Word: mayors
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...surprise announcement, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci told the council that he had discussed ways to improve the city's rent control system with Michael H. Turk and William S. Noble of the Cambridge Tenants Union. Vellucci indicated the two would support a means test--which would link tenants' eligibility for rent control to their income...
Ignatenko spent four days in Miami with bureau chief James Carney, who speaks Russian. He met Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez, toured the building of the Miami Herald -- and squeezed in a few hours on the beach. We urged him to stay longer, but he had to fly home to Moscow to prepare for another trip. His destination: Beijing, where he arrives this week to plan coverage of the Sino- Soviet summit...
...boss who had lost his uncontested election race for the new legislature, charged that Kremlin initiatives like the antialcoholism campaign and the program to foster cooperative businesses had been carried out with "inconsistency, haste and insufficient thought." Of perestroika, Solovyov said, the "minuses still significantly exceed the pluses." Moscow Mayor Valeri Saikin, another election loser, questioned whether democracy had not come to mean "everything is permitted...
...York Mayor Ed Koch, for one, does not care to hear excuses for the violence of the young. "You name one societal reason," he said, "that would cause people to engage in a wolf-pack operation, looking for victims." Throughout the week sociologists obliged, proffering familiar theories about why many delinquents of this generation do not content themselves with stealing hubcaps and breaking windows. The experts argue that too many families are broken, too many schools and communities are crumbling, too many drugs are available for children to acquire a sturdy sense of mercy or morality to guide their behavior...
...equivalent of the head of an election commission in a state election cooperating with one party rather than the other party," Wolff said. "It's the sort of thing [former Chicago Mayor] Richard Daley used to do, not the sort of thing I thought Harvard would...