Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real worry over the Black Bloc, however, is that it will hold out from either camp. Humphrey released his black delegates to Chisholm at the Black Caucus yesterday morning, a reflection of the pressure being applied by black leaders hoping to create a powerful lobby on the Convention floor...
...upper atmosphere, the older party regulars and the new ambassadors of youth, blacks and females will confront one another with sometimes furiously different notions of how to run a convention and, for that matter, a political party. The party platform will be a special battleground, with the black congressional caucus, the National Women's Political Caucus and other groups demanding a voice. Defense spending, tax reform, amnesty, busing-such issues must be struggled over before the nominee is formally chosen, thus making the construction of the platform a doubly complicated task...
...M.I.T. Graduate Student Christopher Arterton, 29, went to work for the National Youth Caucus and embraced the McGovern cause. Originally, he was recruiting other young people to run for delegate, but then decided to run himself. "This is a very pivotal year in American politics," says Arterton. "It's very important that we do have a pronounced choice put forward to the electorate in November...
...support came from both sexes. Though she has allied herself with various women's movements, she remains Miss, not Ms., and none of the Women's Caucus "flying squads" appeared in Flatbush to stump for her. The campaign was almost purely one of issues -and age. Says Miss Holtzman: "I was a constituent of his, and I never saw him. He never seemed to attend any of the local meetings." With two years as a state committeewoman behind her, Liz Holtzman sailed into Celler, buttonholing anyone who would listen at supermarkets and subway stops. She attacked...
...slacks and boots doesn't hurt rapport either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston financial establishment...