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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley took the opposite tack, calling for passage of stricter state and federal gun-control laws because "there are too many people walking around with guns. We cannot have rule by gun law in our streets." Daley told the city council that he would ask for as many more police as he thought necessary. He used the obviously exaggerated figure of 5,000 more police, and-while the council responded with cheers and a standing ovation -one of its leaders said that they would approve any addition, "7,000 or 70,000." The council...
...Calling Daley's description of Jesse Owen's appearance in the 1938 Olympics as "indeed moving," the letter states that Owen's "inspirational performance has done little to correct the suffering and humiliation that still characterize the situation of black people in America...
...letter, written by Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, John D. Tyson '69, and Stanley E. Greenidge '68, criticizes a column on the boycott by Times sports-writer Arthur Daley as insensitive "to the morale stamina of black athletes in this country." The letter appeared yesterday...
...Daley's column, according to the letter, "glosses over the moral implications of individual protest and opens the way for a romantic portrait of the Olympics as a shrine to brotherly competition and good sportsmanship...
...income white voters by showing that racist appeals are used by reactionaries as a cover-up for anti-labor conservative social and economics policies. I also added that a supplementary effort would be made with "religious groups and community political organizations," not "political clubs" like Tammany Hall or the Daley machine. Steven Kelman...