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...many ways, the election that made Paul Soglin Madison's mayor last April was similar to the 1971 Berkeley election. In fact, some of Soglin's opponents accused him of trying to turn Madison into "another Berkeley." Like the Berkeley radicals, Soglin got some help from divisions among his opponents, defeating a couple of liberals in a primary and then going on with liberal support and a massive student registration drive to beat the conservative incumbent...
...Soglin had begun leading demonstrations against the war in 1963, helped lead Wisconsin's Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, went to law school and then got himself elected to the city council, where he scandalized his colleagues by releasing the names and photographs of the city's narcs to Madison's student and underground press...
Nevertheless, Soglin's obtrusive competence and advocacy of slightly less controversial programs (city purchase of the Madison Bus Company, most notably) won him enough grudging respect to get him elected council president in 1971. In his 1973 mayoral runoff campaign, he won support not only from student radicals--including The Daily Cardinal, the university's student newspaper, which Soglin's opponents claimed was his "party organ" and which embarrassed him a couple of times during the campaign by making fun of his liberal supporters--but also from organized labor and some liberal Democrats. Some of Soglin's original supporters said...
...Soglin hasn't been in office very long, but he doesn't seem to have sold out yet. His first appointments included more women, campus people and labor people than Madison had been accustomed to, and he went down to Washington to lobby for some new buses. But the main issue confronting Madison--the issue which focused some national attention on Madison this summer--is the trial of Karleton Armstrong who has acknowledged bombing the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center, long a target for antiwar agitation because research done there found wide application in the Indochina...
...Arabs, we must send arms to Israel." Barbara Manard, 28, a graduate student in sociology from the University of Virginia, shares that view, explaining: "No matter what the Arabs say, if they get the upper hand, they'll try to drive the Israelis into the sea." Adds Paul Soglin, the young (28) mayor of Madison, Wis.: "I think both sides are wrong, but my main concern is that no country be annihilated. I'm concerned about the Arabs but more so about the Israelis...