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Vol. LXXXVII No. 48

Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November 3, 1976

Ten Cents

Ten Pages

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Dems h0
From Wire Service Reports
Democrats easily kept control of the Senate and
appeared to be increasing their current 62-38 margin by
several seats as returns were tallied for 33 Senate races
last night.
The party was also holding on to its two-to-one majority in
the U. S. House.
Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrested a seat from
Republican Conservative James Buckley in a tight Senate race
in New York.
BUT AT LEAST four other Senate incumbents-Joseph Mon-
toya (D-N.M.); Vance Hartke (D-Ind.); J. Glenn Beall (R-Md.)
and Bill Brock (R-Tenn.) - were defeated in their bids for
re-election.
Meanwhile, millionaires John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and
Pierre duPont (R-Del) won their races for state governors.
In Illinois, Republican James "Big Jim" Thompson was
leading in an important race against Michael Howlett, the
Democrat hand-picked for the statehouse by Chicago Mayorj
Richard Daley.
MOYNIHAN, who presented a traditional, liberal Demo-E
cratic case against Buckley's strongly conservative views, piled
See DEMS, Page 2

Fordloses
1}
From Wire Service Reports
Janes Earl '(arter Jr. will he the next
President of the United States.
The Georgian won the race for the Presidency
early this morning sweeping the South and taking
enough big states in the East to carry him over the
top in his long, tiring quest for the White House.
By 4:00 a.m., Carter had been declared the win-
ner by United Press International, the Associated
Press, NBC, CBS and ABC.
Carter carried 22 states and the District of Colum-
bia to capture his 272 electoral votes. He led in Cali-
fornia and Ohio for 70 more. Ford won in 24 states,
gaining 186 electoral votes, and led in Oregon and Maine
for another 10.
Carter had won 20 states and the District of Co-
AP Photo lumbia; Ford carried 18.
THE POPULAR vote settled into a steady pattern
as the counting proceeded, state by state, east to west.
It was Carter, by three percentage points.

President-elect Jimmy Carter

TO REPLACE HART:

Iie-gle

trounces

Doily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS
AN EXUBERANT Senator-elect Donald Riegle announces vic-
tory over Republican contender Marvin Esch last night
at his Cobo Hall election headquarters.
Bullardr-eeced
Regen tsunra
From Wire and Staff Reports
Democratic State Rep. Perry Bullard handily won re-elec-
tion over Republican challenger John Dietrich. In the race
for three seats on the State supreme Court Thomas Kavanagh
and James Ryan claimed the 8-year-term and 2-year-term
respectively. As of press time rages for the third court seat
as well as two spots oh the University Board of Regents were
undecided,
With 64 per cent of the vote counter, Bullard leads Die-
trich by a margin of 19,624 to 8,296.
BULLARD'S weak opposition allowed him to focus his cam-
paign on controversial issues avoided by .many other candidates.
This was most evident in his avid support of proposal A, which
would ban throwaway bottles in Michigan.
Dietrich attributed his loss to a late start and a lack of funds.
"We didn't really have the money to buy media coverage,"
said Dietrich, who owns a printing company in Ann Arbor. He
had been basing his hopes for election on the premise that the

From staff reports
Democrat Donald Riegle eas-
ily defeated his Republican op-
ponent, Marvin Esch, for the
U.S. Senate seat left vacant by
retiring Sen. Philip Hart, despite
a last-minute campaign aimed
at destroying his character.
With 47 per cent of the votes
counted, Riegle had gained 56
per cent of the vote as against
Esch's 44 per cent.
At 11:30 last night, Esch con-
ceded. defeat, saying, "I'd rath-
er lost in a cause that is right
than win in a cause that is
wrong."
Addressing a crowd of some
500 elated supporters at the
Cobo Hall in Detroit, Riegle
spoke of "thettremendous re-
sponsibility of trying to follow a
man like Phil Hart" and promis-
ed to be "a fighter in the Sen-
ate."
Riegle, 38, is a ten-year vet-
eran of the House of Represen-
tatives. The first seven years he
spent as a Republican. The son
of a former Republican mayor
of Flint, he won his seat in Con-
gress from a well-entrenched
Democratic incumbent at the
age of 28.
BUT RIEGLE left the GOP in
1973, after dramatically repud-
iating the policies of then Presi-
dent Richard Nixon and support-
ing the 1972 candidacy of George
McGovern. A vehement critic of
the Vietnam war, alienated both
from the party he left and the
one he embraced, he has spent
the last three years as a political
loner.

