Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landscape and the selection of the state's 182 delegates to the 1972 Democratic Convention. Shapp is thought to lean toward a Kennedy nomination, while Rizzo presumably favors Washington's more conservative Senator Henry Jackson. Rizzo will probably defeat his G.O.P. opponent, Thacher Longstreth, a former city councilman, so there is bound to be a nasty intraparty fight...
RONALD DELLUMS, 35, Democrat, Calif., is an Afro-topped and bell-bottomed radical black who comes to Congress "to legitimize the protests of the young people and blacks." An exMarine, former psychiatric social worker and Berkeley city councilman, he will stand out sharply, but warns: "I'm not here as some curiosity. I've got some heavy things going on in my head...
Vellucci has long been a strong critic of Harvard both as a City Councilman and as Mayor. Over the years he has concocted some unorthodox ideas for City policy toward the University...
...clears the courts. These cities are relatively fortunate; other cities are virtually desperate. Under state laws, both Omaha and Detroit are already taxing to the limit of their authority and could not pass tax increases even if they wanted to. Sooner or later, says former Pittsburgh City Councilman J. Craig Kuhn, "all cities face bankruptcy, unless some new patterns of municipal financing evolve...
...rights, a second and far more rapid infusion of help should be coming from closer to home: the ever-widening belt of prosperous suburbs that surrounds every major U.S. city. Unfortunately, such help has rarely been extended either through consolidation of governmental services or revenue. Says City Councilman Henry L. Valentine of Richmond: "Our neighboring localities do not seem to want to assist us in facing the problems of the core city. But if the core rots, the whole apple will rot." Or as John Lindsay puts it: "If we cannot move forward in the cities, we will move backward...