Word: caucus
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Chun's decision to back down from his April 13 order was prompted in part by a caucus of 141 National Assembly members belonging to the ruling Democratic Justice Party. Normally an occasion used to hand down party policy from on high, last week's session turned into a lively and surprisingly diversified exchange of views on how to deal with the constitutional dispute. Several members recommended holding a referendum, as the opposition has demanded. At least one legislator favored simply abolishing the existing system of choosing a chief executive by means of an electoral college, which critics charge gives...
After hearing the results of the caucus discussion the following day from Roh Tae Woo, who has been designated by the ruling party as its presidential candidate in next winter's national election, Chun agreed to meet with the opposition's Kim Young Sam. That in itself was a notable concession, since Chun has not only shunned Kim in the past but two months ago placed him under investigation after he had criticized Chun in a speech for making political use of the Olympics. The long record of enmity between the two men was clear from the moment Kim arrived...
...Turk. "It flew," said Secord laconically. At another point, Secord considered Ghorbanifar so untrustworthy that he told the Iranian middleman he would recommend to the U.S. Government that Ghorbanifar be "terminated." Recounted Secord, with the barest ghost of a smile: "He misinterpreted that." The Senate Caucus Room broke up in laughter...
...process begins again this week as klieg lights illuminate the solemn faces of 15 Congressmen and eleven Senators seated on a two-tiered dais draped in burgundy bunting, at the opening of a four-month public exploration of the Iran-contra affair. This is the same Senate Caucus Room where television cameras revealed Senator Joseph McCarthy as a snarling bully. It is where Richard Nixon's closest aides told lies in a vain effort to support the President's Watergate crimes...
...mahogany table in the Senate Caucus Room over which Joe McCarthy glowered at imagined Reds and Bobby Kennedy threw his darts at Jimmy Hoffa and Sam Ervin dispensed his country wisdom to the Watergate bunglers has been dismantled and stored away...