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RACIAL politics has already begun to surface its ugly head on the local level. The February 28 Democratic primary in Chicago was one of the most divisive races ever. Richard Daley, who is white, received over 90 percent of the white vote and a handful of Black support. His Black opponent, Eugene Sawyer, received just the opposite percentages of Daley...
...Daley won the election, but yesterday faced Tim Evans, who is also Black, in the general election. Evans is running as an independent, in the "Harold Washington Party." It sure isn't the type of party Harold Washington--a popular Black mayor who worked to unite support from all races--would be involved with...
...Boston, Mayor Raymond Flynn is also facing opposition because he endorsed Daley, with whom he attended Providence College in the early '60s, in the Chicago mayoral race. Yet in 1987, Flynn went to Chicago and stumped for the late Harold Washington...
...Flynn campaigned for Harold Washington, and I certainly was pleased to see that, but his effects in regard to Richard Daley seem to be a step backwards," Boston City Councillor Charles Yancey said...
...Senate decides the nominee's fate, confusion mounts over where to draw the line in the conduct of public officials. -- Facing likely defeat on Tower, the White House attacks the motives of his Democratic foes. -- Chicago's black mayor is defeated by Dick Daley's son, who may soon become hizzoner, and Jesse Jackson abandons his party...