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<text id=90TT0501>
<title>
Feb. 26, 1990: American Notes:Washington
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Feb. 26, 1990 Predator's Fall
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 38
American Notes
WASHINGTON
End of the Line For Barry?
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<p> Through all the speculation about his alleged drug abuse,
Washington Mayor Marion Barry had retained the loyalty of many
citizens. The lodging last week of an indictment charging him
with three counts of perjury and five counts of possessing
cocaine dealt a severe blow to his support. Already a committee
has been formed to draft the city's congressional delegate,
Walter Fauntroy, as a candidate for mayor. Barry, who is
undergoing treatment for alcoholism in Florida, blasted the
indictment as a "political lynching." Some of his advisers
suggest that his motive for staying in office is to offer to
resign as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a lighter
sentence. If convicted, he could be fined $1.25 million and
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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