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...20th century. Now the brash and blabby Edward Koch is about to join them. Last week he won the nomination for a third four- year term with the heaviest majority in any Democratic mayoral primary this century. Koch, 60, vaporized his opponents, City Council President Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., by taking 64% of the city's Democratic vote. His electric personality and his record in helping restore the city's financial prosperity after its brush with bankruptcy in the 1970s apparently outweighed criticism that he is insensitive to the city's poor. Koch faces anemic opposition...
...last speaker at the forum was Barbara Patton, New York state Democratic assemblyman, from a mostly Republican district on Long Island. Patton, a Black woman, told of her years as a regular Democratic party worker in New York City and of her family's impact on her politics...
Mayor Ed Koch led the procession, pushing the wheelchair of Long Island Assemblyman John Behan, 40, who lost both legs to a land mine near Da Nang. General William Westmoreland marched for a bit, then dropped out to watch from the reviewing stand, but finally rejoined the straggle in the street (against the advice of police) when passing Army vets invited him with the call, "Westy! Westy!" Said he: "I love these guys, and I am going to march with them." Spectators and veterans repeatedly came together in spontaneous embraces. After bussing a woman of about 60, Brooklynite Mark Carraway...
...them on the defensive about the way they embraced the idea that America's course in the war was uniquely evil. Some, like Singer Joan Baez, denounced the behavior of the new Vietnamese regime. Jane Fonda is an object of special vilification among veterans. Her husband, California Assemblyman Tom Hayden, once a leader of the New Left, admits, "I am not pure. We have, as Joseph Heller says, two lives: the one we live with and the one we learn with. The consensus on the war is still emerging...
Variations of the Police Corps program have been suggested in other areas. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, R.F.K.'s eldest daughter, has just completed a proposal for the state's anticrime council, for which she has been a policy analyst. In Sacramento, Assemblyman Tom Hayden, once a leader of the radical left, is putting together a Police Corps bill to present to the legislative council. The program, he says, will bring "a missionary spirit...