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leL~rU VI FINu "1M L t:R UHALAN JV"lJ Lrl Klein Devastated in-Primarie as Suffolk County Execu- received 39,765 votes, while winner. " Klein later told 10:45 PM, announced that Suffolk County." Putting tive John Klein suffered a Klein trailed with 18,278. reporters that he would not Klein had conceded, and his own political career on devastating defeat last night Matthews, with 85 percent seek re-election on an proclaimed, "Our victory the line, Cohalan charged in his bid for re-election, of the votes in, led Klein independent ticket. tonight marks the beginning Klein with responsibility for losing both the Republican 1,524-1,230, scoring an Meanwhile, at Cohalan's of a new era in Suffolk corruption and scandal in and Conservative primaries. unanticipated upset. Patchogue headquarters, a County." county government. The landslide victory of The county executive's jubilant crowd of more than Cohalan, in his own Cohalan blamed his Islip Town Supervisor Peter concession came at 10:10 500 supporters were words, successfully "tapped o p p o n e n t w i t h Cohalan in the GOP race, PM at his Smithtown shouting, "We're number a vein - of anti-Klein mismanagement of the combined with the unex- campaign headquarters, one!" Cohalan arrived at sentiment among voters in (Continued on page 7) pected triumph of Conser- where about 100 -vative Party opponent despondent supporters had William Matthews, may gathered. "Ladies and spell the end of Klein's gentlemen," Klein began, 21-year political career. "as all of you have seen, the With 85 percent of the handwriting is on the vote tallied, Cohalan wall...Cohalan is the High Poll Turnout Gave Cohalan Edge By JACK MILLROD Patchogue - It was fitting that Peter Cohalan proclaimed victory last night in a shopping plaza, for it was in shopping plazas all over Suffolk County that the Islip town- supervisor won his battle for the Republican THE WINNER: Peter Cohalan addresses the piss on his primary victory last night. nomination for county executive. IncumbentConceds :Defea It was inside his storefront campaign headquarters last night that Cohalan was mobbed by supporters celebrating Icumbftet CocedsDfa -his upset victory over incumbent John Klein. Cohalan forged that victory over the past two months standing outside of similar storefronts, shaking hands and picking May End 21 Year Career up votes. That His challenge was an unprecedented one. He took on the were slim, the crowd and the candidate By ERIK L. KELLER party designee, an incumbent county executive backed by became somber and tearful at times. the powerful county Republican machine, and with an old Smithtown - By coincidence, both the By 9:30 PM, Klein was telling reporters fashioned grass roots campaign, he successfully mobilized walls of the room and the feelings of the and friends "It's all over" after seeing that Suffolk's independent Republicans. campaign workers were blue last night at he could carry only his home district, The 41 year old, four term supervisor covered thousands Klein re-election headquarters as his Smithtown, by a 2-1 margin. of miles, crisscrossing the county on weekends and supporters saw their choice lose two He tried to reassure people and boost weeknights in his campaign to upset Klein. He fought for primaries. their feelings, but his spirits were low as he name recognition in the doorways of supermarkets, Defeat for the County Executive and his shuffled slowly down a hall, slump stopping shoppers as they exited, saying "I'm Peter workers came early in the evening. As they shouldered, with a painful look on his face. Cohalan, running against Klein for county executive." In began to realize their chances of winning Before conceding, he tried to muster a (Continued on page 3) the Republican and Conservative primaries (Continued on page 3) Protest Erupts Over GUSH Parking Lzat Ry NATHANIEL RARINOVICv Cries of "Hell no, we won't go!" were heard yesterday morning as over 100 students demonstrated in the parking lot behind Irving and O'Neill Colleges. Though in the 1960s, they might have been protesting the war. they were rallying over this era's explosive issue at Stony Brook - parking. The demonstrators, most of whom are Irving residents, were protesting a University decision to allocate 185 resident spaces in the lot to faculty and staff members. They marched in a circle, crossing the entrances to the parking area, waving signs with slogans such as "To Share is Fair" and "If There's An Increase in Assault It's All Your Fault." They urged faculty and staff attemptingto park in the lot to park elsewhere. A portion of the parking area had been designated solely for faculty and staff members this summer after a dispute CONSTRUCTION AT THE Administration parking lot caused protests yesterday at Go and H-Quads. (Continued on page 3) aligl-sliBll0iSl §G 44Caefo welcomes i g everyone to Stony Brook | Kennedy