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...Michael Turk, co-author of the referendum and leader of the Harvard Tenants Union, suggests that some of the city's resources should be shifted into a public loan fund for repair and maintenance of older buildings. "Money is being used to fix up housing for middle-to upper-level income people, and we just want to make sure we get our fair share," Turk says...
Only 4277 signatures are necessary to have a referendum included on the ballot. But when the names are officially verified, 15 to 25 percent will be disqualified for not meeting the requirements of living in the city and being registered to vote, Turk added...
Tenant canvassers collected 6496 signatures supporting the referendum's inclusion, said Michael Turk, head of the Harvard Tenants Union and co-author of the referendum...
Repeatedly, the male voice crackled over the telephone lines. On each occasion the message was as unequivocal as it was unusual. Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old girl who was kidnaped last month in Rome, would be freed if Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who is serving a life sentence for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released. The girl's captors threatened to kill her unless their demands were met by midnight last Wednesday. But after the deadline passed the kidnapers remained out of touch, and Emanuela out of sight. The abductors' approach...
...chaotic encounter outside the police station, the slim, unshaven Turk for the first time confirmed previously published accounts of his confession to Italian investigators. Speaking in broken English and flawed Italian, he claimed that he was trained as a terrorist "in Bulgaria and in Syria." Italian officials believe that Agca was aided in the assassination attempt by three Bulgarians: two former employees at the Rome embassy and Sergei Ivanov Antonov, onetime Rome manager of the Bulgarian airline, who is now being held in a Rome jail pending the outcome of the investigation. Was Antonov involved? newsmen asked, as Agca climbed...