The Nation - News from Dec. 21, 1987
Mayor W. Wilson Goode said he was ordering an investigation into how embattled Philadelphia area transit chief William Stead “was forced out by the bad guys” from the nation’s fourth-largest transit agency. Stead, 41, told a radio and television station in San Francisco that he had decided to end his five-week tenure at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority because of political infighting and a telephone threat. Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey also planned to launch an investigation into the incident, an aide said.
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