Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true, that is a heady promise for a country that barely a month ago still cowered under one of the most monolithic and authoritarian of Communist regimes. The transformation east of the Wall has already been dramatic, indeed incredible: Who could have imagined East Berlin's Communist Party boss, mayor and police chief standing on the steps of city hall for five hours, listening patiently to criticisms that would once have been considered virtually treasonable...
...Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a veteran of 20 Cambridge elections, predicted that the remaining seats would be distributed in accordance with the current first-choice vote rankings. That would mean a majority of five for the CCA, in addition to pro-tenant Independent Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. who is expected to side with the good-government group on most issues...
City politicos had predicted that this election could radically change the face of city politics, largely because Vellucci, the mayor and a 34-year council member, and two longtime CCA councillors, Saundra M. Graham and David E. Sullivan, decided not to run. The last time three incumbent council seats were up for grabs...
...everyone was surprised at the incumbentvice mayor's success, however...
Observers said that Wolf's extraordinarily highvote total made her an early favorite to beelected the city's second woman mayor, should theCCA win a majority...