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...that her sentence be commuted so she could continue her Christian counseling work with fellow prisoners, she was put to death that November. It was commonly believed that failing to execute the woman would have had dire political consequences for Hunt in the race he lost anyway. When Ed Koch ran for mayor of New York City in the Democratic primary against Mario Cuomo in 1977, the cutting issue was the death penalty. Even though the mayor of a city has nothing to do with the administration of justice, Koch whipped up passions over the electric-chair issue as part...
...would resign at month's end. Gotham Republicans, a tiny band of inveterate losers, delightedly anticipated being able this fall to field a candidate for mayor who might actually have a chance. Giuliani coyly remarked that "I have not shut the door on the possibility," and incumbent Edward I. Koch, who has been hurt by Giuliani's prosecutions of corrupt henchmen, allowed that the 44- year-old prosecutor would be a "very formidable candidate." Alternatively, the politically untested Giuliani might elect to follow in the footsteps of crime buster Thomas Dewey a half-century ago and run for Governor against...
Troubles have been unending. After much maneuvering to get NBC to move its headquarters into what Trump originally called Television City, the network decided to stay in Rockefeller Center. Mayor Ed Koch rejected Trump's demands for a 20-year tax abatement, mocking the builder as "piggy, piggy, piggy." Trump in turn called Koch "incompetent" and "a moron," and threatens to help anyone who can unseat him in next fall's election. Citizens' groups on the West Side mounted major opposition, charging that the project would cast a deep shadow over a large area...
...press is not entirely to blame: politicians are overusing the phrases too. Asked how his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev was going during last month's minisummit, President Reagan replied, "Read our smiles," a line that turned up on the next day's front pages. New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who faces a tough re-election fight, recently promised reporters -- you guessed it -- a "kinder, gentler Ed Koch." But just in case the President- elect is growing tired of his own cliches, help is on the way: Peggy Noonan, the writer who penned his New Orleans speech, is currently honing...
...doin'? Raisa Gorbachev may be one of the few people left on the planet who think Mayor Ed Koch is doing fine -- probably because she doesn't speak English. Koch once called her government the pits and more recently wondered why, if the Soviet President is such a nice guy, he needs 6,000 cops to guard him. After the U.N. reception, Koch recounted Raisa's observation to him that he was so different from those lazy mayors back home who "always complain when they're given extra work...