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City Manager James L. Sullivan, Justin Gray, his assistant for Community Development, and City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes flew down to Washington, D.C. yesterday morning for a meeting with Massachusetts congressmen and senators on the alleged blackmail by the two Federal agencies. Gray reported last week that HUD had threatened to cut off funds for housing projects unless the City agreed to state and Federal proposals on the Inner Belt and the Route 2 extension...
...similar defense. We seem to have learned quickly about the system the Soviets were deploying around MosCow. Assuming the CIA is equally efficient in discovering a nationwide deployment of an ABM system by the Soviets, we would not be subject, as General Johnson thinks, to "that Soviet nuclear blackmail we have avoided for the past twenty years." We would "lose" only several months. Given the much greater productive capacity of the U.S. economy, that is a risk we can easily afford to run; in fact, only the most picayune or the most hysterical alarmists would dignify it by calling...
Representatives of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Massachusetts Department of Public Works yesterday denied that they had tried to "blackmail" Cambridge into accepting plans for the building of the Inner Belt and Route...
...blackmail" was made on Sunday night by Justin M. Gray, assistant to the city Manager for Community Development. Gray said that HUD officials had told him that funds for certain urban renewal projects in the City would be held up unless the City went along with plans for the highways...
Paris' Le Monde had a word for that: "Blackmail." The Gaullist scare tactic further distorted an already complex referendum that lumps three disparate issues in one take-it-or-leave-it package. The main component is De Gaulle's plan to shift power from Paris bureaucrats to newly created economic regions. Along with this popular measure, voters are asked to endorse De Gaulle's plans to strip away the Senate's powers and shift the line of presidential succession from the President of the Senate to the Premier-a De Gaulle appointee. Thus put, the packaging...