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...city manager's budget statement listed a series of possible uses for the funds if the city receives them. One such option is setting up a "stabilization fund" to lessen the impact of future budget cuts, such as the possible loss of approximately $8 million in Prop 2 1/2 cuts if voters do not override the measure again next year...
...last month's Prop 2 1/2 override failed. Cambridge would have been forced to make massive employee layoffs and service cuts. A preliminary budget prepared by the city manager in March predicated layoffs of 55 police. 54 fire fighters, and 133 public works employees, as well as the closing of all ten neighborhood health centers...
...Reagan Administration's Arabist posture, most vigorously advocated by former Bechtel president and current Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, denies both the history and the cultural context of the Middle East. In his effort to prop up unstable regimes through the use of arms sales. Weinberger hopes to forge an anti-Soviet consensus among Moslems, Christians and Jews. What be naively fails to recognize is that these regimes seek to use American arms to gird themselves against reform at home and employ them to advance the nationalist, as opposed to American, interests...
Last week, 17 months after they first voted against Proposition 2 1/2. Cambridge voters did it again--by an over-whelming margin. The 68-percent majority supporting Question 2 in the special referendum was enough to save the city--through a full override of Prop 2 1/2 in the upcoming fiscal year--about $10.2 million and hundreds of jobs that would have had to be slashed from the budget...
...everything but clean windows," said Assistant City Clerk Joseph Connarton Tuesday night while carrying ballot boxes to the Cambridge Election Commission headquarters, where results of the special referendum on the Prop 2 1/2 override were being tabulated. "If this doesn't pass," he joked--at about 10p.m. when it was beginning to become clear that the override had won--"we may be doing that, too. "Connarton and most of his fellow city employees have been saved-at least for one year...