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Cambridge became one of the first municipalities to adopt rent control in 1970, when inflation and rising property values led tenants' groups to lobby for the policy. The City Rent Control Board sets rents for 17,000 Cambridge housing units, using a formula that accounts for operating expenses and what it considers a reasonable profit for the landlord...
...CAMPUS anti-apartheid movement has become bogged down in the politics of divestiture, and it's time for committed members of the movement to adopt new goals which will have a material impact on the situation in South Africa...
Together We Stand (CBS). In a close encounter of a more familiar kind, Elliott Gould and Dee Wallace Stone play parents who decide to adopt a child and wind up with two: a 14-year-old half-Vietnamese boy and a six-year-old black girl. Added to the Wasp pair already on hand, the newcomers set the family melting pot at high boil. The sentiment gets a bit thick, but there is something appealing about the war orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about...
Sorkow must decide whether the case involves a contract or child custody. If he invalidates the contract -- possibly on the ground that paying to adopt a child is illegal in New Jersey as well as 23 other states -- the Baby M. case becomes a "simple" custody battle. Though model laws are being developed by several groups, including the American Bar Association, no state has passed legislation to regulate surrogate parenting. Says Lori Andrews of the American Bar Foundation: "We have Model T laws catching up with space- age technology...
...hopes to win over some Senators by nominating Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat who is now U.S. envoy to Liberia, to be Ambassador to South Africa. Reagan is also counting on the European Community to implement milder measures. This week the twelve E.C. foreign ministers are scheduled to adopt a package of restrictions that would ban imports of South African coal, steel, iron ore and gold coins...