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...Jaycees did not abolish their women's chapters, which have 59,700 members. Indeed, some of the women want to hold on to their separate status. Said Suzanne Stephens, president of Oklahoma Jaycee Women: "It would be more progressive to keep two organizations be cause we are giving men the opportunity to do their thing and women to do their thing...
Jackson also hinted at a softening of his demand that the party pledge itself to abolish the runoff primary system, which in nine Southern states and Oklahoma requires a second primary if no candidate wins a majority in the first. Campaigning in Texas last week, he spoke of creating a "blue-ribbon commission" to study possible reforms in all electoral practices that pose barriers to black candidates and added, "I'm far more concerned about the principle of equity and parity than the strategy to achieve it." On Friday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt said he planned...
Officially, the convention could not abolish the system; that would require a state-by-state rewrite of election laws. Jackson replies that the party and its nominee could pledge to attack runoff primaries in court as violations of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. In any case, white Southern Democrats would fiercely resist an attack on runoffs. Says Georgia Democratic Chairman Bert Lance: "We are a majority-vote nation." Lance professes to be a friend of Jackson's but asserts that if Jackson presses an attack on runoffs at the convention, "he will run into a fellow...
...crucible of the Berger apartment, Bessie the mother is a tyrannical presence; Myron the father is an ineffectual bumbler. Their heroine daughter Hennie becomes pregnant, foists her child off on an unsuspecting immigrant husband, then runs off with a small-time racketeer. The grandfather spouts Marxist shibboleths ("Abolish private property"). The youngest Berger, Ralph, obviously a mouthpiece for the author, yearns to break free from the suffocating love of his parents...
...tente: It is sometimes claimed that peaceful coexistence and détente, as well as cooperation, are impossible in conditions of continued ideological struggle. Some go still further, demanding that we renounce ideological confrontation. Nobody, however, can abolish the ideological struggle at will. This is an objective, historical category in a world where social classes and different social systems exist...