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While the House majority has presented little real opposition to Reagan's programs, the Congressional Black Caucus, comprised of the 18 Black members of Congress, has worked out an alternative budget to Reagan's, making it the "only true Democratic leadership in Congress," Stokes said...
...vote taken before the CHUL meeting last night, the student caucus almost unanimously approved a resolution presented to it by the Student Assembly in response to the recent Dowling Committee report, which calls for a more centralized student governing body...
...gesture reminiscent of the Iranian hostage crisis, people throughout the nation are starting to wear ribbons of various colors as a symbol of their concern for Atlanta's children. In Cincinnati, for example, the Ohio Black Women's Leadership Caucus is urging citizens to wear green armbands (to signify life). At week's end, the Atlanta office of the N.A.A.C.P. called for a 24-hour prayer vigil for people of all denominations at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip. Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader, last week called for a series of "moratorium...
Mitchell, a former chairman of the House Black Caucus, referred to President Reagan's programs to lessen the role of government as a shift as major as the revolution of 1776, the Civil War and the New Deal. He also decried what he said was increasing racism around the country and in Congress, criticizing attacks on affirmative action...
...campaign must be shortened. The first contest now is the Iowa caucus in mid-January, but the candidates have to start raising money long before that in order to get federal matching funds. One remedy-urged by former L.B.J. Aide Douglass Cater in a study for the Aspen Institute-would be to ban use of federal funds before the spring of an election year...