Balloting Light in N.Y., Detroit
From United Press International
Early turnout was light today as Democratic mayors Edward I. Koch of New York and Coleman Young of Detroit looked for record-book reelections in big cities they assumed control of during bleak days in the 1970s.
Koch, seeking a third four-year term of a city that was near bankruptcy and considered ungovernable a decade ago, and Young, running for a fourth term in the auto making center some called “Murder City,” were the odds-on favorites in the first major mayoral primaries of the autumn.
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