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Foreign Policy Goes Local

The scene is the floor of the Chicago city council chambers. The meeting is unusually passionate. The floor speeches are particularly charged, even by the Chicago city council's turbulent standards.

"Had this resolution not been introduced, we would have been accused of being morons, amoral. If we don't speak out for the people - who will?" demands one of the council's more conservative members, Alderman Bernard Stone.