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■ Pages in Iowa State Senate cause minor flap by removing President Clinton’s portrait from background of annual group photo. “He’s not the best role model for young people,” says one teenager. . . . Dick Morris on Clinton: “I think he’s going to emerge from this period of mobilization with a period of listlessness, of apathy, of [clinical] depression.” . . . Patricia Ireland of National Organization for Women says: “He knows he has to respect people like Hillary, [Secretary of Health and Human Services] Donna Shalala, and [Supreme Court Justice] Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But other women can be used like Kleenex. He is not my dream man.” . . . Retirement of Energy Secretary Federico Peña fuels speculation of further departures from Clinton Administration. . . . Ken Starr will clear FBI File gate poster boy Craig Livingstone, writes Boston Globe. . . . Newly elected Rep. Mary Bono (R., Calif.) is expected to win late husband Sonny’s spot on House Judiciary Committee, becoming only GOP woman on the panel that is likely to consider Starr report. . . . 60 Minutes prepares attack piece on Starr for “overzealous tactics,” reports Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. . . . Sam Donaldson irritated reporters on Africa trip when his “bellowing scared away some elephants” that cameramen were hoping to shoot with Clinton in Botswana photo-op, says U.S. News ℱ World Report.

■ CBS News poll: 25 per cent of registered Republicans prefer Texas Gov. George W. Bush for 2000 GOP nomination. Second-place finisher: Elizabeth Dole, with 13 per cent. No other candidate breaks into double digits. . . . Des Moines Register poll of GOP caucus-goers in Iowa: Dan Quayle edges Bush, 20 per cent to 18. . . . San Antonio emerges as front-runner in bid to capture 2000 Republican National Convention. . . . Sen. Paul Wellstone (D., Minn.) forms exploratory committee for presidential race. . . . His name is a campaign slogan: Wyoming State Sen. Keith Good enough (D.) prepares to run for governor. . . . TV stations in Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, and San Antonio will offer free air time to candidates this fall. … Bob Dole blames direct mail company for mistake in his recent fundraising letter for WWII memorial: “When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, I was just a boy of eight.” He was wounded in battle four years later.

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■ Pages in Iowa State Senate cause minor flap by removing President Clinton’s portrait from background of annual group photo. “He’s not the best role model for young people,” says one teenager. . . . Dick Morris on Clinton: “I think he’s going to emerge from this period of mobilization with a period of listlessness, of apathy, of [clinical] depression.” . . . Patricia Ireland of National Organization for Women says: “He knows he has to respect people like Hillary, [Secretary of Health and Human Services] Donna Shalala, and [Supreme Court Justice] Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But other women can be used like Kleenex. He is not my dream man.” . . . Retirement of Energy Secretary Federico Peña fuels speculation of further departures from Clinton Administration. . . . Ken Starr will clear FBI File gate poster boy Craig Livingstone, writes Boston Globe. . . . Newly elected Rep. Mary Bono (R., Calif.) is expected to win late husband Sonny’s spot on House Judiciary Committee, becoming only GOP woman on the panel that is likely to consider Starr report. . . . 60 Minutes prepares attack piece on Starr for “overzealous tactics,” reports Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. . . . Sam Donaldson irritated reporters on Africa trip when his “bellowing scared away some elephants” that cameramen were hoping to shoot with Clinton in Botswana photo-op, says U.S. News ℱ World Report.

■ CBS News poll: 25 per cent of registered Republicans prefer Texas Gov. George W. Bush for 2000 GOP nomination. Second-place finisher: Elizabeth Dole, with 13 per cent. No other candidate breaks into double digits. . . . Des Moines Register poll of GOP caucus-goers in Iowa: Dan Quayle edges Bush, 20 per cent to 18. . . . San Antonio emerges as front-runner in bid to capture 2000 Republican National Convention. . . . Sen. Paul Wellstone (D., Minn.) forms exploratory committee for presidential race. . . . His name is a campaign slogan: Wyoming State Sen. Keith Good enough (D.) prepares to run for governor. . . . TV stations in Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, and San Antonio will offer free air time to candidates this fall. … Bob Dole blames direct mail company for mistake in his recent fundraising letter for WWII memorial: “When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, I was just a boy of eight.” He was wounded in battle four years later.