Danny Bakewell

On the day after Korean-American merchants and black activists struck a deal to end a summer-long boycott of a South-Central Los Angeles grocery store, the key players made it clear that a lasting truce may be difficult to achieve and that the accord is, at best, a fragile one. The settlement negotiated by Mayor Tom Bradley's office suspended the 109-day boycott sparked by the June 4 shooting death of a black man by a Korean-American liquor store owner.

The controversy over Brotherhood Crusade leader Danny Bakewell's campaign to shut down a Korean grocery store moved to a new front Wednesday, as his backers and detractors clashed over whether Los Angeles County government workers should fund his organization through payroll deductions.

The involvement of the nonprofit Brotherhood Crusade in the boycott of a store in South-Central Los Angeles has drawn criticism from a county official who warns that the organization's leader may be increasing tension and divisiveness. Mimi Lopez Baffo, president of the county Commission on Human Relations, said the county "appears to be working against itself in supporting both the reduction of the tension and the Brotherhood Crusade."

For the last seven years, Bishop H. H. Brookins and a group of influential black community leaders have owned a lucrative share of a city-awarded cable television franchise while having virtually no involvement or investment in the business, The Times has learned. The cable contract for South-Central Los Angeles, approved by the City Council and Mayor Tom Bradley in 1983, is being challenged in a long-standing federal court suit by three black businessmen.

Sheriff Sherman Block said Wednesday that he has advised his deputies against taking "enforcement action in minor incidents" in black neighborhoods because of "heightened tensions" after a Jan. 23 incident in which a deputy fatally shot a member of the Nation of Islam. Also, the Sheriff's Department has produced a 15-minute video on the Nation of Islam that Block said will be shown to all personnel.

Nearly a month has passed since the Brotherhood Crusade launched a movement to clean up the gang and drug-plagued streets of a single neighborhood in South-Central Los Angeles, and during that time, amid small victories, organizers have learned that it is sometimes easier to set goals than to attain them.

One of the city's most successful developers raised and donated thousands of dollars to the campaigns of incumbent councilmen and the mayor, according to campaign finance reports filed this week. "One of the things that I'm about is motivating black people to give to black candidates," said the developer, Danny Bakewell. Too often, he said, black candidates must depend on contributions from white supporters who live outside the community. 'Honored to Give' "I feel honored to give," Bakewell said.

As several of Mayor Tom Bradley's longtime allies lobbied from the sidelines, a developer who recently enlisted the influential group as partners was chosen Tuesday to build a $200-million office-retail complex on city-owned land in Little Tokyo. A competing developer's proposal, once viewed as a favorite in the stiff competition on the basis of its purportedly lower cost, was rejected.