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C6 THE JOURNAL-NEWS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1982 Dow, Sfraffon a race of opposifes I By PETER COY vi i. iKis 1 't i V. ACRES OF BARGAINS! I r-Vnnr if T-V Buyer, fU Sellers Space I VHtrfTy I Per Refreshments Available A'-- s- 1 'V I 1 Carload Pc Free Kiddie Playground 1 IA FK 1 (Enure 1Nc Pony Rides 1 $50 Patio Seating I 1 1 ATTENTION SELLERS 1932 N.f Vemvs Peim.t Regu.nd AP Photo Former Rep. John Dow Rockland Rep. Samuel S.

Stratton incumbent DONT MISS OUR GREAT LABOR DAY SALES 20-25 COATS, Every famous maker wool, stadium, quilt, raincoat, more Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The mutual exasperation is so thick it seems to ooze from the radio. Samuel Stratton cannot fathom why John Dow, his challenger in the Democratic congressional primary, "utterly" ignores the "massive Soviet nuclear arms buildup." Dow has no idea why the "extremist" Stratton fails to see that unless the arms race is curbed, "we're all going to be blown to bits." Voices are raised, interrupted and raised again until the talk show host thanks the candidates for a "spirited" debate and breaks quickly for a commercial. Samuel S. Stratton and John G.

Dow disagree so profoundly on the nuclear arms issue it is difficult to believe they share the same planet, let alone the same Democratic Party and the same 23rd Congressional District. "Perhaps no other congressional campaign in the nation will produce as clear and sharp a confrontation on this issue as ours will," Dow said when he announced his primary challenge to Stratton last spring. "This is a possibility for a great victory with widespread consequences," he added more recently. Stratton, a 12-term incumbent, supports President Reagan's arms buildup so staunchly that the president made him the only Democratic U.S. delegate to the recent United Nations disarmament conference.

When the nuclear arms freeze resolution threatened to pass Congress, it was Stratton who helped engineer its defeat and replace it with another resolution calling for a freeze but only after the United States regains parity. "I died a hundred deaths as we were going through the end of that roll call," Stratton remembers. "I think we came up with a more sensible answer." Dow, his 77-year-old, beetle-browed opponent, served three terms in Congress as a New Deal-style liberal from the lower Hudson Valley including Rockland and was one of the earliest congressional opponents of the Vietnam War. About the only things he shares with Stratton are New York state residency and a Harvard education. Dow is hoping the upsurge of anti-nuclear sentiment will enable him to emerge from political retirement and defeat a man who has not lost a congressional election since his first victory in 1958.

"Other people have run against Stratton," Dow said, "but I don't think any of them had the chance I have." Stratton refuses to concede the peace issue to Dow, insisting that the best assurance of peace is a credible military deterrent and adding, "Our deterrent is in doubt." "We have found over the years that the only time the Soviets will sit down and negotiate seriously is when the United States makes it clear we are going to go ahead," Stratton said, citing the Soviets' agreement to ban antiballistic missiles as an example. Dow, who was opposing the Vietnam War on the floor of Congress as early as May 1965, thinks Stratton is plain wrong. "People think that being tough and being willing to resort to violence is realistic, when actually a policy of non-violence and willingness to talk out international differences is a lot more realistic," he told one reporter. Dow has entered six congressional campaigns and won three. His conviction that the eyes of the nation are upon New York's 23rd District has led him to seek donations from groups opposing nuclear weaponry, but so far he has received little.

Stratton seems weary of people accusing him of being a warmonger. Apart from his defense stance, he was a strong backer of the Equal Rights Amendment for women and has a middle-of-the-Democratic-road recoril on issues like labor, the economy, the environment and civil rights. "I'm no patsy for the Defense Department," Stratton says, noting his role in exposing Army cost overruns on the Sheridan and M-l tanks that he called "billion-dollar boo-boos." So popular is Stratton in his heavily Democratic district of Albany, Schenectady, Troy and Amsterdam that two years ago the Republicans did not bother fielding a candidate against him. He captured 78 percent of the ballot in a four-way race then, and a similar field is lining up against him this time around. Dow has conceded that his candidacy is a long shot, but one worth the effort.

In a campaign fraught with nuclear anxiety, Dow and Stratton agree on just one premise. As Stratton puts it, "We're in a much more dangerous position now than we've been in since World War II." Report charts changes in state's acid rain WASHINGTON (AP) Rainfall became more acidic in western and central New York between 1965 and 1978 but less acid in eastern parts of the state, a new federal report says. The study issued last week by the U.S. Geological Survey says it is difficult or impossible to link those trends in rainfall to changes in water quality of nearby streams. Surface water quality, according to the report, is heavily influenced by local soils and land use practices.

The report, written chiefly by hydrologist Norman Peters of the USGS Albany office, is based on one of the most complete and longest-running set of records available anywhere in the nation, the agency said. The report does not address the controversial issue of how acid rain, which most affects the Northeastern states, is produced although many environmentalists believe most comes from emissions from smokestacks in the industrial Midwest. The study says three stations Albany, Upton and Athens, near Binghamton showed no significant change in rainfall acidity. The three at Canton, Sale $79 Regularly $110 The zip-out raincoat. Deeply hooded with a new flared bottom, patch pockets and a belt.

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