TITLE

Marion Barry

PUB. DATE

May 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;5/4/92, Vol. 112 Issue 17, p22

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Marion Barry, ex-mayor of the nation's capital, became and ex-convict last week and received a hero's welcome. His six-month sentence at a federal prison in Pennsylvania for smoking cocaine; Slim chances of becoming mayor again; Possibility that he might make a run this fall for a seat on the District of Columbia council.

ACCESSION #

9205042041

 

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