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By JOHN GOOLRICK

Recent events coupled with a conversation with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Miller convince me the race for the sentorial nomination in 1994 is not, as some believe, over before it’s even really Started. ; ,4 There is no question that Oliver North is the present odds-on favorite to win the GOP nomination, but Miller’s “take a second look” strategy is at least beginning to make sbme inroads, and the North campaign may well have already peaked.

The North objective has been to get an over-abundance of Republican committed to him early enough so that any potential challengers will have trouble raising the money needed to mount a viable challenge. * In that, he has certainly had some success in creating an aura of invincibility.

But Miller, who appears to be the qply obstacle to North’s nomination, i$ stubbornly hanging in there and winning converts. * He realizes he faces an uphill task, but says he sincerely thinks thousands of Republicans may be prepared to rethink their initial appfcval of North as their candidate, v Miller, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, says those who are looking for someone in the Reagan mold should look to him since he was on the cutting edge of the Reagan revolution.

While North was involved in

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