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...automatic unless the individual agrees to waive it. The result, in this case, is a deadlock. "It's clear that Hynes has no intention of immunizing them, while most defense attorneys would be unlikely to sign a waiver," points out Thomas Russo, a former assistant D.A. from the neighboring borough of Queens...
When Ronald Carey declared that he would run for the presidency of the Teamsters Union two years ago, most labor experts considered the reform candidate a do-gooder with little chance of winning. A virtual unknown outside ; the New York City borough of Queens, where he heads a local chapter representing 6,600 truck drivers, Carey did not have the support of regional union officials. Moreover, his rivals outspent...
Wally Rubin, 35, an assistant in the office of Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger, has grown his hair for a year, partly, he says, "because it was practical." It was also his way of keeping alive the Age of Aquarius. While Michael Aymar, 32, was on Wall Street as a bond trader, he kept his hair short, following an unwritten code. But last year, yearning for his student days, he asked his bosses at an ad agency if there was a policy on hair length. He got no reply, and today his ponytail is 4 in. long...
...Staten Island, N.Y., and Key Biscayne, Fla., have decided to declare their independence. By an 81% vote last week, Staten Islanders approved a commission to study the feasibility of breaking away from New York City. Staten Island's 400,000 residents are irate over the political powerlessness of their borough, which, they claim, receives a smaller portion of municipal services than the city's four other boroughs and more than its fair share of mental institutions, prisons and landfills...
...force in his own right. Having spent most of his career in Harlem, he has few close links to the boisterous community leaders in Brooklyn, where 42% of the city's African Americans reside. His political base among the swelling ranks of Caribbean and Asian immigrants clustered in the borough is virtually nonexistent...