
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 9, 1994                   TAG: 9411090110
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

D.C. PICKS BARRY AS MAYOR AGAIN

Sound trucks blared ``We're bringing Barry back'' through the nation's capital Tuesday, a song celebrating the return of Marion Barry to the mayor's office after a four-year absence.

Barry, 58, capped his comeback by defeating Republican Carol Schwartz, 50, a former school board and city council member. Barry served a 6-month jail sentence for cocaine possession and has battled addictions to alcohol and drugs.

He led Schwartz 53 percent to 46 percent with most of the votes counted.

His political rebirth was embraced by the city's black population, which thumbed its nose at establishment institutions ranging from Congress, which controls the city's purse strings, to the U.S. attorney's office, which caught Barry smoking crack in a videotaped sting operation.

After Barry won the Sept.13 Democratic primary by defeating Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, party leaders embraced him; the business establishment, remembering Barry's leadership in redeveloping the city's downtown, largely coalesced around him.

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