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The Arizona Republic Wednesday, December 11, 1985 A2 District 3 curtain call: Dimples, strategy tame 'shrewishness' that helped do the trick for Johnson. Goddard hired two professional actors, a male and female, whose voices hadhe sound of gray hairs. They talked as though they actually lived in Johnson's district They talked about trusting Johnson to protect the neighborhoods. They were the voices of Mom and Dad, of Uncle Harry and Aunt Tessie, giving their stamp of approval to Johnson, the boy next door. "We chose them to offset Paul's youth," Goddard admitted just a few hours before the election results rolled in.

"The voices also showed continuity of watching Phoenix grow and of passing the torch." Johnson wasn't allowed on radio. His voice tends to crack sometimes, like that of a 13-year-old going through puberty. His personal presence largely was confined to black-and-white poster photos, charming door-to-door encounters with neighbors that did not require challenging thought and a few media interviews. The buzz word was Johnson's willingness to keep City Hall "open" a strategy that won it big for Mayor Terry Goddard. Presumably, the next generation will continue to campaign to keep City Hall eternally "open," as if it somehow has been locked.

The Lynch campaign was dismal. It reflected what seems to be symptomatic of the differences in Democratic campaigns (such as Johnson's) and. Republican campaigns (such as Lynch's). Johnson's tone was upbeat, positive, issue-oriented and calculated to reassure Voters. In the closing days of Lynch's campaign, she began grumbling, growling, sour-pussing and nit-picking.

She asked for investigations of whether a few postal carriers were working for Johnson while on duty. She insinuated that Johnson was conducting a campaign of lies because he left the impression he was a member of a church when in fact he only attended the church. Voters were left cold. If this was a paid consultant's strategy, Lynch ought to sue for a refund. Such pettiness reveals desperation as well as a narrowness of purpose.

But back to Johnson. Having now won his council seat Johnson has a special burden. The coach he used for helping his public poise will not be around when TV cameras ambush him for a quick comment. Nor will DeGraw and Goddard be there to unstick him in a squabble over competing interests of council members. There are no hired actors posing as next-door neighbors to read scripts about the wonders Johnson will perform in City Hall.

Dimple-cheeked, baby-faced Paul Johnson is on his own in the real world of politics, cracking voice and all. One needn't have been an aficionado of politics to smell disaster in the air for Anne Lynch. A woman watching Lynch during her comeback attempt to be a Phoenix city councilwomen observed that she had a shrewish, bitter look. "She seemed like she resented running for a 6eat that 'belonged' to her," my friend suggested. Lynch ran in 1983 against incumbent Councilman Barry Starr and lost by a heartbreaking 41 votes.

When she decided to try succeeding the retiring Starr this year, she might well have made the fatal assumption she was the heiress apparent Make no mistake. Anne Lynch is an inordinately qualified person. She's held down important jobs for Mountain Bell, once managing the company's entire Arizona fleet of thousands of vehicles. She also would have been a superb councilwoman. But political campaigns are not won, and political careers are not necessarily made, on competence and skills.

Politics is the art of style and aura and appearances. Substance comes later, when politicians become statesmen, just as mobsters become respectable after they get rich. Lynch, 43, was outgunned. Not so much by her young opponent, 26-year-old builder Paul Johnson, but by a political "SWAT" team of pros who know when to razzle and when to dazzle. Lanky, dimple-cheeked, blue-eyed Johnson went up and down the streets of District 3 and knocked, I'm, told, on 30,000 doors.

That leaves an impression. Of the estimated $50,000 spent on the Johnson campaign, not a dime went into television. Oner of Johnson's strategists, Rick DeGraw, claimed that, television simply was too expensive and amounted to overkill. Perhaps. My guess is that if DeGraw and the other principal Johnson strategist, Ben Goddard of the brilliant political-consulting firm of First Tuesday, had put baby-faced Johnson on TV, half the voters would have asked whether he was old enough to drive a car, much less help run the country's ninth-largest city.

