Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon enough he was the circus. When a presidential blind trust effectively cut him out of the Carter warehouse business that he had run for years, Billy began drinking heavily. He ran for mayor of Plains, and was defeated. To pay back taxes, he had to sell his property, even the filling station -- "the only thing that was really mine." He became a registered agent for Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya, with a $220,000 Libyan "loan...
...Prince church, St. Jean Bosco, three Sundays ago. The attack, which left 13 dead and 77 injured, was staged by the Tonton Macoutes, the vicious thugs who terrorized Haiti under the Duvaliers. Under Lieut. General Henri Namphy, leader of the just ousted regime, and particularly Port-au-Prince mayor Franck Romain, the Macoutes have enjoyed a comeback...
...after-dinner speech at the North House dining hall, Schenectady, NY Mayor Karen B. Johnson '64 spoke to approximately 120 alumnae on the problem of the lack of citizens' involvement in local politics...
Community Development Department Director Michael Rosenberg described the existing ordinance as "impenetrable," and offered to put his agency to work on a new, long-term revamping of the city's zoning laws. Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci said Councillor William H. Walsh had suggested the overhaul...
...political turmoil that has gripped Haiti ever since the overthrow of Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986 has taken another dramatic turn. A military coup last Saturday night ousted Lieut. General Henri Namphy as the country's leader. He and Franck Romain, mayor of the capital city of Port-au- Prince, were taken to Haiti's international airport to be put on a Sunday flight to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, where they have been granted political asylum. Brigadier General Prosper Avril, a Haitian power broker who had close ties to Duvalier, declared himself the new President of Haiti...