angeles, anger turning to violence after four police officers were acquitted of beating rodney king. residents and civil rights leaders took to the streets for a peace march to raise issues on events behind the riots. we're asking you are race relations better or worse since the l.a. riots? go to pulse.msnbc.com/america. racial tensions have eased in south los angeles where it all started. crime is down. poverty and isolation persist. along with fear that history will repeat itself. >> military commanders meet on the battlefield and iraq accepts the conditions for the permanent cease-fire. >> march 3, 1991, the first a iraq war ending. >> in the soviet baltic republic, a vote on the declaration of independence. >> the ussr ending. >> and the beaten man -- >> and this in the headlines starting.