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Cleveland City Councilman Jay Westbrook, who sponsored the July 15 resolution, said the council "felt compelled to call on an institution with the prestige and recognition of Harvard to recognize that there's a higher command we should all abide...
...Texas Southern University maintenance man who stopped in for a snack at a Vietnamese-run store: "For the first time you can buy fresh meat right in the neighborhood. It's the idea that a foreigner can come in here and move up so quickly that disgusts people." City Councilman Anthony Hall sees the immigrants as models, not enemies. Says he: "They have pooled their resources and created some lucrative opportunities for themselves...
Goode was watching the siege on television in his city hall office when the helicopter swooped over the Move house and dropped the explosive satchel. Two floors above Goode, Councilman Lucien Blackwell also saw television footage of the bomb. Recounts Blackwell: "We watched as it dropped. We watched and watched, and the flames were getting larger and larger." Alarmed at seeing no effort to extinguish the fire, Blackwell called the mayor, who told him firemen were being held off out of fear they would be shot at by Move members. Fire Commissioner William Richmond at first accepted responsibility for holding...
What is unclear is how far the city's goodwill toward Goode will stretch after last week's debacle. "I think people do not believe his handling of the situation demonstrated the kind of sensitivity to their neighborhoods they would have expected," said black Democratic City Councilman John Street. "I think he's going to hurt first and hardest in his own backyard." City Councilwoman-at-Large Agusta Alexander Clark, a Goode ally, is worried. "The brother was Mr. Teflon," she said. "He's been scratched now. The question is, Has he been scratched all the way down...
...pugnacious Merola, 62, was a New York City councilman before winning election to the $82,000-a-year D.A.'s job in 1972. He has handled a number of nationally prominent cases, including the 1978 trial of David Berkowitz for the Son of Sam killings. Merola has a reputation for speaking loosely to the press. In 1980, for example, he disclosed that a prominent surgeon was the prime suspect in an attempted murder; as it turned out, the man was never charged. More recently Merola identified an elderly woman as a suspect in a highly publicized child-abuse case...