Word: supportive
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...battle is also raging in East Cambridge, where incumbents Alfred E. Vellucci and Frisoli are facing a strong challenge from Bentubo. Frisoli doesn't live in the Italian East Cambridge, but his ties with the Frisoli-Deguglielmo political clan won him support there two years ago. Vellucci, a 30-year fixture in city government, wins each election with the backing of a large personal network. But Bentubo is putting the pressure on. The owner of Richard's Arco has poured more than $5000, much of it from family members, into the campaign, and his posters and placards blanket (and litter...
...Walter Sullivan will breeze into office, probably at the head of the field, but Mayor Danehy, Frisoli, and Crane all face fights. Two former councilors upset in the 1977 elections. Daniel Clinton and Leonard Russell, have outspent the incumbents ("People in office are less willing to hit up their supporters for dough" theorizes one city politician), and are trying to rebuild the coalitions that elected them in the past. Danehy didn't pay his taxes on time two years ago, a revelation that may damage his candidacy. Frisoli, who has run front page ads in local papers for weeks...
...outsiders, not firmly aligned with either the independent or CCA camps, may also affect the balloting. David Agee and Douglas Okun don't have the ethnic and neighborhood bases that Vellucci, Danehy and their ilk draw on; their support of a "depolarized" city council may draw some votes, though, from new arrivals in the city--for the most part condo owners, who are less a part of Cambridge machine politics...
CAMBRIDGE VOTERS will consider six non-binding referendum questions tomorrow. Perhaps the most important of these is Question 5, which would ask the city not to invest in financial institutions doing business in South Africa. Citizens should discourage any support of apartheid practices, however indirect...
Under Question 3 the city would encourage the use of safe, renewable energy sources, as well as requesting state and federal governments not to license new nuclear power plants. Because nuclear power is not the best long-term resolution to the energy crisis, we support strong measures to develop alternatives...