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...event was billed as the "Kick-Off Party" for the Cambridge Civic Association's (CCA) election drive held to launch the efforts of the progressive municipal party which has battled for power with the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independent organization. Three city councilors were there, one school committee member was there, and a handful of candidates aspiring to join them also showed...
...city of Kalisz was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for collecting aid for the relatives of political prisoners. When the teen-age son of a relief worker died after he was mauled by the police, Cardinal Glemp lashed back, calling on the government to stop "infringing human and civic rights." Although the authorities have promised to investigate the event, Poles expect no results. When the Pope spotted the dead boy's mother in a crowded Warsaw church, he spoke to her softly for several moments, then embraced her and kissed her on the cheek...
...three days, eight candidates for leadership of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party pressed the flesh and corralled supporters in Ottawa's cavernous Civic Center. Most party insiders were predicting a victory for former Prime Minister Joe Clark. But by late afternoon, rumors of an upset were rife. Sure enough, after balloting stretched into Saturday night, the weary conventioneers finally rejected Clark in favor of Brian Mulroney, 44, a Quebec lawyer and business executive long active in party affairs. Mulroney has never run for office, but he will lead the Tories against the ruling Liberal Party in national elections...
...commission until August. But politicking in Cambridge starts early and spreads far. In every biannual election, all nine city council seats are up for grabs. And this November 2 is made even more crucial by the fact that political control now rests in delicate balance between the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents. Each bloc holds four seats, with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--the self-proclaimed "small i" independent and champion of the city's poor and elderly--as the swing vote...
...town-gown relationships. President Bok last spring prompted the University to set in motion a new program which links Undergraduate Houses with Cambridge neighborhoods. The fledgling setup, says organizer Wayne Meisel '82 in a report on the House and Neighborhood Development Project (HAND), has engendered "fundamental cultural, ethnic and civic ties...