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...Bella Savitzky Abzug, there are two New Yorks. Her mayoral candidacy evokes responses from cool to hostile among those most influential and sophisticated in city affairs. Businessmen feather, and so do civil service union leaders. The three daily newspapers will support one or another of her six opponents for the Democratic nomination. Most party sachems are lining up behind either Incumbent Abraham Beame or Governor Hugh Carey's choice, New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. Yet if the vote were held now, the other New York would choose Bella. TIME Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett reports...
Then it is Abzug's turn. A year or two ago, "Battling Bella" might have hollered some rib-cracking ripostes. Instead, she manages to look dainty in her white straw hat. Despite the heat and her bulk, she gives her most benign smile, a cultivated mannerism that accentuates the Oriental cast of her eyes. Sweetly, she says: "I disagree with Mr. Koch. I think that I am magnificent." The crowd exhales delight...
...litany goes on. Bella, Cuomo and others say the same thing-that the city's weak managerial system must be reformed to,save many millions. She would sack incompetent hacks and hire professional administrators. She would tidy up the sloppy procedures that keep New York from getting the maximum out of federal subsidies. Hundreds of millions in real estate and sales taxes now go uncollected each year; Abzug pledges to go after them: "I know where the money...
...staged a noisy, impromptu three-hour parade downtown after hearing of the loss. In Chicago, about 175 men and women held a candlelight vigil at midnight. In New York, hundreds of homosexuals marched through Greenwich Village for two straight nights shouting "Gay rights now!" On both evenings, former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, who is running for mayor, calmed the crowds. Abzug, who supports the movement, urged the demonstrators to go home and get some rest: "It's a long fight. You have to continue fighting tomorrow and the next...
...usual, a lot of famous people stopped in at Harvard this year. They ranged from Andrew Young, now U.S. ambassador to the U.N., through Eugene McCarthy, occasional presidential candidate, Bella Abzug, former New York congresswoman, and Willy Brandt, former prime minister of West Germany...