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...city council chamber has been an arena for colorful politicians for some time. Where Vellucci has been the traditional celebrity, Danehy is the rising star...
...tenants' groups mobilized 700 renters, who packed the city council meeting, filling the chamber and the gallery above and the stairs outside. Demonstrators struggled for the microphone, hooting at Sullivan and teasing him about his ambitions for the post of Sheriff of the country. The mayor directed the police restraining the crowd, calling each officer by his first name. "Are you still running for Sheriff, Sullivan?" someone shouted. "You bet I am!" he answered...
...bagmen have prompted Congress to move, albeit ponderously, toward adopting a new act. Last week the Senate choked off, by a 64-to-30 vote, a filibuster led by conservative Alabama Democrat James Allen, who abhors public financing. Two days later, by a 53-to-32 vote, the upper chamber passed a wide-ranging bill calling for public financing of all congressional and presidential elections, primary and general. But the House is likely to rule out public funding for congressional elections. And even if the House does approve public financing of presidential races, Richard Nixon has served notice that...
...Meir followed her announcement to the party with a formal resignation speech before the Knesset. The modernistic chamber was filled to capacity as she trudged to the podium. The mood of the meeting was even more grim than expected: that morning, Palestinian guerrillas had sneaked across Israel's border from Lebanon to carry out a massacre at Qiryat Shemona in which 18 people were killed (see following story). The raid, Mrs. Meir said, "surpasses in its barbarity all that has gone before." She followed up an account of the assault with an explanation of her decision to resign...
Radcliffe Chamber Orchestra, David Evans, conducting. Mozart: Piano Concertos in B-flat and A (Paul Rosenbloom, soloist). Free. Saturday, April...