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Lawrence Wikander, a retired librarian of Williams College, fascinated an audience with comparisons between Reagan and Coolidge. Both had trouble with Nicaragua (Coolidge sent Marines to keep the peace in 1926 at the request of the Nicaraguan President); both were harder workers than is commonly believed; Reagan was an instant Eureka College campus leader while Coolidge bloomed late at Amherst. Even Amherst's crusty historian, Henry Steele Commager, an ardent fan of F.D.R.'s, had a kind word: "Coolidge's virtues were chiefly negative ones, but then, negative virtues are always preferable to positive vices...
Close family members of detainees do not have the right to address any request to government authorities. If they ask questions, they receive a visit from the political police and are informed that it is forbidden to inquire into the possibility of visiting prisoners. They are also barred from meeting with the families of other detainees. Thus any assembly of more than three close relatives of political prisoners renders them liable to conspiracy proceedings. Prisoners' families are kept under constant surveillance by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (neighborhood block committees) and the police...
...nuclear debate came during the council's second and final summer meeting which ended at 12:30 a.m. In the first part of the meeting, the city officials rejected another request to place a referendum on the ballot. The Cambridge Rent Control Coalition had asked the councilors to place on the ballot a non-binding six-part plan to stem tenant displacement...
...other action at the seven hour session the councilors agreed to delay until a public hearing a request from Draper Labs to build a pedestrian bridge between its two buildings...
Stark will begin the second year of his leave at Harvard next fall Bell said adding that the Israeli professor could request to extend his time in Cambridge throughout the three years scheduled for the program...