It was those radio commercials $15,000 worth Wednesday, December 11, 1985 Caron ynnllAnlglin7u t- Hntf ibiv rL Washington Golden 1 ManianH Marmora make any mutt up and beg. Short Orders, FOI. Madison Heights Las Rocas Joshua Mercer A 1 Morten Glenn Tangerine people killed when a plane crashed in the Sierra Nevada. A21. Minutes before a farmer killed his banker, he was told his account was overdrawn and he would need to see a bank officer before he could cash a check, authorities say.

C1. A 13-year-old boy opens fire Myrtle Northvlew II 7F m4 11 Ocotltto mmm Johnson St. Simon THE VALLEY A northwest Valley schoolteacher may lose her teaching certificate even though she was granted immunity from prosecution in a cocaine case. B1. A Phoenix physician fails to keep a state grand jury from reviewing evidence in a probe involving falsified medical-insurance records and the supplying of narcotics to addicts.

B1. Robert Guarnieri gave up the life of a rock musician to become a carpet cleaner. He figured it was time to grow up. Alan Thurber's column, B1. District 3 Lynch Oeofflta CLOSE-UPS Arbitron television surveys show that what has been considered mostly a female pastime is being invaded by men with one-fourth of soap-opera viewers in Arizona counties being male, 18 years old and older.

G1. Being an enthusiastic backer of your school teams is an interesting combination of self-centcredness and commitment to something outside yourself. Ginger Hutton's column, G1. In a short time, office parties will be in full swing, and some common-sense advice may help make the festivities successful. Working it out, G2.

LEISURE ARTS Success can be a double-edged sword in the restaurant business, as the Mancuso's establishments demonstrate. HI. Johnson Continued from Al with a 9mm assault rifle inside a junior high school, killing a janitor and injuring two others after an argument with his principal, Connecticut police say. C7. INTERNATIONAL Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is formally nominated by his party to run for re-election and chooses a man he fired as foreign minister eight months ago to be his running mate.

A8. About a dozen Soviet dissidents marking International Human Rights Day are arrested in Moscow for distributing leaflets and trying to make speeches. All. South African police report three more black deaths in violence against the white-minority government's racist policy. One of the victims was a black policeman, who apparently was killed by other blacks who saw him as a sellout to the white authorities.

A9. THE ECONOMY Terming the licensing of Unit 2 at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station "political manipulation," an opponent says the action by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be appealed. D1. Americans took on $6.63 billion more in consumer debt than they paid off in October, down. EDITORIAL OPINION For 15 years, the Fiesta Bowl has amazed and excited Arizonans, and this year is no exception with about 37 affiliated events that bring competitors from near and far.

Editorial, A22. Instead of crafting a bill that would encourage more business investment, the House Ways and Means Committee seeks taxes that would harm small businesses. Donald Lambro's column, A23. THE STATE State Rep. Frank McElhaney, a Wellton Democrat who died Saturday, is eulogized as a man who loved his family, his church and his state.

E2. A Parker man is convicted of first-degree murder for piloting a plane from which a friend was dropped to his death from 2,000 feet in a drug dispute. B1. Want to spend your working life with killers, muggers and thieves? This could be your best chance. The Arizona Department of Corrections is looking for a few thousand "good men and women" to supervise the 10,000 inmates expected to fill Arizona prisons by the end of 1986.

B4. POLITICS The federal government would bear nearly the full cost of two multibillion-dollar welfare programs but would turn over to states and municipalities the bills for many development and social-service programs under a proposal by a bipartisan panel. A14. BThe United States and the Soviet Union for the first time agree to jointly denounce hostage-taking by terrorists and to call on nil governments to help release hostages. A 15.

Maggie DelbonRepublie Johnson was endorsed by fellow Democrats Starr and Goddard, and Lynch was supported by GOP leaders, including U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, U.S. Rep. John McCain and House Majority Leader Burton Barr.

