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There are five independent candidates running, and eight Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) members, but unlike in the City Council race there are not many ideological gaps between the two groups. "It almost comes down to a non-partisan election," said Fantini, an Independent, who said he thought the best way for voters to make their choice was to review the accomplishments of the various candidates and try to meet as many of them as possible...
...Cambridge Civic Association has endorsed five candidates who support its platform of clean government and progressive housing legislation--incumbents David E. Sullivan, Alice K. Wolf, Saundra M. Graham and Francis H. Duehay '55, as well as newcomer Jonathan S. Myers, former director of youth programs for the Cambridge Housing Authority...
Local voters have managed for many years to distinguish between genial, snowy-haired Walter J. Sullivan Jr., and David E. Sullivan, an outspoken advocate of rent control and member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
...conservative Independent candidates are attracting support through their attacks on rent control this year, while members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association--David E. Sullivan, Alice K. Wolf, Saundra M. Graham and Francis H. Duehay '55--are promising to restrict development in the city. Two Independents--Ed Cyr and incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci--also support rent control but scorn involvement with the CCA, which both call a snobbish product of the academic community...
Alfonsin's intentions were as much political as economic. His government was shaken last month by the resounding defeat of his Radical Civic Union Party in midterm elections. The vote, which was viewed as a referendum on the administration's handling of the economy, left Alfonsin without a majority in Congress. After consultations with the opposition Peronist party, Alfonsin promised a 75% increase in the minimum wage, to $87 a month, even as he froze all other wages...