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Barbara Ackermann, Cambridge's first woman mayor, heads Council's liberal coalition which includes such diverse figures as black woman radical Saundra Graham and Harvard Ed School dean Frances H. Duehay '55. On the other side, Alfred Velucci, former mayor and longtime opponent both of Harvard reformers and commercial development interests, represents the more settled working-class interests of East Cambridge. Reflecting his neighborhood's fear of university expansion. Velucci has repeatedly suggested that Cambridge pave over Harvard Yard to solve the Square's parking problem and that the city transform the Lampoon Castle into a public urinal...
This motion was defeated by a vote of 4 1/2-3 1/2, with crusty Alfred Velucci straddling the issue by voting both Yes and No. Saundra Graham was not at the meeting, so the vote wasn't as close as it appeared...
Coates immediately denied any ill will toward Ward. Councillor Bernard Goldberg turned around and accused Velucci of using Ward as a pawn, trying to create an issue for his own political advantage. Vellucci only repeated his charges all the more strongly...
...Velucci moved that DeGuglielmo use the $6 million already authorized by the state and ask the Council for the $2 million more that Crane considered necessary for construction to begin. The motion was defeated. 5-4, by the same alignment that had elected DeGuglielmo City Manager over John J. Curry...
...Velucci Suggestion...