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...Bruce. "But then I listened to African-American people being interviewed after the verdict, and I realized that we had overlooked injustice to people of color." NOW's national resolution decrees that "NOW commits itself to intense internal examination of its own residual racism.'' But it is a controversial plank. "This is just some black leaders in NOW intimidating the white leaders,'' says Michigan NOW member Tracy Ann Martin. "I'm not afraid of being called a racist. My credentials go back too far.'' Asks Toni Carabillo, national vice president of the Feminist Majority, who has been active...
...occasion, Dole has drawn that line, as he did Sept. 8, when he appeared before the Christian Coalition's annual "Road to Victory" convention. Phil Gramm had spoken earlier and challenged the audience to demand that Dole, like Gramm, sign a pledge promising to support an antiabortion plank in the G.O.P.'s 1996 platform. When Dole arrived, several dozen members of the audience waved photocopies of the pledge and shouted, "Sign it!" Dole refused. "Don't look at pledges," he said. "Look at records...
Candidates Jon R. Maddox and Tony J. Knopp have both adopted budget reform as the primary plank in their platforms, arguing that the district's $84 million budget is unjustified...
...other plank of its campaign also spoke to the decentralization of power. PUCC was ready to demand student input into every committee making decisions on undergraduate life. That would have been a far reach for an organization that fares well only in the gauzy realm of gala balls...
Perhaps a pro-abortion plank might help Specter against a pro-abortion Democrat in a general election. But it certainly won't help him secure the Republican nomination, especially since conservative forces play a key role in the process. Fortunately for Republican solidarity, Specter's candidacy will never see the light...