November 3, 1971

Mackell re-elected as Queens Dist Atty

incomplete returns, NJ Legis elections; Dems, in major surprise, pick up at least 18 seats in Assembly and 7 in Sen; many paper and absentee ballots must still be counted; unexpected election of white militant A Imperiale, ind, to Assembly seat also clouds outcome; Dems are within 1 vote of 40-40 standoff in Assembly; Repubs will retain control of Sen; Farley defeated by McGahn in Sen race, Atlantic County; Dems also achieve upset victories in Monmouth, Morris and Passaic Counties

Huang Hua named Chinese permanent repr to UN and repr to Security Council; por

Sen, 86-0, approves Muskie bill designed to stop pollution of waterways by '85; under bill, responsibility for pollution control shifts from states to Fed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); bill, which provides $14-billion over next 4 yrs for sewage treatment plants, detailed; passage by HR in present form is uncertain as indus opposition is believed likely to influence HR com

Alioto re-elected San Francisco Mayor; por

Jordan elected Jersey City Mayor, defeating Gangemi and Longo; gets nearly 34% of vote; tally; Longo finishes 3d, making poor showing; outcome seen as pol humiliation for J V Kenny orgn; campaign revd; Jordan illus

US Sen subcom, concluding 3-yr probe of financial corruption in US mil, scores banking institutions and Fed agencies for not stopping black mkt currency operations in Vietnam, which allow Amers 'to profit from the war'

$2.5-billion NYS transportation bond issue is resoundingly rejected by voters; vote seen setback for Rockefeller and Lindsay as proposition, which had been expected to receive its strongest support in NYC, trailed in Queens, Bklyn and Staten Island and was only slightly ahead in Manhattan and Bronx; upstate and in suburbs, proposition falls far behind vote for similar proposition in '67 election; early returns noted; Lindsay repts that he is disappointed; asserts defeat is most unfortunate, particularly for NYC subway and bus riders; calls emergency meeting of NYC budget and transit officials to discuss ramifications of election results; opponents of proposition note reasons for bond issue's defeat, including protest against further hwy construction, resistance to huge spending and borrowing involved and reaction to tactics used in intensive ad campaign in behalf of bond issue

'71 Nobel Prize for Physics to Prof D Gabor for his work in holography, 3-dimensional photography

surprise victory of Repub in Cleveland mayoral election seen damping hopes of tattered Ohio Dem orgn of gathering strength for Ohio Pres campaign

Mayor Evers, black ind, decisively defeated in Miss Gov election

Com on Interest and Dividends announces guideline limiting increases in corp dividends to 4% during Phase 2; it is understood Nixon Adm considers this guideline a signal to other control panels as to what would constitute acceptable anti-inflationary rate of increase in 2d phase; Stans hopes this guideline will shape post-freeze program; high Treas official stresses need for gen restraint; Labor Dept issues rev of productivity, wages and prices for 3d qr indicating that both wages per man-hr and prices slowed, partly as result of freeze; guideline text