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...Frank '61, who demonstrated his effective brand of nuts-and-bolts liberalism for more than a decade in the State House, is trying to succeed Robert Drinan, the left-leaning priest ordered by the Vatican to leave politics. And in the other half of Middlesex county, incumbent Democrat James Shannon is trying to hold onto his job in the face of a conservative challenge from Robert Hatem. A letter from Boston's Cardinal Medeiros blasting both Frank and Shannon for their stands on abortion may hurt their candidacies. Liberals need to turn out in unprecedented numbers if the Bay State...
...Shannon, and perhaps for Frank, that letter may be the difference between a tight win and a close loss...
...Fourth Congressional District, liberal Barney Frank '61 faces conservative Waltham Mayor Arthur Clark in the Democratic primary. Next door, in the Fifth District, incumbent liberal Rep. James Shannon faces the more conservative Robert Hatem...
...Shannon's Fifth District encompasses the more liberal Lexington and Concord but curves out westward to include more conservative working-class cities like Lowell and Lawrence. Nearly three-quarters of the district is Roman Catholic, and most parishes either read or posted the letter at Sunday services...
...both races, there is a third name at least as prominent--Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, archbishop of Boston. Although Medeiros has been silent on most social issues, he said in a letter read in many area parishes Sunday supporters of Shannon or Frank--who favor Medicaid funding for abortions--"cannot separate themselves totally from that guilt which accompanies this horrendous crime and deadly...