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...addition, Kennedy intends to urge adoption of an "accountability rule" that would require the Democratic presidential nominee-all but certainly Carter-to state in writing any reservations that he may have about the party's platform. At least three planks in the plat form could embarrass Carter. One is a commitment to an is sue he would rather have avoided: civil rights for homosexuals. The platform not only pledges to protect people from discrimination based on "sexual orientation," but also calls for Government action to achieve this goal. The second is a departure from Carter's commitment...
This split manifested itself in the most spirited debate of the convention, over the economic plank of the party platform. A delegate from Ohio rose to denounce the plank, formulated by Sidney Lens, a well-known socialist author calling it simply a "wish list" and describing it as "old fashioned socialism." Lens vigorously rebutted these charges, thrusting the meeting into a flurry of accusations and counter-accusations of intellectual dogmatism and shortsightedness...
...Citizens' Party will not engage in politics-by-label--damning a proposal just because someone has called it 'socialist,'" Lens said. In the end, the convention voted overwhelmingly to adopt his plank, which included calls for the nationalization of certain key industries...
Party members admit the platform is unabashedly idealistic and do not claim to have all the answer. In the debate over, the economic plank, Lens said, "It someone asks me how we plan to go about nationalizing these industries. I'll say I frankly don't know. We don't know how to do it, but we do know that it's necessary that...
...Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia suggested that Senate and House Democrats form teams to work with the Administration's policymakers in drawing up a unified set of budget reductions-in Byrd's words to TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, "a package with which we can walk the plank"-and then take it to the Republicans for their ideas. Both Acting Senate Minority Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska and House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona brought groups of their followers to meetings with Miller to trade budget-cutting ideas. The Republicans at first were extremely suspicious. Some feared...