For the Record

■ John Fischer’s American Security Council gave six Democratic senators a zero rating on defense matters this year. Four of them, George McGovern, John Culver, Frank Church, and Gaylord Nelson, won’t be back in January; the other two, Patrick Leahy (Vt.) and Alan Cranston (Calif.), won. The ASC ratings, incidentally, gave Daniel Patrick Moynihan, generally perceived as a hawk, only 10 per cent—behind Jacob Javits at 38. . . . Pleased by its showing this year—in fact tickled pink— the New Right’s National Conservative Political Action Committee is targeting Democratic Sens. Kennedy, Metzenbaum (Ohio), Riegle (Mich.), and Sarbanes (Md.) on its prime 1982 hit list, plus three Republicans, Weicker (Conn.), Stafford (Vt.), and Chafee (R.I.). On the secondary list of NCPAC targetees are Democrats Moynihan and Henry Jackson, presumably depending on how they vote between now and then.

■ Winners and Losers: The Black Caucus came through with flying colors. All 13 black Democratic congressmen were re-elected and three more added to the Caucus. . . . ERA took a beating. Phyllis Schlafly points out that anti-ERA forces won new seats in the state legislatures of Illinois, Florida, North and South Dakota, and Oklahoma— states that have yet to ratify ERA. . . . Paula Hawkins, senator-elect from Florida, is anti-ERA, also opposes abortion. … In little-noticed referenda in Utah and Nevada, eight counties that got to vote, voted against the emplacement of MX missiles there. . . . And in the rich Boston suburb of Newton, local officials, hard hit by the steep property-tax cut voted November 4, may have to charge for use of the public tennis courts.

■ John Fischer’s American Security Council gave six Democratic senators a zero rating on defense matters this year. Four of them, George McGovern, John Culver, Frank Church, and Gaylord Nelson, won’t be back in January; the other two, Patrick Leahy (Vt.) and Alan Cranston (Calif.), won. The ASC ratings, incidentally, gave Daniel Patrick Moynihan, generally perceived as a hawk, only 10 per cent—behind Jacob Javits at 38. . . . Pleased by its showing this year—in fact tickled pink— the New Right’s National Conservative Political Action Committee is targeting Democratic Sens. Kennedy, Metzenbaum (Ohio), Riegle (Mich.), and Sarbanes (Md.) on its prime 1982 hit list, plus three Republicans, Weicker (Conn.), Stafford (Vt.), and Chafee (R.I.). On the secondary list of NCPAC targetees are Democrats Moynihan and Henry Jackson, presumably depending on how they vote between now and then.

■ Winners and Losers: The Black Caucus came through with flying colors. All 13 black Democratic congressmen were re-elected and three more added to the Caucus. . . . ERA took a beating. Phyllis Schlafly points out that anti-ERA forces won new seats in the state legislatures of Illinois, Florida, North and South Dakota, and Oklahoma— states that have yet to ratify ERA. . . . Paula Hawkins, senator-elect from Florida, is anti-ERA, also opposes abortion. … In little-noticed referenda in Utah and Nevada, eight counties that got to vote, voted against the emplacement of MX missiles there. . . . And in the rich Boston suburb of Newton, local officials, hard hit by the steep property-tax cut voted November 4, may have to charge for use of the public tennis courts.