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Your story on New York City [Aug. 18] states that Mayor Edward Koch "has not learned that the last thing hopeless people have need of is a realist." On the contrary, what they need is a mayor who is in touch with the reality of the city's fiscal situation. We can only hope that in the future, fewer politicians will succumb to the lesson you ascribe to Koch...
What our nation needs for President is a person with a New York mind, not only smart but witty and able to snap back at the world firmly, like Mayor Koch...
House while jigging through the crowd. "These are all my friends. I know everyone here." And, indeed, there was Lannigan, Flanigan, Hilligan, Milligan, Duffy and New York Mayor Ed Koch. Well, all Dem-O'crats anyway...
...switched Sunday school to Wednesday evening so it will not interfere with the weekend. Classes are held in private homes instead of in church, a throwback to Raikes' original idea of setting up a school wherever the students are. Perhaps more significant, in Brookline, Mass., Rector W. Christian Koch has quadrupled Sunday school attendance at All Saints Episcopal Church by integrating the school with the regular Sunday service: children sit with their parents, then depart during the sermon for 45 minutes of instruction. They return for the offertory, prayer of consecration and Communion. "Being included," Koch insists, "teaches...
...Iranians in the mosque was Mark Lane, the publicity-hound attorney, who has been out of the headlines since 1978 when he was retained by Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in the Guyana jungle. After police-escorted vans finally took the Iranians from the mosque, New York Mayor Koch exclaimed: "They're not students, they're provocateurs. They should all be expelled! Can you imagine what would happen to American students if they acted like this in Iran? They would probably be stoned to death...