■ Maybe some of it rubbed off. Sen. Richard Schweiker (R., Pa.), Ronald Reagan’s choice for vice presidential runningmate, has come out forcefully against the nomination of Paul Warnke as Disarmament Czar. Schweiker says that he has “grave doubts,” in view of Warnke’s past opposition to nearly every major weapons system, that the two-thirds vote could be found in the Senate to ratify any treaty Warnke might negotiate with the Soviet Union. . . . Most effective in the fight against Warnke have been former GOP Minority Leader Robert Griffin and freshman Republican Sen. John Danforth (Miss.). It was Danforth who is credited with getting the Foreign Relations Committee to call on Warnke’s former boss in the SALT I talks, Paul Nitze, to testify against Warnke. . . . Majority Leader Robert Byrd has warned Carter Administration he wants no hasty actions taken against FBI Director Clarence Kelley (whom Carter had said, in midcampaign, that he would have fired). If Kelley is fired without cause, says Byrd, “the nomination of his successor will not be called up in the Senate in the immediate future.” . . . Smooth sailing predicted for Admiral Stansfield Turner through sometimes rocky waters of Senate confirmation procedures. Turner had some very sensible things to say about naval buildups and strategy in recent Foreign Affairs article, is also one of the only two post-WW II Annapolis graduates to have attained full admiral rank. In addition, military men have frequently headed the CIA.
■ Fascinating maneuverings underway in Georgia where two of Martin Luther King’s former supporters, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy and John Lewis, are both bidding for the congressional seat that Andrew Young relinquished. . . . Other Georgia talk: that Carter’s son Jack, a 29-year-old attorney, will run for Congress against incumbent Democrat Lawrence McDonald in ’78, and that if there is a Supreme Court vacancy in near future Carter may name his Atlanta advisor Charles Kir- bo to the post. . . . Behind the surprise decision of way-out liberal Sen. Janies Abourezk (S.D.) not to run again in 1978 is the frustration with the job Abourezk cited, plus private polls that show him running badly against any opposition, Democratic or Republican.
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