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- NATION, Page 30Grapevine
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- LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING. When Pennsylvania Senator John
- Heinz was invited to take on the nation's First Tennis Player
- in a doubles match at the White House, his staff advised, "Let
- him win." Heinz, however, has too much pride in his game to roll
- over. He and his partner, TV producer Dorrance Smith, wiped out
- the President and aide David Bates in straight sets. The score
- is a state secret. So is the answer to the question Will Heinz
- be invited back?
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- CIVIL STRUGGLE. Why did the N.A.A.C.P.'s executive
- committee come out against the President's choice to head the
- Justice Department's civil rights division? Some N.A.A.C.P.
- board members say the opposition has less to do with the
- qualifications of William Lucas, the first black to run for
- Governor of Michigan, than with Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
- Young has never forgiven Lucas for switching from the Democratic
- Party to the G.O.P. in 1985. And Young dominates the N.A.A.C.P.
- Detroit branch, which set the stage for the executive
- committee's stand by voting to oppose Lucas. Dissident board
- members are trying to force a vote by the N.A.A.C.P.'s full
- 65-member board to overrule the committee and endorse Lucas.
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- A FRIEND IN NEED. Congressman Donald ("Buz") Lukens, Ohio
- Republican, is facing the sort of scandal that could destroy a
- politician's career: he is accused of having sex with a
- 16-year-old girl. But G.O.P. heavyweights are still in Lukens'
- corner. At a $100-a-head reception last week, party loyalists,
- including Ed Rollins and Charles Black, collected $10,000 for
- Lukens' defense. His trial begins later this month.
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- QUAYLE DROPPINGS. Upon landing in Pago Pago last week, the
- Vice President remarked to a crowd of Samoans, "Happy campers
- you are, happy campers you have been, and happy campers you will
- always be." At a recent Belgian-embassy reception in Washington
- he declared, perhaps with tongue in cheek, "I was recently on
- a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I
- didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with
- those people."
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