Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Clay had been a ubiquitous figure at the conference, chairing the Caucus' meetings with the press, serving on the panel on Communications and filling in on the one on Health...
...John Knowles and Pierre de Vise, on one hand and just about every one else in the room on the other. Clay had sat in front of a microphone in the middle of the panel table while Knowles and de Vise had attacked the position paper of the Caucus for assuming that an increase in the number of black doctors was an unequivocal good. The question of the moment had to do with doctors. Clay pondered the question with his eyes half-closed. He had spoken in agreement with the majority during the session, defending the call for more black...
...Undergraduate Woman's Caucus will hold a meeting at 10 p.m. tonight in the Radcliffe Woman's Center...
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...