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Your article "Going ... Going ... Gone?" [Nov. 7] citing isolated incidents of crime in Brooklyn is grossly unfair. By inference it condemns an entire borough for events that are commonplace daily throughout the nation...
...dealt with on a citywide basis, while many basic municipal services (recreational facilities, schools, zoning) would be the separate responsibility of each of Jerusalem's quarters. A number of the world's largest cities already operate in this manner; London, for instance, is a confederation of semiautonomous boroughs. Jerusalem's borough governments would be chosen by the various communities; at the city level, responsibility would be vested in a council representing all parts of Jerusalem -East and West...
...Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams welcomed Robbins' ideas as "interesting and insightful." But Robbins foresaw one possible objection to his proposal: "Thoughtful people will say, 'How can new housing help when the real problem is unemployment? You ignore the pathology of the slums, the self-destruction and hostility.' " His reply: "While we are rebuilding the South Bronx, we will have an opportunity to do something about jobs. Are there federal facilities which can be located there? Can we train people for employment in construction? Can we induce industries which serve Government or which sell overseas and could...
...instead of the predicted one-third turnout, a record 48% of the city's 1.9 million eligible Democratic voters went to the polls, and in the process made a hash of the pre-election surveys. Both Congressman Herman Badillo, who was born in Puerto Rico, and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, a black, ran better than expected, carrying districts that would otherwise have been Abzug...
...neighborhoods in his car after such a "calling," looking for some "sign" that the timing was right. Even such a chance event as the appearance of a convenient parking space was such a sign to Berkowitz. He did choose victims whom he considered "pretty," claiming he favored the Queens borough for a time because "Queens girls are prettier." He did not walk casually away from the murder sites and slip into the dark. "I ran like hell." He revisited at least two of the scenes of his crimes and tried to find the grave of his first victim, Donna Lauria...