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...Hakeman, 66, of Sun City West, uses his new Sun Classic for shopping expeditions and visits to friends' condominiums. Says he: "It's a beautiful machine. It's the first golf cart that doesn't look like one." It is fast becoming an object of envy. Says Larry Koch, 52, who lives near the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo, Calif.: "The Sun Classic is very stylish. A dozen guys have already bought one after seeing mine...
Since he was first elected mayor of New York City in 1977, Edward I. Koch has emerged as a supremely confident entertainer who has fine-tuned his media image into one of the country's most powerful political weapons. Wisecracking, noisy and energetic, Koch has not merely run the city but has also written two memoirs about its often byzantine politics, with himself as the hero. Cramming his days with television appointments and public ceremonies, the three-term mayor had a standard greeting: "How'm I doin'?" Until recently the answer was usually...
...critics are raising their voices. Among them is the mayor's least likely detractor: himself. After a flood of revelations about corruption in New York City government, the feisty Koch came forth last week with an uncharacteristic mea culpa. Said he: "I am embarrassed. I am chagrined. I am absolutely mortified that this kind of corruption could have existed and that I did not know...
Last week Lindenauer was also charged with making "false representations" to gain a $22.7 million parking-bureau computer contract for Citisource, a company partly owned by Stanley Friedman, the Bronx Democratic Party leader and a Koch supporter. As the scandal was breaking, Lindenauer's supervisor, Transportation Commissioner Anthony Ameruso, resigned, as did the director of investigations, the city's anticorruption chief. As many as eight separate city, state and federal investigations are looking into allegations of corruption within various city agencies. "My administration," Koch admitted ruefully, "lost the distance and the controls I had to maintain in order to avoid...
...scandals surrounding Koch have not sullied his own clean-as-a-whistle reputation. But the mayor's exuberant self-assurance, an essential part of his leadership style, has been undermined. The mayor is now apparently trying to revive his old take-charge image after weeks of untypical faltering. "You do not allow the problem to overwhelm you," Koch says. "You have to overwhelm the problem...