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□ John Tower wants to be Secretary of Defense badly enough to take the pledge. Gary Hart didn’t want the Presidency that much.

□ William Lucas, the black Democrat-turned-Re- publican who ran unsuccessfully, and with scant national GOP support, for the governorship of Michigan in 1986, has been picked to be head of the civil-rights division of the Justice Department. Lucas, who opposes reverse-discrimination quotas (citing his own career as an instance of their irrelevance), has gotten the usual flak from the usual people: “not generally known as having a very solid civil-rights background,” snore. The Republican Establishment gets credit for retrieving its wounded from the field. Now if they could get a little more support in battle . . .

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□ John Tower wants to be Secretary of Defense badly enough to take the pledge. Gary Hart didn’t want the Presidency that much.

□ William Lucas, the black Democrat-turned-Re- publican who ran unsuccessfully, and with scant national GOP support, for the governorship of Michigan in 1986, has been picked to be head of the civil-rights division of the Justice Department. Lucas, who opposes reverse-discrimination quotas (citing his own career as an instance of their irrelevance), has gotten the usual flak from the usual people: “not generally known as having a very solid civil-rights background,” snore. The Republican Establishment gets credit for retrieving its wounded from the field. Now if they could get a little more support in battle . . .