European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 09, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes chicagoan of Bilandic As mayor Chicago up Michael a. Bilandic the acting mayor Bland Tew chicagoan had Ever heard of a year ago. Easily won the election to succeed Richard j. Daley As mayor of the City tuesday massive Power of the Chicago democratic organization plus the fact that Bilandic was Daley s handpicked Man to represent his Ward in the City Council overwhelmed the game Republican Chal Lenger. Alderman Dennis s Victory was apparent within an hour after the polls closed at 6 . Cd. With 138 of 3,085 precincts reporting Bilandic had 22,596 votes and Block 6,392.Only an estimated 32.3 per cent of the 1.6 million registered voters bothered to go to the polls. The consensus in the City was that the Issue was decided when Bilandic beat Alder Man roman Pucin ski a former congressman in a briskly fought democratic primary april 19.until last dec. 20, Bilandic was just face in the crowd of Chicago had made a tidy Fortune As a Corpora Tion lawyer. Daley his neighbor in the South Side Bridgeport neighbourhood which has provided Chicago with its mayors for 44 years talked him into running for Alder Man of their 11th dec. 20, Daley fell in his doctor s office a heart attack ending his 21-year reign As Boss of the City coun cil chose Bilandic acting mayor. The Over Riding reason it appeared was that Bilandic was from Bridgeport and had the backing of Daley s sons and came in As a largely unknown Quantity. With his muted voice and unexciting ways he got the nickname of mayor a 54-year-old Bachelor who jogs every morning he still lives with his Mother inthe working class Bridgeport neighbor Hood. About the Only color he has provided to City Hall was the announcement of his engagement to a Chicago socialite. Heather Morgan. But he showed a deft hand at labor negotiations and arranged a Compromise with Kep lican gov. James r. Thompson on a Crosstown expressway for Chicago some thing Daley had not been Able to achieve. Mccartney expecting another baby in september London a Paul and Linda Mccartney Are expecting another baby in september they told reporters at Heath Row Airport after arriving from America with daughters Mary Stella and re expecting another said sex beatle Paul. We re used to thursday june 9, 1977 yc14 could replace ct30 transport really wings it. _ _ r44at feet it of Imhuf 1 by Floyd Harrington Kalsen lantern Bureau chief ramste1n, Germany Stisi the air Force is looking for a replacement for the c130 transport air plane and one of the con tenders for the Job has arrived Here for operational plane is a prototype called the yc14, an advanced medium Stol Short take off and Landing transport asst de signed for the air Force by the Boeing aerospace co. It has been undergoing Testa at a number of air bases and Fields in the United kingdom and Germany. Not going to give up1 according to the sch s test director and primary Pilot Coj. Kent Davidson theatt aircraft Are designed to do the same Job As the c130 log tical resupply and Battlefield mobility for troops in combat but he says he asst does it better. Davidson said the yc14 takes off and lands in about half the distance of a c130.by using a unique Stol concept the 132 foot Long. 140,000-Pound without cargo transport literally jumps into the air after using Only 700 feet of runway. With a 27.000-Pound payload it can operate from 2,000-foot runways or lift 50,000 pounds twice the Load of a c130 from longer run the Yum can Fly faster accelerate and decelerate faster than a c130 and has a very High climb capability much like a fighter said Davidson. It can Fly very deep descents so we can minimize our exposure to hostile fire merely by get Ting in and out of an Airfield quicker than a c130."hesaid.amst aircraft Are also the first medium sized transports with fully pow ered Hydraulic systems. These systems help keep the aircraft extremely stable in for. Defeat dismay nation s homosexuals Bilandic by the associated pres what was supposed to be a Victory Cele bration turned into a Wake in Miami. A Mournful candlelight March was held in san Francisco. In new York the Gay ban were and others favouring equal treatment were dismayed by tuesday night s election results from Dade county Fla. And derided those who had voted to repeal that county s homosexual rights hate us for our Virtues not our vices said Leonard Matlovich who gained National attention in 197s when hews discharged from the air Force for acknowledging his homosexuality. It going to take a lot of love to turn this around because they Don t know How to discrimination is a sin Sarah Compton who also was at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach said homosexuality in t a sin. Discrimination against another person for sexual reasons is the real she said she is Hetero sex Al instead of celebrating the hoped for Vic tory the 300 people Sang civil rights songs and listened to speeches urging them to keep san Francisco a candlelight Vigil and March was held on Gay oriented Castro Street and the marchers wore Black Arm the City Sarge and politically Active homosexual Community an estimated 100,000 in the population of 660.000 pre pared for the next Battle. We re not going to give up said Davi Goodstein publisher of the nation s largest Gay newspaper the advocate. I sort of look at it