Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California Chief Justice Rose Bird to do twice-weekly commentaries for their evening newscasts. Bird, who was voted off the bench in 1986, made a shaky debut when she delivered a commentary in rhyme on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. KGO then added former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, out of office just two months, as an occasional analyst. Her first topic: the Bay City's budget deficit, and why it is not her fault...
...with Edith Schwartz. The couple married, and Charles Strauss opened a dry- goods store in Stamford that, if it didn't keep the family from being poor, did keep them from being impoverished. There were two children, Robert and his brother Ted, 62, now a businessman married to the mayor of Dallas, Annette Strauss...
...what may have been the largest such U.S. police honor guard. "If our son Eddie, sitting in a police car representing and protecting us, can be wasted by scum, then none of us is safe," said his grieving father Matthew, a retired New York police lieutenant. New York Mayor Edward Koch called Byrne a "martyr in what amounts to a war for national survival...
Many local officials were far from impressed by the federal efforts. After calling the President a "wimp" in the drug war, New York's caustic Mayor Koch complained that "we are sending economic aid to countries that are killing our children. We are paying for our own lynching." Arguing for massive military interdiction, Koch declared, "The Communists aren't crossing our borders. The drugs are. The political aim of the drug traffickers is to make addicts...
...Mayor Coleman Young announced last November that the city would step up its fight against drug dealers. "We're going to hit them and hit them hard," Young declared. He beefed up narcotics squads and ordered police to shut down at least a dozen crack houses a day. Police began soliciting tips from citizens on a "dope hotline." In December and January, Detroit cops increased warrants and arrests on drug charges by 375% over the same period a year earlier. Last week a grand jury returned indictments against 22 people allegedly involved in the Chambers brothers' drug ring, an organization...