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Wednesday, November 5, 1980 0. WE BRENNAN JOHA Gannett Westchester Newspapers Election Senate D'Amato recalls former obscurity Holtzman still hopeful By BILL FALK Staff Writer AP Photo Alfonse D'Amato is kissed by his wife, Penny, as he and relatives flash 'V for victory' sign Hundreds of Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman's supporters milled around her Brooklyn headquarters into the wee hours Wednesday, not sure if they had just attended a wake or a revival meeting. A single percentage point separated Ms. Holtzman from Republican Alfonse D'Amato, who nevertheless was being called the winner by the Associated Press, United Press International, the ABC network, and Alfonse D'Amato.

The crowd which included Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams were like mourners at an Irish wake, torn between sorrow and stubborn cheerfulness. It was hard to tell there had been a death in the family. The supporters had watched gloomily as Ms. Holtzman trailed by five points early in the They got a brief lift when she drew within one point, 45-44, with 97 percent of the vote tallied. But before they could begin dreaming of a last-minute vietory, the analysts were predicting a D'Amato win.

Most confusing of all, "the deceased" had just appeared before them live, in person, and denying her demise: "The only thing Li intend to lose in this campaign is my voice," Ms. Holtzman rasped through a throat ravaged by last-minute campaigning. "We will not concede until every single ballot is counted." The 39-year-old Brooklyn congresswoman flashed a victory sign, then left. She went to bed still refusing to concede. D'Amato, meanwhile, was accepting victory at his Long Island headquarters.

That's where it stood early Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, Ms. Holtzman's aides rushed off to make sure "every ballot is counted." They obtained an order from Justice Ernst S. Rosenberger in Manhattan for the state board of elections to turn over all paper ballots to police and county election boards. Carter Eskew, Ms.

Holtzman's press spokesman, said the order covered more than 100,000 of the paper ballots, or "affidavits." "We're not saying it's going to win the election," Eskew said. "We're saying it might Combined wire services HEMPSTEAD, L.I. Alfonse D'Amato proclaimed victory in the U.S. Senate race last night and headed for a private party even before his main opponent, Elizabeth Holtzman, had conceded. "Let's see if I can get a few thoughts across," the state's future senator told 1,000 supporters at the Hempstead Holiday Inn.

"My mom always knew who I was," he said, answering the crowd's mock call of Who! Al Who!" His answer reflected his obscure beginnings in this political campaign and recalled one of his key campaign gimmicks his mother, who appeared on a television ad which was central to his campaign. "My mom represents all moms," he added. "Al has demonstrated where the Town of Hempstead is from," said Joseph Margiotta, the powerful Nassau County Republican leader. As D'Amato spoke, supporters of Brooklyn Rep. Holtzman said D'Amato would be "eating crow" by morning.

With 95 percent in at the time he was speaking, the two were only 1-percent apart. In a rasping voice grated by laryngitis, Holtzman told her supporters at the BrookLyn Academy of Music, "We will not concede until every last ballot is counted." While not conceding, she acknowledged the difficulties liberals were experiencing at the polls. "In the face.of the conservative tide that has swept the country tonight," she said, "it is a tribute to you that we have come this far and that the race is this close." Privately, Holtzman campaign aides said D'Amato "outspent us 3-to-1 in television ads." They also attributed D'Amatc's lead to Ronald Reagan's coattails, adding that President Carter had weakened the top of their ticket. There also was a sense that "the Democrats failed to enunciate the real differences between themselves and Republicans." D'Amato campaign manager Karl Ottosen said his candidate had not claimed victory prematurely. "We felt all along that we had won," he said.

"We weren't paying any attention to whether she conceded or not." D'Amato aides said the Hempstead supervisor won on the issues he campaigned on inflation, defense and family issues conceding that the defense issue was a codeword for: humiliation Americans felt they had suffered abroad. The Republican's handlers also felt that the liberal voting records of Holtzman and incumbent Sen. Jacob K. Javits showed they were "big spenders" in tight economic times. Their own liberal records defeated them as the country shifted to a conservative mood, the D'Amato staffers said.

The one specific issue D'Amato himself mentioned in his brief victory speech was an allusion to welfare. "I don't want these make-work jobs," 'he said. "I'm looking forward to that kind of reform we have to make." Asked if he was fit to be a U.S. senator, as his opponents had alleged he was not, D'Amato responded, "I wasn't a supervisor before I was a supervisor. Does that mean I shouldn't be a supervisor?" Unlike the Holtzman camp, which claimed to have deployed 30,00 volunteers in getting out the vote, D'Amato said they didn't need to pull out the vote, at least in Nassau County.

