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They are profiting from the resurgence of faith in the old party organization. The eight flashy years of the Lindsay administration are regarded as a failure and the myth that a tight Democratic organization can run things well--the false philosophy that mayors like Richard Daley of Chicago provide better city services than "reformers" like Lindsay--has turned and electorate toward the leaders and their unexciting candidate...
...Chicago street gangs soon after he was elected in 1968. The Black P. Stone Nation on the South Side was the largest. It had several thousand members, and was turning from traditional gang activities to organizing for political and economic action. The group posed a threat to Mayor Daley's control of ghetto votes and became a prime target for Daley's machine. The Black Panthers, despite its tiny membership in Illinois, were considered an even greater threat. The Panthers were trying to keep gangs from fighting each other and to direct everyone's efforts against city hall. They...
...Hanrahan and his co-defendents were acquitted, but his actions cost the Daley machine plenty. Hanrahan's defeat in last fall's election let in a Republican State's Attorney who has been prosecuting and convicting corrupt Democratic officials for the past year...
Rallies, marches and meetings are being held everywhere. In Los Angeles, 2,000 people turned up at the Century Plaza to hear their favorite Gentile champion, Senator Henry Jackson. The Chicago Civic Center was jammed with 5,000 people who applauded an enraged Mayor Richard Daley: "Go ahead, Israelites. Be sure to remove every Arab from the soil of Israel." The same night, 70,000 showed up at temples and synagogues for a fund-raising effort that included an appearance by Senator Edmund Muskie...
...justice in inves tigating the facts of the police raid, in which the killings were presented as "self-defense." Arlen surrounds his tri al narrative with the atmospherics of Chicago. But it is mostly offhand, as if Arlen knows, as the reader knows, that Mike Royko has done Richard Daley better and Norman Mailer got Chica go down much better five years...