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...handguns that will take more than 10,000 lives in the U.S. this year. Said Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley: "We can no longer live with the nightmare staring at us out of the barrels of handguns." Calling for the "complete elimination of handguns," Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley scoffed, "You don't see someone shooting rabbits with a handgun. The only thing you hunt is human beings." With a greater sense of grievance than most people, Senator Edward Kennedy declared, "If America cares about the safety of its leaders, it can no longer ignore the shocking absence...
Early next week Hirohito and his wife will go to Chicago where they will lunch with the Windy City's Emperor Richard Daley, and then move on to Los Angeles. There they will begin a busy three-day California tour with a lunch given by Mayor Tom Bradley. A special guest, at Hirohito's personal request, will be John Wayne, whose old World War II movies with their caricatures of Japanese soldiers as villainous fanatics, were once campy favorites in Japan. A visit to Disneyland will be beamed by TV satellite to Japan. In San Francisco, the Emperor...
...Chicago area, where the number of Government-repossessed houses has risen from a few hundred in the late '60s to 3,300 at present, foreclosures occur seven times more frequently on FHA-insured mortgages than on conventional mortgages. Upset by the Tribune's revelations, Mayor Richard Daley persuaded the FHA to cancel an auction of 700 foreclosed houses scheduled for last month while a federal-city task force inspects them to determine their fitness for habitation. The local U.S. Attorney is investigating allegations against six mortgage lenders for mortgage-insurance fraud...
...million more this year than in 1974. Said he: "I can only conclude that in the face of the state aid increase and declining enrollment, the superintendent is crying wolf." The Governor complicated matters further by appointing William Singer, a former alderman who tried to unseat Mayor Richard Daley in last winter's Democratic primary, to head a task force investigating the school board's budget. That infuriated Daley, who has stepped in as the middleman and successfully mediated previous teachers' strikes; he has decided to remain on the sidelines at least temporarily. Finally, Chicago...
...Thompson has never run for public office, and in addition to recruiting a staff and boning up on issues, he must be wary of Daley. The mayor is often at odds with Walker but is hardly a fan of Thompson's. The candidate was careful to point out as he made his announcement that he saw no reason for the mayor to conduct "a vendetta against me," adding that as a prosecutor he had never uttered "a single word of personal animus" against Daley...