The Nation - News from April 26, 1989

Washington Police Chief Maurice T. Turner, who announced he will retire July 31, has no immediate plans but said he would like to work for federal drug czar William J. Bennett. Meanwhile, several members of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, an influential business leaders’ group, said they may start a movement to draft Turner, 53, to run for mayor in the 1990 election. “Mr. Bennett has not offered me a job,” Turner said. “But he needs people who have been on the working level of a police agency--on the ground floor.” Asked about a mayoral candidacy, Turner said: “That’s a possibility. There’s nothing to throw out the window.”