Word: mayors
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Last month, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn endorsed a proposal to experiment with a clean needle exchange program for intravenous drug addicts. Although the plan fails to address the question of drug abuse, it has proven very successful in Great Britain in combatting the spread of the disease. Dukakis balked at the plan, and--always a man with open mind--said he would refuse to support it, even if it proved successful in Boston. Apparently, the governor is only willing to support an issue when it is: non-controversial, does not require him to act as a leader and does...
...police have responded to complaints with more patrols. San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos toured the area in an unmarked car and last week announced the addition of 18 extra state narcotics agents to battle the drug traffickers. Residents say cracking down on the crack trade is the only way to halt the violence. The police are not hopeful. "Short of jailing large numbers of people, all we can do is just go out there and stem it as much as we can," says Liljedahl. The transit company has a different answer: when attacks become too frequent, buses are temporarily rerouted...
...cartel's gunmen are thought to have struck as far away as Eastern Europe; a year ago Enrique Parejo Gonzalez, Colombia's Ambassador to Hungary, was ambushed in Budapest. Last November men armed with guns attacked the home of Juan Gomez Martinez, a candidate for mayor of Medellin who vows to fight the drug scourge if he wins an election scheduled for March 13. They missed their target, and Gomez Martinez now campaigns under the protection of six bodyguards...
Andres Pastrana Arango, a mayoral candidate in Bogota, also ran afoul of the cartel. Two months ago, he was kidnaped from his office and taken, blindfolded, to a hideout near Medellin. After seven days he was released. Police raided the house where he had been held and uncovered a cache of weapons that included more than a dozen U.S.-made AR-15 rifles as well as Austrian-manufactured assault weapons and Israeli Uzi submachine guns. Also found were assorted 9-mm pistols, infrared night-vision scopes and a sniper rifle. "They have the kind of arms you only...
Last week's cloudbursts killed at least 90 people and raised February's death toll in Rio state to more than 280. An additional 735 people were injured and more than 17,000 left homeless. Mayor Saturnino Braga said the city would have to spend $100 million to make repairs...