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PRIME TIME LIVE (ABC, beginning Aug. 3, 10 p.m. EDT). And there's more, news junkies. In this ambitious new ABC offering, Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson each week will face a studio audience and the formidable task of putting a fresh spin on the news...
...ethnic power struggle. Six years ago, the charismatic Harold Washington became the city's first black mayor with a crusading campaign among blacks that also won the support of some white liberals. That coalition won him re-election in 1987. But his inarticulate successor, Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who took over after Washington's death 16 months ago, was unable to hold the alliance together. His cause was doomed when Alderman Timothy Evans, a Washington disciple, rebuffed Jackson's appeal for black unity. With the black electorate split and black turnout low, Sawyer was easy prey in February's Democratic...
...Black candidate to win, they must get a large turnout of Black voters and win 15 to 20 percent of white voters. Washington had done this, but Evans could not even get the support of the Black community because he was running in opposition to interim Mayor Eugene Sawyer, a Black man, whose supporters did not take so kindly to Evans saying that he was the one Black politician who could carry on the Washington agenda...
...coalition of white aldermen who had opposed Washington throughout his years in office supported Sawyer, a little-known Black alderman who had reluctantly supported Washington's administration, to cause infighting among Blacks. Daley had his political base of white voters, he just had to make sure that he and his supporters didn't make any racist statements that would unite Black voters against...
...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...