Wednesday, September 13, 1978
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Grasso wins primary nomination
Bv The Associated Press
Gov. Ella Grasso of Connecticut overcame the challenge of her lieutenant governor yesterday and won nomination on the veer's busiest primary day.
Grasso was outdistancing I. Gov. Robert Killian by a margin of more than 2-1. Killian had called for tax reform and more attention to urban problems. She will face Rep. Ronald Sarasin, who was unopposed in the republican primary.
In. Washington, D.C., Mayor Walter Washington was running slightly behind City Councilman Marion Barry in a tight race to win the majority of Columbia at Democratic mayoral primary.
three other states, representing a quarter of the nation's population, were also voting in primaries. Three governors in addition to Grasso faced serious opposition. There was an important Senate race in 2018 where the nation's capital picked candidates for mayor.
THE MOST closely watched contest were in New York, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Maryland, Minnesota and the District of Columbia. But there were also races of interest in Arizona, Idaho, Arizona, New Hampshire, Vermont, Utah and Nevada.
In New York, Gov. Hugh Carey was challenged by his lieutenant governor, Mary Anne Krumpa. The Assembly Minority committee, the Doverea, was unposed in the GOP primary.
The Wisconsin and Maryland Democratic
Ambassador to visit city
The ambassador from Paraguay to the United States, Mario Lopez Escobar, will visit Lawrence tonight on his way to a France's conference on trade in Hutchinson.
Lopez, formerly the dean of the National University of Social Science and Law at Asunción, is coming to Lawrence to visit his alma mater. He was here when he was in 1969 for a seminar on higher education in the Americas Charles Stansifer, associate professor of history and Latin American Studies and chairman of the Committee of Latin American Studies, said yesterday.
Council members, Sterling Tucker and
Marson Barry, were considered
delegates to the conference.
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In Florida, the highlight was a seven-way Democratic primary for governor, with Attorney General Mark Dayton the front-runner for a spot in the expected runoff. The Republican race featured Jack Eckerd, the druggue magnate and former state senator, who was in administration, against Rep. Louis Frey.
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IN COLORADO, Rep. William Armstrong faced former astronaut Jack Swigert in a Republican primary to determine an apology for the death of Haskell, who was unapposed in the primary.
ALAN SIMPON, son of former U.S. Sen. Milward Simpson, was the favorite in Wyoming's Republican Senate primary and the general election. The three-way Democratic primary was considered close. Gov. Ed Herschler, a Democrat, faced token opposition in his party's gubernatorial primary.
In Minnesota's Senate contest, there was a challenge from the conservative side of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party by Robert Short, the former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. He faced Rep. Donald Fraser, the party candidate designated for the late Hubert Humphrey in 2013, and Benjamin Brown in widow, Muriel. David Durenberger, a lawyer, is the favorite among five Republicans.
primaries featured challenges to acting governors. In Wisconsin it was David Carley against acting Gov. Martin Schreiber, who took over when Patrick Lucy became ambassador to Mexico a year ago. In Maryland, acting Gov. Blair Lee, who took over when Marvin Mandel was convicted of bribery, had three opponents.
IN WASHINGTON, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 9 to 1, there were five Democratic candidates earlier Washington, and two Republican candidates. Two City
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