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...Spartans chose to stand and fight at Thermopylae; the Red Sox and pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...Seven Sumner Road has become a case in point, a symbol in community-Harvard relations," City Councilor and tenant activist David Sullivan says. "Harvard is attempting to take a building the city and its population requires and turn it into offices that have been elsewhere for a long time," he adds. Sullivan says tenants around the city are "prepared to fight into the courts to keep Harvard out of there.... The tenant movement is taking position that if Harvard wins, it will be a precedent...
...early to predict what the second increase will be, or when it will come, although we should get it out in 1980," Stanton said. Tenant leaders in the city have said in recent months that a general increase of more than 10 per cent would be "unacceptable...
Matters of Communist Party discipline are settled in secretive party tribunals. Commercial disputes between state enterprises, typically involving delivery delays and complaints about quality, are dealt with by special arbitration panels. Minor civil and criminal matters are handled by Comrades' Courts, which deal with such petty matters as tenant grievances and driver's license suspensions. Under an antihooliganism law enacted in 1966 to cover crimes ranging from disorderly conduct to assault, a patrolman can write up a citizen for minor offenses like rowdyism and public drunkenness, and within 24 hours the chief of police will decide whether...
...faces emerged from the balloting as well; David Sullivan, a young tenant activist trained at Harvard Law School, ran an astonishing second citywide, challenging perennial kingpin Walter J. Sullivan as the city's most popular politician...