Lynch said that partisan politics is a "general trend in our city elections, unfortunately." Johnson maintained throughout his campaign that Goddard's support will not affect his decisions as one of the council's nine members. "I think Terry's support was an asset," Johnson said. "But in the final analysis, I think it was hard work that got me elected." Throughout the campaign, Lynch and Johnson exchanged charges on a number of personal subjects, including Lynch's job, Johnson's church and both of their campaign practices. Those charges, several voters said, brought them to the polls Tuesday. City employee Jerry Barnes, summing up the comments of several others, said, "I think it was the dirt.

Both sides were getting that way." Barnes said he had voted for Lynch in the Nov. 5 primary but switched and voted for Johnson on Tuesday because of a Lynch campaign letter he received Monday. "I thought it was hitting under the belt," he said of the letter, which accused Johnson of lying to the public and failing to disclose in campaign financial reports the "huge sums of money that his campaign spent on radio advertising." Both candidates had expected to spend close to the voluntary $50,000 limit for the runoff, with much of the money going for mailed literature and radio advertising in the final two weeks of the since 1949." Johnson will succeed Councilman Barry Starr, 47, who will step down in January to go into the real-estate business. Johnson said he intends to devote part of his two-year term to expanding an existing District 3 citizens committee that will advise him on municipal issues. "My most important contribution right now is bringing a lot of new people into the process," Johnson said.

He acknowledged that, as a newly elected council member, he faces some of the city's toughest decisions, as Phoenix faces expected cuts in federal and state revenue and begins to implement a plan for managing growth. Lynch and Johnson had challenged Starr in 1983, with Johnson running a distant third in the primary. Lynch then lost to Starr by 41 votes in a bitterly contested runoff. After her second loss in two years, Lynch said she is unsure whether she will run for the seat again or if she will seek any other public office. "At this moment, I'm just glad a has been made," she said.

"The last two weeks have been full of stress and a lot of hard work. I take some comfort in the fact that the race was close." Johnson's victory means the District 3 seat will remain in the hands of a Democrat, although, by city charter, the council elections are non-partisan. Mayor Terry Goddard, who endorsed Johnson, and four other council members also are Democrats. Both candidates had complained that the traditionally non-partisan race was becoming partisan because will not challenge the outcome despite the narrow victory margin. "The people have spoken.

They made their decision. I abide by it," Lynch said shortly after she arrived at the City Council chambers Tuesday to congratulate Johnson. Johnson kissed his wife, Christa, who had walked precincts with him during the campaign, and hugged well-wishers after vote totals projected him the winner. More than 29 percent, or 14,687, of the district's registered voters went to the polls, many of them saying they were drawn there by the high-profile campaigns and the candidates' attacks on each other. City Clerk Donna Culbertson and her chief deputy, Vicky Miel, had predicted Monday that 25 to 30 percent of the district's 49,900 voters would turn out for the runoff race, compared with 31 percent in the Nov.

5 primary. On Tuesday, Johnson won 24 of 39 precincts, the same number but not the same ones that he had carried in the primary. Johnson had edged Lynch in the primary by 350 votes, but he received slightly fewer than 50 percent of all the ballots cast, setting the stage for the runoff. "I had a feeling it was going to be close again," Johnson said. "After I voted this afternoon, I told one of my campaign workers that I thought I would win by 200 votes.

"I think it's great to live in a country where a person my age can run for public office," he added, saying he may be the youngest person to serve on the City Council. Culbertson said Johnson appears to be the council's youngest member "to my recollection, and at least sharply from the record debt growth of September. The October rise in debt was 43 percent below the all-time high increase of $11.53 billion incurred in September, the Federal Reserve Board reports. D1. The stock market closed higher Tuesday.

The Dow Jones industrial average broke through 1,500 but backed off to finish with a gain of 2.18 points to 1,499.20. D2. SPORTS Arizona State University is placed on a one-year probation by the Pac-10 Conference as a result of 20 basketball-recruiting violations. The ASU probation is effective immediately and will run through Dec. 31, 1986.

