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Both the Committee on Undergraduate Education and the student caucus of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life have seconded the ad hoc group's recommendation for a committee to review women's studies...
...Haryana, bordering Delhi, Lal became Mrs. Gandhi's Defense Minister in December 1975, six months after she had declared the political emergency that eventually led to her downfall. During his tenure, Lal wielded enormous power and acquired a reputation for arrogance and vindictiveness. As a member of the "caucus of four" that surrounded Mrs. Gandhi during the emergency, he enjoyed an influence second only to that of her son Sanjay, another caucus member to whom he was also close...
Indeed, Desai's main achievement has been lifting the censorship imposed by Mrs. Gandhi's decrees. Unfettered, the press has egged on the new government's campaign against Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay and three of his emergency-era cronies -the so-called caucus of four. Facing two indictments for crimes during his mother's rule (the latest charge: destroying a satirical film about political sycophants), Sanjay is being investigated by a special judicial commission. Another panel probing "excesses" by Sanjay and others during the emergency has already received more than 40,000 complaints. Sanjay...
Next day five members of the congressional Black Caucus rapped Carter's remarks as "profoundly unfortunate. thoroughly unfounded" and warned that his words had further endangered his support in the black community. As shown in a telephone poll taken for the New York Times and CBS, Carter's popularity among rank-and-file black voters late last month was high-he got a 69% approval rating, though it was down from 83% in April...
...Black Caucus have a right to exist? Would the congressional Black Caucus have ceased to exist if instead of refusing him, it had admitted a white member? The only sensible answer to both questions is yes. The notion of a black caucus with white members is silly on its face. So is the notion of a Jewish club that admits non-Jewish members. For this reason alone, Presidential Counsel Robert J. Lipshutz's resignation from Atlanta's formerly Jewish Standard Club, in protest against its restricted membership, seemed somewhat strange. He was demanding, in effect, that the club...