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East is east and west is west, as Kipling knew, but in Pennsylvania the twain meet regularly, in bitter contests for public office between politicians from Philadelphia and those from the Pittsburgh area. This year the prize is the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Richard Schweiker. The contestants are Democratic former Mayor Peter Flaherty, 55, of Pittsburgh and Republican former District Attorney Arlen Specter, 50, of Philadelphia...
...Sears gambled and lived to regret it. He persuaded Reagan to announce before the G.O.P. convention that his choice as his vice-presidential running mate would be Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker, whose liberal image on some issues cost the Californian support in his close but losing fight with Gerald Ford. This time Sears has resolved to be much more cautious. Says he: "Each campaign is an original. The game goes to the one who recognizes the changes and knows how to act on them...
...issues than he does for the challenge of the contest. He is a political technician who could, and did, consider working for other Republican candidates this year, including Howard Baker. As late as the summer of 1978, Reagan was promising party hard-liners still bristling over the selection of Schweiker that Sears would not be given similar control over his 1980 campaign...
...crucial question about his political future is whether his traditional supporters will accept a shift toward the center. Reagan fell into a similar trap in the 1976 campaign, when he alienated many of his followers by naming Richard Schweiker, a relatively liberal Senator, as his running mate. William Roberts, who is directing the Connally campaign in the West, professes satisfaction over the Reagan strategy. Hearing reports that a "new" Reagan is on the way, Roberts scoffs: "He could get into trouble even before he says anything...
Pennsylvania's Senator Richard Schweiker, the subcommittee's ranking Republican, joined the sharp questioning of Hendrie and at one point, disturbed by an account of confused procedures at the site, demanded, "Who's in control of a situation like this?" Concluded Kennedy: "Certainly this kind of process and this kind of procedure in terms of protection of the American people are completely unacceptable and completely inadequate...