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...assess the political fallout from the abortion conflict, Washington Correspondent Jeanne Saddler interviewed Eleanor Smeal, the pro-abortion president of the National Organization for Women, and Carl Anderson, a legislative aide to pro-life Senator Jesse Helms. Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan returned to Albany, where she reported her first abortion story in 1977. "In four years," says Dolan, "abortion politics in Albany has moved from a personal ideological discussion to a major issue in the women's movement and now to a partisan political confrontation." Correspondent Evan Thomas interviewed legal scholars about the constitutional implications of antiabortion legislation...
ANOTHER FACTOR in the senator's favor is that Connecticut will be a much tougher state than Idaho or South Dakota for Dolan to conquer with his hard-sell campaign. Dolan succeeds by recruiting the support of individual special interest groups--groups much more difficult to pinpoint among Connecticut's dense, and traditionally moderate population. "Is this the same Terry Dolan who was so interested in the election of Jim Buckley to the U.S. Senate in my state?" Weicker asks. Despite hundred of thousands of NCPAC dollars, Buckley, a former senator from New York, lost to Democrat Christopher Dodd...
...themselves. "We meet every Wednesday, have some cheese and wine, and we read The New York Times and Washington Post editorials, and everybody leaves with a great high. Meanwhile the conservatives have done the nitty gritty of politics," he says. Why, then, does Weicker think he can weather Dolan's attack in '82, when other enemies of the New Right--politicians with far more prestige on the Hill--have failed...
...other hand, if Reagan flops, Dolan will have a hard time convincing frustrated voters that they want further cutbacks on social programs and money spent on defense. Either way, Weicker figures Dolan will shoot his political wad too early on non-economic issues such as abortion, prayer in schools, and the Panama Canal treaty. "The bulk of the people are too busy worrying about paychecks to be distracted over the long run by the single-issue movement," Weicker says...
Although Weicker will have to renew his struggle to rally the irascible Connecticut Republican party behing his re-election bid he will probably overcome the sniping from the right generated by NCPAC. Confident that the Republican party will be forced to renounce Terry Dolan, Weicker says he is "proud to be a number one on that guy's hit list--wouldn't have it any other way." He predicts that even conservative candidates will disown Dolan--as several did in 1980--in an effort to maintain GOP unity. Raising his voice with characteristic emotion, Weicker has his own view...