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...gender gap-the marked difference between the political views of men voters and the increasingly sizable body of women voters-rang out as the theme of the convention, set to a Texas mariachi beat. The delegates, most of them Congresswomen, state officials and activists, found that women's status as this year's pre-election prom queen was a lot more fun than last year's post-ERA role as wallflower. It was, for one thing, the first time since the Caucus was founded twelve years ago that the guys had come to their party...
...Supreme Court ruling maintaining the right to an abortion its two minimal conditions for endorsement; activists have opposed many women candidates. The caucus is currently supporting Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in his fight against Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.), the founder and co-chair of the Congresswomen's Caucus, because Heckler opposes abortion...
...also said that in a recent trip to Cambodia with other congresswomen she found the food being shipped to relieve the famine is not being distributed because of governmental problems in the country
...down and fed up. "I'm tired of being diddled," sputtered Manhattan's Democratic Congressman Edward Koch; "Ford has bled us to death." New York State University students held a rally at the U.S. Capitol to drum up support for aid to the city; New York Congresswomen Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm and Elizabeth Holtzman lent their voices to the cause. The New York Daily News, a longtime supporter of fiscal conservatism, berated Ford for "tantalizing us in a cold-blooded game of cat and mouse." Said a top G.O.P. congressional leader: "Ford was right at the start...
...failure." Other women took a more positive view. Representative Bella Abzug of New York said that while the conference was perhaps "intended as a sop, we did talk about issues, and I believe deeply that we accomplished something." She was so inspired, in fact, that she and two other Congresswomen are sponsoring legislation for a follow-up national conference on women to be held next year in the U.S.-a feminist firecracker of sorts to commemorate the Bicentennial...