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	Marion Barry - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Barry was shot near his heart during a two-day crisis in which hostages were held by the terrorists, and which was finally defused by the FBI, and Muslim ambassadors.
		On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with a former girlfriend, Hazel "Rasheeda" Moore, in a sting operation at the Vista Hotel by the FBI and D.C. Police for crack cocaine use and possession.
		Barry was charged with three counts of felony perjury, 10 counts of misdemeanor drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine; however, in October 1990, he was convicted on only one charge: a single previous misdemeanor count of possessing cocaine which occurred during November of 1989.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Marion_Barry (1403 words)

	Marion Barry - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Barry was shot near his heart during a two-day crisis in which hostages were held by the terrorists, and which was finally defused by the FBI, and Muslim ambassadors.
		Barry was arrested smoking crack cocaine with a woman in a sting operation at the Vista Hotel by the FBI and D.C. police on January 18, 1990 for crack use and posession.
		Barry was charged with three counts of felony perjury, 10 counts of misdemeanor drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine; however, he was convicted only of a single misdemeanor count of possessing cocaine in November 1989.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Marion_Barry (843 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Marion Barry: Making of a Mayor
		Marion Barry rose to prominence in the District as a leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, fighting racial segregation and discrimination.
		Barry took a bullet near his heart during a tense, two-day hostage crisis that was finally defused by the combined efforts of the FBI and ambassadors from Muslim countries.
		Barry was convicted of one of the 14 charges pending against him – a misdemeanor charge for possessing cocaine in November 1989.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dc/barry/barry.htm (877 words)

	CNN.com - 'Apparent' drug traces found in Barry's car, Park Police say - March 24, 2002
		Barry was sitting in a parked car Thursday night in the Buzzard's Point area of Washington when the incident occurred, according to Sgt. Scott Fear.
		Barry was convicted of a misdemeanor count of cocaine possession in 1990 after his arrest in a downtown hotel.
		Barry, 66, was first elected mayor in 1978 and was re-elected in 1982 and 1986.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/24/marion.barry/index.html (354 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		Barry was elected chairman of the organization, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Barry resigned as chairman in the fall of 1960 but remained involved with SNCC throughout the decade.
		Barry returned to the city council in 1991 was elected to a fourth term as mayor in 1994.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/barry_marion.htm (411 words)

	Marion Barry: Last of the Black Emperors - June 1998
		On May 21, 1998, Marion Barry announced to the world that he would not be a candidate for a fifth term as mayor of Washington, D.C. I hardly know whether to laugh or cry.
		Marion and the city of Washington have been locked in a long and sometimes torturous embrace for more than 16 years.
		Barry promised things would be just the way they used to be, but the times had turned against him.
	www.nationalcenter.org /NVWilsonBarry698.html (790 words)

	Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		Barry was raised within a family of modest means, in a place where poverty was commonplace.
		When Barry was young, his father died, and his mother moved the family to Memphis, Tennessee, where she married a local butcher.
		Beginning in the early 1980s, Barry was involved in a widely publicized scandal, in which he was accused of using cocaine at a party held in a local nightclub.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/marion-shepilov-barry-jr-cri (632 words)

	Prosecutors seek jail for Marion Barry - Boston.com
		Federal prosecutors said Councilman Marion Barry failed to file his tax returns on time for a seventh year in a row, and they asked a judge to send the former mayor to jail.
		Barry pleaded guilty in 2005 to misdemeanors for failing to file tax returns covering 1999 to 2004.
		Barry filed the 2005 returns last month after prosecutors asked for his probation to be revoked.
	www.boston.com /business/taxes/articles/2007/03/08/prosecutors_seek_jail_for_marion_barry (421 words)

	IRS investigating Washington's former mayor
		Barry is represented by Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., who has handled other sensitive matters for him in the past, including drug possession allegations in 2002 that did not result in any charges.
		Barry served a six-month prison sentence in 1991, stemming from a 1990 FBI sting operation in which he was videotaped in a downtown hotel room smoking crack cocaine.
		Barry would be required to file returns for the seven-year period and comply with tax laws.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/1006barry06.html (365 words)

