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CHICAGO'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR:
Byrne w
CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - Democrat
Jane Byrne, the gutsy party worker
who toppled the party's machine after
it spurned her, received an over-
whelming mandate from Chicago
voters yesterday to become the city's
first elected woman mayor.
With about one-third of the city's 3,100
precincts reported, Byrne had 232,454
votes to Republican Wallace Johnson's
51,179. Andrew Pulley of the Socialist
Workers Party received 3,825.
Byrne, 44, with a transition team
already at work and plans under way
for her inauguration, had been favored
to become the next mayor of Chicago, a
city which has turned away Republican
mayoral hopefuls since 1927.
JOHNSON, an investment banker,
had never held elective office. In the
last four mayoral elections, the GOP
candidate has lost by margins of at
least 7-to-2.
Byrne's aides had said they hoped she
rms race
would win by a wider margin than did
the late Mayor Richard Daley in 1975,
when he got a record 77.67 per cent of
the vote.
Meanwhile, in California's San Mateo
County, a former political aide and a
real estate millionaire fought tb fill the
term of Rep. Leo Ryan, slain last year
in the Guyana airport ambush that set
off the Peoples Temple bloodbath.
PITTED AGAINST each other in a
special runoff election were Democrat
Joe Holsinger, 57, once Ryan's chief
assistant, and Republican Bill Royer,
58, who has two decades' experience in
local politics.
And in Wisconsin, the unexpired term
of the late Republican Rep. William
Steiger was at stake as two state
senators sought to preserve - or shat-
ter - an almost unbroken 40-year GOP
legacy. The candidates are Republican
Thomas Petri, 38, and Gary Goyke, a
31-year-old Democrat.
Today is last day to
vote in MSA election
By JULIE ENGEBRECHT
Although turnout was lower than ex-
pected Monday on the first day of
Michigan Student Assembly (MSA)
elections, the sunshine and an increase
in candidates soliciting votes brought
many more students to the polls yester-
day.
Today is the last day for students
currently enrolled in the University to
vote for the next president and vice
president of MSA, and Assembly
representatives from each school and
college.
STUDENTS CAN also vote on six dif-
ferent ballot proposals. One would con-
tinue a mandatoryt student assessment
of $2.92 per term, $1.74 of which goes to
Student Legal Services, six cents to the
Tenants' Union, 15 cents to a course
evaluation project, and 97 cents to all
other MSA projects.
Another, more controversial, ballot
proposal would eliminate a con-
stitutional provision prohibiting officer
salaries and substitute that provision
with an amendment placing a ceiling of
3.9 per cent, or $9,000 of the total MSA
budget, for officer salaries, the details
of which would have to be worked out
by the next Assembly.
Another ballot proposal advocates a
role for students somewhere in the
tenure decision-making process. This
vote would decide nothing, but the in-
tent is to give the University com-
munity an idea of how students feel
about gaining a role in the tenure
process.
THE THREE other proposals deal
with internal constitutional matters.
Elections Director Emily Koo
speculated that about 1,000 students
cast votes on Monday, and 1,500 yester-
day. Last year, a total of 4,427 votes
were cast, in the largest turnout since
April 1973.
Koo said that ballots would be
validated tonight after the polls close,
and the actual tallying of votes would
occur tomorrow.
She also said that even after dif-
ficulties in obtaining enough poll
workers on Monday, along with other
problems encountered during the first
day, such as polling sites opening late
or not at all, the elections are running
,noothly.
Candidates and workers expect the
biggest turnout in the three-day elec-
tion today, the final day of voting.
Caught in
Daily Photo By MAUREEN 'MALLEY
the act?
The National Geographic Society
says the tallest structure in the United
States is the television tower at Blan-
chard, S.D., which rises 2,063 feet above
the plains.
Boston suburb hit by blackout again
BOSTON (AP) - The lights went out
again yesterday for about 30,000
residents of the trendy Back Bay
neighborhood and officials said it may
be another day before power is
restored.
A third blackout in three days cram-
ped the bustling style of this urban en-
clave, which one wag dubbed "Black
Bay." Elevators were stuck, apartmen-
ts were dark, refrigerators were drip-
ping, many shops were closed, and
grocers were worried about piles of
food going bad.
A BOSTON Edison spokesman said
the latest blackout, which struck about
10 a.m., probably would cbntinue until
this morning while linemen wrestled
The Undergraduate Political Science
Association presents
STUDENT/FACULTY
WINE-CHEESE PARTY.
TODAY-3-5 PM
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with fire-damaged and overloaded
cables.
"We think the power will go back on
and stay on," said Edison spokesman
Stephen Sweeney.
Meanwhile, the densely packed
neighborhood of stylish shops, posh
hotels and expensive apartments made
do with warm drinks, cold showers and
breathless treks up seldom-used stairs.
The trouble began Sunday noon when
a fire in a manhole destroyed one of
seven main cables that feed the Back
Bay.
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