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Despite complaints from neighbors, the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal last week approved the conversion of a West Cambridge house into a halfway house for mentally ill patients...
...decision was made after several summer and spring meetings, when Aberdeen Ave. residents, citing potential disturbances from the patients and fears for personal security, told board members they opposed the plan for the halfway house, which will house eight mentally ill Cambridge natives over...
City Council member David E. Sullivan yesterday said the Aberdeen residents' fears are misplaced. "There are good reasons for believing the house won't be a problem, but an asset," he said, explaining that Cambridge's only halfway house, located on Lee Street, has "significantly improved in external appearance" since CASCAP took it over. "It is necessary for the city as a whole to take responsibility for mentaly ill people. It should fall on all the neighborhoods," said Sullivan...
When he does meet Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Gorbachev will at least have traveled halfway toward achieving his goal of a summit with substance. The American President and his Soviet counterpart have been sparring with each other over the conditions for their next meeting since shortly after they left the Geneva International Center last November. Like Reagan, Gorbachev has a < coterie of conservative critics who see no purpose to a second summit. Some Western observers believe the Communist Party General Secretary was criticized within the Politburo last year for getting too chummy with Reagan, and is now dogged by resistance...
...remaining when he contrived his own N.F.L. draft and installed himself last year as the boy genius of the Cleveland Browns. Considerately, he signaled the game plan to Testaverde, who otherwise might have transferred. Because of all the talented players lately streaming to Miami in search of a professional halfway house, the pro longest in the making has been Testaverde. (He even lingered an extra year in high school to improve his scholarship offers...