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...measures Walsh postponed action on ranged from the trivial--a birthday greeting for a city resident--to more important matters. Although most of the measures delayed by Walsh were "communications"--letters received by the council which are typically just acknowledged and placed on file--his action also prevented an out-of-town speaker from addressing the council...
After persuasion from Reeves and Wolf, Walsh agreed to let the council proceed with the birthday congratulations and two other minor items...
...once formidable constituency pleaded for sympathy for the man, attention shifted to his sometime ally, Jesse Jackson. Jackson moved to Washington last summer amid calls for him to challenge his old civil rights compatriot. Yet three days before Barry's arrest, Jackson used Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to launch a national campaign for D.C. statehood -- a campaign that could put him into the U.S. Senate rather than the District Building...
Meanwhile the District is left to fend for itself, its neighborhoods echoing with gunfire from drug dealers, its hospitals increasingly overburdened by abandoned, drug-addicted newborns and many other babies who die before their first birthday...
...before Allen's Jan. 3 birthday, Stuart bought a $250, 14-karat gold brooch at a jewelry store in Peabody. He made the purchase about the same time his family was meeting to discuss how to handle Matthew's confession. Allen says she never received the brooch and that the calls were made only after a mutual friend said Charles complained that she had never contacted him. She used the credit card so the calls would not show up on her parents' telephone bill, because they had warned her not to get involved. She, in fact, has a steady boyfriend...