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Voters in Cambridge will receive three ballots tomorrow: one for City Council, one for School Committee, and a third they might not even open, containing this year's six non-binding referendum questions. Below is a list of those referenda...
...Irish sections--South Boston, Dorchester, West Roxbury and Hyde Park. Timilty traditionally wins in the high-turnout Irish areas. He has never won by much; and the vote seems to be more anti-White than pro-Timilty. But the state senator lost nearly half his 1975 support there to School Committee President David Finnegan. Timilty needs these votes back in his column to have a chance tomorrow. Timilty must also pick up some black and liberal votes to counter White's rising popularity with the Irish. Yet he has done little to win liberal voter's support, evidenced...
...stable municipal government continues to meet their needs. Those conservative voters, predominantly making their homes in the southwestern section of Boston, have neither the liberal's luxury of worrying about the erudite issues, nor the poor's immediate demands for assistance. They pay close attention to police protection, school quality and property values--and these have returned to normal during White's tenure...
Although somewhat upstaged by the Pope's visit and the dedication of the Kennedy Library, the stonings of school buses in Southie in September and the shooting of Darryl Williams could have forced Boston voters to look at the alternative candidate a little more closely. But the recent violence, as the mayor asserts (and is having police commissioner Joseph Jordan prove), is more isolated than it was in 1974 and 1975. Local media polls indicate that White will still win the election...
...Harvard women's soccer team extended its reign as Ivy League champion another year by swamping Brown, 5-1, in the tournament final Saturday afternoon at the Business School field...