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...heroes. Many other communities paid comparable tributes. The floodlights that normally bathe New York City's Empire State Building in bright colors were darkened. Residents of Harlem petitioned Mayor Ed Koch to name a street after black Astronaut Ronald McNair, whose father once operated an auto shop on East 96th Street. All along the Florida coast, from Jacksonville to Miami, some 20,000 people pointed flashlights skyward on Friday night...
Once the newspaper of a pluralistic city, the Times has become the voice of real-estate developers and big business, the voice of Manhattan south of 96th street. Sure, it covers the other boroughs and the rest of the world. But its coverage unfolds distinctly from the perspective of the downtown interests. A recent feature on Hurricane Gloria's damage to Fire Island spoke of the "several hundred nervous city people who had come to inspect the vacation homes they feared they might never see again." The accompanying photo showed the damage to Calvin Klein's vacation home...
With adjournment looming, the 96th Congress moved last week to set itself up for the 97th and Ronald Reagan's White House. Among House Republicans, the preparation took the form of electing Illinois' Robert Michel as minority leader over Michigan's Guy Vander Jagt; obviously, the feeling was that the new President's legislative program stood a better chance against the Democratic majority under Michel's brand of amicable persuasion. Republicans also elected New York's Jack Kemp as chairman of the party's conference, or caucus, and Mississippi's Trent Lott...
Before ending its session and heading for adjournment, the 96th Congress dealt with a flurry of bills. The legislators dumped an auto safety measure and dropped a fair housing enforcement bill; they dithered over whether to approve a $10,000-a-year pay raise for themselves (to $70,000) and pay hikes for the top 34,000 employees of the Federal Government. Senate Republicans gave up trying to ram through an anti-school busing measure, but the matter is not settled. Said Busing Foe Jesse Helms of North Carolina: "Forty days from now we'll have a new President...
...Congress wearily ends its 96th session, the confident rhetoric of the right drowns out any rumors of GOP restlessness