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Congress and the White House agree on a shaky deficit- reduction plan that includes tax hikes and spending cuts but few specifics. -- A confidential memo reveals Richard Nixon' s discreet mediation between Moscow and Washington. -- Mayor Edward Koch has lost his golden touch in troubled New York City. -- Democratic Candidate Richard Gephardt is a young man in a hurry...
...doin'?" he used to shout, cocksure that the crowds would reply on cue with the adulation he felt he deserved. Ed Koch was more than merely the mayor of New York City; he was the embodiment of the shining Big Apple: volatile and voluble, fast with a quip or a put-down, an ebullient practitioner of dukes-up chutzpah who liked to march at the head of every parade...
...Koch rarely asks that question anymore. Midway through the third term he won in 1985 with a 76% landslide, the mayor appears battered and snappish as he struggles to maintain his uncertain hold on a turbulent and troubled city. Like Ronald Reagan, Koch is a master showman who finds that he can no longer dazzle his audience. His woes are such that when he was asked to lead a delegation this month to observe progress toward peace in Nicaragua, it offered a pleasant change from New York City...
Until recently New York was a showpiece of urban success, and Koch was credited with leading the city back from the brink of bankruptcy in the mid- 1970s to new heights of prosperity. The jobs created during his ten years as mayor led to a record 3.6 million workers in the city. Manhattan reasserted itself as the dazzling hub of finance and the arts. Even Pope John Paul II gee-whizzed that New York was the "capital of the world...
...city is contesting Lippmann's ruling, and until an appeals court takes up the matter next week, Brown remains at Bellevue. Koch is bitter. "God forbid this woman will go back on the street," he said. If anything happens to Brown, he warns, "the blood of that woman is on the judge's head...