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Iran has several times linked any effort on behalf of the hostages to the release of Iranian assets. It calculates those to be worth far more than the amount unfrozen last week, including perhaps what it claims are $12 billion in weapons purchased from the U.S. but never delivered. So...
In fact, the deal had been reviewed in the White House by the National Security Council and approved by George Bush, who had been urging the State Department to press ahead in the complicated claims-settlement process. At his press conference last week the President admitted to a hope that...
For more than two decades, blacks in New York City watched longingly as African-American mayors took control of a score of major cities. Though they constituted Gotham's second largest ethnic group, blacks had not won a single citywide office. Last week they finally exulted in a triumph of...
New York Governor Mario Cuomo observes that what Dinkins does with his victory is "more relevant" than the number of votes that carried him into office. If the new mayor is to justify the hopes invested in him, he will have to display something more than the clubby conciliation that...
Dinkins' campaign manager Bill Lynch insists that the new mayor's consensus- building style will enhance his ability to deal with New York's seemingly intractable problems. Says Lynch: "The image that you have to be a tough guy to be mayor of New York is wrong." Perhaps, but the...