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...last week's City Council meeting. Vice Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 presided over the nine-member body--a position he says he would like to seek again...

Author: By Thomas J. Wisslow, | Title: Candidates Clamor for City Council Seats | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

Graham told the Crimson in May that she may not seek reelection if she decides to run for Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill's Congressional seat...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Mayor's Death Sparks Political Jockeying | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

Aside from the incumbents, three Cantabrigians have officially announced that they will seek a seat on the Cambridge city council this fall...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Mayor's Death Sparks Political Jockeying | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

G.O.P. leaders in the House went to work on a compromise that would address the concerns of their own defectors. These disgruntled Republicans wanted strict limits on the use of humanitarian aid, a promise to seek new bilateral talks and an acknowledgment that human rights in the four-year-old civil conflict had been violated not only by the Sandinistas but also by contra guerrillas. Reagan quickly complied. Said Republican Hamilton Fish of New York, who had voted against contra aid in April: "Everything I requested was accepted." Beyond the individual talking points, moreover, the Administration succeeded in convincing some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building A Contra CONSENSUS | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

JOURNALISTS SHOULD NEVER abdicate their responsibility to inform the public. But when their coverage of events becomes an inseparable part of those events, they must apply a different set of standards. They must separate the public's need to know from its desire to know. They must not blindly seek to satisfy their viewers' wishes, and they must not be blinded by prestige or profit...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrat, | Title: Just the Facts | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

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