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Died. Oscar Diego Gestido, 66, President of Uruguay since last March; of a heart attack; in Montevideo. A former air force general, Gestido was elected to succeed a free-spending nine-man council and save Uruguay from bankruptcy. It seemed a futile hope until October, when soaring inflation and rumors of a coup spurred him to impose a series of stiff reforms, which were greeted by such howls of indignation that he was forced to declare martial...
...uninspiring nine-man, one-woman field of candidates will face Bostonians voting in tomorrow's preliminary Mayoralty election. Faced with ranting of School Committee Member Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, the arrogance of former Redevelopment Administrator Edward J. Logue, and seven non-entities in the race, voters would do well to choose Secretary of State Kevin H. White...
Though he will have considerably broader authority than the city's cumbersome three-man executive board, Washington, who will govern with a yet to be appointed nine-man city council, will have less authority than most other big-city mayors. Not only will he owe his $28,500 job ($6,500 less than he made in New York) to the White House rather than the city's voters, but he must also pass his budget through Congress, most particularly the frequently unsympathetic House District Committee...
...Church Comes First. Owned by the church, the News is closely supervised by the church. Three of its nine-man board of directors belong to the Council of the Twelve Apostles, the church's governing body. Most of its editorial staffers are Mormons; some are summoned from their jobs to go on missions, and they never refuse. The paper accepts no ads for alcoholic beverages, cigarettes or even coffee-unless it is part of a general grocery ad. Staffers are not allowed to smoke in news offices. "It is church property: sacred," says Managing Editor Theron Liddle...
Dead-End Street. Newark's Negroes find plenty wrong with the city. Although Newark has two Negroes on its nine-man city council, neither was on hand to fill the ghetto's leadership vacuum during the riots: Councilman Irvine Turner was ill; Councilman Calvin West was in Boston for a convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The city has no civilian review board (Mayor Addonizio refers all charges of police brutality to the FBI). Nor did it have any Negro police officers above the rank of lieutenant before last week (when Addonizio hastily...