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■ Left-wing establishment and big Democratic donors are filling top Administration posts. Eleanor Acheson—Boston lawyer, big-money raiser, granddaughter of Dean Acheson, and Wellesley friend of Hillary Clinton—to get either senior policy-making job at Justice or U.S. Attorney position in Massachusetts. . . . Cynthia LeBow, former general counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee, is said to be contender for legislative-affairs post, along with Ralph Neas, who led campaign against Robert Bork. . . . Second-level appointees pulled mostly from left-wing interest groups: Sierra Club (David Gardiner, assistant administrator of planning at EPA), NARAL (Loretta M. Ucelli, spokesman for Carol Browner at EPA), ACLU (John Shattuck, assistant secretary of state for human rights), EMILY’S List (Wendy Sherman, legislative affairs at State Department). …. Robert Redford and Tom Brokaw being considered to head National Parks Service. . . . Chicago Cubs will make Hillary Clinton the first First Lady to throw out first pitch on opening day.

■ Some 58 per cent of churchgoing Republican voters would probably leave the party if it dropped such issues as voluntary prayer and school choice from platform, according to Marketing Research Institute poll. Same poll finds that nearly two-thirds of those who call themselves Republicans are regular churchgoers. . . . In issues poll taken at National Review Institute Conservative Summit (January 24-25), family values placed second, behind only the far-and-away winner, economic growth [more detailed analysis in a future issue]… Similarly at CPAC (February 18-21), “values/morals” got second-highest percentage as “the single most important issue” in country today; “economy” was ranked higher, by four percentage points . . . . In another portion of CPAC poll Ronald Reagan was furlongs ahead in question about who “represents conservative beliefs and principles.” Jack Kemp trailed well behind. . . . Christian Coalition making most of Washington Post characterization of Religious Right as “poor, uneducated, and easy to command” with button displaying quote. . . . A few defeats for homosexual lobby: Amendment proposed by Rep. Sam Johnson (R., Tex.) to defund taxpayer-funded homosexual hotline won support of 111 Democrats and passed easily. St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York went off without gays marching under their own banner. And the Canadian Supreme Court rejected a gay man’s claim of a right to medical benefits for his partner. . . . Running out of things to tax, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo plans to impose a $250 tax on new-born babies in order to pay parents whose children are injured at birth, thus avoiding malpractice suits. . . . Dolores Bernadette Grier, who works for the Archdiocese of New York, declined nomination by NAACP for its Women History Month Award because, Miss Grier says, “the NAACP supports a pro-abortion/pro-choice position.”

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■ Left-wing establishment and big Democratic donors are filling top Administration posts. Eleanor Acheson—Boston lawyer, big-money raiser, granddaughter of Dean Acheson, and Wellesley friend of Hillary Clinton—to get either senior policy-making job at Justice or U.S. Attorney position in Massachusetts. . . . Cynthia LeBow, former general counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee, is said to be contender for legislative-affairs post, along with Ralph Neas, who led campaign against Robert Bork. . . . Second-level appointees pulled mostly from left-wing interest groups: Sierra Club (David Gardiner, assistant administrator of planning at EPA), NARAL (Loretta M. Ucelli, spokesman for Carol Browner at EPA), ACLU (John Shattuck, assistant secretary of state for human rights), EMILY’S List (Wendy Sherman, legislative affairs at State Department). …. Robert Redford and Tom Brokaw being considered to head National Parks Service. . . . Chicago Cubs will make Hillary Clinton the first First Lady to throw out first pitch on opening day.

■ Some 58 per cent of churchgoing Republican voters would probably leave the party if it dropped such issues as voluntary prayer and school choice from platform, according to Marketing Research Institute poll. Same poll finds that nearly two-thirds of those who call themselves Republicans are regular churchgoers. . . . In issues poll taken at National Review Institute Conservative Summit (January 24-25), family values placed second, behind only the far-and-away winner, economic growth [more detailed analysis in a future issue]… Similarly at CPAC (February 18-21), “values/morals” got second-highest percentage as “the single most important issue” in country today; “economy” was ranked higher, by four percentage points . . . . In another portion of CPAC poll Ronald Reagan was furlongs ahead in question about who “represents conservative beliefs and principles.” Jack Kemp trailed well behind. . . . Christian Coalition making most of Washington Post characterization of Religious Right as “poor, uneducated, and easy to command” with button displaying quote. . . . A few defeats for homosexual lobby: Amendment proposed by Rep. Sam Johnson (R., Tex.) to defund taxpayer-funded homosexual hotline won support of 111 Democrats and passed easily. St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York went off without gays marching under their own banner. And the Canadian Supreme Court rejected a gay man’s claim of a right to medical benefits for his partner. . . . Running out of things to tax, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo plans to impose a $250 tax on new-born babies in order to pay parents whose children are injured at birth, thus avoiding malpractice suits. . . . Dolores Bernadette Grier, who works for the Archdiocese of New York, declined nomination by NAACP for its Women History Month Award because, Miss Grier says, “the NAACP supports a pro-abortion/pro-choice position.”