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Independent councillors contend that the moveheralded the first of many firings the majoritywill make to install CCA-loyal employees...
...others that will follow Connarton, bothCCA and Independent supporters contend, areCambridge's politically eminent--vestiges of atime when Independents dominated City Hall...
...some citizens contend that putting Cambridge on the frontier of environmentalism would actually be helpful to business and a boon to the city's stagnant economic situation...
...their findings, except with House investigators and the Warren Commission. Last week the doctors broke their silence, reasserting publicly that they believe J.F.K. was shot by a lone gunman from the rear. Their belated postmortem report will not end the debate, but those who believe otherwise now have to contend with the detailed description of a "beveled" hole punched in Kennedy's skull that could have been made only by a bullet coming from above and behind...
...MISSILE MEN AT RAYTHEON COULD HARDLY CHEER ABOUT Pentagon reports that its wonder weapon Patriot was less successful than briefers claimed during the gulf war. Now they have to contend with Almaz, the Russian makers of an antimissile system called the SA10B "Grumble." The boys at Almaz believe their system is faster and better than the Patriot, so they're proposing an international shoot-out between the two systems to prove it. Raytheon, however, refuses to deal in "p.r. gimmickry" and says the Russians are only trying to elbow in on a hot product: complete Patriot systems sell...