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...House and Senate bills contain this clause. The current House bill is a compromise between congressmen's diverging views on this clause and Harvard's determination to see federal control of DNA regulatory standards. Much of Harvard's determination stems from friction with Cambridge over recombinant DNA experimentation. City Councilor and then-Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci spearheaded a drive to ban all recombinant DNA research here. After a series of public meetings, the Cambridge City Council imposed in the summer of 1976 a three-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA research, later extended for four more months. The city council...
...what are they trying to do? Why can't they accomplish the same thing within a department?" Danehy adds that he is probably not the best person to discuss Harvard's landlord practices in Cambridge, because he just doesn't know what's been going on. Cambridge City Councilor David C. Wylie, however, offers both optimistic and pessimistic speculations on what Harvard's new system could mean for the city. "Maybe it will be a good thing to have a central office with which the city can negotiate with Harvard," Wylie says. He adds that all members of the Cambridge...
...City Councilor Saundra T. Graham said during last night's meeting, "Cambridge is already 52-per-cent tax-exempt, and we need to pass some kind of bill preventing further expansion into Cambridge by these institutions...
...City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said last night he would vote against the city-wide moratorium, although he supported the Observatory Hill moratorium...
...Councilor Kevin P. Crane '74 said last night he thought the charges were "rubbish," adding, "everyone relied in good faith on the decision of the Convention '77 committee, which was that anyone could make campaign donations to a candidate's election committee," although city employees could not give money to incumbent candidates...