Passing The Hat for Gus

By DAVID ELLIS

Has Gus Savage had a change of heart? Just a year ago, during a bitter primary fight, the Democratic Congressman from Chicago ripped into opponent Mel Reynolds for accepting "Jewish money." How strange, then, that invitations to last week's $500-a-head "Gus Savage for Congress" fund raiser in Washington went to some of the same organizations he had vowed to "run back to Highland Park where you came from." What's more, the invitations carried the name of House Speaker Tom Foley, who had professed to be "disturbed" by Savage's inflammatory campaign rhetoric. The Speaker didn't turn up at the bash, but a Foley spokesman confirms that he "supports all Democratic candidates."

With reporting by Sidney Urquhart