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...didn't think this tawdry story was just going to go away, now, did you? Gary Condit certainly wishes it would - especially now that the 53-year-old Congressman has decided he will run for another term next year. That's despite outspoken criticism from the Democratic leadership, many of whom surfaced, shaking disapproving fingers, after Condit's much-hyped interview with Connie Chung. Local Democrats are already lining up in Condit's central California district, primed to challenge the battered pol in the March primaries...
...There is no further news of Levy, the 24-year-old intern who disappeared in May. Her parents, whose anguished faces haunted the daily news back in August, have thus far declined to speak with Condit. The Congressman is eager to speak with the Levys, but less eager to talk to their lawyers...
...Members of Bush's own party realize a wartime president can't play legislative cop all the time, but they are now pleading for action. "I understand what he's doing staying above the fray," says Ohio Congressman Rob Portman, a key White House ally on the Hill, "but the president is going to have to engage a little more if he doesn't want us to be paralyzed." Some high ranking Republicans are less modulated than Portman, complaining that the White House is selling out fellow Republicans to protect the president's political interests. As Bush blames Congress...
...article "Homeland Insecurity," Nancy Gibbs implied that the members of the House of Representatives may have evacuated in too much haste after anthrax was found in the mail area of the House side of the Capitol [TERRORISM, Oct. 29]. My fiance writes letters for a Congressman. The evacuation of the House side was an issue not of the bravery of members of Congress but of the safety of everyone. If the occupants of the World Trade Center had been warned of the attacks, would we have blamed them for evacuating the building beforehand? There is reason to believe that...
DIED. EDWARD BOLAND, 90, influential Democratic Congressman whose amendments opposing the Reagan Administration's support for rebels in Nicaragua set the stage for the Iran-contra affair; in Springfield, Mass...