Word: mayor
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When the trial resumes at noon today, Joseph S. Oteri, chief defense counsel, is expected to call upon Howard Zinn, professor of government at Boston University to testify. Defense may also call the following witnesses under subpoena: Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, city councillors Daniel J. Hayes Jr. and Alfred E. Vellucci, and former city manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo...
...other hand, Teddy Kollek, mayor of the united Jerusalem, says that the present offers both Jews and Arabs "a great opportunity for dialogues and cooperation." But it is clear that Mr. Kollok was somewhat over-optimistic when he called the newly united Jerusalem a "feast of peace," last July. There is no peace between Arabs and Jews and I did not see much feasting going on on either side, let alone together...
...front of the city hall of Nablus there is a large mob. It turns out that everybody wants to see the mayor. As I enter the mayor's office another stereotype vanishes. People in Israel had told me about hand-carved mahogany chairs and tables inlaid with mother-of-pearl. On the contrary, the office is simple, nearly austere. Mayor Hamdi Kan'an is seated in front of a desk with his coat on; the room is under-heated on this unusually cold winter day. In a corner there is one electric heater. Mr. Kan'an tells me that...
...same time there is unemployment. Mayor Kan'an emphasizes this. He admits that there is always a job shortage in Nablus. But previously a man would travel to Amman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia to find employment, often sending money to his family which remained on the West Bank. Now the frontiers are closed. Naturally the Arabs hold the Jews responsible for this economic hardship...
...after a painful summer of experience, a number of government officials had learned that armed repression often did little more than spread the fires of the riot-revolt. In a rare movement of governmental inventiveness Mayor Kevin White produced and directed one of the most daring scenarios in an effort to keep Roxbury off the riot casuality list...