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■ Democratic hats finally in presidential ring. List of those announced: former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder, and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin. Soon to announce: former California Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, and Nebraska Sen. Robert Kerrey. Newsweek reports that at recent meeting of Congressional Black Caucus the star was Harkin, not Wilder. Harkin (a self-described “Humphrey liberal”) impressed Caucus with a Great Society agenda. Bill Clinton fared well too, said one black official, but “no one will have a lock on” the black vote. . . . Former DNC chairman John White voiced concern over Democratic presidential candidates: “I’m worried that a party that cannot field a truly national candidate for President is in trouble.” . . . Kerrey and Wilder are divorced from their wives; Brown is single. Robert Holland writes in Richmond Times-Dispatch: “A divorce is no big thing in politics nowadays, but [Wilder’s wife] had complained of ‘cruelty and reasonable apprehension of bodily harm.’ ”… Wilder claims not to have read allegations in Playboy by model Tai Collins, who said she had affair with Sen. Chuck Robb; Wilder only looked at the pictures. . . . Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen gave surest sign of not intending to run when he rejoined all-white, all-male Virginia country club. . . . Human Events reports on poll conducted by Democratic group Greenberg-Lake and GOP group Tarrance & Assoc, which asked whom voters trusted more to maintain strong national defense: George Bush 70, congressional Democrats 13; Republicans 64, Democrats 15. . . . Public Opinion Strategies conducted hypothetical congressional contests between Republicans who supported use of force in Gulf and Democrats who opposed it. GOPers won 57 to 24.

“Remember the days when ‘SAT’ meant ‘Spend and Tax’?”

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■ Democratic hats finally in presidential ring. List of those announced: former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder, and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin. Soon to announce: former California Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, and Nebraska Sen. Robert Kerrey. Newsweek reports that at recent meeting of Congressional Black Caucus the star was Harkin, not Wilder. Harkin (a self-described “Humphrey liberal”) impressed Caucus with a Great Society agenda. Bill Clinton fared well too, said one black official, but “no one will have a lock on” the black vote. . . . Former DNC chairman John White voiced concern over Democratic presidential candidates: “I’m worried that a party that cannot field a truly national candidate for President is in trouble.” . . . Kerrey and Wilder are divorced from their wives; Brown is single. Robert Holland writes in Richmond Times-Dispatch: “A divorce is no big thing in politics nowadays, but [Wilder’s wife] had complained of ‘cruelty and reasonable apprehension of bodily harm.’ ”… Wilder claims not to have read allegations in Playboy by model Tai Collins, who said she had affair with Sen. Chuck Robb; Wilder only looked at the pictures. . . . Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen gave surest sign of not intending to run when he rejoined all-white, all-male Virginia country club. . . . Human Events reports on poll conducted by Democratic group Greenberg-Lake and GOP group Tarrance & Assoc, which asked whom voters trusted more to maintain strong national defense: George Bush 70, congressional Democrats 13; Republicans 64, Democrats 15. . . . Public Opinion Strategies conducted hypothetical congressional contests between Republicans who supported use of force in Gulf and Democrats who opposed it. GOPers won 57 to 24.

“Remember the days when ‘SAT’ meant ‘Spend and Tax’?”