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Major concern among hard-liners on Hill is what would happen to President Reagan’s defense initiatives if Democrats organize the 100th Congress. Jerry Hertz, legislative director for SANE-PAC, indicates what they would face if Democrats win the Senate: “We went through a series of votes in the House just two or three weeks ago which basically had a clean sweep for disarmament. [A Republican Senate defeat in November] would completely change the way things have been going here for peace and arms control.” . . . Political analyst Horace Busby, who worked in LBJ White House, feels things are going better for Republicans now than they were in June when Democrats led in six key states. Now three states with retiring Democratic senators (Louisiana, Russell Long; Missouri, Thomas Eggleton; Colorado, Gary Hart) are tilting GOP. And in a fourth, North Carolina, latest Charlotte Observer poll shows GOP Sen. James Broyhill five points ahead of Terry Sanford; he trailed Sanford by six points in June. . . . Experts pretty much write off Sen. Paula Hawkins’s re-election chances, although one longtime Florida Republican leader comments: “Paula’s like a teabag. You have to put her in hot water to see how strong she is.” . . . Little hope is given for Linda Chavez v. superliberal Barbara Mikulski in Maryland. Although here too AEI’s William Schneider sees some reason for hope. “Linda Chavez can’t win the race,” he says, “but [the hot tempered] Barbara Mikulski could lose it. . . . The news from the West is generally grim for the GOP: In Nevada, Democrat Harry Reid leads Jim Santini by five points (Laxalt’s seat); in South Dakota Rep. Tom Daschle beats incumbent Sen. Jim Abdnor by 15 points, Ed Zschau has yet to catch fire in California. . . . In other races, as expected, Joseph Kennedy scored big victory in crowded 8th CD primary in Massachusetts and has better chance of going to Congress in November than his sister Kathleen Townsend who’s running in Maryland. . . . Informed that Bella Abzug had won a congressional primary upstate, Mayor Koch was heard to murmur: “Madness in Westchester.”

Shailo, London Daily Telegraph / Rothco

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Major concern among hard-liners on Hill is what would happen to President Reagan’s defense initiatives if Democrats organize the 100th Congress. Jerry Hertz, legislative director for SANE-PAC, indicates what they would face if Democrats win the Senate: “We went through a series of votes in the House just two or three weeks ago which basically had a clean sweep for disarmament. [A Republican Senate defeat in November] would completely change the way things have been going here for peace and arms control.” . . . Political analyst Horace Busby, who worked in LBJ White House, feels things are going better for Republicans now than they were in June when Democrats led in six key states. Now three states with retiring Democratic senators (Louisiana, Russell Long; Missouri, Thomas Eggleton; Colorado, Gary Hart) are tilting GOP. And in a fourth, North Carolina, latest Charlotte Observer poll shows GOP Sen. James Broyhill five points ahead of Terry Sanford; he trailed Sanford by six points in June. . . . Experts pretty much write off Sen. Paula Hawkins’s re-election chances, although one longtime Florida Republican leader comments: “Paula’s like a teabag. You have to put her in hot water to see how strong she is.” . . . Little hope is given for Linda Chavez v. superliberal Barbara Mikulski in Maryland. Although here too AEI’s William Schneider sees some reason for hope. “Linda Chavez can’t win the race,” he says, “but [the hot tempered] Barbara Mikulski could lose it. . . . The news from the West is generally grim for the GOP: In Nevada, Democrat Harry Reid leads Jim Santini by five points (Laxalt’s seat); in South Dakota Rep. Tom Daschle beats incumbent Sen. Jim Abdnor by 15 points, Ed Zschau has yet to catch fire in California. . . . In other races, as expected, Joseph Kennedy scored big victory in crowded 8th CD primary in Massachusetts and has better chance of going to Congress in November than his sister Kathleen Townsend who’s running in Maryland. . . . Informed that Bella Abzug had won a congressional primary upstate, Mayor Koch was heard to murmur: “Madness in Westchester.”

Shailo, London Daily Telegraph / Rothco