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Many local residents wondered whether the violence that struck Los Angeles • and other cities around the country would hit Detroit as well. It did not, in large part because the city government has much better communication with its population, according to Brian J. Kott, a member of the Jewish Community Council board and its do- mestic concerns committee. Mr. Kott credited Mayor Coleman Young, along with the integrated police and fire departments, as reasons Detroit did not follow in the violent footsteps of other communities. Here, he said, "there's no white power structure imposed on a minority." Stuart Pieczenick watched the riots on television from his Southfield home. From 1977-1980, Mr. Pieczenick was a student at UCLA; his wife, Brenda, is a Los Angeles native and much of her family still lives there. Mr. Pieczenick said he was not surprised that Los Angeles was the site of such terrible violence. "California is a land of the `haves' and 'have nots,' " he said. How could one not ex- pect trouble when, within the space of a few miles, there exists such diverse places as the swank Rodeo Drive and Watts, which Mr. Pieczenick described as "long stretches of liquor stores, check-cashing facilities and boarded-up buildings — an area dying because of a lack of hope." Rabbi Elimelich Goldberg of Young Israel of Southfield . taught Talmud at the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He telephoned friends out of concern to find out what was going on. "We heard our friends tell- ing their children to stay away from the windows of their homes," Rabbi Gold- berg said. "Unlike one wanted to imagine, the looting and rioting were not just isolated outside of the Jewish community. There were corner businesses in Jewish neighborhoods that were on fire as well." Rabbi Goldberg said that neighborhoods arranged it so at least one adult would stay awake through the night and early morning watching for fires. He, too, knew of synagogues that removed Torah scrolls at night. David Kotzen-Reich, a Farmington Hills writer, returned to his parents' Beverly Hills home for a Passover visit. He arrived the day after the most recent earthquake and left the day before the Rodney King ver- dict was announced. "I was glad to be back in Detroit," he said. "The riots are no surprise to me. They are reflective of the difficulties of living in a - crowded, populous, dog-eat- dog type of place. "I can remember the._ Watts riots in the 1960s," he continued. "But there's a big difference with this rioting because this time everyone in this country is involved in this. What affected me more than the rioting was the verdict itself. That a jury of 12 people can't see that was police abuse is an indication of incredible racism." Mr. Kotzen-Reich drove a cab in Los Angeles for four years in the mid-1980s. He said that when orders came to pick up customers in South Central L.A., he would refuse. "When you'd drive through South Central, you could feel your shoulders get tight," he said. 0 Cemetery Is Rebuilt Lipnik, Czechoslovakia (JTA) — A historic Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis in 1 94 2 was rededicated here last week in the presence of Orthodox Jewish leaders from the United States who under- took its restoration and descendants of a famous Talmudic sage who is buried there.