"The vote was already out," said Helen Skelos, mother of Dean Skelos, who won. an New York Westchester County Holtzmon Javits D' Amato D'Amato (R) Amate (C) (RTL) Javits (4) Holtzman D' D'Amato Albony 71,243 18.243 46,548 Allegony 44,291 1,625 9.881 Bronx 156,669 25,425 77,118 Broome 32,267 6.791 42.924 Catargus 9,200 3,115 19.939 Cayuga 11,677. 3,074 19,977 Chataqua 19,150 5,943 28.800 Chemung 11,962 2,218 18,826 Chenango 5,190 1,708 10.570 Clinton 7,008 2,211 15,431 Columbia 6,507 2,228 9,484 Cortland 5,040 1,555 9,824 Delaware 5,591 2,060 10,417 Dutches 33,006 9.045 46,025 Erie 133,248 47,753 189,312 Essex 3,678 1,457 Franklin 4,161 1.689 8,458 Fulton 7,066 2,446 10.847 Genesee 7,012 2,581 13,899 Greene 5,606 1,106 9,946 Hamilton 710 355 1,948 Herkimer 601 2,198 15.501 Jefferson 8.547 5,472 14,978 Kings 290,698 51,206 155,738 Lewis 2,318 1,235 5,328 Livingston 6,581 2.228 12,414 Madison 7.018 2,346 13,074 Monroe 108.727 37,677 137,933 THE DAILY ITEM 1 Gannett Weste hester Newspaper Published Monday evening Sunday and holiday by Westchester Rot klond Newspopers, One Pians, 10604 Second class postage NY IUSPS 143 380 SENATE Javits denies spoiler role U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, while conceding to supporters and friends that his 24- year tenure in the Senate is finally over, left the door open late Tuesday for further public service in a Reagan administration, but described his potential role in only the vaguest of terms. Javits, who ran on the Liberal line after he was defeated in the Republican primary, ackowledged that the issue of his age and health, exploited during the campaign Republican candidate Alfonse D'Amato, "lost the primary and had some effect on the election because the issue was so implanted in the mind of the electorate." Javits spoke to about 200 supporters and newsmen at about 11:30 p.m., when his replacement had not yet been fingered in the photo-finish race between D'Amato and Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, the Democratic candidate.

By MARY BAUER Staff Writer The mood at Javits's campaign headquarters, in Manhattan's Sheraton Center, was upbeat most of the evening, possibly because the defeat came as no surprise. His supporters, however, were more subdued when it became apparent toward midnight that D'Amato was to take the lead. Javits himself had said he preferred Miss Holtzman among his two opponents. As he has done repeatedly in recent weeks, Javits insisted that it should be left to his constitutents to decide with their votes whether it was proper for him to remain in the race. The 76-year-old Senator, who is suffering from a motor neuron disease that could in the future impair his walking, had refused near the end of the campaign to drop out, at the risk of splitting the liberal-moderate vote with Miss Holtzman and thus helping elect D'Amato.

Responding to a question from newsmen, Javits denied he had filled the role of the spoiler in the race. "The results show it didn't make any difference if I had stayed in or not," he said. Nevertheless, with most of the vote counted, D'Amato led Miss Holtzman by only one percent, with Javits taking 10 to 11 percent of the vote. Holtzmon Javits D'Amato 5,060 1,180 6.252 241,124 52,714 293,799 284,457 60,823 66,449 28.068 10,479 41,959 30,009 7,507 53,774 59,919 20,161 99,303 9,499 3,125 14,624 31,480 8,363 45,447 4,264 1,471 8,075 10,437 4,501 22,208 .7,128 2,748 12,187 9,655 2,666 17.288 271,996 57,541 210,515 27,469 7,432 31.555 34,584 8,346 58,576 42,615 11,700 45,723 10,750 5,457 18,120 20,573 7,811 31,035 27,014 8,897 31,133 3,732 1,365 6,278 2.099 463 3,926 4,008 1,301 7,509 10,511 2.651 22,498 120,771 26,766 177,901 10,942 2.814 11,933 6,021 1,700 10,576 12,735 2,694 11,425 24,212 5,299 31,762 6,060 3,071 11,468 5,975 2,463 10,823 6,018 1,512 9,189 129,679 37:155 141,814 3,541 1,520 8,768 2,471 890 4,656 2,479,724 616.124 2,552,416 Continued from page one have also benefitted from apparent widespread voter apathy. Only about 5.9 million voters went to the polis, the lowest turn-out in a presidential election year since 1948.

