■T* ^^H Si ^BM m IM \ mm HII.L HOLDS OFF BLITZ— TOWER SHAKES TO VICTORY—In a WHITE IN A WHITEWASH— HOBBY HOBBLES HIS OP- WRIGHT TAKES IT WITH EASE— ANDUJAR TAKES LEAD— Democratic gubernatorial candidate Senate race in which one of the biggest Democrat Mark White was butspent PONENT—Early returns showed that House Democratic Majority leader, Republican State Senator Betty An- ! by opponent Jim Baker by $504,000 in incumbent Bill Hobby easily has been ■ ' John Hill had held off the serious issues was incumbent John Tower's Jim Wright, easily was re-elected dujar held a slim lead as the ballot challenge of GOP contender Bill refusal to shake hands with challenger the race for attorney general. But re-elected to the Lt. Governor's chair. back to his position as Representative counting continued into the early Clements at least through midnight Bob Kreuger, results after midnight White bad an early, decisive lead, of the 6th District. morning hours. Andujar nabbed 38,37* Tuesday. indciated that Tower got the last shake according to ballot box returns. votes to 34,159 for her opponent s Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas Wednesday. , November 8, 1978 Vol. 77 No. 37 Demos keep national dominance By Carol Holowinski claim to the Texas Senate seat. I ahead in his bid to become the first prospect of a significant shift in party indicated a net gain of six seats for the Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia and Editor However, John Hill was showing about popularly elected GOP senator from lineups, and that worked to the ad- Republicans, but that was with in- Walter "Dee" Huddleston of Ken- (Including AP reports) a 10,000 vote lead over Bill Clements in Mississippi, and Democrat ' Bill vantage of Democrats, since they complete votes tallied from fewer than tucky, both Democrats, were re- Democrats remained in control the race for the governor's mansion. Bradley of basketball fame was the were alrearjy heavily in control. half the 435 districts elected easily. And Democrat Howell across the nation Tuesday night as T€U area precincts favored leader in New Jersey In contests for governor, a Republican Sen Jesse Helms of Heflin, 57, a former chief justice of the voters elected a complete new House Clements and Tower for the two key —Nebraska Gov. J.J. Exon was Democrat led in South Carolina where North Carolina was re-elected over state supreme court, overwhelmed of Representatives, 35 senators and 36 positions. elected to the Senate seat left open by governors. a Republican now holds office, while Democrat JohnJi Ingram, the state token opposition for a Senate victory the retirement of Republican Carl Republicans were ahead in insurance commissioner who tried to in Alabama. Voting, which was listed as In other major races, early returns Curtis. Massachusetts and Texas, now turn a shortage of campaign money to moderate, failed to give Republicans promised no prospect of a significant —Democratic Gov. David Boren was governed by Democrats. None of those his advantage by calling the GOP Senate Republican Leader Howard the necessary victories to overtake shift in party lineups. In featured elected to the Senate from Oklahoma, the Democrats. contests involved incumbents. senator a $6 million man. H. Baker Jr. defeated Democrat Jane senate races, early returns showed: to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Boren defeated Robert B Kamm, At midnight, neither the Democrats Partial returns snowed Democrats Kskind in Tennessee to win his third —Republican challenger William S. Dewey Bartlett. the former president of Oklahoma nor the Republicans could yet stake had won or led for 117 House seats. term and gain a start on likely 1980 Cohen led in Maine, Thad Cochran was Overall, the early returns raised no Republicans for 74. The early count State University. presidential candidacy. Tower holds a slim lead over Krueger in The wild race for U.S. Senate flip- Despite the allegations, he ran a flopped all night long, with Republican confident campaign built on a positive incumbant John Tower grabbing a insistence that he would win miniscule lead just after midnight. The campaign represented for At midnight, Tower overtook Tower, a 17-year veteran of the senate, Democratic hopeful Bob Krueger by a perhaps the toughest challenge ever to 364,593 to 361,504 lead. his political career Tower became a blithe spirit rarely Tarrant County showed Tower with acknbwledging he even had an op- 61,388 votes to Krueger's 57,133, with ponent. He g»abbed national front- 223 out of 236 boxes reporting. page attention several weeks ago Krueger found himself embroiled when Houston photographers caught late in the campaign in accusations him shunning Krueger's effort to that his camp had attempted to buy shake hands. Raza Unida candidate Luis DeLeon The race began with light taps on