Word: provisionally
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While forbidding mandatory quotas, the provision required the party to take "affirmative action to encourage full participation by all Democrats, with particular concern for minority groups, native Americans [i.e., Indians], women and youth in the delegate selection process and in all party affairs."
Now the Supreme Court has agreed to decide before June whether the mandatory provision makes constitutional the death sentence of one convict, Jesse Fowler. His case appropriately originated in North Carolina, which has one of the stiffest new statutes. It now has by far the nation's largest death...
The three judges considering the case of the Pappas liquor distributing company, the Avenue Liquor Mart and the Harvard Provision Co. against the United Farm Workers and the Harvard Boycott Support Committee this week scheduled the case's first hearing date--January 6.
Strauss reportedly resisted any proposals to rewrite the rule on delegate challenges to appease the various caucuses. On Friday, Strauss told reporters he would "use whatever persuasive powers the party chairman may have" to keep the original provision in the party charter.
The re-written provision on delegate selection irked AFL-CIO's Henning, who delivered an angry, impassioned speech condemning party leaders for making last-minute changes without consulting labor leaders.