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...prosecutor in Charleston, W. Va., Mike Roark sported combat fatigues and a pistol during drug raids and won the nickname "Mad Dog" for his fierce pursuit of local dealers. As the city's popular Republican mayor, Roark, 42, had romped to an easy re-election last April, and was touted as a candidate for Congress or Governor. Last week, however, Roark was back in court, this time as a defendant. As he was about to go to trial, the mayor pleaded guilty to six charges of cocaine possession and resigned his position. He faces as much as six years...
...late-night carouser, Roark had vehemently denied long-standing rumors that he used cocaine. But his protestations began to unravel at the trial of a Charleston businessman in January, when a real estate agent testified that he had sold the drug to the mayor on four occasions...
...further hearings on the matter. Molinari particularly wants to know whether the regulatory agency was unduly influenced by former high-level FAA officials hired by Continental. These include Clark Onstad, the FAA's onetime chief counsel, now Continental's vice president of governmental affairs in Washington, and Dewey Roark, the FAA regulations attorney who became a legal consultant to Continental in March 1984 and helped draft the airline's rebuttal to the Langdon report...
...Author Robert Ringer considers himself to be a follower of Ayn Rand, I suggest he study her philosophy further. In The Fountainhead, Hero Howard Roark says of ruthless Newspaper Publisher Gail Wynand...
...Carol S. Roark...