Morning Edition Returns: Where's Hizzoner?

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Published February 6, 2003 at 7:00 PM HST

The disappearance of a mayor affiliated with Brazil's Workers Party alarms officials who feared a kidnapping. But it turned out to be a job for the vice squad.

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