Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. "It says that potential victims can use deadly force whenever they want." New York City officials hastened to reject that view. "Some will take this as a signal that vigilantes are acceptable, but we will not permit that," said Mayor Ed Koch. Black Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward grimly added, "No one has a license to go out and hunt anyone -- black, green, yellow or whatever...
...country, naturally there are levels of concern." Willi Daume, a West German I.O.C. member who presided over the 1972 Munich Games, thinks that removing the Olympics from Seoul at this stage could even heat up the deteriorating situation in South Korea. On the other hand, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley last week offered his city, site of the 1984 Games, as an alternative to Seoul...
...should never be so concerned about anything that we stop caring for each other," Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young declared last week. That pastoral attitude, says Young, was the reason for his March 25 telephone call to the estranged wife of his friend and political colleague Julian Bond, cautioning her about allegations of cocaine use she was making to the police. Those charges implicated Bond, Young and other prominent Atlantans. (She later retracted the charges, which were denied by both Young and Bond.) A grand jury took up the case...
Last week, however, U.S. Attorney Robert Barr announced that Young would not be indicted for obstruction of justice, despite indications that federal statutes were violated. Said the mayor: "You are innocent until proven guilty. What ((Barr)) said was there was not enough evidence to prove me guilty. That's innocent enough...
...city's skid row. From a distance, the rows of yellow- and-white canopies look as if they might have been set up for a garden party. But inside are only Army-green cots with portable toilets placed nearby. Guards from the Salvation Army, which worked with Mayor Tom Bradley to establish the settlement, frisked the 350 new residents for weapons, liquor or drugs...