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...seemed a difference that was, for an encouraging number of voters, secondary, if not quite overlooked. Nearly a third of King voters were white, Flynn was endorsed by the minister of one of the city's largest black congregations, and the only charge of racism that figured in the exceptionally polite primary campaign was made by one white candidate against an1 other. In all, a decade of ugly racial confrontation overs court-ordered busing was symbolically fading. "We are making history!" shouted King at his victory party at the downtown Parker House. "History! History! History!" Flynn was saying almost...
Boston has chronic illnesses that a brief burst of high spirits will not cure. Of the 30 largest U.S. cities, according to the Census Bureau, Boston is among the poorest, ranking 26th in median household income. The housing stock has deteriorated badly, and rent control, whatever its virtues, does not encourage renovation. Next year's municipal budget deficit is estimated at $40 million. Yet there are King and Flynn: with both men and their constituencies earnestly committed to solving those problems, happier days may be here again...
...watch, folded and unfolded his ubiquitous paper fan. When Okada finally issued the verdict, Tanaka listened with his eyes closed. The three-judge panel found Tanaka guilty of having accepted $2 million in bribes from the Lockheed Corp. during the early 1970s in return for persuading Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, to buy the company's TriStar jets. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $2 million, the amount of the bribe.* At one particularly somber moment, Judge Okada looked directly at the former Prime Minister and sadly noted that his actions...
...fake firms to hide shady financial dealings. Two years later, an official probe led to the Lockheed bribery charges and Tanaka's subsequent arrest. Throughout his travails, however, Tanaka always retained his seat in the Diet, which he first won in 1947. More important, he still controls the largest faction within Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party; of the 422 L.D.P. members in the 763-seat Diet, 119 consider Tanaka their leader. He has played a pivotal role in choosing his three successors, including the current Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone. Tanaka's influence remains so pervasive that...
Come July, 10,000 athletes and 2,000 coaches from 150 nations are expected in Los Angeles, along with 8,200 accredited members of the media, the largest force that has ever covered anything. If anyone needs a sheaf of copy paper, two freight-carfuls are ordered. Ueberroth's staff, which began as one, then became three, will have swelled to perhaps 45,000. A Los Angeles research firm estimates the Games will mean almost $4 billion to the state and local economy. The L.A.O.O.C. will have generated another billion in commerce and, while accepting no charity, will have promoted...