□ They fell for it. The Soviets believed that the dummy building in Moscow they were bugging was our real embassy, and that the male models they treated to the slinky Russian beauties were real Marines. Why, they even think the fellow we sent over to talk about missile reductions is our real Secretary of State!
□ Race was not overtly invoked in the tangled Chicago mayoralty election, but race told the story. Mayor Harold Washington won re-election with 53 per cent of the vote against Eddie Vrdolyak’s 42 per cent. According to exit polls, Washington got 97 per cent of the black vote and 15 per cent of the white; Vrdolyak got only 1 per cent of the black, 74 of the white. What it means in practical terms is that Washington will be running Chicago for the foreseeable future: His first election was no fluke. It means that white Democratic dreams of reviving the Daley machine are unrealistic. It reaffirms that, black or white, the Democratic Party continues to own Chicago as it has for the past sixty years. The Republican, Donald Haider, got 4 per cent of the vote.
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