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That, at least, is the bitter complaint of some of the party's prominent elected officials. Their solution? To form another caucus, of course, this one composed primarily of Southern and Western white males and operating outside, if not in opposition to, the National Committee...
...Democratic congressional staffer sympathetic to the council candidly calls it "an anticaucus caucus." Many Democratic leaders sneer that the group is trying to cure the party's excessive factionalism by introducing still more factionalism. "You can't rebuild something that is split by splitting it further," says an official of the AFL-CIO, which suspects that the council is out to reduce labor's influence in the party. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings calls the group "divisive and harmful." Others suspect that the council is likely to become a vehicle for the 1988 presidential ambitions of some of its founders...
...likely to give its members a vehicle to continue running away from the party. They fear the council will undercut the efforts of Paul Kirk, who was elected National Committee Chairman last month, to unify the Democrats. Kirk has made no secret of his desire eventually to disband the caucuses on the National Committee. As a first step, he intends to sit down with the caucus leaders soon and urge them to tone down the particular demands of their groups...
...requests for El / Salvador, it consistently claims that for every dollar allocated for military assistance, three dollars have been allotted for the Central American country's economic and social development. Not so, declares a report issued last week under the auspices of the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus, a bipartisan congressional group. The study says the lion's share of money over the past five years has gone to the military. It warns: "If U.S. aid is composed in the future as it is at present, the next five years will be as violent and unproductive for El Salvador...
...page report, which does not represent the views of the entire 130- member caucus, was released by the group's chairman, House Republican Jim Leach of Iowa, along with Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Democratic Congressman George Miller of California. Contending that the Administration has used "insufficient, misleading and in some cases false information," the document says that of the $1.7 billion provided to El Salvador since the outbreak of its civil war five years ago, some 30% has consisted of direct military aid and another 44%, the largest portion, is "indirect, war-related economic maintenance" like cash...