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However, Cambridge City Solicitor Russell B. Higley said yesterday the city does not plan an appeal of the decision because he does not see a strong legal basis for one. "With the Prop 2 1 2 cutbacks, we don't want to appeal without a good chance of winning," he added...
...city calls on Harvard to pay for service cutbacks" caused by Prop 2 1/2, "a tuition raise could indirectly result," said Ellyn J. Kestnbaum'83, president of the student service group...
...group tentatively plans to encourage voting by postering widely, distributing pamphlets stressing the effect of Prop 2 1/2 on Harvard, and possibly sponsoring a phone bank on the day before the referendum. The group used the phone bank strategy in its unsuccessful attempt to defeat the original Prop 2 1/2 resolution in November 1980, Kestnbaum added...
Chip Faulkner, associate director of The Citizens for Limited Taxation--an organization which has worked against the Prop 2 1/2 repeal in other communities--yesterday opposed repeal, arguing that even though Cambridge voted against the original referendum. "People have liked lower taxes and should vote to keep them...
...balloting, voters in the city of Cambridge voted against Prop 2 1/2 by 24.306 to 14,427. Faulkner said he doubts whether Harvard students have the clout to influence April's voting. But David Sullivan--a City Councillor who fared well in the election district that encompasses Harvard--disagreed, saying. "The Harvard student vote is very important in what could be a very tight race...