Mr. Inouye, a five-term Senator who gained recognition in 1973 as a member of the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal, has been chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and headed the special House-Senate committee formed last year to investigate the Iran-contra affair.

But if the political environment has dramatically changed, the personality of the five-term Senator has not.

Mr. Packwood, a five-term Republican Senator, pleaded with his host to show him a tent.

The bridegroom's father, a Democrat, is the five-term Senator from Massachusetts.

The latest tests indicate that the five-term Senator has no recurrence of the prostate cancer for which he underwent an operation known as a radical prostatectomy in 1991.

His father is the Democrat and five-term senior Senator from Massachusetts.

A law-enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the grand jury sitting in Washington has sporadically been investigating the five-term Senator for more than a year.

Generally, Bingaman kept a lower national profile than conventional wisdom would suggest for a five-term Senator.

The five-term Senator, who owns a plumbing business and is also a college football referee, described himself as the candidate who could best bring the city's diverse neighborhoods together.

He said he would vote to limit the terms of members of Congress but, as a five-term Senator, he expressed no enthusiasm for the idea, did not explain why he would support it and predicted the vote would fail.