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SEPT. 4. Allende won a 36% plurality but still had to face a run-off vote in the Chilean Congress...
...DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY will be held in June. Because there is a run-off between the top two contenders, should no candidate get 40 per cent, there will probably be an additional vote held four weeks later. At this writing, there are a whole host of liberal Jewish candidates considering entering the contest. With two or three Manhattan liberal Jews in the field, the vote should be pretty well split in the first primary. Biaggi will probably finish second because of his organization support. Beame and Biaggi will probably face each other in a run-off with Beame and Biaggi would...
...Preston Smith and his crew, who bumbled their way into a widely publicized stock scandal. As the leader of the Dirty Thirty, a group of "suicide" liberal legislators, "Sissy" Farenthold was able to expose some of the corrupt, clandestine practices of the Smith group. Last spring Farenthold lost a run-off for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Dolph Briscoe, a conservative of the Connally line, by a margin of 55-45. Briscoe will win easily on November 7, but Farenthold's showing was the best ever by a Texas liberal...
...winable, but it will be very close," Farenthold said in a recent interview. "This year has not been unique because of John Connally and the Democrats for Nixon. Texas is definitely a two-party state in November, though not in the spring (when state elections are held)." In my run-off for governor, there were almost two million votes cast, and on that same day only 60,000 votes were cast in the Republican run-off," Farenthold added. "Now you know it's not going to be like that on November 7 because of change-overs...
...Barnes made a bid for governor, but finished third to Farenthold and Dolph Briscoe, who were forced into a run-off. Briscoe, a conservative Democrat of the Johnson-Connally line, beat Farenthold, and will be a shoe-in against a weak Republican challenger in November...