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...Councilman Alfred Velucci said that he will stand by his vote, and that the Mayor will find the Council "united in their support of the motion...
...clock, I was already being threatened." Democratic liberals in the assembly, particularly blacks and Puerto Ricans, harbored populist fears that the bankers, who advise Carey and demand austerities, were about to take over the city. "They have no feeling for the poor," said Buffalo Assemblyman Arthur Eve. City Councilman Theodore Weiss echoed a familiar hyperbole: "This may be the last day for democracy in New York...
...credit. An admirer of Sir Robert Peel, who founded Britain's nonviolent and respected police system, Davis follows the British practice of running a strong community-relations program. He gets his cops into living rooms to talk crime prevention and build trust. "It's working," says City Councilman Bob Farrell, a black who represents part of the crime-ridden south-central section of the city...
...baroque council chamber of Turin's city hall-known as the Sala Rossa (Red Room) because of its lavish crimson brocade-Councilman Diego Novelli last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Because he amassed a higher vote total than Turin's 79 other councilmen in recent municipal elections, Novelli won the privilege of supervising the selection of a new mayor from among them for Italy's second largest (after Milan) industrial city. The outcome was preordained. When all 80 votes had been tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita...
...publisher of the stormy Las Vegas Sun (circ. 45,000), Hank Greenspun has been a party to more than 100 lawsuits, a feat that may well make him the most sued man in U.S. journalism. This year alone, ten wrathful readers have taken him to court-from a local councilman whose voting record Greenspun disliked to an acupuncturist the Sun labeled as unqualified to practice...