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...mayor isn't there to sit and worry about keeping his job. He's there to do what's best for the people." So proclaims His Honor, Brian Zimmerman, 12, the mayor of Crabb, Texas (pop. 400, dripping wet). Elected in September 1983, Zimmerman is a lifelong student of government who made just one campaign promise: the incorporation of Crabb to hold off annexation by hovering Houston. The town will vote on the idea this week at the Crabb grocery store owned by his grandmother. If the measure passes, young Zimmerman will be out of a job because Texas...
...years after an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy burst 1,850 ft. over the city with a searing, blinding flash, killing 118,000 people within days and dooming nearly as many to slower deaths in later years. In a speech to 55,000 onlookers at Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park, Mayor Takeshi Araki urged the superpowers to abolish nuclear weapons. The goal, said Araki, was "no more Hiroshimas." Afterward, 1,500 doves, symbols of peace, were released into cloudy skies...
...Long and other planners report to Mayor Xiao Yang, 55, a wiry engineer and former vice mayor of Peking who has gained a national reputation as a "city doctor." Says Xiao: "I hope to play that role here. Our population may be large, but unfortunately our economy is not. To make our economy compatible with size is the most serious problem we face." Hopes for improvement focus on developing what Xiao describes as "a comparatively high level of management." Chongqing plants, he believes, should be able to increase exports and thereby provide hard currency to finance such projects as improved...
...year's arrest of a Mafia leader who later turned state's evidence. A deeply shocked Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi immediately summoned his top security officials for an emergency meeting. At midweek an 800-man force of police and carabinieri was flown to Palermo. Declared the city's mayor, Luca Orlando: "We cannot cope on our own. Either there is national action against the Mafia, or Palermo and Sicily will be lost...
...operation before the law was enacted escaped regulation, while others simply ignore it. Although civic protests, police actions and a more recent ordinance governing the operation of the sex arcades have produced some small victories over the porn merchants, police say that only a few arcades have closed. Mayor Kathy Whitmire, who promoted the antiarcade ordinance, is seeking re-election on Nov. 5, and her opponent, former Houston Mayor Louie Welch, has made the proliferating sex industry a major election issue. Said one attorney who is defending several antiarcade cases: "This stuff always comes up around election time, just like...