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...York delegation took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...
...Bella Schultz...
...Holt amendment provides that federal funds be withheld from school systems that classify, assign or their teachers or students by ethnic standards. During debate on the amendment, Rep. Bella S. Abzug (D.--N.Y.) and others attacked the rider for not defining "school system." Without further working, the bill could be interpreted so as to make Title IX and other affirmative action programs that relate to colleges illegal, Abzug said...
...committee agreed that he had ("I, for one, think he was telling the truth," said Indiana's David W. Dennis). But Democrats both on and off the subcommittee wanted to know more. "I just don't believe the whole story holds together," said Manhattan Congresswoman Bella S. Abzug, who was a co-sponsor of the resolutions that prompted the inquiry, although she is not on the Judiciary Committee...
...major psychological hazard in being one, it stems from the assumption that the role must be demeaning. "I'm not neglected; I'm not in the background. I do my own thing," insists Manhattan Stockbroker and onetime Novelist Martin Abzug, whose wife of 30 years, Bella, 54, is one of the most outspoken women in Congress. Conrad Chisholm, husband of New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, 49, echoes Abzug. "I am a man whose ego is intact," he says. Like most political husbands, he is quick to say how proud he is of his wife. "Not everyone is that...