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...binding initiative campaign, which received the requisite number of certified signatures, was stalled at the August 8 city council meeting when the councilors failed. On a 4-4-1 vote, to put the Nuclear Free Cambridge question on the ballot. The one abstention was Councilor David Sullivan, who had publicly supported the referendum but could not vote on it because his position with the Secretary of State's office election commission placed him in a conflict of interest...
...city council vote came after more than an hour of confusing legal discussions, and a heated exchange between Councilor David Wylie, a strong supporter of the measure, and Draper Vice President John F. O'Connor. A large crowd of observes, which spilled over into halls and the upstairs galleries, stayed for the whole discussion, despite the sweltering heat mitigated only by one small clacking electric...
Though the Washington visit was clearly meant to boost King's campaign the Chicago mayor often was more in the spotlight than the Boston candidate whom polls put in second place along with City Councilor Raymond I. Flynn Former School Committee Chairman and WBZ radio talk show host David I. Finnegan is considered the frontrunner...
...most emotional address at the rally came from City Councilor Bruce Bolling, who introduced Washington by saying that he had "sent a message across the country that Black folks are going to stand up and take what's theirs...
...heavily Irish Catholic region where the Speaker can be seen strolling the streets on an occasional Saturday afternoon. To the Northeast past MIT is East Cambridge--a tight-knit mix of Italians and Portuguese, with a recent influx of Haitians. The colorful, outspoken Al Vellucci, 36 years a city councilor and currently the mayor lives there And to the south lies Cambridgereport, once tapped as one of Lyndon Johnson's model cities, now a poor region with a high Black population. Saundra Graham, the only woman and the only Black on the city council comes from this region...