Word: mayors
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PENNSYLVANIA. Democrat Pete Flaherty is considered ahead in the Governor's race, partly because he was a penny pincher even before Proposition 13. As mayor of Pittsburgh, he trimmed the city payroll by about 25% and reduced real estate taxes. Even so, neither Flaherty nor his G.O.P. opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is calling for a state tax cut, since Pennsylvania is running a small deficit. Instead, both are proposing constitutional amendments to limit state spending. As U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Thornburgh sent some 200 gangsters and corrupt public officials to prison. But one of these, Numbers Racketeer Anthony Grosso...
...several months, wall posters in China's capital have been attacking Peking Mayor Wu Teh-most significantly as the RAT'S TAIL OF THE GANG OF FOUR. That menacing epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will...
...reinstate Teng, making him a Deputy Premier in 1973, Wu was among the officials who continued to oppose him. In 1976, when Teng was deposed a second time, for supposedly having fomented riots in Peking's T'ien An Men Square, Wu made a serious mistake. The mayor branded Teng a "capitalist roader," one of the worst insults in the Communist Chinese lexicon. After Teng made his sensational second comeback some 15 months ago, even attempts to save Wu by some key Politburo leaders failed to protect the mayor from the Vice Premier's vengeance...
DIED. Ralph Metcalfe, 68, four-term black Congressman from Chicago's South Side and former champion sprinter who won a 1936 Olympic gold medal with Jesse Owens in the 400-meter relay; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A protege of Mayor Richard Daley's, Metcalfe broke with his mentor in 1972 after complaining of police brutality toward Chicago's blacks, but he continued to win re-election handily without machine support...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy, who appeared at last night's meeting, said he supported the efforts of the anti-extension groups...