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Show Sunday, January National 1990 21, The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah A3 Invincible' Washington, D.C., mayor faces toughest test - v .t.. WASHINGTON (AP) For years, Marion Shepilov Barry Jr., mayor of the capital since 1979, bragged that he was the fellow who hadn't been caught, even as so many of his chums and associates, even a wife, had seen the back side of a cell door. He had his vices, he acknowledged. But, as he told The Los Angeles Times in a memorable barroom interview just a month, ago: "I'm not stupid enough to have done the things they accuse me of. God gave me a good brain." "What I have done," he repeated, "nobody knows about, because I don't get caught." In that same conversation, Marion Barry, 53, had pronounced himself politically "invincible." And for a few moments Friday, he seemed just as cocksure when he was led into a federal courtroom to be arraigned on a misdemeanor count of possession of crack cocaine, the very drug which is the scourge of the city and has turned it into the nation's murder capital. In customary, regal stride, he headed for the table marked "de- . 1 m ' J AP Laserphoto . :WSriiington Mayor Marion fendant" and, with 1 V Barry and wife, Effi, face the media. rock-stead- y nerves, poured a glass of water to the brim. He teased a courtroom artist, who was focusing on him through tiny binoculars, by encircling his own eyes with his fingers. Then the magistrate noted that, if convicted, Marion Barry could go to jail for a year. Suddenly, the mayor's facial muscles betrayed him. The cool smile vanished, replaced by clenched teeth. Perhaps, only then, had reality sunk in. Barry, despite dozens of prior stories alleging episodes of drug abuse, womanizing, mystery trips and inattention to the city's business, had planned to formally announce on Sunday his candidacy for a fourth term. And with a political machine rivaling that of the late Richard Daley of Chicago, few would have ruled out his chances, even against the prospect that Washington's other nt black hero, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, was himself eyeing the office. No more. Barry, in tears, late y control of Friday yielded city government, which employs one out of every 12 D.C. residents, to a deputy, Carol B. Thompson, to prepare his defense. The government's case includes a positive drug test, and video and audio tape which prosecutors say recorded him buying and smoking crack in a hotel room occupied by a longtime girlfriend who cooperated with the FBI. And aides portrayed the mercurial Barry on Saturday as having accepted the notion that he cannot run again; the decision now, they day-to-da- - The; White House issued a Soviet President dispatch of troops to quell the ethnic violence "should riot,! however, become a cloak for tfie abridgment of the exercise of political rights." State Department official said there was no evidence of human fights violations in reports of everits in Baku, capital of the southern Soviet republic. But the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, added, "Clearly that's going to be a floint of attention," by the J A Bush was keeping abreast of the developments during his weekend at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., said White House spokesman Sean Walsh. Gorbachev made a nationwide television appeal Saturday for an end to the weeklong violence. The White House statement issued afterward said: "We regret the already heavy loss of life and call upon all involved to act with restraint in the use of force and to show respect for the rule of law and the right of the individuals involved. "The United States is monitoring the complicated and dangerous situation in Azerbaijan carefully and with concern. It is, of course, the responsibility of any government to maintain order and protect its citizens. The effort to establish order should not, however, become a trap? "It raises the Gary Hart question: How can one person be so stupid?" said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, referring to the former presidential candidate who challenged the media to track his personal life, then spent time with a woman other than his wife. U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens said Barry's arrest at a downtown hotel was "part of the ongoing investiga- tion of a broad range of allegations" against the mayor, dating to the discovery that he had visited a former D.C. employee, Charles Lewis, in a separate hotel a year ago. Lewis was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess cocaine. He told the court that he had obtained at least $140 worth of crack for Barry on at least three occasions, and once believed that he "should he and go to jail 'to protect the And this, from junior classmate Terri Dantzler: "He goes around telling us not to do drugs, then does them himself. I feel pitiful. And he should be ashamed." Bush calls for 'restraint' in Soviet turmoil . WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration on Saturday called fpr "restraint in the use of force" in violence-tor- n Azerbaijan and said officials were watching "carefully and with concern" as Soviet troops fpught street battles with militants. Among community and political allies, the dismay extended to another question as well. At that was how a man, who so prides himself on his intelligence, who already was under scrutiny for prior, unexplained forays into a hotel room occupied by a confessed drug dealer, have walked into so such a said, is whether he should resign. For years, Barry's black supporters, including Jackson, a fellow lieutenant in Martin Luther King's civil rights crusade, had lined up behind the mayor when he denied misconduct and swore, time and again, that he had never used drugs. By his account, such reports were generated by a venal white media and a Republican administration eager to reclaim the reins of city government from the black community. But, while Jackson, rarely at a loss for words, held his tongue over the mayor's arrest, others felt pushed over the brink. Especially in the schools, where Barry, like Jackson, routinely preached against the evils of cocaine, the sense of betrayal erupted in shouts of pain and despair. "What makes me so mad is that the mayor is black, representing us, our race," declared Anthony Witcher to his high school history class. "Doesn't he know he stereotypes someone like me already faces? This just makes it worse. I just know it will be worse." mayor." 5M2 cloak for the abridgment of the by U.S. officials who viewed and read them as "pretty moderate," exercise of political rights." Gorbachev sent troops to Baku said the State Department official, after fighting flared between the who spoke anonymously. Moslem Azerbaijanis and mainly State Department spokesman Christian Armenians. The two Mark Dillen declined to give Gorsouthern republics are locked in a comments bachev's any particular decades-ol- d territorial dispute over a region of Azerbaijan that is popu- interpretation. But in an official response to the lated mainly by Armenians. The government declared a state violence he echoed Gorbachev's call of emergency in the city, which for the peoples of Azerbaijan and Armenia to "show wisdom and was reported to be heavily pacommon sense." trolled by troops in tanks. "We hope for an early end to all Gorbachev, in his address, said his government had over two years bloodshed," said Dillen. "And we, "sought to act in a patient and too, hope the people of the region thoughtful manner, trying to solve will show wisdom and restraint, difficult problems exclusively by and we hope that restoration of order in the region will be followed peaceful, political means." But he said militants even threatquickly by the beginning of a diaened to take over the government logue on resolving peacefully the differences between the parties." by force and "this had to stop." Gorbachev's comments were seen your satisfaction. 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