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Until recently, few city leaders dared to criticize Barry publicly. Many blame the divisive question of race for the silence. "What he creates is a Teflon coating," explains Washington Post columnist Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. "If you're white, you can't say it. If you're black, you can't say it. In this town, who does that leave?" Race has helped and hindered Barry. Explains friend Carl Johnson: "He's always operating off the backdrop that he's a black male, that he's not supposed...
Anyone who can boss Los Angeles for 16 straight years without falling on his face needs a bit of luck, a bit of skill or a thick coating of Teflon -- and maybe all three. Through four terms, Mayor Tom Bradley, 71, managed to keep his troubled nation-within-a-state from disintegrating completely without himself succumbing to hubris or, worse, scandal. A diffident, dedicated man, Bradley seemed the personification of rectitude. He never got too big for his britches. Bad judgment was something else...
...coronation," promised the newspaper. That threat did not sit well with Bradley. The Herald Examiner found itself shut out of the mayor's office: no press releases, no phone conversations, no personal contact -- an invitation, if there ever was one, for reporters to start scraping away at the Teflon. Result: three weeks before the election, the paper began running articles about the mayor's financial dealings. He is currently under investigation by city, state and federal authorities...
...wish, but Tom Bradley's Teflon is gone...
Gorbachev does it again, catching the U.S. off guard with an arms-control proposal that could deepen the U.S.-West German split. -- Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley loses some of his Teflon. -- Rookie Governor Gaston Caperton gives West Virginia something new and strange -- hope. -- The annual Statistical Abstract paints a picture of American life by the numbers...