Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not accuse the mayor of being too friendly with blacks; he blames Lindsay's policies for causing "an upsurge of anti-Semitism." He decries the nightstick approach to crime, but he wants teen-agers accused of violent crimes to be treated like adult offenders, and he wants narcotics addicts swept, from the streets and held without bail when possible. He is skeptical about school decentralization. When accused of racism, he explodes: "That's the dirtiest thing I've seen done in a long time." When he uses the term "law and order," he insists, "The words are not shorthand...
Because many beautiful?and rich ?people are for Lindsay, he will be able to outspend both of his rivals. That is one reason why the mayor may well win re-election after all. Much of the money is expected to go into a TV blitz in the campaign's last...
Really Revolutionary. Instead, Ovando bided his time, counting on winning the presidency legitimately in next year's elections. But things soon began to sour. The mayor of La Paz, another general, entered the presidential race. Radicals in the legislature opened fire on Ovando, charging that he had accepted $600,000 from the U.S.-owned Bolivian Gulf
...million road that was to be built in the Andean foothills. The road was the pet project of Governor Juan Figueroa Funge, 66, of Rio Negro Province, who proudly announced it at his inauguration in Viedma last Au gust. It was also the pet peeve of out spoken Mayor Julio Dante Salto of Cipolletti, 600 miles away. Salto, 55, called the road "folly," and urged that the money be spent on other projects...
...city hall office at high noon one day three weeks ago, he was greeted by a delegation from Viedma: Figueroa's Un dersecretary of Government, Provincial Police Chief Antonio Aller and a no tary public who, Salto was told, had just been sworn in as the new mayor...