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DORCHESTER-MATTAPAN, MASS...
...Mattapan section of Boston, once predominantly Jewish, has turned steadily black in recent years, as blacks have been crowded out of Roxbury to the north. Now Blue Hill Avenue is a mixture of synagogues and soul shops, kosher butchers and real estate offices...
...methods that it used to delay and stall that decision as long a possible. Saltonstall has certainly been around City Hall long enough to know about political pressures and chicanery. There was no way that Thomas Atkins, the black councillor from Roxbury, or Joe Timilty, who lives in Mattapan, or Jerry O'Leary, from South Boston, or Louise Day Hicks were going to vote for that proposal. The Council is chosen in an at-large election, but on Monday it was ward politics that were talking, and ward politics demand a certain amount of fence-sitting...
...Roxbury, Mattapan and South Boston all border on Dorchester, and all four of those councillors depend heavily on the Dorchester vote in a city-wide election. Neponset, which sits between South Boston, Mattapan and Quincy, is an influential section of Dorchester, and one which Atkins, Timility. O'Leary and, yes, even Hicks, could ill afford to alienate...
...have no hangups now, because I haven't gotten so involved in this thing. I can't afford to become emotionally involved, or I'd end up in Mattapan [Boston State Hospital]. I think my children have helped to keep me fairly stable...