Word: sedita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation's first black mayor of a major city, had the aid of white votes in winning a second term against a strong white challenger. In Buffalo, Mayor Frank Sedita, a middle-road Democrat, staved off a black independent challenger and a law-and-order Republican to keep his job-thanks to strong support from the city's blacks...
BUFFALO PATRIOTS The clearest case of a city divided over issues of crime and race may be Buffalo. There, liberal Democrat Frank A. Sedita, 62, a career politician who has served two terms as mayor, is in danger of being unseated by Mrs. Alfreda Slominski, 40, a conservative Republican. It is something of a grudge match...
...Sedita refused to reappoint Mrs. Slominski to the city's school board because of her blunt opposition to using buses to help integrate the schools...
...Mayor Sedita's chances are also hurt by the third candidate, Ambrose Lane, 34, a Negro who has headed antipoverty programs in the area. Running as an in dependent, Lane has little chance himself, but could draw black votes from Sedita. An effective mayor who has improved race relations and helped cut crime, Sedita is in such trouble that both Hubert Humphrey and Democratic National Chairman Fred Harris have come to campaign...
...Edmund Muskie and William Fulbright. Their idea has spread so widely that there is some doubt whether the Senate will be able to collect a quorum on M-Day. The Republican Party's liberal Ripon Society is backing the moratorium. At the community level, Buffalo Mayor Frank A. Sedita has proclaimed his city an official participant, and there will be a mass rally on the city hall steps and an evening bonfire to memorialize Viet Nam war dead...