	Marion Barry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barry also graduated with a Masters of organic chemistry from Fisk University in 1960.
		Barry is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, a prominent Black Greek Fraternity,.
		Barry captured on a surveillance camera smoking crack cocaine during a sting operation by the FBI and D.C. Police.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marion_Barry (1266 words)

	Councilmember Marion Barry
		Marion Barry, Jr., was born on March 6, 1936, to Marion Barry, Sr., a sharecropper, and Mattie Barry in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
		Barry completed three years of the doctoral program in chemistry at the University of Tennessee before abandoning it to become immersed in the civil rights movement full-time.
		Perhaps Barry’s most memorable legacy to DC residents was his creation of the District Youth’s Employment Act of 1979 guaranteeing a summer job to every young person who resided in the District of Columbia regardless of their economic status.
	www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us /123104Web/barry.html (551 words)

	Praise for Barry - D.C. Wire
		Just nine hours before D.C. Council member Marion Barry was to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson for failing to file tax returns for six years, he was lauded by the mayor.
		Barry, wearing a red Nats cap, successfully pushed to put any excess money from development rights, after the stadium land is purchased and cleaned up, into the Community Benefits Fund.
		Marion is the type of larger than life figure about whom novels are written.
	blog.washingtonpost.com /dcwire/2006/02/praise_for_barry.html (1045 words)

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		Barry pleaded guilty last October under an agreement reached with federal prosecutors which required him to acknowledge his failure to file returns for the years 1999 through 2004.
		Barry, 70, completed his fourth term as mayor in early 1999.
		While Barry has said he's unsure how much money he earned during the time period in question, he did not challenge claims by federal prosecutors that his income topped $534,000 during the five-year period.
	www.11alive.com /news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=77113 (257 words)

	USATODAY.com - Marion Barry back on the comeback track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WASHINGTON — Marion Barry was picking at a plate of corn and okra and pondering his improbable return to politics Wednesday, a day after winning a Democratic primary for City Council in this most Democratic of cities.
		Marion Barry won a Democratic primary for Washington D.C. City Council by a wide margin.
		Barry ran a low-budget campaign to blow away two-term Ward 8 councilwoman Sandy Allen, who used to work for him, 57% to 25%.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/local/2004-09-15-barry-profile_x.htm (1104 words)

	Marion Barry - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		Barry, America's mini-Suharto, has dragged it into an embarrassing, protracted drama: It is in rack and ruin, he had overstayed his welcome, everyone wanted him to leave, and he wasn't sure he wanted to oblige.
		Barry still issues self-aggrandizing statements in which he takes credit for things he didn't do and announces "initiatives" that will never be initiated.
		Barry's friends and local business leaders have been trying for months to find a way to let him exit with honor--to give him a gracious payoff in exchange for his decision to step down.
	www.slate.com /id/1866 (1267 words)

	CNN.com - Then & Now: Marion Barry - May 6, 2005
		Barry has a long history of political comebacks, and his steely political sense was born out of a series of civil rights battles that energized him.
		Barry was born in 1936, deep in cotton country, in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
		In January 1990 Barry's political reign came to an abrupt halt when he was caught on video in an FBI sting operation smoking crack cocaine with a woman at the Vista Hotel.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/05/02/CNN25.tan.barry (618 words)

	USATODAY.com - Former Mayor Marion Barry seeks D.C. seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Barry said Saturday he has no aspirations to try for a fifth term — although he added never to say never.
		Barry had considered a run for council in 2002 but dropped those plans after U.S. Park Police said they found small amounts of marijuana and crack in his car.
		Barry was treated for prostate cancer in 1995 and suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, but he said Saturday he feels fine.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/state/washdc/2004-06-13-barry-return_x.htm (407 words)

