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...Justice Department contends that there is a logical distinction between the two groups of refugees. Says one official: "The standard is whether they would be persecuted, and very few Haitians can meet the standard." But the congressional Black Caucus charged last week that the U.S. policy is "racist," discriminating against Haitians. Supporters of the Haitians contend that Haiti's President Jean-Claude Duvalier is a right-wing dictator whose government is every bit as repressive as Castro's left-wing regime...
...King and the Massachusetts Legislative Black Caucus, the U.S. Student Association, the National Women's Student Association, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMA) student government and the UMA Radical Student Union have supported the SOC in its protests.CrimsonSarah StookeyStudents at UMass-Boston are protesting the lack of student input in administration decisions. The Student Organizing Committee has been occupying the third floor of the administration building since Monday...
...President Lane Kirkland says that the proposed budget "may have psychological value for the bond market and for bankers" but "places most of the burden on those suffering worst under the present economic conditions." The Congressional Black Caucus, a group of 17 Representatives, is no less worried. Representative Parren Mitchell, of Baltimore, has advised his fellow blacks to use every parliamentary tactic available to block budget cuts that would hurt their constituents, such as reductions in job-training programs and aid to cities. Says Mitchell: "The President has got to run the risk of losing another whole block of votes...
When Reagan lost narrowly to George Bush in Iowa, Sears' adversaries struck. His "imperial strategy," they complained, which had kept Reagan out of the fray, cost him the victory in the caucus. In advising Reagan to be less strident, Sears had made him more monotonous. Says Nofziger: "Reagan always was a slow learner. He just had to be hit by a two-by-four one more time. He woke up to the fact that he was not running his own campaign. He realized that Sears is cocky, pompous and arrogant...
Then came the unexpected fall of Joe Clark's Tory government. The Liberals had already set a date for a leadership convention in March, but rather than cobble together a hurried convention to choose a new leader, the party caucus and national executive decided that they would be better off drafting Trudeau. Some viewed his decision to quit the leadership as only a feint designed to lull the Tories into a false sense of security. But one friend insists that "he very genuinely was out, and only with very great difficulty made up his mind to come back...