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Councilor William H. Walsh, who won his seat in 1985 as an opponent of rent control, said last week that he hopes to use a provision of a council ordinance to end the protection of rent-control apartments.

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Rent Control Study Draws Political Fire | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

Cambridge, however, received the grant on condition that the city provide for the construction of low-income housing, said City Manager Robert M. Healy. This provision links the two parts of the plan.

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Plan for Housing, Playground Approved | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

Harvard has decided that the ordinance will only be enforced when individuals lodge complaints with University administrators--House masters or department officials--who then can enforce the ban as they see fit. With enforcement procedures such as these, the ordinances's provision for fining smokers as much as $100 and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lights Out? | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Reagan may also have to look for a new CIA chief. He has nominated Deputy Director Robert Gates to succeed the ailing William Casey. Though the Tower commission found that Gates had played only a minor role in the sale of arms + to Iran, it raised suspicions that he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Can He Recover? | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

By passing the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, Congress sought to avoid a replay of 1973's Saturday Night Massacre, in which President Nixon had Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox fired. The act calls for the prosecutor to be appointed by a panel of three federal judges and not to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking On the Prosecutors | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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