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VOTERS RARELY have such clear choices in an election as they do today. During the next two years the Cambridge City Council and School Committee will decide on the future of rent control, condominium controls, land development and the staffing of the school system. Today, however, voters will decide the broader question of whether Cambridge will continue to have a municipal government concerned with efficiency and progressive innovations. Student voting, particularly under Cambridge's proportional representation system, can have a significant impact on this decision...
...four of them--Alfred Vellucci and David Clem excluded--are cut from roughly the same cloth. Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas W. Danehy, Leonard J. Russell and Walter J. Sullivan have all been on the Council for a number of years. They oppose controls on vacant housing and bans on condominium conversion. They believe Cambridge Convention has blown these issues out of proportion in order to liven up an otherwise dull campaign. They clearly represent a constituency other than the students and professionals of the Harvard Square area...
...equally reticent on other issues. On rent control: "I don't think it has done the job it set out to do and I don't want to discuss it any more." On condominium conversion: "I don't believe it[the charge that conversion forces the poor out of Cambridge]--next question, please...
...Condominium conversion, he claims, is a perfect example of liberal opportunism. "When the issue came before the council, liberals wanted to minimize condominium conversion because if they aren't converted there would be young students living in them who would vote liberal," Danehy charges. Needless to say, those who favor controls on conversions deny the motives ascribed to them...
...week he has a special concern for the political rights of the elderly. "The elderly should have a representative on the council so they won't have to be suppliants," he said. He has spoken out against illegal research on the elderly conducted at Boston City, Hospital and against condominium conversion. He says he wants to "educate groups to use their political power...