Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martha ("Bunny") Mitchell, 36, special-projects director. The only black on the staff, she was formerly information director for the District of Columbia drug abuse council and head of the D.C. Women's Political Caucus...
...Senate Caucus Room, both sides were poised for battle. At stake was the confirmation of Jimmy Carter's nominee as CIA director: Theodore Sorensen, 48. Ready to bear witness against him were representatives of assorted conservative and right-wing groups, including the Liberty Lobby and the John Birch Society. Prepared to defend him were some of the ornaments of the Eastern liberal Establishment such as Averell Harriman and Clark Clifford...
...only serious controversy revolved around the nomination of Carter's fellow Georgian and longtime friend, Federal Judge Griffin Bell, to be Attorney General. The N.A.A.C.P., the Congressional Black Caucus and some liberal Democrats all assailed Bell. Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when...
...Washington restaurant consulting firm. However, Schneiders was cleared last week by U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert of any wrongdoing and is expected to get another job. Meantime, Carter named Tim Kraft, 35, to handle his appointments. Kraft impressed his boss by engineering the key victories in the Iowa caucus and the Pennsylvania primary...
...Gandhi's ambitious son, Sanjay, 30-he is currently using the youth wing of the party as a power base-whose politics seem pragmatic and even downright antiCommunist. In a lightly veiled reference to Sanjay's following, the C.P.I, attacked what it called a "reactionary caucus" within the Congress. The C.P.I. backed Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point emergency program for social and economic reform, but pointedly withheld support from Sanjay's five-point youth program, which calls for increased family planning, more tree planting, better sanitation, higher literacy and the abolition of dowries...