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...battle of Chicago warrants a more honest and impartial investigation than Daley's apparat gave it or than it is likely to get from those who have already picked sides. In fact, there is some likelihood that less passionately involved authorities will eventually report what happened. The FBI, a Chicago grand jury and the President's commission on violence, formed after Robert Kennedy's assassination, are all investigating Chicago's bloody week...
...long Texas night, 43 troubled soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division squatted defiantly in a parking lot at Fort Hood, far out in the wasteland between Waco and Austin. They had been ordered to Chicago as part of the force massed by Mayor Richard Daley to guard the Democratic Convention from antiwar demonstrators and a feared eruption of Negro militants. The violence that later engulfed the convention was viewed with cool, apolitical disdain by Chicago's Negroes, but Daley was taking no chances. The 43 troopers were black too. And rather than risk having...
...first, Dr. Alfred Bay, superintendent of Topeka State, reacted like a Mayor Daley of psychiatry. He fired the aides, had many arrested and spoke of eradicating disorder "before it spreads to the patients." Other officials called the aides' demands preposterous -a 35% pay increase, 40-hour week, revised job specifications, union representation on administrative bodies, a two-year contract, and an in-service education program to give aides a chance for advancement...
...result of their recent appearance on TV, Chicago's police will have to work hard to erase the impression that they are a gang of undisciplined bullies. Whatever their image, though, the fact is that Mayor Daley's cops are among the most carefully screened in the nation...
...Chicago. "I would expect that every policeman felt that he was doing his duty." The real blame, according to Rhead, "falls on the leadership, from the lieutenant up to the mayor. I think it is possible to control such a situation with effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would not yield an inch. And in the wild melees shown on TV, few officers seemed to be around to urge...