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Joseph Kraft wrote in his syndicated column the week after the convention: ... what about those of us in the press and other media? Are we merely neutral observers, seekers after truth in the public interest? Or do we, as the supporters of Mayor Richard Daley and his Chicago police have charged, have a prejudice...
Kraft believes the press is out of touch with what he calls "Middle America," the mass of citizens who believed that Daley was right in ordering the demonstrators beaten. He concludes by questioning the privileges that the press has always assumed: ... those of us in the media would be wise to exercise a certain caution, a prudent restraint in pressing for a plenary indulgence to be in all places at all times as the agents of the sovereign public...
...against the war and against domestic backlash is small, their caliber is unusually high. Paul O'Dwyer (N.Y.), William G. Clark (Ill.), Harold Hughes (Iowa), John Gilligan (Ohio) and Alan Cranston (Calif.) are five exceptional challengers who have done much to free their party from the likes of Mayor Daley and President Johnson. Similarly Abraham Ribicoff (Conn.) and George McGovern (S.D.) distinguished themselves at the Democratic Convention, while Ernest Gruening (Alaska), Gaylord Nelson (Wisc.), and Franch Church (Idaho) have performed yeoman service inside the Senate...
...have been left unchecked in this country for so long, and I don't think the average American is aware of it," says Ron. "Look at the riots at Columbia and Berkeley. Who gains by all this? The Communists. It makes them gloat," Sally agrees and adds: "Mayor Daley handled it right. He was prepared. The Democratic Convention wasn't a fraternity initiation." Ron, a Lutheran, believes that there is too much permissiveness everywhere: "I would have gone to college if I had been spanked a few more times...
...right of dissent and the question of police powers over demonstrators are at issue in a number of cases. Negro Comedian Dick Gregory, for example, seeks to reverse a 1965 disorderly conduct conviction in Chicago'. Arrested during a demonstration near Mayor Daley's home, Gregory is challenging the police claim that they had a right to disperse peaceful protesters simply because angry hecklers near by might have become violent. Among the draft-dissent cases, the most important is an appeal from James Oestereich, who was reclassified from 4D (divinity student) to 1A by his draft board last year...