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- July 05, 1993: Retiring:Coleman Young
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- July 05, 1993 Hitting Back At Terrorists
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 19
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- <p> RETIRING. COLEMAN YOUNG, 75, Detroit's first black mayor; in
- Detroit. "I've decided 20 years is enough," said Young, minutes
- after the deadline to file as a candidate for the fall election
- passed, bringing to a dramatic end one of the great big-city
- regimes of the past generation. The former union organizer and
- civil rights activist was first elected mayor six years after
- Detroit's devastating 1967 riots. Young's tenure was marked
- by the racial integration of the police department and a huge
- increase in city contracts with black businesses, in addition
- to a well-intended effort to revitalize Detroit's downtown,
- but he leaves behind a city whose murder and unemployment rates
- rank among the nation's highest. Young weathered several corruption
- scandals, including the conviction of a business partner accused
- of bilking investors through a pyramid scheme. Nonetheless,
- Young insisted last week that he left with "no regrets."
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