Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of women plans to convene the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, an off-shoot of the National Women's Political Caucus formed in July...
...caucus--scheduled for November 19 and 20 at Boston College--will include a panel discussion on women's role in politics, workshops on specific feminist issues and on political methods, and decisions on structure and policies of the caucus...
...have sent workers of mine to organize non-primary states. I hope to control the caucus and delegates to the national convention," he said, adding, "my primary goal is to write the platform and pick the candidate...
...began, some said, more as a campaign for the vice-presidency than as a quest for the highest office in the land. When it ended last week beneath the crystal chandeliers of the cavernous Senate Caucus Room, the most that could be said for the brief, improbable presidential odyssey of Birch Bayh was that it had come close to being second best. As one of the Indiana Senator's aides put it: "In some of the polls, we were everybody's second choice...
...policy. He has allowed conservative Republican Senators to threaten openly to cut off American funds to the U.N. if the American plan fails and Taiwan is booted out. If these threats are carried out, the U.N. would be destroyed. Nixon claims to have no control over the Republican Senate caucus--just as he claimed to have no hand in the Vietnam elections. In his U.N. speech, Rogers put forth the new proposition that to expel Chiang's group from the China seat would evict a "member nation" of 14 million people. He warned that this would set a precedent...