the out of the race. Krueger said pop- chins of each candidate and ended pycock and denied any sort of effort to with what both camps claimed were narrow the race to just himself and rabbit punches thrown in the muddy Tower. trenches of "foul play." Krueger was dean of Duke University's College of Arts and Winners listed Science before winning election to the House in )974, a feat which cost him in correction $300,000 in a surprise victory. His performance as a freshman was The Daily Skiff incorrectly reported equally surprising as he served as yesterday the winners of last week's floor manager of the natural gas College Bowl Championship game. deregulation bill and with oil company support brought the bill to within six The members of Brachman's winning votes of passage. team are Fred Kloss, Keith Petersen, Reginald Knight, and Gary Thomas Tower, a preacher's son, is himself a Teal. They will play the All-Star team former professor who first won election to the senate in 1961. He was tonight at 6:10, 6:40 and 7:15, in the married 26 years and fathered three Student Center Ballroom. Also, three daughters before his marriage broke workers at the Phonothon were in- up and he remarried. correctly captloned yesterday as In 1963 he rebuked President being the top three winners. The top Kennedy for joining the Soviet Union three are David Leonard, Mlchl in a joint moon venture and he took a Braun, and Randy Hill. tough stance on the Vietnam War. MAKING A DIFFERENCE—Sophomore Lisa Zanoiti was one of many TCI! near campus. Though the university turnout was good, nationwide only an students who cast their votes yesterday at Alice Carlson Elementary school, estimated 36 percenj of those eligible showed up at the polls. news briefs—— (Staff photo by Danny Biggs) Police said Walter William Abrams, 33, was shot Monday night as he left the headquarters of Leasure Time Products with Flynt's brother, Jimmy Flynt. Amin threatens soldiers Ferry crash injures many Abrams, a Mount Sterling resident, was reported in fair condition this mor- DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Ugandan President Idi Amin repor- ning, suffering from a single gunshot wound in his chest. NEW YORK (AP) — A Staten Island ferry crashed against a concrete tedly has sent members of his "suicide batallion" and a mechanized unit to seawall at the lower tip of Manhattan yesterday as it tried to dock in heavy the rear area of the border war with Tanzania and told them to shoot Ugan- fog. Police said as many as 170 of the 2,000 persons aboard were injured. Dungeon captive survives dans who retreat or desert. Authorities said the ferry was never in danger of sinking. The unconfirmed report from Ugandan exiles said Ugandan troops who Invaded Tanzania last week are without rations and that morale is low. Five to seven feet of the half-inch steel deck peeled back and passengers LAMIA, Greece (AP) — A 47-year-old Greek woman was held£aptive for 29 were thrown about like rag dolls. "It looked like it was opened by a giant can years in a basement dungeon because her family was scandalized by a love opener," said one passenger. affair she had when she was a teen-ager, police said yesterday. Lobbying money possible The discovery was made after one of the villagers "could no longer bear the Hustler associate shot woman's screams and decided to speak," police said. WASHINGTON (AP) - The legal question still is open, but the nation's Police said an investigations was underway against local authorities highest court has given at least tentative approval to the idea that cities have COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The shooting of the vice president of a sex because they knew of the captivity but pledged themselves to secrecy for the a right to spend taxpayers' money for political lobbying. paraphernalia firm connected to the publishing empire of Larry Flynt was the family's sake. The Supreme Court left intact Monday an order freeing Boston to spend third attack on the Hustler magazine publisher and his associates within a The woman, Helen Karioti, was hospitalized suffering from malnutrition, public funds urging Massachusetts voters to approve a proposal to prevent year. anemia, partial mental derangement and other ailments, police said. higher residential property taxes. *■ I The Daily Skiff Wednesday, November 8, 1978 teachers review. It would any important things." help me to study for my ALEXANDER GOTT- exams. A dead week would SCHLICH, freshman—"Yes, provide us with more study I prefer it. I think the time but having a review teachers would make sure Crossfire week would be more useful." what they have covered. It GAIL TOUBY, modern would give us some idea of language department—"I what to study for the final." would like to use part of this Love Goss DR.
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