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Election Commission officials said yesterday that only 2361 of the petition's 8756 signatures were valid. This left it far short of the 3624 valid signatures needed to put it on the City's November 7 ballot...
...Court judge ruled Monday--contrary to City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden's opinion--that there was nothing illegal about an initiative petition bearing a peace resolution. The City Election Commission determined last Friday that the peace petition filed by the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam bore the number of valid signatures required to put it on the ballot...
...CNCV filed its petitions with the Cambridge City Clerk on Sept. 12, and its struggle with City Hall began immediately. The law gives the Election Commissioners 5 days from the date a petition is filed to determine whether it carries enough valid signatures. Instead of checking the signatures, the Election Commissioners asked City Solicitor Trodden for an opinion on the petition's legality. Trodden wrote them, "There is no need to further process this socalled Initiative Petition." It was illegal, he said...
...enough signatures are valid, the City must immediately print ballots for the resolutions, without waiting for the city to complete appeals or for City Council action on a possible resolution...
...Jose President Robert D. Clark immediately ordered public hearings on all the charges. As counterthreats against Edwards' life mounted, he canceled a football game that Edwards had promised to disrupt. Clark then conceded that the charges were valid, ordered prompt steps to correct the conditions. "The first step is rational debate," explained the triumphant Edwards, "but the biggest single lever we had is the threat of violence." The new Negro mood means that few college administrators can be confident that the new academic year will be nonviolent...