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THOUGH THE Democratic battle has attracted most of the media attention so far, the Republican contest between old-line. Brahmin guru Elliot L. Richardson '41 and self-made-millionaire-businessman-cum-populist-conservative Ray Shamie has provided a more substantive debate on President Reagan and the future of the ailing state Republican organization...
Shamie, who backs the president on just about every major issue (acid rain is an exception), has jousted with the more liberal Richardson over tax policy, nuclear policy, and U.S. involvement in Central America, and the debate has been interesting if not always effectively argued...
...Richardson, who can claim to have held more cabinet posts than any living American, is probably best known for the one thing he didn't do: fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 in October, 1973. He claims to be most proud of the largely inconclusive Law of Sea Treaty--he headed the U.S. delegation--which Reagan scuttled upon taking office...
Messing added that Shamie is pushing taxes because it best illustrates what the campaign would like to show as basic philosophical differences between the candidates. Painting Richardson as supporting tax like "place on him the Washington mantle as a man supporting bigger government," he said...
...Richardson press secretary David Gilroy Countered yesterday that Shamie has tried to focus on the tax issue to detract attention from Richardson's proposals for a nuclear freeze, conflict prevention, and environmental issues. But he added, "Taxes are obviously a very emotional issue...