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...YORK. "I'm a Senator first and a campaigner second," cried New York Republican Charles Goodell last week. The political consensus is that by next January, Goodell will be neither. Boxed in by liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger and Conservative Party Candidate James Buckley, Goodell is running third. His seat is one of four that the Republicans are in grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation...
Privately, Ottinger has written off Goodell, turning his campaign artillery instead to his right flank, where Buckley, crew-cut and charming, poses a growing threat...
...Buckley's well-organized campaign is directed by ex-Goldwater Aide F. Clifton White with advice from Brother Bill, U.S. conservatism's most literate paladin...
...Buckley the candidate softly rakes "the voices of doubt and despair," claims to rap with the Silent Majority, curries the hardhat vote and?essential to his Nixon-Agnew support?promises to vote with Republicans in organizing the Senate...
...continuing to strum themes suggesting that Buckley supports a rollback of the minimum wage and lessened union security, Ottinger is confident of winning back stray workingmen. An Ottinger win over Goodell would reduce Republican