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...fact that progress is taking place is indisputable. Candidate Flynn last fall found a sympathetic audience when he argued that what ailed Roxbury was what ailed Southie. "In South Boston everybody thinks that because of affirmative action the Blacks are getting everything," then-councilor Flynn told The Globe in 1982. "Everybody thinks that because people in South Boston are white, they're getting everything. The reality is that neither one is getting anything...
...from limited resources, and must deal with one of the poorest major cities in the country. Whites are not well off either, and Flynn has wirely couched his rhetoric in communal rather than divisive terms. He must step up efforts to bring black leaders like Mel King and City Councilor Bruce C. Bolling into the spotlight. King, who won about 20 percent of the white vote in an inspired but unsuccessful bid for mayor, will continue to be a force for change in the city, and Flynn should again encourage him to join...
Reluctant to address any controversial legislation with Mayor Leonard I Russell and Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci visiting Cambridge's sister city in Japan, the members of the city government still in the country last night simply tabled important measures that arose...
...last week councilors had also put off discussion of controversial legislation since both Councilor David E. Sullivan and Councilor Walter J. Sullivan were absent from the chamber on vacation...
State and national officials said the practice of not properly indicating a poll's affiliation is legal, though ethical questions may still remain. "There's no law at all on the subject," said City Councilor David E. Sullivan, attorney for the Secretary of State's office, which oversees Massachusetts elections...