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Dozens of politicians, civic groups and religious leaders endorse a concrete alternative offered by the Employment Research Associates. The idea involves a trial $10 billion shift from military to civilian industries. Specifically, the money would go to develop solar and wind energy, gasahol production, the modernization of the nation's railroads, and several other alternative industries that serve a national purpose. Converting the economy from war to peace industries brings an added benefit: more jobs. Military spending employs fewer people than almost any other sector of the economy. One billion dollars spent by the Pentagon creates 75,710 jobs...
Results of last week's city council and school baord elections were finalized this week. Strong support for conservative candidates from voters angered by condominium controls denied a city council majority to the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The school board will include three liberals and three conservatives, a change from the previous 4-2 CCA majority. The mayor, to be chosen from among the city councilors, will serve as the seventh member, determining the committee's political slant...
...Stones absolutely tore up the Hartford Civic Center Monday night with a slashing two-and-a-half-hour set that was simply too magnificent to be broken down and analyzed song by song. From the opening riff of "Under My Thumb" to the final grunt of "Satisfaction," the old men of white R and B proved that they still command the most powerful live punch of anyone on the concert hall stage...
Jane F. Sullivan became the first woman member of the neighborhood-oriented conservative Independent slate to win a spot on the committee in 26 years, edging out Frances Cooper of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The CCA controlled the committee with a 4-2 majority during the last term...
...Saturday, the liberals still had a shot. After months of campaigning with the aim of gaining a city council majority, the members of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) pinned their hopes on Alice Wolf. She was down by but 172 votes to veteran conservative Thomas W. Danehy, and, under Cambridge's arcane proportional representation voting system, there were 1562 votes left to be counted. They were votes that originally had been cast for Mary Allen Wilkes...