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...Service is expected to serve what Congressman William clay calls a "national black legislative agenda" to the Democratic Platform Committee. Clay, who was just elected to the House in 1969, has emerged as a principle chef of the Catering Service, and serves as the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The two-day forum here last week was clearly a part of his recipe for making the Ethnic Catering Service's dish all the more irresistible come chow-time in Miami...
...Undergraduate Woman's Caucus will hold a meeting at 10 p.m. tonight in the Radcliffe Woman's Center...
Beyond the immediate delegate hunt, the caucus has been lobbying hard on Capitol Hill. It helped persuade Congress to pass a national program of day care, though the bill was vetoed by the President. It is fervently backing the Equal Rights amendment, which bans discrimination based on sex. The measure, which has passed the House, will probably come to a vote in the Senate this month. Senator Sam Ervin, who opposes the amendment as superfluous, recently told a meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women: "God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers." For its part, the Women...
While the caucus hopes to promote a new political force of acutely aware women, American politics has a way of absorbing one-issue movements. There is too much else at stake in politics. Already, the Women's Political Caucus in Manhattan has begun to split into any number of sisterhoods under the pressure of competing interests. Caucuses have been formed within caucuses. Various ethnic groups have taken turns packing meetings to get their own people elected and others eliminated. A Dominican woman recently complained that the white liberals were siding with blacks against the browns...
From these straws, can the Women's Caucus build a political home for women? Its members like to think that the past is not prologue. For the first time since the women's suffrage movement, American male politicians are responding earnestly to women's demands: equal pay for equal work, simplified divorce and abortion, readily available day-care centers. By 1976, enough of a bloc might be formed to tip the balance in a presidential election. But in the long run, it may turn out that, in a sense, woman's place is in the home...