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Whether slapping his name on skyscrapers or feuding with New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Developer Donald Trump captures attention. So when the boyish-looking billionaire spent $94,801 on full-page newspaper ads last week to sound off about the Persian Gulf, political observers took notice. Was Trump preparing a run for office...
...Association of Trial Lawyers of America. "It says that potential victims can use deadly force whenever they want." New York City officials hastened to reject that view. "Some will take this as a signal that vigilantes are acceptable, but we will not permit that," said Mayor Ed Koch. Black Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward grimly added, "No one has a license to go out and hunt anyone -- black, green, yellow or whatever...
Ever since she was named Miss America in 1945, Bess Myerson has been accustomed to the flattering spotlight, not the glare of harsh headlines. But now even her friend New York City Mayor Ed Koch concedes that Myerson has % "fallen from grace." Her slide began earlier this year, when she stepped down from her post as the city's commissioner of cultural affairs after her boyfriend, Building Contractor Carl Capasso, was indicted on federal tax- evasion charges. Myerson hit bottom last week when Koch released classified details of an official investigation charging that she had improperly influenced Judge Hortense Gabel...
...judge to help me." Instead, at the sentencing last week of Hanson's landlord, Acting Justice Jeffrey Atlas blasted Hanson and her attorney for publicly criticizing his handling of the trial. That caused Hanson to burst into tears and inspired a storm of outrage from editorialists and Mayor Edward Koch. "How many times must a victim be victimized?" he asked...
...Forever and Ever) go home at the end of October -- they are on loan from the Peking Zoo for only six months -- an estimated 2 million people (2,000 an hour) will have seen and no doubt fallen in love with them. "There's something special about pandas," says Koch. "They bring people back to their childhood...