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Toned Ondera eat the tie wearing the tie loosely and attaching a Button extender to the top shirt Botton. Governor s race Atlanta apr former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young remains a democratic front runner in his bid to become Georgia a first Black governor but experts see Large hurdles m his path even if he finishes first in the july 17 primary. Youngs problems include the unspoken Issue of race the likelihood of a Runoff after the five Man primary and la gov. Zell Miller. Milter Youngs leading White opponent has won substantial support from Blacks and Liberal Whites Over the past 16 years As the states lieutenant governor. While the primary Campaign has been free of racial references a Miller Young Runoff could produce racially polarized voting that would tip the election to Miller Atlanta pollster Claibo ume Darden said. Quot racism is there. It just Hasni to been brought up a Darden said. Quot and it wont be brought up by any opponent of Andy a. But Andy a Black and Zeal a White and even a Black and White to shows that. Its inherent in the election it never needs to be  Georgia requires a Runoff if no candidate receives More than 50 percent of the vote. But the Law is under Challenge in a Federal court suit filed by Black legislators and civil rights activists. A judge is scheduled to hear arguments beginning monday. Young is not participating in the lawsuit. At one time he opposed runoffs but he now says they ensure the emergence of a Strong democratic nominee. For the moment Young and Miller Are nip and tuck for the Lead according to the latest poll conducted last month by the Atlanta Roumal Constitution. It showed Young and Miller with 30 percent each. Slate sen. Roy Barnes a lawyer courting the conservative and environmental vote had 12 percent state rep Lauren Quot Bubba Quot Mcdonald a hardware store owner backed by state House leaders had 6 percent and former gov. Lester Maddox had 4 percent. Young is hoping to accomplish in Georgia what l. Douglas Wilder did in Virginia last year when he became the nations first elected Black governor. And during the Campaign he has taken Only glancing attacks from opponents a despite eight years As mayor of Atlanta when he came under fire for his management style and for the City a crime rate and other Urban problem Quot there a been a lot of carefulness not to make charges against Young that could be interpreted As racial Quot said Michael Binford associate professor of political science at Georgia state University. A the White candidates Are really cautious. They done to want anything to appear racially motivated because they know they re Gong to need Black voters in the  the most Likely Republican challenger in november former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young reaches to shake a hand during a Parade at Thomasville a. Is state rep. Johnny Isakson an Atlanta real estate executive. Young whose Core support is among Blacks and Liberal Whites has attempted to capture the attention of conservative White voters by telling businessmen in economically strapped areas he can recruit Industry As easily for Southern Georgia As he did for Atlanta. Blacks made up 21.8 percent of the states registered voters in 1988, the last year for which Complete figures Are available but Only 24.2 percent of the population. Young has also taken pains to secure the votes of abortion rights advocates reminding voters he is pro Choice. So is Miller. The campaigns Are Well financed. In figures released last month Youngs contributions were second Only to Miller s a $2.76 million compared with $3.68 million. A Campaign spokesmen said about one third of Youngs Money came from out of state. Disclosure reports showed the givers included talk show Host Oprah Winfrey $10,000 entertainer Bill Cosby $15,000 sportscaster Howard Cosell $500 musician Herb Alpert $5,000 and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis $1,000. Financial disclosure reports for june released Friday show Young has kept the most Money for the final Days of the primary Campaign with $464,581 on hand. Miller had $309,619 in Cash and Barnes had $221,725 left in the Bank. Miller has made legalizing a state lottery one of his principal Campaign issues. The Atlanta Roumal constr tuition poll in june found 72 percent of those sampled favored a lottery. Young says he favors letting the people vote on a lottery but personally opposes the  casualties detailed in report Washington apr an estimated 639,000 americans Are confronted each year by criminals carrying handguns including 9,200 people who Are killed and 15,000 left wounded according to a report released sunday. A Justice department study of crime statistics covering 1979 through 1987 showed that 44 percent of All people murdered during the nine year period were killed by assailants wielding handguns. Guns were used in 7 percent of the rapes 18 percent of the robberies and 22 percent of the aggravated assaults. The study based on victims reports taken by the departments annual National crime Survey estimated that 638,900 crimes Are committed each year by someone armed with a handgun. Criticism Rains on weather system Cleveland apr a test found the National weather services new computerized radar storm detection system Breaks Down frequently and is less reliable than the 33-year-old system now in use a newspaper reported sunday. Results of the six month test rate the 1957-Vintage radar system As 10 times More reliable than the new equipment called Neurad the Cleveland Plain dealer reported sunday. The test results were obtained under Vii the Freedom of information act by the reliability of the Neurad tested Union representing weather service employees the National weather service employees organization it said. The test was conducted by the air Force front March to August 1989 in Oklahoma. The 118-Page report said the new radar malfunctioned every 1.9 Days while the old radar called wsr-57, Breaks Down on average every 14 Days. The air Force testers said failures a critically degraded the effectiveness of next add because they occurred during periods when forecasters especially depend upon radar to detect severe storm patterns Quot Many times in severe weather episodes when the operators needed the system to support critical warning operations the system was not available Quot the air Force said. The testers said the wsr-57 has Quot a demonstrated reliability approximately 10 times greater than the demonstrated some 120 Neurad units which can measure wind Speed and direction and rain volume in a storm Are the Centrepiece of a $1 billion modernization of the weather service scheduled for the a Juliam read head of a team investigating the weather service s actions during the june 14 storm that caused Flash hooding in Eastern Ohio and killed 26, said the conventional radar at Akron Canton was unable to determine the storms severity in time to Post a warning. Don Sarreals special assistant to the Neurad program office said the weather service is committed to modernization despite the test results. A the program is supported and we Are proceeding to install the radar a Sarreals said. A a we re making Progress As rapidly As we can. When you re building something for the first time you encounter various  said the first operational Neurad will be installed in october near Oklahoma City. In the Eastern Ohio flooding meteorologists were unable to determine the potential rainfall in the thunderstorms appearing on conventional radar Sarreals said. A you have to make estimates for rainfall now which Are basically done by humans a he said. Quot a computer with a High Speed proc Quisor will dig into that with