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After Philadelphia's former law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo was beaten in a 1983 Democratic primary by black City Managing Director Wilson Goode, he refused to stay quietly in retirement. This year Rizzo bolted to the Republican Party and ran for his old job, blasting Goode for the inept fire bombing of a house of black radicals that killed eleven people and destroyed 61 homes. His appeal to his core constituency of white ethnic voters almost worked. Rizzo last week carried the party's heavily Democratic ethnic wards, but some 98% of blacks stuck with Goode, despite his record...
...bitter city hall contest, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode held a slim lead over former Mayor Frank Rizzo in his bid for a second term. With 92 percent of the ballots counted, Goode was gaining 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Rizzo, a former two-term Democrat who switched...
Philadelphia's mayoral contest was the most closely watched municipal election, a costly, racially tinged campaign in which Goode, a Black, sought to hold off a comeback by former Democratic mayor-turned-Republican Rizzo. The bitter campaign cost an estimated $3.7 million, as each candidate called the other a liar in their quest to govern the "City of Brotherly Love...
Instead, Cheryl, 17, and her sister Lisa, 16, went driving around the Bergenfield area with two companions, Thomas Olton, 18, and Thomas Rizzo, 19. At about 3 a.m., the teenagers stopped at an Amoco station and bought $3 worth of gas for Olton's brown Camaro. They asked if they could take the hose from the station's automobile vacuum cleaner, but the attendant refused...
...retrospect, the Bergenfield deaths included many of the warning signs of teenage suicides: previous attempts, drug or alcohol abuse, recent depression, severe problems in school or at home, a sense that other options had been exhausted. Olton, Rizzo and Cheryl Burress had all dropped out of Bergenfield High. Lisa had just been suspended. Friends say that both Rizzo and Olton had been treated at drug- or alcohol-rehabilitation clinics. Police found superficial razor slashes on both Rizzo's and Olton's wrists the morning their bodies were discovered...