Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third consecutive night since Mayor White imposed a 10 p.m. curfew on the Boston Common, large numbers of police were called in last night to disperse crowds numbering in the thousands...
...DIGGERS would up eating most of their food themselves, and never got together again after Mayor Hayes of Cambridge busted them up in his November purge. Headquarters East was a business enterprise that organized no one. And Avatar was published by a tight clique of friends who were interested in reaching the hip people but not in becoming public property. Its editor, Wayne Hanen, was so bombarded with plans to turn his newspaper into a house organ to organize the community that he retreated and let Avatar print the diaries of his neighbors and their children...
...ratification of a proposed commercial treaty with Japan for more than six years. Yet even without a pact, business ties between the two countries have grown so fast that Japan now accounts for 42% of the Philippines' total foreign trade. That trade particularly rankles Manila's mayor, Antonio Villegas, 40, who has shown his displeasure by noisily trying to expel from his city 17 major Japanese firms...
Open-&-Shut Case. To Villegas, who has ambitions to run against Marcos in next year's presidential election, the President was guilty of "undercutting Filipinism." Last month the mayor revoked the business permits of the 17 firms, forcing them to shut down their Manila offices. He then left on a trip to the U.S. During his absence, Marcos persuaded Manila's vice-mayor to allow the Japanese to reopen for business. On his return two weeks ago, Villegas once again ordered their offices closed. He also threatened to sue the companies for tax evasion, said that he might...
...happens to have a home in Makati himself, says he is happy to see the Japanese firms move out of Manila, adds that "if they don't go, I'll force them out by running cockroach inspections for health hazards or something." Responds Makati's mayor, Maximo Estrella, 62: "I don't care what Villegas thinks. They are welcome here as long as no national law is passed banning them." Given the protectionist feelings of many Filipinos, enactment of such a law is an ever-present possibility. In the meantime,' however, Manila's loss...