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■ Looking ahead: Sen. Orrin Hatch, who voted for the Moynihan-Packwood tuition credit bill last time around, is the incoming head of the Senate Labor and Education Committee. He says he’ll bring that one up again in January. . . . Hatch also intends to move toward a lower minimum wage for young people. . . . Sen. Jake Garn, incoming chairman of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, has his eye fixed on the 1937 Davis-Bacon Act, dear to the heart of the construction unions. . . . Barry Goldwater gets Intelligence: watch for legislation to untie the hands of CIA, FBI and to exempt certain security material from Freedom of Information queries. . . . Also sure to be revised, the sweeping Department of Education bilingualism order of last August.

■ The scramble for leadership of the Democratic Party is on, with the moderates, for once, taking the lead. Teddy Kennedy has not only had his Senate staffs cut from seventy to 14 (he lost Judiciary as well as two important subcommittees) but his troops—Bayh, Culver, McGovern, Nelson, Church, and let’s not forget Muskie—will be gone in January. . . . Washington Post editorially supported an Op-Ed article, Nov. 11, by Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) calling on the Democratic Party to “clean up its act.” “What we must do is learn again that a free people are to be trusted and the government need not tell them, in endless detail, how they are to behave in order to achieve common goals.” . . . Pat Moynihan, speaking in much the same vein in a New York Times interview, rebuked the “radical” Kennedy wing of the Party, which, he said, holds to the premise that “government should be powerful and America should be weak.” . . . Organized Labor—at least its leaders—was crushed. Said AFL-CIO chief lobbyist Alexander Barkan: “This was the best labor effort we ever fielded and to lose it so badly is hard to take.” Only 47 per cent of union members voted for Carter in 1980; 59 per cent had in 1976. . . . Democratic news analyst Alan Baron recalled in the November 11 Baron’s Report the jubilation in the White House when Reagan started to sweep the primaries. “Where else are the liberals going to go?” asked Jerry Rafshoon. “It’s not even going to be close,” said Hamilton Jordan. And Robert Strauss put his money where their words were.

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■ Looking ahead: Sen. Orrin Hatch, who voted for the Moynihan-Packwood tuition credit bill last time around, is the incoming head of the Senate Labor and Education Committee. He says he’ll bring that one up again in January. . . . Hatch also intends to move toward a lower minimum wage for young people. . . . Sen. Jake Garn, incoming chairman of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, has his eye fixed on the 1937 Davis-Bacon Act, dear to the heart of the construction unions. . . . Barry Goldwater gets Intelligence: watch for legislation to untie the hands of CIA, FBI and to exempt certain security material from Freedom of Information queries. . . . Also sure to be revised, the sweeping Department of Education bilingualism order of last August.

■ The scramble for leadership of the Democratic Party is on, with the moderates, for once, taking the lead. Teddy Kennedy has not only had his Senate staffs cut from seventy to 14 (he lost Judiciary as well as two important subcommittees) but his troops—Bayh, Culver, McGovern, Nelson, Church, and let’s not forget Muskie—will be gone in January. . . . Washington Post editorially supported an Op-Ed article, Nov. 11, by Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) calling on the Democratic Party to “clean up its act.” “What we must do is learn again that a free people are to be trusted and the government need not tell them, in endless detail, how they are to behave in order to achieve common goals.” . . . Pat Moynihan, speaking in much the same vein in a New York Times interview, rebuked the “radical” Kennedy wing of the Party, which, he said, holds to the premise that “government should be powerful and America should be weak.” . . . Organized Labor—at least its leaders—was crushed. Said AFL-CIO chief lobbyist Alexander Barkan: “This was the best labor effort we ever fielded and to lose it so badly is hard to take.” Only 47 per cent of union members voted for Carter in 1980; 59 per cent had in 1976. . . . Democratic news analyst Alan Baron recalled in the November 11 Baron’s Report the jubilation in the White House when Reagan started to sweep the primaries. “Where else are the liberals going to go?” asked Jerry Rafshoon. “It’s not even going to be close,” said Hamilton Jordan. And Robert Strauss put his money where their words were.