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...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not known for missing political opportunities. Thus when reapportionment became necessary, he neatly obliterated the South Side congressional district of Abner Mikva, 46, a respected Democratic independent. Forced to run elsewhere, Mikva chose a newly created, relatively conservative district on Chicago's North Shore. Opposing him is Samuel H. Young, 49, a suburban attorney and political activist in search of his first public office. Young's campaign strategy is simple: to hang the McGovern albatross around Mikva's neck...
...other issue on which Rizzo capitalized was Green's campaign. During the last week or so, Green brought in outside liberals to support his candidacy. Such Congressmen as Father Drinan and Abner Mikva came, as did Senator John Tunney of California. Allard Lowenstein and Ramsey Clark endorsed Green. So did Ted Kennedy. ("The Green family and the Kennedy family have always been very close," Teddy said in TV spots.) But Rizzo told the voters that he didn't need outside help, and that they didn't either...
Several former Army intelligence officers and enlisted men revealed the Army practice, most recently in Chicago, where a former enlisted man said files were kept on Rep. Abner Mikva and Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, both Illinois Democrats. This matter is related in principle but is not the subject of this case...
Aside from Stevenson and Kerner, Ervin said, the Illinois target list of the 113th Military Intelligence Group-with jurisdiction over the Midwest-included Democratic Rep. Abner Mikva and a host of state and local officials, political contributors, newspaper reporters, lawyers and church figures...
...Mikva told the House that if the reported practice is widespread "we have reached a frightening state against civilian control over the military...