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...money influence of special interest parties makes it unlikely that the ills of the Cambridge social scene can be addressed through the City Council. Upper middle-class and Harvard institutional interests were responsible for and profited from the election of "liberal" Barbara Ackermann as mayor and Duehay as councilman. The liberal response was shown up for what it was, class interest, when Larry Largey died after being beaten by Cambridge cops last fall. The first-ever mass mobilization of East Cambridge citizens in an angry march to the Council had no effect--the two cops are still on the beat...
...title of your article "Ghetto Homesteaders" [Aug. 13] implies that the properties to be restored by Philadelphia City Councilman Joseph E. Coleman's Urban-Homesteading bill are only ghetto properties. This is not true. These houses are found in neighborhoods throughout the entire city...
...anyone of limited income." The city charter states that city-owned properties are to be sold by bid. The bill complies with the rules of the charter; the bidding price for the houses and properties begins at $1. Thanks to the sincere efforts of Coleman, a hard-working freshman councilman, the concept of urban homesteading may revolutionize the entire process of urban renewal throughout the nation...
...Watchung Pharmaceutical, an expanding drug firm that lusts after Howard's turf as well as 250 acres of prime undeveloped land adjoining it. A tiny zoning change will make the property-a potential community park-eligible for commercial development, and Watchung has the town's most influential councilman in its pocket. Corporate triumph seems inevitable-until Howard Butler discovers that his outcast condition enables him to risk the heroic...
...Gary. That is not surprising, because those cities have black majorities. But last week brought the most dramatic evidence yet of black political progress. Los Angeles, the nation's third largest city, elected its first black mayor, although the Negro population is a distinct (18%) minority. City Councilman Thomas Bradley won because enough whites regarded him not as a black politician but simply as a man deserving of their vote...