Urged To Run The newspaper Washington (AP) to running. said Senator Edward Kennedy But asked if a c hallengeKennedy told Carter that he BBACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL | said last night that if he to Carter would make him had changed Ais position cLS and now was considering ml were to attempt to wrest an easy victory, Kennedy it challenging the president. S! A N Y the Democratic presidential replied: "No. I think nomination from President would be a hard-fought Kennedy told Carter that A SUNDAE Carter it would be a "hard- battle, both the nomination he was being urged to run fought battle." and the election." by a number of Democrats Kennedy, discussing Kennedy spoke to who feared for their own reports he may seek the reporters at a Kennedy re-election chances with a CCOOD7TL9/18/79 nomination, acknowledged Center charity benefit. Carter candidacy, the news- frawl this cmnr%n iml that "during the period of Meanwhile, The Washington paper said. The Post these past weeks there have Post, quoting a "knowledge- quoted sources close to Kennedy as saying that 11 [l MINI - BUS FEVER 2 DISCOUNT PRICES To [fl been a number of my able source,"gave its own of 24 Senate ( FaC t ch I t * HPARTIES AND COFFEE colleagues in the Congress version of what Kennedy Democrats up i_,| 'D Carven T , 0% ° KEHOUSES and Carter discussed at a for re-election had spoken - o Carvel 2 10o O% and Senate who have asked u / o last Friday. to him about running. Ir'" * ~*Cakes* & loqr (§ me to give consideration" private lunch I -- NEWS DIGEST International London (AP) - British-sponsored peace government," he said. talks on Zimbabwe Rhodesia headed into * * *C trouble yesterday when guerrilla leaders Bucharest, Romania (AP) - Oil to insisted on discussing the war and Britain sustain the world's energy-hungry industrial tried to keep talk to the less explosive issue nations may lie in promising fields beneath of a new constitution. the waters off the coasts of Canada, Spain Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the country's and Venezuela, experts said yesterday. first black prime minister after nine In one of several papers presented to a decades of white-minority rule, made an seminar of the 10th World Petroleum impassioned plea for Britain to recognize Congress, Canadian oil economist Neil his government. McMillan estimated Canada's Labrador Sea "We require to know clearly and alone will yield 10 billion barrels of oiL, categorically what more your government twice the estimated . size of Alaska's requires from us before you will remove Prudhoe Bay reserve, and 140 trillion cubic sanctions and grant recognition to our feet of natural gas. National Washington (AP) The Carter $4.7 billion for Pentagon spending for the administration assured worried governors year starting October 1. and members of Congress yesterday that The increase would compensate for the the nation will have enough heating oil to effects of inflation since the President make it through the winter without major submitted his original budget request to the shortages. Congress last January, and would put The governors got their assurance from spending for the Defense Department at President Carter personally. At a White three percent above the current year after House meeting, Carter was reported to have accounting for the effects of rising prices. told them that his goal of stockpiling 240 "Real Growth" million barrels of heating oil and diesel fuel The three percent figure, however, is still before bad weather hits is ahead of less than the five to seven percent "real schedule. growth" sought by some Seante members * * * as a condition for supporting the strategic Washington (AP) - President Carter arms limitation treaty with the Soviet asked Congress yesterday for an additional Union. State and Local Gowanda, N Y (AP) - Cayuga Indians Niagara Falls (AP) - An attorney for have approved settlement of a land dispute refugees from the Love Canal area has that would give them over 5,000 acres of rounded up between 20 and 30 Erie state and federal lands and an $8 million County doctors to examine persons for trust fund. certification the state requires to continue Settlement Approved paying for their support. Chief James Leaffe of the Cayuga Indian More than 130 families have left their nation said the settlement was approved homes, claiming that living near the old Saturday at a meeting of about 400 tribal chemical dump has made them ill, but the members on the Cattaraugus Indian state has demanded physicians certify the Reservation near this Cattaraugus County illness is a direct result of chemical community. pollution. t Public hearings have been scheduled this State officials conferred yesterday on week in Seneca County to give state and whether to continue to pay the $5,000 federal officials an opportunity to hear daily cost of housing some 400 persons in reaction to the proposal.