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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21The Morning Line
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- How the Keating Five are Faring
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- Federal officials now admit that the S&L disaster could cost
- $500 billion over the next 30 years. Still, insiders expect the
- Senate ethics committee, using shamefully correct
- everybody-does-it logic, to go easy on the Keating Five -- the
- Senators who collected nearly $1.4 million in campaign
- donations from Charles Keating, of the bankrupt Lincoln Savings
- and Loan. Voters are likely to be harsher.
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- ALAN CRANSTON (up for re-election in 1992). The California
- Democrat is considered not only a lame duck but a dead duck.
- An aide concedes, "He won by only 3% last time. He's never been
- a good bet in '92."
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- DENNIS DECONCINI (1994). The Arizona Democrat's approval
- rating has never quite recovered from his damaging association
- with the S&L king. He will hang on only if there is an outbreak
- of amnesia.
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- DONALD RIEGLE (1994). Fifty-five percent of voters say
- they'll think twice about re-electing the Michigan Democrat,
- who was a leading member of the banking committee during the
- crisis.
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- JOHN MCCAIN (1992). Unlike his Arizona colleague, this
- Republican apologized early and often for his involvement with
- Keating. The Vietnam War POW will likely survive the next
- election.
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- JOHN GLENN (1992). The Ohio Democrat has heard boos at home,
- a once unthinkable phenomenon. But he is, after all, the first
- American to orbit the earth. It will take a bigger legend to
- beat him.
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