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...money does make some things easier and is a great blessing but that money "doesn't protect you from life's sufferings. Tears are the same whether they fall on silk damask or cotton." She has current proof of that. She and her husband, a government lawyer and the mayor of Takoma Park, Md., have just separated. With her 14-year-old daughter upstairs and the pain still palpable, she doesn't want to talk further about...
City government has not remained neutral. On the agenda of this week's meeting was a reaffirmation of support for the "duly elected" original leadership of the CSNC by Mayor Shelia Doyle Russell...
Word on the street is that Ruth Messinger, Democratic Mayoral contender, doesn't have a shot against incumbent Republican Mayor Rudolf Giuliani, mainly because of the crime issue (New York is now safer than at any time since 1964), and because the city is reaping the benefits of a strong national economy. Maureen Dowd dubs Giuliani "the happy dictator" in the New York Times, and people crack jokes about how all New Yorkers want is for the trains to run on time...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As if the wrath of Rudy and a terrorist bomb plot weren't creating enough heat for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, a federal advisory panel now wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing...
...have been intended for a terrorist attack on New York's commuter rail system. The early-morning raid forced the evacuation of neighbors and closed down several rush-hour subway lines. Officers shot and wounded two of the three Middle Eastern men in the apartment during the assault. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani said one was shot when he appeared to be trying to detonate one of the explosive devices. Two of the men, identified as Jhazi Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, carried Jordanian passports, according to CNN. The third man reportedly had no identification papers. Police believe the three...