Sullivan favors vacancy decontrol so that landlords can re-rent vacated dwellings at their current market value. He also supports condominium conversions, unless they result in the eviction of senior citizens and disabled persons.

ALFRED E. VELLUCCI

Alfred E. Vellucci, the self-proclaimed champion of the the "disadvantaged and downtrodden" over the "oil money changers and real estate barons," goes to the polls in his 13th city council race tomorrow, an odds-on favorite to retain the council seat.

Vellucci, while not a member of the Cambridge Civic Association, has supported rent control for years. "You've got to be black, you've got to be poor, you've got to be ethnic to feel it," he told a Kennedy School crowd Saturday night.

Vellucci, a senior citizen, counts many elderly residents among his supporters. "I love the elderly; I'd never vote against them, never," he says.

And Vellucci's running feud with Harvard is famous; he is currently hot on the trail of Harvard biomedical researchers, demanding that low level radioactive waste be controlled.

DAVID A. WYLIE

If you read campaign literature, you'd know David A. Wylie is not an average city council candidate. His pamphlet, "Re-Inventing Democracy," includes Ben Shahn line-drawings and quotations from Walt Whitman.

In other ways, though, Wylie is similar to fellow council liberals. He has voted with them on rent control and condominium conversion, although he argued last year that neighborhoods should have more say in planning their future.

Blaming Harvard for most of the city's town-gown troubles, Wylie says "We'll deny everything Harvard wants from us until it treats us as equals."

A four-term councilor, Wylie works as an attorney in Cambridge.