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...spite of the heavy competition most incumbents are expected to win reelection easily. Only four seats appear contestable. The council seats of Robert Moncreiff, who is retiring from the council this year, and Henry F. Owens II, a black councillor who has lost most of his white liberal support over the past two years, will be up for grabs. On the School Committee, two incumbents, Donald A. Fantini and David Wylie, have decided to try their luck in the council race so newcomers will fill their seats...
...council's liberal faction--Robert P. Moncreiff, Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham, and Mayor Barbara Ackerman--is backing Corcoran and has voted against appropriating the pay raise until the contract is signed...
...debate ended when Moncreiff called for tabling the resolution until the council's meeting on Monday...
Councillor Robert P. Moncreiff opposed the resolution, claiming that such a measure is outside of the council's jurisdiction. "This council does not have the power to enact such legislation," he said. "Disclosure laws belong in the state and national legislatures...
...unfair to ask a candidate to amass such information in the last week of an election," Moncreiff said...