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Since Cambridge adopted rent control 15 years ago, a tenuous balance on the council has preserved the city-wide policy, which is expected to come under attack this term from first-time Councilor William H. Walsh...
...stake in today's race is the tenuous balance between conservative and liberal members of the city council, which is currently split between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and four neighborhood-oriented Independents...
...tenuous majority of progressive city lawmakers has kept Cambridge's current rent control policy intact since stringent housing regulations were adopted 15 years ago. Since that time, rent control has preserved 17,000 housing units for low and moderate income people. The balance of power on the council, however, could easily be upset this year due to increased pressure from realtors and landlords to leave the city's housing market vulnerable to speculation and condominium conversion. And that simply must not be allowed to happen...
...Friday a tenuous cease-fire had taken hold in Tripoli, based on a nine- point peace plan worked out in Damascus by representatives of the rival Muslim militia groups. The meetings were brokered by the government of Iran, which is ( friendly with both Tawheed and the Syrians. The plan calls for the total disarmament of all militias under the supervision of the Syrian army, which will head a security committee that will assume control of Tripoli. Whether the cease-fire was the result of Soviet pressure on the Syrians was difficult to establish...
UUNDER THE TENUOUS LEGAL framework of the state of emergency, which gives the government a virtual blank check on arrest and detention, the reasons for moderate response on the part of Blacks have quickly faded. A preliminary report on the condition of South African jails released last week found that 83 percent of the 176 former prisoners in the sample reported some sort of physical torture, including beatings, forced standing, electric shock and strangulation...