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Undeterred, Long had to move fast, since the full Democratic caucus would meet the next day to ratify committee assignments. "There's more than one way to skin a cat," confided a Long intimate. "You lose the first way, then you fall back on plan B." Long decided to increase the size of his Finance Committee by adding another Democrat and Republican. But that meant reducing the size of somebody else's committee, a treacherous undertaking amid a group that so jealously guards its prerogatives. But Long had a friend in Mississippi's John Stennis, chairman...
...gracious speech conceding the speakership to Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill. The Speaker hardly needed the reminder that he leads a chamber that is dedicated just as much as the Senate to reducing federal deficits and halting inflation. Notes Washington's Thomas Foley, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus: "The word liberal has fallen into disfavor." Republicans gained only eleven seats in the November elections, and the Democrats remain firmly in control, 276 to 157 (with two vacancies). Regardless of party, however, members are responding to the protests of a tax-and inflation-weary electorate. Says Willis Gradison...
...Friedlaender, 40, professor of economics and civil engineering at M.I.T., made her mark with a widely influential study of the costs and benefits of the interstate highway system. As head of the women's caucus of the American Economic Association, Friedlaender has been a leader in the drive to get more women into graduate school...
Holmes, also a member of the Third World Caucus, a coalition of minority organizations in the Medical School, said the admissions changes "seemed fair." "We are especially glad we could get around the legal problems without eliminating the minority subcommittee," she added...
Conservatives accuse Carter of betraying a longtime ally. New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., chairman of the National Conservative Caucus, ordered flags of Taiwan lowered to half-staff over his statehouse. The American Conservative Union asked its members to protest to their Congressmen. Ronald Reagan, running hard for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, cabled Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Ching-kuo "to express my deep regret at the action that has been taken...