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By SEAM ADAMS
Arunrirl Vw«pap»r« Writer
As far as Republican Paul S. Trible Jr. is concerned, his U. S. Senate race against Democrat Richard J. Davis is a matter of "direction.”
Trible, a congressman from the First Congressional District and a strong supporter of President Reagan, said that if people vote for him they will be casting a vote to continue the policies they called for in electing Reagan and a more conservative Senate in 1980.
But a vote for Davis, Virginia’s lieutenant governor, is ‘‘a vote for putting Teddy Kennedy and his friends back in charge of the Senate and a return to the tax and tax, spend and spend policies of the past,” Trible said in a Sept. 30 interview at his congressional office in Washington.
The “ don’t-go-back-to-theold-ways” theme has been at the forefront of the Senate campaign of Trible, a 35year-old lawyer who has long been preparing, both organizationally and financially, for a Shot at the seat held by Independent Harry F. Byrd Jr., who will retire next year.
When Byrd announced last November that he would not seek another term, Trible was well-prepared to make a bid for the seat. He received the GOP senatorial nomination in Richmond in June withtout opposition, and had an early fundraising advantage over Davis, who was not officially a senatorial candidate until a ‘‘Draft
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