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Although women's organizations have played an important part in many elections, they seem to have been relegated to the background role of fund raiser and networker on the campaign trail. Raising money is still more difficult for women than men, says Natividad, because "women tend to be challengers, and political-action-committee money tends to go for the incumbents." This year the Washington-based Women's Campaign Fund, founded in 1974, is raising money for more than 100 progressive female candidates. "Our goal," says the fund's Virginia Sheridan, "is to provide (a total of) over...
...boyish smile and laid-back cool that made him a celebrity in the '60s, is the glamour candidate. He is the clear favorite of the upwardly mobile young blacks, known as buppies, whose BMWs decorate the lot of his sprawling campaign headquarters. Cicely Tyson came down for a fund raiser, and so did the Temptations; Bill Cosby and Ted Kennedy have sent checks. Polished and witty, Bond has an air of bemused nonchalance; like a horse who shies from hurdles, he has backed away from seeking higher office or tougher challenges in the past. The current campaign, however, has made...
Certainly the exposure Harvard unwittingly gave the homelessness issue helped raise national consciousness. If Jewett tires of his U-Hall responsibilities, he knows he can be an effective consciousness if not conscience raiser on the national level...
Staunch support of anti-Communists is a campaign centerpiece for Bruce Herschensohn, 53, an acerbic and deeply conservative commentator for the ABC television station in Los Angeles. Herschensohn's foreign policy acumen is often praised, lately by former President Nixon, who starred at a fund raiser for him in Newport Beach. Herschensohn commands the allegiance of many hawkish Republicans, but G.O.P. pros fear that he is the sort of somewhat scary hard-liner whom the incumbent Cranston has trounced in three straight Senate elections...
...Senate to keep the aid package alive and unencumbered by too many strings. What better way of showing that the contras need help than to make the most of Nicaraguan troops crossing the border to attack the rebels in their Honduran sanctuaries? Speaking at a political fund raiser in New Orleans last week, Reagan was not subtle in his message: The Nicaraguan attack, he declared, was a "slap in the face" to those in Congress who voted against contra...