	Barry robbed at SE home by men he helped - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry was robbed at gunpoint in his Southeast apartment Monday night by two young men whom he had paid minutes earlier to help him carry groceries from his car.
		Barry, 69, said he was not injured during the robbery, but felt downhearted about being robbed in the Ward 8 neighborhood he represents on the D.C. Council.
		Barry said he had been shopping and had a trunk full of groceries when he stopped his car in front of his apartment building in the 2600 block of Douglas Road SE at about 9:30 p.m.
	washtimes.com /metro/20060104-121705-4974r.htm (513 words)

	Soul Mates - similarities of Bill Clinton and Marion Barry Washington Monthly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Barry was despised by the fl upper crust of D.C.'s Gold Coast, which dismissed him as an unsophisticated `Bama just as Georgetown socialites snubbed Clinton as trailer trash.
		In 1991, when Barry was released, he was greeted by a cheering crowd that ushered him on board a yellow school bus and escorted him back to Chocolate City.
		Barry sought refuge in Anacostia, D.C.'s Harlem, a neighborhood nearly 98 percent fl and 100 percent poor.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_4_33/ai_73828226 (967 words)

	Explore DC: Marion Barry
		Marion Barry served two separate terms as Mayor of Washington, the first between 1978 and 1990, and the second from 1994 to 1998.
		Barry first became involved in District politics when he moved to Washington in 1965 to open a local chapter of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).
		At the time, Barry was already well known as a civil rights leader, and had served as SNCC president for several years.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=286&PHPSESSID=87ef0ce3a44fa34d8b7c1ad22a339760 (278 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Marion Barry unharmed in robbery
		WASHINGTON – Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry was robbed at gunpoint at his apartment by some youths who had helped him carry his groceries.
		Barry, who wasn't injured in the Monday night robbery, said he gave the youths a couple of dollars for helping unload groceries from his car and they left.
		Barry, 69, is a member of the City Council and served four terms as mayor.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20060103-0554-barryrobbed.html (255 words)

	The HistoryMakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marion Barry was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on March 6, 1936.
		Barry was elected the first chairman of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1965 to open a local chapter.
		Barry held that office for twelve years, until a misdemeanor drug conviction forced him to step down.
	www.thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=33&category=politicalMakers (270 words)

	Marion Barry Wins District Council Race (washingtonpost.com)
		Former mayor Marion Barry (D) last night capped yet another revival of a long and often turbulent political career, easily winning election to the District Council as the representative from the city's poorest neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.
		Barry, 68, was among a slew of familiar faces poised to return to local and statewide offices, a gaggle that included U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the pugnacious three-term Maryland Democrat.
		Barry was among three new candidates elected to the District Council, including Vincent C. Gray, who captured Ward 7, and Kwame R. Brown, who was elected to an at-large seat.
	media.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A19418-2004Nov2.html (807 words)

	Big Dogs Weblog » Marion Barry is a Victim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marion Barry, the drug using corrupt former Mayor of DC, was arrested recently and he says he was racially profiled.
		Barry said the officers asked him for his license and registration and then said that his license was suspended.
		Barry told NBC4 the suspension was a clerical mistake, and he accused the U.S. Park police of racial profiling.
	www.onebigdog.net /2006/12/19/marion-barry-is-a-victim (529 words)

	Explore DC: Marion Barry
		In 1971, Barry was voted onto the city's first elected School Board, and in 1974, he became a member of Washington's first elected city council.
		Barry ran for Mayor in 1978, and overcame two strong primary opponents to win the election.
		In his final term, Barry was often criticized for the city's financial difficulties, and he decided against running for reelection.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=286&base=13&PHPSESSID=87ef0ce3a44fa34d8b7c1ad22a339760 (278 words)

	Marion Barry Is Back - CBS News
		Barry - infamous for being caught on an FBI video smoking crack during the third of his four terms as mayor - scored a primary victory Tuesday, winning the Democratic nomination to a city council seat in what is likely to be his second comeback since his drug conviction.
		Barry, 68, was mobbed as he claimed victory in the Democratic primary for the city council seat representing Ward 8, a neighborhood that is struggling financially.
		Barry - who did jail time back when he was nabbed in a drug sting, and left the mayor's office in cloud of scandal in 1990 - still has his critics.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/09/15/politics/main643513.shtml (578 words)

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