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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helped bring rent control to Cambridge,and has helped create some 2,000 new units of affordable housing for families and seniors. She pushed for Higher Education Reform. She help working women with tough advocacy for affordable child care, equal pay, and parental leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All politics is local. Saundra Graham is a local politician. All politics is Saundra Graham. | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Thompson ran for City Council in 1979 with an endorsement from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). At that time, he told the Cambridge Chronicle, "I favor rent control and I'm against condominium conversion." But he qualified his position, adding, "I will seek to reform the procedures of the rent control board...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Thompson Pledges Accessibilty | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...superpowers are in the midst of a second detente, more profound than the first because it is accompanied this time by a serious Soviet attempt at internal reform. Detente II has yielded an arms reduction agreement (the INF treaty) of marginal strategic importance but of such profound psychological impact that the peace movement, which only five years ago threatened to overthrow Western nuclear policy, has been eclipsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Cold War Is Won | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...most immediate of questions facing the nation, but it may soon be among the most important. More pressing now is the question of how to get to that post-Soviet world, how best to encourage either the reform or the further decline of the Soviet Union. However, since Gorbachev is certainly right that the Soviet Union faces only one of these two alternatives, and since either alternative will radically alter the international environment, the U.S. had best start thinking what it proposes to do in a post-cold war world. The outlines of the coming debate are clear. Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Cold War Is Won | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...missiles aimed at the U.S.S.R. The gulf widened in 1986 when Kohl compared Gorbachev with the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Now the missiles are going, and Gorbachev has evidently swallowed his personal grievance in hopes of cashing in on Europe's newfound enthusiasm for his grand plan for reform. And cash in he did. The 70 top-ranking West German businessmen who accompanied Kohl offered the Soviets a $1.7 billion line of credit and some 30 trade agreements worth about $1.5 billion. Only two weeks before the Germans arrived, Italy's Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita cemented deals worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West A Toast - or Roast - for Reform? | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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