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...presidency. Most infuriating because the mightiest power on earth found itself engaged in a test of will with an unruly gang of Iranian students and an ailing zealot of 79. Most dangerous because a single miscalculation could lead to large-scale bloodshed and tear to shreds the tenuous balance of power in the Middle East...
Cambridge voters interested in these three goals need to uphold and to expand the tenuous progressive majority that has ruled Cambridge city government for several years. Incumbents Saundra Graham, Francis Duehay, Mary Ellen Preusser, Alfred E. Vellucci and David Wylie all have solid progressive voting records. Without these five, rents would be higher and an even larger percentage of Cambridge housing would be condominiums...
...less important area of negotiations, the U.S. was preparing a new diplomatic effort. This time the main goal was to turn the jittery ceasefire in Lebanon into a lasting truce. The hope is that United Nations and Lebanese forces can gradually take over the tenuous peacekeeping tasks performed over the past three years by Syria's 30,000-man occupying force...
...issues. Factions line up on each side, clearly defining their stands--the Rent Control Task Force boosts tenant's rights, The Cambridge Home Owners and Taxpayers Association demands that everyone on its slate of candidates vote against rent control. And the system works. For ten years, liberals have held tenuous majorities on the council, just enough to insure that rent control continue, with many compromises to protect landlords...
...even sense in yourself that it's tenuous. You realize that while there is no overt discrimination to keep you from getting into graduate school, there's something missing that makes you uneasy," Freidan said...