Word: mayors
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Homosexuals won key ballot victories in two Western states. Californians followed the advice of civil liberties groups and conservatives and rejected Proposition 6, which would have enabled local school boards to fire teachers who are gay or who advocate homosexuality. Said Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "It was a measure against not just the rights of gay teachers but the civil rights of us all." In Seattle, voters retained a law that bars landlords and employers from discriminating against homosexuals. But in Florida, Miami-area voters refused to endorse a gay rights bill...
...Arabs also have a grudging respect for the man who has planned or supervised most of the improvements in the Old City for the past eleven years: Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek, 67. A pudgy, sometimes abrasive human dynamo, Kollek has a profound sense of the city's history; after the 1967 occupation of East Jerusalem, he was instrumental in preventing the Israeli government from tearing down the walls of the Old City. Since then, Kollek has built many parks, play grounds, community centers, libraries and clinics in East Jerusalem, thereby risking the charge by nationalist Israelis that...
During his historic visit to Jerusalem a year ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat expressed delight at meeting "the world's most famous mayor." Sadat was not far from the mark. For nearly 13 years, ebullient, tough-talking and relentlessly energetic Teddy Kollek, 67, has presided over Jerusalem in an evenhanded, unceremonious way. On election day last week, Kollek halted a breathless, last-minute round of electioneering to talk with Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and TIME'S Robert Slater about his goals for the city...
...relationship among Jews, Christians and Arabs. After all, in spite of the loyalty of the East Jerusalem Arabs to Jordan, and to the Palestine Liberation Organization, for many the great power is Egypt, with its 40 million Arabs. The fact that there is an agreement may mean the mayor of Cairo will visit here. All this must have its effect on an easing of real relationships. They are already pretty good. This is really one city. Certainly a mayor can walk around here more easily than he can in many cities...
...imagine an Arab mayor very easily because I think the Jewish predilection for a very, very long time will be to elect a Jewish mayor. But I can very well see Arabs on the city council, Arabs responsible for different departments and, of course, an Arab borough president...