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...Cambridge Housing Convention, which in September blasted Harvard and Harvard students for contributing to the City's lack of low-rent housing, will hold its second session...
...convention's first session on Sept. 14, about 800 Cambridge residents passed scores of resolutions, many of them sharply-worded, calling for action by the universities and the City government to increase the supply of low-rent housing in Cambridge. Since then the co-ordinating committee appointed to carry on the convention's business has held over 40 meetings to work on the housing problem with Harvard and M.I.T. officials, the City Council, and other Cambridge organizations...
...coordinating committee's request the City Council has passed a number of resolutions giving top priority to construction of low-rent housing by City agencies. It also has set up a special citizens committee--half of whose members are chosen by the housing convention, and half by the City Manager--to draw up a legislative program to control housing speculation in Cambridge...
...EVENING of October 2, in the Plaza Tlatelolco, in the center of a huge low-rent housing project in Mexico City, 1000 soldiers opened fire with machine guns and rifles on a crowd of 10,000 demonstrators, who had been hemmed into the plaza only minutes before. At least 49 demonstrators were killed, hundreds injured. The Mexican Defense Minister claimed that the firing was in response to sniping by students, yet, according to official counts, only one soldier was killed and seven hurt during a week of rioting...
...housing to the community would only force more students and faculty to live off-campus and would thus increase housing shortages in the City. (A resolution had asked Harvard and M.I.T. to turn over 25 per cent of their housing to the Leased Housing Program--a project to provide low-rent housing to senior citizens...