Word: marion
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Through all the speculation about his alleged drug abuse, Washington Mayor Marion Barry had retained the loyalty of many citizens. The lodging last week of an indictment charging him with three counts of perjury and five counts of possessing cocaine dealt a severe blow to his support. Already a committee has been formed to draft the city's congressional delegate, Walter Fauntroy, as a candidate for mayor. Barry, who is undergoing treatment for alcoholism in Florida, blasted the indictment as a "political lynching." Some of his advisers suggest that his motive for staying in office is to offer to resign...
...Perhaps Marion Barry, Washington's mayor, and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, should celebrate Black History Month by watching Glory. When Barry was arrested for cocaine possession last month, Hooks' most visible reaction was that the mayor had been the victim of a plot by law enforcement to persecute black elected officials. Presumably, the mayor of the nation's capital (not exactly an unemployed ghetto youth, but, absurdly, a role model for unemployed ghetto youths) is not responsible for being in a hotel room with a fashion model, smoking crack...
...their part, the Latin leaders will reiterate long-standing claims that American consumers, not Latin suppliers, fuel the drug wars. To buttress that accusation, the Andean Presidents may even bring up the arrest on drug charges of Washington Mayor Marion Barry. The Latins will decry what they perceive as an attempt by Bush to shift the flagging need to battle international communism to an expanded offensive against a new "evil empire," this one based in Medellin. If, as one Colombian commentator warns, Bush attempts to "project the image of the defiant macho," he can expect little cooperation from his Latin...
...these skeptical times, polls may be the one remaining authority that the press customarily accepts without question. The subject may be the Panama invasion (the public supported it), the arrest of Mayor Marion Barry (Washingtonians thought he should resign), or Jane Pauley's treatment by NBC (PEOPLE readers who answered a call-in survey found it unfair), but editors rarely meet a poll they don't like. Polls have even been published reporting the number of California drivers with paraphernalia hanging from their rearview mirrors (8%), and Iowans with ornaments on their lawns...
Frustrated by the President's easygoing popularity, congressional Democrats are abandoning last year's spirit of bipartisan cooperation. -- On abortion, the G.O.P. plans to finesse. -- Mayor Marion Barry retreats to a Florida clinic, while Washington wonders who will clean up the mess...