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...fashioned constituent service. "People know they can call me and get results," he says. Lujan has assigned seven of his 13 congressional staff members to chase down tardy Social Security checks and disentangle Government red tape. On the campaign trail, fueled by a breakfast of graham crackers and peanut butter, Lujan totes a briefcase crammed with "casework forms," on which he records complaints from constituents. He couples such efforts with well-aimed personal touches: birthday cards, sympathy notes and welcoming letters to district newcomers...
...farmers stay fat at Government expense. The USDA will buy dairy products for 13.10 per Ib. no matter how low the market price drops. Such purchases this year will amount to $2 billion, or about $10,000 for every U.S. dairy farmer. The result is heaps of cheese and butter, paid for by taxpayers, 270 million lbs. of which the Government will give away this year...
Running a high-energy campaign fueled by peanut butter sandwiches and a concoction of fruit juices and protein powder, Dayton last week rolled over a lethargic comeback bid by former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, 66, en route to the Democratic nomination. Joked McCarthy: "I'm not going to ask for a recount." Durenberger, meanwhile, faced only token opposition in the Republican primary but also campaigned with tireless zest...
...defense budget, boosted by plans to build a 21st-century fighting force today, will continue to increase at phenomenal rates, which once again raises the guns-versus-butter question that has haunted every post-war president. For Reagan, the specific question is. With America currently experiencing the highest unemployment and poverty rates since the Great Depression, why are 57 cents of every federal tax dollar going to the military while relief programs are being slashed...
...intense, hard-edged Heckler, 51, concentrates on a few relatively uncontroversial but still progressive issues, like benefits for Viet Nam veterans. While not a naturally effusive campaigner like Frank, she is scrupulously attentive to bread-and-butter constituent problems. Paunchy, glib and (until recently) chronically disheveled, Frank seems more like a back-room political operative than an up-front candidate. But he and his liberal orthodoxy are especially popular in Brookline and Newton, slightly tweedy and heavily Jewish suburbs that were grafted from his old district onto...