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Hardly. Each mayor figures that he really is making a difference. Ted Crozier has shaken up the police department; he has even got his 92-man police force to jog it self into shape. Richard Verbic of Elgin, Ill., a dentist, boasts of completing an other kind of bridge - a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: Defiant Mice from City Hall | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

According to FBI officials, Galante then asked the Mafia's governing commission for permission to retire after putting his affairs in order. The commission approved his request. But within a short time the dons discovered that Galante had secretly built up a force of 30 "greenies," hardened young recruits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death in the Afternoon | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Vice Premier, on future plans: "I would like to retire as soon as possible."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Eager to expand his business, Christopher met in 1974 with Lloyd's Broker Peter Nottage and persuasively proposed an idea for a computer-leasing policy that the underwriters eventually accepted. Under it, if corporations or government agencies broke a lease after the obligatory noncancellation period, Lloyd's underwriters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fabled Lloyd's Takes a Bath | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Though they have problems with fleeing refugees of their own, the Chinese angrily rejected Hanoi's claims that the refugees were mostly people escaping from Viet Nam's "socialist transformation." The People's Daily of Peking pointed out that 95% of the 230,000 or so Sino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Save Us! Save Us! | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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