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...also proposes that the city strengthen the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), a 1977 measure encouraging banks to put funds back into the community by financing loans, by boycotting banks that do not comply with CRA. "The CRA has had a positive effect by encouraging banks to reinvest," says Michael Rosenberg, housing director for the city's Community Development Department. But he explains that some buildings just do not meet bank criteria for loans. "The CRA doesn't change these criteria, and the city can't force the banks to do anything...
Currently, Cambridge has no clear-cut guidelines for dealing with vacant property. Rosenberg questions the enforceability of vacancy-control legislation, but Turk says a similar program recently initiated in Brookline has worked well...
Frances Mossiker ∙ The Rosenberg...
NONFICTION: Andropov, Zhores A. Medvedev -The Book of America, Neal B. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Eisenhower, Stephen E. Ambrose Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
...case made against the Rosenbergs implicitly pitted the United States against the Soviet Union, as the outright enemy from which any and all secrets must be prudently guarded. It is easy to forget that the trial took place only after America and Russia were wartime allies--so that it was in the Rosenberg case itself that many of the seeds of the Cold War were sown...