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...Received a downzoning petition from the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association that would halt the University's plan to build a five-story hotel on the former site of the Quincy Square Gulf Station...
Superior Court Judge Catherine White last week denied a plea from Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods (CCLN) for a preliminary injunction against the Athenaeum Group's garage on Binney St. The group had sought to halt construction until a nest of three lawsuits decides whether the garage, which is 80 percent built, violates a 1973 federal parking freeze...
...Harvard Alumni Association's directors this week finally showed some scruples, agreeing to halt all "negative campaigning" in future elections for the Board of Overseers...
...Politburo's tentative first step toward a softening of its policies was already more than many had anticipated. Just two days earlier, President Erich Honecker, 77, had all but threatened a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown to halt the demonstrations that were spreading like a virus from city to city. But after the number of protesters multiplied into the tens of thousands, the Politburo announced a newfound willingness to discuss limited reforms. The sudden shift not only indicated a crack in one of the East bloc's most ossified regimes, but also spurred speculation that the ruling party was in disarray...
Meanwhile, the U.S. has virtually withdrawn from the battle against overpopulation. Until the Reagan years, the U.S. championed the cause of family planning in poorer countries. Then antiabortion lobbyists persuaded the White House to halt U.S. participation in overseas programs that sanctioned abortion. Nowhere is the slogan pro-life more cruelly inappropriate than in the vast famine-stricken regions of the Third World, where birth and death rates are entwined in a vicious spiral. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute notes that 40,000 babies die each day from malnutrition and disease, and that many of these deaths occur...