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...weeks ago forty staff workers and a dozen members of the Cities Demonstration Agency (CDA) Board invaded City Hall, hoping to confront and pin down City Manager John Corcoran and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin on three specific issues-two contracts and Model Cities pay raises-that illustrated the clash of power over the program...
...Model Cities Board in Cambridge contains some fiery people who are not the least bit intimidated by Corcoran's intransigence or Cronin's retorts during the sit-in. The real issue, it seemed, was deeper than the two contracts and the pay raise that had been lying dormant on Corcoran's desk for weeks. To them, it was a question of power. Conflicting interpretations of the CDA enabling legislation asked "Who is going to exercise the authority over Cambridge Model Cities, the Board or the City Manager...
Robert J. LeBlanc, the young assistant to Corcoran, gave his office's viewpoint that "legally the City Manager cannot obligate the city for this kind of future expenditure. It simply exceeds our power...
City Manager John H. Corcoran yesterday unexpectedly fired his new appointee Joseph A. Spadafora, the Executive Director of Rent Control...
...City Manager ostensibly fired Spadafora after a source, whom Corcoran refused to identify, gave him a list of several of Spadafora's minor violations...