Word: caucusing
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Those closest to the South African situation--the black leaders and political organizations in the country itself--have called upon U.S. corporations to withdraw their operations from South Africa. These concerned parties, along with international and national organizations like the United Nations General Assembly and the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, which American multinational investments offer to the entrenched white South African minority. The time for timidity, for kid glove "sensibility," passed...
...thing that decidedly will not be in the program is any rollback of giant Social Security tax increases already legislated to take effect beginning next year. The House Democratic caucus voted last week to press for a reduction -mostly out of simple fear of voter anger, but also on the well-justified philosophical ground that the tax is inflationary (it will raise businessmen's payroll costs, and the increase will be passed on in higher prices). Carter, however, just does not want to reopen the subject. He told congressional leaders last week that doing so would be "a very...
Esther Kee, president of the Asian American Women's Caucus, will be the conference's keynote speaker...
...this area. Their small numbers of students cannot possibly keep in touch with the entire student body, and their effectiveness as independent organs for the expression of student opinion is undermined by the faculty-administration majorities on each committee. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) student caucus's unanimous endorsement of the proposed constitution speaks to all of these points...
...will of the majority of Harvard's undergraduates--a will clearly expressed through a variety of petitions, demonstrations, House, freshman and organizational votes. Harvard students are joined in their demands by a host of national and international groups, ranging from the NAACP to the Congressional Black Caucus to the U.N. General Assembly. Most reprehensibly, however, the ACSR has chosen to consciously ignore the will of South Africa's black population itself; almost every black student organization and leader not yet banned from South Africa--and those remaining are the moderate groups by almost any standard--has called upon U.S. corporations...