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■ Now that Little Rock has stopped rocking, rumors are flying about the shape of President-elect Clinton’s Cabinet—some better, some worse, as Clinton team tries to balance opposing elements of his coalition. First item of speculation, now settled, was whether Mickey Kantor, brash Los Angeles lawyer who had headed the campaign, would head transition team. Instead, post went to another L.A. lawyer, Warren Christopher, who started out as law clerk to Justice William O. Douglas and was deputy secretary of state under Cyrus Vance in Jimmy Carter’s time. He was named team manager and will work out of Little Rock; Vernon Jordan, ex-president of National Urban League, was named team chairman, will work out of D.C. . . . Christopher has supposedly taken himself out of contention for secretary of state; surprisingly, Sen. Sam Nunn (Ga.) is said to be angling for State rather than Defense. . . . Kantor may be named White House chief of staff, but also in running are former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt (one of 1988’s Seven Dwarfs), Arkansas’s own Sen. David Pryor (1991 ACU rating: 11; ADA rating: 30), and Clinton campaign research director Betsey Wright. . . . Mentioned for CIA Director: Sen. David Boren, who was staunch during cold war; retired Admiral William Crowe, who had been Ronald Reagan’s Chairman of Joint Chiefs but wound up opposing Gulf War. Crowe has also been mentioned for Pentagon, as has military-bashing Rep. Patricia Schroeder. . . . Treasury contenders include New York banker and industrial-policy enthusiast Felix Rohatyn, ex-Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, and Robert Altman, veteran of Carter’s Treasury. . . . Harvard oracle Robert Reich is gloomy possibility for Economic Policy Advisor.

■ Around the States: Congressional totals are being called GOP defeat, because gain of ten seats in the House is half what was expected. But not since 1960 has a party captured the Presidency while losing seats in the House. . . . Voters did better with ballot initiatives than with candidates. Colorado’s Initiative 2, denying homosexuals preferential treatment, won, 53 to 47, while Oregon’s over-the-top Initiative 9, essentially ostracizing homosexuals, lost 57 to 43. . . . Iowa’s Equal Rights Amendment lost, 52 to 48. . . . Gov. William Weld’s Massachusetts Initiative 3, to require all packaging in state to be reduced in size and made out of recyclable stuff, lost 59 to 41. . . . Term limits won in all 14 states where they were on ballot, with majorities ranging from solid (52 to 48 in Washington) to overwhelming (77 to 23 in Florida). … Of states that James Baker’s electoralvote strategy targeted for George Bush (New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Louisiana), only South Dakota went for him in the end; others that were close: New Jersey (43 to 41), Ohio (40 to 39). . . . How did recent immigration affect the California vote? Although L.A. Times reported deadpan that “A high proportion of non-citizens among Latinos . . . reduces the voting population,” percentage of Latinos in electorate went from 7 to 10 since 1988, according to Mark DiCamillo of Field Research, and they went overwhelmingly for Democrats: 65 per cent for Clinton, to 23 for Bush and 12 for Ross Perot; 61 for Barbara Boxer, to 33 for Bruce Herschensohn; 66 for Dianne Feinstein, to 32 for John Seymour. Asians, who account for 4 per cent of California voters, went 33 per cent for Clinton, to 28 for Bush, and 23 for Perot; 52 per cent for Boxer, to 48 for Herschensohn; and 61 for Feinstein, to 39 for Seymour.

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■ Now that Little Rock has stopped rocking, rumors are flying about the shape of President-elect Clinton’s Cabinet—some better, some worse, as Clinton team tries to balance opposing elements of his coalition. First item of speculation, now settled, was whether Mickey Kantor, brash Los Angeles lawyer who had headed the campaign, would head transition team. Instead, post went to another L.A. lawyer, Warren Christopher, who started out as law clerk to Justice William O. Douglas and was deputy secretary of state under Cyrus Vance in Jimmy Carter’s time. He was named team manager and will work out of Little Rock; Vernon Jordan, ex-president of National Urban League, was named team chairman, will work out of D.C. . . . Christopher has supposedly taken himself out of contention for secretary of state; surprisingly, Sen. Sam Nunn (Ga.) is said to be angling for State rather than Defense. . . . Kantor may be named White House chief of staff, but also in running are former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt (one of 1988’s Seven Dwarfs), Arkansas’s own Sen. David Pryor (1991 ACU rating: 11; ADA rating: 30), and Clinton campaign research director Betsey Wright. . . . Mentioned for CIA Director: Sen. David Boren, who was staunch during cold war; retired Admiral William Crowe, who had been Ronald Reagan’s Chairman of Joint Chiefs but wound up opposing Gulf War. Crowe has also been mentioned for Pentagon, as has military-bashing Rep. Patricia Schroeder. . . . Treasury contenders include New York banker and industrial-policy enthusiast Felix Rohatyn, ex-Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, and Robert Altman, veteran of Carter’s Treasury. . . . Harvard oracle Robert Reich is gloomy possibility for Economic Policy Advisor.

■ Around the States: Congressional totals are being called GOP defeat, because gain of ten seats in the House is half what was expected. But not since 1960 has a party captured the Presidency while losing seats in the House. . . . Voters did better with ballot initiatives than with candidates. Colorado’s Initiative 2, denying homosexuals preferential treatment, won, 53 to 47, while Oregon’s over-the-top Initiative 9, essentially ostracizing homosexuals, lost 57 to 43. . . . Iowa’s Equal Rights Amendment lost, 52 to 48. . . . Gov. William Weld’s Massachusetts Initiative 3, to require all packaging in state to be reduced in size and made out of recyclable stuff, lost 59 to 41. . . . Term limits won in all 14 states where they were on ballot, with majorities ranging from solid (52 to 48 in Washington) to overwhelming (77 to 23 in Florida). … Of states that James Baker’s electoralvote strategy targeted for George Bush (New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Louisiana), only South Dakota went for him in the end; others that were close: New Jersey (43 to 41), Ohio (40 to 39). . . . How did recent immigration affect the California vote? Although L.A. Times reported deadpan that “A high proportion of non-citizens among Latinos . . . reduces the voting population,” percentage of Latinos in electorate went from 7 to 10 since 1988, according to Mark DiCamillo of Field Research, and they went overwhelmingly for Democrats: 65 per cent for Clinton, to 23 for Bush and 12 for Ross Perot; 61 for Barbara Boxer, to 33 for Bruce Herschensohn; 66 for Dianne Feinstein, to 32 for John Seymour. Asians, who account for 4 per cent of California voters, went 33 per cent for Clinton, to 28 for Bush, and 23 for Perot; 52 per cent for Boxer, to 48 for Herschensohn; and 61 for Feinstein, to 39 for Seymour.