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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helped bring rent control to Cambridge,and has helped create some 2,000 new units of affordable housing for families and seniors. She pushed for Higher Education Reform. She help working women with tough advocacy for affordable child care, equal pay, and parental leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All politics is local. Saundra Graham is a local politician. All politics is Saundra Graham. | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...This game is going to bring us down, definitely," said running back Jim Reidy, the Crimson's leading rusher (76 yards on 10 carries) and receiver (97 yards on four catches) Saturday. "I hope we can rebound from it, forget about...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Another Despairing Page | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...referendum would have our elected representatives censure Israel for its actions rather than using American influence to bring both sides of the conflict together in negotiations. Calling for a complete cut-off of American aid to Israel is a blackmail tactic not befitting of reasoned foreign policy. Referenda should be for constructive purposes, not for partisan manipulation. It would be more productive for us to call on Israel to change its methods and start pushing for peace, than to cut off all effective ties with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No on Question Five | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...black townships, however, the government's repression-and-persuasion campaign to bring out a symbolic vote of support for segregated politics was defeated by an overwhelming boycott. Although only 26.3% of registered black voters had gone to the polls, Chris Heunis, the minister in charge of planning a new constitution, claimed that "the government's objectives were undoubtedly met." If so, the government had set decidedly modest objectives. Since only 1.5 million of the more than 20 million blacks living outside the four "independent homelands" are registered, the turnout translates into less than 2.0% of South Africa's blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Win Some, Lose Some | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...order to bring back the Reagan Democrats, Dukakis has shied away from his Black supporters. Only last week did Dukakis make his first appearance since the convention before a Black audience in time to make the evening news...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: The Presidential Campaign in Black and White | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

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