Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrible impact on the city," says City Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, who was mayor at the time. "It was in turmoil and we didn't have too many men to handle the situation...
...after police--some of them from Cambridge--arrested, and in some cases, beat the students who had taken over University Hall, Sullivan received threats on his life. While no attempt was ever made to kill him, he says he took the threats seriously enough that he and his family left town immediately...
...Sullivan says the climate of violence was primarily the result of activist groups from outside the city. Radical fringes of SDS, such as the Weathermen, converged on Cambridge in the late 1960s, as wave after wave of protest and revolt hit the universities...
...events of the year did have some effect on University policy. In September, 1969, Harvard announced a plan to sponsor 389 units of low- and moderate-income housing. And Sullivan says that today the University is much more responsive to city needs...
...They put more time into community efforts now, which they never did before," says Sullivan...