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Cambridge tenant groups suffered a major setback Wednesday when the Local Affairs Committee of the State House postponed until next year its decision on the future of rent controls in the state...
Their work had just begun. Sources hinted that if Dwight Chapin was tied to Segretti, higher White House aides for whom Chapin worked were likely involved: perhaps Presidential Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. In following that lead, the reporters suffered their first crippling setback. They had been imbued from the first with the need for caution?"When in doubt, leave it out," their editors ordered?and had decided early to forgo generalizations in favor of only the specific and solid. They checked every fresh fact against at least two different sources. But the pressure of keeping one scoop ahead...
...Afro-American Studies Department Search Committee, which was supposed to announce a new appointment in March, is starting from scratch again in its hunt for new Afro Faculty. The search committee suffered a major setback last month when negotiations to bring John W. Blassingame, associate professor of History at Yale, to Harvard fell through...
Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party suffered a stunning electoral setback in its traditional stronghold of Hamburg last week, is even more gloomy about the future. While West Germany sits on the fattest bankroll in Europe, its leaders are haunted by an old fear: that if Germans begin to push, steer and wrestle the Common Market into the image they want, then the hatreds and stereotypes of the Nazi past will burst back in full venom...