Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A thoroughly Democratic city, Cambridge traditionally splits between the "independents" --of local lineage and time-honored political methods--and members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a self-described "good-government" organization whose main concern is the preservation of Cambridge's rent control laws.
Some suggest that North may have done more than just rally the right to the contra camp. The Lowell (Mass.) Sun charged last week that $5 million from the sales of U.S. arms to Iran, which North had helped engineer, had been funneled to right-wing groups that included the...
According to the fund's records, the largest consultant fee--$50,000--went to Miner and Fraser. Another $10,000 went to Daniel Conrad, a fundraiser for the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, a conservative group that North reportedly assisted in preparing pro-Contra television commercials.
Channell dismissed as fantasy the notion that his four conservative groups--his nonprofit National Foundation For the Preservation of Liberty, his two affiliated political action committees or Sentinel, his lobbying group--got any such money.
The preservation effort is being spearheaded by Monarca A.C., a nonprofit Mexican organization established in 1980. "When I first saw the monarchs, I became ecstatic and vowed to learn more about them," says Rodolfo Ogarrio, a Harvard-trained lawyer who helped start the group. What Ogarrio discovered was that the...