[HOWARD PHILLIPS WHO TRIED TO SHUT DOWN THE NATIONAL POVERTY PROGRAM NOW CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR SENATE FROM MASSACHUSETTS]

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Approved For Release 2004/07/08 : CIA-RDP81 M00 80R002000100024-3 WASHINGTON POST DATE 1.2 - 3 f k-j PAGE l 7 ,= Of The man who tried to shut down the national poverty program for President Nixon is considering run- ning for the Senate from Massachu- setts-as a Democrat. Howard Phillips, 37, told reporters at a breakfast here Thursday that he's "90 percent sure" he'll enter the September Democratic primary for the seat held by Republican Edward Brooke. Phillips will get the results of a poll by fellow conservative Vern Kennedy of Alexandria, La., this Thursday and will decide by the first week in June, he said. Phillips, as acting director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, tried to dismantle the agency. He resigned under pressure in 1973. Ile claims he has been a Democrat since 1974. Phillips' assumption is this: the other candidates in the Democratic primary will be liberals; he thinks he can win a plurality-and thus the nomination-by running on conser- vative issues. The addition of Phillips would further enliven a contest one can- didate has dubbed "a sequel to Looney-Tunes Presents." Elaine Noble, the only avowed les- bian stale legislator in the nation and one of the Democratic candi- dates, made the characterization last week at a press conference called to inform an already bewildered press corps that she is still running for the Senate. "I need to say that today because for the week past-and perhaps the week ahead-there is confu- sion about who's running and who's not, and for what, and why, and perhaps, the wherefore," she said. Noble, never known to pull her punches, took off the gloves in an attack on Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III, son of the House speaker, who caused a furor by considering run- ning against Noble and then an- nouncing he wouldn't. "A lot of peo- ple are all dressed up with no place to go," she quipped. And on the entry of Rep. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) into the race, she said,, "I don't care if Genghis Khan is in the race,I'm still running." Approved For Release 2004/07/08 : CIA-RDP81 M00980R002000100024-3