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After the Weatherpeople went underground in February to escape police surveillance, they adopted a pyramidal organization. At the top was the Weather Bureau, a leadership council that included Dohrn, Jeff Jones and Bill Ayers, the group's theoretician and son of the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. Through members acting as couriers, the leaders kept in touch with a nationwide network of four-or five-member cells which were constantly on the run. Known as "foco," the Spanish word for "focus" or "center," they each operated independently, recruiting new members and carrying out bombings and other...
...Boston Edison may not be in the same league as Consolidated Edison of New York or Public Service of New Jersey when it comes to political power. But most companies in Boston have always accepted that the only way to get reliable electricity in the city was to buy from Boston Edison...
...Edison has no particular affinity for total energy, especially when it means a possible multi-million dollar loss in profits. But Edison also knows that self-interest doesn't make a strong court case, so when the company files for an injunction to stop the plant, probably sometime in the near future, you won't see any mention of loss of profits in the brief...
...Edison will resort to the only argument that it's difficult to believe that the courts may buy, that the city won't be receiving its fair share of taxes if the private hospitals are allowed to build their power plant. But a $1.5 million in-lieu of tax agreement pending between the city and the medical institutions will probably nullify Edison's claim...
...Edison is wrong and if private total energy is one way out of the energy crisis, then, as Harvard officials will tell you, nobody seems to lose, except for the evil power trust...