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...rights movement. The breakdown of rigid patterns of segregated housing offered middle-class blacks the opportunity to move beyond the ghetto walls. "The most upwardly mobile are the first to leave," explains Walter Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University. "Then the next best, the church members and civic leaders, leave. They are replaced by those who care less. There is cumulative decay...
Amidst a group of independents--who are generally older and oppose rent control--and a slate of younger, more progressive, candidates who favor rent control, sponsored by the Cambridge Civic Association, Ed Cyr stands alone. The question is, how alone will he be come election...
...could have tried to win the endorsement of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association, which dates to the mid-1940s. Like many CCA candidates, Cyr is definitely a young progressive. He is a strong supporter of rent control, which for years has been the main political issue in city politics, and he also has been active in a number of local causes. He founded a group called Toxic Alert which he says chased Arthur D. Little Co. out of the nerve gas business. He has opposed the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. Currently, he is the director of the Community of Elders...
Noriega's major move was a police raid on the offices of the National Civic Crusade, the coalition of 107 community organizations that has staged daily street demonstrations in the capital. Plainclothes government agents burst into the Crusade offices in downtown Panama City and hauled off boxes of documents. Then, at a dramatic midnight news conference, Attorney General Carlos Villalaz announced that the papers outlined a plot to dissolve the 67- member legislature and hand over power to a civilian junta. Authorities issued arrest warrants for six Crusade leaders, accusing them of conspiracy to overthrow the government. The sextet went...
Intimidation tactics seem only to have toughened the resolve of the National Civic Crusade, an assortment of 107 business, civic and student organizations that are pushing for Noriega's removal. Even the example made of Diaz Herrera, who faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of sedition, has failed to subdue the Crusade's passion. Three days after Diaz Herrera's arrest, members of the opposition attended Carrera's funeral dressed in white, their symbolic color of protest, and passed out mimeographed statements...