FINAL EDITION 4:00 a.m. Y A& A& awl to 4 t 'an Dait4 FINAL EDITION 4:00 a.m. Latest Deadline in the State t Vol. LXXXVII No. 48 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November 3, 1976 Ten Cents Ten Pages . _ .. 11 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.