A Tufts University administrator, Duehay is running with the endorsement of the Cambridge Civic Association. He turned down the endorsement of the Concerned Cambridge Citizens.

Duehay has supported allowing neighborhoods say in planning matters.

LAWRENCE A. FRISOLI

Larry Frisoli, first elected to the City Council two years ago, enjoys being a city councilor. "I'm going to get reelected--I'm taking out a front page ad in the Cambridge Chronicle every week until the election," he told his fellow councilors early last spring.

Not a supporter of rent control, Frisoli is calling instead for vacancy decontrol "with tough penalties for landlords who force tenants out."

"I don't believe we should penalize condominium owners by assessing" their properties at higher values than other city residents, Frisoli, a graduate of Boston University and Suffolk University Law School, said.

Frisoli has won the endorsement of anti-rent control groups in the city.

SAUNDRA GRAHAM

Saundra Graham is patient when City Council meetings drag on into the small hours of the morning--as a four-term incumbent and state representative, not to mention a leader of the state's Black Political Caucus--Graham is used to long meetings.

A strong proponent of rent control, Graham introduced a bill in the State House this year to protect the city's elderly from condominium conversions.

Restraining institutional expansion is another of her goals. Graham, who lives on Harvard's Western Ave. flank, advocates taking by eminent domain land that Cambridge's universities have not yet developed, adding she supports a recently-filed bill to rein in institutional growth.

DONALD HUNT

Donald Hunt, an occupational education teacher at the ITT Tech, is among the staunchest conservatives in the council race.

"I don't believe the city should take property to build housing," he told the League of Women Voters earlier this fall. "No city or government should build housing," he added.

Hunt says he opposes rent controls, favors condominium conversion and would work to institute vacancy decontrol for city apartments.