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...Four-term congressmen Symms is the essence of earthy politics; he hands out his wife's apple receipes as he tours the state. Indeed, the apple, or rather the bite out of it signifying reduced taxes and clean fiscal living, has become his symbol. To retaliate, Church has become the consummate Idahoan in his television ads--the New Republic reports that his favorite pose of late is toting a shotgun while walking along a ranch fence in sheepskin jacket and cowboy...
...degree of pacifism that is hard to square with a realistic foreign policy. Supporters of Israel, a natural constituency for the Jewish congresswoman, are worried that Holtzman's defense posture might dilute her commitment to Israel to rhetoric. Yet, despite the furor over her voting record, the idealistic four-term representative says she will continue to oppose most military expenditures, which she deems "wasteful," and vote to scuttle draft registration. "I was first elected to Congress to put an end to the Vietnam War," she notes...
...emphasizing economic and defense issues. For instance, in her TV spots, Attorney Sheila Suess, 39, a conservative Republican from Indianapolis, is silhouetted against a B-52 bomber as she says: "If I am elected, I will be a solid vote for a strong national defense." In Colorado, four-term Democratic Incumbent Patricia Schroeder, 40, is opposed by a Republican woman, Denver School Board Member Naomi Bradford, 40. Schroeder, who leads by more than 2 to 1 in the polls, is attacked by Bradford for opposing spending on defense and for failing to support some reclamation projects in Colorado...
...embattled liberal Democrats this election year, none has come under more heavy and sustained fire than Idaho Senator Frank Church. No. 1 on the Republican hit list, he has had to fend off attacks not only from his feisty opponent, four-term Republican Congressman Steven Symms, but also from combative conservatives who have formed an organization called ABC-Anyone but Church. Amid Idaho's piny woods and parched plains, where voters peer skeptically out from under their cowboy hats and pop questions like gunshots, the candidates are waging one of the rowdiest, most name-calling campaigns in the nation...
...opponent, conservative Republican James Abdnor, 57, a bachelor wheat farmer and popular four-term Congressman, maintains that McGovern has lost touch with South Dakotans. Says Abdnor: "I'm the first working farmer off a tractor that South Dakota ever sent to Washington. I represent the mainstream." Abdnor favors Government price supports for farm products and a stronger national defense, but less Government spending on social welfare programs-all popular stands in the state, where nearly 25% of the 689,000 people live on farms...