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...this year a liberal dose of masochism has made the debates even livelier. Things were supposed to be different when the CCA-endorsed ticket won a majority of the Council seats in November and elected Barbara Ackermann as Mayor. However, as this week's meetings demonstrate, all is not well in the liberal camp...
...bitter feud is developing over the selection of a new City Manager, although the liberal five--Ackermann, Henry F. Owens III, Robert Moncreiff, Saundra Graham and Francis H. Duehay--made the replacement of City Manager John Corcoran the top issue of their campaign...
Owens wants to make sure that his black candidate for the job be given equal consideration with white candidates. But Ackermann, Duehay and Moncreiff think they have already found the best man for the job, and he is white...
...PART OF last week's strike activity, one hundred antiwar demonstrators staged a sit-in at the Cambridge Draft Board. As we sat crammed in the narrow corridor, chanting, singing and clapping, Mayor Barbara Ackermann appeared, brandishing three letters. She told us and the ubiquitous television cameras that she had received the letters from Cambridge residents who were irate at the antics of college students. She chided us for being boisterous, telling us we needed to "reach people like these" and that we would only further alienate them by our behavior. She circulated the letters, and some of the people...
...pilots continue to hurtle their F4A's and B-52s into the air, their targets known only to them as a set of map coordinates, they kill by proxy for Nixon and Kissinger, and not for us or for the people who wrote the letters to Mayor Ackermann. We, along with the letter writers and the majority of dovish Americans, share with the people of Indochina the same powerless relationship to the American government. In our protests we have tried to make this clear. We find the notion of lobbying our supposed representatives in Washington laughable, for they are almost...