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Controversy has swept the Yale campus as Yale students battle it out for their one anticipated seat on the New Haven Board of Aldermen...
Michaelson said that only the university's corporation can prompt divestiture and that the Board of Aldermen has no influence over local tax rates...
...Operation Incubator," the FBI investigation into Chicago corruption, proceeded for 2 1/2 years, speculation was rife that it might taint Mayor Harold Washington. When five indictments were finally handed up last week, two of the seven men charged were indeed black aldermen belonging to a bloc in the city council that supports Washington. But the charges, involving bribery to win city contracts for collecting unpaid parking tickets and water bills, fell far short of an attack on the mayor. To the contrary, U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas praised Washington for his cooperation. Said Valukas: "The mayor is not a target...
...killed itself," Mayor Harold Washington said jubilantly last week of Chicago's once powerful political machine after his two candidates triumphed in special elections for the 50-member city council. The victories at last / erased the so-called majority bloc of 29 aldermen led by an implacable Washington foe, Cook County Democratic Chairman Edward R. Vrdolyak. The majority had stymied the mayor during his three years in office, blocking appointments and frustrating his efforts to reduce a $78 million budget deficit. Seven special aldermanic elections this year, including last week's, have left the council divided into Washington and Vrdolyak...
...York and Chicago, Burnett was monitored by the FBI on a 24-hour basis. He continued trying, unsuccessfully, to win a contract for S.R.S. to collect payment on $300 million worth of Chicago parking tickets, a process that involved alleged payoffs to four aldermen and a city administrator. S.R.S. Owner Bernard Sandow boasted to Burnett that the company had also bribed important New York City officials. The FBI was listening in: Sandow's bragging may have resulted in last week's indictment against Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former New York parking-violations-bureau official accused of extorting some $313,000 from...