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NATION, Page 17Grapevine
JUST SAY MAYBE. In its rush to push through antidrug
legislation last January, Congress adopted an amendment extending
random drug tests to its own employees. Six months later, only
three Congressmen -- Pennsylvania's Bob Walker, Texas' Joe Barton
and Florida's Clay Shaw -- have tested their staffs or submitted
to tests themselves. Reason: cheapness. Members have to pay for the
test out of their own pocket.
NICE WAGE IF YOU CAN GET IT. While the President was vetoing
a bill to raise the minimum wage from $3.35 to $4.55 an hour, one
of his top campaign strategists, Paul Manafort, was testifying
before Congress that the $1,000 an hour he earned for peddling
influence at HUD is not all that much. Manafort collected $326,000
for obtaining a federal grant for a useless rehabilitation project
that will cost $47 million.
STOP, OR I'LL SHOOT! Got an AK-47 that needs testing? Call
Congressman Pete Stark, author of gun-control legislation, who
invited a number of lawmakers to join him in the hideaway shooting
gallery in the basement of the Rayburn House Office Building. They
blasted away with an Uzi at a watermelon (the range also has "bad
guy" targets) to get an up-close and personal feel for the eleven
automatic and semiautomatic models that would be outlawed if
Stark's bill passes.
BRADLEY'S VISION THING. Is Bill Bradley trying to tell us
something? The first thing a presidential candidate does is forget
micro-problems, like Third World debt, and get a sweeping vision
-- something on the order of, say, the New Frontier. The latest
clue that the techno-speaking Senator may have begun running for
President in 1992 is a new, improved stump speech that has as its
mantra "Big Ambition," meaning that the U.S. must be bolder in
adapting to major changes in the world and domestic economies.
KU KLUX REDUX. Top Republicans, including George Bush, could
not stop former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon David Duke from winning
a seat in the Louisiana legislature. The party had better find a
strong G.O.P. candidate for the U.S. Senate now. Duke is
threatening to run against Senator Bennett Johnston in 1990.