Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This has not endeared her to the owners of many of the 67 art galleries, 31 real estate brokerages and scores of restaurants and bars. It definitely riles Eastwood, a part owner of the town's funky hot spot, the Hog's Breath Inn. When he attempted to construct a new building adjacent to the Hog, as insiders call it, the village government turned him down. Dirty Harry would have handled it one way. Clint chose another. He threatened to sue, and the planning commission approved a modified design...
...dispute led to his newest role. Encouraged by a group headed by a saloonkeeper named Bud Allen, Eastwood stunned the town with his decision to run. Candidate Laub was stunned too but recovered quickly. He stocked CLINT FOR MAYOR T shirts in his stores, giving them only to customers who bought a LAUB FOR MAYOR shirt for $11.95. All of which has made grand entertainment for the camera crews and reporters drawn to Carmel from France, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and points between. The race has even become the target of a running satire in the comic strip Doonesbury...
...have shaken the mayor. Waving a letter from a local woman, Townsend says, "There's a rumor that tour-bus companies are selling tickets to future city council meetings. It's not appropriate." Candidate Clint is not falling for any of that. On the tea-and-cracker circuit around town, he is setting forth his position on burning local issues like "second kitchens." A tradition in Carmel, second kitchens have been put in many cottages to allow older residents to live at home while renting out the rest of the house. A tough new ordinance proposes strictly regulating and possibly...
Eastwood has been doing his own door knocking in the town's four precincts. Dressed in a tie and tweed sports jacket, he tells voters that he too wishes to preserve Carmel. "The residents and the business community must cooperate to solve the parking and tourist problem," he says. The low-key approach and easy smile have won over folks who knew him only from film. The race appears to be between Eastwood and Townsend, but no candidate seems ready to concede. "I'll whip his butt," vows Laub, the T-shirt salesman...
...Israelis living in the frontier town Qiryat Shemona knew that casualties from rocket attacks launched across the border in southern Lebanon would come sooner or later. Last week the inevitable happened. A single Soviet-made Katyusha rocket hit a school yard, injuring four children and one teacher. It was the second such assault on northern Israel in three days...