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- DIED. Frank Rizzo, 70, tough-talking ex-cop and former two-
- term mayor of Philadelphia; of a heart attack while campaigning
- for a third term at city hall; in Philadelphia. A policeman's son,
- Rizzo joined the force in 1943 and won notoriety for leading
- vice raids on strip joints and coffeehouses in the '50s. He was
- promoted to police commissioner in 1967 and took credit for
- keeping Philadelphia free of the riots that rocked Detroit,
- Newark and other cities by using tough tactical units to patrol
- black neighborhoods. Elected mayor as a Democrat in 1971 and
- '75, Rizzo delighted reporters with bombastic bon mots. "I'm
- going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot after this
- election's over," he once vowed. After losing to Wilson Goode
- in the 1983 primary, Rizzo switched to the Republican Party in
- 1987 and lost the general election. Rizzo began another comeback
- last May when he again won the Republican nomination for mayor.
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