The Nation - News from Dec. 21, 1987
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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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