Esch, who has also been in
the House for 10 years, was de-
scribed by Ralph Nader as "his
own man." The 49-year-old Ann
Arborite is a moderate Republi-
can who has been a plodding but
effective legislator. Unlike his
flamboyant opponent, Esch has
quietly steered an impressive
number of bills through the
House.
A University graduate, Esch
also received his doctorate in

speech here before moving to
Wayne State University to Meach..
He served two years as a state
Senator before being elected to
Congress in 1966.
THE RIEGLE-ESCH contest
offered Michigan voters a dis-
tinct choice between a middle-
of-the-road Republican and an
aggressively liberal Democrat,
and the two candidates found
ample opportunity to clash on a

wuse race tied

At 3 a.m., it stood this way: Carter had 32,144,685
votes, Ford won 30,169,790 votes, and independent candi-
date Eugene McCarthy - who Democrats feared might
playe the role of spoiler in certain states - had 510,642,
about one per cent of the national vote.
wide range of issues. Ford captured the 21 electoral votes of his home
Nevertheless, the campaign state, Michigan, despite early returns which showed a
quickly decayed to the level of
vicious personal invective and whopping lead for the challenger. At 2:46 a.m., with 61
wanton innuendo. per cent of the state's precincts reporting, Ford had
The mudslinging reached its
lowest point when the Detroit See FORD, Page 3
News published a detailed ac-
count of an extramarital affair
Riegle once had with an unpaid
staff member. Riegle imme-
diately blasted the newspaper
See RIEGLE, Page 2

From Staff Reports
The outcome of the Second
Congressional District race be-
tween Democrat Ed Pierce and
Republican Carl Pursell remain-
ed in limbo early this morning
with tallies so close that ab-
sentee ballots will probably de-
termine the victor.
>th 61 per cent of the votes
counted, Pierce pulled a mere
1033 votes ahead of his oppo-
nent's 64,814 tally.
ESTIMATES of the number
of absentee ballots differed
from an approximation of "at
least 10,000,," according to the
Pursell camp, to upwards of
25,000 by the Pierce camp.

Either way, the victor of the
bittle - which reached a fever,
pitch in the wee hours - was
not expected until after sunrise.
PURSELL refused to be dis-
couraged by Pierce's favorable
showing early this morning.I
"It's a swing seat and it always
can go either way," he said
"After all," he continued,!
"Mary Esch won it by only 3]
per cent (in 1974)."
Meanwhile, a spirited Pierce
told supporters at his headquar-
ters, "Our great analyst said if
things hold we will win." c

cohorts pin their hopes on the
absentee ballots.
"It's a cliff-hanger," said Le-
roy Cappert, Pierce's campaign
cochairman. "We're not going
to knr tonight."
Along with the absentee bal-
lots, the candidates were still
waiting for vote tallies from
the outlying parts of Washte-
naw County, traditionally Re-
publicari, the outlying areas of
Monroe County, distinctly Demo-
cratic.
In the Pierce camp, the en-
couraged Cappart stressed that

-e vastenw vote asn I
AND LIKE his adversary, the improvement (over expecta-
Democratic candidate and his tions) and it did make up what
-_- -we lost in Livonia - Livonia!
did a little worse than we ex-

Daily Photo by CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL hopeful Ed Pierce man-
ages a smile last night even though his race with Republican
Carl Pursell was deadlocked most of the night.

political mood of the student
electorate had changed.
"Obviously it hasn't," he con-
cluded.
SAVORING his victory last
night, Bullard called his effort
"the best I've done so far." He
pointed to his legislative record
as the reason for his good
showing.
Bullard's four years in Lan-
sing have been marked by his
support of the legalization of
marijiana and his opposition to
the state police's "red sqnad."
His liberal voting records have
brolught one hundred per cent
ratings from the Public inter-
est Resenrch Groun in Mi-bi-
gnn (DTPC,'TA4)-A mpi(n, furw

Iiick easily ousts
i urnCbent Postill

See PIERCE, Page 3
Bou-
other
From Wire Service Reports
.Proposal A - the controver-
sial ballot issue that would ban
throwaway beverage bottles and
cans in the state - appeared to
have passed by a margin of
nearly 2-1 last night, with a
vote of 142,866 to 82,082 as of
2 o'clock this morning.
Additionally, the other three
state-wide ballot propositions
were losing overwhelmingly.
THE THROWAWAY ban, en-
dorsed by Gov. William Milliken

I

ban

4

proposals fail

passes,

'hnmo-ratic Sheriff Frederick
'"still failed in his bid for re-
elntinn yesterday as Republi-
can Tom Minick -- a 16-veur
"et'rin of the Ann Arbor po-
I-e for -e - coasted to a re-
srding vi :tory.
VT.- l ' 1epbli -an was
'" nil f fw'th ',n 'it rosecu-
t r oust, with 109 of 181 local
,re- ,t,; re-1,)-1,1 . Denlorat

Sheriff-ele t Minick, who sup-
ports rejoining the controver-
sial Washtenaw Area Narcot-
ics Team (WANT), said last
night, "I just feel we've come
across in a more honest man-
ner to the public (than Postill).
"I'm not a politician, I'm the
sal-of-the-earth kind of guy.'"

then attacked Milliken, and in President, and we,'can get rid
reference to the 1978 Guberna- of a lying Governor."
torial race, threatened to defeat Proposal D also lost by an
him because he supported Pro- overwhelming margin. The
posal A. measure would have imple-
"I don't think the battle is mented a graduated income
over," Marshall commented. tax structure in the state, a
The state labor group actively move supporters said would
opposed the measure. have made the taxing system
The second proposal, one that more equitable by taxing resi-
would have lowered the age for dents strictly according to their,
state legislators from 21 to 18, personal income.
lost by a surprising 3-1 mar- As of early this morning the
gin, 50,745 to 161,410. - measure was losing by a vote
of 59,999 to 147,798.

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