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...success cited by many is Chicago. There, in a local effort, CALC and Trans-Africa have effectively stopped the sale of Krugerrands. Capitalizing on local pressure surrounding the recent mayoral election, the two groups extracted pledges from both Harold Washington and Bernard Epton the two candidates for mayor--that after the election, all city funds would be withdrawn from any bank selling the South African made coins...
...hired New York Media Consultant David Sawyer, who attempted unsuccessfully to portray his barrel-chested client as wiser and mellower. Then Sawyer's replacement, Baltimore Consultant Robert Goodman, promised to show "not the old Rizzo or the new Rizzo, but the real Rizzo." Shortly after, Rizzo endorsed Bernard Epton, Washington's Republican opponent in Chicago, compared Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson to Adolf Hitler and called Goode "a big zero." Now Rizzo's TV ads close with: "You don't have to like Frank Rizzo to vote for him as mayor...
...invectives and illogic unleashed during the Epton-Washington contest for mayor of Chicago were almost without end but none is more in need of a response than the convenient "cop-out" which was usually stated as "My family only recently migrated to this country, hence I'm not responsible for the condition of blacks...
...political preferences are not fixed habits for all white voters and can be checkmuted when Blacks are galvanized to turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough to give Harold Washington some 20 percent of the total white vote, ensuring him some 52 percent of the city wide total...
...govern effectively, Washington must mend fences with the city bureaucracy, which is composed mostly of machine loyalists. He will also have to make peace with the police department; many officers openly worked for Epton and the chief, under bitter attack from Washington, announced his resignation a week before the election. By declaring during during the campaign that taxes would have to be increased, Washington has allowed himself room to tackle Chicago's growing financial problems, that is if he can get the necessary support from the city council. For all his talk of conciliation, the mayor-elect quickly served...