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Cambridge's city charter follows one of the five plans outlined in Massachusetts state law that provide slightly different relationships between a city's elected officials and its administrators. Each of the charters, like a meal on a Chinese restaurant's menu, has a letter designation. "Plan A" comes with a strong mayor. With "Plan E" you get a strong city manager. Plan A guides the city of Boston--its mayor is also its chief executive, and is elected directly by city residents. Cambridge's mayor is a city councilor--a legislator--picked by the other eight members...
...Prague last week, three signers of another manifesto, the Charter '77 human rights appeal, were tried for subversion. In the dock were Playwright Václav Havel, Journalist Jiři Lederer and Theater Director František Pavliċek. A fourth defendant, Otto Ornest, had not signed Charter '77 but was accused of handing documents to a foreign diplomat and was tried with the other three...
...daughter had supposedly received from the CIA. After deliberating 1½ days, the court meted out 3½ years to Ornest, three years to Lederer, suspended sentences to Havel and Pavliċek. Said Havel: "It was a dress rehearsal for trials of many other signers of the Charter...
State Rep. Barney Frank '61. Boston City Councilor Lawrence S. DiCare '71, and Rosemarie Sansone, a candidate for the Boston City Council, spoke to 25 undergraduates advocating both Sansone's campaign and Boston charter reform last night in the Kirkland Junior Common Room. The speakers asked students to volunteer for their causes...
...first organizational meeting of the group, its charter still pending before the Brandeis Student Senate, was attended by "21 people, including three righthanders...