Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with Rick Redfern and Joanie Caucus, little Timmy, a twelve-minute-old embryo, is a character in a recent Doonesbury comic series. The sequence, entitled Silent Scream II: The Prequel, pokes fun at the recent antiabortion documentary Silent Scream. But readers of the 835 newspapers in which Garry Trudeau's comic strip appears will never meet little Timmy. Last week Trudeau withdrew the six strips after discussions with his distributor, Universal Press Syndicate. "We thought the sequence was done well," said Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal. "But we finally decided that the whole question of abortion...
...government in the public sector, Pym declared, "This Conservative government has been giving round after round of ammunition to its political opponents. It stands in danger of being sunk by its own shells." Though Pym praised the Prime Minister for her "courage and determination" and insisted that the new caucus would not be disloyal to the party and its leadership, his sharp criticism was hardly the view of a Thatcher partisan...
...temperance is going beyond real-life social situations. On prime-time television, a drink is no longer an acceptable hand prop for heroes and heroines. "We don't want to close down the bar on Love Boat," says Larry Stewart, chairman of the Hollywood-based Caucus of Writers, Producers and Directors Alcohol and Drug Abuse Committee. "But we were unwittingly making drinking macho, cute and acceptable." Thanks to pressure by the 175-member committee, concerned over sending subliminal messages into the nation's living rooms each night, most drinking scenes have been cut from Dallas scripts...
...caucus is the opportunity for members of a party to get together and work out their differences so as not to contradict each other on the floor. When causes were open to the press the public was able at least to learn what different opinions existed and how the state would potentially be run. Now even this glimpse will be denied...
...Speaker cannot and should not resort to the ways of his predecessor. The fear that representatives will not speak their minds if the press is present at the caucus meetings is groundless. There is always internal communication, but most important sometimes politicians must and should he encouraged to speak their minds. At least the public will then understand the choices being made--information to which it has a right...