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David J. Sullivan, an opponent of the rent control laws as they affect small landlords, attacked the record of incumbent David E. Sullivan in his November campaign for the City Council. David E. is a member of the pro-rent control Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) The two men are not related...
...expanding its headquarters in Langley, Va., and, like many civic- minded builders, will dedicate one-half of 1% of its construction costs to works of art. Since ordinary taxpayers are not allowed into the intelligence agency's headquarters, none of them will ever see the CIA art. The amount of money involved is similarly secret, because that would reveal the extent of the construction plans. But the CIA wants to make sure that no bad choices are made. So it has asked the General Services Administration to select...
Certainly, voters will not be offered the full range of presidential candidates. The opposition's four leading contenders, who were expected to take 80% of the vote last November, are refusing to participate. Instead, they have called for an election boycott that is supported by some 50 civic, religious and community associations throughout Haiti. Of the 22 candidates registered for the race, twelve were associates of the former Duvalier dictatorship; under the new constitution, that should prevent them from running for public office for a decade. All twelve were disqualified from the November contest. At the end of last week...
Officially one of the traditional-minded Independents, Vellucci actually belongs to a political party all his own. He is an old-fashioned populist when the issue is trash removal or repairing East Cambridge park benches. But Vellucci has also provided the swing vote for newfangled Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) projects from rent control to the adoption of an El Salvadorean "sister city...
...including Boesak. But the diplomat has also established a wide network of contacts among ordinary blacks during unpublicized visits to squatter camps and churches throughout the country. "After a while we were struck by his obvious concern for South Africa's blacks," says Dr. Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Civic Association in the black township of Soweto. "And we realized that he had lived through the kind of trauma that we're going through...