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before the meeting?" I asked. "Well see," the cop said, "they did—they are. But Eddie won't bring his people out until the Mayor brings out his people. And the Mayor, he isn't coming ou t unless...
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...And the Mayor, he isn't coming ou t unless Eddie's there first ." When th e meeting finally began—after both side s crept out timidly and then scrambled to their seats as though the music had just stopped in a game of musical chairs— I wondered why they bothered to show up at all...
...Alderman Ohrbach, who rep -resents a largely Jewish ward, intro-duced a routine resolution condemning the recent election of Kurt Waldhei m to the Austrian presidency...
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...Damn," said Clarence, next to me...
...From a distance, at least, he is an impressive man...
...Everyone seems to agree that Washington himself is personall y honest...
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...I n Washington's lexicon, it doesn't mea n so much restoring efficiency as givin g blacks a fair shake, which further means, among other things, a program of affirmative action that awards 4 0 percent of city contracts to blacks, wh o (incidentally) are also Washingto n The Mostloyalists...
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...Mayor Daley himself, after all, wa s elected as a "reform candidate," prom-ising to streamline city government an d restore efficiency after the chaotic ad -ministration of Martin Kennelly...
...In the name of the six million," Ohrbach said...
...The standard line of Chicago in-siders is that the political fight here is about power, not race: Washington is a reformer, who happens to be black , wresting power—that is, jobs and city contracts and the allocation of federal succor (still a healthy, sum)—from th e entrenched old guard, who happen to be white and who feel, in the words o f the late Alderman-statesman Padd y Bauler, that "Chicago ain 't ready for reform yet...
...one Washington alderman, a handsomely dressed woman, turned to the alder-man next to her and said in a lou d voice, "Why don't you go punch him out...
...A one-on-one contest is too Moonlight In Vermon t Roses Are Red You Belong To M e close to call...
Vol. 19 • August 1986 • No. 8
