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...must deal with that question, along with all the other questions that feed into it, is Edward Irving Koch, 55, mayor since 1978 and, as Sydney Greenstreet said of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, a real character. If New York is a taxi, Ed Koch is its driver?quick-tempered, belligerent, opinionated, chatty, protective, frank and possibly nuts. He usually speeds, and sometimes he drives on the sidewalk. His enemies are "crackpots." To everyone within earshot he asks, "How'm I doing?" Two out of three of those surveyed have answered: good...
Whether or not they are right will be more fairly judged in a year or so, perhaps after Koch balances the city budget, as he has loudly and frequently promised. At present he is little more than halfway through his term. While there is no question that he is the most colorful mayor the city has seen since Fiorello La Guardia (1934-45), the hard issues he faces will not be resolved by style...
...MONEY. Koch might have balanced the budget even earlier than promised had New York not been hit by a public transportation strike last spring. The wage settlements that ended that strike and averted another by city workers in June gave the unions raises averaging 17% over the next two years. That, in turn, put the city's $13.58 billion budget back into the familiar red. Earlier this year Koch told Congress that he anticipated no more than 4% in wage hikes for each of the next two years. Now, he expects a $265 million deficit for this year?$135 million...
...President is not his brother's keeper." But Koch, a Carter backer, went on to say that "the Billy Carter scandal is a serious matter and will have an adverse impact on President Carter's chances for re-election." Said Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso: "I would have spanked Brother Billy a long time...
There's no way these figures are correct," fumed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. "This just doesn't make any sense," protested Boston's Kevin White. New York's Mayor Edward Koch declared flatly: "We're certain that they are not accurate...