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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley has bitterly declared that he will brook no trouble from would-be demonstrators when the Democratic Convention gets underway in August. "I think the great mass of American people has had enough of those who carry Viet Cong flags in the streets of this country, and are getting fed up with the cry of police brutality," he told his wildly applauding City Council...
...going to take over the city," stormed Daley. "They won't take over the convention or any street. If it is necessary to put on 5,000 more policemen, I'll ask for authority." He may have...
...area, and delegates will have to commute from the Loop via a single expressway or the back streets of the ghetto. The city's mammoth lakefront exhibition hall--closer to downtown, isolated from residential ears, and far easier to defend--was gutted by fire a year ago, but Daley's clout and assurance of peace brought the party to Chicago anyway...
...there are demonstrations outside the hall, the neighbors are not going to like it. Though the Amphitheater is ringed by the bleak slums of the South Side ghetto, the immediate area is heavily white and largely Irish. Daley himself lives not too far away. Should Negroes march in, things could get ugly. Civil rights demonstrators have marched on the mayor's house many times, and they have, on occasion, been met with bricks and bottles...
Also upsetting was the threat by Negro Comedian Dick Gregory to somehow block the Democratic National Convention unless the city acceded to such demands as appointing a Negro to the "top echelon of the police department." Vowed Daley: "No one will take over a single street or a political convention, now or next summer...