NEW YORK: Scar Tissue All Over the Place'

Bella Abzug: He's Nixon's favorite Democrat.

Pat Moynihan: She stands for the politics of ruin.

Abzug: He's a political opportunist, an intellectual mercenary.

Moynihan: No one is good enough for her, unless it's her.

New York's Democrats are doing what comes naturally: cutting one another up in the U.S. Senate primary, ensuring that it will be a tattered, exhausted survivor who faces the G.O.P. nominee (almost certain to be Incumbent James Buckley) in November. With the primary vote set for next week, the two flamboyant front runners—former United Nations Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 49, and Manhattan Congresswoman Bella Abzug, 56—are providing most of the...

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