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...DIED. AHN SANG-YOUNG, 65, mayor of Pusan, South Korea's second-largest city, of apparent suicide, while being held in jail as he awaited the verdict in a corruption trial; in Pusan. Ahn, who was re-elected as mayor in 2002, was jailed in October on charges of taking $85,500 in bribes from a construction company and was under investigation for allegedly accepting $256,400 from a bus company...
...Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the most popular conservative politician in France. Moreover, if Juppé were to meekly accept his conviction, some believe it would implicate Chirac, because the conviction stems from an illicit jobs scheme run out of Paris' City Hall from 1988 to 1995, when Chirac was mayor and Juppé his finance director. The stratagem, one of half a dozen Chirac-era setups now being investigated, allegedly provided bogus municipal jobs to seven officials of Chirac's Gaullist Party, whose salaries were funneled back into party coffers. French parties long relied on such illegal schemes for funding...
Gary Flowers, vice president of programs at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH coalition, will address coalition building. Victor Ashe, the past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors who served as mayor of Knoxville, Tenn. for 16 years, will focus on state and local politics, and specifically the role of mayors in the post-Sept...
Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogota, Columbia will serve...
...days after Zhu's death, Fan Zhen posted her accusation on the Internet. Censors immediately removed it, but others soon offered their own commentary. "Looks like political murder," reads a typical posting on the People's Daily website. Chinese have seen this type of intrigue before. A Beijing vice mayor, Wang Baosen, committed suicide during a 1995 scandal that brought down a Politburo member and might have gone higher if Wang had lived. Likewise, Zhu's case will remain forever murky. To his widow, however, there is no doubt that he died at somebody else's hands. "My rage," says...