Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...press coverage, Gephardt helped residents keep grocery stores and hospitals in the neighborhood and massage parlors out. He developed a quick eye for compromise, harnessing reluctant conservative aldermen to his own group of Young Turks to start the city's revival. Many logically pegged Alderman Gephardt for the mayor's office, but he opted instead for Congress in 1976. Opponents criticized his national ambitions, and his own party favored another candidate, but Gephardt and his family knocked on 50,000 doors and won anyway...
...Israel. Some 50,000 jam the 44-mile route to Tel Aviv each dawn to sweep streets and haul garbage and build houses. By supplying Israel with cheap labor, Gaza has virtually eliminated unemployment. Even so, Palestinians deeply resent the forced dependence. "We are enslaved," says Rashad Shawwa, 79, mayor of Gaza, who was twice removed from office by Israeli officials. "We have become the servants of Israel...
...During a visit he branded the school system America's worst, with a dropout rate of 45% and achievement scores for many schools in the bottom 1% nationwide. Chicago officials were not pleased. After all, surveys have put New York City's and Detroit's dropout rates higher. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington angrily countercharged that Ronald Reagan "has literally dismantled public education in this country." Last week, after saying "the mayor doesn't know what the hell he is talking about," Bennett went to tiny (pop. 350) Missouri City to pronounce its one-school, 85-pupil system a "miracle...