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Investigators suspect the Tamils were victims of an international plot to make a profit by transporting refugees seeking asylum in North America. Hamburg police last week arrested two Tamils and a Turk on charges that included violating passport laws and "trafficking in humans." Police identified the vessel that brought the Tamils to Canada as the Aurigae, a 425- ton West German ship that flies the Honduran flag. The telltale clue: the Aurigae's owners had recently bought three lifeboats belonging to the cruise ship Regina Maris. Though attempts had been made to sand off the name, the words Regina Maris...
...tenant activists, Robert La Tremouille and Michael Turk, have filed a complaint with the rent control commission saying that Harvard's permit to renovate 10 Mt. Auburn is illegal because it will tear up a rent control apartment, and La Tremouille said he is awaiting the results of their appeal to the commission...
Forty community representatives and residents attended the hearing at City Hall where only six of the nine city councilors on the committee heard testimony on the proposal. Despite a poster campaign against the zoning change by area resident and tenant activist Michael Turk, only two people testified against it while three supported...
...proposal's opponents complained that the relaxed parking requirements would likely leave Harvard Square with drastically inadequate parking facilities. It would become a "parking night-mare," Turk said...
...that move has come under attack by Turk, a member of the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition. Turk yesterday filed a petition with the Rent Control Board stating that Ferranti-Dege's request to remove its unit from rent control should be dismissed...