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Melvin H. King, who opposed Flynn in the 1983 mayoral run-off, said, "There has not been much change. Flynn has been reluctant to acknowledge racism as a term. He will try to work around it if it can be done...
...first round of elections is over. Waldheim won a plurality but did not receive the majority he needed; he will face a run-off election on June 8. He only needs four-tenths of a percent to win the presidency outright...
Waldheim should not be put on trial and, thereby, be artificially removed from the run-off election, but should be allowed to continue, pending resolution, and, if necessary, criminal indictments, of his possibly innocent, though stained, past...
...run-off election will be held June 8 between Waldheim, 67, the conservative People's Party candidate, and Kurt Steyrer, the candidate of the socialists who head the governing coalition...
Jackson's insistence on an end to run-off primaries for congressional, state and local offices is a pricklier problem. Under the runoff system, mostly in effect in the South, if no one gets more than 50% of the votes cast, the two top vote getters in a multicandidate field are pitted against each other in a second election. Jackson claims that such runoffs are inherently discriminatory, since blacks rarely constitute a majority and thus have difficulty beating a white head to head. One possible compromise: holding runoffs only when the first-round winner receives less than...