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...controversies still continue--the Kennedy Library and Kendall Square redevelopment. The fundamental problems remain--deteriorating housing, a shrinking tax base as the universities expand, police-community relations. Meanwhile, City Manager Sullivan assails the budget policies of his predecessor. For the city council, its politics as usual...
...dancing be given credit?" and answering that "we have lost the capacity to answer such questions because we have no criteria to do so." Within two years the new Redbook committee, he says, should try to reach a new consensus about what undergraduate education should be. Like its predecessor, the new committee's findings could have national significance...
JEAN SAUVAGNARGUES, 59, Foreign Minister. Calm and smoothly professional, Sauvagnargues (pronounced sew-va-nyarg) should bring a sharp change in tone to French diplomacy. His predecessor, Michel Jobert, delighted in public jousting with Washington over oil and Middle East policy-a performance that Pompidou felt was necessary to please his restive Gaullist constituency...
...order.") Then, too, Drinan sought political office with the permission of his superior, while there is some question about the authorization for McLaughlin's present job. Cleary believes that McLaughlin had no specific permission to do what he is doing; McLaughlin cites a letter from deary's predecessor commenting favorably on White House work...
Last August was hardly an ideal time for Ray Garrett Jr., 53, to become chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The watchdog agency's staff was demoralized by the departure under fire three months earlier of G. Bradford Cook, Garrett's predecessor, who got himself entangled in the Robert Vesco scandal. And the securities industry was then, as it still is, in severe economic trouble...