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Some 75 members of Cambridge Vote on Vietnam packed the Council chambers to demand that the City put a petition opposing the Vietnam war onto the November 7 ballot. Two weeks ago, Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden disqualified two such petitions on grounds that the issue was irrelevant to City business...
...CNCV needed only 4000 signatures--8 per cent of Cambridge voters--to put the issue in the regular election. The group collected those names last August, but City Solicitor Andrew Trodden ruled their petition illegal because it dealt with matters beyond the sphere of Cambridge City government...
...CNCV is now fighting Trodden's ruling in Middlesex County Superior Court. Walzer is confident the courts will eventually uphold the petition. But the ruling will probably come too late for Nov. 7, according to CNCV lawyer Hans F. Loeser...
...local groups who want to place an anti-war resolution on the City's November ballot have taken their case to court. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts will now have to decide whether Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden was correct last week in ruling against the inclusion of the resolution on the ballot. Trodden said the resolution was "not within the sphere of action of the City of Cambridge...
Proponents of the petitions also point out, and correctly, that the City Council twice last May passed a resolution in support of the war. If Trodden says the city is impotent to deal in foreign affairs, they argue, why is the City Council permitted to vote such resolutions...