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...section of Vellucci's proposal that was challenged the most specified "that said reward does not exclude the members of law enforcement agencies." Councillor Thomas Mahoney said, "The idea that these people [police] should be given [an additional] monetary incentive for doing their job is something I find very difficult to accept...
...Council defeated a motion by Councillor Walter J. Sullivan which would have banned the Sunday rockconcerts on the Common. Sullivan was supported by John J. Wrenn, president of the Cambridge Veteran's Organization, who said, "The Cambridge Concerts congregate thousands of people on the Common for one purpose-destruction...
...concerts found an unlikely defender in Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci,who stated his belief that the riots and the recent vandalism on the Common were caused by people unconnected with the concerts. In addition, Councillor Thomas Danchy speculated that the number of police necessary to halt the concerts might cost...
Alexander Zavelle has been named the merchants' spokesman, and he is a concerned and thoughtful liberal. He says, "I think we can clean up the Square without arresting people or beating them up." Zavelle and Sheldon Cohen, owner of the Out-of-Town News Agency, will work with City Councillor Barbara Ackerman to try to arrange laiason between the business community and the street community. They have plans for a Halfway House, where kids who can no longer panhandle or sleep in the Square could go and learn a trade, or partake in some other rehabilitative acivity. Cohen believes that...
Last Friday, Councillor Thomas W. Danehy introduced the motion to suspend Sullivan, but action on it was delayed by a parliamentary maneuver...