The Michigan Daily Vol. XC, No. 54-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, August 6, 1980 Ten Cents Twelve Pages PURSELL ALSO WINNER IN PRIMARY Anderson makes DETROIT (UPI) - Independent ballot. ty would gain spots on the November presidential candidate John Anderson Incumbent Carl Pursell of Plymouth ballot, along with Anderson. won a slot, on Michigan's November won the Republican nomination for U.S. Of the estimated 4,000 votes needed to ballot by easily winning the supporting House and in the Second District, which gain a ballot position, the Citizens Par- votes he needed in the state's primary includes Ann Arbor. ty had 1,019, and the Libertarian Party election yesterday. Incumbent Robert Carr won the had 812. Under a complicated qualifying Democratic nomination for U.S. House The Socialist Workers Party, process, Anderson needed 0.3 per cent in the Sixth District, and incumbent however, had only 219 votes. of the total votes cast in the primary, in Harold Sawyer won the Republican Also on the generally low-interest which voter turnout was described as nomination for U.S. House in the Fifth ballot were primaries for the 110 state very light. - District. - House and 19 U.S. House seats and a WITH JUST five per cent of precincts AT 11:30 P.M., with 17 per cent of the proposal to convene a charter com- reporting, Anderson had piled up 1,000 precincts reporting, United Press In- mission in financially ailing Wayne iore than the estimated 4,000 votes he ternational projected that both the County - one of the nation's largest. needed to secure a spot on the fall Citizens Party and the Libertarian Par- Except for the Anderson candidacy h 1 ballot and two vigorously contested congressional primaries in Detroit, there seemed to be little voter interest in the election. THOSE CONGRESSIONAL races in- cluded contests for the 13th District seat left vacant by Charles Diggs, con- victed of payroll padding, and the 14th District where veteran Congressman Lucien Nedzie is retiring. Nomination in the 13-man Democratic primary for Diggs' former seat is tantamount to election in the inner city district. State elections officials would not project a turnout in yesterday's primary, but it was generally expected to be below the 23 per cent turnout of 1968 - the last primary in which there were neither gubernatorial nor U.S. Senate races. "If my own precinct is any indication, it's going to be .very light," a spokeswoman in the Macomb County clerk's office said of the voter turnout. INGHAM , COUNTY Clerk Ling Brewer projected the turnout would total between 16 and 18 per cent. Only about 13 per cent of registered voters turned out for the state's presidential primary in May. "If it's lower than 18, that would be an all-time low," Brewer said. The so-called Anderson Coalition was one of four minor parties struggling to win enough votes in the primary to ad- vance to the general election. Others were Barry Commoner's Citizens' Par- ty, the Libertarian Party and the Socialist Workers' Party. No minor party has yet qualified for the November election under the strict qualifying statute, adopted four years ago and called the toughest in the nation. Parties other than the Republicans and Democrats . must file 18,000 signatures to gain access to the primary, then collect .3 per cent of the total votes cast in the primary to proceed to the general. Tooth or urban? Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan addresses reporters during a visit to the South Bronx yesterday. Reagan was in New York City to speak at the National Urban League Conference. See story, Page 2. President's report. on Billy wins accolades From AP and UPI WASHINGTON-The White House said yesterday that President Carter's report on the Billy Carter af- fair won praise from the public, and the president's brother announced that he will reveal to Senate in- vestigators what he did with the money he received from Libya. Although White House counts showed the public response to the president's report to the Senate and an unusual hour-long news conference Monday on the Billy affair to be largely favorable, the key question was the effect on the Democratic National Conven- tion delegates committed to President Carter. They won't be heard from until next week, when the party meets to choose its presidential nominee. THE WHITE HOUSE rush to produce the 99-page, 13,000-word report on what Carter and his aides knew about Billy Carter's ties with the radical Libyan government and when they knew it was geared to putting the president's case before a special Sentate subcommittee. Republicans on the Senate panel formed to in- vestigate Billy Carter's relations with Libya think Democrats are stalling on the selection of a special counsel to conduct the probe, sources said yesterday. GOP members of the nine-man Judiciary subcom- mittee hinted Monday that an announcement would be made soon naming James Neal, a Tennessee Democrat who served as a Watergate prosecutor, to the post. But no announcement was made. ACCORDING TO ONE source, Sen. Birch Bayh, (D-Ind.), the panel chairman, simply wanted to in- terview Neal before making the selection public. But another source told UPI that Republicans thin* the Democrats are stalling. "As I understand what is happening," the source said, "the Democrats are not really overly en- thusiastic about filling this slot while the Republicans are urging" that it be done. See PRESIDENT'S, Page7