like a War metaphor. We had an army of recruits. Now we have an army of if the civil rights Issue for Black people had been put to a vote in Selma ala., a decade ago i daresay they would not have won said the advocate s associate pub Lisher Peter Francisco s homosexual Community ridiculed in an ant Gay commercial in Dade county had poured Cash and Politi Cal Talent into the ant repeal Effort. They held benefits sold hundreds of to shirts with anti Anita Bryant slogans and they boycotted Florida Orange juice products. Bryant who led the repeal Effort does television commercials for the Florida Citrus 500 and 1.000 supporters of civil rights for homosexuals marched through new York s Greenwich Village Earl wednesday apparently protesting the defeat of the ordinance. Police said the marchers were peaceful but went from one Gay bar to another picking up cohorts for the demonstration. The repeat is an outrage to All people who believe in human dignity said Harvey Jackson vice president of the new Jersey Gay activists Alliance in Hackensack. Morty Manford head of the National Gay task Force said in new York that the group would continue its fight for human liberties and civil he called the vote a Short run defeat which highlights the Absurdity of placing a minority s civil rights on Public attributed the defeat to religious campaigns and a growing backlash of conservatism. The american people speak in general of support for civil rights but when it comes to specifics they still have a Long Way to scientists claim new particle frascati. Italy up scientists at Italy s National Institute of nuclear physics said they have experimentally proved existence of a new elementary particle whose average life Span is one billionth of one billionth of a second. The plane automatically trims itself All the time said Davidson. You can take off pull the gear pull the flaps put the nose on say a 15-Degrce pitch attitude leave the throttle in Takeoff thrust and goal the Way up to 350 knots and never have to touch a trim he also said the plane s High Speed Low Altitude flight is smooth and stable when compared to the ride of a c130 under similar conditions. The yc14 can land on Short Fields a speeds As Low As 98 . Or cruise at 460 rop.h., according to Boeing s specifications. It is powered by two shoulder mounted fan Jet engines which develop unto 50,000 pounds of thrust and Are mounted on top of wings that measure 129 feet from tip to tip. Holds eight jeeps the cargo compartment is Large enough to carry eight fully loaded army jeeps plus the personnel who ride in them. It can move All the combat equipment Theus. Army has. All that Are too big for the c130," said air Force col. Samuel j. Wish line director of the asst program. The transport also can taxi in reverse and Back up a three per cent Grade to unload asst prototype the Mcdon Nell Douglas yc15, finished its operational tests last september. The Ycu s test pro Gram will end in August. It is expected that one of the aircraft will be selected for a development program that will Lead to the production version of the asst in the mid 1980s, according to yc14 will return to the . On monday after a weekend appearance at the International air show in Paris. Operational testing will continue at Langley fab a. Pope fab. N.c., and Scott fab. stops in the Ycu s european operational tests included Raf Medenhall in the United kingdom and Rhein main a and Heidelberg army Airfield in Ger Many. Temperatures no s Byrne beats 9 challengers Newark a gov. Brendan Byrne counted out by Many Early in the year has turned Back nine challengers and won the democratic party s nomination for re . 53. Will face stale sen. Raymond Bateman who emerged the Victor in the Republican half of tuesday s fought like hell for it said Byrne at his Campaign Headquarters in 98 per cent of the election districts reporting. Byrne had received 171,723 votes to 127.161 for the runner up. Con Gressman Robert Roe who had spent $815. 000 in his primary Campaign. Former state sen. Ralph Derose was running third with 98,151 votes. The remaining democrats trailed by substantial margins. On the Republican Side Bateman 49. Had received 187,007 votes with 98 per Centof the election districts counted to claim a nearly 64,000-vote margin Over Assembly Man Thomas Kean who used his family wealth from Banks and utilities to finance a Campaign that relied heavily on television advertisements. Trailing were former state sen. Sarcone with 20,242 votes and former Moorestown mayor William Angus with 11,620. Political observers said the primary re sults appeared to set the stage for a no vember election lest of the state income tax. Byrne signed the tax into Law Las year and supports it. The other democratic candidates and their Vole totals were congressman James Florio 86.268 former state Cabinet member Joseph Hoffman 57,980 slate sen. Raymond Garramone 6,370 former George Wallace Campaign worker Howard Freund 5,739 factory worker George Koukos 2.812 businessman Emery Zold 2.821 and schoolteacher Melvin whaley1.294 i Hasi Albany u u aiduouerauo11 a Amarillo a a Anchorage is u athe Valleto 14 Atlanta 9 t Atlantic city71 94 Austin m n Baltimore 91 Billings $9 71 Birmingham 47 9s Bismarck Bate a it Bosun m 94 brownsville45 s7 Buffalo is 17 Burlington i Caspar 47 n Charleston. C.44 44 Charleston w. A. 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