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...Perk's successor, voters chose Dennis Kucinich, 32. He appointed as department heads a group of young Turks who sometimes seemed better suited for an Our Gang movie than for governing a city of 623,000 people. The Kucinich administration quickly shook up the city's business and political establishment-so badly that a recall campaign came within 236 votes of ousting him from office last Aug. 13. Now almost everything seems to be going wrong in Cleveland...
...owned utility sells power to the public Municipal Light Co., which resells it to 46,000 customers. Last spring C.E.I, got federal marshals to begin tagging pieces of city property for sale at auction to satisfy the bill. The private utility has offered to buy out Muny Light, but Kucinich has refused, arguing that it provides a competitive check that curbs rate hikes by C.E.I...
Money problems have aggravated friction between Kucinich and the police. Last December he replaced the department's chief with San Franciscan Richard Hongisto, a liberal defender of homosexuals' rights, who at first was widely disliked by the police but quickly gained the department's respect. Within months Kucinich fell out with the chief and fired him. Not until last week did Kucinich name a permanent successor. The mayor's choice: Jeffrey Fox, a 36-year-old former city personnel director with no previous police experience. The selection left the force seething in anger...
...aboard Air Force One to attend Pope Paul's funeral last August. The President will spend the night at Bilandic's home when he campaigns in Chicago in early November. But in Ohio Carter irritated Cuyahoga County Chairman Tim Hagan by inviting Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich to the White House. The hotheaded young mayor has antagonized Hagan and other party leaders by refusing to endorse most of the local Democrats. Last week Hagan joined other Democrats at a Cleveland rally where the keynote speaker was Ted Kennedy. The gathering of some 5,000 roared their approval when Kennedy...
...enough, but Cleveland's biggest crisis may be one of leadership. "It is my challenge to convert my critics," said Kucinich after beating the recall. That's a large order, since leaders of the Republican Party, of his own Democratic Party and of the black community, as well as 24 out of 33 city councilmen, the Teamsters Union and the Cleveland A.F.L.C.I.O., called for Kucinich's removal. The mayor has hinted that he will make changes in his brash young staff and will also start acting more conciliatory. Preaches he: "Let us work to achieve...