Correspondents' Correspondence Daley's Dare
COTTIN, JONATHAN
Daley's Dare Chicago????Sitting at his desk in City Hall, from which he operates as chairman of the Illinois Democratic party, James A. Ronan had a worried look on his face. "Everything is so...
...in 1971 total sales abroad barely amounted to $10 million and the budget deficit exceeded $100 million...
...Equally uncertain is this nation's ability to recover from the war's economic effects...
...This is a far cry from the sense of invincibility that infused the Cambodians when they began what they saw as a patriotic crusade against the encroachment by their ancient ethnic enemies, the North Vietnamese...
...Seymour Simon, an alderman on the outs with the mayor, has a letter from the DNC declaring the Daley ruse defied party rules...
...The few intellectuals who oppose the regime have a minute following, and they have been effectively stymied by the recent waves of mass arrests...
...The Reuters correspondent will soon be transferred to East Berlin, and a few West German reporters are hoping for the chance to follow him...
...Politically, it is uncertain how long the ailing 58-year-old Marshal Lon No...
...Now we have to hope for peace...
...With Communist forces occupying more than half the country, the government has become directionless and ineffective...
...The widely publicized imprisonment for three weeks in January of Italian radio correspondent Valerio Ochetti, on charges of carrying subversive materials, illustrated the biggest problem of foreign journalists in this country: You receive a lot of information, yet it is almost impossible to use it without endangering your source or yourself, a most frustrating situation for a reporter anywhere.????Hansjuergen Rosen-bauer...
...The result has been a heightened feeling of hoplessness in this city, now less the capital of a proud country than a beleaguered repository of broken lives and shattered ideals...
...These veterans are naturally ready to move on...
...The mayor also ordered the distribution of sample ballots, so there would be no mistake about who among the many delegate candidates were his minions...
...As long as the war grinds on, however, these measures will not suffice to heal the nation's economic wounds...
...He may be right, but the reformers want a well-researched crack at him anyhow...
...support to $500 million annually by 1977, but last fall's Senate rejection of the Administration's foreign aid bill????with $300 million earmarked for Cambodia?has thrown the long-range program into doubt...
...He has not, and the confrontation between his city machine and the national organization should offer an interesting drama in Miami Beach.????onathan Cottin Clouds over Cambodia Pnompenh????few Cambodians celebrated the second anniversary of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's ouster last month...
...Today it boasts about 200,000 men, is better equipped, and no longer commandeers soda trucks for transport...
...There was no way to avoid war...
...Some have been here since 1968-69, when this was considered one of the hottest posts in the world...
...The AP just closed down, UPI and Kyodo News Service left last year, Time-Life now covers Czechoslovakia from Belgrade, and most of the remaining resident newsmen are looking for other assignments...
...Although there were large-scale student demonstrations, most of the people remained passive...
...As a result, there is not much news to cover...
...Unwilling to trust the voters of Chicago to elect his handpicked slate without a bit of encouragement, however, Daley detailed every precinct captain, alderman, congressman, and other political beneficiary to the hustings...
...Most of the others arrived shortly after Alek-sandr Dubcek's fall, not expecting as quiet a transition as actually occurred...
...It was as close as anyone in Mayor Richard J. Daley's machine had come to admitting concern over the prospect of organization-elected delegates being challenged at the Democratic convention this summer in Miami Beach...
...There one can read all the Eastern bloc papers, listen to most of their radio stations and even receive a few of their television channels...
...Thus far, Daley's public reaction to the threatened challenge has been something less than fear and trembling...
...Everything is so screwed up, I don't know what's going to happen," he said...
...Daley obviously intends to dare the convention to unseat him...
...arnold Abrams Press Exodus Prague????arriving here as a foreign correspondent these days is like boarding a ship that everyone else is abandoning...
...He has won so many times before that hebelieves himself invincible...
...The Cambodians do not blame their leader for the war...
...But its performance remains a fundamentally inept amateur show...
...The exodus of foreign newsmen from Prague is not simply a matter of comfort, however...
...At the outset, the Khmer Army was a ragtag road-building force of 35,000 men with no combat experience, woeful equipment and weak leadership...
...We had to fight...
...The Daley machine was reinstalled in 1971...
...Only through the help of American airpower and South Vietnamese ground forces has the Cambodian Army been able to retain control of Pnompenh, most of the provincial capitals and about two-thirds of the nation's 7 million people...
...They are, without question, and accounts of underground activities seem greatly exaggerated...
...Against the wishes of Ambassador Emory Swank and contrary to Washington's policy of a lower profile in Asia, U.S...
...Under the new rules of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that is fine, but the local party organization must stay out of the campaign if its leadership was not chosen in the year of the election...
...After their troops were badly defeated last December and their interests were blatantly ignored in subsequent allied peace proposals, Cambodian leaders sought to initiate secret negotiations of their own...
...Last month he headed off a threatened coup by In Tarn, the former First Vice Premier ousted in a bitter dispute a year ago, by dissolving the already powerless National Assembly and forming a new government...
...In last month's state primary, the mayor's delegates ran uncommitted to any Presidential candidate...
...involvement here continues to mount: Last year the military aid team grew from 16 to 50 men, and it is headed by a brigadier general...
...Besides violating the DNC rules, these voting guides did not list the name and address of the person sponsoring them, an infraction of Illinois state law...
...Two years of brutal war have tempered the fervor with which most citizens rallied to their nation's defense, leaving them shell-shocked and sorrowful as they survey the wreckage: over 40,000 military casualties, a million civilian refugees, a once viable economy reduced to chaos...
...Short in skill, it was long on courage...
...To salvage something from the ruins, the government has embarked on a reform program that includes partial devaluation, credit limitations, tax increases, and reduced expenditures...
...Many news agencies and publications are stationing their men in NEXT ISSUE 'Coming Together' Richard J. Margolis A full-length special issue on the origins, development and prospects of the Cooperative Movement in the United States Vienna, which for Western journalists is to Eastern Europe what Hong Kong is to mainland China...
...Gustav Husak and the people around him are desperately trying to prove to the Soviet Union and the other Communist nations that they are in absolute control of their country...
...When a member of his court ventured a prediction that the delegates would be unseated, the mayor was reliably reported to have dismissed the idea by snorting, "In a pig's ass"????a phrase not often heard outside the wards of Chicago...
...Rice and rubber, the major exports, used to bring in about $70 million annually...
...In addition, nobody is in danger of being kicked out on 8-48-hours notice, a common practice here (the number of hours allowed for departure being determined by the seriousness of the alleged offense...
...Reformers carefully gathered the evidence, visiting ward headquarters around the city to collect copies of the organization's sample ballot...
...Moreover, the most frequently heard word today is "consolidation," which means that officials keep their mouths shut and most events are not announced publicly until long after they happen, if at all...
...Ironically, when Cambodia's present leaders seized power, they accused Sihanouk of having "sabotaged the country's economic and financial sector...
...Typically, the effort failed, undone by a deliberate leak to the press...
...can remain in power...
...Whatever the outcome, the Illinois challenge will test the national party's will to change, for the reforms were designed to force people like Daley to open up the ranks...
...Sooner or later the North Vietnamese would have invaded us," says one Pnompenh intellectual...
...Lon Nol forced the resignation of Premier-designate Sisowath Sirik Matak and took over from Cheng Heng the office of Chief of State, declaring himself President, Commander in Chief and Prime Minister...
...The Pentagon reportedly planned to boost U.S...
Vol. 55 • April 1972 • No. 7
