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When Carthan was elected mayor, four other blacks were elected to the five-member board of aldermen. With the support of three of them, Carthan embarked on an ambitious agenda, building a day care center and public housing. The anti-Carthan aldermen were Roosevelt Granderson, a grocery store clerk, and John Edgar Hays, a white cotton farmer. In 1978, one of Carthan's bloc resigned. He was replaced by another black, an ally of Granderson and Hays. The political balance shifted, and acrimony intensified...
...steers Edmond to a nightspot with B-girls, but Edmond quibbles over the whore's price and departs in a rage. In swift succession, he is conned and savagely beaten up in a game of three-card monte, and thrown out of a fleabag hotel by a seedy clerk. He pawns his gold ring and buys a "survival knife." When a black pimp tries to mug him, Edmond rewards his assailant with a series of brutal kicks. After bedding a waitress pickup, he sinks the knife into her and kills her in a transfer of fury. Jailed...
Bachrach drew much of his support in the last election from his hometown of Watertown and is trying to fend off a challenge by the city's town clerk, James Fahey. A split of Watertown loyalties could give the election to Cambridge Police Lt William H. Maher, who has launched an expensive, last minute media blitz. Albert DiNicola is the other candidate in the race...
...coffins. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Justice Department agreed not to prosecute Richmond for an array of other possible crimes, including ordering his staff to buy him cocaine, receiving an ille gal $100,000 annual pension from Walco and helping find a job as a mailroom clerk in the House for Earl Randolph, a fugitive who had been serving an 18-year term for aggravated assault in Massachusetts. After leaving the House job, Randolph was arrested for male prostitution by an undercover police officer, who then discov ered Randolph was an escaped convict...
...most powerful petitioner was Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas. Gabler and her husband Mel, a retired clerk for Exxon, have spent some 20 years scrutinizing text books for political bias, moral lapses and erosion of traditional values. The Gablers have regularly influenced the Texas board of education to drop texts that they consider too liberal, and in doing so have won the public admiration of such New Right leaders as the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Phyllis Schlafly. But at this year's hearings, a new organization took on the Gablers: People for the American Way, a group founded...