In late returns, D'Amato had 45 percent of the vote, compared to Ms. Holtzman's 44 percent, and Javits' 11 percent. Both Ms. Holtzman and Javits appeal to liberal-tomoderate voters, and Javits may have drained away from Ms. Holtzman support she would have gotten if he had dropped out of the race as many liberal voices urged.

With 99 percent of the votes counted, D'Amato had 2,625,476, compared to 049 for Ms. Holtzman, and 628,277 for Javits. Both Carter and Ms. Holtzman carried New York City Ms. Holtzman, by close to half a million votes, and Carter, by about 300,000.

But neither margin was enough to offset their losses outside the city. Outside New York City, Ms. Holtzman only managed to carry Albany and Tomp: kins counties. Neither D'Amato nor Reagan was greeted with open arms by the state's top Republicans when they began their campaigns. In the primary campaign, most of the state's top Republicans backed Javits, who was regarded as almost an institution.

But D'Amato, the presiding supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, succeeded in making the senator's age and health the decisive issues in a campaign Javits described as "ghoulish." After his primary loss, Javits remained on the defensive, arguing he was still vigorous despite a degenerative nerve condition. D'Amato, for his part, found himself on the defensive on the matter of his active role in the patronage-rich Nassau County GOP machine. Javits criticized D'Amato as being involved in "Tammany Hall" type politics, and Ms. Holtzman also repeatedly criticized D'Amato for his involvement in the Nassau machine. But D'Amato, who was able to raise some $2.3 million for his campaign, denied he was involved in any wrongdoing and focused his media campaign on his promise to fight the "forgotten middle class" and for a "strong defense." Ms.

Holtzman, a four-term Brooklyn congresswoman who led the successful battie to extend the ratification period for the Equal, Rights Amendment, found herself outspent by D'Amato by about $600,000. And she found herself on the defensive over her consistent votes against defense appropriations. AP Photo Elizabeth race Jacob Assembly seat last night. "The registration books were all full." In the end, it was margins that the 43- year-old D'Amato piled up on Long Island 52,000 in Nassau and 57,000 in Suffolk County that gave him victory over Ms. Holtzman and Javits.

D'Amato's election was a triumph for the Nassau County GOP organization, reputedly one of the nation's most disciplined. D'Amato's connection to the organization's alleged kickback and patronage practices were repeatedly raised by his opponents during the campaign. D'Amato, whose family moved to Island Park when he was 10, is the organization's biggest success story, "our favorite son," as county leader Joseph Margiotta introduced D'Amato to his supporters. AP Photo County Montgomery Nassau New York Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Orleans Oswego Otsego Putnam Queens Renseloer Richmond Rockland St. Lawrence Saratoga Schnetady Schohari Schuyler Seneca Steuben Suffolk Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Warren Washington Wayne Westchester Wyoming Yates Totals Putnam Westchester Recklend 0 D'Amato Holtzman Bedford 2247 2632 1077 Cortlandt 11203 7017 1388 Eastchester 3917 6333 1508 Greenburgh 17625 13907 379 Harrison 2877 4749 1020 Lewisboro 1535 1670 609 Mamaroneck 5761 4768 1749 Mount Kisco 870 923 206 Mount Pleasant 4987 8069 1540 Mount Vernon 9723 7921 1394 New Castle 3004 1452 1183 New Rochelle 10809 9180 2755 North Castle 1192 2374 529 North Salem 675 1126 196 Ossining 4803 4932 1405 Peekskill 2060 3043 521 Pelham 1247 2782 531 Pound Ridge 878 687 Rye City 2364 2670 1073 Rye Town 4296 6509 1026 Scarsdale 3926 1860 1398 Somers 1997 3117 622 White Plains 9814 7676 2539 Yonkers 25147 35415 5764 Yorktown 4470 6691 1307 Westchester total 137427 147649 32406 Putnam Carmel 3086 4909 968 410 6287 921 Kent 1488 2012 375 214 2601 293 Patterson 745 1309 256 72 1637 229 Philipstown 1234 1686 247 170 2103 393 Putnam Valley 1423 1498 367 116 1981 368 Southeast 1679 2152 408 137 2679 521 Putnam total 9655 13566 2621 1101 17288 2725 Grand total.