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...petition calls for a one year moratorium on all non--government tax exempt building in Cambridge residential zones. In addition, the moratorium will prohibit the issue of permits for new construction, for demolition and for occupancy...
Cambridge citizens introduced the petition which called for a moratorium only in the area around Observatory Hill...
Strong examples are the overwhelming vote of 399-14 in 1976 on a resolution which supported a moratorium on postal rate increases, service cuts, and post office closings, and the vote of 377-9 last year on a resolution opposing the cessation of Saturday deliveries...
Still pursuing higher-court relief, 1,000 farmers flocked to the capitol in St. Paul last week to demand a moratorium on construction of the line. Others have taken more forceful action. When power-company survey crews invade their fields, farmers harass them with onrushing snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida...
Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for community affiars, yesterday presented a letter to the planning board which said Harvard's legal counsel had advised that a moratorium would be "contrary to applicable principles...