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...Village Voice readership instead of a New York magazine one, the kind of people who'd have been in the radical, non-socialist or moderately socialist wing of a 1930s Popular Front. Most of the old-time Democrats don't think much of these people, but from Richard Daley on down they evidently feel that along with blacks and women they're needed to capture elections, and maybe that they're easily cajoled into doing so: "Let's go fishing," said Brecht's angler to the worm...
...compromise was overwhelmingly approved by the delegates, who clearly delighted in their new peacemaking image. Even Mayor Richard Daley, who had been excluded by McGovernites from the 1972 convention, and the Illinois delegation voted aye, producing a standing ovation from the delegates, including a group of blacks only a few feet from the beaming Daley. But approval was not unanimous, particularly in the labor ranks...
...weekends were killed by firearms, and of these, all but one by handguns. In the midst of a community outcry for tighter controls on weapons, the Chicago Tribune called on Congress to prohibit the manufacture of all handguns and handgun parts in the U.S. "Guns," says Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, "are the No. 1 problem in the city...
...simple solution is a "free," secret-ballot election. Elections are certainly desirable, but merely calling for them now is not enough. This proposal fails to take into account the context in which any elections would now take place. In widely different cases, General Nguyen van Thieu and Mayor Richard Daley have shown that elections are not the be-all and end-all they are sometimes thought to be, even where formal safeguards for democracy exist. Considering the long history of bought loyalties, misrepresentation, well-documented corruption and open violence in the California labor struggle, truly free and representative elections seem...
...triple play was set up by Republican U.S. Attorney James R. ("Big Jim") Thompson, 38. Earlier, he obtained convictions against former Governor Otto Kerner, Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett and five other alder men. But "this time," said Thompson, "the system was on trial." Daley, 72, who had a mild stroke last May, is considering running for a sixth term next year...