
Bradley by ordering the city attarhey
to settle any lawsuit filed by
Gates as a result of the Police
tommission action. And a Superior
Court judge on Monday temporarily
reinstated the chief, but delayed
a deCi~ion on {he legal challenge to
· suggested that one motive be- ~ Bl.