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...list is still growing, but already it resembles a Watergate Who's Who-former Attorney General John Mitchell, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, former White House Aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin, Herbert Porter and Gordon Strachan, and California Lieu tenant Governor Ed Reinecke. All have been accused of lying at one time or an other during Watergate-related investigations. Chapin and Porter have already been convicted and others are likely to meet the same fate. The Watergate prosecutors seem to be turning up a prevarication in every pot, and the irony of the situation is pain fully...
...axiom in Cambridge that the city council resembles nothing more than an erratic circus, and rent control is its most dependable elephant. In a city with a large number of renters who are well-organized by tenant and community groups, debates over control have been the council's most popular business for the last six years...
...Tenant groups admit that control does not solve the housing problem. CTOC holds that the solution to housing problems is the abolition of private property. CTOC spokesmen argue that control lowers rents for some tenants, and makes it harder for landlords to evict residents. Controls are also useful, according to CTOC, as a catalyst in tenant organization for more basic reform...
Cambridge tenant groups suffered a major setback Wednesday when the Local Affairs Committee of the State House postponed until next year its decision on the future of rent controls in the state...
...least 16 tenant groups in the state plan to demonstrate at the State House next month to urge the committee to reconsider extension of rent controls...