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Dole spent almost an entire day in South Carolina, yet left an airport only once -- to drive about five miles to a press conference in a suburban Charleston motel. Typical of this hello-I-must-be-going style of stumping was the Dole press conference in the airport lobby in Florence, with the fuselage of his campaign plane clearly visible through a wall of windows. When Dole boasted, "I believe I'm more like South Carolinians than any candidate in the race," it sparked the impish notion that the airport lobbies in Kansas and Florence probably do look fairly similar...
There are small signs that such attitudes are improving. The Charleston, S.C., police department, for example, now requires officers to arrest an abusive spouse even if the victim declines to press charges. To make the collar sting, the assailant is arrested at his place of work. "As long as he's assaulting her within their own little world, it can continue," says Police Chief Reuben Greenberg. "At work there's a social cost." Ultimately that public exposure may be the most effective deterrent to spouse abuse. "We have the right in the U.S. to peace and tranquillity," says a former...
...prosecutor in Charleston, W. Va., Mike Roark sported combat fatigues and a pistol during drug raids and won the nickname "Mad Dog" for his fierce pursuit of local dealers. As the city's popular Republican mayor, Roark, 42, had romped to an easy re-election last April, and was touted as a candidate for Congress or Governor. Last week, however, Roark was back in court, this time as a defendant. As he was about to go to trial, the mayor pleaded guilty to six charges of cocaine possession and resigned his position. He faces as much as six years...
...late-night carouser, Roark had vehemently denied long-standing rumors that he used cocaine. But his protestations began to unravel at the trial of a Charleston businessman in January, when a real estate agent testified that he had sold the drug to the mayor on four occasions...
...matter how many splendid old buildings are refurbished, downtown revivification does not necessarily follow. The historic district of Charleston is an antebellum museum of architecture, but despite the surfeit of charm and platoons of tourists, the downtown was dying in the '70s. Developers proposed an un-Charlestonian remedy: a new hulking hotel-and-retail complex. Originally opposed by some preservationists, Charleston Place -- somewhat scaled down -- has not only breathed new life into the downtown but triggered another round of restoration work...