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MATEP opponents contend the plant's diesel engines would emit nitrous oxides at levels harmful to animal and human health...
...motions, which will be heard Tuesday in Middlesex Courthouse in East Cambridge, contend that since a Superior Court justice ruled before the screening that the film was not obscene the pair cannot be prosecuted...
Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has even likened the emigration to desertion from the army. Other critics contend that those going to the U.S. are motivated by the most crass materialism. One comment in the Jerusalem Post last week was typical: "They want to be lulled into nirvana by the hum of a six-cylinder auto engine, the whir of a food processor and the strains of an expensive stereo. They want to come home from work and be pampered, to make a lot of money and stop caring...
Black attitudes toward the white-dominated school board that acquired a conservative majority in elections last year may be even more hostile. The new members contend they have a voter mandate to fight all plans for busing students to achieve better racial balance in the schools, despite court orders to the contrary. Charges the Rev. Kilgore: "It's a totally politicized board that couldn't care less about educating black children...
...sail on hand to mark that historic city's 350th birthday. But Cambridge historians will tell you that, some 990 years ago when the first ships blew into the Harbor, they didn't set anchor till they had journeyed up the river to Cambridge. Leif Ericson, these archaeologists contend, was the first Cantabrigian, and his settlement here may well have been the first European colony in the New World...