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Owens has shown little willingness to compromise so far. Ackermann and the two other liberals--Francis H. Duehay '55 and Robert Moncreiff--are firm in their stand behind Peterson. So Corcoran continues in his position as City Manager, probably finding it difficult to suppress guffaws at the liberals' fratricide. And Graham and many citizens of Cambridge wonder what they did to deserve this mess...
Things looked gloomy for Corcoran six months ago when five liberals who had campaigned on their promise to fire him won a majority of seats in the City Council. Mayor Barbara Ackermann and Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham, Robert Moncreiff and Henry F. Owens III immediately began their search for a new City Manager...
Ackermann, Duehay and Moncreiff insist that Peterson is the better candidate because despite his age (28) he won the support of a substantial majority of those citizens who interviewed both...
...participants in the citizen interviews on May 13 favored Peterson over Johnson by a margin of between four and nine votes, depending on whether one accepts Owens's report of the proceedings or Moncreiff...
Owens and Graham were the only Councillors to vote for the compromise resolution. Ackermann, Duehay and Moncreiff, along with two conservatives, voted "Present," while the other two conservatives voted...