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...Democratic leadership in the House an agreement to allow all party members to sit in on monthly policy meetings, thus assuring that the voice of the activists will continue to be heard. Another concession to Udall's rebellion: committee appointments will henceforth be subject to approval by a caucus of all House Democrats instead of being dictated by a tight coterie of congressional elders. Udall and his hardy backers-only 58 of 435 House members-did their careers no damage, and may well have assured a more responsive leadership for the future...
...caucus of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party that two years ago picked Kurt Kiesinger to succeed Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor, 51 votes from Bavaria's Christian Socialist Union (CSU) assured his victory. It was Franz Josef Strauss who threw these votes behind Kiesinger, earning himself a place in the Grand Coalition government. Last week Strauss was saying, "I would rather grow pineapples in Alaska than be the German Chancellor." Hardly anyone in Bonn believed...
...that Germans seem to remember about the Spiegel affair is the way Strauss bounced back from it. Besides his drive and brilliance both as an administrator and orator, the key to his resurgence is that he never lost control of his Bavarian Hausmacht. It paid off at the decisive caucus in 1966 at which he was able to act as kingmaker...
...Nomads. This caucus procedure has been followed by other factions for years. But whereas other groups met quietly in Madrid, the new Deputies decided to hop from one city to another, their independence encouraged by the fact that many are from the provinces and have their own local bases of power away from Madrid. Before long, the statements they usually issue after each session were taking strong exception to such unpopular Cortes measures as the "regressive" Official Secrets Law and the 1968-69 national budget, and a delighted press could hardly wait to headline the latest blast from los trashumantes...
...Louis meeting, composed largely of black caucus representatives, a number of speakers suggested that a major goal should be the creation of a fully developed black theology. Among other things, this theology might in-clude the relation of the struggles of the Negro to the Biblical experience of the Jews as God's chosen people, and the black man's demand for justice to Jesus' ethical teachings. It might also justify, on a more practical level, the artistic presentation of Christ as black- something that has been done in a number of Negro parishes...