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...Townsend is carrying on the tradition in a race most political observers believe is a shoo in for Massachusetts senior senator. In the 1976 race, Kennedy clobbered all opposition winning more than two thirds of the vote. His current Republican opponent Raymond Shamie is a little Known Walpole businessman...
...Townsend is taking no chances. New Right political action committees (PACs) have targeted Kennedy for defeat this year as they did many liberal senators in the 1980 elections. The PACs have spent large amounts of money on negative advertising including the mass distribution of a comic book ridiculing Kennedy's character...
...what seems particularly important to Townsend besides actually winning the elections is building up grass roots support for several causes most notably the push for a freeze on nuclear arms production...
...Kennedy campaign director. Townsend is coordinating an extensive effort aimed at informing and organizing students and others around the state in support of what she called the "moral issue" of the freeze. This effort includes a scheduled rally at Boston University featuring the senator and several popular musicians...
...freeze and the latest Kennedy Campaign are only the most recent political causes taken up by this thin high strung backer of idealistic causes. Besides working on John Kennedy's campaign Townsend was part of George McGovern's aborted presidential bid in 1972 and was environmental affairs coordinator for her uncle...