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...first surprising thing about the convention--the one that almost got old stalwarts like Al Barkan of the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education to walk out--was its renewed, if modified, support for affirmative action to make sure minorities, women and young people are represented within the party. On the face of it, this kind of equal-representation issue might seem tough for people who call themselves Democrats to oppose. But since the labels people give themselves are generally less important than their backgrounds, it's not too surprising that one wing of affirmative action's supporters...
After George McGovern's humiliating defeat in 1972, Strauss was backed by party regulars-including Senator Henry M. Jackson, Senator Hubert Humphrey and the AFL-CIO'S Alexander Barkan-to replace Party Chairman Jean Westwood, a McGovernite liberal...
...political leader Alexander Barkan has led the fight to amend language in the charter to ban "implied" as well as "mandatory" quotas. His chief opposition has come from party caucuses of women and blacks and the Democratic Planning Group that comprises the McGovern-McCarthy-Kennedy wing of the party. Barkan's opponents see a wholesale ban on quotas as a threat to greater minority group participation...
Strauss has said he will push for the compromise to avoid splintering the party over what he calls a "minor semantic problem." But Barkan already has threatened to pull his labor support out of the party. Late last summer, the black caucus threatened to walk out of Kansas City if Barkan succeeded in amending the rules...
This means workers began construction before architects had completed their designs. "The roof went on before we got the plans for it," Robert Landry, head carpenter for the Barkan Construction Co., which handled the contract, said yesterday...