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...campaign's final days, energetic liberal Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman finds her position as frontrunner seriously imperiled by charges that she is "dangerously naive" in opposing almost all military expenditures. One of the leading liberals in Congress, Holtzman has opposed new weapon systems like the MX missile and the B-1 bomber but supports military salary increases to make voluntary forces competitive...
...conscientious legislator, some of those who endorse her--and The New York Times--have suggested that her votes against defense imply a degree of pacifism that is hard to square with a realistic foreign policy. Supporters of Israel, a natural constituency for the Jewish congresswoman, are worried that Holtzman's defense posture might dilute her commitment to Israel to rhetoric. Yet, despite the furor over her voting record, the idealistic four-term representative says she will continue to oppose most military expenditures, which she deems "wasteful," and vote to scuttle draft registration. "I was first elected to Congress...
...some worry about what they perceive to be Holtzman's "doctrinaire naivete on the left," many find the spectre of Republican Al D'Amato far more frightening. The supervisor of a suburban township, D'Amato--who, until now, has had no experience in national politics--recently suggested that he would have bombed Iran in an attempt to gain the hostages' release. A few days later he retracted the statement, but Javits has not retracted his statements that D'Amato is "temperamentally unsuited to be a Senator" and "dangerous." While Javits favors a "harder stance" on military preparation, he claims...
...Holtzman, in fact, may be better able to represents Javits' legacy than Javits himself...