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...would anybody besides Richard Daley want to run for mayor of Chicago? "Because I care about this city," says Richard Friedman, 41, a gaunt and forceful lawyer who climbs mountains from the Andes to the Hindu Kush, treks through South American jungles and African deserts, flies gliders and balloons, works out with his judo class twice a week, and likes to squire Second City beauties around in his Porsche...
...people besides the Tru-deauesque young Friedman care about Chicago, but few would choose to take on the unpromising task of running against Mayor Daley, his loyal army of Democratic jobholders and what Friedman calls his honor's "myth of invincibility." But Friedman sought out the job from the Republican organization, managed to raise a skimpy $200,000, and launched his campaign at a dead run. "Let's go!" says the candidate, jumping into his leased and unmarked Mercury. "Let's move!" Traveling with Friedman, reports TIME Correspondent Sam Iker, "is more like fleeing from a bank...
...simply who qualifies for the Bill of Rights? The highly radical, in true revolutionary devotion, would deny any one who steadfastly disagreed with their notions, the right of free speech. The same way religious bigots in this country have denied freedom of religion by bombing churches, and Richard Daley denied right of assembly and invited the 1968 Chicago riots by refusing to give war protesters a meeting place. And just as Vice President Agnew, who, so obviously anxious to please a boss so often burned by newsmen, would like to amend so called "abuses" of freedom of the press...
Examples of such conscious and premeditated denial of the right of free expression abound these days, and they are indeed brutal. Scanlan's inability to get a special issue on guerrilla war published anywhere in the U. S. was such an abridgement. At the Chicago Convention, when Mayor Daley turned off the microphone of the Wisconsin delegation, which was trying to protest the police riot, that was a curtailment of free speech. When Nathan Pusey fired Faculty members for the "crime" of Communism, that too was suppression of free speech...
...longtime Daley friend, Lee stoutly maintained that the affair was "strictly nonpolitical." Said he before the dinner: "It's so the working people of the city can pay tribute to the mayor for all his consideration toward them. You won't see politicians and a lot of big names here." Perhaps. But the record should show that Daley, who has served four terms as mayor of Chicago, is standing for re-election on April...