Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said one Harvard senior a few weeks ago: "What happened was that everyone from the upper class joined PL [Progressive Labor party] and all the middle-class kids joined NAC [heir to the old SDS New Left caucus] or became Weathermen. Now the rich kids are going out to the factories and the middle-class ones are going to become doctors and lawyers. The revolution does seem far away...
...first time in almost a decade, Democratic presidential aspirants are courting the South. Edmund Muskie, Birch Bayh; Henry Jackson and Hubert Humphrey have recently called on Carter to discuss the lay of the votes in '72. And Carter and his colleagues in the other Southern states are assembling a caucus to be reckoned with at convention time...
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...