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The Administration’s vaunted “fall offensive,” say Evans & Novak, has turned into the “fall defensive,” as White House aides advocate what E&N call “abject surrender” to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and other Republicans on the Hill who favor South African sanctions, protectionism, and watering down of tax provisions. . . . As might have been expected, Ronald Reagan’s announcement of sanctions by executive order has been blasted Left, Center, and Right. But, say the pros, it may have been a tactical win. . . . Not much publicity given to Gallup poll on South Africa that asked: What should U.S. do next? Answer: Nothing, 44 per cent. Only 8 per cent voted for sanctions, 2 per cent for withdrawal of U.S. investment from South Africa. . . . Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of House Budget Committee, says his committee should be able to write a tax bill in next three weeks, but hints that his top rate could be above 35 per cent. No deal, says Treasury Secretary James Baker. Three things Administration will insist on are top rate of 35 per cent, smaller burden on working poor, retention of deductions for home mortgages. . . . Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R., Calif.) is so sure Reagan will find FY ’86 appropriations bills unacceptable, he has sent President a list of 147 congressmen who have pledged to sustain a presidential veto. . . . House and Senate Democrats, emboldened by their success in sinking William Bradford Reynolds’s appointment to No. 3 job at Justice, say they will now go after other Reagan judicial appointments, one of which, it is reported, would be naming of former senator, former Under Secretary of State James L. Buckley to 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (N.Y., Conn., Vt.).

Departing White House Political Director Edward Rollins sees these four as the most endangered Republican senators running for re-election in 1986: Paula Hawkins (Fla.), John East (N.C.), James Abdnor (S.D.), and Mark Andrews (N.D.); next in line, conservatives Jeremiah Denton (Ala.) and Mack Mattingly (Ga.), and liberals Charles Mathias (Md.) and Arlen Specter (Pa.). . . . Specter has his worries: Popular Gov. Richard Thornburgh says he may run in primary against Specter, and one poll, according to Kevin Phillips, shows him 13 points ahead in face-off. Thornburgh ingratiated himself with Administration by supporting non-deductibility of state and local taxes in new tax bill; Specter enraged Administration by voting against Reynolds. … In Illinois, it’s now official: Republican Gov. Jim Thompson will run again, bad news for Adlai Stevenson III and state Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan, the likely Democratic challengers. . . . In Ohio, conservative Rep. Thomas Kindness (ACU 88) plans to run against Sen. John Glenn. … In Connecticut, retiring Yale President A. Bartlett Gia- matti continues to make noises about running against Sen. Christopher Dodd next year. What recent GOP senators does Giamatti admire? (Hang on there!) Lowell Weicker, Charles Mathias, Jacob Javits, Clifford Case, John Sherman Cooper, according to Litchfield County Times. . . . Arthur Laffer could just make that big race in California for Alan Cranston’s seat more fun. The senatorial candidate and discoverer of the Laffer Curve told Houston audience the other night: “You’ve all heard about economists who politicize, but have you heard of a politician who economizes?”

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The Administration’s vaunted “fall offensive,” say Evans & Novak, has turned into the “fall defensive,” as White House aides advocate what E&N call “abject surrender” to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and other Republicans on the Hill who favor South African sanctions, protectionism, and watering down of tax provisions. . . . As might have been expected, Ronald Reagan’s announcement of sanctions by executive order has been blasted Left, Center, and Right. But, say the pros, it may have been a tactical win. . . . Not much publicity given to Gallup poll on South Africa that asked: What should U.S. do next? Answer: Nothing, 44 per cent. Only 8 per cent voted for sanctions, 2 per cent for withdrawal of U.S. investment from South Africa. . . . Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of House Budget Committee, says his committee should be able to write a tax bill in next three weeks, but hints that his top rate could be above 35 per cent. No deal, says Treasury Secretary James Baker. Three things Administration will insist on are top rate of 35 per cent, smaller burden on working poor, retention of deductions for home mortgages. . . . Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R., Calif.) is so sure Reagan will find FY ’86 appropriations bills unacceptable, he has sent President a list of 147 congressmen who have pledged to sustain a presidential veto. . . . House and Senate Democrats, emboldened by their success in sinking William Bradford Reynolds’s appointment to No. 3 job at Justice, say they will now go after other Reagan judicial appointments, one of which, it is reported, would be naming of former senator, former Under Secretary of State James L. Buckley to 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (N.Y., Conn., Vt.).

Departing White House Political Director Edward Rollins sees these four as the most endangered Republican senators running for re-election in 1986: Paula Hawkins (Fla.), John East (N.C.), James Abdnor (S.D.), and Mark Andrews (N.D.); next in line, conservatives Jeremiah Denton (Ala.) and Mack Mattingly (Ga.), and liberals Charles Mathias (Md.) and Arlen Specter (Pa.). . . . Specter has his worries: Popular Gov. Richard Thornburgh says he may run in primary against Specter, and one poll, according to Kevin Phillips, shows him 13 points ahead in face-off. Thornburgh ingratiated himself with Administration by supporting non-deductibility of state and local taxes in new tax bill; Specter enraged Administration by voting against Reynolds. … In Illinois, it’s now official: Republican Gov. Jim Thompson will run again, bad news for Adlai Stevenson III and state Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan, the likely Democratic challengers. . . . In Ohio, conservative Rep. Thomas Kindness (ACU 88) plans to run against Sen. John Glenn. … In Connecticut, retiring Yale President A. Bartlett Gia- matti continues to make noises about running against Sen. Christopher Dodd next year. What recent GOP senators does Giamatti admire? (Hang on there!) Lowell Weicker, Charles Mathias, Jacob Javits, Clifford Case, John Sherman Cooper, according to Litchfield County Times. . . . Arthur Laffer could just make that big race in California for Alan Cranston’s seat more fun. The senatorial candidate and discoverer of the Laffer Curve told Houston audience the other night: “You’ve all heard about economists who politicize, but have you heard of a politician who economizes?”