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Message for Everybody. The ecology panel used consultants to draft a detailed bill proposing a national corps of volunteers to work on environmental projects; a panel on drugs called for the open, legalized sale of marijuana regulated by the Government (a black caucus dissented strongly). By a vote of 493 to 127, the final session also declared that "any sexual behavior between consenting, responsible individuals [not just adults] must be recognized and tolerated by society as an acceptable life-style...
Guaranteed Income. Fauntroy's initial act was to join the twelve other black Congressmen-all Democrats-in their long-sought confrontation with President Nixon. The black caucus, which meets each week, first tried to gain an interview with the President a year ago, and was put off because of "scheduling difficulties." These difficulties persisted-rather embarrassingly -for nearly a year until the Congressmen boycotted the President's State of the Union message last January. Nixon last week finally granted a hearing...
During the 95-min. meeting, the President jotted notes on a yellow pad as the Congressmen spoke. They eschewed rhetoric in favor of a carefully prepared brief and a tough look at key issues. Representative Charles Diggs of Michigan, caucus chairman, stated in plain terms that the plight of the nation's blacks is so critical that an upswing in the economy alone will not significantly help them...
Last night's other speakers were Florynce Kennedy, black feminist and lawyer from New York, co-author of the book Abortion Rap; Myrna Hill from the Black and Third World Caucus; and Margaret Benston, a long-time feminist and professor at Simon Frazier University in Vancouver...
...sustained heavy losses under Gorton in 1969 and 1970, when their popular vote dropped to 38% (from 43% in 1969). In this year's state elections, the opposition Labor Party came to power in western Australia and almost won in New South Wales. After a three-hour Liberal caucus, Gorton's colleagues deadlocked 33 to 33 on a vote to depose him; Gorton, as chairman of the meeting, felt obliged to cast the deciding vote against himself...