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...Washington, a caucus of Democratic senators voted 31-8 to seek total withdrawal of U. S. troops from Vietnam during the current session of Congress...
...conference participants included representatives of the SMC, the Young Socialists Alliance (YSA), the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC), the Workers' League (a Trotskyist group), and several women's, Third-World, and gay liberation groups...
...record books, the score of last week's competition among House Democrats will have to read Aging Conservatives 4, Youngish Reformers 0. The oldsters in the party caucus defeated several moves: to 1) set an age limit of 70 for committee chairmen; 2) restrict them to eight years of service; 3) elect a Northern liberal instead of a Southern conservative to the Ways and Means Committee; 4) oust one incumbent chairman. Yet the ferment itself indicated the changing tone in the tradition-minded House of Representatives; the seniority system is no longer sacrosanct...
...Small Shift. That a vote was taken at all represented some gain for reform, since the appointment of chairmen on the basis of seniority had been virtually automatic since 1910. Last month, each party decided to empower its caucus with what amounts to a veto over such selections. The vote last week was the first attempt...
...once more in the arena of that contest which is so rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like that celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength and skill. We prefer a duello to a brawl...