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...York City. Last week Leonard Sand, a soft-spoken, patient federal judge, got fed up with that city's refusal over three years to carry out his orders to place public housing in its white neighborhoods. Gazing down sternly from his bench in Manhattan at four Yonkers councilmen, the jurist delivered a tongue- lashing. "What we're clearly confronted with is a total breakdown of any sense of responsibility," he charged. "What we have here is a competition to see . . . who can be the biggest political martyr. There does have to come a moment of truth, a moment when...
...build 800 units of moderate-income housing. The judge began levying fines that doubled daily against the city and would leave it bankrupt later this month. Yonkers promptly lost its already poor bond rating, rendering it unable to borrow. Fines of $500 a day were imposed on the recalcitrant councilmen...
Vowing a war on patronage, Washington pushed through a tough ethics law for city officials and expanded city contracts for women and minorities. Yet his tenure was not entirely free of scandal: seven city officials, including two black councilmen who are allies of the mayor, have been indicted on federal bribery and kickback charges. Despite the mayor's soaring rhetoric, there were few improvements in Chicago's notoriously inadequate public schools or the city's crime-ridden public housing projects...
...Stoss, by now a man in his late 50s or early 60s, was branded on both cheeks for that. In later years he was in and out of dungeon and lived under a cloud of civic disapproval, while Durer, some 30 years his junior, dined with humanists and councilmen and enjoyed a life stipend from Emperor Maximilian...
...SUPRISINGLY, most of the opposition to the new ordinance stems not from a disregard for the homeless, but from the fear--expressed by residents--that the relocated homeless would be concentrated in lower-cost housing areas like East and North Cambridge. Residents and councilmen from these areas forsee their neighborhoods becoming supersaturated, while the wealthier areas of West Cambridge remain untouched...