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Decatur street is part of a neighborhood known as the Acre, where most ofLowell's low-income residents live. Traditionally, the Acre has been home for the city's newly-arrived immigrants - first the Irish, who came to build the city's canals, and later, the Greeks, who worked in the textile mills and shoe factories. Most recently, the neighborhood has absorbed an influx of Hispanicsfrom Puerto Rico, who now number nearly 5000, according to 1980 census figures. Inspector Harold Waterhouse, who heads the city's arson squad, discounts fears that fires will erupt in other parts of the Acre in the wake of the Decatur street fire. Calling the March 5 fire \"an isolated incident,\" Waterhouse said concerns about an outbreak of fires are \"ballooning things out of proportion.\" William McCarthy, head of the city's zoning code office, said in an interview that building code violations, ranging from falling ceilings to leaky plumbing, have existed for 10 years at 32-36 Decatur st. A 3 1/2 -page list compiled by the Building Department concerning complaints and code violations at the Decatur street building indicates that the landlord was notified numerous times of violations and inspection certificates were repeatedly withheld because of code violations. The building also lacked smoke detectors in violation of state law.

Last week, the tunnel picketers voted to suspend their nightly protests for two days, \"to rest and regroup,\" said Mary DiMarzo, the chief spokesperson for the tunnel demonstrators. Instead of blocking traffic, the demonstrators gathered at the tunnel on Sunday for a barbecue and last night, for coffee. [Gene Testa] said the two-day moratorium on picketing was voted \"to show the mayor our good faith.\" As he spoke, the half-dozen protesters who had attempted to picket despite the moratorium vote, stood behind him. Testa had urged them not to picket in order to present the united front they have repeatedly stressed is the most important element of their protest. \"We want to tell him what we need in East Boston and tell him if we don't feel that he is giving us what we need, we won't stop protesting,\" said Testa in an interview at the tunnel last night. \"Maybe we'll walk on City Hall. Maybe we'll take over the Parkman House. After all, it belongs to the people,\" said Testa.

Speaking this week at local colleges and universities, [Jose Francisco Cardenal] discussed the developments in his native Nicaragua that prompted him to flee the country. The final straw for him came when he was named to the No. 2 position in the Nicaraguan equivalent of the US Congress without being consulted, he said. When he spoke at Harvard University Monday night, Cardenal was challenged by Harvard theology professor Harvey Cox. Cox said he visited Nicaragua in January and found \"an open press, churches meeting and thriving, freedom of speech and an open and pluralistic society.\" According to a pamphlet Cardenal distributed to interviewers, the NDU is committed to establishing \"a regime of true and effective democracy. . . . It should be NDU's first step, once the present communist regime has been eliminated, to establish a Provisional Government of National Unity . . . .\"

LOWELL--In the six months that she lived In a third-floor apartment at 32-36 Decatur St., Alba Martinez survived two fires.

A little more than 50 days after East Boston residents took up nightly picketing at the East Boston side of the Sumner-Callahan Tunnel to protest the closing of their neighborhood police and fire stations, the protest appears to be at a crossroads.

It was only days after the Sandinistas took over Nicaragua that Jose Francisco Cardenal, a 42-year-old civil engineer who had supported their cause, saw what he considered alarming changes.