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...controversial Proposition 1-2-3 referendum, which would have allowed occupants of rent controlled apartments to purchase the apartments after a year of residency, sparked an unusually high turnout of approximately 29,000 voters. Ten-year local activist Jack E. Martinelli, who was resident of the progressive coalition Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) from 1986 to 1987, predicts an average to below-average turnout of 24,000 or so this year...
However, Henry H. Wortis of the activist civic association Working Committee for a Cambridge Rainbow says that the still extant perception of the independents as responsive to neighborhood needs and the CCA as concerned with national and international issues could be the downfall of the progressives...
Although she is running as an independent, Noble says she does not want to be identified with the traditionally conservative independents. Nonetheless, she was endorsed by the Young Independents and the conservative Cambridge First civic association, but not by the Lavender Alliance, the city's only formal gay and lesbian action group...
...whatever business was interrupted by the events of the past 100-plus days. This, however, is neither possible nor desirable, for this nomination and the phenomena attending it have raised up for all to see and hear a litany of ugly little secrets that bedevil our best efforts at civic piety...
There is much to noodle here, and there soon may also be the opportunity to see if these issues can support a presidential campaign. The leading Democratic advocate of civic obligation is Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, who announced his candidacy last week. Beyond sharing the views of Etzioni and Conner, Clinton has actually succeeded in having some of the "responsibilities" philosophy codified in law. For example, Arkansas parents who fail to attend parent-teacher conferences can be fined, and students who drop out of school are denied driver's licenses. "Not everything we do that is wrong is illegal," says...