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...rumblings of growing political power were loud enough to attract the Democrat with the keenest sense of grass-root organization, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Although Jackson, as director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, has been one of Daley's most outspoken critics, the mayor was on hand to help open Black Expo. Awkwardly clasping Jackson's hand in a "soul handshake," Daley forced a smile for the television cameras, then toured the exhibits. His presence testified to the political and economic clout that Black Expo had been set up to evoke...
...more jobs now, no more anything." This summer, many blacks have shifted from marches and demonstrations to more pragmatic political activity that often paid off in local elections; blacks have begun to take over many city offices. Says the Rev. Ed Reddick, director of research for Operation Breadbasket in Chicago: "There may have been an awareness that violence is self-defeating, that you have to work for political and economic power...
...text seems to be taken from Spiro Agnew. Ironically, one of the nation's most effective black leaders has now made the same criticism. In the more incendiary days of black militance, says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, the nation's press was like an electrocardiogram, recording every spasm. Recently Jackson fought unsuccessfully through the courts to win a place on the ballot in a mayoral election against Chicago's Richard Daley. Currently Operation Breadbasket and other black organizations are laboring all over the U.S. to give black Americans an increased...
...sacks. The agribusiness entrepreneurs of California's San Joaquin Valley have had another good year in cotton. The peaches of Comus, Md., have rarely been juicier. Helminthosporium maydis-the wind-borne spore of Southern corn blight-has appeared in the richest corn fields of the American breadbasket, and the damage has been serious. Yet the U.S. will still have the third best corn crop in its history...
...Chicago had a minor incident in the uptown section of the North Side last week, Deputy Police Su; perintendent Samuel Nolan is "not anticipating any serious problems-though > we recognize the possibilities at any given time." The Rev. Calvin Morris, a J, black who is Chicago director of Operation Breadbasket, disagrees: "We're 1 in store for a lot of trouble. People are I tense and mistrustful, and the police are tense and mistrustful." In the De? troit area, Wayne County Sheriff William Lucas expects some flare-ups in the inner city but worse incidents in suburbs with smoldering...