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Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy warned last night that he will press for a moratorium on the extension of the Red Line through Cambridge unless Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) plans are modified to meet community environmental needs...
...county fills up, it is developing some of the problems that the companies moved there to escape. Partly because of rising traffic congestion, Greenwich has placed tight limits on how much land can be zoned for business use, and Darien has imposed a moratorium on commercial construction...
...resume tests, suspended in 1975, that are designed to show if there is any increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities when human eggs are fertilized in the test tube rather than in the body. Commenting on the delays forced upon American researchers by what is, in effect, an unofficial federal moratorium, U.C.L.A. Obstetrician Jaroslav Marik bitterly notes that "if all the pulls and pressures had not been applied, there might be an American woman now about to deliver" a test-tube baby...
...year Cambridge building moratorium expired on July 3 and Radcliffe officials are again preparing to face community, opposition. Officials said yesterday they will move ahead with construction of the planned Observatory Hill gymnasium, even if they have to bring legal action against the city...
Wald says the moratorium was "unprecedented," but unlike many of his colleagues, he believes it accomplished a useful purpose in bringing the issue of recombinant DNA to the public's attention. This is as unusual as it is important, "because everything possible is done to make them think the issue is beyond their comprehension," Wald says, adding that many professors did not support his position. "People in the Biology and Biochemistry department were exceedingly eager--passionately anxious, in fact--to get on with their research," he says...