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SINCE THE DAY he was first elected Mayor of New York in 1977, Ed Koch has tried to do to his city what Ronald Reagan is now doing to the country. Even while economists were attacking the newly elected president last year for using America as a guinea pig in his supply-side experiment. The Wall Street Journal quietly pointed out in editorials that Reaganomics has already been applied in New York by Koch. Last week, the mayor was defeated in an expensive state-wide gubernatorial primary that few expected him to lose, which suggests that after five years...
From the start of his campaign, Koch was logically declared a shoo-in: People throughout the state were familiar with the mayor simply because the nature of his office has routinely and frequently thrust him into the news over the last five years. And just months ago, he won a virtually unchallenged second term in city hall on both the Republican and Democratic tickets...
...small, willful faction of Saturday's crowd planned on Monday to "blockade the bombmakers," shutting down for a day the U.N. offices of major nuclear powers. More typical of the galliers Saturday were concerned mainstreamers like New York Mayor Edward Koch. Said he: "It's terrific to try to affect the conscience of the world. It's just regrettable they don't have a similar demonstration in MOSCOW." - By Kurt Andersen. Reported ?. White and Adam Zagorin/New York
...sooner had Ed Koch announced that he was going to run for Governor of New York than Playboy magazine hit the stands with an interview as sizzling as any centerfold. The attraction: the New York mayor holding forth on everything from Black Leader Jesse Jackson ("bad news"), his own alleged racism ("b.s."), to cracks about all life outside his city. "Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's wasting your life ... Rural America? This is a joke...
Conducted back in December, the interview instantly reminded people of Jimmy Carter's infamous "adultery in my heart" Playboy quote in 1976. But Koch's comments may well cause greater political embarrassment. "Anyone who suggests I run for Governor," he confided to Playboy, "is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst." Upstate Republicans, who regard Koch as the strongest Democratic candidate, were delighted by his loose talk. Koch was asked if he would like to buy up all copies...