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...single-family homes, which he rented out. He and a partner bought and renovated a boarded-up apartment complex called Strawberry Manor and leased it to the Sacramento city housing authority. (A 1972 state investigation cleared him of conflict-of-interest charges.) After Wilson left Sacramento to run for mayor of San Diego, Connerly spent two years as a deputy director of the state department of housing. He then quit government for good, becoming a consultant specializing in guiding businesses through the housing and development regulations he had helped create. Connerly & Associates grew to a professional staff...
...stumping for fellow far-rightists last month. He declared that many incumbents "deserve to be hanged" for corruption. He provocatively denounced European integration as "Hitler's dream come true." At one rally, he walked onstage with a platter bearing a papier-mache head of his main Socialist nemesis, Strasbourg Mayor (now Communications Minister) Catherine Trautmann. But it was in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, where his daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted by a pro-Socialist crowd, Le Pen leaped out of his car and tore into the throng with fists flying...
...savings came from slashing subsidies to local cultural and sports associations and firing 147 contract employees, most of whom worked with the immigrant community. Choosing enforcement over crime prevention, they nearly doubled the local police force from 36 to 60 officers. "The police have a new attitude," says Deputy Mayor Hubert Fayard. "Before, they weren't respected. Now they will seek contact. If they see delinquents, they will hunt them down. Our message to them is, 'Go somewhere else...
...other three National Front-controlled cities, the shock has been somewhat less brutal. Though they have all beefed up their police forces, it is mainly in the cultural area that the Front has left its mark. In Orange, Mayor Jacques Bompard, 54, caused a scandal last summer when he censored a list of books ordered by the municipal library, blackballing "leftist" writers in favor of far-right authors. Marignane's mayor, Daniel Simonpieri, 45, has put his local library in a similar ideological vise. Toulon's mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, 60, who won the Front's only parliamentary seat...
...create in 1966. In 1969 Seale's courtroom histrionics as one of the Chicago Eight (they were tried for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention) caused the judge to order him shackled to a chair and gagged. In 1973 Seale tried working within the system, running unsuccessfully for mayor of Oakland, Calif. He has since published a memoir and a cookbook, Barbeque'n with Bobby. These days his political focus is on "civil-human rights." He is a volunteer community liaison for Temple University, encouraging youths to enroll in academic programs, and runs a training program introducing young people...