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According to Barbara Ackermann, who served as a city councillor in the late 1960s and as mayor in 1972 and 1973, the city's action at this juncture has been unified and rapid compared with its response to the most recent major U.S. military involvement, the conflict in Vietnam...
...When the riots started here...the whole atmosphere spread through the city so it was really kind of the old against the young," Ackermann says. "The council has always reflected the citizenry." The council initially supported the action in Vietnam, and did not agree to condemn it until the fighting had dragged on through...
...fact that the council put up a kind of innocuous banner and it passed nine to zero shows that things have kind of settled in," Ackermann observes. But she adds that when the war heats up the council's unified front may shatter under pressure from the public because of the greater freedom for protest now allowed, and because of the wide spectrum of ideologies Cambridge citizens represent...
...These are services that affect working families," said Barbara W. Ackermann, a former mayor of Cambridge, who introduced a series of speakers to discuss the effect of the cuts on mental health, schools, the elderly and other city services...
...Once or twice I convinced him to vote ourway," says Ackermann. "But more often, if one ofus changed our minds, it would be him changing mymind...