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Members of the student Third World Caucus will conduct an "intensive lobbying effort" before the faculty meeting, Michelle D. Holmes '77, first-year medical student and Third World Caucus member, said last week...
...Africa themselves call for corporate withdrawal, I think it is fair to say that we should respect their perceptions. When the United Nations General Assembly, the World Council of Churches, the NAACP, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the National Congress of South Africa, the Black Consciousness movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO and so many, many others say "withdraw," then I wonder: upon what do we base our supposedly "moral" decision to stay...
Even as the partying proceeded, a 14-man caucus of the committee's natural gas conferees was struggling furiously to come up with a deal. After dining on takeout orders of pizza and fried chicken, the conferees emerged bleary-eyed at 2:30 a.m. from the conference room of the House Administration Committee and gave waiting reporters the news: this time, after many false alarms, a gas solution was really at hand. The key features: 1) the phased decontrol of domestically produced newly discovered natural gas, with the price ceiling rising by about 10% annually and being eliminated altogether...
Those closest to the South African situation--the black leaders and political organizations in the country itself--have called upon U.S. corporations to withdraw their operations from South Africa. These concerned parties, along with international and national organizations like the United Nations General Assembly and the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, which American multinational investments offer to the entrenched white South African minority. The time for timidity, for kid glove "sensibility," passed...
...thing that decidedly will not be in the program is any rollback of giant Social Security tax increases already legislated to take effect beginning next year. The House Democratic caucus voted last week to press for a reduction -mostly out of simple fear of voter anger, but also on the well-justified philosophical ground that the tax is inflationary (it will raise businessmen's payroll costs, and the increase will be passed on in higher prices). Carter, however, just does not want to reopen the subject. He told congressional leaders last week that doing so would be "a very...