GOP INFIGHTING

Meanwhile, even as the Republicans seem eager to limit the number of committee chairs they might empower, the leadership positions that are spared the ax may end up embroiled in GOP factional wars. Today Sen. Trent Lott (R.-Miss.) said he would challenge Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) for Simpson's job as whip, the No. 2 GOP job in the Senate. If successful, Lott intends to shift the GOP further to the right.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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