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...fighting not only for myself but also our system." And he asked: "Is it part of our American system that a man can be drummed out of government by a series of false charges, half-truths, misrepresentations, innuendoes and the like?" When he finished, the caucus room swelled with applause...
With 80% of the illegal alien population originating in Mexico, Carter's plan has upset many Hispanics already holding U.S. citizenship. Chief reason: the provision letting 1970-76 illegal immigrants stay on only temporarily. California Congressman Edward R. Roybal, leader of the House's five-member Hispanic caucus, charges that this will create a new "sub-class of braceros "-the Mexican laborers who under much criticized programs from 1942 to 1964 were granted temporary papers to work on U.S. farms and then sent home at the end of the harvest. Carter's class of temporary residents would...
Feminists lament at a caucus in San Jose...
...woman's movement is in trouble," boomed C. Delores Tucker, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "We have lost direction and are mired in disunity." Few of her listeners at last week's biennial meeting of the National Women's Political Caucus in San Jose, Calif., were inclined to disagree. For the faltering feminist movement, 1977 has been a discouraging year. The Supreme Court ruling that states no longer have to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions for the poor was an unexpected blow. The Equal Rights Amendment is stalled just three states short of ratification...
...CHUL caucus, however, stopped short of endorsing one of the charges included in the letter to Rosovsky--that the special committee review the University's good faith in complying with federal affirmative action guidelines on hiring women...