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...candidates were running for Congress from Ohio's 23rd district, near Cleveland. In Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, town meetings that were once sparsely attended are now overflowing with people. "The cliche is that good government begins at home," says Tom Donohue, chairman of the Winnetka nonpartisan caucus committee. "I think people are beginning to realize that that is true...
...January 1973, the new majority leader was responsible for the adoption of a party reform weakening the traditional seniority system that automatically kept committee chairmen in power year after year. Now the chairmen must be approved at the start of every Congress by a vote of the entire Democratic caucus...
Throughout much of the summer, the nation's attention shifted from courtroom to caucus room as the familiar Watergate names turned into unforgettable images on America's television screens. This was television's greatest contribution yet to public understanding of a historic and confusing event ?and the Watergate intrigue in all its ramifications was surely one of the most complex and convoluted stories in American political history. More than all of the news accounts, more than the proceedings in Judge Sirica's courtroom, the Senate Watergate hearings dramatized the issues and personalities, permitting millions of Americans to make...
...loud-shouting females who make up the "Episcopal Women's Caucus" represent no one but themselves. Had the scheme of the would-be priestesses at the recent Louisville convention [Oct. 15] been brought to fruition, the church would have split and the cause of Christ would have been dealt a grievous blow. Neither God nor the church has "turned down" these people. The church has always provided a myriad of ministries for women, which are both orthodox insofar as their theology is concerned and appropriate for the special skills and backgrounds that women alone can supply. We need nuns...
...Sandra Hochman (Walking Papers), who has used the women's movement as a sort of rostrum for some extravagantly banal personal fantasies. Much of Year of the Woman was shot, in documentary style, at the Democratic Convention in Miami last year. The coverage of the women's caucus, which is fleeting, has some hard intensity. There are also some moments of humor, such as Hochman performing a tap dance in front of the White House. Not much, maybe, but the Year of the Woman can make you grateful for scraps...