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...full-scale discussion of pressing national issues such as inflation and civil rights could turn into factious debate that would cripple the party in front of network television cameras, Strauss said...
...Strauss and other high-level party leaders have expressed hope eight panel discussions scheduled for Friday will appease segments of the party calling for platform-like policy measures...
...Strauss this weekend may find himself in the middle of a titanic battle over proposed charter rules on two matters...
...party commission set up to establish rules governing the 1976 presidential convention, chaired by Baltimore City Councilor Barbara Mikulski, earlier this year reached a compromise on the matter of quotas and affirmative action. The Kansas City convention, with the encouragement of Strauss and party moderates, might adopt the compromise language of the Mikulski commission for the permanent party charter...
...Strauss has said he will push for the compromise to avoid splintering the party over what he calls a "minor semantic problem." But Barkan already has threatened to pull his labor support out of the party. Late last summer, the black caucus threatened to walk out of Kansas City if Barkan succeeded in amending the rules...