Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard has been conspicuous with its absence," Bernard Flynn, administrative assistant to Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said, adding, "They come out on top, no matter what they...
...Middletown (pop. 11,000), the streets were unusually empty. Some teenage boys played basketball outside an elementary school. Many residents were following instructions to remain inside their houses and to keep air conditioners turned off to limit the intake of any contaminated air. To prevent looting, Mayor Robert Reid imposed a 9 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. The Red Cross was ready for any full-scale evacuation. It was no new thing, in a way; the town had been cleared during several recent floods, dating from the big one of 1972. Across the river, tiny Goldsboro (pop. 600) was virtually...
...howls from states and communities that depend on military payrolls. In Homestead, Fla., 30 miles south of Miami, businessmen are worried about the economic impact of the transfer of a 1,650-man contingent from Homestead Air Force Base to installations in North Carolina and Texas. The rebilleting, says Mayor Nicholas Sincere, would slash the $105 million local military spending by about $25 million...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Tom Moody is doing more than that to counter the Pentagon's plans to ship about 1,400 men out of nearby Rickenbacker Air Force Base. Moody and colleagues have set up a committee to find uses for a deserted base. So far four companies have said they might be interested...
...black flags and banners denouncing the Egyptian "treason." In west Beirut, shops were closed in protest. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian residents went on strike, businesses were shut down for the day and schools were ordered closed for another week by the military government. Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij declared the occasion "a day of shame for Begin, Sadat and Carter," and Ramallah Mayor Kharem Khalef called it "a day of mourning in the history of the Palestinian people...