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...case, which challenges the constitutionality of racial quotas, and perhaps even the concept of affirmative action, has generated widespread concern and interest from such disparate groups as the Congressional Black Caucus and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith...
Fears about the ramifications of the Bakke case are not confined to university admissions offices. Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), speaking last summer on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, said he fears the Bakke case may open the door for a reversal of the civil rights gains...
...formal opening of the great national debate over ratification of the Panama Canal treaty. Yet the spectator seats in the Senate's historic Caucus Room were rarely close to being filled...
...shock waves are being felt in Washington. Youngstown Mayor Jack Hunter, Ohio Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum and a hastily formed caucus of Congressmen representing steel communities urged President Carter to formulate a national policy to help the steel industry. Imports, especially from Japan, have badly hurt the domestic industry. At week's end five busloads of steelworkers from Sheet & Tube demonstrated at the White House and on Capitol Hill, carrying signs like STEEL VALLEY TURNING TO GHOST TOWN. What most of the protesters want are quotas on imported steel and an easing of the antipollution rules that...
...Wells College in New York, accused President Carter of "ringing pietism" for his stand on public aid for abortion, and sarcastically attacked the recent Supreme Court ruling. Said she: "Every case the Supremes have heard of late has resulted in constitutional disaster." Among the resolutions approved by the caucus was one calling on feminist supporters to avoid tourism in the 15 states that have not yet passed ERA, and to boycott products made in those states. The meeting was remarkably free of divisiveness. One reason: the sobering sense that the beleaguered movement cannot afford petty squabbles. Fears for the future...