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...runs a private school. In Houston, former District Attorney Frank Briscoe, a cousin of Governor Dolph Briscoe, led a field of twelve candidates in a muted, gloves-on primary. The gloves are expected to come off when Briscoe faces former City Councilman Jim McConn, a Houston developer, in a runoff next week. In Washington State, two former newsmen are about to take some of their own medicine. TV Analyst Charles Royer was elected mayor of Seattle, and TV Anchorman Ron Blair became mayor of Spokane...
Koch defeated Mario M. Cuomo, Secretary of State and the Liberal Party nominee, for the third time this year. Cuomo also lost in the Democratic primary and the runoff...
...problem, of course, is that the race appeared to be over before it even started. No sooner had Koch dispatched Cuomo in the runoff--a sequel to his startling victory in the seven-person general primary early in the month--than the press had dubbed him heir apparent to that shaky framework of bureaucratic cobwebs and dubious city bonds that is the New York municipal government. New Yorkers had rebuked the Beame administration, the papers asserted, and wanted to move on to the brand of humane but firm fiscal conservatism that Koch promised. The Congressman, not one to decline...
...victory it was. Koch's lead grew to ten points last week over the other Democrat who made it into the primary runoff, New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. That surprisingly large plurality-78,000 out of 786,000 votes cast-made Koch New York's unofficial mayor-elect, though he must still get through a four-way general election. TIME Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett covered Koch's journey from obscurity to fame-and to the precipice of New York's intimidating problems. Barrett's report...
...initial free-for-all primary on Sept. 8, Koch startled the experts by finishing ahead of Cuomo, taking 20% of the vote to his opponent's 19%. As the two surviving rivals started their sprint to the runoff, debating 14 times in eleven days, Koch maintained his poise while Cuomo-normally a stylish and thoughtful politician-began to turn testy before the voters. Cuomo also had trouble, as he later frankly admitted, setting forth his own clear-cut positions that differed from Koch...