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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King last night condemned Reagan Administration arms policy and asserted underprivileged groups' rights and need for self-awareness...

Author: By George S. Canellos, | Title: King Backs Minority and Poor Voters | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

...away from glamorous downtown and harbor-front development toward rebuilding Boston's neglected working-class neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly matched, in fact, that when voters in last week's nonpartisan primary picked them as the two mayoral finalists out of an eight-candidate field, Melvin King got just 98 more votes (out of a record 165,688 cast) than City Councilman Raymond Flynn. So will the general election, four weeks from now, be a blah choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Only if one overlooks the fact that Ray Flynn is white and Mel King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston Wins by a Landslide | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...little children, helping Jason's pregnant wife do her exercises, or just staring, wide-eyed, at Jason, she is about as engaging as a Hallmark card. Although Steenburgen does try, there's no room for the pizzazz of her Oscar-winning portrayal of the long-suffering wife in Melvin and Howard here...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: XYZ, PDQ | 10/13/1983 | See Source »

...Melvin H. King will vote at 8 a.m. at Hynes Auditorium on Boylston Street. Spokesman Jacqueline Dee said yesterday that at least 2500 workers will work in 150 precincts around the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Final Day for Some | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...MORE THAN 15 years of major public service, Melvin H. King has been a steady force for change in Boston, a vocal and forceful advocate for the city's dispossessed, the city's tenants, and the city's workers. Today he is facing seven other candidates in a preliminary election that will determine which two compete for the city that Kevin H. White has ruled for 16 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mayor Who Should Be King | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

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