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...side. Carey and his financial advisers, who gained great power over the city, ordered deeper cuts in the city budget and girded for an epic battle over a tax increase. The Governor had to overcome the opposition of upstate Republicans in the legislature as well as the Democratic minority caucus - blacks and Puerto Ricans - who protested reductions in social services and demanded a larger voice in city management. When he finally won his tax package, Carey took full responsibility for the unpopular action. Ford praised his "very courageous stand...
...McNamara, Burke Marshall, C. Douglas Dillon and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The luminaries had gathered not to launch a new candidacy, however, but to decide once and for all the location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex would be built not at Harvard - Kennedy's alma mater and his own choice for the library site - but instead, on the bleak new Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts...
...fascists were and are impartial--they killed socialists, feminists, and gay people by the thousands. With this in mind, it's realism, not paranoia, to say that if we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately. Diana Sperling, HR Women's Center and HR NAM Womens' Caucus David Price, HR NAM Equal Admissions Committee
...Student Senate, women's caucus of the Student Union, and the Women's Coalition object to Brandeis' connection with a magazine that "demeans the image of women," Leslie E. Martin, a representative of the Women's Caucus, said yesterday...
...complexity of Cambridge voting makes it hard to tell the bluffers from the true believers. All four, of course, embrace the CC '75 platform, with Brode stressing rent control and Clem, the preservation of neighborhoods. Preusser, who has an additional endorsement from the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, has her very own issue-making child care available to middle income families. The goal of her campaign, she said, is "to raise the consciousness level of citizens and city councilors...