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When Paul Soglin, then only 27, upset a conservative Republican to become mayor of Madison, Wis., a year ago last April, the students who supported him hailed his victory as a sign that their day had finally come. But the erstwhile University of Wisconsin radical lost little time in setting his supporters straight. Climbing onto a stage during a ball celebrating his inaugural, the long-haired, mustachioed Soglin stripped off his dress shirt to reveal a T shirt bearing the legend MELLOW MAN. Said Soglin: "It's going to take those mellow men and mellow women to put this...
...halfway through his term in office, Soglin seems to have succeeded in doing just that. He has not moved fast or far enough to satisfy his more radical backers, nor has he gone too far for many of the middle-class merchants who formerly controlled the pleasant, lake-bordered city of 176,000. But he has managed to get both groups talking with each other and, in the process, given the city a year of good, if unconventional government...
...greening of Soglin, a native of Chicago, from protest to power was gradual. A hard-core member of the antiwar movement, Soglin graduated from the university in 1966, stayed on in Madison for graduate work, law school and eventually politics. In 1968 his fellow students took advantage of their control of the city's Eighth District to elect him to the Madison city council...
Even as an alderman, however, Soglin remained an outsider. He continued to take part in student demonstrations, was twice arrested and, on one occasion, bailed out by a sympathetic fireman. He clashed with Mayor William Dyke over such issues as police brutality and budgets. But he also learned about municipal government, studying substantive subjects such as housing and transportation and getting a feel for such arcane matters as sewer maintenance and zoning regulations...
...tape recording of Daniel Ellsberg '52--have supported Armstrong's contention that the real criminals, people whose bombs killed not one unfortunate researcher but hundreds of thousands of innocent people, not only go unpunished but continue to hold the highest offices in the country. "At this point," Paul Soglin said during his election campaign, in a statement he has continued to uphold since, "it would be the height of hypocrisy to abandon Karleton Armstrong. Whether Armstrong is innocent or guilty, anyone who conceptually supported ridding this campus of the AMRC, no matter whether they approved or disapproved of the bombing...