Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly familiar, but the actors had changed. Instead of Senator Sam Ervin in the chair of the ornate Caucus Room in the Old Senate Office Building, where the nation had seen and heard Watergate unfold, there sat Senator J. William Fulbright, tan and lean from his vacation. Flanking Fulbright were the members of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
...addition, Farber said, the Center is completing a report on strip mining. Harvard students and other workers for Campaign Continental, an association formed by former Ralph Nader staffers and people from the Miners for Democracy caucus in the United Mine Workers, brought issues related to strip mining before the ACSR last Spring. The issue arose when shareholders in the Continental Oil Company asked for information on the surprisingly high accident rate in the company's Appalachian coal mines...
Walzer said the new organization will engage in "intellectual and educational" activity, form a socialist caucus within the Democratic Party, and "try to collect the remnants of the Left and organize around common problems...
Within a half hour, his face now ruddier than usual, Erviri returned to his Senate Caucus Room microphone to announce that he had been the victim of a hoax. Ervin had just talked to a man "who really assured me he was the real Secretary Shultz, and he informed me that he had had no conversation with me today." Protested the embarrassed Ervin: "It is just an awful thing for a very trusting soul like me to find that there are human beings?if you can call them such?who would perpetrate a hoax like this...
...whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' " A pause, and then the caucus room erupted into sustained applause...