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Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode asked the state Senate in Harrisburg to act immediately to help alleviate his city's financial crisis. "Without swift action . . . it is inevitable that the city will run out of cash this summer," Goode told a Senate committee. He said that Philadelphia's 1.5 million people face a $219-million deficit in the $2.1-billion municipal budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, and a $265-million shortfall in a $2.3-billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode asked the state Senate in Harrisburg to act immediately to help alleviate his city's financial crisis. "Without swift action . . . it is inevitable that the city will run out of cash this summer," Goode told a Senate committee. He said that Philadelphia's 1.5 million people face a $219-million deficit in the $2.1-billion municipal budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, and a $265-million shortfall in a $2.3-billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The first time he saw the Rodney G. King beating videotape last March, Willie Williams stared, horrified and fascinated, at the figures flickering before him. As one among millions of television witnesses to 81 seconds of the confrontation between King and Los Angeles police, Williams was bewildered. "What in the world could anybody have done to precipitate that type of beating?" he later wondered. "They could all have jumped on the guy, held him down, something."