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Cianci's exit capped a tumultuous week in Providence. Public Safety Commissioner Sanford Gorodetsky quit after trying to oust the police chief, Anthony Mancuso, who refused to leave. The city highway superintendent and two public-works employees were charged with extorting payoffs from contractors, bringing to six the total of city employees indicted during the past year. State troopers stood sentry at city hall after city workers were seen shredding documents. In a special election set for July 17, Acting Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr. is considered the leading contender. But the redoubtable Cianci has hinted that he wants...
...question about mines in Nicaraguan ports: "Our interest in Nicaragua is one and one only." After running through the charge about Nicaragua's "exporting revolution to El Salvador," he said, "As long as they do that, we're going to try and inconvenience that government of Nicaragua until they quit that kind of action." In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, made public on the same day in a successful effort to win Senate votes for aid to the contras, the President repeated that the U.S. "does not seek to destabilize or overthrow the government of Nicaragua...
...thinks not. "The Democratic Party has to face up to the punishment this process inflicts on its people," he says. "These four or five months of extremely intense activity are not the best test of a candidate's ability." Hart, however, has no real complaints. And Mondale, who quit a presidential candidacy once before, approves of the campaign's intensity. "I think it tests much of the same qualities needed in a President," he says, such as "decision making under fire, the ability to unify and persuade...
...controversy began several weeks ago when B.C. Captain Martin Clark quit the team after B.C.'s March 14 win over St. Joseph's in the N.I.T. tournament Clark's announcement came several weeks after a skirmish with B.C. Coach Gary Williams in the locker room after defeated B.C.'s regular season victory over Syracuse...
...independent and nonpartisan. Marchais, however, was in no mood to listen. The Communists have lost eleven by-elections since the municipal balloting last year, and under Marchais their share of the national vote dropped from 22% in 1978 to an estimated 13% now. If the party were to quit the government, however, the Socialists would retain an overwhelming legislative majority, and the Communists would be out in the cold, embroiled in a messy leadership struggle...