Word: koch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sultry night in Queens, thirsty for a thunderstorm that will come too late, but 250 middle-class homeowners stay dutifully in their hard little folding chairs. They are at the Bell Park Jewish Center to inspect mayoral candidates. Congressman Ed Koch leads off-witty, whimsical, wise-and he suggests that Abzug is a demagogue for promising that she would wrest more federal help for the beleaguered city. He gets polite applause...
...Bella" might have hollered some rib-cracking ripostes. Instead, she manages to look dainty in her white straw hat. Despite the heat and her bulk, she gives her most benign smile, a cultivated mannerism that accentuates the Oriental cast of her eyes. Sweetly, she says: "I disagree with Mr. Koch. I think that I am magnificent." The crowd exhales delight...
...become a person," she says. "I'm already a person." Through a capable campaign staff, she is setting up a detailed district-targeting system for a get-out-the-vote effort where she is strongest. Rivals hope she will wound herself by playing the brash tartar; Congressman Koch and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton try to goad her with cracks about self-discipline and lack of administrative ability. So far she has left the bait dangling...
...courts and lawmakers. So far, the loss seems to have had no effect on a bill breezing through the liberal Massachusetts legislature that would outlaw discrimination against gays in public employment. If enacted the measure would be the first such state law in the nation. In Washington, Congressman Edward Koch, who represents Greenwich Village, has rounded up 38 sponsors for a federal gay rights bill, but is skeptical of its prospects. Last week's vote didn't help. Says Koch: "Congress will not take action before cities and counties throughout America enact legislation...
...with Save Our Children. Cities across the country are starting to struggle with the gay-rights problem, and only Massachusetts is in the process of approving a bill forbidding public agencies to discriminate against homosexuals in hiring employees. A federal bill protecting gays against bias, introduced by Congressman Ed Koch, has so far collected 38 cosponsors. Whatever happens in Miami this week, the fight for-and against-gay rights is just beginning...