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...cramming City Hall to demand that Cambridge adopt a rent control law. In 1970, despite Sullivan's opposition, they succeeded, and the law has remained in place since, the single most divisive issue in the city. Support for it in recent years has come from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), now the local liberals but once a "good government" coalition that included Mickey the Dude...
...measure does draw liberal student voters to the polls, it could increase the chances of reform-minded Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) council and school committee candidates. A similar measure opposing city investment in companies doing business in South Africa was credited with luring many students to the polls in the last election...
...BOARD of Cambridge's Civic Association (CCA)--the local liberals--were embroiled last month in a nasty fight over whether to endorse Alvin Thompson, a Black candidate for city council. The CCA are well-intentioned, hard-working people, and, the truth be told, think highly of themselves. So there was some displeasure when an elderly Black man stood up to say his piece--an attack on the group and its upper-class constituency for prejudice and racism. It was a bitter speech, full of recriminations for past wrongs, and it made a lot of people, including many who opposed...
...line for civil service jobs. It will mean accepting the notion that Black Americans really do have grievances, and that those grievances are the work of white Americans. It will mean admitting guilt, and that means getting past the stiffening of the spine in resentment--as the CCA, or The Crimson, did--when accused...
...weeks before August 21, when nominating petitions must be returned. And, as one political veteran pointed out. "There is more than enough time between now and November for this thing to change in half a dozen different directions. Still, Crane's departure and the strong field of CCA nominees will focus attention for the next four months on the battle for majority control of the council