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...Boston City "Councilman Albert O'Neal predicted yesterday the suit wil fail, saying the census is accurate because "people are moving out of the cities all the time. They are being forced out by crime, forced busing, and constant tax increase...
Cambridge has lost 5010 persons since 1970, a 5 percent drop, preliminary Census Bureau figures show. Boston, Watertown, and Somerville report losses of more than 12 per cent...
...state and city officials, including Boston mayor Kevin H. White and Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, have questioned the figures, saying the census undercounted non-English-speaking minorities and residents of poor neighborhoods...
...Census officials also undercounted many Cambridge-area students who didn't know they were officially city residents, Tim Reidy, acting director of Cambridge's CETA program, said this week...
...federal judge in Detroit last week invalidated census results on similiar grounds, and Cambridge officials said they are optimistic that they will win. "We have as good a chance as anyone of winning," Hizson said...