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Last week in the cavernous Senate Caucus Room, the 153-member Democratic Platform Committee rose to welcome him. Kennedy, sensing their readiness to hear him, gave the moment his best effort. Perched on the edge of his chair and leaning into the audience, his voice booming out, his hand slicing back and forth, he gave his views on domestic and world issues. He finished to a prolonged ovation. Intoxicated for the moment by the look and the sound of him, many members seemed almost eager to embrace the dangers of his candidacy...
Still, blacks are organizing to make Carter-or whoever eventually gets the Democratic nomination-take notice of them. In a three-day meeting that ended last week in Charlotte, N.C., more than 1,000 members of the Caucus of Black Democrats brandished what is at least their negative power-withholding black votes from a candidate they consider insufficiently responsive. Said Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard Hatcher: "Any candidate running for President who feels that black people have no other option, no place to go, is in for a rude awakening. If we choose not to support any of the candidates...
Ongoing Dialogue. Kissinger's speech was an important step in keeping the dialogue going that Washington initiated with the Third World at the U.N. last fall. Still, it fell short of meeting the proposals the Group of 77, as UNCTAD'S working caucus is called, drafted at its February meeting in Manila...
...gaffe. Udall accused Carter of practicing "the politics of racial division." Jackson called Carter's language "amazing" and said that the Georgian "will be explaining that for the rest of the campaign." Protests poured in from black groups, including the Urban League and the congressional Black Caucus...
Carter also suffered setbacks in caucus states. In Virginia, where Democrats were in the early stages of delegate selection, they gave him 30% of their votes, and 60% for uncommitted delegate slates. In Oklahoma, where the selection process was completed, he wound up with twelve delegates, but 18 delegates went uncommitted and seven went to Native Son Fred Harris, who dropped out last week as a candidate in the primaries...