"I'm very happy to show everybody my finger now," Mr. Jeburi, the grocery owner, said.

In yet another, they opened fire on another grocery owner when he balked at handing over $400.

The son of a grocery owner, Tang spent his early years in Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended public schools.

Their mother died when they were young, and their father, a grocery owner, raised them.

A nearby Greenmarket has hung on here for years with no opposition from small grocery owners.

But Mr. Abrams's real concern was with the First Amendment and not with whether some grocery owners wind up selling fewer packs of Camels.

Muhammad Tariq, 36, a grocery owner, said he saw a Humvee on fire, and at least one dead soldier lying nearby.

It seems that the city, including Mayor and Police Commissioner, is more interested in penalizing the grocery owners than in solving the ugly racial confrontation.

Mrs. Bump, a Democrat from Jacksonville, Fla., who is a retired grocery owner, said: "My mind hasn't changed.

While many Korean grocery owners have attained their American dream of prosperity - with suburban houses and golf club memberships - others say they are now giving up the business.