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...moved through an extremely taxing schedule with grace, affability and aplomb. He read his big set speeches to members of the British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like the crude, hip-shooting nuclear cowboy so often drawn by European caricaturists...
...leading young liberals in Congress. He won his first term in what had traditionally been a Democratic district. But the Commonwealth lost a Congressional seat following the 1980 census, and the ensuing redistricting combined Frank's turf with that of 15-year veteran Republican Rep. Margaret Heckler. Three-fourths of the new area is made up of Heckler's old district, and Frank, by all counts, faces a tough fight for reelection...
...brief remarks Frank made to the crowd before circulating at the Dershowitz gathering, he said he would make the election a referendum on President Reagan's policies. He blames the increasing unemployment in the district on the Administration's budget, which Heckler voted for last May. He said the main part of his strategy is to play economic discomfort against Heckler's polities, explaining that her support for the President "is one of the reasons that Margaret Heckler is vulnerable...
...also contrasted his position with Heckler's on the environment and women's issues. Frank said he heard that his opponent would try to shift the debate in the campaign to funding for abortions and gay rights, both of which he strongly supports. "In that case, I suggest her theme song he "Let's Get Physical,' "he quipped...
...campaign manager, said that Frank is now spending three-days a week campaigning and that the effort will move, into full swing by the end of the month. He refused to discuss what current surveys indicate about Frank's chances, but said that Frank is making important inroads into Heckler's traditional base of support, singling out the endorsement from a Fall River labor union that backed Heckler in the last race...