Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After her release from a mental hospital in January, Joyce Brown seemed to have a new start in life. As one of the first homeless people picked up in Mayor Ed Koch's program to take people suspected of being mentally ill off the street, Brown won a controversial test case when a judge ruled that she could not be forced to submit to treatment. The former "Billie Boggs," as she called herself, appeared on Donahue and lectured to Harvard Law School students on the plight of the homeless. She found housing in a somewhat seedy hotel in Times Square...
...mayor of San Francisco, [Dianne Feinstein], a Stanford graduate, attends such clubs while visiting public officials in other cities," Seawell said. "She couldn't invite them to lunch reciprocally at the Bohemian Club...
...part, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is already picking running mates--which should give you some indication of how good his chances are at the nomination. The Boston Herald reported last week that Boston Mayor Ray Flynn has been mentioned by Jackson as a strong possibility. But then, so have Pat Schoeder, Jim Wright, Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro...
...been 20 years since the party that won Texas lost the overall election, so the Democrats could pick San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros in an effort to give Bush a battle in his own front yard. But he doesn't come from Dallas or Houston, and besides, Dukakis has already demonstrated that he can win the Hispanic vote in the South without a Hispanic to translate...
...Mayor Young recognizes the daunting odds against his crusade. "We have more than tripled the number of people arrested," he said last week, "but prison space hasn't tripled. We are putting an additional burden on an already overcrowded system." Young also blames the Federal Government for failing to stanch the flow of cocaine into the U.S: "We're fighting an impossible fight if our city and other cities continue to be inundated by this drug...