Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting not only for myself but also our system." And he asked: "Is it part of our American system that a man can be drummed out of government by a series of false charges, half-truths, misrepresentations, innuendoes and the like?" When he finished, the caucus room swelled with applause...
Both the Committee on Undergraduate Education and the student caucus of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life have seconded the ad hoc group's recommendation for a committee to review women's studies...
...CHUL caucus, however, stopped short of endorsing one of the charges included in the letter to Rosovsky--that the special committee review the University's good faith in complying with federal affirmative action guidelines on hiring women...
...Haryana, bordering Delhi, Lal became Mrs. Gandhi's Defense Minister in December 1975, six months after she had declared the political emergency that eventually led to her downfall. During his tenure, Lal wielded enormous power and acquired a reputation for arrogance and vindictiveness. As a member of the "caucus of four" that surrounded Mrs. Gandhi during the emergency, he enjoyed an influence second only to that of her son Sanjay, another caucus member to whom he was also close...
Indeed, Desai's main achievement has been lifting the censorship imposed by Mrs. Gandhi's decrees. Unfettered, the press has egged on the new government's campaign against Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay and three of his emergency-era cronies -the so-called caucus of four. Facing two indictments for crimes during his mother's rule (the latest charge: destroying a satirical film about political sycophants), Sanjay is being investigated by a special judicial commission. Another panel probing "excesses" by Sanjay and others during the emergency has already received more than 40,000 complaints. Sanjay...