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Returns still being tabulated also indicate that all six referendum questions on the ballot, including one asking the City Council to withdraw all city funds from banks doing business with South Africa, will pass...
...will bring up the energy issues the first time the city council meets." Cliff Truesdell '66, an organizer of the drive to pass the anti-nuclear referendum, said yesterday. "We expect these measures to be passed--we expect the city council will take heed of this overwhelming mandate," he added...
...line-up. Only councilor-elect David Sullivan and School Committee member Henrietta Attles will be brand new to their jobs when they take office in January. Politically, too, the shifts were small. Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) liberals and independent conservatives are still split four-four on the city council, with Alfred E. Vellucci--30 years a city official and an independent liberal--holding the balance of power and perhaps the keys to the mayor's office. The split means rent control will continue in Cambridge for another two years, the city will keep trying to limit condominium conversions, and James...
Still, even with record turnouts and consistent loyalty from their supporters, city liberals were able to get only four of the nine council seats. Forced to rely for two more years on Vellucci for a fifth progressive vote, they were none too happy last week...
City independents, the traditional foes of rent control, did what they had to do to keep their council edge--just barely. Walter Sullivan, as usual, led all comers in the vote, but his margin slipped--he only beat his liberal namesake David by 26 votes. Relying on his strong personal network, Walter Sullivan, an assistant clerk of courts whose father served as a councilor at the tail end of the Depression and who is entering his 13th term on the board, will keep his seat as long as he wants it--more than can be said for most...