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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor's consensus- building style will enhance his ability to deal with New York's seemingly intractable problems. Says Lynch: "The image that you have to be a tough guy to be mayor of New York is wrong." Perhaps, but the choices that the new mayor will face are certainly going to be tough. Says Ray Harding, head of the Liberal Party and Giuliani's earliest political ally: "David Dinkins brings tranquillity, and that's evidently what New York wants." As tough times hit, New York might need much more than that...
Less than a week before he was scheduled to face trial on felony charges relating to his activities in the Iran-contra scandal, Richard Secord copped a plea. The retired Air Force Major General admitted that he had lied to congressional investigators when he denied knowing that $13,800 from the Iran arms-sales deal went to pay for a security system at Oliver North's home...
...been a faithful follower of Honecker's, and as recently as September defended the Chinese government's bloody suppression of pro- democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His conversion seemed sparked less by ideological conviction than by a desperate desire to cling to power in the face of street protest and refugee hemorrhage...
Brooks Chretien took the Army recruiting motto to heart, stopping 37 shots--including three five-on-three breakaways--against Cornell lifting the Cadets to a 2-0 upset win Saturday night. Chretien and his upstart teammates visit Bright Center tonight to face the winless Harvard men's hockey team...
While the Cadets' wishbone is certainly stronger than the Bulldogs', stopping the bone this weekend at the Yale Bowl is perhaps the greatest challenge the Crimson has had to face this season. It could be the difference between Yalies tearing down the goalposts, and Harvard fans stumbling away smiling...