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More seriously, the ugly side effects of economic hardship are still brewing throughout the country. The underlying hatred and prejudice which often plague race relations, and which are always exacerbated when groups fight over a limited pie, came out in especially bitter form in Chicago, where Democrat Harold Washington almost lost his party the mayoralty for the first time in five decades, simply because he was Black. And even the potential recovery on the horizon will not be for everyone, as the mass migration to the Sunbelt continues, while the cities of the industrial Northeast and Midwest are left...
...some think that the national attention garnered by the election of Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago, and the recent victory of Black city administrator Wilson Goode over former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo in that city's Democratic mayoral primary, will help galvanize local voters...
...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both Harold Washington and Bernard Epton the two candidates for mayor--that after the election, all city funds would be withdrawn from any bank selling the South African made coins...
...that view. "You must build credibility with business and labor and city government. Black politicians will be successful when they can demonstrate that a black can serve the interests of all the people." Without such coalitions, the mayor can end up powerless. In his first week on the job, Harold Washington lost control of the Chicago city council to a group of rebellious white council members who proceeded to divvy up key committee chairmanships and leave the mayor's supporters out in the cold. Washington fought the councilmen in court but lost. He still controls the city purse strings...
...present vogue, "stress" has only recently been admitted into the medical vocabulary. For years, doctors considered the term too unscientific to be taken seriously. "The moment you used the word, you were dismissed as a thinking individual," says Dr. Harold Ward, director of the stress medicine laboratory at the University of California at San Diego. One reason was the lack of an adequate definition for the concept. According to the late Dr. Hans Selye, the Austrian-born founding father of stress research, stress is simply "the rate of wear and tear in the body." But others persist in using...