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Mudslinging has become an issue in itself in the Massachusetts congressional race between Republican Margaret Heckler and Democrat Barney Frank, two incumbents who face each other as a result of redistricting. Among $220,000 worth of Heckler television commercials that hit the air this month is one charging that Frank "sponsored a bill to permit legalized prostitution . . . and voted to reduce the sentence for violent rape." The facts: as a state legislator, Frank sponsored a bill favored by police to allow cities to create "adult-entertainment zones," and in Congress he voted for a new criminal code for Washington...
COMBAT ZONE. At first, Margaret Heckler's campaign in the suburbs of Boston was so genteel it was virtually nonexistent. Republican Congresswoman Heckler, 51, whose eight terms make her the senior woman in Congress, ignored her opponent and ducked the press. But her Democratic foe, irrepressible Congressman Barney Frank, 42, is hard to high hat. The race for Massachusetts' Fourth Congressional District-one of six House contests in which redistricting has pitted incumbents against each other-has become both close and nasty. Heckler had an early edge, since 70% of the new district's population was drawn...
...Margaret Heckler, Republican candidate in the 4th Congressional District. Having established good constituent relations. Heckler has been drifting In the physics I' s and Science A-'20's of congressional seats for 16 years. Now she's been thrown into chem 20 with Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.)and has responded in stereotypical pre-med fashion. Her wild campaign and accusing Frank of favoring prostitution drug use, and desecration of the flag are in the grand tradition of beaker smashing and lab report stealing. You may laugh, but Heckler has pulled even in the polls...
...while the September 14 contest was a success, much needs to be done before total victory can be declared on November 2. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) faces a tough fight against Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) in a battle forced by redistricting. Long-shot but heavily financed smear campaigns are being waged against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill...
...Heckler emphasizes her 16-year tenure, longer than that of any other woman now in the House, compared with Frank's single term. She says pointedly, "One must do more than simply vote and debate in Washington," noting that since 1977 she has helped bring $4.8 million in urban development grants to her district. Heckler insists that she is no uncritical devotee of Reaganomics. Yet in distressed old mill towns like Fall River, where unemployment is at 14% and, according to Frank, voters "have this terrible sense of unfairness," her independence of the Administration may not seem so clear...