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...D.F.L.'s labor faction endorsed Short only after a heated floor fight at a convention of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. The party's executive committee, dominated by liberals and academics, refused to back him. The D.F.L.'s feminist caucus actually campaigned against him because of his antiabortion and anti-Equal Rights Amendment views. Other liberals paid for newspaper ads denouncing Short's opposition to national health insurance and environmental-protection laws. When Jimmy Carter went to Minnesota and urged a Democratic rally to support Short, the President was loudly booed. Predicted a gloomy Perpich just before...
Charles Diggs, for 24 years a Congressman from Detroit, and a founder of the House's black caucus, was convicted last month on 29 counts of mail fraud and misappropriation of Government funds. Though eleven of the twelve jurors who convicted him were black, Diggs implied to his constituents that he was being persecuted by white justice. Last week he was re-elected with 80% of the vote...
...Charles Njonjo, 58, and Finance Minister Mwai Kibaki, 47, whom arap Moi straightaway appointed as his Vice President. That troika, along with Kenyatta, has plotted Kenya's pro-Western, pro-capitalist course for the past several years. Their support guaranteed arap Moi's unopposed selection by a caucus of the country's only party, the Kenya African National Union...
...response to this domination, the CHUL student members united to form the Student Caucus, which was designed to help students gain more control. But the Student Caucus has not had much effect. It usually meets sometime before the full CHUL meeting or the executive committee meeting, but often the caucus meetings are poorly attended...
Last year, the administrators and Faculty members of CHUL gave the caucus an embarrassing and painful slap in the face when they overrode a caucus-sponsored resolution supporting the efforts of the Constitutional Convention. Essentially, the administrators and faculty members objected to the resolution's claim that CHUL is a committee supposed to work mainly for students...