Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adopted other children, ultimately eight in all, including blacks and Koreans. He once heard an affluent black doctor at an adoption agency reject a child because he was "too black." Snapped Jones: "Well, I'll take him then." The mayor appointed him the first full-time director of the Indianapolis human rights commission. Jones became increasingly embittered at the racism he encountered. His wife was spat upon while walking with their black child, and when one of his Korean children was killed in a car accident, he later said, he could find white undertaker to bury...
Politicians were particularly impressed. Governor Jerry Brown came to the Peoples Temple. San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, who received important help from Jones in his close 1975 election, appointed him to the city's housing authority in 1976. (Said the mayor about last week's horror: "I proceeded to vomit and cry.") The sheriff and district attorney were temple visitors, but Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally outdid them all by dropping in on the 27,000-acre plantation in Guyana that Jones had acquired...
Teng, meanwhile, was continuing to exact sweet revenge on some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
Despite the anger and disillusionment, a number of Gaza's leaders are unmistakably moderate. Rashad al-Shawa, mayor of the town of Gaza (pop. 118,000) generally favors compliance with the Camp David accords, "but there must be some modifications." His most important demands: 1) participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the negotiations; 2) clarification of the status of the West Bank and Gaza following the five-year interim period; 3) assurances that the Israelis will dismantle their settlements and build no more...
...even if Gaza finally achieves some kind of self-government, its leaders must still find ways of pacifying the dispossessed who dream of returning to their old homes in Israel. "We will have to provide them with places to live in Gaza to help them forget," says Mayor al-Shawa. "And we will have to convince them somehow that they have not moved away from Palestine, but have merely moved from one part of it to another...