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...D.F.L.'s labor faction endorsed Short only after a heated floor fight at a convention of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. The party's executive committee, dominated by liberals and academics, refused to back him. The D.F.L.'s feminist caucus actually campaigned against him because of his antiabortion and anti-Equal Rights Amendment views. Other liberals paid for newspaper ads denouncing Short's opposition to national health insurance and environmental-protection laws. When Jimmy Carter went to Minnesota and urged a Democratic rally to support Short, the President was loudly booed. Predicted a gloomy Perpich just before...
...eager to influence Harvard's tenure policies, investments in South Africa, the creation of a women's study program and other left-wing causes. The radicals want to begin to act immediately on the issues they feel are pressing. However, they have so far been mollified by another distinct faction in the assembly--a group of left-leaning representatives who differ from the radicals in their belief that representation must come before ideology...
Rosen is a good example of the members in this loose faction. An active member of the South Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), Rosen has insisted that the assembly should not take a stand on the issue of Harvard's ties to South Africa until the representatives are sure of undergraduate opinion. Rosen says the only way the assembly will gain legitimacy is through precise representation. He believes the assembly will soon be ignored if it loses touch with its constituents...
...TRULY conservative faction has yet to become evident in the assembly. The debate over South Africa issues will largely center around means, not ends. In terms of national politics, the entire assembly could probably be placed on the left. In fact, the assembly can best be understood in terms of liberals v. radicals, rather than conservatives v. liberals. The South Africa issue has made the entire campus more politically aware, and this increased awareness appears to be reflected in the nature of the assembly. The assembly more closely resembles SASC than it resembles the Republican Club. The question remains whether...
What members of these factions forget is that they are citizens not of a cause but of a country of many causes. The adamant attitude that gives some motorists victory on the expressway may well propel some other faction to triumph on another issue - environment, conservation, name it - in a way the motorist might deplore...