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...extensive search for a replacement and finally came up with James L. Sullivan in July of that year. But Sullivan's independence insured his downfall, and Crane collected the votes to dismiss him in May 1970, filling the vacant office with the present city manager, John H. Corcoran...
Moncreiff describes his first term as "an exercise in frustration." After Crane dumped Sullivan he once again took control of the city, this time through Corcoran. "I didn't know anything more about what was going on than someone who read the Chronicle, except I heard it a few days earlier," Moncreiff remembers...
HOWEVER, CRANE CHOSE to end his career in 1971 and in that year's race five CCA candidates were elected on a joint platform of firing Corcoran and finding a more energetic and innovative city manager. Moncreiff won along with Duehay, Barbara Ackermann, Saundra Graham and Henry F. Owens III. But hopes of replacing Corcoran faded as the CCA majority failed to agree on his successor, and the bitter struggle culminated last September in a statement of support for Corcoran...
Although disappointed in the failure to remove Corcoran, Moncreiff says that the city manager has improved with time. Beyond that, he says that the Rent Control Board has done as well as it possibly could in administering a "crazy law which 40 per cent of the landlords ignore with the support of their tenants...
...youths, organized into rival black and white gangs, battled police for two hours, leaving six wounded. The rioting drew heavy press coverage, and collected a gaggle of officials. At the riot scene, Thomas Atkins, Secretary of the State Department of Communities and Development, met City Manager John Corcoran, and decided to call a meeting of city and state officials at Corcoran's suggestion...