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Koch had to dispel
homosexual rumors
Edward Koch’s election victory
as New York's mayor has brought
to the surface reports about a
whispering campaign during the
race alleging the New York’s next
mayor is a homosexual.
The' whisperers, some of them
associated with Koch’s closest
challenger. New York Secretary of
State Mario Cuomo, were active
throughout the long campaign, but
journalists ignored them or tried to
check the rumors and came up
blank.
Not a shred of evidence that
Koch is a homosexual appeared.
He is a bachelor who lives in
Greenwich Village (when not
working as a congressman in
Washington) and that, apparently,
was enough to cause some people
to start whispering.
“I was petrified about the gay
issue,” Koch campaign strategist
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David Garth wrote in the New
York Daily News. “We were faced
with a decision of whether to
confront it and attack it or ignore
it. We decided to ignore it.”
The dam began to break when
the Oct. 30 New York Times
Sunday magazine published a long
profile of Koch which said that one
of the functions of Koch's constant
campaign companion, Bess
Myers on, “is to dispel rumors that
he is a homosexual.”
An ABC reporter asked Koch
the day of the Times publication if
Myerson’s role in the campaign
served such a function.
Koch called the charge vicious.
He later told a radio reporter: “1
don’t happen to be a homosexual,
but if I were, I would hope that 1
wouldn’t be ashamed of it. God
makes you whatever you are,”
In the last days of the campaign.
the Associated Press was told that
Sam deMilia, president of the
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Associa
tion, had evidence damaging to
Koch, the allegations were that
Koch refused to press charges after
an assault some 12 years ago. The
relevance of this report was never
spelled out, but the implication
was that there were homosexual
overtones.
The AP prepared a story and
showed it to Koch and Cuomo but
did not release it to its clients. The
two candidates denounced the
story, but copies of it were sent
anonymously to newpaper offices.
After Koch, 52, had won, the AP
released a story about the
campaign’s undercurrents
of innuendo. The New York Times
wrote a long story recapping the
A P handling of the allegations.
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MENAHEM BEGIN
Prime Minister
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Foreign Minister
EZERWEIZMAN
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Israel Has Chosen New Leaders—Reinforce This Choice
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On May 17.1977 the people of Israel made a
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In December. 1977 members of all Zionist
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Israel s new government needs responsive
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