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Frank is considered one of the leading young liberals in Congress. He won his first term in what had traditionally been a Democratic district. But the Commonwealth lost a Congressional seat following the 1980 census, and the ensuing redistricting combined Frank's turf with that of 15-year veteran Republican Rep. Margaret Heckler. Three-fourths of the new area is made up of Heckler's old district, and Frank, by all counts, faces a tough fight for reelection...
India was freed in 1947, after a long struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi. Subsequently, the Union Jack came down in 41 other colonies, protectorates and assorted territories around the world, from Africa and Asia to the Pacific islands and the Americas. Today Britain is part of the 46-nation Commonwealth, a loose political and trade association composed of its old possessions, now completely independent. Britain still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings...
...There is a very strong effort on Beacon Hill to increase state aid to cities and towns who must decrease their expenditures because of 2 1/2. It is expected that the Commonwealth will reimburse up to 50 percent of the the decrease suffered by the cities and towns. There is a very good chance that this effort will be successful in light of the fact that there was a surplus in the state budget in the current fiscal year ending June 30th. Cambridge could get back up to five million dollars on the expected cut back of 10 million dollars...
Barry M Locke was born in 1932. He rose swiftly in Massachusetts politics, becoming press secretary to Gov. John Volpe before turning 35. After Volpe left the statehouse. Locke bounced around the private sector until 1979, when he became Secretary of Transportation and Construction of the Commonwealth, and then chairman of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Sometime shortly thereafter, he became disenchanted with public trust, or desperately hungry for money, or both. He and "close friends" began engineering one of the most incredible corruption schemes in the history of a state with a record of corruption topped...
...early to tell whether the death penalty will this year make its, way into the law of the Commonwealth. But supporters, pandering to the fears of citizens, give it a pretty good shot. Raising the spectre of cold-blooded murderers stalking the streets of Boston, they continue to pose a-life-for-a life as the ultimate deterrent. Now, they are also promising that capital punishment will provided much-needed financial savings, arguing that, when cities and towns are laying off firemen and police, when schools are cutting curriculums, it is better to bury a murderer than...