O’Connor Slows Pace in Capital

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Sandra D. O’Connor of Phoenix slowed her round of courtesy visits with members of Congress to a walk today. On her schedule were only seven calls, two of which were with fellow Arizonans. The first stop on Capitol Hill was a meeting with Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss. Visits with Sen. James A. McClure, R-Wyo., and Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, followed. THE THREE men expressed their appreciation for her visits, and each posed for pictures with her outside his office. “She’ll be a welcome addition to the Supreme Court,” Metzenbaum said after meeting Judge O’Connor. He said they did not discuss abortion but did discuss areas of civil rights, civil liberties and antitrust. He said he was impressed, “particularly by her independence of spirit and her feistiness.” FOR LUNCH, Mrs. Dennis DeConcini, wife of the Tucson Democratic senator, was hostess in a private Capitol dining room, where wives of other Senate Judiciary Committee members met the justicedesignate. Judge O’Connor has been accompanied on her three-day tour of congressional offices by White House aides and Assistant Attorney General Robert McConnell, who formerly practiced law in Phoenix. This afternoon Judge O’ Connor was to visit Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Arizona Democratic Reps. , Bob Stump and Morris K. Udall. BOTH ARIZONANS have offered strong endorsements of Judge O’Connor’s nomination as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Her last call of the day could prove to