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Both McGovern and Chisholm left Florida last night to attend Chicago's Black caucus. And although McGovern will return to join other candidates in addressing a high school youth primary in North Miami Beach today. Chisholm does not plan to return to the state until Monday...
LABOR. The traditional power tactic of labor leaders has been to get their members selected as uncommitted delegates. This enhanced their collective power at the convention. But they are finding that unless they can stack a local caucus, uncommitted slates or individuals can rarely win now. AFL-CIO officials running as uncommitted delegates in Arizona, for example, were soundly defeated; five of Arizona's 25 elected delegates are uncommitted. This trend is pressuring labor to choose sides earlier...
...Payne, a black, assistant dean of students, arranged the meeting, saying in a letter to black students that "Oberlin came to their (the CIA's) attention because of the nationwide publicity given our Black Caucus admissions and recruitment program. They felt that Oberlin will be attracting the kind of black students who would be of interest to the Agency...
...weeks ago Iowa's Democratic caucus gave him 23% of the vote, and last week Arizona's awarded him 20% of its delegate slate. Neither outcome was enough to lead the crowded field, but the figures were more than four times the 3% to 5% share of voters the pollsters normally consign to him. Moreover, in both states McGovern was able to score significantly by running his kind of campaign-pushing issues, not personalities, and relying on a carefully worked-out series of proposals, not rhetoric, to attract voters...
...first point is that black people must get a larger share of the American pie, and that to do this, they must sophisticate internal political activity and make shrewd and well-defined alliances with various parts of the splintered white political configuration. As William Clay of the Black Caucus puts it, "We have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. Just permanent interests...