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■ Opponents of lifting ban on homosexuals in the military enjoyed overwhelming victory in the Senate. Attempt by Barbara Boxer (D.. Calif.) to leave the question up to the President was rejected 63 to 33; senators instead accepted language crafted by Sam Nunn (D., Ga.) and Dan Coats (R., Ind.) of Armed Services Committee, which Pentagon lawyers believe will make ban far more difficult to strike down in court. Pat Schroeder (D., Colo.) will continue to push in House tor lifting the ban. but is not ex- pected to succeed . . . . Longtime liberal see. Chris Dedd (D.Conn.) is de-manding a major senate chairmanship, saying be will not run for a fourth term in 1998 if he doesn’t get it, reports New Haven Register’s Bob Conrad Democrats are lining up federal judgeship for Arizona Sen. Dennis DeConcini in case of his likely defeat next year. , .. Polls show Utah voters would like an end to tenure of three-term. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.): only 38 per cent feel he should run again; 52 per cent would like to see someone new. Two-term conservative Democratic Rep. William Orton (ACU: 63) plans to challenge Hatch: Orton is frustrated with liberal House leadership blocking him from good committee assignments. . . . Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean has decided not to seek GOP nomination to challenge two-term Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Early leader for GOP nomination: conservative Rep. Dick Zimmer. . . . On the Left: former National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy, upon her entrance into the Ohio Republican senatorial primary, criticized her two conservative opponents, Mike DeWine and Eugene Watts, for “blind allegiance to failed policies of the past,” referring, it seems, to policies of her former boss Ronald Reagan.

■ The entrance of Gerald Solomon (R., N.Y), Bob Michel’s friend and ally, into race for Michel’s leadership position suggests that the seemingly permanent House minority leader intends to go back to Illinois at term’s end. Newt Gingrich (Ga.) has long let it be known he intends to run even if Michel doesn’t step down. Also Tossing his hat in is twenty-year conservative House veteran Henry Hyde EL(III).. . . In Rhode Island, liberal Republican Robert Machtley has decided to give up his House seat to challenge Democratic Gov. Bruce Sundhun. seems likely that 32 year -old son of son. Edward Kennedy, Patrick new a state legislature, will rake seat, making first father-son due in congress since Barry Goldwater Sr. and Jr. were in Senate and House. Far-left Rep. John Conyers (D., Mich.), who lost seat in 1989,then was re-elected in 1992. faded in attempt to replace retiring Mayor Coleman Young in Detroit.

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■ Opponents of lifting ban on homosexuals in the military enjoyed overwhelming victory in the Senate. Attempt by Barbara Boxer (D.. Calif.) to leave the question up to the President was rejected 63 to 33; senators instead accepted language crafted by Sam Nunn (D., Ga.) and Dan Coats (R., Ind.) of Armed Services Committee, which Pentagon lawyers believe will make ban far more difficult to strike down in court. Pat Schroeder (D., Colo.) will continue to push in House tor lifting the ban. but is not ex- pected to succeed . . . . Longtime liberal see. Chris Dedd (D.Conn.) is de-manding a major senate chairmanship, saying be will not run for a fourth term in 1998 if he doesn’t get it, reports New Haven Register’s Bob Conrad Democrats are lining up federal judgeship for Arizona Sen. Dennis DeConcini in case of his likely defeat next year. , .. Polls show Utah voters would like an end to tenure of three-term. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.): only 38 per cent feel he should run again; 52 per cent would like to see someone new. Two-term conservative Democratic Rep. William Orton (ACU: 63) plans to challenge Hatch: Orton is frustrated with liberal House leadership blocking him from good committee assignments. . . . Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean has decided not to seek GOP nomination to challenge two-term Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Early leader for GOP nomination: conservative Rep. Dick Zimmer. . . . On the Left: former National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy, upon her entrance into the Ohio Republican senatorial primary, criticized her two conservative opponents, Mike DeWine and Eugene Watts, for “blind allegiance to failed policies of the past,” referring, it seems, to policies of her former boss Ronald Reagan.

■ The entrance of Gerald Solomon (R., N.Y), Bob Michel’s friend and ally, into race for Michel’s leadership position suggests that the seemingly permanent House minority leader intends to go back to Illinois at term’s end. Newt Gingrich (Ga.) has long let it be known he intends to run even if Michel doesn’t step down. Also Tossing his hat in is twenty-year conservative House veteran Henry Hyde EL(III).. . . In Rhode Island, liberal Republican Robert Machtley has decided to give up his House seat to challenge Democratic Gov. Bruce Sundhun. seems likely that 32 year -old son of son. Edward Kennedy, Patrick new a state legislature, will rake seat, making first father-son due in congress since Barry Goldwater Sr. and Jr. were in Senate and House. Far-left Rep. John Conyers (D., Mich.), who lost seat in 1989,then was re-elected in 1992. faded in attempt to replace retiring Mayor Coleman Young in Detroit.