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...Clark's Progressive Conservative Party has returned to claim the spoils of victory a mere nine months later. It is a remarkable personal triumph for Trudeau, who announced his resignation before the Tory government fell and who ran for prime minister only at the request of the Liberal caucus, which realized the impossibility of preparing for both a federal campaign and an intra-party leadership race. But Trudeau's triumph is ironic when viewed on a less superficial level...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Second Coming | 2/23/1980 | See Source »

...loom elsewhere. Carter campaigners are less than adept at poor-mouthing--reducing expectations so the results look good. Immediately after Iowa, political wisdom had it that Kennedy would be out of it if he didn't win both Maine and New Hampshire. yet his competitive defeat in the Maine caucus ended up as a moral victory, and now Carter is in the historically unenviable position of heading the pack into New Hampshire. Lyndon Johnson needed a big win here in 1968, Ed Muskie in 1972; Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern refused to give it to them, and the campaigns turned...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Danger in Paradise | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

This year, there were attempts to set up a binding liberal caucus to choose a challenger to McCann; "that idea is dead, though," Brighton State Rep. William Galvin, a possible contender for the office, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCann Senate Bid Aided By Split in Liberal Field | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

More than 60 students honored Ewart Guinier '29, professor of Afro-American Studies, at a tribute sponsored by the Black Students Association (BSA), the Caribbean Club and the Massachusetts Black Political Caucus, last night at Leverett House...

Author: By Joseph B. Borini, | Title: News Shorts | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

November 1978. Representative Charles Diggs Jr., 57, Michigan Democrat and founder and former chairman of the Black Caucus, was sentenced to up to three years for taking more than $60,000 in kickbacks from his employees. He was re-elected that same year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rogues' Gallery | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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