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Although Republican Representative Silvio Conte of Massachusetts may be correct when he says that "the boys act now as if they've been on tranquilizers," there is some ferment beneath the surface. In the House, liberal Democrats are attempting to make their party caucus a policymaking body. If they are successful, the liberals would substitute the caucus for the nominal leadership as the party's principal instrument of navigation. On the senior Democratic level, there is quiet talk of organizing a Senate-House leadership group that would attempt to set the party's course for both bodies...
...knowing the recent bloody strife between Protestants and Catholics and the centuries-old heritage of hatred, could possibly say that about Northern Ireland? The answer was the Union Party leader and the brand-new Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark, 46, who had won a Unionist Party caucus by one vote from a hard-lining Unionist, Brian Faulkner. Chichester-Clark last month resigned from the Cabinet of the previous Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, thus helping to force O'Neill's resignation in the face of charges he was soft on Catholicism...
...Vote. That Bernadette had undeniably given the Catholics and civil rightists. But she had offered little in the way of positive solutions. Back in Belfast, O'Neill was trying to defuse the crisis. Calling a Unionist Party caucus, he demanded that the voting franchise be broadened to eliminate property qualifications in local elections. Catholics, generally poorer than Protestants in Ulster, have long agitated for a one-man, one-vote ruling. Now, argued O'Neill, they must be granted it to avoid further bloodshed. By a narrow margin he won the point, but the motion must still go through...
...case, after the Paine Hall crisis, the conservative caucus began talking "about everything that the Faculty confronted" in its regular business and actually formulated resolutions that were introduced onto the Faculty floor, according to McCloskey...
...liberals have had more trouble reaching a consensus during their meetings because they have been generally much larger. The core of the caucus consists of about 60 to 70 Faculty, and while this many did not attend all the meetings, their gatherings sometimes overflowed with as many as 100 Faculty...