Word: counciler
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...plan by the Stop & Shop Corporation for the purchase and development of city land in North Cambridge took members of the City Council by surprise last night, as attorneys for the company appeared to address the council on issues of which they had not been informed...
Neither could anyone else. A motion introduced by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci to table the proposal until next week passed unanimously, allowing the council to wait for a more detailed proposal from the company before taking action...
...highly confrontational meeting last night, the City Council once again postponed action on a home rule petition designed to strengthen the enforcement of rent control in Cambridge...
...measure was tabled in a 5-4 vote, with members of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) squaring off against the council's four Independents. The swing vote was provided by Independent Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, traditionally a supporter of rent control...
...accused of killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years. But last week there were reports that this ferocious dealer of death and destruction, Abu Nidal, 52, head of the Libyan-based Fatah Revolutionary Council, is ill and possibly dying in a hospital in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, his illness variously reported to be cancer and heart disease. Declared a Cairo-based official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, from which the terrorist leader broke away in 1973: "Abu Nidal is in a very tough...