■ It’s August and politicians throughout the land are getting back into the saddle. Rep. Philip Crane (R., Ill.) became the first Republican formally to enter the GOP presidential race on Aug. 2—an announcement not altogether to the liking of the Reagan camp. The effect: Reagan’s Launch Day will be advanced—color it late spring or early summer ’79. . . . And the early fall primaries are now coming up. In Kansas, Nancy Landon (daughter of Alfred M.) Kassenbaum won out over a field of eight in the Republican senatorial primary to replace retiring James Pearson. Her slogan: “A fresh voice, a trusted Kansas name.” Her politics: pro-Panama Canal treaties, pro-legalized abortion. . . . But the big ones are in September. Massachusetts is Sept. 19, and all is confusion with former Nixon aide Howard Phillips entering the lists as a conservative Democrat. That so nonplussed the ADA that it has endorsed the leftward-most three of the six other Democrats: Paul Guzzi, Elaine Noble (campaigning as an avowed lesbian), and Rep. Paul Tsongas. . . . On the Republican side, Sen. Edward Brooke has the edge over conservative Avi Nelson, but Edward King, the conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate, is expected to win his primary race and to face Gov. Michael Dukakis in November. . . . In New York’s Sept. 12 primary there’s no trouble in store for Republican-Conservative Perry Duryea, but Democratic Gov. Hugh Carey has a race on his hands against Lt. Gov. Mary Ann Krupsak and some smaller fry. Duryea reportedly is running even with, or ahead of, Carey in private polls. . . . Conservative Bill Armstrong is expected to win his GOP senatorial primary in Colorado, and polls show him slightly ahead of senatorial incumbent Floyd Haskell.
Cookson, London Evening News Rothco
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