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+ UPI ~¢9 ‘ ADD { LEADERSHIP, WASHINGTON (UPI~63) NE REPUBLICAN CHUCIS, SEUAE GOP LEADER HUGH SCOT PENNSYLVANIA WAS RE-ELECTED, DEFEATING SEN, HOWARD H, BAKER UR, OF TENNESSEE 24-90, IN 1969, SCOTT BEAT BAKER 24-19, BAKER MADE A LAST-MINUTE DECISTON TO RUN AGAINST SCOTT AFTER HAVING CAMPAIGNED FOR SEVERAL WEEKS WITHOUT GETTING DEFINITE COMMITYENTS, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER FROM A SIZEABLE GROUP OF UNDECIDED SENATORS, KENNEDY HELD THE SECOND SPOT JUST TWO YEARS, IN A CHRISTMAS WEEK COUP TWO YEARS AGO HE RAKLIED SUFFICIENT SUPPORT 10 OUST | SEN, RUSSELL B, LONG, A CONSERVATIVE LOUISTANA DEMOCRATIC, | BYRD WILL RESTORE A CONSERVATIVE VOICE 10 THE SECOND DEMOCRATIC SPOT, AND GIVING HIM A LEG UP ON THE MAJORITY LEADERSHIP POST ITSELF WHEN NENSFIELD ULTIMATELY STEPS DOWN, BYRD'S STRENGTH IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS WAS CONCEALED UE "110 THE LAST MOMENT, KENNEDY CONFIDENTLY CLAIMED VICTORY IN | PRIVATE TALKS WITH HIS SENATE DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES AS, LATE ’sS YESTERDAY, | BYRD, HOWEVER, ASSIDOUSLY CAMPAIGNED BEHIND TRE SCENES, VLE ME OMULLY ANORCINE HE YUL GALEN Te sss TEMOCRAT KENNEDY'S DEFEAT CAST A FURTHER SHADOW OVER WHATEVER CHANCE HE MAY HAVE HAD OF CAPTURING THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION NEXT YEAR, ALTHOUGH FROM A BORDER STE, BYRD 1S IN THE MODERATE -CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND OVER THE YEARS HAS FOLLOWED THE LEADERSHIP OF SEN, RICKARD B, RUSSELL ‘DeGk,, THE DOMINANT FIGURE FROM DIXIE FOR WORE THAN A CENERATTON, | nov H2ooetey MAR neaTH AT WALTER REDD ARMY HOSPITAL, 1/21 -NB{200P