Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent for peacemaking in crisis. When the Dominican Republic exploded in 1965, Vance supervised the U.S. military effort to prevent a Communist takeover. He directed the force of federal troops that restored quiet to Detroit after last summer's riots, and last month advised the capital's Mayor Walter Washington in the violence following Martin Luther King's assassination. In November, Vance negotiated a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus crisis; in February he soothed irate South Koreans who wished to retaliate when a North Korean commando squad attempted to assassinate President Chung Hee Park just two days...
...Common Council into enacting an open-occupancy statute that matched a state law and covered some 33% of the city's housing units. When Congress last month passed the federal open-housing bill in the aftermath of the riot-commission report and Martin Luther King's assassination, Mayor Henry Maier asked the council for an ordinance to keep pace with the federal...
...Florida, U.S. Rep. Edward Gurney won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, rolling to a landslide victory over Herman Goldner, former mayor of St. Petersburg. Gurney is an arch-conservative...
LAST Thursday the mayor of Marks, Mississippi faced national TV cameras with a furrowed brow. In Memphis, The Rev. Ralph Abernathy of SCLC was preparing to lead a contingent of poor people from the place where Martin Luther King was shot to Marks, a very small, very dusty Delta town, on the first leg of the Poor People's Campaign...
...worried," the mayor told an NBC newsman. "I don't know how they can do this to us. We're such a small town, I just don't understand how they can do this to us. We've always had such good relations with our colored people...