The effort focused operations against the two leaders and the seven senior operational planners.

Mark Terry, the senior environmental planner, said the town had approved 3 of 10 applications in the last 2 months.

After leaving the military he was a senior planner for Amtrak in 1971 and 1972.

"At that time, people felt it represented too much control over the use of their property," said the senior planner here, Thomas Ford.

All development, including roads, must fit into the remaining portion, according to Mark Terry, the town's senior environmental planner.

"So far the confrontations have stayed small and contained," one senior military planner said.

"Wait and see what happens in Rwanda," said a senior military planner.

"When we formulate a policy, we do it without regard to politics," said one senior economic planner, who asked to remain unidentified.

Nathan Landau, a senior planner with the city, credits the policy for a small increase in the number of manufacturing companies over the last decade.

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