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After the general meeting, council leaders met with first-year representatives to discuss plans for the council's Freshman Caucus...
Coffey told first-years the caucus is an opportunity for them to enhance their first year at Harvard...
...ministry offices. Aristide, meanwhile, plans to return to Haiti in grand style Saturday, with three planes stuffed with so many guests that the State Department is complaining. In addition to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the party includes the Rev. Jesse Jackson, TransAfrica director Randall Robinson, the Congressional Black Caucus and a snowballing number of Haitian diaspora members...
...Administration's moribund crime bill got some emergency treatment from three influential members of the Congressional Black Caucus who, though still opposed to the measure as it now reads because of its harsh death-penalty provisions, nevertheless agreed to help return the bill to the House floor for further debate. At week's end members of both parties were discussing a deal that would create a sexual-predator task force, make minor revisions in the measure's assault-weapons ban, and slash more than 10% of the bill's $33 billion funding...
...them that there was "a lot of good stuff" in the crime bill. To make sure that lawmakers understood just how much of it was earmarked for their districts, Democratic congressional aides prepared a state-by-state breakdown of which places would be getting which dollars. For the Black Caucus members, Clinton promised to draft an Executive Order decrying racial disparities in the application of the death penalty in federal prosecutions. Attorney General Janet Reno also pledged to take steps to rectify such imbalances. None of this, however, applies to the states, which mete out the bulk of capital sentences...