Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each election year endorses a slate of candidates who agree to run on the same platform and support the same candidates for mayor and school superintendent. Currently, civic association members hold four of the nine city council slots, and control three of the seven school committee seats...
...Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a late addition to Spenkelink's defense team, called the occasion "a tragic moment in American history" and gibed, "If you work at city hall you get voluntary manslaughter," a caustic reference to the lenient verdict against Dan White, the slayer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
Civil rights or civil war!" chanted 4,000 demonstrators last week in the heart of San Francisco's homosexual community. They were enraged over a jury's lenient verdict of voluntary manslaughter against Dan White, a disgruntled politician who last November shot down San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a homosexual leader...
...protester. "Get out of here, you queer!" a cop shouted back. The toll: 124 people injured, including 59 policemen. When Dan White comes up for sentencing in mid-June, the maximum penalty he can receive is seven years and eight months in prison. Said Moscone's successor, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, of the verdict: "A very hard decision for almost all of us to handle. As I look at the law, it was two murders...
...syndicated columns of any kind (he sends it directly to his 80 clients, thereby avoiding a syndicate's customary fee of 50%) and has so far been unsuccessful in his quest for academy membership. Yoakum, 57, in one column described how the Indians tried to reclaim Manhattan from Mayor Beame, who was only too eager to give it back, and in another, after wincing at the mistakes in a lately deceased friend's obituary, imagined how his own would be botched: "LAKEVILLE, CONN.-Robert Yoakum, syndicated columnist and ... first ad obit Yoakum here today...