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...last weekend's ward caucuses? It depends on whom you talk with. Former governor Michael S. Dukakis, who taught at the Kennedy School until last semester was of course claiming victory as all sides acknowledged he had received the support of at least 60 percent of the delegates elected. Gov. Edward J. King was also claiming a victory of sorts as he got somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, higher than the 15 percent he said he was shooting for, Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill, the only candidate not insisting he had won, was hard-pressed just...
...NEILL CLAN of North Cambridge has been better weeks than last. In Washington, dad "Tip" got lambasted by the President in their annual tussle over budget cuts. Back home, the family suffered a couple of minor embarrassments; the speaker's mother, minutes late to a Cambridge ward caucus, was locked out and prohibited from voting; daughter-in-law Jackie ran for one of the delegate slots in Boston's word 5 caucus-and lost. Worst of all, as the week went on, and the official tallies from the state's roughly 600 ward caucuses trickled is, it became increasingly clear...
...plus registered Cambridge Democrats walking last Saturday into the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School cafeteria--the site of the Harvard-area Ward 6 caucus--only one sported a Tom O'Neill's button. The Dukakis slate prevailed with near unanimity, O'Neill's men insist they never expected to carry that "liberal activist" section of Tommy's hometown. But it's harder for them to explain why he couldn't sweep eastern and northern Cambridge, or why his supporters joined with King forces in his very own ward 10 "neighborhood slate"--a strategy some coordinators had said they would...
...only February, but local airwaves are already saturated with slogans and condemnations usually associated with the final few weeks of October. The rise in political advertising coincided with the first face-off of the Democratic gubernatorial campaign--the ward caucuses held last weekend. At this point, the stir of the preliminary elections and the propaganda surrounding them have subsided. But the advertising strategies the candidates have shown so far offer some insights into the three campaigns...
...after four minutes of non-stop action, the Terriers tied the contest. Sophomore winger Mark Pierog rebounded an O'Regan shot and sent it goal-ward, and the junior from Cambridge directed the puck past Bob O'Connor and into...