NATION : Giuliani to Challenge Koch in N.Y.
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NEW YORK — Former federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani, promising an all-out assault on “crime, crack and corruption,” today announced his candidacy for mayor in the battle to unseat Edward I. Koch.
Giuliani, who served as U.S. attorney for Manhattan from 1983 until this January, during which time he led the drive against Wall Street insider-trading and won convictions against New York Mafia bosses, will seek the Republican nomination for mayor.
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