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That was too much for Daley and his men in blue. Insisted the mayor: "If you were to ask me if I support the Chicago police department and the National Guard in their actions, the answer would be an unequivocable [sic] yes." Police Superintendent James Conlisk ventured a brief statement, saying that "to speak of 'a police riot is to distort the history of those days in August. The world knows who the rioters were." Commander Ronald Nash, who headed a force of 135 police during the convention week's most violent confrontation outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel...
Until the grand-jury report appeared, at least, it seemed the Chicago police would have the last word. After Walker's attacks last week, Mayor Daley-flanked by smiling policemen-announced a $2,000 pay raise for the city's cops next year. Wages of a man with 42 months on the force, for example, will jump from $9,000 to $11,000 annually. The raises, boasted Daley, will "make them the highest-paid policemen in the nation...
Atkins has proved to be one of the most intelligent and dynamic Councillors. His stature as leader reached a high point one evening last April in hot, smoky Boston Garden. It was the day Martin Luther King died. Atkins, Mayor Kevin White, and James Brown stood on the stage and looked up at the tiers of young people, mostly black, and asked them to control their anger. The plea and the James Brown concert were televised, and Roxbury didn't explode that time...
Since then, Atkins and White have radically parted ways. The Council has relatively little prestige and influence compared to the Mayor, and in the past year it has tried to improve its position by vigorously challenging White's liberal programs, which require Council approval...
Doubtlessly Atkins has grown stronger politically. Little criticism of his actions has come from other blacks, yet Atkins played the leading role in curbing liberal Mayor White, an endearing fact to lower-class white Bostonians. Reactionary City Council President William Foley of South Boston praised Atkins' work on Model Cities as the best of any renewal committee chairman that he could remember...