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...like Mayor Kevin White have to uncommittedly walk a tightrope on the busing issue, protecting himself with a net of double-talking and triple-talking aides below? Why, in the city of the Adamses and co. is the City Council filled with the likes of Hicks and anti-everything councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a man who openly brags about the handgun he packs, whose reactionary voting record a native Bostonian friend of mine calls "one bizarre package," and who himself until recently referred to Hicks...
...month ago, Philadelphia City Councilman Louis Johanson said that he would not vote for Carter under any circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale...
...nearly every family in town has at least one member working at the Reserve plant. In fact, many of the town's residents, believing that their community is doomed, fear they will have to apply for welfare. Says Robert Kind, 45, a Silver Bay councilman and Minnesota state trooper whose job is not dependent on Reserve: "I'll be around to shut the lights out and shut the town down...
...Arabs from all over the West Bank gathered to mourn the death of a Ramallah man and a boy and show their solidarity against the Gush Emunin marchers and the Israeli occupation. The man, Kalil Issa, 42, was gunned down on the main street of Ramallah by a local councilman suspected of collaborating with the Israeli occupiers. The boy, Jamil Arafat Hamis Jum, 6, had been killed by Israeli soldiers quelling an Arab demonstration against the killing of Issa. (The Israelis claimed that a soldier's gun went off accidentally, but the Arabs charged that the soldiers had fired...
...began to seep in. The ticket-takers had agreed to work but clearly had conspired a slowdown--they were reading the small print on each ticket before tearing the stub. Some waiting ticketholders tried to appeal to Pressman but he had gone around to interview the short, charismatic city councilman, Father Louis Gigante. Father Gigante contended that if the city had not wasted so much money rebuilding the stadium, it might have stopped several schools and hospitals from closing down...