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...meetings have been quiet, some of them almost secret. The participants have included virtually every important black leader in the U.S., among them Julian Bond, Carl Stokes, Charles Evers, Jesse Jackson, Poet Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and the 13 members of the black caucus in Congress. The purpose: to develop a black political strategy for 1972, especially in order to influence the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee. But after more than half a dozen meetings-most recently a full-scale conference of black elected officials held in Washington -that strategy is still to be defined...
...Massachusetts Citizens Presidential Caucus, sponsored by Massachusetts Action for Peace and Citizens for Participation Politics, will be held at Assumption College in Worcester. All voters eligible in the Massachusetts primary on April 25 will be able to participate in the caucus, a spokesman said...
Although the caucus has not yet sent out invitations to the candidates, Eugene McCarthy has already volunteered to attend, Robert A. Schaeffer, a member of the caucus planning committee, said yesterday...
McCarthy has agreed to withdraw from the Massachusetts primary if he does not win the caucus's endorsement, Schaeffer said, because he thinks such a move is necessary to prevent fragmentation...
...Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty also has volunteered to come to the caucus, Schaeffer said, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) has refused to participate. Rep. Robert Drinan (D.-Mass.) will be the caucus keynote speaker...