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DIED. Dan White, 39, former San Francisco supervisor who in 1978 shot to death the city's mayor, George Moscone, and its first openly homosexual supervisor, Harvey Milk; by his own hand (carbon-monoxide poisoning); in San Francisco. At his 1979 trial, White pleaded "diminished capacity," contending that a diet of sugary junk food had aggravated his severe psychological problems, an argument that became known as the "Twinkie defense." When White was convicted only of voluntary manslaughter, 5,000 rioters, most of them gays, stormed city hall. Following his release after five years in prison, White, unemployed and dogged...
...races for mayor, the Incumbency Party captured the majority nearly everywhere. New York City's flamboyant Ed Koch joined Fiorello La Guardia (1934-45) and Robert Wagner (1954-65) as the Big Apple's only other three-term mayor in this century. Detroit's Coleman Young was re-elected to his fourth term and Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich was returned for his third term in a predominantly Democratic town. All three cities are enjoying economic revivals. Incumbent mayors also won easily in Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Hartford...
...Houston a present incumbent whipped a past one. Kathy Whitmire, Houston's first woman mayor, a no-nonsense former accountant who runs the city like a large corporation, breezed to her third two-year term by defeating a former five-term mayor and chamber of commerce president, Louie Welch. Welch attempted to make Whitmire's support from the homosexual community a campaign issue, but it backfired when he remarked that one way to get rid of AIDS was to "shoot the queers...
...Miami the rise of Cuban political power led to the fall of Puerto Rican-born Mayor Maurice Ferre in a blustery eleven-man race. For the past twelve years Ferre had adroitly managed to hold together a coalition of Miami's black, Hispanic and white voters. He lost black support when he pushed out black City Manager Howard Gary last year; Cubans, who now compose 36% of Miami's electorate, also turned out in large numbers against him. After a close race in which outrageous charges and name-calling were routine, two Cuban-born candidates, Raul Masvidal and Xavier Suarez...
...painful admission for the man who has been a bright star among the nation's black politicians, yet Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode swallowed hard last week and faced it straight on. In a return appearance before a commission of investigators that he had appointed to look into the police helicopter bombing of a radical, back-to-nature cult's row house last May, the mayor acknowledged some degree of culpability in the events that left eleven dead, 61 houses destroyed by fire and 250 people homeless. "Could [I] have made a better decision?" the mayor asked the commission. "The answer...