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...where the final stage of the rent control hearing process is held, and the often months-long wait that preceded it, landlords' and tenants' tempers sometimes grow short by the time they face the board members. To end a repetitious argument or enforce quiet among the audience. Chairman Acheson Callaghan picks up his gavel and taps it with the authority of an annoyed judge. "It's not a court," says one resident familiar with the board's procedures. "But there's a lot on the line so already you're uncomfortable as a tenant...
Even at meetings chaired by past rent board chairman. "The atmosphere was never cordial," Cavellini says. But there were other chairmen Callaghan and who had "less of a short face." With previous chairmen, Cavellini says that both tenant and landlords "got more respect." "There is a certain impatience," he says of Callaghan, pausing to explain that he "doesn't want to make any personal attacks." But he says. "The chairman sets a tone." "Previous boards have been more courteous and treated both adversial parties with move respect...
...Chairman Callaghan also "wields too much power" over other board members, Weissberg says. "The chairman is the only lawyer member, and he's looked to so that the decision is basically his, especially if it centers on a legal issue where the others feel incompetent." She adds that "apart from the merits, the chairman lacks common courtesy I find that intolerable...
...distinctly anti-American, naively neutralist, even pacifist flavor. Worries about Reagan's finger on the nuclear trigger have also affected politicians who otherwise are in favor of the alliance and are by no means anti-American. Even so staunch a U.S. friend as Britain's former Prime Minister James Callaghan complained in the Times of London: "There is growing up a basic difference between the way America and Europe view the world . . . Europeans have a better understanding of the complexities of current world difficulties than the United States." Says West Germany's Social Democratic Party leader, Erhard Eppler: "There...
...popular former Education Minister in the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Callaghan, Williams scored her victory in a by-election in Crosby, a backwater suburb of Liverpool that had sent Tories to Westminster since 1918. In the last election, the Tories' victory margin was 19,000 votes. Williams not only won by 5,000 votes; she captured 49.1% of the tally, compared with 39.8% for the Tories and 9.5% for Labor. Proclaimed London's Daily Mirror with unabashed admiration: "Shirley the First...