Sanders Announces He's Running Again BURLINGTON (AP) - With hundreds of supporters cheering him on, Mayor Bernard Sanders on Friday night launched a bid for a second term as the leader of Vermont's largest city. Sanders, a socialist, told a packed City Hall crowd that he has no new initiatives in mind if he is re-elected, just that he plans to keep his 20-month-old administration on a steady course. "The issue is whether or not the experiment is going to grow," said Sanders during a 40-minute speech interrupted frequently by applause from the estimated 400 people who also listened to other speeches by supporters of the mayor. If voters return Sanders to office when they go to the polls in March, the 41-yearold Brooklyn native will get the chance to use some of the expertise he's acquired incumbent Gordon Paquette by just 10 votes in 1980. That experience has come mostly from battles with the •conservative faction of Burlington city government. And those struggles began putting a damper on Sanders' election not long after his stunning victory. Sanders was a familiar face in leftwing politics when he took on Paquette and the Democratic machine that had dominated the city for years. He helped found Vermont's radical political party, the Liberty Union, acting as its chairman until 1977 and carrying its banner through campaigns for governor and U.S. Senate. Sanders was backed by a diverse coalition of his radical peers, unions and college students when he toppled Paquette. As a conservative tide swept over the since he defeated five-term Democratic (Sanders, Page 12)