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...first episode, the council voted, 7-2, to adopt a non-binding moratorium against the subway extension until further environmental studies are finished...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Red Line Tear-Jerker | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Monday's 7-2 City Council vote to adopt a non-binding moratorium on construction indicates that the Council may join in the injunction suit. But non-binding moratoriums are a leap away from legal action and Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy is unsure of council support...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: City, MBTA Square Off In Battle Over Red Line | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Danehy, the strongest proponent in City Hall of the moratorium, has said he will "keep swinging." His success in rallying council support may well be the acid test of his ability to control the council...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: City, MBTA Square Off In Battle Over Red Line | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...began to question the safety of certain kinds of recombinant DNA research. As a result of a few scientists' conscientious probing, researchers gathered for a series of conferences in which they discussed the potential hazards of gene-splicing. Slowly and increasingly acrimoniously,they drew up guidelines recommending a voluntary moratorium on certain kinds of recombinant DNA research and setting up standards for physical and biological safety precautions for investigators to observe in different categories of experiments. These conferences proved the basis for the 1976 National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines. Since NIH funds many scientists' research, these suggested guidelines have...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Behind the Genetics Controversy | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...special containment laboratory which would conform to the new NIH guidelines -- the same lab scheduled to open here in a few days. At a hostile and emotional City Council meeting, the scientists confronted the Cambridge community. After the dust settled, the council imposed a three-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA research in Cambridge while the Cambridge Experimental Review Board drew up the present city ordinance...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Behind the Genetics Controversy | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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