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...issue of rent control becomes crucial because of the form of city government. Most legislation requires a five-member majority on the city council, but rent control issues require six votes to institute change. For years, neither the CCA nor the conservative faction has been able to gain a majority on the council...
...current incarnation, the CCA faction in city politics is pro-rent control, pro-minority rights, and in general favoring progressive social policy. The CCA usually stands opposed to the more conservative Independent faction in the city council and school committee. At its inception, however, the CCA was designed primarily as a moderately conservative "good government" group...
...issue of rent control becomes crucial because of the form of city government. Most legislation requires a five-member majority on the city council, but rent control issues require six votes to institute change. For years, neither the CCA nor the conservative faction has been able to gain a majority on the council...
...states proclaimed the P.L.O. "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." That designation, reaffirmed in 1982, is the foundation of the P.L.O's power in international affairs. But formal recognition of the P.L.O. has never prevented the Arab nations from furthering their own feuds by backing one P.L.O. faction against another. P.L.O. fighters have been shot at not only by ) Israelis but by Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians and each other. In 1978 a bomb demolished the eight-story Beirut headquarters of Abbas' Palestine Liberation Front, killing more than 180 people. Presumed bombers: a rival faction. Presumed target: Abbas...
...Abbas faction of the P.L.F. (it is now splintered into three fragments) is believed today to be financed partly by Iraq, an enemy of Syria's. Abbas travels under an Iraqi diplomatic passport. Italy last week cited diplomatic immunity as partial justification for letting Abbas go rather than extraditing...