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Mayor David N. Dinkins, who was stricken with flu during the weekend, was released from the hospital Monday morning and then returned in the afternoon after tests showed he had a bacterial infection.

Former New York Mayor David N. Dinkins and two congressmen were among 14 people arrested as they protested last month's fatal police shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant. Reps. Charles B. Rangel and Gregory Meeks, both Democrats, as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton, were part of those arrested at police headquarters and charged with criminal trespass. Police fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo on Feb. 4, hitting him 19 times.

Former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins was moved out of intensive care into a regular room Friday at the Medical University of South Carolina, a hospital spokeswoman said. Dinkins was listed in satisfactory condition at the hospital, where he underwent triple bypass heart surgery Thursday.

Former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins was moved out of intensive care into a regular room Friday at the Medical University of South Carolina, a hospital spokeswoman said. Dinkins was listed in satisfactory condition at the hospital, where he underwent triple bypass heart surgery Thursday.

Mayor David N. Dinkins cut his own salary and that of nearly 700 other New York City bureaucrats by 5% in a move reflecting the city's financial woes. The cut will trim the mayor's $130,000 annual salary by $6,500. Dinkins also froze salaries for 4,000 other managerial employees for a total estimated savings of more than $4 million.

Former New York Mayor David N. Dinkins and two congressmen were among 14 people arrested as they protested last month's fatal police shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant. Reps. Charles B. Rangel and Gregory Meeks, both Democrats, as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton, were part of those arrested at police headquarters and charged with criminal trespass. Police fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo on Feb. 4, hitting him 19 times.

Mayor David N. Dinkins ordered the hiring of 1,058 new police officers for expanded street patrols to combat "a surge in violence" in New York City. Among recent violent incidents have been the slayings of four children by stray bullets and the murders of 19 cab drivers. The mayor said he "scraped, scratched and squeezed" to find $24 million in the $27.8-billion fiscal 1991 city budget to pay for the officers. The police force now numbers 26,000.

Mayor David N. Dinkins has asked that an outside counsel be appointed to investigate some of his activities as Manhattan borough president. Susan E. Shepard, whom Dinkins appointed as city commissioner of investigation, told the City Council's Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections that the mayor had told her to appoint an independent counsel.

Investigators said they found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by New York Mayor David N. Dinkins in the transfer of stock to his son. But they said that efforts to authenticate a handwritten letter as proof of the sale were inconclusive. "We have not cleared him. We have simply concluded the evidence is legally insufficient to warrant a criminal prosecution," said independent city investigator Elkan Abramowitz.

Mayoral candidate David N. Dinkins was shaken up but not seriously injured after he was involved in an auto accident en route to a campaign appearance Sunday, an aide said. "Basically it was a bump on the head," said Stanley Davis, deputy press secretary for Dinkins, who is Manhattan borough president. Dinkins and three others were riding in a car that was broadsided by another auto. Dinkins was the winner of the Democratic mayoral primary this month.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the tough-talking former federal prosecutor whose campaign stressed crime, competence and a better business climate, Tuesday was elected New York City's first Republican chief executive in more than a quarter of a century, defeating Mayor David N. Dinkins in a cliffhanger election. With 99% of the vote counted, Giuliani had 51% of the vote and Dinkins had 48%. Giuliani won even though both his running mates lost.

This city's bitter and close mayor's race concludes today with questions about whether core supporters of David N. Dinkins will turn out as they did to elect him four years ago and whether some voters have been telling pollsters the truth. The contest pitting Dinkins, New York's first black mayor, against former federal prosecutor Rudolph W. Giuliani is an important test of the pulling power of President Clinton in a major urban setting.

Like a carnival barker, the old man leads the procession, past the Odessa Restaurant, past the stalls of food and clothes and dime store toys, down into the milling crowd gathered beneath the old El on Brighton Beach Avenue at the tip of Brooklyn. A cane in one hand, a microphone in the other, he cries out above the buzz of the street in a voice thin with years and thick with a distant accent. "Meet the next mayor of New York," he says. "Meet Rudy Giuliani!"

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan opted Saturday to delay his Yankee Stadium rally until after the Nov. 2 election, clearing a potential obstacle from the reelection hopes of Mayor David N. Dinkins. But Leonard H. Muhammad, chief of staff for the Nation of Islam, denied that there was any political motivation in the decision to postpone the planned Oct. 30 gathering. "This should not be used in a political way," Muhammad said.

He stood on the street beneath a second-floor dental and medical clinic in Spanish Harlem with a large windblown blue-and-white banner proclaiming "El Pueblo Con Giuliani" as supporters of Mayor David N. Dinkins started heckling. "This is going to be a very close election and the Latino vote is crucial to it," Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former federal prosecutor who once again is running for mayor, told a small but attentive crowd. "What you see are the dying gasps of an Administration.

A comprehensive state report concluded Tuesday that Mayor David N. Dinkins "failed to act in a timely and decisive manner" to protect lives and property during a four-day outbreak of racial violence in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in August, 1991. The rioting--between Hasidic Jews and blacks in the long-troubled community--was the worst in New York City in more than two decades.

Federal prosecutors said in New York City that they have closed an eight-month investigation into Mayor David N. Dinkins' sale of cable stock to his son and will not file criminal charges. In a brief statement, prosecutor Andrew Manloney said the investigation "has been completed without the filing of criminal charges." Questions centered on whether Dinkins gave 588 shares of Inner City Broadcasting Corp. stock to his son, David Jr.

Those strongholds of modern liberalism, New York and Los Angeles, are playing out political dramas with remarkably similar scripts these days as both cities flirt with the idea of letting Republicans take the reins of municipal power. As both cities struggle with recession and racial strife, a sense of gloom surrounds local politics, and two Democratic leaders at the center of hard-fought mayoral races are finding that traditional answers to urban problems are not such an easy sell.

New York Mayor David Dinkins and Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder were two of 21 speakers at the funeral service for Arthur Ashe, held at the Arthur R. Ashe Jr. Athletic Center in Richmond, Va. Ashe, who died Saturday of AIDS-related pneumonia, was buried in a suburban Richmond cemetery beside his mother.