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Shostakovsky is one of the organizers of a new liberal caucus within the Communist Party called the Democratic Platform. He shuns any analogies with the equally liberal Interregional Deputies' Group in the Supreme Soviet, noting that support for that lobby is "amorphous" while the Platform can count on at least 60,000 supporters in 162 party clubs in 103 cities across the Soviet Union. At a founding conference in Moscow last month, the movement's supporters called for "radical reform of the Soviet Communist Party in the direction of a completely democratic parliamentary party, acting in a multiparty system...
...have, the Gay and Lesbian Caucus have fought for 17 years for our civil rights, and we're not about to stand around now, after all that, and let these people take our civil rights away," said Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus...
...while statewide results of the 578 caucuses have yet to be tabulated, Lt. Gov. Eveyln F. Murphy's camp swept the caucus in ultraliberal Ward Eight, winning six of the seven delegate spots...
Both Gerstein and Kaplan, who began the afternoon uncommitted, came out of the caucus wearing green Murphy stickers...
...think what they did was unwise," said Margaret A. Blood, executive director of the Massachusetts Children's Caucus and the only uncommitted delegate to be elected from the ward. Uncommitted slates like Mass. Future, she said, were more likely to address student issues than the Murphy campaign...