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...after the harshness of their campaign attacks it is hard to imagine them associating with Washington supporters either. They were blunt enough in sounding Epton's campaign slogan "Before it's too late." And on Election Day, some Epton workers in the 35th Ward, including Orlando Munoz, were even spreading the rumour that Washington was a child molester...
...machine is hardly putting forth the type of effort that has kept city hall in party hands for half a century. Byrne endorsed Washington after her primary defeat, then decided to oppose him through a write-in bid, then decided not to. Few of the machine's 50 ward bosses have offered their nominal nominee much help, and last week Alderman Roman Pucinski became the eighth of them openly to endorse the Republican. He said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski...
...cocaine merely produced a false sense of personal supremacy, and that was that, it would be less menacing. But the "crash" from coke, the letdown when the drug wears off and heady illusions disappear, is grim. To ward off melancholy and the jitters after the supply runs out, many users get drunk or take sedatives like Quaaludes. Or worse. "The drug that works best to cut the crash," says
...Glenn operatives started a flurry of pre-convention preparation. That involved two parts: lobbying delegates for their vote, and lining up reliable volunteers to build up the vote total at the convention. The persuasion campaign began immediately, in the form of congratulatory telegrams to all delegates selected in the ward caucuses. That was quickly followed up by a phone call to each delegates to find out where he or she stood. Then came a series of mailings detailing the Senator's on the issues...
...implementation of the New Economic Order and improvement of North-South relations. Manley to this day stands by his country's decision to back Cuban involvement in Angola; he argues that Castro, in offering Angola his support, was responding to requests from the legitimate Neto government trying to ward CIA destabilization efforts...