Milestones: Jul. 11, 1988

CANDIDACY DECLARED. By Patrick Kennedy, 20, youngest child of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, for the House of Representatives from Rhode Island's Ninth District; in Providence. Kennedy, who will be a junior at Providence College this fall, will challenge Representative John M. Skeffington Jr. in a September primary. He thus becomes the youngest member of his clan ever to run for public office.

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