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...debate over Christmas displays on public property has occupied civil libertarians for years and is often overshadowed by constitutional struggles waged on the national level, such as that over prayer in schools. But a Rhode Island Circuit Court of Appeals judge last month pushed the creche issue back into the spotlight by upholding a 1981 ruling forbidding the city of Pawtucket from mounting a manger scene. That city responded intelligently, selling its display to a private group which put it up on private property...
MAYOR VINCENT CIANCI of Providence reacted less wisely by loudly refusing to accede to requests that his government take down a creche it had placed on the City Hall steps. Vowing to fight a suit that will be filed this week by the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Cianci portrayed himself as a champion of piety to reporters: "I've talked with the ACLU in the past, and what I've told them is they're jealous because they don't have three wise men and a virgin in their whole organization...
...million in a budget so many billions in the red strikes some Congressmen as scarcely worth the resulting curtailment of services. In one sense, a "damn the deficit" approach to the nation's budgeting seems to be gaining some admirers. Explains Rhode Island's Republican Senator, John Chafee, referring to some of his despairing colleagues: "When you're rounding off between a $ 150 billion and $200 billion deficit, what harm will it do to spend another $5 billion to put people back to work?" Adds Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine: "People add amendments...
...Cambridge City Council last night asked the city solicitor to investigate the effect on a Brattle Square Nativity scene decoration of a recent U.S. District Court ruling in Rhode Island...
...deciding a similar case, the Rhode Island court ruled last week that the city of Pawtucket, R.I., could not construct a Nativity scene on municipal property...