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Payback of the Week

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David Ellis

ED KOCH

New York City’s ex-mayor opposed the civil rights bill, explaining, “Anything that Ted Kennedy does other than teach swimming is always something you ought to look at twice.” He also called the Senator a murderer. Said a Kennedy spokesman: “I don’t think anyone takes Koch seriously.”

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