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Democrat Barney Frank did not want to run against Republican Margaret Heckler. Heckler did not want to face Frank. But according to the last census, Massachusetts had one too many congressional seats; somebody would have to be squeezed out. The Democrat-controlled legislature, charged with redistricting, chose to inconvenience most the incumbent they knew best and liked least: Frank, 42, who as a state legislator (1973-80) had made the mistake of being uncooperative and acerbic. The gerrymandered new Fourth District, which stretches snakelike from Boston to Rhode Island, has many more Democrats (115,000) than Republicans...
...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...
Frank wastes no opportunity to associate his Republican foe with the Republican President. "Just to get things straight," he once said, "I'm the one who did not kiss Ronald Reagan on the night of the State of the Union address." Heckler just as surely distances herself from Reagan policies. "I am running on my own record," she insists. When Treasury Secretary Donald Regan spoke at a fund raiser in July, she went out of her way not to be photographed with him. After it became clear that she would face Frank, her positions veered noticeably: this year...
...made support for the Equal Rights Amendment and the 1973 Supreme Court ruling maintaining the right to an abortion its two minimal conditions for endorsement; activists have opposed many women candidates. The caucus is currently supporting Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in his fight against Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.), the founder and co-chair of the Congresswomen's Caucus, because Heckler opposes abortion...
...point, Karl-Heinz Hansen, a Deputy who had been expelled from Schmidt's Social Democratic Party because of his anti-NATO views, cried, "El Salvador." Reagan paused and mock-innocently asked, "Is there an echo in here?" The Deputies showed their approval of this skillful handling of a heckler with laughter and cheers...