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Mayor Edward Koch agrees. "New York will not be New York again till the papers are back," he believes. Meanwhile he can be seen wandering around the neighborhood of his old Greenwich Village apartment, lantern in hand, looking for an honest newspaper. "I pick up the Washington Post," he sighs. "I thumb through it for 15 minutes. And I say to myself, 'Why am I reading this...
...city's government acted swiftly. Mayor Edward Koch appointed his deputy director of operations, Paul Caswell, to head a task force coordinating the efforts of city agencies combatting the disease. Working in what resembled a war room, Caswell ordered air-conditioning systems in the area shut off; the CDC's investigators had traced the earlier Indiana outbreak to an air conditioner with a bacteria-contaminated water supply. City inspectors swarmed through the district, taking water samples from air-conditioning systems, and draining and sterilizing rooftop tanks where the water was stored. Below, sanitationmen hosed down the streets...
...some cases of Legionnaires' disease were added to the list while other suspected cases were struck off, the number of possible victims bobbled up and down around the 100 mark, with only eight positively confirmed. Last week Koch's commandos and the CDC detectives agreed that the outbreak had apparently passed its peak. The workers, glad to have the area scrubbed down and cleansed as never before, were jubilant as air conditioning was turned on again-an event that generated a block-long sigh of relief in Macy's huge department store, which borders the district...
...Mayor Ed Koch stood on his dignity and declined to read the funnies over the air as Fiorello La Guardia had done during a New York City newspaper strike 33 years earlier. No matter. Soupy Sales and Eartha Kitt read Doonesbury and other comic strips on expanded news shows. New York Post Gossip Writer Diane Judge also went on the air to read her own column. Nonunion reporters at the Daily News passed the time at their 42nd Street offices by writing obituaries for future use. At the Times building across town, police kept an eye on the small group...
...corn and other key foodstuffs are in short supply in Nicaragua, significant amounts of the arable land in the nation are owned by U.S. corporations and used for cultivating cash crops, such as coffee, cotton and bananas. Most importantly, America must not forget the conclusion that then Congressman Edward Koch of New York reached last summer after the approval of military aid to the regime: "If we support Somoza by providing him with U.S. arms to repress his own people, then we become oppressors...