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...outgrowth of increased political activity by women at all levels of government. At last count, nearly 14,300 women held over 9% of all local, state and federal elective posts, compared with 5% in 1975. Says Janyce Katz, an official of the National Women's Political Caucus: "Women are coming out of the ranks." They have been helped by the breakdown in party organizations; instead of smoke-filled rooms, most nominees are now chosen in open primaries. And they are finding a new willingness on the part of local groups and national party leaders to contribute money to women...
...began writing a working-woman column for the Ladies' Home Journal, helped start the National Women's Political Caucus and worked on the launching of Ms. Assigned by the magazine to do an article on nonsexist child raising, she noticed herself giving a basketball to her infant son instead of the athletic girls, and heard David, now an enlightened twelve, announce: "When Daddy isn't home I'm in charge because then I'm the man of the house...
...groups work closely together: their leaders gather every other Thursday over coffee in Washington to plan strategy with such conservative political groups as the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and the Conservative Caucus. Christian Voice has compiled a list, widely circulated by Moral Majority and Roundtable as well, of how Senators and Congressmen voted in 1979 on 14 key moral issues. It praises votes not only for school prayer but for the Kemp-Roth bill to cut income tax rates 30%; condemns votes favoring not only abortion but the Equal Rights Amendment. The rightists claim to find...
...Student caucus members said yesterday that when CHUL takes the issue up again, it will push for major changes in the rules, which now prohibit outdoor postering except on the kiosks, and impose stiff penalties--a $25 fine on the first violation and revocation of University privileges for repeated violations...
...University to make the rule apply only to the Yard, and see to it that if any organization is going to have its official privileges revokes, it happens only with the consent of the full CHUL, not just the dean's office," Michael G. Colantuono '83, a caucus member, said yesterday...