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...conductor's incomprehensible explanation. "I'm afraid to get in that subway system even when I'm with my bodyguard," says Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a Long Islander. "Even my bodyguard is afraid." Although it was clearly an overstatement ("I think he should change his bodyguard," retorted Mayor Edward Koch), New Yorkers know what D'Amato means. Since the city's fiscal crisis and the cutbacks of the 1970s, the elderly subway system has been in decline. A report done by the Straphangers' Campaign, a consumer-advocacy group, showed that one out of five cars had bad lighting. Ridership...
...empty boxes to the bogus addresses, but the jewels left the store in the customers' pockets. Similar tax scams could be depriving New York State and local governments of more than $100 million in tax revenue annually; several retailers are still under investigation. Said New York City Mayor Ed Koch: "Tax evaders be warned. This is only the beginning...
...takeover targets in order to sell it for a higher price once the merger takes place, walked away with a $300 million windfall. When some 50 of the speculators attended a dinner for Pickens last June at the Regency Hotel on Manhattan's Park Avenue, New York Mayor Edward Koch gave him a crystal replica of the city's symbol, the apple, in honor of the $50 million that the Gulf fight had brought to New York City in the form of legal fees and payments for other services. Midway through the evening a chimpanzee on roller skates suddenly appeared...
...Beltway mind works was illustrated the other day when New York City Mayor Ed Koch came to Washington and dined with the resident media. He was chided about the comparative records of subway crime in New York and Washington. His Honor looked incredulous, something he is a master at. His voice rose like a buzz...
...York Civil Liberties Union promptly denounced the mayor's decree as an unconstitutional restraint on personal freedom. Scoffed Koch: "Does this make any sense? Do people have a right to simply go out, if they are not in full possession of their faculties, and kill themselves?" In fact, few of the homeless chose to be out in the cold. On the first night of the sweep, the police picked up only 14 street people, two of whom went against their will. One, a woman of 66, protested that she was "waiting for a ship to take me back to Panama...