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...Goldin said that the North Harvard resistance had hired its own architect to go through the area and make a survey of the residences in question. "The only real criticism will come from an independent source," he explained...
William P. Homans, Jr.'41, attorney for the Allston group, sought a court injunction Monday prohibiting the BRA from further demolitions and evictions. Although the judge said that the case for the injunction would not be held until Sept. 1, he issued what Goldin termed an "unofficial injunction." Goldin explained that under the ruling, if the BRA attempts to evict any more people or tear down any more buildings, the court will take action against them...
...Stevan Goldin '64-4 cited a bill pending in the legislature, a statement by Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill and Senators Leverett Saltonstall '14 and Edward M. Kennedy '54, and an informal injunction issued in Cambridge District Court on Monday as the major weapons in his forces' arsenal...
Meanwhile, solicited by Goldin, at least one national figure leaped into the fray Friday. New Jersey Congressman William B. Widnall, called Mayor Collins' proposal "totally inadequate and a cruel obituary to the hopes and desires of low income citizens." He termed the plan "a political whitewash... of a situation which has gotten too not politically" and went on to declare, "Unless this plan is changed to provide a halt to the eviction and demolition process while review of the blue-ribbon panel being made, Mayer Collins' statement will justly deserve a description as a political face-saving approach...
...Goldin will try to contact other national figures on the Washington journey, and if he can get them to come out against the microcosmic Aliston project, the publicity generated will certainly make it very tough on Mayer Collins. And it will sorely tempt more local officials to link their names to the growing list of those coming out in favor of the tiny group at North Harvard. The issue could approach the status of Motherhood as something a politician had better be in favor...