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...solidified ranks fractured in 1968, when it endorsed Eugene McCarthy for President to the chagrin of many labor leaders. The ADA has gained 5000 members in the past year, and a strong youth movement has erupted on many college campuses. Charlie King, national director of the ADA youth caucus, predicts a resurgence of 60s student activism; meetings of the youth caucus at the convention reflected a new emphasis on working within the political system to elect liberal candidates, rather than changing the system through protest. "There is no anti-establishment feeling," King observed. "People want to influence Congress through persuasion...
...involved first with the Constitution as a Student Assembly member after student and Faculty approval of the Dowling plan for a new type of government a year ago. At that time, the Student Assembly, the Education Resources Group and the student caucus of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life formed a constitution committee to compose the actual structure for a new student government The composition of this committee proved to be one of the reasons why the process took so long...
After the forum, Carbone called himself the only Republican capable of winning the November election, while Lakian and Robin made unqualified predictions of victory the March 6 party caucus...
...plus registered Cambridge Democrats walking last Saturday into the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School cafeteria--the site of the Harvard-area Ward 6 caucus--only one sported a Tom O'Neill's button. The Dukakis slate prevailed with near unanimity, O'Neill's men insist they never expected to carry that "liberal activist" section of Tommy's hometown. But it's harder for them to explain why he couldn't sweep eastern and northern Cambridge, or why his supporters joined with King forces in his very own ward 10 "neighborhood slate"--a strategy some coordinators had said they would...
That O'Neill's strategists are now obsessed with such fund drives indicates a turn for the worse, as they seedily acknowledge. Says one aide, "I'd hoped we could use the springtime to organize for the primary based on our caucus turnout. But now we've got to raise money instead. The whole cycle has been thrown off." Their delusion that this specific fundraiser can replenish O'Neill coffers shows further the futility of the effort. The campaign is currently several thousand in debt, and the candidate has taken out a personal loan. The $50,000 they hope...