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...friends and enemies of Newark mayor Sharpe James can agree on one thing about him: he knows how to toss a mean birthday party. The annual shindigs in honor of Hizzoner are renowned for the open bar, catered buffet and Vegas-caliber pizazz. On one occasion, the glad-handing Democratic politician glided dramatically into the darkened room at the wheel of a vintage sports car. Another time he motored across a bed of ice on a growling snowmobile. At $200 a seat, or $500 during re-election years, the admission price was considered cheap because it also bought...
...state election authorities. If, as James claims, they went to charitable causes, the mayor has another kind of explaining to do. Since 1986, when he was first elected mayor, James has bought a $160,000 yacht and a $300,000 beach house. He also bought and sold parcels of Newark real estate while putting two children through college...
...mayor radiated hope for a city still scarred by the 1967 race riot that killed 26 people and left the city a wasteland of empty, brick-strewn lots. His natural charisma bridged social strata. One morning he suavely persuaded a company's executives to remain in Newark, then spied a homeless man on the street. "He bought the guy lunch, gave him a pep talk and told him to clean up and report for work at the sanitation department," recalls a subordinate...
Coleman ,a native of Newark, N.J. served in the Air Force and was based in the U.S. He contracted polio when he was in his 20's, and noted that Coleman had suffered from infantile paralysis. "They said I would never walk again ," Coleman said...
...concern about attacks by radical anti-environmentalists. In Washington, where the Library of Congress removed the Gutenberg Bible from its glass case and locked it in a basement vault, police distributed flyers to federal office workers that suggested questions they might ask callers who phone in bomb threats. In Newark, New Jersey, police blocked off the streets around government buildings...