Word: heckler
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Tenth District, Bertram Yaffe, an antiwar Democrat, met an expected defeat at the hands of two-term Republican Congresswoman Margaret Heckler. After seesawing in the returns all night, Yaffe conceded at 8 a. m. yesterday, urging his supporters to continue working for peace candidates...
...District, antiwar Democrat Gerry Studds clung to a precarious 3400-vote lead out of nearly 16,000 cast over six-term Republican incumbent Hastings Keith, while the antiwar campaign of Democrat Bertram A. Yaffe appeared headed for defeat at the hands of long-time Republican Twelfth District congresswoman Margaret Heckler, who led by more than 7000 votes out of 43,000 cast with one-fourth of the votes counted...
...Fall River coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union, won the Democratic primary with 58 per cent of the votes cast. He defeated another peace candidate, Dennis Smith, who is now campaigning enthusiastically for Yaffe ("Bert Yaffe has proposed more creative legislation in the last four months than Mrs. Heckler has in four years"). Yaffe carried Fall River, the district's largest and poorest city (the unemployment rate there is 8.5 per cent) and his home, with 75 per cent of the vote...
Yaffe is speaking out against excessive military spending and the war, and has hit hard on economic issues. At a recent debate with Mrs. Heckler, for example, after Mrs. Heckler had said in reply to Yaffe's sharp criticism of the 8.5 per cent unemployment rate in Fall River, that tre rate was 10 per cent a year ago, Yaffe retorted, "I can't wait to rush back to Fall River and tell the 8.5 per cent how happy they should be that last year they were 10 per cent...
...Heckler, the reporter said, she "has avoided any substantial issues in all her campaigns, preferring to keep smiling and getting her pictures in the papers...