Republican Women Assailed on Votes

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 11 – Leading officials of the Democratic Party today challefW!d the National Women’s Political Caucus, one of the country’s two largest feminist political groups, to stop supporting Republican COngressWomen who YOte for the R .. gan Administration’s budget cuts. Polly Baca Barragan, an Arizona State Senator who Is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told Democ.rats In the caucus that they should push for a re-evaluation of the orgamzation’s willingness to back such Republicans. “Even the Congress.. women who were elected. with feminist support,” she91.ld, “bad to toe the party line and vote against the economic surYiftl of the women of this country.•’ In an interview, Kathy Wil9oll, a Republican from AJeundrta, Va., who Is slated to be elected the national chairman of the caucw. tomouow, 9atd that senator Baca Barnpn’s approach would weaken both the caucus and the ability of Republican feml.aists to alter their party’s policy. “I want my party back.” she declared. Senator Bec:a Banagan’s demand brought into the open a crttk:al temton within this influential group. Among feminist political cqanJzattons. the caucus’s 55,000 members place it second only to the Natione.l 0rpnizatkln for women, which has 125,000 members, and its acti-,e Wasblnglon office and ro&- ter of experienced polltlctam in its membership ha-,e made it important in the capital. Stralal Wltldn ea– For years the caucus bas bad a distinettve blpartilansbip, but that characteristi