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Downzoning: Cantabridgians who live in tree-lined neighborhoods want to keep developers and universities out of the area. Cambridge law allows residents to petition for zoning changes, and in the past year two neighborhomds, Agassiz and Mid-Cambridge, have restricted construction to 35 feet high. Though they require a two-thirds vote from the council, political log-rolling makes the petitions virtually unstoppable. If a councilor refused to accede to a request from one neighborhood, he would be in trouble when the people in his neighborhood decided they want down-zoning...
Even without her reputation as a winner, Ackermann's strength as a reformer will win votes again for her in the "gentile liberal" Neighborhood 9. Particularly strong has been her involvement in housing reform and health care, both recurrent issues in Cambridge's political cycle. Like other incumbents, Ackermann has pointed to the $5.50 tax rate decrease as "a real gain," arguing that last year's $33 jump in the rate stemmed from the city's "total financial incapacity" under the old city manager...
...other issues he is less specific. He said he supports "stabilization of neighborhoods," citing rent control and down-zoning as possible ways of accomplishing this. But in true political style, Clarke added he wants to encourage land development by industry, which he says would provide more jobs, suggesting that a cut in the property tax might provide adequate incentive to businesses. He also favors more "citizen participation" in city government through interest groups and neighborhood committees...
...mood of good will was quickly shattered. Full-scale fighting broke out between the Phalange-dominated neighborhood of Dekwaneh in the eastern sector of Beirut and a Palestinian refugee camp at Tel Zaatar, controlled by the radical-leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.). The two sides hurled rockets and mortars at each other; the well-armed fedayeen even fired antiaircraft guns at the Phalange areas. As the fighting spread to other neighborhoods (see map), banks again closed, and merchants took goods from their stores to the relative safety of their homes. The toll of last week...
...Cincinnati life has been sedate so far, partly because of the injury, but partly because he has wanted it that way. "Girls from the neighborhood come to our door asking to see the Bengal, the celebrity," says Keogh, who was here Saturday for the Dartmouth game. But he says McInally only talks with them and nothing more...