NATION IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : Mayor of Atlanta Returns to 3rd Term

Declaring “I’m back,” Maynard Jackson was inaugurated as Atlanta’s mayor for a third term after an eight-year hiatus. Elsewhere, Pittsburgh’s first elected woman mayor, Sophie Masloff, promised to lower taxes and develop the city’s riverfront at her inauguration, while in Houston, Kathy Whitmire took the oath for a record-tying fifth term as mayor. “I’m back, and I want you to know I’m fired up, turned on and I’m ready to roll. . . . “ Jackson said during his inaugural address, in which he promised to fight homelessness, crime and drugs in Atlanta.