Sen. Kennedy Awaits Tests After Seizure

BOSTON, May 18 -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy remained in the hospital Sunday, awaiting test results that could explain why he had a seizure a day earlier.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital said tests would not be complete before Monday, and the hospital and Kennedy's office released no new information about his condition on Sunday.

A top aide said the Massachusetts Democrat, 76, was resting, eating and watching the Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics games on television Sunday afternoon.

Kennedy's wife, Vicki, was seen walking into the hospital Sunday morning. The aide said his daughter, stepdaughters and sister Jean Kennedy Smith also visited during the day.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) spoke with Kennedy by phone on Sunday afternoon from his campaign bus while in western Oregon and told aides that his ailing colleague sounded "energetic." Aides said that the conversation was brief but that Obama was heartened to hear "the same old Ted."

The hospital crowd was smaller than it was on Saturday, when members of Kennedy's family, including his sons and his niece Caroline Kennedy, and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) visited.

Kennedy was flown Saturday morning to Massachusetts General from the emergency room of Cape Cod Hospital, near his home in Hyannis Port. Doctors originally suspected he had suffered a stroke, but his physician, Larry Ronan, later said that it had been a seizure and that the senator was "not in any immediate danger."

In October, Kennedy had surgery to remove a blockage in his left carotid artery, which supplies blood to the face and brain. After the surgery, he resumed his busy schedule on Capitol Hill and across Massachusetts.

Kennedy is the second-longest-serving member of the Senate and is a dominant figure in national Democratic Party politics. He was elected in 1962, filling out the term won by his brother John F. Kennedy, who was elected president in 1960.