During that time, the university will not be allowed to give any basketball grants to incoming students or recruit new prospects. F1. St. Louis Cardinal right-hander Joaquin Andujar is traded to the Oakland A's for catcher Mike Heath and left-handed reliever Tim Conroy. In another major trade, the Philadelphia Phillies trade catcher Ozzie Virgil and a minor-league pitcher to the Atlanta Braves for pitcher Steve Bedrosian and a minor league outfielder.

F1. THE NATION Yelena Bonner, the wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, undergoes the first day of medical tests to determine treatment for her heart condition. All. The wife of Air Force Lt. Gen.

James Abrahamson, director of the agency that coordinates "Star 'Wars" research, was one of three FOOD Sophisticated Christmas confections are made easier with recipes and tips from cooking teacher Barbara Fenzl. FD1. Wouldn't Fido like to find a plate of homemade dog biscuits under the tree this year? These will Texaco Continued from Al price Pennzoil offered for Getty stock and the $128 a share Texaco paid. Pennzoil began negotiating a merger with Getty in December 1983. On Jan.

4, 1984, Pennzoil announced that it had reached "an agreement in principle" under which major Pennzoil and Getty stockholders would form a partnership to take over Getty. Although no contract had been signed, the agreement "constituted a legally binding contract," Pennzoil said. access to 1 billion barrels of Getty oil reserves and $3 billion as punishment. Texaco argued that Pennzoil and Getty never had an ironclad deal' and that it is being punished for taking advantage of a "good business opportunity." Texaco contends that the verdict would damage the free-enterprise' system, leave 55,000 Texaco employees worldwide without jobs and signal the "total destruction and obliteration" of Texaco. Pennzoil insists that Texaco has enough money to pay its debts and the request, Texaco will have 30 days to post a $12 billion bond for an appeal.

Texaco purchased Getty last year for $10.1 billion, the second-largest merger in U.S. corporate history, behind Chevron $13.3 billion purchase of Gulf Corp. But a jury ruled Nov. 19 that Texaco used unethical tactics to break up a previous merger agreement between Getty and Pennzoil. Jurors recommended that Texaco pay $7.53 billion in actual damages the amount Pennzoil claims that it suffered by losing He also said Texaco and Getty may not sell assets except those that would be sold during normal business.

In addition, the judge said that if Pennzoil violated its end of the agreement, Texaco would be granted a new trial. When Texaco asks for a new trial, the judge will have 30 days to rule on that request. If he rejects the jury's award, and still have takeover defense meant to make an enough money to operate. acquisition prohibitively expensive In appealing the award Texaco for an unwelcome bidder, will have to post a bond in cash or Under the stockholders liquid assets equal to the award, WQuld receive specia rights in the plus $1.5 billion legal fees and mnt of a hostile that interest. That would total almost would aow them to buy shares of $12 billion.

The White Plains, the acquiring company at a bargain N.Y.-based company said its stock- market value is $8.6 billion. Since the jury's verdict was Texaco has maintained that it returned, Texaco's stock has fallen doesn't owe Pennzoil a penny to $30.50 from $39.29. and certainly no more than $500 In light of the drop in its stock million for its thwarted merger price, Texaco said Tuesday that its attempt. The $500 million was board adopted a "poison pill" based on the difference between the UUEBP Trt PAN you wish to deliver newspapers: WntHC Youth Carriers 257-8300 (Sorry, we cannot assist with MM 271-8398 questions ota general nature.) cCs'ied want Ad 256-oiu Ad 27 1-6415 If you don't know which department: Legal Ad 271-8491 2718000 To contact: Mexico City Bureau other Departments "11222 Morelos 1 10 News Room 27 1-8222 Mexico City 1. Editorial Pages Phone: (905) 535-5693 lllMVo Sports Scores 258-1212 Washington News Bureau f000- 27 1-8268 1000 National Press Building Leisure 27 1-8182 Washington, D.C.

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