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...apparent swipe at the presidential campaign of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Boston Herald this week revealed that six temporary shelters for the homeless, including Harvard's University Lutheran Shelter, would close due to a state-level "fund feud...
...Herald's March 10 edition declared across the front page, "Fund feud may close homelss shelters." The article accompanying the headline blamed the "budget worries of the Dukakis administration" for the closing of the winter shelters and bemoaned the loss of 450 beds at a time when Boston is swamped with homeless people. However, the article did not describe the "fund feud" referred to in the headline...
...next day, the Herald printed an apology by the story's author, Phil Primack, saying the previous day's report had been incomplete and that "it is simply untrue that there's any connection between state budget pressures and the end of funding for shelters always intended to be temporary...
Baker said the Winter Shelter Program was a temporary program for the heating season and that "from the onset, we were up front about the fact that this was only a temporary shelter." He said its closing was "no surprise," except to The Boston Herald. "It's not like some 800-pound gorilla came in and told us to shut it down...
...Boston Herald editors did not return calls about the story yesterday...