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...city may be near a new realignment. How soon and how dramatic it will be depend largely on one factor--the rate at which Cambridge is "gentrified." As condominium conversion lures professionsals to homes that once belonged to the ethnic working-class and the elderly, the chance of a substantial change in voting patterns is high. "There is an emerging constituency. It's almost a John Anderson constituency--liberal on social issues, but quite conservative on economic questions," Councilor David Sullivan, who collected the second highest number of votes during the last City Council election, says. Without regulation slowing condo...
...first possibility seems least likely. The new professionals moving into the city don't share the concerns that form the basis of existing political alignments. The Independents depend on familiarity, friendships, and the old order. Their votes come from the same places every year. And because the networks of their power are woven among those who know and remember, they will be hard pressed to win support from those whose memories center on the suburbs. Meanwhile, the liberal activists have concerns in some ways antithetical to new residents. They oppose condominium conversion, favor rent controls, and thus are fighting...
...party system. Millions of voters feel disfranchised under that system, and Anderson, as a forceful and intelligent candidate who could not find a voice in it despite 20 years of faithful party service, will deepen that disillusionment. His race will probably draw the ferocious antagonism of politicians who depend on identification as Democrats or Republicans for success. Anderson has raised an implicit threat to their survival as he challenges the system in this singular campaign...
George Sanchez '81, a coordinator of the program, said yesterday the program's success does not depend on "how many students decide to attend Harvard, but on the sort of information we can provide," adding that without the weekend, "a great deal of pre-freshmen would have many misconceptions about Harvard--especially for Third World people...
Despite such caveats, Maryland's legislature this month enacted a version of the DEA model. Governor Harry Hughes, however, does not plan to sign it until he receives his attorney general's opinion on the bill's constitutionality. That recommendation could depend on a federal judge's ruling on one of the model's first offspring, a law enacted by the city of Parma, Ohio. The decision may also determine whether or not anti-paraphernalia legislation has a future...