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DAILY NEWS." SUNDAY." SEPTEMBER lh-W77- Carol IE ndedateWilHh) .7 Way mnm By DON SINGLETON IT is the morning after Primary Day, and there are still a few balloons and streamers hanging in the campaign headquarters, leftovers from lat niirht's victory celebration. The room is full of newsmen now, all of them waitinjr for -the candidate's victory speech. Using a wall plastered with campai.cn posters as a backup, they have set up a small dais, already clustered with microphones. Finally, at precisely the scheduled hour of 10:30 a.m.. the candidate walks up to the podium.

The television cameras begin to hum. "Good, thing all those pictures are up there." one cameraman says to another. Otherwise. I don't think I'd have known who she was." The name is Carol Bellamy, and. when the dust had cleared after the hard-fought Democratic primary, she had emerged with incumbent Paul O'Dwyer as a nner.

She had beaten two millionaires. City Councilman Carter Burden and construction magnate Abe Hirsehfeld. both of whom had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of their personal fortunes on their media campaigns. Carol Bellamy's meaner S50.000 campaign budget didn't allow for a single television spot. She got the support of the city's three major newspapers and the Citizens Umon.

And she won. In the runoff it will be Carol Bellamy who takes on the white mailed O'Dwyer for the Democratic nomination for City Council presi-deii. The reaction to this fact seems to be bringing two kinds of responses. "O'Dwyer could he in trouble goes one of them. The other goes something like this: "Carol Who'" Carol Bellamy is 35 years old.

Fhysically. she leans toward being tall and sturdy. She wears her hair in a nondescript cut. At her victory press conference she wears a plain ream colored, long-sleeved blouse under a vested, tailored suit. She wears sandal type shoes.

She could easily pass for a librarian or a museum curator which is not. or a woman lawyer, which she is. She has never been married. In short, at fn-t glance, there's nothing about Carol Bellamy that might make a p' rsou look twice. When she begins to talk, however, it's different.

She has bright eyes and a huge smile that makes you think Billy Jean King. The words bubble out in fast and you can tell that at some deep level inside her. she's really excited ai)Ut what she's saying. "nit youe een Carol Bellamy smile, and heard her talking on a subject si uarme.i up you know you won't have any trouble remembering who she ic. Tin-iv's one more way to make sure you won't forget Carol Bellamy run against her in an ek.

tion. The political landscape is pretty well littered "with the irert bodies ot thost- who have run against her. Since 1972. when she entered i. -he has i on several elections, often against powerfully entrenched Dents.

Carul ii. never lost an election. Who is Carol Belt, my? T'u'- usual ol background facts don't provide a very memorable picture. I i in Plaint'iehl in 1942. she grew up in suburban Scotch Plains.

J. She i- 1 Her father va a telephone installer, her mother a nurse. She has a brother, en. a year tn.er who went on to become a school principal in Monroe, rv Carol to Gettysburg College, studying psychology and sociology, and whan she filiated si.e entered the Peace Corps. She was assigned to a "jungle oi Guatemala.

here, for two years, she raised chickens, was hostess on a (Continued on page 16 col. J) News photo by Michael Upsc Carol Eellamy gestures as she speaks to newsmen at her headquarters. After the Vote Mot a Wake hut an Awakening KKX AULETTA country realize New York knows it has to do things differently." li easy to argue as Gloria Steinem did on Friday's Stanley Siegel show the election proves "the city has turned to the right." Or that Koch won solely because of the media drive mounted by David Garth. Or Cuomo placed a close second solely because he had the good fortune to be born Catholic and to be pitted against four Jews. But if Steinem's Manichean view of the world carried water, Bella Abzug could be dubbed a right-wing conservative because she favored reduction in business taxes.

If media ads or ethnicity were all that counted, then WNBC-TV's poll of 2.700 voters was wrong when it concluded that the issue uppermost in the minds of voters was city finances. Perhaps the press was just as intellectually lazy as Gloria. Regularly, voters were reminded there were "no issues" between candidates. But perhaps the primary results demonstrate the emergence of new public-interest constituency, one shopping for candidates free of special interests, be they the banks, unions, the regular or reform party apparatus, landlords, or the past. Perhaps this explains why newspaper endorsements loomed so frighteningly large on Thursday.

The News and Post (which endorsed Koch) and The Times (which favored Cuomo) may have become arbiters of that broader public interest. Aside from ability. State Sen. Carol Bellamy had little going for her candidacy for City Council president. She had nO money, no TV commercials, no massive campaign apparatus.

One thing she did have was the endorsement of the three newspapers. As a result, Bellamy ran a strong second, forcing Paul O'Dwyer into a runoff. True. Andrew Stein captured the Manhattan borough president nomination without newspaper endorsements, but he had the good fortune to be running against the establishment. The WNBC-TV poll proved just how discriminating voters were.

A vast majority favor capital punishment. Twenty-four jer cent of this majority voted for Koch, who agrees with them. Yet, 21 chose Cuomo, who opposes capital punishment. Democratic voters were making careful as well as ethnic choices. Now, whth the Democratic run-off just eight days away, the choices confronting Koch and Cuomo are as complex as those facing voters.

Among them: Will Koch or Cuomo be tagged as the candidate (Continued on page 52) IT'S NO Fl'N stornpinir on the dead, but Thursday's primary results are cause for celebration. Forcret the insnking TV commercials and fetching slogans. New York voters proved they are not stupid. A record turnout of Democratic voters chose the two best candidates. Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch.

The Republicans picked their best candidate. Roy Goodman. Ol the lour major Democratic contenders, voters selected the two freshest faces, the two candidates with the fewest ties to past practices or policies, the two candidates who stressed what this city must do for itself, rather than what Washington must do fer us. If Abe Beame or Bella Abzug had won. to the rest of the country and the Congress.

New York might have been telegraphing satisfaction rather than shame, a defense of the past rather than a commitment to change, or as MAC member Richard Ravitch. who was neutral, observed on Friday. "I think this election will be significant in making people in the.