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...doesn't leave issues open and stirring tension," Pratt Public Service Professor Lewis M. Branscomb said last spring. "He's just awfully good at providing a steady leadership...
...just don't have the women faculty we ought to have," Pratt Public Service Professor Lewis M. Branscomb says. "Maybe if we're lucky we could get one back as dean...
...southeastern Iraq. Planes would patrol the region and discourage any traffic in a strip close-in to Kuwait. The notion got a cool response from France and Britain, who had supported a crucial "no-fly zone" after the Gulf War two years ago. Air Force Maj. Gen. Everett Pratt, Jr., commander of all U.S. air forces in the Gulf region, told TIME's Thompson the U.S. could use F-15E and F16 fighter jets to enforce the zone with no trouble. The latest proposal reportedly floated by the Clinton Administration: banish the Republican Guard, but let the other three regular...
...stunning victory for a man who, just four years ago, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of cocaine. Former Washington mayor Marion Barry astonished even his most fervent supporters by trouncing city council member John Ray and incumbent mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly in the Democratic mayoral primary. Kelly, who won four years ago as a reformer in the wake of Barry's arrest, did not win a single precinct...
...former Washington Mayor Marion Barry is all but certain to run the District of Columbia again after drawing 47 percent of the vote in yesterday's Democratic mayoral primary. City councilman John Ray, the Establishment candidate, got 37 percent, and beleaguered Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly straggled in with a mere 13 percent. How did Barry do it? "It's clear that he won it by registering an unprecedented number of voters in southeast Washington, in the poorest neighborhoods," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. Many of this crowd had never voted before. Barry's return may intensify middle-class flight...