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The City Council has been split for decades between two distinct groups. On the current council, four members are endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the good-government group that originally backed Plan E. The other five bill themselves as Independents.
In recent years, rent control has been the dividing line between the two. CCA candidates back the existing rent control system, while Independents--with the crucial exception of Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--want to weaken it.
Esther Hanig, a candidate on the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and tenant slates, says her constituents have been very anxious to determine her position on abortion.
"I think it's been a real important issue," Hanig says. "A lot of people have asked me whether I was prochoice before they would even take my literature, and clearly that happened right after the Webster case."
The wolf's listing as an endangered species is the important difference between a Park Service plan and one floated by Idaho's Senator McClure. McClure has a problem, which is that wolves have been sighted frequently in central Idaho. If packs from Canada establish themselves in Idaho, as they...