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Last week another dramatic scene took place on Birmingham's streets, but its impact on the nation's troubled race relations is far from clear. With a chain draped symbolically over his shoulders and his wrists bound by steel handcuffs, Mayor Richard Arrington marched with hundreds of supporters from the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls were killed by a racially inspired bombing in 1963. Their destination: the federal courthouse three blocks away, where Arrington surrendered and was taken to the minimum-security prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery to begin serving a prison term...
Under the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Edwin Nelson, Arrington was supposed to go to the prison camp every Thursday and stay until Monday morning until he turned over appointment logs and other records that a grand jury subpoenaed in a probe of alleged corruption at city hall. Arrington, a Democrat who in 1979 was elected the city's first black mayor, refused to cooperate with the investigation on the grounds that he was being harassed by federal prosecutors solely because of his race. He explained his decision to go to prison as a principled stand against racist...
...committee was criticized after hiring the daughter of an Olympic Games board member, the wife of City Council President Marvin Arrington, and the sister of Mayor Maynard Jackson...
...income group, you'll pretty much get a free ride," said Georgia Arrington-Booker, chair of the guidance department at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Washington D.C. "But [the colleges] have always had a problem with packaging the middle-income students...
...working to fill 70,000 orders for a Middle East Crisis map published in October. Cable-TV companies have enjoyed a surge in business too, largely because many viewers suddenly feel they must have CNN. Travel agents reported that customers were demanding hotels with cable TV. Said Michael Arrington, chairman of a chain of travel agencies based in Chicago: "Getting away from it all is no longer a draw...